Volume 25 - December 1992
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Book Reviews
Robin Herman. Fusion: The Search For Endless Energy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xi + 267. ISBN 0-521-38373-0. £14.95.
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Ilana Löwy (ed.). The Polish School of Philosophy of Medicine: From Tytus Chalubinski (1820–1889) to Ludwik Fleck (1896–1961). Compiled, translated and with introductions by the editor. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990. Pp. viii + 287. ISBN 0-7923-0958-8. £44.00, $78.00, Dfl. 130.00.
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Alfred Russel Wallace. An Anthology of His Shorter Writings, edited by Charles H. Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. x + 551. ISBN 0-19-857725-7. £40.00.
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Thomas Junker. Darwinismus und Botanik. Rezeption, Kritik und theoretische Alternativen im Deutschland des 19. Jahrhunderts, with a preface by Rudolf Schmitz. Stuttgart: Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1989. Pp. x + 367. ISBN 3-7692-1225-8.
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G. L'E. Turner. The Great Age of the Microscope. The Collection of the Royal Microscopical Society through 150 years. Bristol and New York: Adam Hilger, 1989. Pp. ix + 379. ISBN 0-85274-029-4. £39.50.
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Bill Luckin. Questions of Power: Electricity and Environment in Inter-War Britain. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1990. Pp. viii + 200. ISBN 0-7190-3302-0. £29.95.
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David E. Nye. Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. xv + 479. ISBN 0-262-14048-9. £26.95.
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Sydney Ross. Nineteenth-Century Attitudes: Men of Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. Pp. xi + 235. ISBN 0-7923-1308-9. £42.00, $69.00, Dfl. 125.00.
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J. A. Bennett. Church, State and Astronomy in Ireland: 200 Years of Armagh Observatory. Armagh and Belfast: Armagh Observatory in association with The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, 1990. Pp. vi + 277. ISBN (hardback) 0-9504478-1-1 (Armagh Observatory); 0-85389-350-0 (Queen's University). ISBN (paperback) 0-9504478-2-X (Armagh Observatory); 0-85389-351-9 (Queen's University). £17.95 (hardback).
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E. B. Adams. In Search of Truth: A Portrait of Don Craib. London: Royal Society of Medicine Services, 1989. Pp. xii + 123, illus. ISBN 1-85315-119-X, £12.95 (hardback); 1-85315-118-1, £7.95 (paperback).
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Mikuláš Teich and Roy Porter (eds.). Fin de siècle and its Legacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. 352. ISBN 0-521-34108-6, £37.50 (hardback); 0-521-34915-X, £12.95 (paperback).
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Shigeru Nakayama. Science, Technology and Society in Postwar Japan. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1991. Pp. xvi + 259. ISBN 0-7103-0428-5. £45.00.
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Pauline M. H. Mazumdar. Eugenics, Human Failings: The Eugenics Society, its Sources and its Critics in Britain. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. Pp. x + 373. ISBN 0-415-04424-3. £40.00.
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J. W. Boag, P. W. Rubinin and D. Shoenberg (eds.). Kapitza in Cambridge and Moscow: Life and Letters of a Russian Physicist. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 1990. Pp. xvi + 429, illus. ISBN 0-444-98753, $77.00, Dfl. 150.00 (hardback); 0-444-98749-5; $38.00, Dfl. 75.00 (paperback).
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Masao Watanabe. The Japanese and Western Science, translated by Otto Theodor Benfey. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 141. ISBN 0-8211-8252-3. No price given.
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Jane Maienschein. Transforming Traditions in American Biology, 1880–1915. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Pp. xi + 366. ISBN 0-8018-4126-7. £34.50.
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Satpal Sangwan. Science, Technology and Colonisation: An Indian Experience, 1757–1857. Delhi: Anamika Parakashan, 1991. Pp. xviii + 196. ISBN 81-85150. No price given.
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Kameshwar C. Wall. Chandra: A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Pp. x + 341, illust. ISBN 0-226-87054-5. $34.50.
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Gerard L'Estrange Turner. Scientific Instruments and Experimental Philosophy, 1550–1850. Aldershot, Variorum Press Collected Studies Series. CS 331, 1990. Pp. xii + 329. ISBN 86078-280-8. £49.50.
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Michael Eckert and Helmut Schubert. Crystals, Electrons, Transistors: From Scholar's Study to Industrial Research, translated by Thomas Hughes. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1990. Pp. xxii + 241. ISBN 0-88318-622-5, £45 (hardback); 0-88318-719-1, £15 (paperback).
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