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Volume 19 - November 1986

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Wilda C. Anderson. Between the Library and the Laboratory: the Language of Chemistry in Eighteenth-Century France. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. Pp. vii + 190. ISBN 0-8018-3229-2. £20.00, $22.50.

Winfried Scharlau & Hans Opolka. From Fermat to Minkowski. Lectures on the Theory of Numbers and Its Historical Development. Translated from the German by W. K. Bühler and G. Cornell. Berlin and New York: Springer, 1985. Pp xi + 184. ISBN 0-387-90942-7. DM 72.00.

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Paolo Rossi. The Dark Abyss of Time. The History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico. A translation by Lydia G. Cochrane of I Segni del Tempo (1979). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. xvi + 338. ISBN 0-226-72835-8. £36.75.

William A. Wallace. Galileo and his Sources. The Heritage of the Collegio Romano in Galileo's Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv + 371. ISBN 0-691-08355-X. £45.80.

Steven B. Engelsman. Families of Curves and the Origins of Partial Differentiation. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1984. Pp. x + 238. ISBN 0-444-86897-6. US $29.00, Dfl. 85.00.

W. H. Brock & A. J. Meadows. The Lamp of Learning. Taylor & Francis and the Development of Science Publishing. London: Taylor & Francis, 1984. Pp. xvi + 240. ISBN 0-85066-253-2. £15.00.

Donald Hill. A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times. Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1984. Pp. x + 263. ISBN 0-7099-1209-9. £18.95.

Derek Gjertsen. The Classics of Science. A Study of Twelve Enduring Scientific Works. New York and Gravesend: Lilian Barber Press, 1984. Pp. iii + 374. ISBN 0-936508–4. £20.00 (hardback), £12.95 (paperback).

F. Neil Johnson. The History of Lithium Therapy. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1984. Pp. xvii + 198 illustrations. ISBN 0-333-36942-4. £35.00.

Trevor I. Williams. Howard Florey: Penicillin and After. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Pp. xvi + 404. ISBN 0-19-858173-4. £17.50.

Wen-Yuan Qian. The Great Inertia. London: Croom Helm, 1984. Pp. xii + 155. ISBN 0-7099-2104-7. £15.95.

Ilya Prigogine & Isabelle Stengers. Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature. London: Heinemann, 1984. Pp. xxxi + 349. ISBN 434-603953. £9.95.

Badash Lawrence. Kapitza, Rutherford, and the Kremlin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. Pp. xi + 129. ISBN 0-300-01465-1. £20.00.

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Report of Council for the Year 1985–1986

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