Volume 28 - December 1995
Book Reviews
Mari E. W. Williams, The Precision Makers: A History of the Instruments Industry in Britain and France, 1870–1939. London: Routledge, 1993. Pp. viii + 216. ISBN 0-415-03732-8. £40.00.
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Richard L. Hills, Power from Wind: A History of Windmill Technology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. ix + 324, illus. ISBN 0-521-41398-2. £45.00, $59.95.
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Klaus Hentschel, Interpretationen und Fehlinterpretationen der speziellen und der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie durch Zeitgenossen Albert Einsteins. Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhäuser, 1990. Pp. xvii + 574 + cxi. ISBN 3-7643-2438-4. Sfr. 158.00.
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Fernando Vidal, Piaget Before Piaget, Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1994. Pp. viii + 276. ISBN 0-674-66716-6. £35.95, $53.95.
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BJH volume 28 issue 2 Cover and Back matter
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C. Kenneth Waters and Albert Van Helden (eds.), Julian Huxley. Biologist and Statesman of Science. Proceedings of a Conference held at Rice University 25–27 September 1987. Houston: Rice University Press, 1992. Pp. xii + 344. ISBN 0-89263-314X. $32.50.
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Howard P. Segal, Future Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of Technology in America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. Pp. xviii + 245. ISBN 0-87023-881-7, £38.00 (hardback); 0-87023-882-5, £15.20 (paperback).
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Henry Petroski, Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgement in Engineering. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 209. ISBN 0-521-46108-1, £30.00, $42.95 (hardback); 0-521-46649-0, £12.95, $17.95 (paperback).
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Norbert Wiener, Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas, with an Introduction by Steve J. Heims. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 1993. Pp. xxiv + 159. ISBN 0-262-23167-0. £17.95.
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Christopher Lawrence, Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain, 1700–1920. Historical Connections. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. xi + 106. ISBN 0-415-09168-3. £6.99.
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W. F. Bynum, Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xvi + 283. ISBN 0-521-25109-05, £40.00, $54.95 (hardback); 0-521-27205-X, £12.95, $15.95 (paperback).
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R. G. W. Anderson, J. A. Bennett and W. F. Ryan (eds.), Making Instruments Count: Essays on Historical Scientific Instruments presented to Gerard L'Estrange Turner. Aldershot: Variorum, 1993. Pp. xix + 492. ISBN 0-86078-394-4. No price given.
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Philip Mirowski (ed.), Edgeworth on Chance, Economic Hazard, and Statistics. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1994. Pp. vii + 462. ISBN 0-8476-7751-6. $45.00.
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Philip Mirowski (ed.), Natural Images in Economic Thought: ‘Markets read in Tooth and Claw’. Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiii + 618. ISBN 0-521-47884-7. £22.95.
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Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, translated by Catherine Porter. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993. Pp. x + 157. ISBN 0-7450-0682-X. £13.95.
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Kenneth J. Carpenter, Protein and Energy: A Study of Changing Ideas in Nutrition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiii + 280. ISBN 0-521-45209-0. £30.00, $39.95.
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Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson, Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human race. San Diego: Govardhan Hill Publishing/Bhativedanta Institute, 1993. Pp. xxxvii + 914. ISBN 0-9635309-8-4. £28.95.
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Charles J. Smith, Edinburgh's Contribution to Medical Microbiology, edited by J. G. Collee. Glasgow: Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, 1994, Pp. vi + 312. ISBN 0-9511765-6-0. No price given.
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