Volume 24 - September 1991
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Book reviews
G. R. Dunstan (ed.). The Human Embryo. Aristotle and the Arabic and European Traditions. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1990. Pp. xi + 235. ISBN 0-85989-340-5. £25.00.
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John A. Stewart. Drifting Continents and Colliding Paradigms: Perspectives on the Geoscience Revolution. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 285. ISBN 0-253-35405-6. $35.00.
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Brian Oakley and Kenneth Owen. Alvey: Britain's Strategic Computing Initiative. Cambridge, Mass, and London: The MIT Press, 1989. Pp. xv + 337. ISBN 0-262-15038-7. £24.95.
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Gunter Mann and Franz Dumont (eds.). Die Natur des Menschen: Probleme der Physischen Anthropologie und Rassenkunde (1750–1850). Stuttgart & New York: Gustav Fischer, 1990. Pp. 457. ISBN 3-437-11271-6. DM 128.
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Gavin D. R. Bridson and James J. White. Plant, Animal and Anatomical Illustration in Art and Science: A Bibliographical Guide from the 16th Century to the Present Day. Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies in association with Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1990. Pp. xxxix + 450. ISBN 0-906795-81-8. £75.00.
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Michael Lindgren. Glory and Failure: The Difference Engines of Johann Müller, Charles Babbage and Georg and Edvard Scheutz, translated by Craig C. McKay. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. 414. ISBN 0-262-12146-8. £40.50.
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Robert W. Smith (with contributions by Paul A. Hanle, Robert H. Kargon and Joseph N. Tatarewicz). The Space Telescope: A Study of NASA, Science, Technology, and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xviii + 478. ISBN 0-521-26634-3. £40, $39.50.
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BJH volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Front matter
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C. F. C. Beeson, Clockmaking in Oxfordshire 1400–1850, 3rd edn, with a new introduction and index by A. V. Simcock. Oxford: Museum of the History of Science, 1989. Pp. vii + 212. ISBN 0-903364-06-9. £22.00.
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Richard L. Kremer (ed.). Letters of Hermann von Helmholtz to his wife 1847–1859 (Boethius-Texte und Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der exakten Wissenschaften, Bd XXIII). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1990.
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Ian McNeil (ed.). An Encyclopaedia of the History of Technology. London and New York: Routledge, 1990. Pp. xv + 1062. ISBN 1-415-01306-2. £65.00.
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Bruce G. Trigger. A History of Archaeological Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xv + 500. ISBN 0-521-33818-2. £14.95 (paperback).
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Back matter
BJH volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Back matter
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Paola Dessi. L'ordine e il caso: Discussione epistemologiche e logiche sulla probabilità de Laplace a Pierce. Bologna: II Mulino, 1989. Pp. 239. ISBN 88-15-02088-8. L. 26,000.
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C. Blondel, F. Parot, A. Turner and M. Williams. Studies in the History of Scientific Instruments, papers presented at the 7th Symposium of the Scientific Instruments Commission of the Union Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences, Paris 15–19 September 1987. London: Rogers Turner Books Ltd; for the Centre de Recherche en Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques de la Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, 1989. Pp. 290. ISBN 0-9502557-8-5. £35.00.
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Erhard Scholz. Symmetrie, Gruppe, Dualität: Zur Beziehung zwischen theoretischer Mathematik und Anwendungen in Kristallographie und Baustatik des 19 Jahrhunderts. Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhäuser, 1989. Pp. 406. ISBN 3-7643-1974-7. SFr. 84.00.
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José M. López Piñero. Los origines en España de los Estudios sobre la Salud Publica. Colección Textos Clásicos Españoles de la Salud Pública, No. 1. Madrid: Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, 1989. Pp. 245. ISBN 84-7670-164-0 (hardback); 74-7670-165-9 (paperback). - José Luis Fresquet Febrer. Francisco Méndez Alvaro (1806–1883) y las ideas Sanitarias del Liberalismo Moderado. Colección Textos Clásicos Españoles de la Salud Publica, No. 14. Madrid: Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, 1990. Pp. 212. ISBN 84-7670-217-5 (hardback); 84-7670-216-7 (paperback). - Antonio M. Rey González. Estudios médicosociales sobre marginados en la España del siglo XIX. Colección Textos Clásicos Españoles de la Salud Pública, No. 17. Madrid: Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, 1990. Pp. 237. ISBN 84-7670-204-3 (hardback); 84-7670-205-1 (paperback). - Nicolás Monardes. La historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales (1565–1574). Madrid: Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, 1989. Pp. 291. ISBN 84-7670-191-8. No prices given.
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Thomas Crump. The Anthropology of Numbers. Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, No. 70. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. x + 201. ISBN 0-521-38045-6. £30.00, $49.50.
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K. J. Tinkler (ed.). History of Geomorphology from Hutton to Hack. The Binghamton Symposia in Geomorphology International Series, no. 19. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989. Pp. 344. ISBN 0-040551138-1. £40.
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