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J. S. Wilkie Some Reasons for the Rediscovery and
Appreciation of Mendel's Work in the
First Years of the Present Century . . . 5--17
C. H. Talbot Simon Bredon (c. 1300--1372). Physician,
mathematician and astronomer . . . . . . 19--30
E. A. Marland British and American Contributions to
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Thomas Martin Origins of the Royal Institution . . . . 49--63
Leonard W. Clarke Greek Astronomy and its Debt to the
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Anonymous Recent Proceedings of the British
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M. J. S. Rudwick Hutton and Werner Compared: George
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R. C. H. Tanner On the Role of Equality and Inequality
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J. E. Hofmann Report on the Seventh Colloquium on the
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R. C. Olby Charles Darwin's Manuscript of
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C. M. Mellor and
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Thomas Martin Presidential Address: Early Years at the
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Derek T. Whiteside Newton's early thoughts on planetary
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F. R. Jevons Paracelsus's Two-Way Astrology I. What
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10.80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--300
Gregg De Young Book Review: Science and Society D. R.
Stoddard (ed.), Geography, ideology and
social concern. Oxford: Basil Blackwell,
1981. Pp. vi + 250. \pounds 5.50
(paperback); \pounds 12.00 (library
edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--301
Roy Porter Book Review: Science and Society
Margarita Bowen, Empiricism and
geographical thought: from Francis Bacon
to Alexander von Humboldt. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp.
351. \pounds 25.00 . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
Jonathan Harwood Book Review: Science and Society Charles
Webster (ed.), Biology, medicine and
society, 1840--1940. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp.
344. \pounds 22.50 . . . . . . . . . . . 303--304
Bernard Norton Book Review: Science and Society Donald
MacKenzie, Statistics in Britain
1865--1930. The social construction of
scientific knowledge. Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, 1981. Pp.
viii + 306. \pounds 12.50 . . . . . . . 304--306
Nicholas Fisher Book Review: Science and Society David
Knight, Ordering the world: a history of
classifying man. London: Burnett Books
in association with André Deutsch, 1981.
Pp. 215. \pounds 7.95 . . . . . . . . . 306--307
J. B. Morrell Book Review: Science and Society James
Paradis and Thomas Postlewait (eds),
Victorian science and Victorian values:
literary perspectives. New York: New
York Academy of Sciences, 1981. Pp. xiii
+ 362. \$70.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--308
R. G. A. Dolby Book Review: Science and Society H. M.
Collins and T. J. Pinch, Frames of
meaning: the social construction of
extraordinary science. London: Routledge
and Kegan Paul, 1982. Pp. x + 210.
\pounds 12.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--309
Ruth Harris Book Review: Science and Society Klaus
Doerner, Madmen and the Bourgeoisie, a
social history of insanity and
psychiatry. Oxford: Basil Blackwell,
1981. Pp. v + 361. \pounds 16.00 . . . . 309--310
John Field Book Review: Science and Society Les
Levidow and Bob Young (eds.), Science,
technology and the labour process:
Marxist studies, Vol. 1, London: CSE
Books. Arlautic Highlands: Humanities
Press, 1981. pp. 207, \pounds
12.00/\pounds 4.95 paperback . . . . . . 310--311
S. Gaukroger Book Review: Science and Society Larry
Laudan, Science and hypothesis:
historical essays on scientific
methodology. Dordrecht, Boston and
London: D. Reidel, 1981. Pp. x + 258.
Dfl.80.00/\$34.95; Dfl.37.50\slash
\$14.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . 311--312
David Gooding Book Review: Science and Society Rom
Harré. Great scientific experiments: 20
experiments that changed our view of the
world. Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1981. Pp.
224. \pounds 8.95 . . . . . . . . . . . 313--314
Andrew Wear Book Review: Journals and Dictionaries
J. D. Hunt (ed.), Journal of garden
history. London: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
\pounds 30.00 (libraries)/\pounds 16.00
(individuals) per annum . . . . . . . . 314--315
J. B. Morrell Book Review: Journals and Dictionaries
Charles Schmitt (ed.), History of
universities: Volume I: `Continuity and
change in early modern universities'.
Amersham: Avebury Publishing Company,
1981. Pp. viii + 225. \pounds 20.00 (Vol
I only). Annual subscription: \pounds
16.00 (libraries and institutions);
\pounds 12.00 (individuals) . . . . . . 315--315
Nicholas Fisher Book Review: Journals and Dictionaries
John Neu (ed.), Isis cumulative
bibliography, 1966--1975. Volume i:
personalities and institutions. London:
Mansell, in conjunction with the History
of Science Society, 1980. Pp. xxx + 483.
\pounds 44.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316
John R. Durant Book Review: Journals and Dictionaries
W. F. Bynum, E. J. Browne & Roy Porter
(eds.), Dictionary of the history of
science. London: Macmillan Press, 1981.
Pp. xxxiv + 494. \pounds 17.00 . . . . . 316--317
Nicholas Fisher Book Review: Journals and Dictionaries
Fred Gettings, Dictionary of occult,
hermetic and alchemical sigils. London:
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. Pp. 410.
\pounds 15.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--318
G. L'E. Turner Book Review: Journals and Dictionaries
Ronald Edward Zupko, Italian weights and
measures from the middle ages to the
ninetenth century. Philadelphia:
American Philosophical Society, 1981.
Pp. lxxxiv + 339. \$8.00} . . . . . . . 318--318
David Knight Book Review: Americana Clark A. Elliott,
Biographical dictionary of American
science. Westport, Conn. & London:
Greenwood Press, 1979. Pp. xvii + 360.
Frank N. Schubert (ed.), Explorer on the
northern plains: Lieut. Gouverneur K.
Warren's preliminary report of
explorations in Nebraska and Dakota,
1855-'56-'57. Washington, D.C.:
Historical Division, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, 1981. Pp. xxxiv + 125.
\$5.00; from Government Printing Office,
citing stock number 008-022-00165-4} . . 318--319
H. J. Cook Book Review: Americana A. McGehee
Harvey, Science at the bedside. Clinical
research in American medicine
1905--1945. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1981. Pp. xix + 554.
\pounds 12.25/\$21.85} . . . . . . . . . 319--319
Andrew Duff Book Review: Americana Paul Russell
Cutright and Michael J. Brodhead,
Elliott Coues: naturalist and frontier
historian. Urbana, Chicago & London:
University of Illinois Press, 1981. Pp.
xv + 509. \pounds 17.10 . . . . . . . . 320--320
Robert L. Nadeau Book Review: Americana R. E. Martin,
American literature and the universe of
force. Durham, North Carolina: Duke
University Press, 1981. Pp. x + 284.
\$27.75} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--321
Thomas F. Glick Book Review: Americana Iris N. W.
Engstrand, Spanish scientists in the New
World: the eighteenth century
expeditions. Seattle and London:
University of Washington Press, 1981.
Pp. xiv + 220. \pounds 15.00/\$25.00} 322--322
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--325
Anonymous Report of Council for the Year 1982-3 327--330
Anonymous Contents of Volume 16, 1983 . . . . . . 331--331
Thomas F. Glick Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Index of Books Reviewed . . . . . . . . 333--334
Anonymous BJH volume 16 issue 3 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b2
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matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Robert Paul German academic science and the Mandarin
ethos, 1850--1880 . . . . . . . . . . . 1--29
H. E. Le Grand Theory and application: the early
chemical work of J. A. C. Chaptal . . . 31--46
Frank A. J. L. James The physical interpretation of the wave
theory of light . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--60
Henry Guerlac ``Newton's mathematical way'': another
look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--64
Paul Weindling Darwinism and the Origin of
Psychoanalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--67
G. C. Gibbs The Radical Enlightenment . . . . . . . 67--81
Allen G. Debus Obituary: Walter Pagel, M.D. --- 12
November 1898--25 March 1983 . . . . . . 83--84
S. Schaffer Book Review: National Traditions in
Science Dirk J. Struik, The land of
Stevin and Huygens: a sketch of science
and technology in the Dutch Republic
during the golden century. Dordrecht.
Boston & London: D. Reidel, 1981. Pp. xx
+ 162. Dfl. 65/\$34.00; Dfl. 38\slash
\$18.50 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . 85--87
Peter Morris Book Review: National Traditions in
Science Helmut Tammen, Die I. G.
Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
(1925--1933): ein Chemiekonzern in der
Weimarer Republik. Berlin: Verlag
Helmuth Tammen, 1978. Pp. 468. Price 82
DM (about \pounds 20) . . . . . . . . . 87--88
Marie Boas Hall Book Review: National Traditions in
Science Karl Hufbauer, The formation of
the German chemical community
(1720--1795). Berkeley, Los Angeles,
London: University of California Press,
1982. Pp. viii + 312. \pounds 30, \$52.
ISBN 0-520-04318-9 (hardcover) and
0-520-04415-0 (paperback)} . . . . . . . 89--89
Mari E. W. Williams Book Review: National Traditions in
Science E. G. Forbes, Tobias Mayer
(1723--1762). Pioneer of enlightened
science in Germany. Göttingen:
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1980. Pp. 248. DM
38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Raymond Duchesne Book Review: National Traditions in
Science W. E. Knowles Middleton, Radar
development in Canada: the Radio Branch
of the National Research Council of
Canada, 1939--1946. Waterloo Ont:
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1981.
Pp. xii + 147. \$9.75} . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Yves Gingras Book Review: National Traditions in
Science Norman T. Gridgeman, Biological
sciences at the National Research
Council of Canada: the early years to
1952. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier
University Press, 1979. Pp. xxi + 153.
\$7.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Robert Bud Book Reviews: National Traditions in
Science Nathan Reingold and Ida H.
Reingold (eds) Science in America. A
documentary history, 1900--1939. Chicago
and London University of Chicago Press,
1981. Pp. x + 490. ISBN 0-226-70946-9.
\pounds 26.25. Marc Rothenberg, The
history of science in the United States:
a critical and selective bibliography.
New York and London: Garland Publishing,
Inc., 1982. Pp xiii + 242. ISBN
0-8240-9278-3. \$35.00} . . . . . . . . 91--92
Roger Cooter Book Review: National Traditions in
Science James C. Whorton, Crusaders for
fitness: the history of American health
reformers. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1982. Pp. 359. ISBN
0-691-04694-8. \$19.50} . . . . . . . . 92--93
Thomas F. Glick Book Review: National Traditions in
Science Santiago Garma (ed.), El
científico español ante su Historia. La
Ciencia en España entre 1750--1850 (I
Congreso de la Sociedad Española de
Historia de las Ciencias). Madrid:
Diputación Provincial, 1980. Pp. 583. (No
price stated.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
P. B. Wood Book Review: National Traditions in
Science R. H. Campbell and Andrew S.
Skinner (eds.), The origins and nature
of the Scottish enlightenment,
Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers Ltd.,
1982. Pp. viii + 231. \pounds 15.00 . . 94--95
Gay Weber Book Review: National Traditions in
Science Ian Langham, The building of
British social anthropology: W. H. R.
Rivers and his Cambridge disciples in
the development of kinship studies,
1898--1931. Dordrecht, Boston & London:
D. Reidel, 1981. Pp. xxxii + 392. Dfl.
145/\$72.50; Dfl. 65\slash \$29.50
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Jack Morrell Book Review: National Traditions in
Science T. W. Heyck, The transformation
of intellectual life in Victorian
England. London and Canberra: Croom
Helm, 1982. Pp. 262. ISBN 0-7099-1206-4.
\pounds 14.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: National Traditions in
Science Geoffrey Howson, A history of
mathematics education in England.
Cambridge: University Press, 1982. Pp. x
+ 294. ISBN 0-521-24206-1. \pounds 25 97--98
Michael Neve Book Review: National Traditions in
Science J. V. Pickstone (ed.), Health,
disease and medicine in Lancashire
1750--1950: four papers on sources,
problems and methods. Manchester:
U.M.I.S.T., 1980. Pp. 103. \pounds 2.00 98--99
John Hendry Book Review: National Traditions in
Science Leslie Hannah, Engineers,
managers and politicians. The first
fifteen years of nationalised
electricity supply in Britain. Research
by Margaret Ackrill, Frances Bostock,
Rachel Lawrence, Judy Slinn and
Stephanie Zarach. London: MacMillan,
1982. Pp. xiii + 336. \pounds 15.95.
ISBN 0-333-22087-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Andrew Pickering Book Reviews: National Traditions in
Science Everett Mendelsohn and Yehuda
Elkana (eds), Sciences and cultures.
Dordrecht, Boston and London: Reidel,
1981. Pp. xvii + 270. ISBN 90-277-1234-4
(hardcover)/1235-2 (paperback). (No
price stated.) Norbert Elias, Herminio
Martins and Richard Whitley (eds),
Scientific Establishments and
hierarchies. Reidel, 1982. Pp. xi + 368.
ISBN 90-277-1322-7 (hardcover)/1323-5
(paperback). Dfl. 95.00, \$42.50
(hardcover); Dfl. 50.00, \$19.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
D. L. Simms Book Review: Antiquity to the
Renaissance Ivo Schneider, `Archimedes'
Erträge der Forschung, Wissenschaftliche
Buchgesellschaft. Darmstadt, 1979 . . . 101--102
Vivian Nutton Book Review: Antiquity to the
Renaissance Johannes Morsink, Aristotle
on the generation of animals, a
philosophical study. Washington:
University Press of America, 1982. Pp.
192. ISBN 0-8191-2607-1. \$19.50 (\$9.50
paperback). Abraham Wasserstein, Galen's
Commentary on the Hippocratic Treatise,
Airs, Waters, Places. Jerusalem:
Proceedings of the Israel Academy of
Sciences and Humanities, VI.3, 1982. Pp.
119 (paperback). (No price stated.) . . 102--103
John Henry Book Review: Antiquity to the
Renaissance Norman Kretzmann (ed.),
Infinity and continuity in ancient
medieval thought. Ithaca and London:
Cornell University Press, 1982. Pp. 367.
ISBN 0-8014-1444-X. \pounds 20.75,
\$36.10} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
Sarah Hutton Book Review: Antiquity to the
Renaissance C. B. Schmitt, Aristotle and
the Renaissance. Cambridge (Mass.) and
London: Harvard University Press, 1983.
Pp. viii + 187. ISBN 0-674-04525-4.
\pounds 14.80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--105
A. George Molland Book Reviews: Antiquity to the
Renaissance William A. Wallace, Prelude
to Galileo: essays on medieval and
sixteenth-century sources of Galileo's
thought. (Boston Studies in the
Philosophy of Science, Volume 62.)
Dordrecht, Boston & London: D. Reidel,
1981. Pp. xvi + 369. ISBN 90-277-1215-8,
Dfl. 95/US \$49.95 (hardcover); ISBN
90-277-1216-6, Dfl. 45\slash US \$23.50
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106
John Henry Book Review: Antiquity to the
Renaissance Walter Pagel, Joan Baptista
Van Helmont: reformer of science and
medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1982. Pp. xi + 219.
ISBN 0-521-24807-8. \pounds 20.00 . . . 106--106
Janet Browne Book Review: Antiquity to the
Renaissance Janis L. Pallister (ed),
Ambroise Paré On Monsters and Marvels:
translated with an introduction and
notes. Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 1982. Pp. xxxii + 224.
ISBN 0-226-64562-2. \pounds 14.00 . . . 107--107
Stephen Pumfrey Book Review: Seventeenth Century: Steven
J. Dick, Plurality of worlds. The
origins of the extraterrestrial life
debate from Democritus to Kant.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1982. ISBN 0-521-24308-4. Pp. x + 246.
\pounds 19.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
N. Jardine Book Review: Seventeenth Century:
Johannes Kepler, Mysterium
Cosmographicum: The secret of the
universe. Translation by A. M. Duncan,
Introduction and Commentary by E. J.
Aiton, with a Preface by I. Bernard
Cohen. New York: Abaris Books, 1981. Pp.
267. ISBN 0-913870-64-1. \pounds 13 . . 108--109
Michael Hunter Book Review: Seventeenth Century: M. M.
Slaughter, Universal languages and
scientific taxonomy in the seventeenth
century. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1982. Pp. x + 277. ISBN
0-521-24477-3. \pounds 25.00 . . . . . . 109--110
Penelope M. Gouk Book Review: Seventeenth Century:
Michael Hunter, The Royal Society and
its Fellows 1660--1700: the morphology
of an early scientific institution.
Chalfont St Giles, Bucks.: The British
Society for the History of Science,
1982. Pp. v + 270. ISBN 0-906450-03-9.
\pounds 5.90, \$11.00} . . . . . . . . . 110--110
John Henry Book Review: Seventeenth Century: James
R. Jacob, Henry Stubbe, radical
protestantism and the early
enlightenment. Cambridge: University
Press, 1983. Pp. viii + 222. ISBN
0-521-24876-0. \pounds 19.50 . . . . . . 111--112
Penelope M. Gouka Book Review: Seventeenth Century: David
Castillejo, The expanding force in
Newton's cosmos, as shown in his
unpublished papers. Madrid: Ediciones de
Arte y Bibliofilia, 1981. Pp. 125 . . . 112--113
John Hendry Book Review: Seventeenth Century: Zev
Bechler (ed.), Contemporary Newtonian
research. Dordrecht and Boston: D.
Reidel, 1982. Pp. vi + 241. DF1. 95.00.
ISBN 90-277-1303-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
P. M. Harman Book Review: Seventeenth Century:
Desmond M. Clarke, Descartes' philosophy
of science. Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 1982. Pp. xiv + 249.
ISBN 0-7190-0868-9. \pounds 19.00 . . . 114--114
P. M. Harman Book Reviews: Seventeenth Century:
Margaret Dauler Wilson, Descartes.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982.
Pp. xviii + 255. ISBN 0-7100-9208-3.
\pounds 5.95. Ralph C. S. Walker, Kant.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982.
Pp. xii + 201. ISBN 0-7100-0009-X.
\pounds 4.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
A. Rupert Hall Book Review: Seventeenth Century: L. C.
Palm and H. A. M. Snelders (eds.),
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek 1632--1723.
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1983. Pp. 212. ISBN
90-6203-824-7. (No price stated) . . . . 115--116
Roy Porter Book Review: Enlightenment Marguerite
Carozzi, Voltaire's attitude toward
geology. Geneva: Société de Physique et
d'Histoire Naturelle, 1983. Pp. 146.
SFRp 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Simon Schaffer Book Reviews: Enlightenment Robert E.
Sullivan, John Toland and the deist
controversy. (Harvard Historical Studies
No. 101.) Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. viii
+ 355 ISBN 0-674-48050-3. \pounds 19.25.
François Duchesneau. La physiologic des
lumi\`eres. Empirisme, mod\`eles et
théories (International Archives of the
History of Ideas; 95). The Hague:
Martinus Nijhoff, 1982. Pp. xxi + 611.
ISBN 90-247-2500-3. Cloth, Dfl. 185.00,
US 397.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
F. W. P. Dougherty Book Review: Enlightenment François
Duchesneau. La physiologic des
lumi\`eres. Empirisme, mod\`eles et
théories (International Archives of the
History of Ideas; 95). The Hague:
Martinus Nijhoff, 1982. Pp. xxi + 611.
ISBN 90-247-2500-3. Cloth, Dfl. 185.00,
US 397.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120
Janet Browne and
John Hendry Book Review: Robert Smith, The expanding
universe. Astronomy's `great debate',
1900--1931. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1982. Pp. xiv + 220.
ISBN 0-521-23212-0. \pounds 19 . . . . . 120--123
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--125
Janet Browne and
John Hendry Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous BJH volume 17 issue 1 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b3
Anonymous BJH volume 17 issue 1 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f3
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii
Robert Fox Science, industry, and the social order
in Mulhouse, 1798--1871 . . . . . . . . 127--168
Tina Stiefel Twelfth-century matter for metaphor: the
material view of Plato's
\booktitleTimaeus . . . . . . . . . . . 169--185
Trevor H. Levere Dr. Thomas Beddoes (1750--1808): Science
and medicine in politics and society . . 187--204
Irena M. McCabe and
Frank A. J. L. James History of Science and Technology
Resources at the Royal Institution of
Great Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--209
Masao Watanabe The Caloric Theory of S. L. Metcalfe . . 210--213
W. A. Smeaton Obituary: William Persehouse Delisle
Wightman: 4 June 1899--15 January 1983 214--216
David Bloor Book Reviews: Physics and its Concepts:
Karl R. Popper, Realism and the aim of
science. London: Hutchinson, 1983. ISBN
0-09-151450-9 cased. The open universe.
An argument for indeterminism. London:
Hutchinson, 1982. ISBN 0-09-146180-4
(hardcover). \pounds 15.00. Quantum
theory and the schism in physics.
London, Hutchinson, 1982. ISBN
0-09-146170-7 (hardcover). \pounds 15.00 217--221
John Hendry Book Reviews: Physics and its Concepts:
Peter M. Harman, Energy, force and
matter. The conceptual development of
nineteenth-century physics. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. ix
+ 182. \pounds 13.50 (cased, ISBN
0-521-24600-8), \pounds 5.50 (paper,
ISBN 0-521-28812-6). Peter M. Harman,
Metaphysics and natural philosophy. The
problem of substance in classical
physics. Brighton: Harvester Press,
1982. Pp. xvi + 168. \pounds 18.95. ISBN
0-7108-0451-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--223
C. W. Kilmister Book Review: Physics and its Concepts:
Jonathan Powers, Philosophy and the new
physics. London: Methuen, 1982. Pp xvii
+ 203. ISBN 0-416-73480-4. \pounds 3.95 223--224
Helge Kragh Book Review: Physics and its Concepts:
Edward M. MacKinnon, Scientific
explanation and atomic physics. Chicago:
The University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Pp. 450. \pounds 22 . . . . . . . . . . 224--225
Mari E. W. Williams Book Review: Physics and its Concepts:
N. T. Roseveare, Mercury's perihelion
from Le Verrier to Einstein. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. viii
+ 208. ISBN 0-19-858174-2. \pounds 20.00 225--226
Michael L. G. Redhead Book Review: Physics and its Concepts:
Abraham Pais, `Subtle is the Lord': the
science and the life of Albert Einstein.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. Pp. xvi +
552. ISBN 0-19-853907-X. \pounds 15 . . 226--227
C. W. Kilmister Book Review: Physics and its Concepts:
Gerald Holton and Yehuda Elkana (ed),
Albert Einstein: historical and cultural
perspective. Princeton: University
Press, 1982. Pp. xxxii + 439. ISBN
0-691-08299-5. \pounds 24.70 . . . . . . 227--227
Simon Schaffer Book Reviews: History of Mathematical
Sciences: Huygens et la France. Foreword
by René Taton. Paris: Vrin. 1982. Pp. ix
+ 268. ISBN 2-7116-2018-2. 210F. Henry
Guerlac, Newton on the Continent.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981.
Pp. 169. ISBN 0-8014-1409-1. \pounds
8.75. Marie-Françoise Biarnais, Les
Principia de Newton: Gen\`ese et
structure des chapitres fondamentaux
avec traduction nouvelle. Foreward by A.
Rupert Hall. Paris: Centre Nationale de
la Recherche Scientifique, 1982. Pp.
287. ISBN 2-222-03094-3. (Cahiers
d'Histoire et de Philosophie des
Sciences, Nouvelle série, No. 2.) 25F . . 227--230
J. Bruce Brackenridge Book Review: History of Mathematical
Sciences: Ronald Cowing, Roger
Cotes-Natural Philosopher, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. x
+ 210. \pounds 22.50. ISBN 0-521-23741-6 231--232
John Henry Book Review: History of Mathematical
Sciences: Barbara J. Shapiro,
Probability and certainty in
seventeenth-century England: a study of
the relationships between natural
science, religion, history, law, and
literature. Princeton, New Jersey:
Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. x
+ 347. ISBN 0-691-05379-0. \pounds 26.00 232--232
John Hendry Book Review: History of Mathematical
Sciences: A. Rupert Hall, The Revolution
in Science, 1500--1750. London: Longman,
1983, Pp. viii + 373. ISBN
0-582-49133-9. \pounds 8.95 (paperback) 233--233
Garry J. Tee Book Review: History of Mathematical
Sciences: Stella Mills (ed.), The
collected letters of Colin MacLaurin.
Nantwich: Shiva Publishing Limited,
1982. Pp. xix + 496 . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
Jeremy Gray Book Review: History of Mathematical
Sciences: John T. Cannon and Sigalia
Dostrovsky, The evolution of dynamics:
vibration theory from 1687 to 1742. New
York: Springer, 1981. Pp vi + 184. ISBN
0-387-90626-6. DM 98 . . . . . . . . . . 234--235
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: History of Mathematical
Sciences: Charles S. Peirce, Writings,
vol. 1, 1857--1866. Bloomington,
Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1982.
Pp. xxxvii + 698. \pounds 19.50 . . . . 235--236
John Hendry Book Review: History of Mathematical
Sciences: Simon Schaffer, Science and
the English Enlightenment (Video
Cassette). Poulshot, Wiltshire: Sussex
Publications, 1982. 28$ 1 / 2 $ minutes.
\pounds 45.42 Simon Schaffer, Newton,
Central TV for Channel 4: Crucible
Series, 1982. Colin A. Ronan. The
Cambridge Illustrated History of World
Science, Feltham, Middx: Newnes, 1983:
Pp. 543. ISBN 0-600-38423-3. \pounds
12.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--237
Marie Boas Hall Book Reviews: History of Mathematical
Sciences: Don H. Kennedy, Little
Sparrow: A Portrait of Sophia
Kovalevsky. Athens, Ohio and London:
Ohio University Press, 1983. pp. ix +
341. \pounds 20.80, ISBN 0-8214-0692-2
(hardcover); \pounds 10.40, ISBN
0-8214-0703-1 (paperback) . . . . . . . 238--238
John Hendry Book Review: History of Mathematical
Sciences: Christine Blondel, Amp\`ere et
la Création de l'électrodynámique
(1820--1827). Paris: Bibliotheque
Nationale, 1982. Pp. 202. ISBN
2-7177-1643-2. 175 F (paperback) . . . . 238--238
Milulás Teich Book Review: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Robert E. Kohler, From medical chemistry
to biochemistry. The making of a
biomedical discipline. Cambridge:
University Press, 1982. Pp. ix + 399.
\pounds 22.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--241
W. A. Smeaton Book Review: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Claude-Louis Berthollet, Revue de
l'Essai de Statique Chimique, édition
critique par Michelle Sadoun-Goupil.
Paris: École Polytechnique, 1980. Pp. vii
+ 204. ISBN 2-7302-0019-3. (Price not
stated.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--242
George B. Kauffman Book Review: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Alexander Todd, A Time to Remember: The
Autobiography of a Chemist. Cambridge,
England: Cambridge University Press,
1983, Pp. viii + 257. ISBN
0-521-25593-7. \pounds 15, \$29.95} . . 242--243
N. Morgan Book Review: Chemistry and Biochemistry
J. S. Fruton, A bio-bibliography for the
history of the biochemical sciences
since 1800. Philadelphia: American
Philosophical Society, 1982. Pp. xiii +
885. ISBN 0-87169-983-4. \$20} . . . . . 243--243
Peter Morris Book Review: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Frank M. McMillan, The chain
straighteners. Macmillan: London, 1979.
Pp. xvi +207. \pounds 17.00 . . . . . . 243--244
Liliane Bodson Book Review: Science in Culture: Richard
Olson, Science Deified and Science
Defied. The Historical Significance of
Science in Western Culture from the
Bronze Age to the Beginnings of the
Modern Era ca. 3500 B.C. to ca. A.D.
1640. Berkeley--Los Angeles--London:
University of California Press, 1983.
Pp. xv + 329 ISBN 0-520-04621-8. \pounds
27.50. \$42} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--245
N. Jardine Book Review: Science in Culture: René
Descartes, Principles of Philosophy.
Translated, with explanatory notes, by
V. R. Miller and R. P. Miller. Synthese
Historical Library, Vol. 24. Dordrecht:
D. Reidel, 1983. Pp xxviii + 325. Cloth
Dfl. 135/\$59.00} . . . . . . . . . . . 245--245
Sheridan Gilley Book Review: Science in Culture: Michael
Heyd, Between Orthodoxy and the
Enlightenment. Jean-Robert Chouet and
the Introduction of Cartesian Science in
the Academy of Geneva. (International
Archives of the History of Ideas 96).
The Hague and Jerusalem: Martinus
Nijhoff and the Magnes Press, 1982. Pp.
xiv + 308. ISBN 90-247-2508-9. Dfl. 150 246--246
G. N. Cantor Book Review: Science in Culture: H. N.
Jahnke and M. Otte (eds),
Epistemological and social problems of
the sciences in the early nineteenth
century. Dordrecht, Boston and London:
D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1981. Pp.
xlii + 430. ISBN 90-277-1223-9. Dfl.
60.00, \$31.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
Jack Morrell Book Review: Science in Culture: Arthur
J. Engel, From clergyman to don: the
rise of the academic profession in
nineteenth-century Oxford. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. xi +
302. ISBN 0-19-822606-3. \pounds 22.50 247--248
James R. Moore Book Review: Science in Culture: J.
David Hoeveler Jr., James McCosh and the
Scottish intellectual tradition: from
Glasgow to Princeton. Princeton, New
Jersey: Princeton University Press,
1981. Pp. xiv + 374. \pounds 17.40 . . . 248--249
W. H. Brock Book Review: Science in Culture: George
Weisz, The Emergence of Modern
Universities in France, 1863--1914.
Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1983. Pp. xii + 397. \pounds 30.20. ISBN
0-691-05375-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--250
Martin M. Patzlaff Book Review: Science in Culture: Karl
Snell, Die Schöpfung des Menschen.
Vorlesungen über die Abstammung des
Menschen (ed. Friedrich A. Kipp).
Stuttgart: Verlag Freies Geistesleben,
1981. Pp. 230. DM 28 . . . . . . . . . . 250--251
J. R. Ravetz Book Review: Science in Culture: Marcel
Chotkowski la Follette (ed.), Quality in
science. Cambridge, Mass., and London:
The MIT Press, 1982. Pp. xi + 169. ISBN
0-262-62040-5 (paperback). \pounds 10.00 251--251
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--254
Anonymous BJH volume 17 issue 2 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b2
Anonymous BJH volume 17 issue 2 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Helge Kragh Julius Thomsen and classical
thermochemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--272
Annie Petit L'esprit de la science anglaise et les
Français au XIX\`eme si\`ecle . . . . . . 273--293
Mari Williams Beyond the planets: early
nineteenth-century studies of double
stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--309
A. C. Crombie Obituary: James Sterling Wilkie:
1906--1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--311
D. E. Allen Book Review: History of Natural History:
Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith
Berkeley, The life and travels of John
Bartram. From Lake Ontario to the River
St. John, Tallahassee: University
Presses of Florida, 1982. Pp. xvi + 376.
ISBN 0-8130-0700-3. (No price stated.) 311--312
J. C. Thackray Book Review: History of Natural History:
Adrian Desmond, Archetypes and
ancestors: palaeontology in Victorian
London, 1850--1870. London: Blond and
Briggs, 1982. Pp. 287. ISBN
0-85634-121-5. \pounds 15.95 . . . . . . 312--313
Beryl M. Hamilton Book Review: History of Natural History:
Gordon L. Herries Davies, Sheets of Many
Colours. The Mapping of Ireland's Rocks.
1750--1890. Dublin: The Royal Dublin
Society, 1983. Pp. xiv + 242 ISBN
0-86027-014-9 IR \pounds 15.00 . . . . . 313--313
Martin Rudwick Book Reviews: History of Natural
History: Mott T. Greene, Geology in the
Nineteenth Century. Changing Views of a
Changing World. Ithaca and London:
Cornell University Press, 1983. Pp. 324.
ISBN 0-8014-1467-9. \pounds 23.50,
\$38.35. Nicolaas A. Rupke, The Great
Chain of History. William Buckland and
the English School of Geology
(1814--1849). Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1983. Pp. xii + 322. ISBN 0-19-822907-0.
\pounds 22.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--316
James A. Secord Book Review: History of Natural History:
William Glen, The Road to Jaramillo:
Critical Years of the Revolution in
Earth Science. Stanford, California:
Stanford University Press, 1982. Pp. xx
+ 459. ISBN 0-8047-1119-4. \$37.50} . . 316--318
David Knight Book Review: History of Natural History:
Timothy Lenoir, The strategy of life:
teleology and mechanics in nineteenth
century German biology. Dordrecht: D.
Reidel, 1982. Pp. xii + 314. ISBN
90-277-1363-4. DFL 135.00, \$59.00} . . 318--318
David Knight Book Review: History of Natural History:
Timothy Lenoir, The strategy of life:
teleology and mechanics in nineteenth
century German biology. Dordrecht: D.
Reidel, 1982. Pp. xii + 314. ISBN
90-277-1363-4. DFL 135.00, \$59.00} . . 318--319
Dorinda Outram Book Review: History of Natural History:
Madeleine Barthélemy-Madaule, Lamarck the
mythical precursor: a study of the
relations between science and ideology.
Translated by M. H. Shank. Cambridge,
Mass., and London: The M.I.T. Press,
1982. Pp. xv + 174. ISBN 0-262-02179-X.
\pounds 12.25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--320
Dorinda Outram Book Review: History of Natural History:
Paul Lawrence Farber, The emergence of
ornithology as a scientific discipline:
1760--1850. Dordrecht, Boston & London:
D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1982. Pp.
xxi+ 191. 339.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--321
Roy Porter Book Review: History of Natural History:
John Lyon and Phillip R. Sloan, From
natural history to the history of
nature. Notre Dame and London:
University of Notre Dame Press, 1981.
Pp. xiv+ 406. \pounds 11.95. David
Goodman, Buffon's Natural History. (The
Open University Arts: A Second Level
Course, The Enlightenment.) Milton
Keynes: The Open University Press, 1980.
Pp. 74 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--322
Janet Browne Book Review: History of Natural History:
Gunnar Broberg (ed), Linnaeus: progress
and prospects in Linnean research.
Stockholm and Pittsburgh: Almquist &
Wiksell with the Hunt Institute for
Botanical Documentation, 1978. Pp 318.
ISBN 91-22-00385-1. (No price stated.) 322--322
John Thackray Book Review: History of Natural History:
Ron J. Cleevely, World palaeontological
collections. London: British Museum
(Natural History) and Mansell, 1982. Pp.
365. ISBN 0-56500-850-1/0-7201-1655-4.
\pounds 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--323
D. E. Allen Book Review: History of Natural History:
Ray Desmond, The India Museum
1801--1879. London: Her Majesty's
Stationery Office, 1982. Pp. xi+ 215.
ISBN 0-11-580088-3. \pounds 25.00 . . . 323--324
Trevor I. Williams Book Review: History of Technology:
William H. McNeill, The Pursuit of
Power: Technology Armed Force and
Society since AD 1000. Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1983. ISBN 0-631-13134-5.
\pounds 15.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--325
S. T. Keith Book Review: History of Technology:
Clayton R. Koppes, JPL and the American
Space Programme: A History of the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1982. Pp. viii+ 320.
\pounds 16.95/\$19.95. Joan Lisa
Bromberg, Fusion: Science, Politics and
the Invention of a New Energy Source.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press,
1982. Pp. xxvi + 343. \pounds 24\slash
\$30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--326
Donald Cardwell Book Review: History of Technology: C.
C. Gillispie, The Montgolfier Brothers
and the Invention of Aviation,
1783--1784, Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1983. Pp. xi+ 210.
ISBN 0-691-08321-5. \pounds 30.20 . . . 326--327
David Edge Book Review: History of Technology:
Woodruff Turner Sullivan III, (ed.),
Classics in radio astronomy. Dordrecht:
D. Reidel, 1982. Pp. xxiv + 348. ISBN
90-277-1356-1. Dfl. 140.00, \$59.50} . . 327--328
Alex Keller Book Review: History of Technology:
Trevor I. Williams, A short history of
twentieth-century technology. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. xix +
411. ISBN 0-19-858159-9. \pounds 12.50 328--328
Mark Baldwin Book Review: History of Technology: K.
H. Vignoles, Charles Blacker Vignoles:
romantic engineer. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1982. Pp. xii-f 187.
ISBN 0-521-23930-3. \pounds 18.00 . . . 329--329
Marie Boas Hall Book Review: History of Technology: John
Hubble Weiss, The making of
technological man: the social origins of
French engineering education. Cambridge,
Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1982. Pp.
xviii + 377. ISBN 0-262-23112-3. \pounds
21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--330
Jack Meadows Book Review: History of Technology: Paul
A. Hanle, Bringing aerodynamics to
America. Cambridge, Mass, and London:
MIT Press, 1982. Pp. xiv + 184. ISBN
0-262-08114-8. \pounds 14.00 . . . . . . 330--331
Roger Williams Book Review: History of Technology:
Brian Wynne, Rationality and ritual: the
Windscale Inquiry and nuclear decisions
in Britain. Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks.:
The British Society for the History of
Science (BSHS Monographs 3), 1982. Pp. x
+ 222. ISBN 0-906450-02-0. \pounds 6.50,
\$13.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
J. A. Bennett Book Reviews: History of Technology:
Anita McConnell, Historical instruments
in oceanography. London: Her Majesty's
Stationery Office, 1981. Pp. iv + 51.
ISBN 0-11-290324-X. \pounds 3.95. Anita
McConnell, No sea too deep: the history
of oceanographic instruments. Bristol:
Adam Hilger Ltd, 1982. Pp. xiii + 162.
ISBN 0-85274-416-1. \pounds 19.50 . . . 332--332
Andrew Wear Book Review: Science Studies Jonathan
Barnes, Jacques Brunschwig, Myles
Burnyeat, Malcolm Schofield (eds),
Science and Speculation. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp.
xxiv + 351. ISBN 0-521-24689-X. \pounds
25.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--334
G. J. Whitrow Book Review: Science Studies P. T.
Landsberg (ed.). The Enigma of Time.
Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1982. pp. xii +
248. ISBN 0-85274-545-1. \pounds 13.95,
\$28.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--335
Steve Sinclair Book Review: Science Studies Alex
Keller, The Infancy of Atomic Physics.
Hercules in his Cradle. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1983. Pp. 230. \pounds
12.50. ISBN 0-19-853904-5 . . . . . . . 335--335
John Hendry Book Reviews: Science Studies Magda
Whitrow (ed), Isis cumulative
bibliography 1913--1965, volumes 4 and
5: civilizations and periods. London:
Mansell, 1982. Volume 4: pp. xviii +
457, ISBN 0-7201-1642-2. Volume 5: pp.
xi + 593, ISBN 0-7201-1643-0. \pounds
100 the set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--336
A. G. Molland Book Review: Science Studies Nan L.
Hahn, Medieval Mensuration. Quadrane
Vetus and Geometrie Due Sunt Partes
Principales \ldots (Transactions of the
American Philosophical Society, Volume
72, Part 8.) Philadelphia: American
Philosophical Society, 1982. Pp. lxxxv +
204 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--337
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--340
Anonymous The British Society for the History of
Science Report of Council for the Year
1983--1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--345
A. G. Molland Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--346
Anonymous Index of Books Reviewed . . . . . . . . 348--350
Anonymous BJH volume 17 issue 3 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b2
Anonymous BJH volume 17 issue 3 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
J. B. Morrell Wissenschaft in Worstedopolis: Public
Science in Bradford, 1800--1850 . . . . 1--23
Adrian Desmond Richard Owen's Reaction to Transmutation
in the 1830's . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--50
Theodore M. Porter The mathematics of society: Variation
and error in Quetelet's statistics . . . 51--69
L. R. Day Resources for the History of Science in
the Science Museum Library . . . . . . . 71--76
Graham Hollister-Short The Long Waves of Social Consciousness 77--82
Roy Porter Book Review: Lloyd G. Stevenson (ed.), A
celebration of medical history. The
fiftieth anniversary of the Johns
Hopkins Institute of the History of
Medicine and the Welch Medical Library.
Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins
University Press, 1982. Pp. vi + 228.
\pounds 12.75/522.10 . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
Roy Porter Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Denise Riley Book Review: John Forrester, Language
and the origins of psychoanalysis.
London: MacMillan, 1980. Pp xv + 285.
\pounds 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
Paul Weindling Book Review: Nancy Mandelker Frieden,
Russian Physicians in an Era of Reform
and Revolution 1856--1905. Princeton,
New Jersey: Princeton University Press,
1981. Pp. xvii + 378. ISBN
0-691-05335-0. \pounds 22.80 . . . . . . 86--86
L. J. Jordanova Book Review: William Coleman, Death is a
social disease. Public health and
political economy in early industrial
France. Madison, Wisconsin: University
of Madison Press, 1982. Pp. xxi + 322.
\$35.00\slash \pounds 26.25} . . . . . . 86--87
Nigel Reeves Book Review: Dieter Oldenburg,
Romantische Naturphilosophie und
Arzneimittellehre 1800--1840,
Veröffentlichungen aus dem
Pharmaziegeschichtlichen Seminar der
Technischen Universität Braunschweig vol.
20. Brunswick, 1979. Pp. 267. No priced
stated. ISSN 0068-0729 . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Joan Busfield Book Review: Roger Smith, Trial by
medicine: insanity and responsibility in
Victorian trials. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press, 1981. Pp. ix + 238.
\pounds 15.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Christopher Lawrence Book Reviews: Peter Wright and Andrew
Treacher (eds), The problem of medical
knowledge. Edinburgh University Press,
1982. Pp. viii + 232. ISBN
0-85224-417-7. \pounds 12.00
(paperback). David Armstrong, The
political anatomy of the body.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1983. Pp. xii + 146. ISBN 0-521-24746-2.
\pounds 17.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
David Furley Book Reviews: G. E. R. Lloyd, Science,
Folklore and Ideology: Studies in the
Life Sciences in Ancient Greece.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1983. Pp. xi + 260. ISBN 0-521-25314-4.
\pounds 25.00, \$49.50. Paperback ISBN
0-521-27307-2. \pounds 8.95, \$16.95 . . 91--93
Catherine Osborne Book Review: G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, M.
Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers.
2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii and
501. ISBN 0-521-25444-2 \pounds 30.00
(Paperback \pounds 10.95) . . . . . . . 93--94
A. George Molland Book Review: H. L. L. Busard, ed., The
First Latin Translation of Euclid's
Elements commonly ascribed to Adelard of
Bath. Books I-VIII and Books X.36-XV.2.
(Studies and Texts 64.) Toronto:
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval
Studies, 1983. Pp. vi + 425. \$37.00} 95--95
Charles B. Schmitt Book Review: David C. Lindberg, Roger
Bacon's Philosophy of Nature. A Critical
Edition, with English Translation,
Introduction, and Notes, of De
Multiplicatione speciarum and De
speculis comburentibus. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1983. Pp. lxxxi + 420.
ISBN 0-19-858164-5. \pounds 40.00 . . . 95--96
Dominik Wujastyk Book Review: A. Rahman, M. A. Alvi, S.
A. Khan Ghori, and K. V. Samba Murthy,
\booktitleScience and technology in
mediaeval India --- a bibliography of
source materials in Sanskrit, Arabic and
Persian. Delhi: Indian National Science
Academy, 1982. Pp. xxxi + 719. Rs.200
(inland), \$70 (foreign)} . . . . . . . 96--97
Marie Boas Hall Book Review: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein,
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern
Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1983. Pp. iv + 297. ISBN
0-521-25858-8. \pounds 25, \$34.50,
(Paperback \pounds 7.95, \$9.95.) . . . 97--98
D. T. Whiteside Book Review: François Vi\`ete, The
Analytic Art. Nine Studies in Algebra,
Geometry and Trigonometry from the `Opus
Restitutae Mathematics Analyseos, seu
Algebra Nova'. Edited by T. Richard
Witmer. Kent, Ohio: State University
Press [European distributor: Eurospan
Ltd., 3 Henrietta Street, London WC2E]
1983. Pp. 450. ISBN 0-87338-282-X. \$45} 98--100
Marie Boas Hall Book Review: Marin Mersenne,
Correspondance, XV (1647). Edited by
Cornelis de Waard and Armand Beaulieu.
Paris: Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique, 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
William R. Shea Book Review: Pietro Redondi, Galileo
Eretico. Turin: Einaudi, 1983. Pp. x +
463. ISBN 88-06-05632-8. 25,000 lire . . 100--102
R. Naylor Book Review: Stillman Drake, Cause
Experiment and Science: A Galilean
dialogue incorporating a new English
translation of Galileo's `Bodies That
Stay atop Water or Move in it.' Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1981. Pp.
xxviii + 237. ISBN 0-226-16228-1.
\$20.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Mari E. W. Williams Book Review: John Flamsteed, Preface to
Historia Coelestis Britannica. Edited
and introduced by Allan Chapman, based
on a translation by Alison Dione
Johnson. Greenwich: National Maritime
Museum, Maritime Monographs and Reports,
No. 52, 1982. Pp. vi + 222. ISBN
0-905555-60-0. No price given . . . . . 103--103
Lawrence Pedersen Book Review: Lorin Anderson, Charles
Bonnet and the Order of the Known.
(Studies in the History of Modern
Science, 11.) Dordrecht: Reidel, 1982.
Pp. xiii + 155. ISBN 90-277-1389-8. DFl.
85, \$37} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
Jeremy Gray Book Review: Leonard Euler 1707--1783.
Beiträge zu Leben und Werk. Gedenkband
des Kantons Basel-Stadt. Basel:
Birkhäuser Verlag, 1983. Pp. 555. SFr. 58 104--105
Crosbie Smith Book Review: G. N. Cantor. Optics after
Newton. Theories of light in Britain and
Ireland, 1704--1840. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1983. Pp.
ix + 257. ISBN 0-7190-0938-3. \pounds 20 105--107
Roy Porter Book Review: Sally Shuttleworth, George
Eliot and Nineteenth Century Science.
The Make-Believe of a Beginning.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1984. Pp. xiv + 257, \pounds 20.00
Redmond O'Hanlon, Joseph Conrad and
Charles Darwin. The Influence of
Scientific Thought on Conrad's Fiction.
Edinburgh: The Salamander Press, 1984.
Pp. 189, \pounds 17.50 . . . . . . . . . 107--109
L. J. Jordanova Book Review: Graeme Tytler, Physiognomy
in the European Novel. Faces and
Fortunes. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1982. Pp. xix + 436
ISBN 0-691-06491-1 \pounds 19.10 . . . . 109--110
Thomas Hankins Book Review: Elizabeth Chambers
Patterson, Mary Somerville and the
Cultivation of Science, 1815--1840.
(Archives internationales d'histoire des
idees, 102) Boston, The Hague,
Dordrecht, Lancaster: Martinus Nijhoff
Publishers, 1983. Pp. xiv + 264. ISBN
90-247-2823-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
James Secord Book Review: Ian Inkster and Jack
Morrell (eds.), Metropolis and Province:
Science in British Culture, 1780--1850.
London: Hutchinson, 1983. Pp. 288. ISBN
0-09-145180-9. \pounds 17.50 . . . . . . 111--113
David Layton Book Review: Roy MacLeod (editor), Days
of Judgement. Science, Examinations and
the Organization of Knowledge in Late
Victorian England. Driffield: Studies in
Education Ltd., Nafferton Books, 1982.
Pp. ix + 250. ISBN 0-905484-15-0.
\pounds 15.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--113
David Gooding Book Review: Nathan Reingold (ed), The
Papers of Joseph Henry, volume 3:
January 1836-December 1837, The
Princeton Years. Washington: Smithsonian
Institution Press, 1979. Pp. xxxiv +
585. \$30. Nathan Reingold (ed), The
Papers of Joseph Henry, volume 4:
January 1838-December 1840, The
Princeton Years. Washington: Smithsonian
Institution Press, 1981. Pp. xxxiv +
475. \$30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
Jane Maienschen Book Review: Georg Uschmann, editor,
Ernst Haeckel. Biographie in Briefen.
Leipzig: Urania-Verlag, 1983. Pp. 328.
24DM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116
A. R. Woolley Book Review: Tom Simkin and Richard S.
Fiske, Krakatau 1883: the volcanic
eruption and its effects. Washington,
D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press,
1983. Pp. 464. \pounds 13.95 . . . . . . 116--117
Malcolm Nicholson Book Review: Edward Lee Greene,
Landmarks of Botanical History, edited
by Frank N. Egerton. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1983. Part I, Part II,
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L. S. Jacyna Book Review: Max Neuburger, The
Historical Development of Experimental
Brain and Spinal Cord Physiology Before
Flourens (Translated and edited by Edwin
Clarke). Baltimore and London: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1982. Pp. xxii
+ 391. ISBN 0-8018-2380-3. \pounds 14 119--120
Paul Weindling Book Review: Ignaz Semmelweis, The
Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of
Childbed Fever. Translated and Edited
with an Introduction by K. Codell
Carter. Madison and London: The
University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. Pp.
xii + 262. \$35 cloth, \$10.95 paper . . 120--120
Crosbie Smith Book Review: Martin Goldman,
\booktitleThe demon in the aether. The
story of James Clerk Maxwell. Edinburgh:
Paul Harris Publishing, 1983. Pp. 224.
ISBN 0-86228-026-5. \pounds 18 . . . . . 120--121
Anita McConnell Book Reviews: Gerard L'E Turner:
Nineteenth-Century Scientific
Instruments. London: Sotheby
Publications, 1983, and Berkeley, Calif:
Univ. of California Press, 1983. 320 pp.
ISBN 0-85667-170-3 (UK), \pounds 37.50.
ISBN 0-520-05160-2 (USA) . . . . . . . . 121--121
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Steven J. Livesey William of Ockham, the subalternate
sciences, and Aristotle's theory of
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Philip Lervig Sadi Carnot and the Steam Engine:
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chemistry 1823--1828 . . . . . . . . . . 147--196
W. R. Knorr The Geometer and the Archaeoastronomers:
On the Prehistoric Origins of
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J. A. Bennett The Mathematicians' Apprenticeship . . . 212--218
R. A. Buchanan The Rise of Scientific Engineering in
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Alex Keller Book Review: Russell McCormmach, Night
Thoughts of a Classical Physicist.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 1982. Pp. 217, \pounds 10.50 . . 233--234
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Denis Smith Book Review: T. M. Charlton, A History
of Theory of Structures in the
Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1982. Pp. viii + 194.
ISBN 0-521-23419-0. \pounds 22.50 . . . 235--235
David C. Cassidy Book Review: Laurie M. Brown and Lillian
Hoddeson, editors, The birth of particle
physics. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1983. Pp. xxii + 412. ISBN
0-521-24005-0 \pounds 27.50, \$44.50.
`Colloque international sur l'histoire
de la physique des particules. Quelques
d{\'e}couvertes, concepts, institutions
des ann{\'e}es 30 aux ann{\'e}es 50'.
Journal de Physique. Tome 43, Colloque
C-8, supplement au no. 12, Decembre
1982} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--237
Allan Needell Book Review: Richard F. Hirsh, Glimpsing
an Invisible Universe: The Emergence of
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Marie Boas Hall Book Review: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin,
An autobiography and other
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Haramundanis. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1984. Pp. 269. ISBN
0-521-25752-2. \pounds 19.50, \$34.50} 238--239
David Gooding Book Review: Carl Gustaf Bernhard,
Elisabeth Crawford and Per Sörbom (eds),
Science, Technology and Society in the
Time of Alfred Nobel. Oxford and New
York: Pergamon Press (for the Nobel
Foundation), 1982. Pp. xvii + 426.
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C. A. Russell Book Review: Robert Friedel Pioneer
Plastic. The making and selling of
celluloid. Maddison, Wisconsin: The
University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. Pp.
xix + 153. ISBN 0-299-09170-8. \pounds
15.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--240
Bernard Norton Book Review: Edward Yoxen, The Gene
Business. Who should control
Biotechnology. London: Pan Books, 1983.
Pp. 265. ISBN 0-330-28112-7. \pounds
3.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--241
Robert Olby Book Review: Sheldon Krimsky, Genetic
Alchemy. The Social History of the
Recombinant DNA Controversy. Cambridge,
Mass., & London: MIT Press, 1982. Pp.
xiii + 444. ISBN 0-262-11083-0. \pounds
17.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--243
Margaret Pelling Book Review: W. E. van Heyningen and
John R. Seal. Cholera. The American
Scientific Experience, 1947--1980.
Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1983.
Pp. xviii + 343. \pounds 24.00 . . . . . 243--243
Vance M. D. Hall Book Review: Johannes Büttner (ed.)
History of clinical chemistry. Berlin &
New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1983. Pp.
91. ISBN 3-11-008912-2. DM 98 . . . . . 244--244
Bernard Norton Book Review: Peter Bowler, The eclipse
of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian evolution
theories in the decades around 1900.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1983. Pp. xi + 291. ISBN
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Gilbert Lewis Book Review: George W. Stocking Jr.,
(ed.), Observers Observed: Essays on
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University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. Pp.
242. ISBN 0-299-09450-2. \$19.95} . . . 245--246
Roger Smith Book Review: Molly Harrower, Kurt
Koffka: an unwitting self-portrait.
Gainsville: University Presses of
Florida, 1983. Pp. xvi + 334.ISBN
0-8130-0760-7. \$30} . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
Mari E. W. Williams Book Review: Trevor I. Williams, A
History of the British Gas Industry.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Pp. xvii + 304. ISBN 0-19-858157-2.
\pounds 18.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
John Thackray Book Review: Roy Porter, The Earth
sciences, an annotated bibliography. New
York and London: Garland Publishing
Inc., 1983. Pp. xviii + 192. ISBN
0-8240-9267-8, \$35} . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
R. A. Buchanan Book Review: History and Technology: An
International Journal. Volume 1, number
1. Chur, London etc: Harwood Academic
Publishers, 1983. Pp. 112. ISSN
0734-1512. \$58 per volume of 4 numbers} 247--248
R. A. Buchanan Book Review: J. F. Clarke and F. Storr,
The Introduction of the use of mild
steel into the Shipbuilding and Marine
Engine industries. Newcastle upon Tyne
Polytechnic, `Occasional Papers in the
History of Science and Technology no.
1', 1983, Pp. 97. \pounds 3.25 . . . . . 248--248
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: Brian Inglis, Science and
parascience. A history of the
paranormal, 1914--1939. London: Hodder
and Stoughton, 1984. Pp. 382. ISBN
0-340-26325-3. \pounds 12.95 . . . . . . 248--249
Maurice Crosland Book Review: Dorinda Outram, Georges
Cuvier. Vocation, science and authority
in post-revolutionary France.
Manchester: Manchester University Press,
1984. pp viii + 299. ISBN 0-7190-1077-2.
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Janet Browne Book Review: Philip F. Rehbock, The
Philosophical Naturalists: Themes in
Early Nineteenth-Century British
Biology. (Wisconsin Publications in the
History of Science and Medicine, 3).
Madison, Wisconsin: University of
Wisconsin Press, 1983. Pp xv + 281. ISBN
0-299-09430-8. \$30} . . . . . . . . . . 251--251
E. J. Aiton Book Review: N. Jardine, The birth of
history and philosophy of science.
Kepler's A defence of Tycho against
Ursus with essays on its provenance and
significance. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1984. Pp. ix + 301.
ISBN 0-521-25226-1. \pounds 32.50 . . . 252--252
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Roger L. Emerson The Philosophical Society of Edinburgh
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Ludmilla Schulze The Russification of the St. Petersburg
Academy of Sciences and Arts in the
eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 305--335
Margaret Campbell Pairing in Mendel's Theory . . . . . . . 337--340
Frank Greenaway and
H. T. Dickinson Obituary: Eric Forbes: 1933--1984 . . . 341--341
W. H. Brock Obituary: Bernard John Norton:
1945--1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--344
W. H. Brock Book Review: Alan J. Rocke, Chemical
Atomism in the Nineteenth Century: From
Dalton to Cannizzaro. Columbus: Ohio
State University Press, 1984. Pp. xviii
+ 386. ISBN 0-8142-0360-4. \$27.50} . . 345--347
Edward MacKinnon Book Review: Bruce R. Wheaton, The Tiger
and the Shark: Empirical Roots of
wave-particle Dualism. Cambridge:
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John Hendry Book Review: Emerson W. Pugh, Memories
that shaped an industry. Decisions
leading to IBM system 360. Cambridge,
Mass., and London: MIT Press, 1984. Pp.
x + 323. ISBN 0-262-16094-3. \pounds
23.75 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--348
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: Vitezslav Orel, Mendel.
Oxford: Oxford University Press (Past
Masters), 1984. Pp. vii + 111. ISBN
0-19-287625-2, \pounds 7.95 (hardcover).
0-19-287624-4, \pounds 1.95 (paperback) 348--349
G. J. Whitrow Book Review: Richard Sorabji, Time,
Creation and the Continuum: theories in
antiquity and the early middle ages.
London: Duckworth, 1983. Pp. xviii +
473. ISBN 0-7156-1693-5. \pounds 29.50 349--351
Eric G. Forbes Book Review: A. E. Gunther, An
Introduction to the Life of the Rev.
Thomas Birch D.D., F.R.S 1705--1766.
Halesworth: The Halesworth Press,
Suffolk, England 1984. Pp. x + 118. ISBN
0-9507276-1-X. \pounds 7.90 . . . . . . 351--352
N. A. Rupke Book Reviews: Anthony Hallam, Great
geological controversies. Oxford: Oxford
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15. ISBN 0-19-854430-8 (paperback).
\pounds 7.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--353
Robert W. Seidel Book Review: Albert E. Moyer, American
Physics in Transition: A History of
Conceptual Change in the Late Nineteenth
Century, Los Angeles: Tomash, 1983. Pp.
xx + 218. ISBN 0-938228-06-4. \$30.00} 353--354
John Henry Book Review: J. E. McGuire and Martin
Tamny. Certain Philosophical Questions:
Newton's Trinity Notebook. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp.
xii + 519. ISBN 0-521-23164-7. \pounds
50.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--356
Karl Hufbauer Book Review: S. Chandrasekhar,
Eddington: The most distinguished
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Roger H. Stuewer Book Reviews: David Wilson,
\booktitleRutherford: Simple Genius.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983. Pp.
639. ISBN 0-340-23805-4. \pounds 14.95.
Guy Hartcup and T. E. Allibone,
\booktitleCockcroft and the Atom.
Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1984. Pp. xii +
320. ISBN 0-85274-759-4. \pounds 18.95.
John Hendry (ed), \booktitleCambridge
Physics in the Thirties. Bristol: Adam
Hilger, 1984. Pp. xi + 209. ISBN
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J. J. Gray Book Review: Hans Wussing, The genesis
of the abstract group concept. A
contribution to the history of the
origin of abstract group theory.
Cambridge, Mass., and London: MIT Press,
1984. Pp. 331. ISBN 0-262-23109-3.
\pounds 28.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--360
David Knight Book Review: Allen G. Debus, Science and
History: a chemist's appraisal. Coimbra:
University Press, 1984. Pp. vi + 72. No
price given. R. W. Home (ed), Science
under Scrutiny. The place of History and
Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht,
Boston, Lancaster: D. Reidel, 1983. Pp.
xvii + 182. ISBN 90-277-1602-1. Dfl.
90.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--361
John Henry Book Review: Frances A. Yates,
Renaissance and reform: the Italian
contribution. Collected essays volume
II. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,
1983. Pp. xii + 273. ISBN 0-7100-9530-9.
\pounds 15.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--362
Catherine Chevalley Book Review: John Hendry, The Creation
of Quantum Mechanics and the Bohr--Pauli
Dialogue. Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: D.
Reidel Publishing Company, 1984. Pp.
177. ISBN 90-277-1648-X. DF1 95. \pounds
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Janet Browne Book Review: John Langdon Brooks, Just
before the Origin: Alfred Russel
Wallace's Theory of Evolution. New York:
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xiii + 284. ISBN 0-231-05676-1. U.S.
\$39} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--365
James R. Moore Book Review: D. P. Crook, Benjamin Kidd,
Portrait of a Social Darwinist.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1984. Pp. vii + 460. ISBN 0-521-25804-9.
\pounds 30.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--368
Dorinda Outram Book Review: L. J. Jordanova, Lamarck.
Oxford: Oxford University Press (Past
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0-19-287588-4, \pounds 7.95 (hardcover).
0-19-287587-6, \pounds 1.95 (paperback) 368--368
Margaret Pelling Book Review: Iain Pattison, The British
Veterinary Profession 1791--1948.
London: J. A. Allen, 1983. Pp. x + 207.
ISBN 0-85131-379-5. \pounds 9.50 . . . . 369--369
Penelope M. Gouk Book Review: H. F. Cohen, Quantifying
Music: The Science of Music at the First
Stage of the Scientific Revolution,
1580--1650 (the University of Western
Ontario Series in the Philosophy of
Science vol. 23) Dordrecht, Boston &
Lancaster: D. Reidel Publishing Co.,
1984. Pp. xvii + 308. ISBN
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Jonathan Liebenau Book Review: Ronald Ferrier, The History
of British Petroleum Company, Volume 1:
The developing years, 1901--1932.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1982. Pp. xxx + 801. ISBN 0-521-24647-4.
\pounds 35.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372
K. G. Beauchamp Book Review: R. Moreau, The computer
comes of age. The people, the hardware,
and the software. Translated by J.
Howlett. Cambridge, Mass, and London:
MIT Press, 1984. Pp. x + 227. ISBN
0-262-13194-3. \pounds 18.95 . . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous British Society for the History of
Science Report of Council for the Year
1984--5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--375
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--379
Anonymous Index of Books Reviewed . . . . . . . . 380--381
K. G. Beauchamp Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--382
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Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent Mendeleev's periodic system of chemical
elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--17
S. T. Keith and
Paul K. Hoch Formation of a research school:
Theoretical solid state physics at
Bristol 1930--1954 . . . . . . . . . . . 19--44
I. Grattan-Guinnes On the transformation of the École
Polytechnique archives . . . . . . . . . 45--50
Joseph D. Robinson Appreciating Key Experiments . . . . . . 51--56
Harvey W. Becher Voluntary Science in Nineteenth Century
Cambridge University to the 1850's . . . 57--87
Sophie Forgan Context, image and function: a
preliminary enquiry into the
architecture of scientific societies . . 89--113
Albert Van Helden Book Review: G. L. Toomer (tr).
Ptolemy's Almagest. London: Duckworth.
Pp. ix + 693. ISBN 0-7156-1588-2.
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Paul K. Hoch Book Review: Gernot Bohme et al.
Finalization in Science: the Social
Orientation of Scientific Progress.
Edited by Wolf Schafer. Dordrecht,
Boston and Lancaster: D. Reidel, 1983 116--116
Joe Clarke Book Review: K. C. Barraclough.
Steelmaking before Bessemer. Vol. 1
Blister Steel-The Birth of an Industry.
Vol. 2 Crucible Steel-the Growth of a
Technology. London: The Metals Society,
1984. Pp. xx + 273, xix + 387. ISBN
0-904357-53-8 and 0-904357-64-3. Vol. 1
\pounds 19.95, \$39.90. Vol. 2 \pounds
29.50, \$59 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Jonathan Liebenau Book Review: Michael Bliss. The
Discovery of Insulin. Edinburgh: Paul
Harris, 1983. Pp. 304. ISBN
0-86228-056-7. \pounds 15.00 . . . . . . 117--118
Janet Browne Book Review: W. J. Dempster. Patrick
Matthew and Natural Selection:
Nineteenth Century Gentleman-Farmer,
Naturalist and Writer. Edinburgh: Paul
Harris, 1983. Pp 156. ISBN
0-86228-065-6. \pounds 8.50 . . . . . . 118--119
Roy McLeod Book Review: R. F. Bud & G. K. Roberts.
Science versus Practice: Chemistry in
Victorian Britain. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1984, Pp.
236. ISBN 0-7197-1070-5. \pounds 25 . . 119--120
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: George W. Stocking, ed.
Functionalism Historicized. Essays on
British Social Anthropology. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. Pp.
vi + 244. ISBN 0-299-09900-8. No price
given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
Roy Porter Book Review: Dorothy A. Stansfield.
Thomas Beddoes MD, 1760--1808.
Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster: D. Reidel,
1984. Pp. xix + 306. ISBN 90-277-1686-2.
Dfl. 140 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Ian Inster Book Review: Colin Russell. Science and
Social Change 1700--1900. London: The
Macmillan Press, 1983. Pp. xvii + 307.
ISBN 0-333-29272-3. \pounds 15 . . . . . 122--123
Simon Schaffer Book Review: Michel Blay. La
Conceptualisation newtonieene des
Phénom\`enes de la Couleur. Paris: Vrin,
1983. Pp. 307. ISBN 2-7116-0825-5. 99F
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--124
R. W. Home Book Review: J. L. Heilbron. Physics at
the Royal Society During Newton's
Presidencey. Los Angeles: William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library,
University of California, 1983. Pp. xiv
+ 123 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--126
E. J. Aiton Book Reviews: Edward Grant. In Defense
of the Earth's Centrality and
Immobility: Scholastic Reaction to
Copernicanism in the Seventeenth
Century. Philadelphia: American
Philosophical Society 1984. Pp. 69. ISBN
0-87169-744-0. Price \$10.00
(paperback). Edward Rosen. Copernicus
and the Scientific Revolution. Malabar,
Florida: Robert E. Krieger Publishing
Company, 1984. Pp. 220. ISBN
0-89874-573-X. Price \$6.50 (paperback) 126--127
Michael J. Clark Book Review: Nancy Tomes. A Generous
Confidence. Thomas Story Kirkbride and
the Art of Asylum-Keeping, 1840--1883.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1984. Pp. xv + 387. ISBN 0-521-24172-3.
\pounds 27.50 \$39.50} . . . . . . . . . 127--128
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I. Grattan-Guinness Collections XII: On the transformation
of the École Polytechnique archives . . . 45--50
Rhoda Rappaport Hooke on Earthquakes: Lectures, Strategy
and Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--146
Jim Burton Robert FitzRoy and the Early History of
the Meteorological Office . . . . . . . 147--176
Kiyohisa Fujii The Berthollet--Proust Controversy and
Dalton's Chemical Atomic Theory
1800--1820 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--200
Peter Dear Book Review: Brian Vickers, ed. Occult
and Scientific Mentalities in the
Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv + 408.
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Peter Dear Book Review: John G. Burke, ed. The Uses
of Science in the Age of Newton.
Berkeley and London: University of
California Press, 1984. Pp. xxii + 204.
ISBN 0-520-04970-5. \pounds 17.30 . . . 203--204
Richard L. Hills Book Review: John Shaw. Water Power in
Scotland, 1550--1870. Edinburgh: John
Donald, 1984. Pp. xi + 606 ISBN
0-85976-072-3. \pounds 25 . . . . . . . 204--205
W. H. Brock Book Review: Mario Morselli. Amedeo
Avogadro. Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster:
D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1984. ISBN
90-277-1624-2. Pp. xi + 375. Dfl, 160;
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John Hendry Book Reviews: Jagdish Mehra & Helmut
Rechenberg. The Historical Development
of Quantum Theory. Volume 1, The Quantum
Theory of Planck, Einstein, Bohr and
Sommerfeld: Its Foundations and the Rise
of its Difficulties 1900--1925. Volume
2, The Discovery of the Quantum
Mechanics 1925. Volume 3, The
Formulation of Matrix Mechanics and its
Modifications 1925--1926. Volume 4, The
Fundamental Equations of Quantum
Mechanics 1925--1926 and The Reception
of the New Quantum Mechanics 1925--1926.
New York, Heidelberg and Berlin:
Springer-Verlag, 1982. Volume 1 in two
parts, pp. xlvii + 372, vi + 506. ISBN
3-540-90642-8, 3-540-90667-3. DM 75, DM
85. Volume 2, pp. vii + 355. ISBN
3-540-90674-6. DM 65. Volume 3, pp. vii
+ 334. ISBN 3-540-90675-4. DM 75. Volume
4, pp. viii + 322. ISBN 3-540-90680-0.
DM 75. Andrew Pickering. Constructing
Quarks. A Sociological History of
Particle Physics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press, 1984. Pp. xi + 468.
ISBN 0-85224-458-4 \pounds 20 . . . . . 206--208
Bruce Eastwood Book Review: Witelo. Perspectivae liber
quintius. Book V of Witelo's
Perspectiva. Translation, introduction,
commentary, and Latin edition by A. Mark
Smith. Studia Copernicana, 23 Wroclaw:
Ossolineum, 1983. Pp. 267 . . . . . . . 208--209
Brian Austen Book Review: Alexander Fenton & Geoffrey
Stell, eds. Loads and Roads in Scotland
and Beyond: Road Transport over 6000
Years. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers
Ltd, 1984 Pp. vii + 144. ISBN
0-85976-107-X \pounds 8.50 . . . . . . . 210--210
J. V. Field Book Review: Sidney J. Blatt. Continuity
and Change in Art: the Development of
Modes of Representation. In
collaboration with Ethel S. Blatt.
Hillsdale, N.J., and London: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, 1984. Pp. xix + 411.
ISBN 0-89859-342-5. \pounds 35.50,
\$49.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--211
Roger French Book Review: Michael W. Dols & Adil S.
Gamal, eds. Medieval Islamic Medicine.
Ibn Ridwan's Treatise `On the Prevention
of Bodily Ills in Egypt'. Translated and
introduced by M. W. Dols, with Arabic
text by A. S. Gamal. Berkeley and
London: University of California Press,
1984. Pp. xv + 186 + 63. ISBN
0-420-04836-9. \$28} . . . . . . . . . . 211--212
Jon V. Pepper Book Review: John W. Shirley. Thomas
Harriot: a Biography. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1983. Pp. xii + 508. ISBN
0-19-822901-1. \pounds 25.00 . . . . . . 212--216
Mary Jo Nye Book Review: W. H. Brock. From Protyle
to Proton. William Prout and the Nature
of Matter, 1785--1985. Bristol and
Boston: Adam Hilger, Ltd., 1985. Pp. xii
+ 252. ISBN 0-85274-801-9. \pounds
25.00, \$45.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--217
Philip Drazin Book Review: Oliver M. Ashford. Prophet
or Professor? The Life and Work of Lewis
Fry Richardson. Bristol: Adam Hilger,
1985. Pp. xiv + 364. ISBN 0-85274-774-8.
\pounds 18/\$29} . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--217
A. Rupert Hall Book Review: Alan E. Shapiro (ed.). The
Optical Papers of Isaac Newton. Volume
1. The Optical Lectures, 1670--1672.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1984. Pp. xix + 627. ISBN 0-521-25248-2
(vol. 1). \pounds 75 . . . . . . . . . . 218--219
Michael Shortland Book Review: Janet Oppenheim. The Other
World: Spiritualism and Psychical
Research in England, 1850--1914.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1985. Pp. xii + 503. ISBN 0-521-26505-3.
\pounds 25, \$44.50} . . . . . . . . . . 219--221
A. Rupert Hall Book Review: John Peter Oleson. Greek
and Roman Mechanical Water-lifting
Devices: the History of a Technology.
Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1984. Pp. xiv +
458 + 173 ills. ISBN 90-277-1693-5. Dfl.
345, \pounds 71.75, \$58} . . . . . . . 221--222
Nils Roll-Hansen Book Review: Alexander Vucinich. Empire
of Knowledge. The Academy of Sciences of
the USSR (1917--1970). Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1984.
Pp. x + 484. ISBN 0-520-04871-7. \pounds
23.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--223
Elizabeth C. Patterson Book Review: Jack Morrell & A. Thackray
(eds). Gentlemen of Science: Early
Correspondence of the British
Association for the Advancement of
Science. (Camden Fourth Series, Volume
30). London: Offices of the Royal
Historical Society, University College,
London, Cower Street WC 1, 1984. Pp.
382. ISBN 0-86193-103-3. \pounds 7.50 224--225
Paul Weindling Book Review: Ernst Bäumler. Paul Ehrlich.
Scientist for Life. Translated by Grant
Edwards. New York and London: Holmes and
Meier, 1984. Pp. xvi + 288. ISBN
0-8419-0837-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--226
Simon Schaffer Book Review: James E. Force. William
Whiston: Honest Newtonian. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp.
xxiii + 208. ISBN 0-521-26590-8. \pounds
25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--228
Patrick Connor Book Review: Barbara Maria Stafford.
Voyage into Substance. Art, Science,
Nature, and the Illustrated Travel
Account, 1760--1840. Cambridge, Mass.,
and London: MIT Press, 1984. Pp. xxiii +
645. ISBN 0-262-19223-3. \pounds 37.95 228--229
Helmut Rechenberg Book Review: Elizabeth Crawford. The
Beginning of the Nobel Institution. The
Science Prizes, 1901--1915. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. ix
+ 281. ISBN 0-521-26584-3. \pounds 22.50 229--229
Graham Hollister-Short Book Review: Svante Lindqvist.
Technology on Trial. The Introduction of
Steam Power Technology into Sweden,
1715--1736. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell,
1984. Pp. 392. ISBN 91-22-00716-4. SEK
248 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--231
Helge Kragh Book Review: David Cassidy & Martha
Baker. Werner Heisenberg. A Bibliography
of his Writings (Berkeley Papers in
History of Science, IX), Berkeley:
Office for History of Science and
Technology, University of California,
1984. pp. 153. W. Heisenberg. Gesammelte
Werke/Collected Works, Series B. Eds, W.
Blum, H.-P. Dürr and H. Rechenberg.
Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo:
Springer-Verlag, 1984. Pp. 947.
Elisabeth Heisenberg. Inner Exile.
Recollections of a Life with Werner
Heisenberg. Translated by S. Cappellari
and C. Morris, Boston, Basel, Stuttgart:
Birkhäuser, 1984. Pp. 170 . . . . . . . . 232--232
Robert A. McCutcheon and
Elizabelth de Lima Dantas Book Review: E. Nicolaidis. Le
Developpement de l'Astronomie en
U.R.S.S., 1917--1935. Paris:
Observatoire, 1984. Pp. 253 . . . . . . 233--234
Richard L. Hills Book Review: Jean-Michael Chaplain. La
Chambre des Tisseurs, Louviers: Cité
Drapi\`ere 1680--1840. Champ Vallon,
1984. Pp. 302. ISBN 2-903528-40-3 . . . 234--235
Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: A. Thackray, J. L.
Sturchio, P. T. Carroll & R. Bud.
Chemistry in America, 1876--1976:
Historical Indicators. Dordrecht: D.
Reidel, 1985. Pp. xxiii + 564. ISBN
90-277-1720-6. Dfl 210.00, \$79.50,
\pounds 53.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--235
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--240
Anonymous BJH volume 19 issue 2 Cover and Back
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Anonymous BJH volume 19 issue 2 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f6
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--241
Nathan Reingold Book Review: History of Science Today,
1. Uniformity as Hidden Diversity:
History of Science in the United States,
1920--1940 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--262
Richard R. Yeo The Principle of Plenitude and Natural
Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain 263--282
John Sheail Grassland Management and the Early
Development of British Ecology . . . . . 283--299
David Sturdy Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Chomel
(1671--1740): A Case Study in Problems
Relating to the Social Status of
Scientists in the Early Modern Period 301--322
Jean S. Gottlieb Collections XIII. Early science at the
Newberry Library: an introduction . . . 323--330
Jean S. Gottlieb Early Science at the Newberry Library:
An Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--330
Francine Abeles Determinants and linear systems: Charles
L. Dodgson's view . . . . . . . . . . . 331--335
John Henry Obituary: Charles Bernard Schmitt:
1933--1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--337
L. Pearce Williams Book Review: I. Bernard Cohen.
Revolution in Science. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. xx +
711. ISBN 0-674-76777-2. \pounds 22.75 339--342
David C. Lindberg Book Review: Bert Hansen. Nicole Oresme
and the Marvels of Nature: A Study of
his De causis mirabilium with Critical
Edition, Translation, and Commentary.
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of
Mediaeval Studies, 1985. Pp. xi + 478.
ISBN 0-88844-068-5. \$39.00} . . . . . . 342--343
Alistair Duncan Book Review: G. V. Coyne, M. Heller & J.
\'Zyci\'nski (eds). The Galileo Affair:
A Meeting of Faith and Science.
Proceedings of the Cracow Conference,
May 1984. Vatican City: Vatican
Observatory, 1985. Pp. 179 . . . . . . . 343--343
R. W. Home Book Review: Isaac Benguigui (ed.).
Théories Électriques du XVIIIe Si\`ecle:
Correspondance entre l'Abbé Nollet
(1700--1770) et le Physicien Genevois
Jean Jallabert (1712--1768). Geneva:
Georg et Cie, 1984. Pp. 234. ISBN
2-8257-0099-1. Fr. 68.00 . . . . . . . . 344--344
A. G. Molland Book Review: Fritz Nagel. Nicolaus
Cusanus und die Entstehung der Exakten
Wissenschaften. Buchreihe der
Cusanus-Gesellschaft, Band IX. Münster:
Aschendorff, 1984. Pp. vii + 192. DM
48.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--345
Janet Browne Book Review: Peter J. Bowler. Evolution:
the History of an Idea. Berkeley, Los
Angeles and London: University of
California Press, 1984. Pp. xiv + 412.
\$29.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--346
Vance M. D. Hall Book Review: F. W. J. McCosh.
Boussingault: Chemist and Agriculturist.
Dordrecht: Reidel, 1984. Pp. xii + 280.
ISBN 90-277-1682-X. Dfl. 140.00 . . . . 346--347
Mari E. W. Williams Book Review: Dieter B. Herrmann. The
History of Astronomy from Herschel to
Hertzsprung. Translated by Kevin
Krisciunas. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1984. Pp. x + 220.
ISBN 0-521-257336. \pounds 12.50 . . . . 347--348
John Hendry Book Review: Wolfgang Pauli.
Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel mit
Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg u.a.
Scientific Correspondence with Bohr,
Einstein, Heisenberg a.o. Berlin,
Heidelberg and New York: Springer, 1985.
Pp. xxix + 783. ISBN 3-540-13609-6. DM
298.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--348
Marie Boas Hall Book Review: Joseph Needham. Science and
Civilisation in China. Vol. V (Chemistry
and Chemical Technology), Part I by
Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin, Paper and Printing.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1985. xxv + 485 pp. ISBN 0-521-08690-6.
\pounds 45.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--349
Michael Hunter Book Review: Lesley Murdin. Under
Newton's Shadow: Astronomical Practices
in the Seventeenth Century. Bristol and
Boston: Adam Hilger, 1985. Pp. viii +
152. ISBN 0-85274-456-0. \pounds 16.75 349--350
Karl Hufbauer Book Review: Donald E. Osterbrock. James
E. Keeler: Pioneer American
Astrophysicist and the Early Development
of American Astrophysics. Cambridge,
Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Pp. xii + 411. ISBN 0-521-26582-7.
\pounds 35.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--351
S. T. Keith Book Review: William McGucken.
Scientists, Society and State. The
Social Relations of Science Movement in
Great Britain, 1931--1947. Columbus:
Ohio State University Press, 1984. Pp.
xiii + 381. ISBN 0-8142-0351-5. \pounds
22.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--352
David N. Livingstone Book Review: John Durant (ed.).
Darwinism and Divinity. Essays on
Evolution and Religious Belief. Oxford:
Basil Blackwell, 1985. Pp. ix + 210.
ISBN 0-631-14188-X. \pounds 15.00 . . . 352--353
Martin Rudwick Book Reviews: Frederick Burkhardt &
Sydney Smith (eds). A Calendar of the
Correspondence of Charles Darwin,
1821--1882. New York and London: Garland
Publishing Inc., 1985. Pp. 690. ISBN
0-8240-9224-4. \$100, \pounds 85. The
Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Volume
1, 1821--1836. Cambridge [etc.]:
Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp.
xxxii + 702. ISBN 0-521-25587-2. \pounds
30, \$37.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--356
Ruth Harris Book Review: Annette Smith. Gobineau et
l'Histoire Naturelle. Geneva and Paris:
Libraire Droz. 1984. Pp. 262 . . . . . . 356--357
John Henry Book Review: Peter Alexander. Ideas,
Qualities and Corpuscles: Locke and
Boyle on the Natural World. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp.
331. ISBN 0-521-26707-2. \pounds 27.50 357--358
W. H. Brock Book Review: C. A. Russell, ed. Recent
Developments in the History of
Chemistry. London: The Royal Society of
Chemistry, 1985. Pp. x + 333. ISBN
0-85186-917-3. \pounds 27.50, \$36.00} 358--359
David Knight Book Review: Garry Adler. Beyond
Bokhara: the Life of William Moorcroft,
Asian Explorer and Pioneer Veterinary
Surgeon, 1767--1825. London: Century
Publishing, 1985. Pp. xiii + 417. ISBN
0-7126-0722-6. \pounds 16.95 . . . . . . 359--359
Marie Boas Hall Book Review: Norma E. Emerton. The
Scientific Reinterpretation of Form.
Ithaca and London: Cornell University
Press, 1984. Pp. 318. ISBN
0-8014-1583-7. \$29.95} . . . . . . . . 359--360
Jim O'Hara Book Reviews: Seá O'Donnell. William
Rowan Hamilton: Portrait of a Prodigy.
Dublin: Boole Press, 1984. Pp. xvi +
224. ISBN 0-906783-06-2. IR \pounds
19.95, \$24.95. Desmond MacHale. George
Boole: His Life and Work. Dublin: Boole
Press, 1985. Pp. xiii + 304. ISBN
0-906783-05-4. IR \pounds 19.95, \$24.95 360--361
Steven Shapin Book Review: 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. \pounds 20.00, \$22.50} 361--362
Jeremy Gray Book Review: 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--362
Rhoda Rappaport Book Review: 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.
\pounds 36.75 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--363
Peter Dear Book Review: 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.
\pounds 45.80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--364
Jeremy Gray Book Review: 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} 365--365
David Knight Book Review: 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.
\pounds 15.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--366
Graham Hollister-Short Book Review: Donald Hill. A History of
Engineering in Classical and Medieval
Times. Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1984. Pp.
x + 263. ISBN 0-7099-1209-9. \pounds
18.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--367
David Knight Book Review: 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 0-936508-09-4.
\pounds 20.00 (hardcover), \pounds 12.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--368
David Cantor Book Review: F. Neil Johnson. The
History of Lithium Therapy. London and
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1984. Pp. xvii +
198 illustrations. ISBN 0-333-36942-4.
\pounds 35.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--369
John Patrick Swann Book Review: Trevor I. Williams. Howard
Florey: Penicillin and After. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1984. Pp. xvi + 404.
ISBN 0-19-858173-4. \pounds 17.50 . . . 369--370
Colin Ronan Book Review: Wen-Yuan Qian. The Great
Inertia. London: Croom Helm, 1984. Pp.
xii + 155. ISBN 0-7099-2104-7. \pounds
15.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371
Stephen G. Brush Book Review: Ilya Prigogine & Isabelle
Stengers. Order Out of Chaos: Man's New
Dialogue with Nature. London: Heinemann,
1984. Pp. xxxi + 349. ISBN
0-434-603953-3. \pounds 9.95 . . . . . . 371--372
Laurie M. Brown Book Review: Badash Lawrence.
\booktitleKapitza, Rutherford, and the
Kremlin. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1985. Pp. xi + 129. ISBN
0-300-01465-1. \pounds 20.00 . . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374
Anonymous Index of Books Reviewed . . . . . . . . 375--377
Anonymous British Society for the History of
Science Report of Council for the Year
1985--1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--384
Anonymous BJH volume 19 issue 3 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b6
Anonymous BJH volume 19 issue 3 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Anonymous Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
David Knight Background and Foreground: Getting
Things in Context . . . . . . . . . . . 3--12
William Montgomery Editing the Darwin Correspondence: A
Quantitative Perspective . . . . . . . . 13--28
Nathan Reingold On Not Doing the Papers of Great
Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--38
Reese V. Jenkins Words, Images, Artifacts and Sound:
Documents for the History of Technology 39--56
John Stachel ``A man of my type''---editing the
Einstein papers . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--66
A. J. Meadows Changing Records and Changing Realities 67--72
Frank G. Burke Automation and Documentary Editing . . . 73--80
Gerrylynn K. Roberts Book Review: Marie Boas Hall. All
Scientists Now. The Royal Society in the
Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1984. Pp. xii + 261.
ISBN 0-521-26746-3. \pounds 25.00 . . . 81--82
Roger H. Stuewer Book Review: Dominique Pestre. Physique
et Physiciens en France 1918--1940.
Paris: Editions des Archives
Contemporaines, 1984. Pp. xv + 356. ISBN
2-903928-08-8. FF 295.00 . . . . . . . . 83--83
Mari Williams Book Review: Willem Hackmann. Seek and
Strike: Sonar, Anti-Submarine Warfare
and the Royal Navy, 1914--1954. London:
Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1984.
Pp. xvii + 487. ISBN 0-11-290423-8.
\pounds 15.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Charles Webster Book Review: John V. Pickstone. Medicine
and Industrial Society. A History of
Hospital Development in Manchester and
its Region, 1752--1946. Manchester and
Dover (New Hampshire): Manchester
University Press, 1985. Pp. xii + 369.
ISBN 0-7190-1809-0. \pounds 35.00 . . . 84--85
N. G. Coley Book Review: Frederic Lawrence Holmes.
Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life. An
Exploration of Scientific Creativity.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,
1985. Pp. xxiv + 565. ISBN
0-299-09980-6. \pounds 36.60 . . . . . . 85--86
Roger L. Emerson Book Review: James E. McClellan III.
Science Reorganized: Scientific
Societies in the Eighteenth Century. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
Pp. xxxii + 413. ISBN 0-231-05996-5
(hardcover), 0-231-05997-3 (paperback).
US \$58.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--88
J. B. Morrell Book Review: Martin J.S. Rudwick. The
Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping
of Scientific Knowledge Among
Gentlemanly Specialists. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
1985. Pp. xxxiii + 494. ISBN
0-226-73101-4. \pounds 36.75 . . . . . . 88--89
Trevor Pinch Book Review: Lewis Pyenson. The Young
Einstein: The Advent of Relativity.
Bristol and Boston: Adam Hilger, 1985.
Pp. xiv + 246. ISBN 0-85274-779-9.
\pounds 19.95, \$28.00} . . . . . . . . 89--91
John Forrester Book Review: Nikolas Rose. The
Psychological Complex. Psychology,
Politics and Society in England
1869--1939. London: Routledge and Kegan
Paul, 1985. Pp. viii + 293. ISBN
0-7100-9809-1. \pounds 9.95 (paperback) 91--93
Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: A. D. Morrison-Low & J. R.
R. Christie (eds), `Martyr of Science':
Sir David Brewster, 1781--1868.
Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Museum, 1984.
Pp. 138. ISBN 0-900733-29-2. \pounds
6.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Roger Cooter. The Cultural
Meaning of Popular Science: Phrenology
and the Organisation of Consent in
Nineteenth Century Britain. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp.
xiv + 418. ISBN 0-521-22743-7. \pounds
25.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--96
J. J. Gray Book Review: B. L. van der Waerden. A
History of Algebra: From al-Khwarizmi to
Emmy Noether. Berlin, Heidelberg, New
York, Tokyo: Springer-Verlag, 1985. Pp.
xi + 271. ISBN 0-387-13610-X (U.S.) DM
98.00 (hard cover). (English price not
given) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--97
A. Rupert Hall Book Review: E. J. Aiton. Leibniz. A
Biography. Bristol and Boston: Adam
Hilger, 1985. Pp. xiv + 370. ISBN
0-85274-470-6. \pounds 30.00 . . . . . . 97--98
Ian Inkster Book Review: Maxine Berg. The Age of
Manufactures. Industry, Innovation and
Work in Britain, 1700--1820. London:
Fontana Paperback, 1985. Pp. 378. ISBN
0-00-686019-2. \pounds 4.95 . . . . . . 98--99
D. E. H. Edgerton Book Review: Merritt Roe Smith (ed.)
Military Enterprise and Technological
Change: Perspectives on the American
Experience. Cambridge, Massachusetts:
The MIT Press, 1985. Pp. 391. \pounds
29.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Roy Porter Book Review: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson,
(ed. and tr.) The Complete Letters of
Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess,
1887--1904. Cambridge, Mass. and London:
Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. xv +
505. ISBN 0-674-15420-7. \pounds 19.95 100--101
Graham Hollister Short Book Review: Joseph Needham & Francesca
Bray. Science & Civilization in China,
Vol. 6, Part 2. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1984. xxvii + 724.
ISBN 0-521-25076-5. \pounds 50.00 . . . 101--102
D. E. H. Edgerton Book Review: John M. Staudenmaier.
Technology's Storytellers: Reweaving the
Human Fabric. Cambridge, Massachusetts:
The Society for the History of
Technology and the MIT Press, 1985. Pp.
xxvii + 282. ISBN 0-262-19237-3. \pounds
39.25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
J. V. Golinski Book Review: W. F. Bynum & Roy Porter,
(eds.) William Hunter and the
Eighteenth-Century Medical World.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1985. Pp. xi + 424. ISBN 0-521-26806-0.
\pounds 35.00. \$49.50} . . . . . . . . 103--103
Roy Porter Book Review: Sander L. Gilman.
Difference and Pathology. Stereotypes of
Sexuality, Race and Madness. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1985. Pp. 292.
\$38.45 (hardcover), \$14.25 (paperback) 104--105
Finn Aaserud Book Review: Alan J. Friedman & Carol C.
Donley. Einstein as Myth and Muse.
Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University
Press, 1985. Pp. xiv + 224. ISBN
0-521-26720-X. \pounds 25.00, \$39.50} 105--105
Maurice Crosland Book Review: Harry W. Paul. From
Knowledge to Power. The Rise of the
Science Empire in France, 1860--1939.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1985. Pp. ix + 415. ISBN 0-521-25404-5.
\pounds 32.50, \$49.50} . . . . . . . . 105--107
Roy Porter Book Review: James Paradis & Thomas
Postlewait (eds). Victorian Science and
Victorian Values. Literary Perspectives.
New Jersey: Rutgers University Press,
1985. Pp. xiii + 362 . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Jonathan Harwood Book Review: Georg Lilienthal. Der
`Lebensborn e.V.': Ein Instrument
Nationalsozialistischer Rassenpolitik.
Stuttgart/New York: G. Fischer, 1985.
Pp. viii + 264. ISBN 3-437-10939-1 . . . 108--108
L. J. Jordanova Book Reviews: Thomas L. Hankins. Science
and the Enlightenment. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp.
viii + 216. ISBN 0-521-24349-9
(hardcover). \pounds 20.00. ISBN
0-521-28619-0 (paperback). \pounds 6.95 108--110
Donald G. Miller Book Review: Stanley L. Jaki. Uneasy
Genius: The Life and Work of Pierre
Duhem. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff,
1985. Pp. xii + 472. ISBN 90-247-2897-5.
Dfl. 175.00; \pounds 44.50 . . . . . . . 110--111
Gerhard H. Müller Book Review: Robert P. McIntosh. The
Background of Ecology. Concept and
Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1985. Pp. xiii + 383. ISBN
0-521-24935-X. \pounds 30.00, \$39.50} 111--113
Norman A. F. Smith Book Review: Clive Hart. The Prehistory
of Flight. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1985. Pp. xvii + 279.
ISBN 0-520-05213-7. \pounds 29.75 . . . 113--114
Robert Friedel Book Review: George Wise. Willis R.
Whitney, General Electric, and the
Origins of U.S. Industrial Research. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
Pp. 375. ISBN 0-231-06016-5. \$29.00} 114--115
Mari E. W. Williams Book Review: A. van Helden. Measuring
the Universe. Cosmic Dimensions from
Aristarchus to Halley. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
1985. Pp. viii + 203. ISBN
0-226-84881-7. \pounds 31.50, \$34.50} 115--116
Allan Franklin Book Review: Peter Achinstein & Owen
Hannaway (eds). Observation, Experiment,
and Hypothesis in Modern Physical
Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985.
Pp. x + 379. ISBN 0-262-01083-6. \pounds
39.25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
Thaddeus J. Trenn Book Review: Hilde Levi. George de
Hevesy: Life and Work. Bristol and
Boston: Adam Hilger, 1985. Pp. 147. ISBN
0-85274-555-9. \pounds 15.00, \$25.00} 118--118
Michael Ruse Book Review: Robert M. Young. Darwin's
Metaphor: Nature's Place in Victorian
Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1985. Pp. xvii + 341. ISBN
0-521-31742-8. \pounds 27.50, \$44.50
(hardcover), \pounds 9.95, \$15.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--119
John Henry Book Review: A. J. Holland (ed.).
Philosophy, Its History and
Historiography. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985.
Pp. x + 335. ISBN 90-277-1945-4. \pounds
37.50, U.S. \$49.00} . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
Sophie Forgan Book Review: Ian Inkster (ed.) The Steam
Intellect Societies: Essays on Culture,
Education and Industry, circa
1820--1914. University of Nottingham:
Department of Adult Education, 1985. Pp.
203. ISBN 1-85401-008-9. \pounds 15.00
(plus \pounds 1.50, p. & p., available
from publisher) . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Harold W. Jones Book Review: Steven Shapin & Simon
Schaffer. `Leviathan' and the Air Pump:
Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life.
Including a Translation of Thomas
Hobbes, `Dialogus de Natura Aeris' by
Simon Schaffer. Princeton University
Press, New Jersey and Guildford, Surrey,
1985. Pp. ix + 441. ISBN 0-691-08393-2.
\pounds 43.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--123
James Sangster Book Review: J. L. Heilbron.
\booktitleThe Dilemmas of an Upright
Man: Max Planck as Spokesman for German
Science. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1986. Pp. xiii + 238.
ISBN 0-520-05710-4. \pounds 15.25 . . . 123--124
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: T. J. Horder, J. A.
Witkowski & C. C. Wylie (eds). A History
of Embryology (The Eighth Symposium of
the British Society for Developmental
Biology). Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1986. Pp. xxiv + 475.
ISBN 0-521-25953-3. \pounds 60.00,
\$99.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--125
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Evelleen Richards A Question of Properly Rights: Richard
Owen's Evolutionism Reassessed . . . . . 129--171
Michael Shortland Courting the Cerebellum: Early
Organological and Phrenological Views of
Sexuality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--199
Graham Richards Of What is History of Psychology a
History? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--211
Andy Pickering Forms of Life: Science, Contingency and
Harry Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--221
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: S. Feferman (ed-in-chief).
Kurt Gödel. Collected Works. Volume 1,
Publications 1929--1936. Oxford and New
York: Oxford University Press, 1986. xvi
+ 474 pp. ISBN 0-19-503964-5. \pounds
25.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
Dorinda Outram Book Review: Margaret Alic. Hypatia's
Heritage: A History of Women in Science
from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth
Century. London: The Women's Press,
1986. Pp. ix + 230. ISBN 0-7043-3954-4.
\pounds 4.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--225
John Forrester Book Review: William J. McGrath. Freud's
Discovery of Psychoanalysis. The
Politics of Hysteria. Ithaca, New York:
Cornell University Press, 1986. Pp. 336.
ISBN 0-8014-1770-8. \$27.50} . . . . . . 225--227
Brian Bowers Book Review: Robert Friedel & Paul
Israel, With Bernard S. Finn. Edison's
Electric Light, Biography of an
Invention. New Brunswick: Rutgers
University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi + 263.
ISBN 0-8135-1118-6. \$35.00 (no sterling
price)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--228
David Edgerton Book Review: Leonard S. Reich. The
Making of American Industrial Research:
Science and Business at GE and Bell,
1876--1926. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1985. Pp. xvi + 309.
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\$24.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--228
Crosbie Smith Book Review: Sadi Carnot. Reflexions on
the Motive Power of Fire. A Critical
Edition with the Surviving Manuscripts.
Translated and edited by Robert Fox.
Manchester and New York: Manchester
University Press and Lilian Barber
Press, Inc., 1986. Pp. ix + 230. ISBN
0-7190-1741-6. \pounds 25.00 . . . . . . 228--229
John Roche Book Review: J. Z. Buchwald. From
Maxwell to Microphysics. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp.
xv + 339. ISBN 0-226-07882-5. \pounds
59.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
Janet Browne Book Review: David Elliston Allen. The
Botanists: A History of the Botanical
Society of the British Isles Through a
Hundred and Fifty Years. Winchester: St
Paul's Bibliographies, 1986. Pp. xv +
232. ISBN 0-906795-36-2. \pounds 15.00
(post free in U.K. if accompanied by
cheque; or plus \pounds 1.50 postage if
from abroad) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--231
T. J. Trenn Book Review: Françoise Giroud. Marie
Curie: A Life. Translated from the
French by Lydia Davis. New York: Holmes
and Meier, 1986. Pp. v + 291. ISBN
0-8419-0977-6. \$34.50} . . . . . . . . 232--232
Alistair Duncan Book Review: R. Descartes. The
Philosophical Writings. Translated by J.
Cottingham, R. Stoothoff and D. Murdoch.
Cambridge: C.U.P., 1985. 2 vols, pp. xii
+ 418, ix + 428. ISBN 60-521-2494-X/8.
\pounds 27.50 each (hardcover); \pounds
8.95 each (paperback) . . . . . . . . . 232--233
Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: P. M. Harman (ed).
Wranglers and Physicists. Studies on
Cambridge [Mathematical] Physics in the
Nineteenth Century. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1985. Pp.
viii + 261. ISBN 0-7190-1756-4. \pounds
27.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
Allan Franklin Book Review: Trevor Pinch. Confronting
Nature. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1986. Pp.
xi + 268. ISBN 90-227-2224-2. \pounds
34.50, \$49.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--235
Bruce T. Moran Book Review: Edward Rosen. Three
Imperial Mathematicians: Kepler Trapped
Between Tycho Brahe and Ursus. New York:
Abaris Books, 1986. Pp. 384. ISBN
0-89835-242-8. \$20.00} . . . . . . . . 235--236
Steven Shapin Book Review: Tom Sorrell. Hobbes (The
Arguments of the Philosophers, series
ed. Ted Honderich). London and New York:
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. Pp. xii
+ 163. ISBN 0-7100-9845-6. \pounds 14.95 236--237
John Hendry Book Review: David Gooding & Frank A. J.
L. James (eds). Faraday Rediscovered.
Essays on the Life and Work of Michael
Faraday, 1791--1867. London: Macmillan,
1986. Pp. xiv + 258. ISBN 0-333-39320-1.
\pounds 35.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
Craig Fraser Book Review: 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} 238--238
Anonymous Book Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--240
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Isobel Falconer Corpuscles, Electrons and Cathode Rays:
J. J. Thomson and the `Discovery of the
Electron' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--276
Maurice Crosland The Image of Science as a Threat: Burke
versus Priestley and the `Philosophic
Revolution' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--307
James R. Hofmann Amp\`ere's Invention of Equilibrium
Apparatus: A Response to Experimental
Anomaly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--341
H. A. M. Snelders Book Review: History of Science Today,
2.: History of Science in the
Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--348
H. S. Torrens Obituary: Joan Mary Eyles, née Biggs:
1907--1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--350
W. A. Smeaton Obituary: Niels Hugh de Vaudrey
Heathcote: 22 January 1895--23 June 1985 350--351
John Hendry Book Review: Martin Kenney.
Biotechnology: The University-Industrial
Complex. New Haven and London: Yale
University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi + 306.
ISBN 0-300-03392-3. \pounds 22.50 . . . 353--354
Stephen Pumfrey Book Review: C. A. Ronan. The Shorter
Science and Civilisation in China.
Volume 3. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1986. Pp. ix + 298.
ISBN 0-521-25272-5, \pounds 30.00,
\$49.50 (hardcover); 0-521-31560-3,
\pounds 12.50, \$19.95 (paperback) . . . 354--355
Colin A. Russell Book Review: David C. Lindberg & Ronald
L. Numbers (eds). God and Nature:
Historical Essays on the Encounter
between Christianity and Science.
Berkeley, Los Angeles and London:
University of California Press, 1986.
Pp. xi + 516. ISBN 0-520-05538-1,
\pounds 42.50 (hardcover);
0-520-04592-2, \pounds 15.25 (paperback) 355--356
Trevor Pinch Book Review: J. A. Schuster & R. R. Yeo
(eds). The Politics and Rhetoric of
Scientific Method. Dordrecht: Reidel,
1986. Pp. xxxix + 305. ISBN
90-277-2152-1. \pounds 42.45 . . . . . . 356--357
M. P. Earles Book Review: Colin A. Russell.
Lancastrian Chemist: The Early Years of
Sir Edward Frankland. Milton
Keynes/Philadelphia: Open University
Press, 1986. Pp. ix + 187. ISBN
0-335-15175-2. \pounds 30.00 . . . . . . 358--358
Mari E. W. Williams Book Reviews: P. R. De Clerq (ed.).
Nineteenth Century Scientific
Instruments and their Makers: Papers
Presented at the Fourth Scientific
Instrument Symposium, Amsterdam 23-26
October 1984. Boerhaave Museum, Leiden,
and Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1985. ISBN
90-6292-070-5 (Boerhaave Museum), ISBN
90-6203-917-0 (Rodopi). Pp. 275. No
price given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--359
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: William B. Provine. Sewall
Wright and Evolutionary Biology. Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press,
1986. Pp. xvi + 545. ISBN 0-226-68474-1.
\pounds 25.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--360
Robert A. Hatch Book Review: Paolo Galluzzi & Maurizio
Torrini (eds). Le Opere Dei Discepoli di
Galileo Galilei. Volume II: Carteggio
1649--1656. Florence: Giunti-Barb\`era,
1984. Pp. xiv + 494. No price given . . 360--362
A. Rupert Hall Book Review: Roy Porter & Mikulas Teich
(eds). Revolution in History. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. x
+ 341. ISBN 0-521-25978-9, \pounds 25.00
(hardcover); 0-521-27784-1, \pounds 8.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--363
W. F. Bynum Book Review: Gerlof Verwey. Psychiatry
in an Anthropological and Biomedical
Context. Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: D.
Reidel Publishing Company, 1985. Pp. xix
+ 316. ISBN 90-277-1713-3. \pounds 30.50 363--364
Robert Fox Book Review: Andre Grelon (ed.). Les
Ingénieurs de la Crise. Titre et
Profession entre les Deux Guerres.
Paris: Éditions de l'École des Hautes
Études en Sciences Sociales, 1986. Pp.
461. ISBN 2-7132-0875-0. 250 FF . . . . 364--365
Paul Theerman Book Review: John Hendry.
\booktitleJames Clerk Maxwell and the
Theory of the Electromagnetic Field.
Bristol and Boston: Adam Hilger, 1986.
Pp. xix + 305. ISBN 0-85274-563-X.
\pounds 30.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--366
Seymour H. Mauskopf Book Review: Hans Werner Schütt. Die
Entdeckung des Isomorphismus.
Hildesheim: Gerstenberg Verlag, 1984.
Pp. 324. ISBN 3-8067-0902-5. No price
given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--369
L. S. Hearnshaw Book Review: Graham Bird. William James.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. Pp.
ix + 221. ISBN 0-7100-9602-X. \pounds
15.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--369
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L. S. Hearnshaw Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--374
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matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--375
Gerard L'E. Turner Scientific Toys . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--398
Robert Olby William Bateson's Introduction of
Mendelism to England: A Reassessment . . 399--420
Michael Shortland Screen Memories: Towards a History of
Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in the
Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--452
R. Hooykaas The Rise of Modern Science: When and
Why? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--473
Lewis Pyenson Book Review: Gerald James Holton. The
Advancement of Science, and its Burdens.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1986. Pp. xi + 351. ISBN 0-521-27243-2
\pounds 9.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . . 475--477
Wilma George Book Review: Nicholas Russell, Like
Engend'ring Like: Heredity and Animal
Breeding in Early Modern England.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1986. Pp. ix + 271. ISBN 0-521-30657-4.
\pounds 27.50, \$47.50} . . . . . . . . 477--478
J. Bruce Brackenridge Book Review: Paola Zambelli (ed.),
`Astrologi hallucinati' Stars and the
End of the World in Luther's Time.
Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter,
1986. Pp. x + 293. ISBN 3-11-010317-6.
DM 128.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--481
Andy Pickering Book Review: Henk Zandvoort. Models of
Scientific Development and the Case of
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Dordrecht:
D. Reidel, 1986. Pp. xiii + 305. ISBN
90-277-2351-6. \pounds 49.50, Dfl.
115.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--482
Robert W. Smith Book Review: J. B. Hearnshaw. The
Analysis of Starlight: One Hundred and
Fifty Years of Astronomical
Spectroscopy. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1986. Pp. xv + 531.
ISBN 0-521-25548-1 \pounds 50.00,
\$79.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--483
John Thackray Book Review: J. A. Secord. Controversy
in Victorian Geology: the
Cambrian-Silurian Dispute. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp.
xix + 364. ISBN 0-691-08417-3. \pounds
37.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--484
Simon Schaffer Book Review: Michael J. Crowe. The
Extraterrestrial Life Debate,
1750--1900: the Idea of a Plurality of
Worlds from Kant to Lowell. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp.
xix + 680. ISBN 0-521-26305-0. \pounds
40.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--486
G. L. E. Turner Book Review: M. J. G. Cattermole & A. F.
Wolfe. Horace Darwin's Shop: a History
of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument
Company 1878--1968. Bristol: Adam
Hilger, 1987. Pp. xvi + 285. ISBN
0-85274-569-9. \pounds 35.00 . . . . . . 486--487
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--489
Anonymous Index of Books Reviewed . . . . . . . . 490--492
Anonymous British Society for the History of
Science Report of Council for the Year
1986--1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--498
Anonymous BJH volume 20 issue 4 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b10
Anonymous BJH volume 20 issue 4 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
J. V. Golinski Utility and Audience in
Eighteenth-Century Chemistry: Case
Studies of William Cullen and Joseph
Priestley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--31
Roger L. Emerson The Scottish Enlightenment and the End
of the Philosophical Society of
Edinburgh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--66
Bruce J. Hunt The Origins of the FitzGerald
Contraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--76
Nicholas Russell Towards a History of Biology in the
Twentieth Century: Directed
Autobiographies as Historical Sources 77--89
R. E. R. Banks Resources for the History of Science in
the Libraries of the British Museum
(Natural History) . . . . . . . . . . . 91--97
J. A. Chaldecott Obituary: Leslie Bernard Hunt:
1906--1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
W. A. Smeaton Obituary: Richard Broke Freeman: 1 April
1915--1 September 1986 . . . . . . . . . 101--101
John Henry The Origins of Modern Science: Henry
Oldenburg's Contribution . . . . . . . . 103--109
A. J. Turner Book Review: J. V. Field & J. J. Gray.
The Geometrical Work of Girard
Desargues. New York, Berlin, Heidelberg,
London, Paris & Tokyo: Springer-Verlag,
1987. Pp. x + 237 with 69 illustrations,
ISBN 0-387-96403-7 and 3-540-96403-7. DM
158.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112
Caroline Series Book Review: Jeremy Gray. Linear
Differential Equations and Group Theory
from Riemann to Poincaré. Basel & Boston:
Birkhauser, 1986. Pp. xxv + 460. ISBN
3-7643-3318-9 (Basel), 0-8176-3318-9
(Boston). \$51.00} . . . . . . . . . . . 112--114
Michael E. Workman Book Review: Brooke Hindle & Steven
Lubar. Engines of Change: The American
Industrial Revolution, 1790--1860.
Washington, D.C., and London:
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986. Pp.
285. ISBN 0-87474-540-3.
(hardcover)/539-X (paperback).
\$25.95\slash 514.95 (paperback)} . . . 115--115
William Aspray Book Review: P. Masani (ed.). Norbert
Wiener: Collected Works. Volume IV.
Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press,
1985. Pp. xx + 1083. ISBN 0-262-23123-9.
\pounds 69.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Sarah Hutton Book Review: Anthony Grafton & Lisa
Jardine. From Humanism to the
Humanities: Education and the Liberal
Arts in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century
Europe. London: Duckworth, 1986. Pp. xvi
+ 224. ISBN 0-7156-2100-9. \pounds 29.95 117--117
Deborah Jean Warner Book Review: Helen Wright. James Lick's
Monument. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1987. Pp. xvi + 231.
ISBN 0-521-32105-0. \pounds 25.00,
\$32.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
Richard Gillespie Book Review: Michael M. Sokal (ed.).
Psychological Testing and American
Society, 1890--1930. New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press, 1987. Pp. xi +
205. ISBN 0-8135-1193-3. \$28.00} . . . 118--119
Graham Holuster-Short Book Review: Ahmad Y. Al-Hassan & Donald
R. Hill. Islamic Technology, An
Illustrated History. Cambridge and
Paris: Cambridge University Press and
UNESCO, 1986. Pp. xiv + 304. ISBN
92-3-102294-6. \pounds 25.00, \$39.50} 119--120
John V. Pickstone Book Review: S. E. D. Shortt. Victorian
Lunacy. Richard M. Bucke and the
Practice of Late Nineteenth-Century
Psychiatry. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi + 207.
ISBN 0-521-30999-9. Price \pounds 25.00,
\$29.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
Richard Nunan Book Review: H. W. Menard. The Ocean of
Truth: A Personal History of Global
Tectonics. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv + 353 +
24 un-numbered (illustrations). ISBN
0-691-08414-9. \$29.50} . . . . . . . . 120--122
Trevor Pinch Book Review: Allan Franklin. The Neglect
of Experiment. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1986. Pp. xii + 290.
ISBN 0-521-32016-X. \pounds 30.00 . . . 122--123
Karin Figala Book Review: Jeremy Adler. `Eine fast
magische Anziehungskraft'. Goethe's
`Wahlverwandtschaften' und die Chemie
seiner Zeit. München: C.H. Beck Verlag,
1987. Pp. 260, 10 figs, and 4 plates.
ISBN 3-406-31559-3. DM 48.00 . . . . . . 123--125
Alan Gabbey Book Reviews: Tom Sorell. Descartes.
Oxford, New York: Oxford University
Press, 1987. Pp. [viii] + 120. ISBN
0-19-287636-8. \pounds 9.95 (hardcover).
ISBN 0-19-287635-X. \pounds 2.95
(paperback). (`Past Masters' series.) 125--126
Noei G. Coley Book Review: George D. Tselos & Colleen
Wickey. A Guide to Archives and
Manuscript Collections in the History of
Chemistry and Chemical Technology.
Philadelphia: Center for History of
Chemistry, 1987. Pp. viii + 198. ISBN
0-941901-05-X. \$7.50 (paperback)} . . . 126--126
John V. Pickstonk Book Review: John Harley Warner. The
Therapeutic Perspective: Medical
Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in
America 1820--1885. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1986. Pp. 367.
ISBN 0-674-88330-6. \pounds 27.50 . . . 126--127
Pamela E. Mack Book Review: R. Cargill Hall (ed.).
History of Rocketry and Astronautics:
Proceedings of the Third through the
Sixth History Symposia of the
International Academy of Astronautics.
American Astronautical Society History
Series, Volume 7, parts I and II;
International Academy of Astronautics
History Symposia, Volume 2, parts I and
II. San Diego: American Astronautical
Society, 1986 (first published as NASA
Conference Publication 2014 in 1977).
Two volumes: xii + 238 pages and xii +
489 pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128
M. Teich Book Review: Kenneth J. Carpenter. The
History of Scurvy and Vitamin C.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1986. Pp. viii + 288. ISBN
0-521-32029-1. \pounds 27.50, \$39.50} 128--129
Martin Rudwick Book Review: Frederick Burkhardt & Sydney
Smith (eds). The Correspondence of
Charles Darwin, Volume 2 (1837--1843).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1986. ISBN 0-521-25588-0. \pounds
30.00/\pounds 37.50 . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
A. J. Rocke Book Review: Dean Stanley Tarbell & Ann
Tracy Tarbell. Essays on the History of
Organic Chemistry in the United States,
1875--1955. Nashville, Tennessee: Folio
Publishers, 1986. Pp. x + 434. ISBN
0-939454-03-3. \$21.95; orders are to be
directed to the authors, Box 1520,
Station B, Vanderbilt University,
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N. A. Rupke Book Review: Eric Buffetaut. A Short
History of Vertebrate Palaeontology.
London: Croom Helm, 1987. Pp. 223. ISBN
0-7099-3962-0. \pounds 30.00 (hardcover) 131--132
Robert Wardy Book Review: David Furley. The Greek
Cosmologists: vol. 1: The Formation of
the Atomic Theory and its Earliest
Critics. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1987. Pp. viii + 220. ISBN
0-521-33328-8. \pounds 25.00 . . . . . . 132--133
Elizabeth Barnaby Keeney Book Review: Robert V. Bruce. The
Launching of Modern American Science,
1846--1876. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
1987. Pp. x + 446. ISBN 0-394-55394-2.
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Dorinda Outram Book Review: A. Fourcy. Histoire de
l'Ecole Polytechnique. Paris: Belin,
1987. Pp. 509 + 198. ISBN 2-7011-0640-0.
FF. 140.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Dorinda Outram Book Review: Janis Langins. La République
avait Besoin de Savants: les Débuts de
l'Ecole Polytechnique: l'Ecole Centrale
des Travaux Publics et les Cours
Revolutionnaires de l'an III. Paris:
Belin, 1987. Pp. 287. ISBN
2-7011-0641-9. FF. 90.00 . . . . . . . . 135--135
Graham Richards Book Review: L. S. Hearnshaw. The
Shaping of Modern Psychology: An
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Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987. Pp. vii +
423. ISBN 0-7102-0576-7. \pounds 19.95 135--136
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J. Vernon Jensen Return to the Wilberforce--Huxley Debate 161--179
Frank A. J. L. James The Practical Problems of `New'
Experimental Science: Spectro-Chemistry
and the Search for Hitherto Unknown
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D. L. Simms Archimedes' Weapons of War and Leonardo 195--210
Satpal Sangwan Indian Response to European Science and
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Trevor H. Levere Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Continental
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A. Rupert Hall Book Review: Joseph Needham with the
collaboration of Ho Ping-Yü, Lu Gwei-Djen
and Wang Ling. Science and Civilisation
in China. Vol. 5, Chemistry and Chemical
Technology. Part 7, Military Technology.
The Gunpowder Epic. Cambridge and
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1986. Pp. xxxiii + 703. ISBN
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Paul Hoch Book Review: Daniel J. Kevles. In the
Name of Eugenics. New York: Alfred
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David Gooding Book Review: Nancy J. Nersessian, (ed.).
The Process of Science. Contemporary
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Understanding Scientific Practice.
Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster: Martinus
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A. G. Molland Book Review: Alexander Jones (ed., tr.
and commentary). Pappus of Alexandria.
Book 7 of the Collection. Sources in the
History of Mathematics and Physical
Sciences 8. New York, Berlin,
Heidelberg, Tokyo: Springer-Verlag,
1986. Pp. x + 748 in 2 vols. ISBN
0-387-96257-3, 3-540-96257-3. DM 258.00 255--255
A. Rupert Hall Book Review: A. G. Bennett and D. F.
Edgar (eds). Isaac Barrow's Optical
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London: The Worshipful Company of
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\pounds 25.00. (A printed typescript;
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Brian Vickers Book Review: Graham Rees assisted by
Christopher Upton. Francis Bacon's
Natural Philosophy: A New Source. A
transcription of manuscript Hardwick 72A
with translation and commentary.
Chalfont St Giles, Bucks.: British
Society for the History of Science,
1984. \pounds 7.90 . . . . . . . . . . . 256--257
Malcolm Nicolson Book Review: Thomas Söderqvist. The
Ecologists, from Merry Naturalists to
Saviours of the Nation: A sociologically
informed narrative survey of the
ecologization of Sweden 1895--1975.
Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1986.
Pp. vii + 330. ISBN 91-22-00827-6. No
price given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--259
David Knight Book Review: Ann Moyal. A Bright and
Savage Land: Scientists in Colonial
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ISBN 0-00-217555-X. \pounds 17.50 . . . 259--259
David Knight Book Review: Stanton J. Linden (ed.).
William Cooper. A Catalogue of Chymicall
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John Henry Book Review: Barry Brundell. Pierre
Gassendi: From Aristotelianism to a New
Natural Philosophy. Dordrecht, Boston,
Lancaster, Tokyo: D. Reidel, 1987. Pp. x
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John Hendry Book Review: John Stachel (ed.). The
Collected Papers of Albert Einstein.
Volume 1. The Early Years, 1879--1902.
Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1987. Pp. lxvi + 433. ISBN
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translation by Anna Beck, \pounds 14.10
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David Cahan Book Review: Donald E. Thomas Jr.
Diesel: Technology and Society in
Industrial Germany. Tuscaloosa, Alabama:
The University of Alabama Press, 1987,
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Richard Yeo Book Review: Bernard Lightman. The
Origins of Agnosticism. Victorian
Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge.
Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1987, Pp. x and 249.
ISBN 0-8018-3375-2. \pounds 20.95 . . . 263--264
Michael Shortland Book Review: H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.,
and Arthur L. Caplan (eds). Scientific
Controversies: Case Studies in the
Resolution and Closure of Disputes in
Science and Technology. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. x
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John Hendry Book Review: Helge Kragh. An
Introduction to the Historiography of
Science. Translated by Jean
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University Press, 1987. Pp. viii + 235.
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François Duchesneau Book Review: Renato Mazzolini and
Shirely A. Roe. Science Against the
Unbelievers: the Correspondence of
Bonnet and Needham, 1760--1780. Oxford:
The Voltaire Foundation at the Taylor
Institution, 1986. Pp. xix + 409. ISBN
0435-2866. No price given . . . . . . . 268--269
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Colin A. Russell `Rude and Disgraceful Beginnings': A
View of History of Chemistry from the
Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 273--294
Yushi Ito Hooke's Cyclic Theory of the Earth in
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England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--314
Steve Sturdy Biology as Social Theory: John Scott
Haldane and Physiological Regulation . . 315--340
Roland Bechmann About some technical sketches of Villard
de Honnecourt's manuscript. New light on
deleted diagrams: an unknown drawing . . 341--361
Jan Golinski Book Review: Brian Vickers (ed.).
English Science, Bacon to Newton
(Cambridge English Prose Texts).
Cambridge, London, New York, New
Rochelle, Melbourne, Sydney: Cambridge
University Press, 1987. Pp. xii + 244.
ISBN 0-521-30408-3, \pounds 27.50
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Karl Von Meyenn Book Review: Gereon Wolters. Mach I,
Mach II, Einstein und ihre Folgen.
Berlin und New York: de Gruyter, 1987.
XV + 474 Seiten. ISBN 3-11-010825-9 DM
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Maurice Crosland Book Review: Comité Lavoisier De
L'Académie Des Sciences. Ouvres de
Lavoisier: Correspondence, Fascicule IV,
1784--1786. Paris: Editions Belin, 1986.
Pp. xv + 351. ISBN 2-7011-1085-8. FF
460.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--366
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: Leo F. Laporte, (ed.).
Simple Curiosity: Letters from George
Gaylord Simpson to his Family,
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University of California Press, 1987.
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G. J. Whitrow Book Review: C. Ray. The Evolution of
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Adam Hilger, 1987. Pp. x + 211. ISBN
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Peter J. Bowler Book Review: Robert Ackerman, J. G.
Frazer: his Life and Work. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp.x +
348. ISBN 0-521-34093-4. \pounds 35.50 367--367
Noel G. Coley Book Review: James G. Traynham (ed.).
Essays on the History of Organic
Chemistry, Baton Rouge and London,
Louisiana State University Press, 1987,
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Roy Porter Book Review: Phillip A. Nicholls.
Homoeopathy and the Medical Profession,
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W. F. Bynum Book Review: Jan Goldstein. Console and
Classify. The French Psychiatric
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L. J. Jordanova Book Review: Scott Atran. Fondements de
l'Histoire Naturelle. Pour une
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Editions Complexe, 1986. Pp. 244. ISBN
2-87027-180-8. FF 145.00 . . . . . . . . 371--371
John Hendry Book Review: Jagdish Mehra & Helmut
Rechenberg. The Historical Development
of Quantum Theory. Volume 5. Erwin
Schrödinger and the Rise of Wave
Mechanics. Part 1. Schrödinger in Vienna
and Zurich, 1887--1925 and Part 2. The
Creation of Wave Mechanics; Early
Response and Applications, 1925--1926.
Berlin, Heidelberg, New York:
Springer-Verlag, 1987. Pp. xix + 366 and
viii + 615. ISBN 3-540-96284-0 and
96377-4. DM 148.00 (hardcover) and 98.00
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J. Bruce Brackenridce Book Review: Bruce Stephenson. Kepler's
Physical Astronomy. Berlin:
Springer-Verlag, 1987. Pp. v + 216. ISBN
3-540-96541-6. DM 118.00 . . . . . . . . 372--374
John Hendry Book Review: Donald J. Wilcox. The
Measure of Times Past. Pre-Newtonian
Chronologies and the Rhetoric of
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J. A. Secord Book Review: Dorothy Stein. Ada: A Life
and a Legacy. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT
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Lindsay Judson Book Review: J. D. G. Evans. Aristotle.
Sussex and New York: Harvester Press and
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\pounds 28.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--377
Andrew Cunningham Book Review: Ronald L. Numbers (ed.).
Medicine in the New World-New Spain, New
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Paul K. Hoch Book Review: Peter J. Kuznick. Beyond
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W. D. Hackmann Book Review: V. J. Phillips. Waveforms.
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Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1987. Pp. viii +
259. ISBN 0-85274-274-6. \pounds 35.00 380--381
Nils Roll-Hansen Book Review: Loren R. Graham. Science,
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Ian Inkster Book Review: Nathan Reingold & Marc
Rothenberg (eds). Scientific
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G. A. J. Rogers Book Review: David Oldroyd. The Arch of
Knowledge. An Introductory Study of the
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London: Methuen, 1986. Pp. 413. ISBN
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Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Ruth Richardson. Death,
Dissection and the Destitute. London and
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G. A. J. Rogers Book Review: Derek Gjertsen. The Newton
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Nicholas Russell Oswald Avery and the Origin of Molecular
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Garry J. Tee Mathematics in the Pacific Basin . . . . 401--417
Trevor H. Levere The History of Science of Canada . . . . 419--425
Maurizio Torrini Observations on the History of Science
in Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--446
Alistair M. Duncan Particles and Eighteenth Century
Concepts of Chemical Combination . . . . 447--453
James Longrigg Anatomy in Alexandria in the Third
Century B.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--488
Gina L. Douglas History of Science and Technology
Resources at the Linnean Society of
London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--493
Jeremy Grey Book Review: S. G. Gindikin. Tales of
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157. ISBN 0-8176-3317-0 and
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Adrian Desmond Book Review: Paul H. Barret, Peter J.
Gautrey, Sandra Herbert, David Kohn &
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1987. Pp. viii + 747. ISBN
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David Knight Book Reviews: José M. López Pi ero. El
Grabado en la Ciencia Hispánica. Madrid:
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
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84-00-06699-5. No price given. Philipp
Hauser. Atlas Epidemiográfico del Cólera
de 1885 en Espa a (1887), reprint intr.
J. M. López Piñero. Valencia: Consellaria
de Sanitat y Consum, 1987. No ISBN or
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Thaddeus J. Trenn Book Review: Elisabeth Crawford, J. L.
Heilbron, Rebecca Ullrich. The Nobel
Population (1901--1937): A census of the
Nominators and Nominees for the Prizes
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Stephen Pumfrey Book Review: G. J. R. Parry. A
Protestant Vision: William Harrison and
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W. D. Hackmann Book Review: R. D. Connor. The Weights
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C. E. Perrin Document, Text and Myth: Lavoisier's
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Crosbie Smith William Hopkins and the shaping of
Dynamical Geology: 1830--1860 . . . . . 27--52
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Salitter: its Nature, Origin, and
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Mansel Davies William Hampson (1854--1926): A Note . . 63--73
Robert Bud The Seamless Web . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--78
John Hendry Book Review: Peter Galison. How
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Chicago Press, 1987. Pp. xii + 330. ISBN
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John Harley Warner Book Review: F. G. Gosling. Before
Freud: Neurasthenia and the American
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Bruce R. Wheaton Book Review: T. Glick (ed.). The
Comparative Reception of Relativity.
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I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: Roger Herz-Fischler. A
Mathematical History of Division in
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Andrew Cunningham Book Review: Nancy G. Siraisi. Avicenna
in Renaissance Italy. The `Canon' and
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W. D. Hackmann Book Review: J. R. Beniger. The Control
Revolution. Technological and Economic
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Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard
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John Hendry Book Review: Behram N. Kursunoglu &
Eugene P. Wigner (eds). Reminiscences
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Maurice Dirac. Cambridge: Cambridge
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ISBN 0-521-34013-6. \pounds 30.00. C.W.
Kilmister (ed.). Schrödinger: Centenary
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Robert W. Smith Book Reviews: R. J. Tayler (ed.).
History of the Royal Astronomical
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Dorothy Porter Book Review: Linda Bryder. Below the
Magic Mountain. A Social History of
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Gerhard Müller Book Review: J. Heniger. Hendrik Adriaan
van Reede tot Drakenstein (1636--1691)
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Rotterdam and Boston: A.A. Balkema,
1986. Pp. xvi + 295. ISBN 90-6191-681-X.
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Frank N. Egerton Book Review: Pascal Acot. Histoire de
l'écologie. Paris: Presses Universitaires
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P. B. Wood Book Review: Alan Charles Kors & Paul J.
Korshin (eds). Anticipations of the
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Germany. Philadelphia: University of
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290. ISBN 0-8122-8057-1. No price given 92--93
Dorothy Porter Book Review: F. B. Smith. The Retreat of
Tuberculosis 1850--1950. London: Croom
Helm, 1988. Pp. 271. ISBN 0-7099-3383-5.
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Richard Hills Book Review: Graham West. Innovation and
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Michael A. Osborne Book Review: Scott Atran et al.,
Histoire du Concept d'Esp\`ece dans les
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Anne Harrington Book Review: Edwin Clarke & L. S. Jacyna.
Nineteenth-Century Origins of
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Press, 1987. Pp. viii + 593. ISBN
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Elizabeth Barnaby Keeney Book Review: David N. Livingstone.
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the
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W. H. Brock Book Review: Emil Heuser & Regine Zott
(eds). Justus von Liebig und August
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David Goodman Book Review: José Mariá López Piñero. El
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E. J. Aiton Book Review: G. W. Leibniz, Discourse on
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Nancy J. Nersessian Book Review: Joseph C. Pitt & Marcello
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Michael Shortland Book Review: Pierre Thuillier.
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Paris: Fayard, 1988. Pp. xxvii + 395. FF
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John Hendry Book Review: Science in Context, Volume
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Janet Browne Book Review: Rachel Laudan. From
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David B. Wilson Book Review: Robert Kargon & Peter
Achinstein (eds). Kelvin's Baltimore
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David Knight Book Review: F. Burwick (ed.).
Approaches to Organic Form: Permutations
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Christopher Lawrence Book Review: W. J. O'Connor. Founders of
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M. J. S. Hodge Book Reviews: Theodore M. Porter, The
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Martin Rudwick Book Review: William A. S. Sarjeant.
Geologists and the History of Geology.
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and Additions. Malabar, Florida: Robert
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The Making of Physicists. Bristol: Adam
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John Fauvel Book Review: R. V. & P. J. Wallis.
Biobibliography of British Mathematics
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Jim Falk Book Review: Juan Martinez-Alier.
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E. S. Shaffer Book Review: Frederick Amrine, Francis
J. Zucker, and Harvey Wheeler (eds)
Goethe and the Sciences: A Reappraisal.
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of
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Contra Newton: Polemics and the Project
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David C. Lindberg Book Review: J. V. Field. Kepler's
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Malcolm R. Oster The `Beame of Diuinity': Animal
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Stephen Pumfrey `O tempera, O magnes!': A sociological
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David Kohn Darwin's Ambiguity: The Secularization
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Harold J. Cook Book Review: David C. Goodman. Power and
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John Hendry Book Review: Nicholas Maxwell, From
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J. F. Wilson Book Review: J. Liebenau (ed.). The
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Paléontologie et évolution en France de
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N. A. Rupke Book Review: S. Warren Carey. Theories
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Jonathan Harwood Genetics, Eugenics and Evolution . . . . 257--265
M. J. S. Hodge Generation and the Origin of Species
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Peter J. Bowler Development and Adaptation: Evolutionary
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Robert Olby The Dimensions of Scientific
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Paul Weindling The `Sonderweg' of German Eugenics:
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Nils Roll-Hansen Geneticists and the Eugenics Movement in
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David Barker The Biology of Stupidity: Genetics,
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Sarah Hutton Book Review: Charles B. Schmitt (general
editor), Quentin Skinner, Eckhard
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Margaret Felling Book Reviews: William Coleman. Yellow
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Laurie M. Brown Book Review: W. Peter Trower (ed.).
Discovering Alvarez: Selected Works of
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Jed Z. Buchwald Book Review: David B. Wilson. Kelvin and
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an exhibition held at the Royal Society
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Garsten Jensen Book Review: Jules Six. La découverte du
neutron (1920--1936). Paris: Editions du
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FF110.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . 390--391
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: Ronald Rainger, Keith R.
Benson and Jean Maienschein, (eds). The
American Development of Biology.
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Bruce J. Hunt Book Review: J. G. O'Hara & Willibald
Pricha. Hertz and the Maxwellians: A
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of Electromagnetic Wave Radiation,
1873--1894. London: Peter Peregrinus
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Sophie Porgan Book Review: Wolfgang Shivelbusch.
Disenchanted Night: The
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Hamburg: Berg Publishers Ltd., 1988. Pp.
227. ISBN 0-85496-191-7. \pounds 18.50 393--394
David Knight Book Review: Roy Macleod & Philip
Rehbock, (eds). Nature in its Greatest
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Graham Richards Book Review: William Hurst (ed.). The
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R. Elwyn Hughes Alfred Russel Wallace; some notes on the
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David Gooding How to be a good empiricist . . . . . . 419--427
James Moore Darwinizing History: Sociobiology versus
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Geoffrey Cantor Why was Faraday excluded from the
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J. H. Brook Book Review: Pietro Corsi, Science and
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Peter Morris Book Reviews: Jonathan Liebenau. Medical
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Theodore M. Porter Book Review: Lorraine Daston. Classical
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Richard L. Hills Book Review: Dieter Kuhn. Science and
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Textile Technology: Spinning and
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G. J. Whitrow Book Review: N. S. Hetherington. Science
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W. H. Brock Book Review: N. A. Figurovsku & Yu. I.
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G. K. Roberts Book Review: David Knight. The Age of
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John Hendry Book Review: Abraham Pais. Inward Bound:
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1988. Pp. xiv + 665. ISBN 0-19-851997-4,
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Steve Russ Book Review: Rolf Herken (ed.). The
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Stephen J. Cross Book Review: Nicole Hahn Rafter (ed.).
White Trash: The Eugenic Family Studies,
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David Knight Book Review: John Nudos, Norman
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Arthur Still Book Review: Mitchell G. Ash & William W.
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Keith Vernon Book Review: David L. Hull. Science as a
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Peter J. Bowler Book Review: Pietro Corsi. The age of
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Roy Porter Book Review: Daniel Roche. Les
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A. G. Molland Book Review: Adam De Wodeham. Tractatus
de Indivisibilibus: A Critical Edition.
Introduction, Translation, and Textual
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William A. Wallace Book Review: Peter Dear. Mersenne and
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Picard et les Débuts de l'Astronomie de
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Deborah Thoma Book Review: Michael Chapman.
Constructive evolution. Cambridge:
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Anna Guagnini Book Review: Therés\`e Charmasson,
Anne-Marie Lelorrain, & Yannick Ripa.
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Let Newton Be!. Oxford: Oxford
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David Knight Book Reviews: Margot Walker. Sir James
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Stearn. A Bicentenary History of the
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Gramiccia. The Life of Charles Ledger
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Dorothy E. Porter Book Review: Charles Webster. The Health
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Michael S. Mahoney Book Review: Hans Loeffel. Blaise Pascal
1623--1662. (Vita Mathematica, Bd. 2)
Basel, Boston, Stuttgart: Birkhäuser
Verlag, 1987. Pp. 173. ISBN
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London: Charles Griffin & Company Ltd,
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Roy M. Macleod Book Review: Peter Alter. The Reluctant
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J. D. G. Evans Book Review: Montgomery Furth.
Substance, Form and Psyche: an
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30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--486
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--489
Anonymous Books Reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--493
Anonymous Index of Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--494
Anonymous Report of Council for the Year
1988--1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--512
Anonymous BJH volume 22 issue 4 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b13
Anonymous BJH volume 22 issue 4 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2