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Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Michael Ben-Chaim Social mobility and scientific change:
Stephen Gray's contribution to
electrical research . . . . . . . . . . 3--24
Graeme Gooday Precision measurement and the genesis of
physics teaching laboratories in
Victorian Britain . . . . . . . . . . . 25--51
Ruth Barton `An Influential Set of Chaps: The X-Club
and Royal Society Politics 1864--1885 53--81
Deborah Jean Warner What is a scientific instrument, when
did it become one, and why? . . . . . . 83--93
A. G. Molland A very astronomical poet . . . . . . . . 95--98
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Stephen Pumfrey Book Review: Lynn Sumida Joy. Gassendi
the Atomist: Advocate of History in an
Age of Science. Cambridge: University
Press, 1988. Pp. xiii + 311. ISBN
0-521-30142-4. \pounds 27.50, \$34.50} 99--102
Mari E. W. Williams Book Reviews: Kevin Krisciunas,
Astronomical Centres of the World.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
1988. Pp. x + 320 ISBN 0-521-30278-1
\pounds 17.50. Patrick A. Wayman,
Dunsink Observatory, 1785--1985: A
Bicentennial History. Dublin: Dublin
Institute for Advanced Studies and Royal
Dublin Society, 1987. Pp. xiii + 353.
ISBN 0-86027-020-3. IR \pounds 25 . . . 102--103
Charlotte M. Porter Book Review: John S. Doskey (ed.). The
European Journals of William Madure.
Philadelphia: American Philosophical
Society, 1988. Pp. 815. ISBN:
0-87169-171-X. \$40} . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
Lillian Hoddeson Book Review: Hans Queisser. The Conquest
of the Microchip: Science and Business
in the Silicon Age. Cambridge,
Massachusetts, London, England: Harvard
University Press, 1988. Translated by
Diane Crawford-Burkhardt. Pp. x + 200.
ISBN 0-674-16296-X, \pounds 19.95 . . . 104--105
Graham Rees Book Review: Antonio Pérez-Ramos. Francis
Bacon's Idea of Science and the Maker's
Knowledge Tradition. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1988. Pp. xii + 334.
ISBN 0-19-824979-9. \pounds 37.50 . . . 106--107
J. Bruce Brackenridge Book Review: Marcia Sweet Stayer (ed.).
Newton's Dream. Canada: McGill-Queen's
University Press, 1989. Pp. 135. ISBN
0-7735-0689-6. \pounds 15.95 . . . . . . 107--108
Heinz Post Book Review: Klaus Mainzer. Symmetrian
Der Natur. Ein Handbuch zur Natur-und
Wissenschafts-philosophie. Walter de
Gruyter & Co., 1988. Pp. 739. ISBN
3-11-011507-7. DM 365 . . . . . . . . . 108--109
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Michael Shortland. Medicine
and Film: a checklist survey and
research resource. Oxford: Research
Publications on the Wellcome Unit for
the History of Medicine, Oxford, No. IX,
1989. Pp. viii + 54. ISSN 0143 7984.
\pounds 6.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Roger Cooter. (ed.).
Studies in the History of Alternative
Medicine. Oxford: Macmillan Press in
association with St Anthony's College,
Oxford, 1988. Pp. xx + 180. ISBN
0-333-46213-0. \pounds 29.50 (hardcover) 109--110
Roy Porter Book Reviews: Christopher Fox. Locke and
the Scriblerians. Identity and
Consciousness in Early Eighteenth
Century Britain. Berkeley, Los Angeles
and London: University of California
Press, 1988. Pp. 174. ISBN
0-520-05859-3. No price given.
Christopher Fox. (ed.) Psychology and
Literature in the Eighteenth Century.
(AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century
no. 8). New York AMS Press, 1987. Pp.
372. ISBN 0-404-61474-4. \$42.50} . . . 110--111
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Stephen Trombley. Sir
Frederick Treves: the extra-ordinary
Edwardian. London: Routledge, 1989. Pp.
x + 218. ISBN 0-415-03423-X. \pounds
19.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112
David Edgerton Book Review: Colin Chant (ed.). Science
and Technology in Everyday Life. London:
Routledge in association with the Open
University, 1989. Pp. 391. (hardcover).
ISBN 0-415-00037-8. \pounds 40.00.
(Paperback) 0-415-03557-0. \pounds 14.95 112--113
Naomi Oreskes Book Reviews: H. E. Le Grand. Drifting
Continents and Shifting Theories.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1988. Pp. vi.+ 313. ISBN 0-521-32210-3,
\pounds 30.00 (hardcover). ISBN
0-521-31105-5, \pounds 10.95 (paperback) 113--115
E. J. Aiton Book Review: Desmond M. Clarke. Occult
Powers and Hypotheses: Cartesian Natural
Philosophy under Louis XIV. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1989, Pp. x + 265. ISBN
0-19-824812-1. \pounds 27.50 . . . . . . 115--116
Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: Alan Twyman. In Search of
the Mysterious Dr Weeks: A Fragment of
Sandwich History. Sandwich: The Author
(10 Strand Street, Sandwich, Kent, CT13
9DX, England), 1989. Pp. xi + 164. ISBN
0-9513889-0-8. \pounds 4.95 . . . . . . 116--117
Sophie Forgan Book Review: Susan Sheets-Pyenson.
Cathedrals of Science: The Development
of Colonial Natural History Museums
during the Late Nineteenth Century.
Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen's
University Press. 1988. Pp. 144, ill.
ISBN 0-7735-0655-1. \pounds 19.95 . . . 117--118
Diane B. Paul Book Review: Robert N. Proctor. Racial
Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis.
Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard
University Press, 1988. Pp. viii + 414.
ISBN 0-674-74580-9. \pounds 25.25,
\$34.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--119
Crosbie Smith Book Reviews: Stephen G. Brush (ed.).
History of Physics: Selected Reprints.
College Park, MD: American Association
of Physics Teachers, 1988. Pp. 235. ISBN
0-917853-29-6. \$16.00. Stephen G.
Brush, The History of Modern Science. A
Guide to the Second Scientific
Revolution, 1800--1950. Ames, Iowa: Iowa
State University Press, Pp. xv + 544.
ISBN 0-8138-0883-9. \$39.95 . . . . . . 119--120
Eila M. J. Campbell Book Review: J. B. Harley & David
Woodward (eds). The History of
Cartography, Vol. I: Cartography in
Prehistoric, Ancient and Medieval Europe
and the Mediterranean. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
1987. Pp. xxii + 599, 40 colour plates.
ISBN 0-226-31633-5. \$100.00} . . . . . 120--122
Robert A. Stafford Book Review: John M. Mackenzie. The
Empire of Nature: Hunting, Conservation
and British Imperialism. Manchester and
New York: Manchester University Press,
1988. Pp. x + 340. ISBN 0-7190-2227-4.
\pounds 35.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--124
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--127
Robert A. Stafford Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Anonymous BJH volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b3
Anonymous BJH volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Anonymous Editorial Announcements . . . . . . . . 129--129
D. W. Jordan The magnetic circuit model, 1850--1890:
the resisted flow image in
magnetostatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--173
Colin A. Russell and
Shirley P. Russell The archives of Sir Edward Frankland:
Resources, Problems and Methods . . . . 175--185
Alberto Elena and
Javier Ordóñez History of Science in Spain: A
preliminary survey . . . . . . . . . . . 187--196
Antonio Pérez-Ramos Francis Bacon and astronomical inquiry 197--205
John V. Pickstone A profession of discovery: Physiology in
nineteenth-century history . . . . . . . 207--216
David Cantor Book Review: Catherine Caufield.
Multiple Exposures, Chronicles of the
Radiation Age. London: Seeker and
Warburg, 1989. Pp. xii + 304. ISBN
0-436-09478-9. \pounds 12.95 . . . . . . 217--218
W. H. Brock Book Review: R. W. Home (ed.).
Australian Science in the Making.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press in
association with the Australian Academy
of Science, 1988 (1989). Pp. xxvii +
413. ISBN 0-521-35556-7. \pounds 35.00,
\$65.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
Jenny Ward Book Review: Rafael Huertas. Orfila,
Saber y Poder Médico. Madrid: Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas,
1988. Pp. v + 435. ISBN 84-00-06745-2.
No price given . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Geoffrey Tweedale Book Reviews: Paul E. Ceruzzi. Beyond
the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer
Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989. Pp.
xi + 270. Cloth ISBN 0-262-03143-4.
Paper ISBN 0-262-53082-1. No price given 220--221
Michael A. Osborne Book Review: Oliver Bloch, Bernard Balan
& Paulette Carrive (eds). Entre Forme et
Histoire: La Formation de la Notion de
Développment \`a l'Âge Classique. Paris:
Méridiens Klincksieck, 1988. Pp. 310.
ISBN 2-86563-212-1. (Paperback) 140 FF 221--222
Willem D. Hackmann Book Review: J. A. Bennett. The Divided
Circle. A History of Instruments for
Astronomy, Navigation and Surveying.
Oxford: Phaidon-Christie's, 1987. Pp.
224. ISBN 0-7148-8038-8. \pounds 45 . . 223--224
Roy M. MacLeod Book Review: Peter Alter, The Reluctant
Patron: Science and the State in
Britain, 1850--1920. Oxford: Berg, 1987.
ISBN 0-907582-67-2 \pounds 30 . . . . . 224--226
Graeme Gooday Book Review: Frank A. J. L. James (ed.).
The Development of the Laboratory:
Essays on the Place of Experiment in
Industrial Civilization. London:
Macmillan Press, 1989. Pp. xv + 260.
ISBN 0-333-48331-6. \pounds 37.50 . . . 226--228
John Hendry Book Reviews: Roland Turner (ed.).
Thinkers of the Twentieth Century. 2nd
edition. Chicago and London: St James
Press, 1987. Pp. vii and 977. ISBN
0-912289-83-X. \pounds 52.50. David,
Ian, John & Margaret Millar. Chambers
Concise Dictionary of Scientists.
Cambridge and Edinburgh: CUP and
Chambers, 1989. Pp. 461. ISBN
1-85296-354-9. \pounds 14.95 . . . . . . 228--229
Sam Silverman Book Review: C. Stewart Gillmor (ed.).
History of Geophysics. Volume 2. Pp. vi
+ 191. Washington, D.C.: American
Geophysical Union, 1986 . . . . . . . . 229--230
P. M. Harman Book Review: Donald S. L. Cardwell.
James Joule: A Biography. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1989. Pp. x
+ 333. ISBN 0-7190-3025-0. \pounds 35.00 230--230
Helge Krach Book Review: Walter Moore. Schrödinger.
Life and Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1989. Pp. xi + 513.
ISBN 0-521-35434-X. \pounds 25.00,
\$39.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--233
Peter Lee Book Review: Michael Shortland & Andrew
Warwick (eds). Teaching the History of
Science. Oxford and New York: Basil
Blackwell (in conjunction with the
British Society for the History of
Science), 1989. Pp. viii + 281. ISBN
0-631-16977-6 and 0-631-16978-4
(paperback). \pounds 29.50 (hardcover)
and \pounds 9.95 (paperback) . . . . . . 233--237
R. P. Lorch Book Review: George Molland. Thomas
Bradwardine, Geometrica speculative.
Latin Text and English Translation with
an Introduction and Commentary. Volume
XVIII in the seris Boethius. Stuttgart:
Steiner, 1989. Pp. 176. ISBN
3-515-05020-5. DM48 (paperback) . . . . 237--238
Marie Boas Hall Book Review: Gad Freudenthal (ed). Études
sur/Studies on Hél\`ene Metzger. Corpus,
no. 8/9 Paris, 1988. Pp. 280. ISSN
0296-8916. Fr.F. 70 . . . . . . . . . . 238--239
Graham Hollister-Short Book Review: George Basalla. The
Evolution of Technology. Cambridge and
New York: Cambridge University Press,
1988. ISBN 0-521-29681-1. \pounds 8.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--241
G. J. Whitrow Book Review: E. Harrison. Darkness at
Night, a Riddle of the Universe.
Cambridge, Mass, and London, Harvard
University Press: 1987. Pp. 293. ISBN
0-674-19274-0. \pounds 19.95 cloth,
\pounds 10.25 paperback . . . . . . . . 241--242
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: Nicole Hulin-Jing.
L'organisation de l'enseignement des
sciences: la voie ouverte par le second
Empire. Paris: Comité des Travaux
Historiques et Scientifiques, 1989. Pp.
336. ISBN 2-7355-0171-X. 200 F.Fr . . . 242--245
James R. Jacob Book Review: Hiram Caton. The Politics
of Progress. The Origins and Development
of the Commerical Republic, 1600--1835.
Gainesville, Florida, University of
Florida Press: 1988. Pp. xi 627. ISBN
0-8130-0847-6. \$49} . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
John Hendry Book Review: Dean Keith Simonton.
Scientific Genius: A Psychology of
Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1989. Pp. x + 229. ISBN
0-521-35287-8. \pounds 22.50 . . . . . . 246--247
G. J. Whitrow Book Review: Dominic J. O'Meara.
Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and
Philosophy in Late Antiquity. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. viii + 251.
ISBN 0-19-824485-1. \pounds 27.50 . . . 247--248
Helge Kragh Book Review: Robert Marc Friedman.
Appropriating the Weather. Vilhelm
Bjerknes and the Construction of a
Modern Meteorology. Ithaca and London:
Cornell University Press, 1989. Pp. xx +
251. ISBN 0-8014-2062-8. \$38.45} . . . 248--249
A. Rupert Hall Book Review: William R. Shea (ed.).
Revolutions in Science: Their Meaning
and Relevance. Canton: Science History
Publications, 1988. Pp. xi + 291 . . . . 249--250
Paul Weindling Book Review: Peter Weingart, Jürgen Kroll
& Kurt Bayertz. Rasse, Blut und Gene.
Geschichte der Eugenik und Rassenhygiene
in Deutschland. Frankfurt am Main:
Suhrkamp Verlag, 1988. Pp. 746. ISBN
3-518-57887-1. DM48 (paperback) . . . . 250--251
J. A. Bennett Book Review: G. J. Whitrow. Time in
History: The Evolution of our General
Awareness of Time and Temporal
Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1988. Pp. 217. ISBN
0-19-215361-7. \pounds 14.95 . . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--255
Anonymous BJH volume 23 issue 2 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b6
Anonymous BJH volume 23 issue 2 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f6
Roberto Maiocchi The case of Brownian motion . . . . . . 257--283
Eric Mendoza Delaroche and Bérard and experimental
error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--292
Wilbur R. Knorr John of Tynemouth alias John of London:
Emerging portrait of a singular medieval
mathematician . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--330
M. J. S. Hodge Book Review: Peter J. Bowler. The
Non-Darwinian Revolution: Reinterpreting
a Historical Myth. Baltimore and London:
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
1988. Pp. x + 238. ISBN 0-8018-3678-6.
\pounds 17.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--334
Ian Inkster Book Review: Christine Macleod.
Inventing the Industrial Revolution; The
English Patent System, 1660--1800.
Cambridge, New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1988, Pp. x + 302.
ISBN 0-521-30104-1. \pounds 25.00,
\$44.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--336
R. G. A. Dolby Book Review: R. N. Giere. Explaining
Science: A Cognitive Approach. Chicago:
Chicago University Press, 1988. Pp. xxi
+ 321. ISBN 0-226-29205-2. \pounds 27.95 336--337
R. G. A. Dolby Book Review: R. Nola (ed.). Relativism
and Realism in Science. Dordrecht:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988. Pp. x
+ 299. ISBN 90-277-2647-7. \pounds 48.00 337--337
Janet Browne Book Review: Richard Darwin Keynes.
Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1988. Pp. xxix + 464. ISBN
0-521-23503-0. \pounds 35.00, \$59.50} 337--338
Tony Crilly Book Review: Joan L. Richards.
Mathematical Visions --- The Pursuit of
Geometry in Victorian England. New York:
Academic Press, 1988. Pp. xiii + 266.
ISBN 0-12-587445-6. \$34.95} . . . . . . 338--340
David Edgerton Book Review: Harald Penrose. An Ancient
Air: A Biography of John Stringfellow of
Chard, the Victorian Aeronautical
Pioneer. Washington: Smithsonian
Institution Press, 1988. Pp. 183. ISBN
0-87474-752-X. \$22.50} . . . . . . . . 340--340
Amal Abou Aly Book Review: Heinrich Von Staden.
Herophilus: The art of medicine in
Alexandria: Edition, Translation and
Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1989. Pp. xliii + 666. ISBN
0-521-23646-0. \pounds 75.00, \$140
(hardcover)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--341
Michael Bravo-Dobrée Book Review: Andrew David, Rüdiger
Joppien & Bernard Smith (eds). The Charts
and Coastal Views of Captain Cook's
Voyages: The Voyage of the Endeavour
(1768--1771). London: The Hak-luyt
Society, 1988. Pp. Ixiv + 328. ISBN
0-9041-8023-9. \pounds 100 . . . . . . . 341--343
R. A. Buchanan Book Review: Robert Maddin (ed.). The
Beginning of the Use of Metals and
Alloys. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press,
1988. Pp. xiv + 393. ISBN 0-262-13232-X.
\pounds 40.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--344
Keith Vernon Book Review: Bruno Latour. The
Pasteurization of France. London:
Harvard University Press, 1988. Trans
Alan Sheridan and John Law. Pp. 273.
ISBN 0-674-65760-8. \pounds 23.95 . . . 344--346
W. F. Bynum Book Review: Roger Cooter. Phrenology in
the British Isles: An Annotated,
Historical Bibliography and Index.
Metuchen, N.J. and London: The Scarecrow
Press Inc., 1989. Pp. xviii + 431. ISBN
0-8108-2165-6. \pounds 47.25 . . . . . . 346--347
David S. Katz Book Review: David B. Ruderman.
Kabbalah, Magic and Science: The
Cultural Universe of a Sixteenthcentury
Jewish Physician. Cambridge, Mass, and
London: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Pp. xii + 232. ISBN 0-674-49660-4. No
price given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--348
David Knight Book Review: Penelope Murray (ed).
Genius: The History of an Idea. Oxford:
Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp. ix + 235.
ISBN 0-631-15785-9. \pounds 25.00 . . . 348--349
Craig G. Fraser Book Review: Julian B. Barbour. Absolute
or Relative Motion: A Study from a
Machian Point of View of the Discovery
and Structure of Dynamical Theories.
Volume 1: The Discovery of Dynamics.
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1989. Pp. xv + 746. ISBN 0-521-32467X.
\pounds 60.00, \$95.00} . . . . . . . . 349--350
Laurie M. Brown Book Review: R. Rubinger. An American
Scientist in Early Meiji Japan: The
Autobiographical Notes of Thomas C.
Mendenhall. Honolulu: University of
Hawaii Press, 1989. Pp. xvii + 89. ISBN
0-8248-1177-1. \pounds 8.80 (paperback) 350--351
Edward J. Larson Book Review: Ruth Harris. Murders and
Madness: Medicine, Law, and Society in
the Fin de Si\`ecle. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1989. Pp. x + 366. ISBN
0-19-822991-7. \pounds 30.00 . . . . . . 351--352
Paul K. Hoch Book Review: Spencer R. Weart. Nuclear
Fear: A History of Images. Cambridge,
Mass, and London: Harvard University
Press, 1988. Pp. xx + 535. ISBN
0-674-62835-7. \pounds 23.50 . . . . . . 352--353
Tracy B. Strong Book Review: G. A. J. Rogers & Alan Ryan
(eds). Perspectives on Thomas Hobbes.
Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1988. Pp. x +
209. IBSN 0-19-824998-5. \pounds 22.50 353--355
Roger Ariew Book Review: Galileo Galilei. Sidereus
Nuncius or the Sidereal Messenger,
translated with introduction,
conclusion, and notes by Albert Van
Helden. Chicago and London: University
of Chicago Press, 1989. Pp. xii + 127.
ISBN 0-226-27903-0. \pounds 23.95,
\$34.50 (hardcover). \pounds 6.25,
\$9.25 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356
Jonathan Barry Book Review: Roy Porter. Health for
Sale: Quackery in England 1660--1850.
Manchester and New York: Manchester
University Press, 1989. Pp. xii + 280.
ISBN 0-7190-1903-6. \pounds 19.95 . . . 356--357
Colin Divall Book Review: Nikolaos A. Peppas (ed.).
One Hundred Years of Chemical
Engineering. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1989. Pp. vii + 414. ISBN
0-7923-0145-5. \pounds 59.00, \$99.00} 357--358
Michael Bevan Book Review: Cynthia Eagle Russett.
Sexual Science: The Victorian
Construction of Womanhood. Cambridge,
Mass, and London: Harvard University
Press, 1989. Pp. 245. ISBN
0-674-80290-X. \pounds 15.95, \$25.00} 358--359
David Knight Book Review: Lynn L. Merrill. The
Romance of Victorian Natural History.
New York and Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1989. Pp. xi + 288. ISBN
0-19-505203X. \pounds 24.00 . . . . . . 359--360
Harold J. Cook Book Review: Francisco Sanches. That
Nothing is Known (Quod Nihil Scitur),
with Introduction, notes and
bibliography by Elaine Limbrick, Latin
text, annotations, and translation by
Douglas F. S. Thomson. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. x
+ 310. ISBN 0-521-35077-8. \pounds
35.00, \$49.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--361
Bruce T. Moran Book Reviews: Nicholas H. Clulee. John
Dee's Natural Philosophy: Between
Science and Religion. London and New
York: Routledge, 1988. Pp. xiv + 347.
ISBN 0-415-00625-2. \pounds 40.00. ISBN
0-415-03122-2. \pounds 14.95 . . . . . . 361--363
Joan Lane Book Review: P. J. & R. V. Wallis (with
J. G. L. Burnby & T. D. Whittet).
Eighteenth Century Medics
(subscriptions, licences,
apprenticeships). Newcastle-upon-Tyne:
PHIBB, second edition, 1988. Pp. xx +
690. ISBN 1-871768-00-4. \pounds 80.00 363--364
Stuart Blume Book Review: Daniel M. Fox & Christopher
Lawrence. Photographing Medicine: Images
and Power in Britain and America since
1840. New York, Westport, London:
Greenwood Press, 1988. Pp. 357. ISBN
0-313-23719-0. \pounds 36.50 . . . . . . 364--365
Geoffrey Cantor Book Review: Jed Z. Buchwald.
\booktitleThe Rise of the Wave Theory of
Light: Optical Theory and Experiment in
the Early Nineteenth Century. Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press,
1989. Pp. xxiv + 474. ISBN 0-226-07884-1
(hardcover) and 0-226-07886-8
(paperback). \pounds 59.95, \$86.25
(hardcover) \pounds 19.95, \$28.75
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--367
Catherine Osborne Book Review: David Furley. Cosmic
Problems: Essays on Greek and Roman
Philosophy of Nature. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp.
xiv + 258. ISBN 0-521-33330-X . . . . . 367--368
Trevor H. Leyere Book Review: Ian Wylie. Young Coleridge
and the Philosophers of Nature. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. x + 176. ISBN
0-19-812983-1. \pounds 22.50 . . . . . . 369--370
Peter Morris Book Review: Raymond G. Stokes. Divide
and Prosper: The Heirs of I. G. Farben
under Allied Authority. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1988.
Pp. xiv + 290. ISBN 0-520-06248-5.
\pounds 24.55 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371
Ruth Harris Book Review: Anne Harrington. Medicine,
Mind, and the Double Brain: A Study in
Nineteenth-Century Thought. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp.
xiii + 336. ISBN 0-691-08465-3. \pounds
24.70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--373
D. T. Whiteside Book Review: Wilbur R. Knorr. The
Ancient Tradition of Geometric Problems.
Boston, Basel & Stuttgart: Birkhäuser,
1986. Pp. ix + 381 + 30 (indexes).
\pounds 57.75. ISBN (US)
0-8176-3148-8/Europe 3-7643-3148-8.
\$69.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--375
Paolo Palladino Book Review: Andrew Fenton Cooper.
British Agricultural Policy, 1912--1936.
A Study in Conservative Politics.
Manchester and New York: Manchester
University Press, 1989. Pp. vii + 240.
ISBN 0-7190-2886-8. \pounds 29.95 . . . 375--376
Allan Chapman Book Review: Derek Howse. Nevil
Maskelyne, The Seaman's Astronomer.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1989. Pp. xiv + 280. ISBN 0-521-36261-X.
\pounds 40.00, \$59.50} . . . . . . . . 377--379
Willem D. Hackmann Book Review: Thomas G. Manning. U.S.
Coast Survey vs. Naval Hydrographic
Office. A 19th-century Rivalry in
Science and Politics. Tuscaloosa and
London: The University of Alabama Press,
1988. Pp. 202. ISBN 0-8173-0390-1.
\$21.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--380
David Knight Book Review: Tore Frängsmyr (ed.).
Science in Sweden: the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences 1739--1989. Canton,
Mass: Science History Publications,
1989. Pp. viii + 291. ISBN
0-88135-092-3. \$45.00} . . . . . . . . 380--380
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--383
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Alan Gabbey Pierre Costabel (1912--1989) . . . . . . 386--386
Michael Hunter Alchemy, Magic and Moralism in the
Thought of Robert Boyle . . . . . . . . 387--410
A. Q. Morton Lectures on Natural Philosophy in
London, 1750--1765: S. C. T. Demainbray
(1710--1782) and the 'Inattention' of
His Countrymen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--434
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent A View of the Chemical Revolution
through Contemporary Textbooks:
Lavoisier, Fourcroy and Chaptal . . . . 435--460
A. Rupert Hall Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 461--463
Russell C. Maulitz Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 463--464
David Knight Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 464--465
Simon Schaffer Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 465--467
James Longrigg Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 467--468
Julian Martin Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 469--470
Paul K. Hoch Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 470--472
John Krige Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 472--473
Joella G. Yoder Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 473--474
Christopher Lawrence Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 475--475
Paolo Mancosu Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 475--477
David Knight Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 477--478
Laurie M. Brown Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 478--480
Jonathan Harwood Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 480--481
Vivian Nutton Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 481--482
L. W. B. Brockliss Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 482--483
Sophie Forgan Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 483--484
Roger French Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 484--485
Willem Hackmann Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 485--486
Willem Hackmann Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 487--488
Pietro Nastasi Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 488--489
G. A. J. Rogers Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 490--491
Michael N. Keas Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 491--491
Roger Smith Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 491--493
Karine Chemla Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 493--495
Roger Smith Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 495--496
Roger Smith Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--514
Anonymous Editorial note . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
James Donnelly Industrial recruitment of chemistry
students from English universities: a
revaluation of its early importance . . 3--20
S. P. Fullinwider Darwin faces Kant: a study in
nineteenth-century physiology . . . . . 21--44
Edward J. Larson The rhetoric of Eugenics: expert
authority and the Mental Deficiency Bill 45--60
Stephen Pumfrey History of science in the National
Science Curriculum: a critical review of
resources and their aims . . . . . . . . 61--78
H. Floris Cohen How Christiaan Huygens mathematized
nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--84
Jed Z. Buchwald Energy and Empire . . . . . . . . . . . 85--94
Mikulás Teich A life with enzymes . . . . . . . . . . 95--99
Donald R. Hill Book Review: Elspeth Whitney. Paradise
Restored: The Mechanical Arts from
Antiquity through the Thirteenth
Century. Transactions of the American
Philosophical Society, vol. 80, Part 1.
Philadelphia: The American Philosophical
Society, 1990. Pp. vi + 169. ISBN
0-87169-801-3. \$20.00 (paperback)} . . 101--102
Jan Golinski Book Review: Frederic Lawrence Holmes.
Eighteenth-Century Chemistry as an
Investigative Enterprise. Berkeley:
Office for History of Science and
Technology, University of California at
Berkeley, 1989. Pp. ii + 144. ISBN
0-918102-16-2. \$16.00 (paperback)} . . 102--103
Janet Browne Book Review: Marlene J. Norst. Ferdinand
Bauer: The Australian Natural History
Drawings. Art in Natural History no. 1.
London: British Museum of Natural
History, 1989. Pp. 120. ISBN
0-565-01048-4. No price given . . . . . 103--104
John Harley Warner Book Review: Chandos Michael Brown,
Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young
Republic. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1989. Pp. xvi + 377.
ISBN 0-691-08533-1. \$29.95} . . . . . . 104--105
Frederick B. Churchill Book Review: François Duchesneau.
Gen\`ese de la théorie cellulaire.
Montréal-Paris: Bellarmin-Vrin, 1987. Pp.
387 + 22. ISBN 2-89007-646-6
(Bellarmin); 2-7116-9427-5 (Vrin). Can
\$24.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Susan Leigh Star. Regions
of the Mind: Brain Research and the
Quest for Scientific Certainty.
Stanford: Stanford University Press,
1989. Pp. xviii + 278. ISBN
0-8047-1673-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--109
Dorothy E. Porter Book Review: Anthony Brundage. England's
`Prussian Minister': Edwin Chadwick and
the Politics of Government Growth,
1832--1854. University Park, Pa.:
Pennsylvania State University Press,
1988. Pp. 208, ISBN 0-271-00629-3
\pounds 20.25, \$22.50} . . . . . . . . 109--109
Theodore M. Porter Book Review: Philip Mirowski, More Heat
than Light: Economics as Social Physics,
Physics as Nature's Economics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1989. Pp. xii + 450. ISBN 0-521-35042-5.
\pounds 35.00, \$59.50} . . . . . . . . 110--111
Peter J. T. Morris Book Review: Trevor I. Williams. Robert
Robinson: Chemist Extraordinary. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. viii
+ 201. ISBN 0-19-858180-7 . . . . . . . 111--112
Dorothy E. Porter Book Review: Joan Austoker and Linda
Bryder (eds.). Historical Perspectives
on the Role of the MRC. Essays in the
History of the Medical Research Council
of the United Kingdom and its
Predecessor, the Medical Research
Committee, 1913--1953. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1989. Pp xi + 259.
ISBN 0-19-261651-X. \pounds 30.00 . . . 112--114
Robert Olby Book Review: Diana B. Dutton. Worse than
the Disease. Pitfalls of Medical
Progress. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1988. Pp. xx + 528.
ISBN 0-521-34023-3. \pounds 25, \$29.95} 114--116
John Hendry Book Review: Helge Kragh. Dirac: A
Scientific Biography. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN
0-521-38089-8. \pounds 35 . . . . . . . 116--116
Geoffrey Tweedale Book Review: Brian Oakley and Kenneth
Owen. \booktitleAlvey: Britain's
Strategic Computing Initiative.
Cambridge, Mass, and London: The MIT
Press, 1989. Pp. xv + 337. ISBN
0-262-15038-7. \pounds 24.95 . . . . . . 116--117
Joan Lisa Bromberg Book Review: Robert W. Smith (with
contributions by Paul A. Hanle, Robert
H. Kargon and Joseph N. Tatarewicz). The
Space Telescope: A Study of NASA,
Science, Technology, and Politics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1989. Pp. xviii + 478. ISBN
0-521-26634-3. \pounds 40, \$39.50} . . 118--119
N. A. F. Smith Book Review: Ian McNeil (ed.). An
Encyclopaedia of the History of
Technology. London and New York:
Routledge, 1990. Pp. xv + 1062. ISBN
1-415-01306-2. \pounds 65.00 . . . . . . 119--119
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: Bruce G. Trigger. A History
of Archaeological Thought. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xv
+ 500. ISBN 0-521-33818-2. \pounds 14.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
Helen Watson Book Review: Thomas Crump. The
Anthropology of Numbers. Cambridge
Studies in Social Anthropology, No. 70.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1990. Pp. x + 201. ISBN 0-521-38045-6.
\pounds 30.00, \$49.50} . . . . . . . . 121--121
John Thackray Book Review: K. J. Tinkler (ed.).
History of Geomorphology from Hutton to
Hack. The Binghamton Symposia in
Geomorphology International Series, no.
19. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989. Pp. 344.
ISBN 0-040551138-1. \pounds 40 . . . . . 121--122
J. Bruce Brackenridge Book Review: Annabella Kitson (ed.).
History and Astrology: Clio and Urania
Confer. London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1989.
Pp. ix + 272. ISBN 0-04-440522-7.
\pounds 8.99 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Paul K. Hoch Book Review: Stuart Peterfreund (ed.).
Literature and Science: Theory and
Practice. Boston: Northeastern
University Press, 1990. Pp. vi + 248.
ISBN 1-55553-058-3. \pounds 33.65 . . . 123--124
M. J. S. Hodge Book Review: Gerd Gigerenzer, Zeno
Swijtink, Theodore Porter, Lorraine
Daston, John Beatty and Lorenz Kruger.
The Empire of Chance. How Probability
Changed Science and Everyday Life.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1989. Pp. xviii + 340. ISBN
0-521-33115-3. \pounds 32.50 . . . . . . 124--126
Tim Jordan Book Reviews: Gary Gutting. Michel
Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific
Reason. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1989. Pp. xiii + 306. ISBN
0-521-36619-4, \pounds 27.50, \$39.50
(hardcover); ISBN 0-521-36698-4, \pounds
9.95, \$12.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . 126--127
Stephen Sturdy Book Reviews: Alan Chalmers. Science and
its Fabrication. Milton Keynes: Open
University Press, 1990. Pp. xii + 142.
ISBN 0-335-09318-3, \pounds 22.50
(hardcover); ISBN 0-335-09317-5, \pounds
6.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
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Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
James A. Secord The discovery of a vocation: Darwin's
early geology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--157
Sandra Herbert Charles Darwin as a prospective
geological author . . . . . . . . . . . 159--192
Frank H. T. Rhodes and
Frank H. T. Rhodes Darwin's search for a theory of the
Earth: symmetry, simplicity and
speculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--229
A. Rupert Hall and
A. C. Crombie In memoriam: Jacques Roger (1920--1990) 231--233
Ian Hacking Artificial phenomena . . . . . . . . . . 235--241
John Baines Book Review: Marshall Clagett. Ancient
Egyptian Science: A Source Book. Volume
1: Knowledge and Order (in two tomes).
Philadelphia: American Philosophical
Society, 1989. Pp. xv + 863. ISBN
0-87169-184-1. \$60.00} . . . . . . . . 243--245
Donald R. Hill Book Review: Brian Cotterell and Johan
Kamminga. Mechanics of Pre-Industrial
Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1990. Pp. xv + 325.
ISBN 0-521-34194-9. \pounds 30.00,
\$49.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
Harry M. Hine Book Review: Nikolaus Gross. Senecas
Naturales Quaestiones: Komposition,
naturphilosophische Aussagen und ihre
Quellen. Palingenesia: Monographien und
Texte zur klassischen
Altertumswissenschaft, 27. Stuttgart:
Franz Steiner, 1989. Pp. viii + 335.
ISBN 3-515-05385-9. DM 68 . . . . . . . 246--247
Lawrence M. Principe Book Review: Michela Pereira. The
Alchemical Corpus Attributed to Raymond
Lull. London: Warburg Institute, 1989.
Pp. 114. ISBN 0-85481-078-1. \pounds 8 247--247
E. J. Alton Book Review: Armin Gerl.
Trigonometrisch-astronomisches Rechnen
kurz vor Copernicus: Der Briefwechsel
Regiomontanus-Bianchini. Stuttgart:
Franz Steiner, 1989. Pp. 357. ISBN
3-515-05373-5. DM 70 . . . . . . . . . . 247--248
Peter Elmer Book Review: Julian Roberts and Andrew
G. Watson (eds.). John Dee's Library
Catalogue. London: The Bibliographical
Society, 1990. Pp. viii + 253. ISBN
0-19-721795-8. \pounds 60.00 . . . . . . 248--249
Glancarlo Nonnoi Book Review: Richard S. Westfall. Essays
on the Trial of Galileo. Vatican City:
Specola Vaticana, and Notre Dame Press,
1989. Pp. xi + 103. ISBN 0-268-00923-6.
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Lotte Mulligan Book Review: Sarah Hutton (ed.). Henry
More (1614--1687): Tercentenary Studies,
with a biography and bibliography by
Robert Crocker. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989.
Pp. xi + 254. ISBN 0-7923-0095-5.
\$95.00, Dfl. 185.00} . . . . . . . . . 250--252
Stephen Pumfrey Book Review: Michael Hunter.
Establishing the New Science: The
Experience of the Early Royal Society.
Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press,
1989. Pp. xiv + 382. ISBN 0-85115-506-5.
\pounds 45.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--254
Peter Murray Jones Book Review: William Lefanu. Nehemiah
Grew: A Study and Bibliography of his
Writings. Winchester: St Paul's
Bibliographies, 1990. Pp. xvii + 182.
ISBN 0-906795-43-5. \pounds 42.00 . . . 255--255
Andrew Pyle Book Review: Mirko D. Grmek. La
premi\`ere révolution biologique:
Reflexions sur la physiologic et la
medecine du xvii si\`ecle. Paris:
Editions Payot, 1990. Pp. 358. ISBN
2-228-88277-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--257
Geoffrey Cantor Book Review: Margaret Atherton.
Berkeley's Revolution in Vision. Ithaca
and London: Cornell University Press,
1990. Pp. xii + 249. ISBN 0-8014-2358-9.
S29.90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Saul Jarcho (ed.). Clinical
Consultations and Letters by Ippolito
Francesco Albertini, Francesco Torti,
and Other Physicians. Canton, Mass.:
Science History Publications, 1989. Pp.
lxix + 356. ISBN 0-88135-089-3. \$24.95} 258--259
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent Book Review: Töre Frängsmyr, J. L.
Heilbron and Robin E. Rider (eds.). The
Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth
Century. Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford:
University of California Press, 1990.
Pp. vii + 411. ISBN 0-520-07022-4.
\$35.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--260
Gerlof Verwey Book Review: Gunter Mann and Franz
Dumont (eds.). Die Natur des Menschen:
Probleme der Physischen Anthropologie
und Rassenkunde (1750--1850). Stuttgart &
New York: Gustav Fischer, 1990. Pp. 457.
ISBN 3-437-11271-6. DM 128 . . . . . . . 260--261
Geoffrey Tweedale Book Review: Michael Lindgren. Glory and
Failure: The Difference Engines of
Johann Müller, Charles Babbage and Georg
and Edvard Scheutz, translated by Craig
C. McKay. Cambridge, Mass, and London:
MIT Press, 1990. Pp. 414. ISBN
0-262-12146-8. \pounds 40.50 . . . . . . 261--263
G. Van Heteren Book Review: Richard L. Kremer (ed.).
Letters of Hermann von Helmholtz to his
wife 1847--1859 (Boethius-Texte und
Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der exakten
Wissenschaften, Bd XXIII). Stuttgart:
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1990 . . . . . . . 263--264
Pierre Crepel Book Review: Paola Dessi. L'ordine e il
caso: Discussione epistemologiche e
logiche sulla probabilit\`a de Laplace a
Pierce. Bologna: II Mulino, 1989. Pp.
239. ISBN 88-15-02088-8. L. 26,000 . . . 264--265
T. Koetsier Book Review: Erhard Scholz. Symmetrie,
Gruppe, Dualität: Zur Beziehung zwischen
theoretischer Mathematik und Anwendungen
in Kristallographie und Baustatik des 19
Jahrhunderts. Basel, Boston, Berlin:
Birkhäuser, 1989. Pp. 406. ISBN
3-7643-1974-7. SFr. 84.00 . . . . . . . 265--266
Roger Smith Book Review: Peter J. Bowler. The
Invention of Progress: The Victorians
and the Past. Oxford: Basil Blackwell,
1989. Pp. xi + 231. ISBN 0-631-16107-4.
\pounds 25.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--267
Crosbie Smith Book Review: Robert A. Stafford.
Scientist of Empire: Sir Roderick
Murchison, Scientific Exploration and
Victorian Imperialism. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp.
xii + 293. ISBN 0-521-33537-X. \pounds
30.00, \$49.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--269
Christopher Lawrence Book Reviews: Shirley Roberts. Sir James
Paget: The Rise of Clinical Surgery.
London: Royal Society of Medicine
Services Limited, 1989. Pp. xii + 223.
ISBN 0-905958-91-8. \pounds 12.95.
Selwyn Taylor. Robert Graves: The Golden
Years of Irish Medicine. London: Royal
Society of Medicine Services Limited,
1989. Pp. x + 160. ISBN 0-905958-98-5.
\pounds 12.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--269
A. Rupert Hall Book Review: Peter Rowlands. Oliver
Lodge and the Liverpool Physical
Society, Liverpool Historical Studies,
4. Liverpool: Liverpool University
Press, 1990. ISBN 0-85323-027-7. \pounds
15.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--270
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Mary R. S. Creese British women of the nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries who
contributed to research in the chemical
sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--305
Graeme Gooday `Nature' in the laboratory:
domestication and discipline with the
microscope in Victorian life science . . 307--341
Brian Vickers A scholarly tradition continued . . . . 343--351
Paula Findlen From Aldrovandi to Algarotti: the
contours of science in early modern
Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--360
Dorinda Outram Fat, gorillas and misogyny: women's
history in science . . . . . . . . . . . 361--367
N. Kollerstrom Newton's two ``moon-tests'' . . . . . . 369--372
Donald Hill Book Review: Charles Michael Stanton.
Higher Learning in Islam: The Classical
Period A.D. 700-1300. Savage, Maryland:
Rowman & Littlefield, 1990. Pp. xiii +
205. ISBN 0-8476-7637-4. \$42.50} . . . 373--374
Martha Baldwin Book Review: Raffaella Castagnola (ed.)
I Guicciardini e le scienze occulte:
L'oroscopo di Francesco Guicciardini,
lettere di alchimia, astrologia e cabala
a Luigi Guicciardini. Istituto Nazionale
di Studi sul Rinascimento, Studi e Testi
XIX. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore,
1990. Pp. vii+ 397. ISBN 88-222-3761-7.
L. 85000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--375
Graham Hollister-Short Book Review: Georg Agricola. Bermannus
(Le Mineur): Un dialogue sur les mines,
introduction, translation and commentary
by Robert Halleux and Albert Yans.
Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1990. Pp. xxx
+ 185. ISBN 2-251-34504-3 . . . . . . . 375--376
J. V. Field Book Review: Michael J. Crowe. Theories
of the World from Antiquity to the
Copernican Revolution. New York: Dover
Publications, 1990. Pp. xii + 229. ISBN
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M. E. W. Williams Book Review: R. Taton and C. Wilson
(eds.). Planetary Astronomy from the
Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics.
Part A: Tycho Brahe to Newton. The
General History of Astronomy, Vol. 2.
General Editor, Michael Hoskin.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1989. Pp. X + 274 + xiv. ISBN
0-521-24254-1. \pounds 27.50, \$49.50} 377--379
Giancarlo Nonnoi Book Review: Trevor H. Leyere and
William R. Shea (eds.). Nature,
Experiment and the Sciences, Essays on
Galileo and the History of Science in
Honour of Stillman Drake. Dordrecht:
Kluwer, 1990. Pp. xv + 349. ISBN
0-7923-0420-9. Dfl. 180, \pounds 60.00 379--381
A. Rupert Hall Book Review: Mordechai Feingold (ed.).
Before Newton: The Life and Times of
Isaac Barrow. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1990. Pp. xii + 380.
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Stephen Pumfrey Book Review: Michael Hunter and Simon
Schaffer (eds.). Robert Hooke. New
Studies. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The
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0-85115-523-5. \pounds 39.50 . . . . . . 382--384
Joan Steigerwald Book Review: Andrew Cunningham and
Nicholas Jardine (eds.). Romanticism and
the Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1990. Pp. xxii + 345.
ISBN 0-521-35602-4, \pounds 40.00,
\$59.50 (hardcover); 0-521-35685-7,
\pounds 15.00, \$19.95 (paperback) . . . 384--386
Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: David Gooding. Experiment
and the Making of Meaning: Human Agency
in Scientific Observation and
Experiment. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990. Pp.
xviii + 310. ISBN 0-7923-0719-4. \pounds
60.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--388
Giuliano Pancaldi Book Review: Grorgio Lanaro. II
positivismo tra scienza e religione:
Studi sulla fortuna di Comte in Gran
Bretagna Milan: Franco Angeli Libri,
1990. Pp. 173. ISBN 88-204-6373-3. L.
24000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--389
Paolo Palladino Book Review: Eugene Cittadino. Nature as
the Laboratory: Darwinian Plant Ecology
in the German Empire, 1880--1990.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1990. Pp. xi + 199. ISBN 0-521-34045-4.
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Sophie Forgan Book Review: Rosalind Williams. Notes on
the Underground: An Essay on Technology,
Society, and the Imagination. Cambridge,
Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1990. Pp.
xi + 265. ISBN 0-262-23145-X. \pounds
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David A. E. Spalding Book Review: Charles H. Sternberg. The
Life of a Fossil Hunter. Introduction by
Rudolf A. Raff. Bloomington and Indiana:
University of Indiana Press, 1990. Pp.
xxx + 286. ISBN 0-253-35549-4, \$29.95
(hardcover); 0-253-20571-9, \$12.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--394
Homer E. Le Grand Book Review: John A. Stewart. Drifting
Continents and Colliding Paradigms:
Perspectives on the Geoscience
Revolution. Bloomington and
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press,
1990. Pp. xiv + 285. ISBN 0-253-35405-6.
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Anonymous Editorial: Archive collections . . . . . 401--403
Laurie M. Brown and
Helmut Rechenberg The development of the vector meson
theory in Britain and Japan (1937--1938) 405--433
Geoffrey Tweedale Geology and industrial consultancy: Sir
William Boyd Dawkins (1837--1929) and
the Kent Coalfield . . . . . . . . . . . 435--451
Menachem Kellner On the status of the astronomy and
physics in Maimonides' \booktitleMishneh
Torah and \booktitleGuide of the
Perplexed: A chapter in the history of
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--463
Frederick S. Litten Einstein and the Noulens Affair . . . . 465--467
Janet Browne Book Review: Eric L. Mills. Biological
Oceanography: An Early History,
1870--1960. Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 1989. Pp. xvii + 378. ISBN
0-8014-2340-6. \$47.50} . . . . . . . . 469--471
Paolo Palladino Book Review: Anna Bramwell. Ecology in
the Twentieth Century: A History. New
Haven and London: Yale University Press,
1989. Pp. xii + 292. ISBN 0-300-04343-0,
\pounds 27.50 (hardcover); 0-300-04521-2
\pounds 9.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . . 471--473
Frank Greenaway Book Review: Peter J. T. Morris. The
American Synthetic Rubber Research
Program. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1989. Pp. xii + 191.
ISBN 0-8122-8205-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 473--474
Colin A. Russell Book Review: H. Benninga. A History of
Lactic Acid Making: A Chapter in the
History of Biotechnology. Dordrecht,
Boston and London: Kluwer, 1990. Pp. xxi
+ 478. Illus. ISBN 0-7923-0625-2.
\pounds 53.00, Dfl. 150.00 . . . . . . . 474--475
John Krige Book Review: Finn Aaserud. Redirecting
Science: Niels Bohr, Philanthropy and
the Rise of Nuclear Physics. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp.
xiii + 356. ISBN 0-521-35366-1. \pounds
35.00, \$47.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--476
David Edgerton Book Reviews: Atomic Energy for Military
Purposes, with a new foreword by Philip
Morrison and an essay by Henry DeWolf
Smyth. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 1990. Pp. xvi + 324. ISBN
0-8047-1721-4, \$39.50 (hardcover);
0-8047-1722-2, \$12.95 (paperback).
Herbert F. York. The Advisors:
Oppenheimer, Teller and the Superbomb,
with a historical essay by Hans A.
Bethe. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 1989. Pp. xiv + 201. ISBN
0-8047-1713-3, \$32.50 (hardcover);
0-8047-1714-1, \$8.95 (paperback) . . . 476--477
Helge Kragh Book Review: Laurie M. Brown, Max
Dresden and Lillian Hoddeson (eds.).
Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the
1950s. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1989. Pp. xxxii + 734. ISBN
0-521-30984-0. \pounds 40.00, \$59.50} 477--478
Helge Kragh Book Review: Bruno Rossi. Moments in the
Life of a Scientist. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xv
+ 181. ISBN 0-521-36439-6. \pounds
27.50, \$44.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--479
Martin Campbell-Kelly Book Review: John Hendry. Innovating for
Failure: Government Policy and the Early
British Computer Industry. Cambridge,
Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1990. Pp.
xviii + 240. ISBN 0-262-08187-3. \pounds
31.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--480
Mari E. W. Williams Book Review: Martin Campbell-Kelly. ICL:
A Business and Technical History.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. xii +
409. ISBN 0-19-853918-5. \pounds 30.00 480--481
Geoffrey Tweedale Book Review: Harry M. Collins.
Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and
Intelligent Machines. Cambridge, Mass,
and London: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. xiii +
266. ISN 0-262-13168-X. \pounds 17.95 481--482
Margaret Schabas Book Reviews: Thomas Robert Malthus. An
Essay on the Principle of Population,
edited by Patricia James, 2 vols.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
for the Royal Economic Society, 1990.
Pp. xvi + 446; vi + 397. ISBN
0-521-32361-4. L.75, \$120.00. Thomas
Robert Malthus. Principles of Political
Economy, variorum edition, edited by
John Pullen, 2 vols. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press for the Royal
Economic Society, 1989. Pp. lxix + vi +
601; 507. ISBN 0-521-24775-6. L. 75.00,
\$120.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--484
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: Bruna Ingrao and Giorgio
Israel. The Invisible Hand: Economic
Equilibrium in the History of Science,
translated by Ian McGilvray. Cambridge,
Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1990. Pp.
xiii + 491. ISBN 0-262-09028-7. \pounds
42.75 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--485
Bill Gerrard Book Review: Mary S. Morgan. The History
of Econometric Ideas. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xv
+ 296. ISBN 0-521-37398-0. \pounds
25.00, \$44.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--486
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: Margaret Schabas. A World
Ruled by Number: William Stanley Jevons
and the Rise of Mathematical Economics.
Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1990. Pp. xii + 192. ISBN 0-691-08543-9.
\$29.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--487
Andrew Wear Book Review: G. R. Dunstan (ed.). The
Human Embryo. Aristotle and the Arabic
and European Traditions. Exeter:
University of Exeter Press, 1990. Pp. xi
+ 235. ISBN 0-85989-340-5. \pounds 25.00 487--488
William Schupbach Book Review: Gavin D. R. Bridson and
James J. White. Plant, Animal and
Anatomical Illustration in Art and
Science: A Bibliographical Guide from
the 16th Century to the Present Day.
Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies in
association with Hunt Institute for
Botanical Documentation, 1990. Pp. xxxix
+ 450. ISBN 0-906795-81-8. \pounds 75.00 488--489
Penelope Gouk Book Review: C. F. C. Beeson,
Clockmaking in Oxfordshire 1400--1850,
3rd edn, with a new introduction and
index by A. V. Simcock. Oxford: Museum
of the History of Science, 1989. Pp. vii
+ 212. ISBN 0-903364-06-9. \pounds 22.00 489--490
D. J. Bryden Book Review: C. Blondel, F. Parot, A.
Turner and M. Williams. Studies in the
History of Scientific Instruments,
papers presented at the 7th Symposium of
the Scientific Instruments Commission of
the Union Internationale d'Histoire des
Sciences, Paris 15-19 September 1987.
London: Rogers Turner Books Ltd; for the
Centre de Recherche en Histoire des
Sciences et des Techniques de la Cité des
Sciences et de l'Industrie, 1989. Pp.
290. ISBN 0-9502557-8-5. \pounds 35.00 490--491
David Goodman Book Reviews: José M. López Piñero. Los
origines en España de los Estudios sobre
la Salud Publica. Colección Textos
Clásicos Españoles de la Salud Pública, No.
1. Madrid: Ministerio de Sanidad y
Consumo, 1989. Pp. 245. ISBN
84-7670-164-0 (hardcover); 74-7670-165-9
(paperback). José Luis Fresquet Febrer.
Francisco Méndez Alvaro (1806--1883) y
las ideas Sanitarias del Liberalismo
Moderado. Colección Textos Clásicos
Españoles de la Salud Publica, No. 14.
Madrid: Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo,
1990. Pp. 212. ISBN 84-7670-217-5
(hardcover); 84-7670-216-7 (paperback).
Antonio M. Rey González. Estudios
médicosociales sobre marginados en la
España del siglo XIX. Colección Textos
Clásicos Españoles de la Salud Pública, No.
17. Madrid: Ministerio de Sanidad y
Consumo, 1990. Pp. 237. ISBN
84-7670-204-3 (hardcover); 84-7670-205-1
(paperback). Nicolás Monardes. La
historia medicinal de las cosas que se
traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales
(1565--1574). Madrid: Ministerio de
Sanidad y Consumo, 1989. Pp. 291. ISBN
84-7670-191-8. No prices given . . . . . 491--493
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: Nicolaas A. Rupke (ed.).
Science, Politics and the Public Good:
Essays in Honour of Margaret Gowing.
London: Macmillan, 1988. Pp. xiv + 260.
ISBN 0-333-44159-1. \pounds 33.00 . . . 493--494
Robert Olby Book Review: Georges Canguilhem.
Ideology and Rationality in the History
of the Life Sciences, translated by
Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT
Press, 1988, Pp. xi + 160. ISBN
0-262-03137-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--496
Deborah Brunton Book Review: Richard Davenport-Hines.
Sex, Death and Punishment: Attitudes to
Sex and Sexuality in Britain since the
Renaissance. London: Collins, 1990. Pp.
xv + 439. ISBN 0-00-217956-3. \pounds 20 496--497
Jeremy Gray Book Review: John Earman. World Enough
and Space-Time: Absolute versus
Relational Theories of Space and Time.
Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press,
1990. Pp. xiv + 223. ISBN 0-262-05040-4.
\pounds 22.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--497
Alison M. Turtle Book Review: J. C. Smith (ed.).
Historical Foundations of Cognitive
Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990. Pp.
xxiii + 303. ISBN 0-7923-045109 . . . . 498--499
Michael Warboys Book Review: David I. Grove. A History
of Human Helminthology. Wallingford,
Oxon: CAB International, 1990. Pp. viii
+ 848. ISBN 0-85198-689-7. \pounds
55.00, \$96.25} . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--499
Nicholas Oddy Book Review: Henry Petroski. The Pencil
--- a History. London: Faber and Faber,
1990. Pp. xi + 434. ISBN 0-571-16182-0.
\pounds 14.99 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--501
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Anonymous Index of authors . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--509
Anonymous Report of Council for the year
1990--1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--523
Anonymous BJH volume 24 issue 4 Cover and Back
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Anthony S. Travis and
Willem J. Hornix and
Robert Bud and
John J. Beer Organic Chemistry and High Technology,
1850--1950 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Anthony S. Travis and
Willem J. Hornix and
Robert Bud and
Johan Schot Technology in decline: a search for
useful concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--26
Anthony S. Travis Science's powerful companion: A. W.
Hofmann's investigation of aniline red
and its derivatives . . . . . . . . . . 27--44
Anthony S. Travis and
Willem J. Hornix and
Robert Bud and
Henk van den Belt Why monopoly failed: the rise and fall
of Société La Fuchsine . . . . . . . . . . 45--63
Anthony S. Travis and
Willem J. Hornix and
Robert Bud and
Willem J. Hornix From process to plant: innovation in the
early artificial dye industry . . . . . 65--90
Anthony S. Travis and
Willem J. Hornix and
Robert Bud and
Ernst Homburg The emergence of research laboratories
in the dyestuffs industry, 1870--1900 91--111
Anthony S. Travis and
Willem J. Hornix and
Robert Bud and
Peter Reed The British chemical industry and the
indigo trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--125
Anthony S. Travis and
Willem J. Hornix and
Robert Bud and
Robert Bud The zymotechnic roots of biotechnology 127--144
Anthony S. Travis and
Willem J. Hornix and
Robert Bud and
Peter J. T. Morris The technology-science interaction:
Walter Reppe and cyclooctatetraene
chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--167
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Peter J. T. Morris Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--v
R. G. W. Anderson `What is technology?': education through
museums in the mid-nineteenth century 169--184
Chuang Liu Einstein and relativistic thermodynamics
in 1952: a historical and critical study
of a strange episode in the history of
modern physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--206
Adri De La Bruheze Radiological weapons and radioactive
waste in the United States: insiders'
and outsiders' views, 1941---1955 . . . 207--227
Frank A. J. L. James The tales of Benjamin Abbott: a source
for the early life of Michael Faraday 229--240
Jack Morrell Geological thrusting . . . . . . . . . . 241--246
Andy Pickering The Rad Lab and the world . . . . . . . 247--251
A. M. Duncan Obituary: Eric John Aiton (1923--1991) 253--254
Edward Grant Obituary: Victor E. Thoren (1935--1991) 255--257
David Bostock Book Review: Robert Wardy. The Chain of
Change: A Study of Aristotle's Physics
VII. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1990. Pp. x + 345. ISBN
0-521-37327-1. \pounds 35.00, \$59.50} 259--263
Cornelius O'Boyle Book Review: Nancy G. Siraisi. Medieval
and Early Renaissance Medicine: An
Introduction to Knowledge and Practice.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 250. ISBN
0-226-76129-0, \pounds 29.95
(hardcover); 0-226-76130-4, \pounds 8.75
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--264
Willem Hackmann Book Review: A. Chapman. Dividing the
Circle. The Development of Critical
Angular Measurement in Astronomy
1500--1650. New York, London, Toronto,
Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore: Ellis Horwood
Library of Space Science and Space
Technology, 1990. Pp. 209. ISBN
0-13-217555-X. \pounds 15.95 . . . . . . 264--265
Andrew Pyle Book Review: Annie Bitbol-Hespéri\`es. Le
Principe de vie chez Descartes. Paris:
Libraire Philosophique J. Vrin, 1990.
Pp. 236. ISBN 2-7116-1034-9 . . . . . . 265--266
Desmond M. Clarke Book Review: Emily R. Grosholz.
Cartesian Method and the Problem of
Reduction. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1991. Pp. ix + 161. ISBN 0-19-824250-6.
\pounds 22.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--267
Sarah Hutton Book Review: A. Rupert Hall. Henry More:
Magic, Religion and Experiment. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1990. Pp. xii + 304. ISBN
0-631-17295-5. \pounds 30.00 . . . . . . 267--269
John Henry Book Review: I. Bernard Cohen (ed.).
Puritanism and the Rise of Modern
Science: The Merton Thesis, edited with
the assistance of K. E. Duffin and
Stuart Strickland. New Brunswick and
London: Rutgers University Press, 1990.
Pp. xiii + 402. ISBN 0-8135-1529-7,
\$45.00 (hardcover); 0-8135-1530-0,
\$17.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . 269--270
J. Bruce Brackenridge Book Review: Peter Rowlands. Newton and
the Concept of Mass-Energy. Liverpool
Historical Essays, 4. Liverpool:
Liverpool University Press, 1990. Pp. ii
+ 34. ISBN 0-85323-187-7. \pounds 5.00 270--271
Willem Hackmann Book Review: C. S. Maffioli and L. C.
Palm (eds.). Italian Scientists in the
Low Countries in the 17th and 18th
Centuries. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1989. Pp.
334. ISBN 90-5183-121-8. Dfl. 110,
\$55.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272
G. van Heteren Book Review: Échanges d'influences
scientifiques et techniques entre pays
Européens de 1780 \`a 1830. Acres du
114\`eme Congr\`es National des Sociétés
Savantes (Paris 3-9 Avril 1989).
Colloques du CTHS, 5. Paris: Editions du
CTHS. 1990. Pp. 171. ISBN 2-7355-0208-2 272--274
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Richard L. Kremer. The
Thermodynamics of Life and Experimental
Physiology, 1770--1880. New York and
London: Garland Publishing, 1990. Pp.
xii + 512. ISBN 0-8240-0039-0. \$50.00} 274--275
M. J. S. Hodge Book Review: Adrian Desmond. The
Politics of Evolution. Morphology,
Medicine, and Reform in Radical London.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 1989. Pp. x + 503. ISBN
0-226-14346-5. \pounds 27.95 . . . . . . 275--278
Crosbie Smith Book Review: David B. Wilson (ed.). The
Correspondence Between Sir George
Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thomson,
Baron Kelvin of Largs. Volume 1:
1846--1869; Volume 2: 1870--1901.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1990. Pp. lvi + ix + 783. ISBN
0-521-32831-4. \pounds 125.00, \$195.00} 278--279
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Christopher Hamlin. A
Science of Impurity: Water Analysis in
Nineteenth Century Britain. Bristol:
Adam Hilger, 1990. Pp. xiii + 342. ISBN
0-7503-0042-6. \pounds 45.00 . . . . . . 279--280
Roger Smith Book Review: Lucille B. Ritvo. Darwin's
Influence on Freud: A Tale of Two
Sciences. New Haven and London: Yale
University Press, 1990. pp. xii + 267.
ISBN 0-300-04131-4. \pounds 19.95,
\$35.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--281
Olga Amsterdamska Book Review: Ilana Löwy (ed.). The Polish
School of Philosophy of Medicine: From
Tytus Chalubinski (1820--1889) to Ludwik
Fleck (1896--1961). Compiled, translated
and with introductions by the editor.
Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990. Pp. viii + 287.
ISBN 0-7923-0958-8. \pounds 44.00,
\$78.00, Dfl. 130.00} . . . . . . . . . 281--282
Willem Hackmann Book Review: G. L'E. Turner. The Great
Age of the Microscope. The Collection of
the Royal Microscopical Society through
150 years. Bristol and New York: Adam
Hilger, 1989. Pp. ix + 379. ISBN
0-85274-029-4. \pounds 39.50 . . . . . . 282--284
Patrick Moore Book Reviews: J. A. Bennett. Church,
State and Astronomy in Ireland: 200
Years of Armagh Observatory. Armagh and
Belfast: Armagh Observatory in
association with The Institute of Irish
Studies, The Queen's University of
Belfast, 1990. Pp. vi + 277. ISBN
(hardcover) 0-9504478-1-1 (Armagh
Observatory); 0-85389-350-0 (Queen's
University). ISBN (paperback)
0-9504478-2-X (Armagh Observatory);
0-85389-351-9 (Queen's University).
\pounds 17.95 (hardcover) . . . . . . . 284--284
Paul F. Cranefield Book Review: E. B. Adams. In Search of
Truth: A Portrait of Don Craib. London:
Royal Society of Medicine Services,
1989. Pp. xii + 123, illus. ISBN
1-85315-119-X, \pounds 12.95
(hardcover); 1-85315-118-1, \pounds 7.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--286
Jeff Hughes Book Review: J. W. Boag, P. W. Rubinin
and D. Shoenberg (eds.). Kapitza in
Cambridge and Moscow: Life and Letters
of a Russian Physicist. Amsterdam:
Elsevier Science, 1990. Pp. xvi + 429,
illus. ISBN 0-444-98753-3, \$77.00, Dfl.
150.00 (hardcover); 0-444-98749-5;
\$38.00, Dfl. 75.00 (paperback) . . . . 286--287
Helge Kragh Book Review: Kameshwar C. Wall. Chandra:
A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1991. Pp. x + 341, illust. ISBN
0-226-87054-5. \$34.50} . . . . . . . . 287--288
Paul K. Hoch Book Review: Michael Eckert and Helmut
Schubert. Crystals, Electrons,
Transistors: From Scholar's Study to
Industrial Research, translated by
Thomas Hughes. New York: American
Institute of Physics, 1990. Pp. xxii +
241. ISBN 0-88318-622-5, \pounds 45
(hardcover); 0-88318-719-1, \pounds 15
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--289
Mark Harrison Book Review: Deepak Kumar (ed.). Science
and Empire: Essays in Indian Context
(1700--1947). Delhi: Anamika Prakashan,
1991. Pp. xiv + 205. ISBN 81-85150-19-2.
\pounds 20.00, \$30.00, Rs. 200} . . . . 289--290
Elspeth Crawford Book Review: John Roche (ed.).
Physicists Look Back: Studies in the
History of Physics. Bristol and New
York: Adam Hilger, 1990. Pp. xii + 393.
ISBN 0-85274-001-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 290--291
Marie Boas Hall Book Review: Tore Frängsmyr (ed.).
Solomon's House Revisited: The
Organization and Institutionalization of
Science. Canton, Mass.: Science History
Publications (USA), 1990. Pp. xiii +
350. ISBN 0-88135-066-4. \$49.50 (USA &
Canada), \$54.00 (elsewhere) . . . . . . 291--292
Gillian Hudson Book Review: Marilyn Bailie Ogilvie.
Women in Science: Antiquity through the
Nineteenth Century. A Biographical
Dictionary with Annotated Bibliography.
Cambridge, Mass, and London: The MIT
Press, 1988. Pp. xiii + 254. ISBN
0-262-15031-X. \pounds 10.95 . . . . . . 292--294
Wesley Shrum Book Review: Robert Lambourne, Michael
Shallis and Michael Shortland. Close
Encounters? Science and Science Fiction.
Bristol and New York: Adam Hilger, 1990.
Pp. xiii + 184. ISBN 0-85274-141-3. L.
12.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--294
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A. M. Duncan Eric John Aiton (1923--1991) . . . . . . 253--254
Mark Harrison Tropical medicine in nineteenth-century
India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--318
Ben Marsden Engineering science in Glasgow: economy,
efficiency and measurement as prime
movers in the differentiation of an
academic discipline . . . . . . . . . . 319--346
Nick Kollerstrom Thomas Simpson and ``Newton's method of
approximation'': an enduring myth . . . 347--354
David B. Ruderman Book Review: Barry B. Levy. Planets,
Potions and Parchments: Scientific
Hebraica from the Dead Sea Scrolls to
the Eighteenth Century. Montreal and
Kingston: McGill-Queen's University
Press, 1990. Pp. xii + 140, illus. ISBN
0-7735-0793-0, \pounds 47.45
(hardcover); 0-7735-0791-4, \pounds
28.45 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 355--357
Jonathan Barnes Book Review: G. E. R. Lloyd. Methods and
Problems in Greek Science: Selected
Papers. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1991. Pp. xiv + 457. ISBN
0-521-37419-7. \pounds 45.00, \$59.50} 357--358
A. Mark Smith Book Review: A. I. Sabra. The Optics of
Ibn al-Haytham. Books I, II, II: On
Direct Vision. With Translation,
Introduction, Commentary, Glossaries.
London: The Warburg Institute, 1989. Pp.
735 (in two vols.). ISBN 0-85481-072-2 358--359
Penelope Gouk Book Review: A. C. Crombie. Science,
Optics and Music in Medieval and Early
Modern Thought. London and Ronceverte:
The Hambledon Press, 1990. Pp. xii +
474, illus. ISBN 0-907628-79-6. \pounds
37.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--360
Ole Peter Grell Book Reviews: Bruce T. Moran. The
Alchemical World of the German Court:
Occult Philosophy and Chemical Medicine
in the Circle of Moritz of Hessen
(1572--1632). Sudhoff's Archiv, Beiheft
29. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag
1991. Pp. 193. ISBN 3-515-05369-7. DM
58. Bruce T. Moran. Chemical Pharmacy
Enters the University: Johannes Hartmann
and the Didactic Care of Chymiatria in
the Early Seventeenth Century. Madison:
American Institute for the History of
Pharmacy, 1991. Pp. vii + 88. ISBN
0-931292-24-7, \$16.50 (hardcover);
0-931292-23-9, \$7.50 (paperback) . . . 360--361
Paula Findlen Book Review: Giuliana Mocchi. Idea,
mente, specie. Platonismo e scienza in
Johannes Marcus Marci (1595--1667).
Soveria Manelli: Rubbettino Editore,
1990. Pp. 314. L.30,000 . . . . . . . . 361--362
Michael Hunter Book Review: Alice Stroup. A Company of
Scientists: Botany, Patronage, and
Community at the Seventeenth-Century
Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences.
Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1990. Pp. xv + 387, illus.
\$49.95. Alice Stroup. Royal Funding of
the Parisian Academic des Sciences
during the 1690s. Transactions of the
American Philosophical Society, 77.
Philadelphia: American Philosophical
Society, 1987. Pp. xvi + 167. ISBN
0-87169-774-2. \$15.00 . . . . . . . . . 362--364
J. Bruce Brackenridge Book Review: Isaac Newton. The
Preliminary Manuscripts for Isaac
Newton's 1687 Principia 1684--1686.
Facsimilies of the Original Autographs,
now in Cambridge University Library,
with an Introduction by D. T. Whiteside.
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1989. Pp. xxi + 246. ISBN 0-521-33499-3.
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Don McNally Book Review: Menachem Fisch and Simon
Schaffer (eds.). William Whewell: A
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Richard Yeo Book Review: Menachem Fisch. William
Whewell, Philosopher of Science. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1991. ISBN
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Peter J. Bowler Book Reviews: Charles Lyell. Principles
of Geology, first edition, vol. I, with
a new Introduction by Martin J. S.
Rudwick. Chicago and London: University
of Chicago Press, 1990. Pp. [lviii] + xv
+ 511. ISBN 0-226-49794-1. \pounds
14.25, \$20.75 (paperback, also
available in hardback). Vol. II. Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press,
1991. Pp. xii + 330. ISBN 0-226-49797-6.
\pounds 12.75, \$18.25. Vol. III, with a
new Bibliography compiled by Martin J.
S. Rudwick. Chicago and London:
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xxvi + 398 + 160. ISBN 0-226-49798-4.
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J. Z. Buchwald Book Review: P. M. Harman (ed.).
\booktitleThe Scientific Letters and
Papers of James Clerk Maxwell. Volume I:
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Kurt Danziger Book Review: Ian Hacking. The Taming of
Chance. Cambridge: Cambridge University
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0-521-38014-6, \pounds 27.50, \$44.50
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9.95, \$14.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . 371--372
Peter M. Neumann Book Review: Hourya Sinaceur. Corps et
mod\`eles. Essai sur l'histoire de
l'alg\`ebre réelle. J. Vrin: Paris, 1991.
Pp. 496. ISBN 2-7116-1038-1. 198 F . . . 372--372
Antonio Clericuzio Book Review: F. Abbri and F. Crispini
(eds.). Atti del IIIe Convegno Nazionale
di Storia e Fondamenti della Chimica.
Cosenza: Brenner editore, 1991. Pp. 402.
L. 35,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--373
Peter Morris Book Review: John W. Servos. Physical
Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling. The
Making of a Science in America.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton
University Press, 1990. Pp. 402 + xxiii 373--374
Alex Campbell Book Review: Fred Aftalion. A History of
the International Chemical Industry,
translated by Otto T. Benfey.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1991. Pp. xxiv + 411. ISBN
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Peter Morris Book Review: David H. Whiffen. The Royal
Society of Chemistry: The First 150
Years. London: Royal Society of
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A. R. Butler Book Review: James Reardon-Anderson. The
Study of Change: Chemistry in China.
1840--1949. Cambridge: Cambridge
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John P. Swann Book Review: Milton Wainwright. Miracle
Cure: The Story of Penicillin and the
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Bart Simon Book Review: Robin Herman. Fusion: The
Search For Endless Energy. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xi
+ 267. ISBN 0-521-38373-0. \pounds 14.95 377--378
David E. Nye Book Review: Bill Luckin. Questions of
Power: Electricity and Environment in
Inter-War Britain. Manchester and New
York: Manchester University Press, 1990.
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Bill Luckin Book Review: David E. Nye. Electrifying
America: Social Meanings of a New
Technology. Cambridge, Mass, and London:
MIT Press, 1990. Pp. xv + 479. ISBN
0-262-14048-9. \pounds 26.95 . . . . . . 379--380
Paul K. Hoch Book Review: Shigeru Nakayama. Science,
Technology and Society in Postwar Japan.
London and New York: Kegan Paul
International, 1991. Pp. xvi + 259. ISBN
0-7103-0428-5. \pounds 45.00 . . . . . . 380--381
Laurie M. Brown Book Review: Masao Watanabe. The
Japanese and Western Science, translated
by Otto Theodor Benfey. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.
Pp. xiv + 141. ISBN 0-8211-8252-3. No
price given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--382
Mark Harrison Book Review: Satpal Sangwan. Science,
Technology and Colonisation: An Indian
Experience, 1757--1857. Delhi: Anamika
Parakashan, 1991. Pp. xviii + 196. ISBN
81-85150-11-7. No price given . . . . . 382--383
D. J. Bryden Book Review: Gerard L'Estrange Turner.
Scientific Instruments and Experimental
Philosophy, 1550--1850. Aldershot,
Variorum Press Collected Studies Series.
CS 331, 1990. Pp. xii + 329. ISBN
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David W. Hughes Book Review: Karl Hufbauer. Exploring
The Sun: Solar Science since Galileo.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
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Stephen J. Shennan Book Review: Valerie Pinsky and Alison
Wylie (eds.). Critical Traditions in
Contemporary Archaeology: Essays in the
Philosophy, History and Socio-Politics
of Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge
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Nicholas Russell Book Review: Liliane Bodson and Roland
Libois (eds.). Contributions \`a
l'histoire des connaissances
zoologiques. Colloques d'histoire des
connaissances zoologiques, 2. Li\`ege:
Université de Li\`ege, 1991. Pp. 123.
450FB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--386
Geof Bowker Book Review: William Aspray. John von
Neumann and the Origins of Modern
Computing. Cambridge, Mass, and London:
MIT Press, 1991. Pp. xvii + 376. ISBN
0-262-01121-2. \pounds 31.50 . . . . . . 386--387
Peter Dear Book Review: Marcello Pera and William
R. Shea (eds). Persuading Science: The
Art of Scientific Rhetoric. Canton, MA:
Science History Publications, 1991. Pp.
xi + 212. ISBN 0-88135-071-0. \$39.95} 387--388
Steven Shapin Book Review: Peter Dear (ed.). The
Literary Structure of Scientific
Argument: Historical Studies.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1991. ISBN 0-8122-8185-3. No
price given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--389
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Marina Benjamin (ed.).
Science and Sensibility: Gender and
Scientific Enquiry, 1780--1945. Oxford:
Basil Blackwell, 1991. Pp. x + 295. ISBN
0-631-16649-1. \pounds 35.00 . . . . . . 389--391
David Knight Book Review: Elizabeth Garber (ed.).
Beyond History of Science: Essays in
Honor of Robert E. Schofield. Bethlehem:
Lehig University Press, and London and
Toronto: Associated University Presses,
1990. Pp. 325. ISBN 0-934223-11-4 . . . 391--391
David Knight Book Review: Metascience: An
International Review Journal for the
History, Philosophy and Social Studies
of Science, New Series, vol. 1, edited
by Michael Shortland. Sydney:
Australasian Association for the
History, Philosophy and Social Studies
of Science, 1991. Pp. viii + 169.
Institutional subscription AS50.00,
individual subscription A\$25.00. Public
Understanding of Science: An
International Journal of Research in the
Public Dimensions of Science and
Technology, vol. 1, No. 1. Institute of
Physics, in association with the Science
Museum, 1992. Pp. vi + 137. ISBN
0963-6625. \pounds 23.80 (single issue),
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Jonathan Topham Science and popular education in the
1830s: the role of the Bridgewater
Treatises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--430
J. F. McDiarmid Clark Eleanor Ormerod (1828--1901) as an
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A. Rupert Hall Book Review: R. C. Olby, G. N. Cantor,
J. R. R. Christie and M. J. S. Hodge
(eds.), Companion to the History of
Modern Science. London and New York:
Routledge, 1990. Pp. xxvi-1081. ISBN
0-415-01988-5. \pounds 65.00 . . . . . . 457--460
George Molland Book Review: H. L. L. Busard. Jordanus
de Nemore, De elementis arithmetice
artis: A Medieval Treatise on Number
Theory, 2 vols. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner
Verlag, 1991. Pp. 372, 188. ISBN
3-515-05214-3. DM 138,- . . . . . . . . 460--460
S. Unguru Book Review: Guy Beaujouan. Par raison
de nombres; L'art du calcul et les
savoirs scientifiques médiévaux.
Aldershot: Variorum, 1991. Pp. XII +
300. ISBN 0-86078-281-6. \pounds 47.50 460--462
J. V. Field Book Review: Janice A. Henderson. On the
distance between Sun, Moon and Earth,
according to Ptolemy, Copernicus and
Reinhold. Leiden, New York, Copenhagen
and Cologne. E. J. Brill Studia
Copernicana --- Brill's series, vol. I,
edited by J. Malicki and J. Soszy\'nski
(Polish Academy series, vol. XXX), 1991.
Pp. xiv + 220. ISSN 0925-6806. ISBN
90-04-09378-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--462
Geoffrey Tweedale Book Review: John Napier, Rabdology,
translated by W. F. Richardson,
introduction by R. E. Rider. Charles
Babbage Institute Series for the History
of Computing, 15. Cambridge, Mass, and
London: MIT Press/Los Angeles and San
Francisco: Tomash Publishers, 1990. Pp.
xxxvii + 135. ISBN 0-262-14046-2.
\pounds 35.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--463
Tim Murray Book Review: Peter J. Ucko, Michael
Hunter, Alan J. Clark and Andrew David,
Avebury Reconsidered: From the 1660s to
the 1990s. London: Unwin Hyman, 1991.
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0-04-445919-X. \pounds 60.00 . . . . . . 463--464
Stephen Pumfrey Book Review: Richard Olson. Science
Deified and Science Defied: The Historic
Significance of Science in Western
Culture. Volume 2: From the Early Modern
Age through the Early Romantic Era ca.
1640 to ca. 1820. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1991. Pp. xi + 445,
illus. ISBN 0-520-06846-7. \$45.00} . . 464--466
Rhoda Rappaport Book Review: Antonio Vallisneri.
Epistolario. Volume I, 1679--1710,
edited by Dario Generali. Milan: Franco
Angeli, 1991. Pp. 639. ISBN
88-204-6733-X. L. 70,000 . . . . . . . . 466--467
Sally Newcomb Book Review: Bernhard Fritscher.
Vulkanismusstreit und Geochemie: Die
Bedeutung der Chemie und des Experiments
in der
Vulkanismus-Neptunismus-Kontroverse.
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991.
Pp. viii + 346. ISBN 3-515-05865-6. DM
86,- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--468
W. R. Albury Book Review: Dirk Stemerding. Plants,
Animals and Formulae: Natural History in
the Light of Latour's Science in Action
and Foucault's The Order of Things.
Enschede: Faculteit Wijsbegeerte en
Maatschappijwetenschappen, Universiteit
Twente, 1991. Pp. 202. ISBN
90-365-0379-5. Dfl 40 . . . . . . . . . 468--470
Carlos Roberto Oliveira Book Review: Javier Ordoñez and Albert
Elena (eds.). La ciencia y su público:
Perspectivas históricas. Madrid: Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Científicas,
1990. Pp. xv + 443. ISBN 84-00-07056-9 470--471
Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: Geoffrey Cantor. Michael
Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist. A
Study of Science and Religion in the
Nineteenth Century. London: Macmillan,
1991. Pp. xi + 359. ISBN 0-333-55077-3.
\pounds 40.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--472
Iwan Morus Book Review: Geoffrey Cantor, David
Gooding and Frank A. J. L. James.
Faraday. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp.
xiii + 109. ISBN 0-333-54291-6. \pounds
9.99 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--473
Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: Brian Bowers and Lenore
Symons (eds.), Curiosity Perfectly
Satisfyed: Faraday's Travels in Europe,
1813--1815. London: Peter Peregrinus Ltd
in association with The Science Museum,
1991. Pp. xvii + 186. ISBN
0-86341-234-3. \pounds 19.00 . . . . . . 473--474
Ben Marsden Book Review: Graham Hollister-Short and
Frank A. J. L. James (eds.), History of
Technology, Thirteenth Annual Volume.
London and New York: Mansell, 1991. Pp.
xiii + 242. ISBN 0-7201-2114-0. \pounds
40.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--476
David E. Nye Book Review: Louis C. Hunter and Lynwood
Bryant. A History of Industrial Power in
the United States, 1780--1930. Volume 3:
The Transmission of Power. Cambridge,
Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1991. Pp.
xxv + 596 ISBN 0-262-08198-9 . . . . . . 476--477
Marie Boas Hall Book Review: Mary Louise Gleason. The
Royal Society of London: Years of
Reform. 1827--1847. New York and London:
Garland Publishing, 1991. Pp. ix + 532.
ISBN 0-8240-7446-7. \pounds 95.00 . . . 477--478
Ido Yavetz Book Review: Kathryn M. Olesko. Physics
as a Calling: Discipline and Practice in
the Koenigsberg Seminar for Physics.
Ithaca and London: Cornell University
Press, 1991. Pp. xviii + 488. ISBN
0-8014-2248-5. \$39.95} . . . . . . . . 478--479
Anne Hardy Book Review: Theodore Steinberg, Nature
Incorporated: Industrialisation and the
Waters of New England. Cambridge:
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J. H. Brooke Book Review: Peter J. Bowler, Charles
Darwin: The Man and His Influence.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp. xii +
250, illus. ISBN 0-631-16818-4. \pounds
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Roger Smith Book Review: Alfred Russel Wallace. An
Anthology of His Shorter Writings,
edited by Charles H. Smith. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. x +
551. ISBN 0-19-857725-7. \pounds 40.00 482--483
Mario A. Di Gregorio Book Review: Thomas Junker. Darwinismus
und Botanik. Rezeption, Kritik und
theoretische Alternativen im Deutschland
des 19. Jahrhunderts, with a preface by
Rudolf Schmitz. Stuttgart: Deutscher
Apotheker Verlag, 1989. Pp. x + 367.
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Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: Sydney Ross.
Nineteenth-Century Attitudes: Men of
Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic
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Ruth Harris Book Review: Mikulás Teich and Roy Porter
(eds.). Fin de si\`ecle and its Legacy.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1990. Pp. 352. ISBN 0-521-34108-6,
\pounds 37.50 (hardcover);
0-521-34915-X, \pounds 12.95 (paperback) 485--486
Greta Jones Book Review: Pauline M. H. Mazumdar.
Eugenics, Human Failings: The Eugenics
Society, its Sources and its Critics in
Britain. London and New York: Routledge,
1991. Pp. x + 373. ISBN 0-415-04424-3.
\pounds 40.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--487
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: Jane Maienschein.
Transforming Traditions in American
Biology, 1880--1915. Baltimore and
London: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1991. Pp. xi + 366. ISBN 0-8018-4126-7.
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Jack Morrell Book Review: Peter Crowcroft. Elton's
Ecologists: A History of the Bureau of
Animal Population. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 1991. Pp.
xx + 177, illus. ISBN 0-226-12146-1,
\pounds 27.95, \$35.00 (hardcover);
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(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--489
Tim Murray Book Review: Jaroslav Malina and Zdenek
V sícek. Archaeology Yesterday and Today:
The Development of Archaeology in the
Sciences and the Humanities, translated
and edited by Marek Zvelebil. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp.
xiv + 320. ISBN 0-521-26621-1, \pounds
40.00, \$65 (hardcover); 0-521-31977-3,
\pounds 15.00, \$19.95 (paperback) . . . 489--490
John Hendry Book Review: Abraham Pais. Niels Bohr's
Times, in Physics, Philosophy and
Polity. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1991. Pp. xvii + 565 . . . . . . . . . . 490--491
Michael Eckert Book Review: Klaus Hentschel. Die
Korrespondenz Petzold-Reichenbach: Zur
Entwicklung der `wissenschaftlichen
Philosophie' in Berlin. Berliner Beiträge
zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften
und der Tecknik, 12. Berlin: Sigma,
1990. Pp. 91. ISBN 3-928068-03-2. DM 18,
90. Christoph Meinel. Karl Friedrich
Zöllner und die Wissenschaftskultur der
Gründerzeit: Eine Fallstudie zur Genese
konservativer Zivilisationskritik.
Berliner Beiträge zur Geschichte der
Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 13.
Berlin: Sigma, 1991. Pp. 91. ISBN
3-928068-04-0. DM 16, 50 . . . . . . . . 491--492
Sally M. Horrocks Book Review: Robert Clayton and Joan
Algar (eds.). A Scientist's War: The War
Diary of Sir Clifford Paterson,
1939--45. London: Peter Peregrinus Ltd
in association with the Science Museum,
1991. Pp. xxvi + 674. ISBN
0-86341-218-1. \pounds 59.00 . . . . . . 492--492
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Alfred I. Tauber and Leon
Chernyak. Metchnikoff and the Origins of
Immunology: From Metaphor to Theory. New
York and Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1991. Pp. xx + 247. ISBN
0-19-506447-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--493
John Pickstone Book Review: M. Weatherall. In Search of
a Cure. A History of Pharmaceutical
Discovery. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 298. ISBN
0-19-261747-8. \pounds 19.50 . . . . . . 493--494
Paul K. Hoch Book Review: Maila L. Walter. Science
and Cultural Crisis: An Intellectual
Biography of Percy Williams Bridgman
(1882--1961). Stanford: Stanford
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Willem Hackmann Book Review: P. R. Morris. A History of
the World Semiconductor Industry. IEE
History of Technology Series 12. London:
Peter Peregrinus on behalf of the
Institution of Electrical Engineers,
1990. Pp. 171. ISBN 0-86341-227-0.
\pounds 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--496
Paul K. Hoch Book Review: Tom Wilkie. British Science
and Politics since 1945. Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1991. Pp. x + 142. ISBN
0-631-16849-4, \pounds 24.95
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Geoffrey Tweedale Book Review: Steve J. Heims, The
Cybernetics Group. Cambridge, Mass, and
London: MIT Press. 1991. Pp. xii + 334.
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Geoffrey Tweedale Book Review: Emerson W. Pugh, Lyle R.
Johnson and John H. Palmer. IBM's 360
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and London: MIT Press, 1991. Pp. vii +
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David W. Hughes Book Review: Pamela E. Mack. Viewing the
Earth: The Social Construction of the
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Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Evelleen Richards. Vitamin
C and Cancer: Medicine or Politics?
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269. ISBN 0-333-44419-1. \pounds 35.00 499--500
Daniel M. Fox Book Review: Mirko D. Grmek. History of
AIDS: Emergence and Origin of a Modern
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Maulitz and Jacalyn Duffin. Princeton,
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Anonymous Report of Council for the period
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Robert Olby Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Jonathan Winterton The 1984--1985 miners' strike and
technological change . . . . . . . . . . 5--14
Ian Welsh The NIMBY syndrome: its significance in
the history of the nuclear debate in
Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--32
S. Russell Writing energy history: explaining the
neglect of CHP/DH in Britain . . . . . . 33--54
Elizabeth Sprenger and
Pauline Webb Persuading the housewife to use
electricity? An interpretation of
material in the Electricity Council
archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--65
David Edgerton Tilting at paper tigers . . . . . . . . 67--75
John Baines Book Review: Mott T. Greene, Natural
Knowledge in Preclassical Antiquity.
Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1992. Pp. xix + 182.
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Donald R. Hill Book Review: Sa'Id Ibn Ahmad
Al-Andalusi, Science in the Medieval
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University of Texas Press, 1992. Pp.
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Vivian Nutton Book Review: David C. Lindberg, The
Beginnings of Western Science. The
European Scientific Tradition in
Philosophical, Religious, and
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1450. Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 1992. Pp. xviii + 455.
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Ole Peter Grell Book Review: Kurt Goldhammer, Der
göttliche Magier und die Magierin Natur:
Religion, Naturmagie und die Anfänge der
Naturwissenschaft vom Spätmittelalter bis
zur Renaissance; mit Beitragen zum
Magie-Verständnis des Paracelsus.
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991.
Pp. 136. ISBN 3-515-05584-3. DM 58.00 82--82
Lawrence M. Principe Book Review: Allen G. Debus, The French
Paracelsians: The Chemical Challenge to
Medical and Scientific Tradition in
Early Modern France. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp.
xvi + 247. ISBN 0-521-40049-X. \pounds
40.00, \$59.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
J. V. Field Book Review: Victor E. Thoren, with
contributions by John R. Christianson,
The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of
Tycho Brahe. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1990. Pp. xi + 523.
ISBN 0-521-35158-8. \pounds 40 . . . . . 83--84
Geoffrey Tweedale Book Review: D. J. Bryden, Napier's
Bones: A History and Instruction Manual.
London: Harriet Wynter Ltd, 1992. Pp.
24. ISBN 0-9507258-2-X. \pounds 12;
limited edition, 750 copies . . . . . . 84--84
Steven Shapin Book Review: Julian Martin, Francis
Bacon, the State, and the Reform of
Natural Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii + 236.
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Emily Grosholz Book Review: Daniel Garber, Descartes'
Metaphysical Physics. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
1992. Pp. xiv + 389. ISBN 0-226-28217-1,
\pounds 47.95, \$60.00 (hardcover);
0-226-28219-8, \pounds 19.25, \$23.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
Gad Freudenthal Book Review: Margaret J. Osler (ed.),
Atoms, Pneuma, and Tranquility.
Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European
Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1991. Pp. xii + 304. ISBN
0-521-40048-1. \pounds 32.50, \$49.50} 86--88
Antoni Malet Book Review: Peter Barker and Roger
Ariew (eds.), Revolution and Continuity:
Essays in the History and Philosophy of
Early Modern Science. Washington, DC:
The Catholic University of America
Press, 1991. Pp. v + 222. ISBN
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Malcolm Oster Book Review: Richard Kroll, Richard
Ashcraft and Perez Zagorin (eds.),
Philosophy, Science, and Religion in
England 1640--1700. Cambridge: Cambridge
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Malcolm Oster Book Review: Marie Boas Hall, Promoting
Experimental Learning: Experiment and
the Royal Society, 1660--1727.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1991. Pp. xiii + 207. ISBN
0-521-40503-3. \pounds 35.00, \$59.95} 90--91
Paula Findlen Book Review: Franco Arato, II secolo
delle cose: Scienza e storia in
Francesco Algarotti. Genova: Marietti,
1991. Pp. 173. ISBN 88-211-9566-X.
\pounds 30.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Iwan Rhys Morus Book Review: Marcello Pera, The
Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani-Volta
Controversy on Animal Electricity.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton
University Press, 1992. Pp. xxvi + 203.
ISBN 0-691-08512-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 92--93
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Jan Golinski, Science as
Public Culture: Chemistry and
Enlightenment in Britain, 1760--1820.
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1992. Pp. xi + 342. ISBN 0-521-39414-7.
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A. D. Smith Book Review: Gary Hatfield, The Natural
and the Normative: Theories of Spatial
Perception from Kant to Helmholtz.
Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press,
1991. Pp. xii + 366. ISBN 0-262-08086-9.
\pounds 31.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--95
Christopher Lawrence Book Reviews: Barbara Maria Stafford,
Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in
Enlightenment Art and Medicine.
Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press,
1991. Pp. xxi + 587. ISBN 0-262-19304-3.
\pounds 49.50. K. B. Roberts and J. D.
W. Tomlinson, The Fabric of the Body:
European Traditions of Anatomical
Illustration. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1992. Pp. xx + 638, illus. ISBN
0-19-261198-4. \pounds 95.00 . . . . . . 95--96
Deborah Brunton Book Review: Richard B. Fisher, Edward
Jenner 1749--1823. London: André Deutsch,
1991. Pp. 361. ISBN 0-233-98681-2.
\pounds 20.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: John Snow, On Narcotism by
the Inhalation of Vapours, a facsimile
edition with an introductory essay by
Richard H. Ellis. London: Royal Society
of Medicine Services Limited, 1991. Pp.
xxx + 112. ISBN 1-85315-158-0 . . . . . 96--97
Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: Ryan D. Tweney and David
Gooding (eds.), Michael Faraday's
`Chemical Notes, Hints, Suggestions and
Objects of Pursuit' of 1822, London:
Peter Peregrinus in association with the
Science Museum, 1991. Pp. xvii + 152.
ISBN 0-86341-255-6. \pounds 29.00 . . . 97--97
Mark Harrison Book Review: Poonam Bala, Imperialism
and Medicine in Bengal: A
Socio-Historical Perspective. New Delhi,
Newbury Park, London: Sage Publications,
1991. Pp. 1-174. ISBN 81-7036-245-8
(India), 0-8039-9100-2 (USA) . . . . . . 97--98
Mario A. Di Gregorio Book Review: Antonello La Vergata,
Nonostante Malthus, Fecondit\`a
popolazioni e armonia della natura,
1700--1900. Turin: Bollati Boringhieri
1991. Pp. 312. ISBN 88-339-0563-3. L.
40,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--99
Michael Shortland Book Review: Bernd Naumann, Frans Plank
and Gottfried Hofbauer (eds.), Language
and Earth: Elective Affinities Between
the Emerging Sciences of Linguistics and
Geology. Amsterdam and Philadelphia:
John Benjamin, 1992. Pp. xvi + 445. ISBN
90-272-4553-3. Dfl. 200.00 . . . . . . . 100--100
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: Henrika Kuklick, The Social
History of British Anthropology,
1885--1945. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1992. Pp. ix + 325.
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Mario A. Di Gregorio Book Review: Frederick Gregory, Nature
Lost? Natural Science and the German
Theological Traditions of the Nineteenth
Century. Cambridge, Mass. and London,
Harvard University Press, 1992. ISBN
0-674-60483-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--102
John Hedley Brooke Book Review: Adrian Desmond and James
Moore, Darwin. London: Michael Joseph,
1991. Pp. xxi + 808. ISBN 0-7181-3430-3.
\pounds 20.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Peter J. Bowler Book Reviews: Daniel Becquemont, Darwin,
Darwinisme, Evolutionnisme. Paris:
Editions Kimé, 1992. Pp. 341. ISBN
2-908212-13-7. 200FF. Jean Gayon, Darwin
et l'apr\`es Darwin: Une histoire de
l'hypoth\`ese de sélection naturelle.
Paris: Editions Kimé, 1992. Pp. 453. ISBN
2-908212-14-5. 250FF . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
M. J. S. Hodge Book Review: Fred Wilson, Empiricism and
Darwin's Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 1991. Pp. xiv +
358. ISBN 0-7923-1019-5. \pounds 61.00,
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M. J. S. Hodge Book Review: Mario A. Di Gregorio,
Charles Darwin's Marginalia, Volume 1,
with the assistance of N. W. Gill, New
York: Garland Publishing, 1990. Pp. lxi
+ 448 + 275. ISBN 0-8240-6639-1.
\$95.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106
Ingemar Bohlin Book Review: Robert J. Richards, The
Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological
Construction and Ideological
Reconstruction of Darwin's Theory.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1992. Pp. xv + 205. ISBN 0-226-71202-8.
\pounds 15.95, \$19.95} . . . . . . . . 106--108
Mario A. Di Gregorio Book Review: Giuliano Pancaldi, Darwin
in Italy: Science across Cultural
Frontiers, updated and expanded edition,
translated by Ruey Brodine Morelli,
Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana
University Press, 1991. Pp. xv + 222.
ISBN 0-253-34287-2. \pounds 22.50 . . . 108--110
Mario A. Di Gregorio Book Review: Paul J. Weindling,
Darwinism and Social Darwinism in
Imperial Germany: The Contribution of
the Cell Biologist Oscar Hertwig
(1849--1922). Stuttgart, Gustav Fischer,
1991. Pp. 355. ISBN 3-437-11305-4. DM
148 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
Mary M. Bartley Book Review: Helena Cronin. The Ant and
the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual
Selection from Darwin to Today.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1991. Pp. xiv + 490. ISBN 0-521-32937-X.
\pounds 27.50, \$39.50} . . . . . . . . 111--112
Michael Shortland Book Reviews: J. Vernon Jensen, Thomas
Henry Huxley: Communicating for Science.
London and Toronto: Associated
University Press, 1991. Pp. 253. ISBN
0-87413-379-3. No price given. Michael
Collie, Huxley at Work, with the
Scientific Correspondence of T. H.
Huxley and the Rev. Dr George Gordon of
Birnie, near Elgin. London: Macmillan,
1991. Pp. xii +158. ISBN 0-333-51059-3.
No price given . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--114
Mario A. Di Gregorio Book Review: Mary P. Winsor, Reading the
Shape of Nature: Comparative Zoology at
the Agassiz Museum. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 1991. ISBN
0-226-90215-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: Ronald Rainger, An Agenda
for Antiquity: Henry Fairfield Osborn
and Vertebrate Paleontology at the
American Museum of Natural History,
1890--1935. Tuscaloosa: University of
Alabama Press, 1991. Pp. xiii + 360.
ISBN 0-8173-0536-X. \$37.95} . . . . . . 116--116
Ben Marsden Book Review: Daniel M. Siegel,
Innovation in Maxwell's Electromagnetic
Theory: Molecular Vortices, Displacement
Current, and Light. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1991. Pp. x + 225.
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P. M. Harman Book Review: Bruce J. Hunt, The
Maxwellians. Ithaca and London: Cornell
University Press, 1991. Pp. xiii + 266.
ISBN 0-8014-2641-3. \$38.45} . . . . . . 117--118
Ben Marsden Book Review: Robert A. Rosenberg, Paul
B. Israel, Keith A. Nier and Melodie
Andrews (eds.), The Papers of Thomas A.
Edison. Volume 2: From Workshop to
Laboratory, June 1873 --- March 1876.
Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1991. Pp. xlviii +
842. ISBN 0-8018-3101-6. \pounds 54.00 118--119
Gert Schubring Book Review: Yves Cohen and Klaus
Manfrass (eds.), Frankreich und
Deutschland: Forschung, Technologie und
industrielle Entwicklung im 19. und 20.
Jahrhundert. Munich: C. H. Beck'schen
Veragsbuchhandlung, 1990. Pp. xl + 491.
ISBN 3-406-35092-5. DM. 88 . . . . . . . 119--121
Paul K. Hoch Book Review: Elisabeth Crawford,
Nationalism and Internationalism in
Science, 1880--1939: Four Studies of the
Nobel Population. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1992. Pp. xii + 157.
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\$44.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Roger Smith Book Review: René van der Veer and Jaan
Valsiner, Understanding Vygotsky: A
Quest for Synthesis. Oxford: Blackwell,
1991. Pp. xi + 450. ISBN 0-631-16528-2.
\pounds 35.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--123
Helge Kragh Book Review: J. Eisenstaedt and A. J.
Kox (eds.), Studies in the History of
General Relativity. Boston, Basel,
Berlin: Birkhäuser, 1992. Pp. xii + 468.
ISBN 0-8176-3479-7. SFr. 198.00 . . . . 123--124
Robert W. Smith Book Review: B. Bertotti, R. Balbinot,
S. Bergia and A. Messina (eds.), Modern
Cosmology in Retrospect. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xx
+ 426. ISBN 0-521-37213-5. \pounds
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J. A. Bennett Book Review: Sabino Maffeo, SJ, In the
Service of Nine Popes: 100 Years of the
Vatican Observatory, translated by
George V. Coyne, SJ. Rome: Specola
Vaticana/Pontificia Academia
Scientiarum, 1991. Pp. xvi + 241. ISBN
88-7761-046-8. \$24.95} . . . . . . . . 125--126
Geoffrey Tweedale Book Review: Ernst Martin, The
Calculating Machines (Die
Rechenmaschinen): Their History and
Development, translated and edited by
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell and Michael R.
Williams. Volume 16 in the Charles
Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the
History of Computing. Cambridge, Mass,
and London: MIT Press; Los Angeles and
San Francisco: Tomash Publishers, 1992.
Pp. xvii + 367, illus. ISBN
0-262-13278-8. \pounds 44.95 . . . . . . 126--127
Malcolm Nicolson Book Review: Linda Sage, Pigment of the
Imagination: A History of Phytochrome
Research. San Diego: Academic Press,
1992. Pp. xx + 562. \$99.50} . . . . . . 127--128
Andrew Pyle Book Review: David F. Channell, The
Vital Machine: A Study of Technology and
Organic Life. New York and Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. xi +
192. ISBN 0-19-506040-7. \$22.95} . . . 128--129
Malcolm Nicolson Book Review: L. A. Real and J. H. Brown
(eds.), Foundations of Ecology: Classic
Papers with Commentaries. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press
(with the Ecological Society of
America), 1991. Pp. xiv + 905 . . . . . 129--130
Michael Shortland Book Review: Harold Dorn. The Geography
of Science. Baltimore and London: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1991. Pp. xx +
219. ISBN 0-8018-4151-8. No price given 130--132
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Judith A. Overmier and John
Edward Senior, Books and Manuscripts of
the Bakken. Metuchen, New Jersey:
Scarecrow Press Inc. Folkestone:
Shelwing Ltd, 1992. Pp. xvii + 512. ISBN
0-8108-2570-8. \pounds 59.65 . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--136
Anonymous BJH volume 26 issue 1 Cover and Back
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Anonymous BJH volume 26 issue 1 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f3
Holly Rothermel Images of the sun: Warren De la Rue,
George Biddell Airy and celestial
photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--169
Liba Taub Evolutionary ideas and `empirical'
methods: the analogy between language
and species in works by Lyell and
Schleicher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--193
Günter P. Schiemenz A heretical look at the Benzolfest . . . 195--205
Keith Vernon Desperately seeking status: Evolutionary
Systematics and the taxonomists' search
for respectability 1940--1960 . . . . . 207--227
I. Grattan-Guinness Obituary: Dr. R. C. H. Tanner
(1900--1992) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--231
Robert W. Dimand The case of Brownian motion: a note on
Bachelier's contribution . . . . . . . . 233--234
Malcolm Oster Book Review: David Goodman and Colin A.
Russell (eds.), The Rise of Scientific
Europe, 1500--1800. Sevenoaks, Kent:
Hodder & Stoughton/The Open University,
1991. Pp. ix + 437. ISBN 0-340-55861-X.
\pounds 14.99 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
Gerrylynn K. Roberts Book Review: David Knight, Ideas in
Chemistry: A History of the Science.
London: Athlone Press, 1992. Pp. vii +
213. ISBN 0-485-11390-2. \pounds 38.00 236--237
Mark Harrison Book Review: Ray Desmond, The European
Discovery of the Indian Flora. Oxford:
Oxford University Press/Royal Botanic
Gardens, 1992. Pp. viii + 355. ISBN
0-19-854684-X. \pounds 60.00 . . . . . . 237--238
Charlotte Methuen Book Review: Johannes Kepler, Gesammelte
Werke, Bd XII: Theologica, Hexenprozess,
Tacitus Übersetzung, Gedichte. Edited
with notes by Jürgen Hübner, Helmuth
Grössing, Friederike Boockmann, Friedrich
Seek. Munich: CH Beck, 1990. Pp. 444.
ISBN 3-406-01660-X, DM 148.00
(hardcover); 3-406-01661-8, DM 118.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--239
Enrico Peruzzi Book Review: Germana Ernst, Religione,
ragione e natura: Ricerche su Tommaso
Campanella e il tardo Rinascimento,
Milan: Franco Angeli, 1991. Pp. 288.
ISBN 88-204-6663-5. L. 36000 . . . . . . 239--240
Paula Findlen Book Review: Giuseppe Olmi, L'inventario
del mondo: Cata-logazione della natura e
luoghi del sapere nella prima et\`a
moderna. Bologna: Societ\`a editrice il
Mulino, 1992. Pp. 457. ISBN
88-15-03647-4. L. 50000 . . . . . . . . 240--241
Andrew Pyle Book Review: William R. Shea, The Magic
of Numbers and Motion: The Scientific
Career of René Descartes. Canton, Mass.:
Science History Publications, 1991. Pp.
x + 371. ISBN 0-88135-098-2. \$54.95} 242--243
Adrian Johns Book Review: Richard W. F. Kroll, The
Material Word: Literate Culture in the
Restoration and Early Eighteenth
Century. Baltimore and London: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1991. Pp. xxii
+ 420. ISBN 0-8018-4002-3. \pounds 30.50 243--245
William H. Brock Book Review: Evan M. Melhado and Tore
Frängsmyr (eds.), Enlightenment Science
in the Romantic Era: The Chemistry of
Berzelius and its Cultural Setting.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1992. Pp. xiv + 246. ISBN 0-521-41775-9.
\pounds 30.00, \$49.95} . . . . . . . . 245--246
Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: Larry J. Schaaf. Out of the
Shadows: Herschel Talbot and the
Invention of Photography. New Haven and
London: Yale University Press, 1992 Pp.
xii + 188. ISBN 0-300-05705-9. \pounds
45.00 \$65.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
Bill Luckin Book Review: Jonathan Coopersmith. The
Electrification of Russia, 1880--1926.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.
Pp. xii + 274. ISBN 0-8014-2723-1.
\$43.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--248
Noel Coley Book Review: P. W. Hammond and Harold
Egan, Weighed in the Balance: A History
of the Laboratory of the Government
Chemist. London: HMSO, 1992. Pp. xvi +
372, illus. ISBN 0-11-515302-0. \pounds
9.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--249
G. L'E. Turner Book Review: Anita McConnell, Instrument
Makers to the World: A History of Cooke,
Troughton & Simms. York: William Sessions
Ltd, 1992. Pp. xii + 116. ISBN
1-85072-096-7. \pounds 16.00 . . . . . . 249--249
Willem Hackmann Book Review: Kostas Gavroglu and Yorgos
Goudaroulis (eds.), Through Measurement
to Knowledge: The Selected Papers of
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes 1853--1926.
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of
Science, 24. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991.
Pp. cxv + 570. ISBN 0-7923-0825-5.
\pounds 97.00, \$149.00, Dfl. 260.00} 249--251
Geoffrey Blowers Book Review: Edward Timms and Ritchie
Robertson (eds.), Psychoanalysis and its
Cultural Context. Austrian Studies III.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,
1992. Pp. xi + 209. ISBN 0-7486-0359-X.
\pounds 30.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Roger Smith Book Review: Léon Chertok and Isabelle
Stengers, A Critique of Psychoanalytic
Reason: Hypnosis as a Scientific Problem
from Lavoisier to Lacan. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 1992. Pp.
xxvi + 319. ISBN 0-8047-1950-0. \$35.00} 252--253
Malcolm Nicolson Book Review: Gregg Mitman, The State of
Nature: Ecology, Community and American
Social Thought, 1900--1950. Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press,
1992. Pp. xiv + 290. ISBN 0-226-53236-4,
\pounds 46.50, \$66.75 (hardcover);
0-226-53237-2, \pounds 18.75, \$66.75
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--255
Helge Kragh Book Review: Jack S. Goldstein, A
Different Sort of Time: The Life of
Jerrold R. Zacharias, Scientist,
Engineer, Educator. Cambridge, Mass, and
London: MIT Press, 1992. Pp. xviii +
373. ISBN 0-262-07138-X. \$31.50} . . . 255--255
Jon Agar Book Review: Alan Hodgkin. Chance and
Design: Reminiscences of Science in
Peace and War. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1992. Pp. xi + 412.
ISBN 0-521-40099-6. \pounds 40 . . . . . 255--256
Mikulás Teich Book Review: Joseph S. Fruton, Contrasts
in Scientific Style: Research Groups in
the Chemical and Biochemical Sciences.
Philadelphia: American Philosophical
Society, 1990. Pp. xi + 473. ISBN
0-87169-191-4. \$40.00} . . . . . . . . 256--259
Paul K. Hoch Book Review: Peter Galison and Bruce
Hevly (eds.), Big Science: The Growth of
Large-Scale Research. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1992. Pp. xi + 392,
illus. ISBN 0-8047-1879-2. \$45.00} . . 259--260
David Bloor Book Review: Jan Sapp, Where the Truth
Lies: Franz Moewus and the Origins of
Molecular Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1990. Pp. ix + 340.
ISBN 0-521-36550-3, \pounds 30, \$59.50
(hardcover); 0-521-36751-4, \pounds 15,
\$18.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . 260--263
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--267
Anonymous BJH volume 26 issue 2 Cover and Back
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matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
I. Grattan-Guinness Dr. R. C. H. Tanner (1900--1992) . . . . 229--231
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--269
Siegmund Probst Infinity and creation: The origin of the
controversy between Thomas Hobbes and
the Savilian professors Seth Ward and
John Wallis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--279
Scott Mandelbrote `A duty of the greatest moment': Isaac
Newton and the writing of biblical
criticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--302
Antonio Clericuzio From van Helmont to Boyle. A study of
the transmission of Helmontian chemical
and medical theories in
Seventeenth-Century England . . . . . . 303--334
Steven Shapin Personal development and intellectual
biography: the case of Robert Boyle . . 335--345
John A. Chaldecott Obituary: Henry Reginald Calvert
(1904--1992) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--349
John G. McEvoy Book Review: William H. Brock, The
Fontana History of Chemistry. London:
Fontana, 1992, Pp. xxiii + 744. ISBN
0-00-686173-3. \pounds 8.99 . . . . . . 351--353
John Henry Book Review: Jean S. Gottlieb, A
Checklist of the Newberry Library's
Printed Books in Science, Medicine,
Technology, and the Pseudosciences ca.
1460--1750. New York and London: Garland
Publishing, Inc., 1992. Pp. xxiii + 312,
illus. ISBN 0-8240-5171-8. \$67.00} . . 353--353
Ole Peter Grell Book Review: Jost Weyer, Graf Wolfgang
II von Hohenlohe und die Alchemic:
Alchemistische Studien in Schloss
Weikersheim, 1587--1610. Sigmaringen:
Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1992. Pp. 516.
ISBN 3-7995-7639-8. DM 88.00 . . . . . . 353--354
Giancarlo Nonnoia Book Review: Galileo Galilei, Sidereus
nuncius, le messager celeste, texte,
traduction et notes établis par Isabella
Pantin. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1992.
Pp. civ + 115. ISBN 2-251-34505-1. 230
FF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--355
Peter Dear Book Review: Michael Segre, In the Wake
of Galileo. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
University Press, 1991. Pp. xix + 192.
ISBN 0-8135-1700-1. \$27.95} . . . . . . 355--356
Paula Findlen Book Review: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de
Peiresc, Lettres \`a Cassiano dal Pozzo
(1626--1637), éditées et commentées par
Jean-François Lhote et Danielle Joyal.
Amphion, Études d'histoire des techniques
3. Clermont-Ferrand: Éditions Adosa,
1992. Pp. 280. ISBN 2-86639-079-2. 260
FF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--357
John Henry Book Review: Marjorie Hope Nicolson
(ed.), The Conway Letters: The
Correspondence of Anne, Viscountess
Conway, Henry More, and their Friends,
1642--1684. Revised Edition with an
Introduction and New Material Edited by
Sarah Hutton. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1992. Pp. xxix + 592. ISBN
0-19-824876-8. \pounds 55.00 . . . . . . 357--358
Malcolm Oster Book Review: A. Rupert Hall, Isaac
Newton: Adventurer in Thought. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1992. Pp. xv + 468. ISBN
0-631-17906-2. \pounds 19.95 . . . . . . 358--360
Paolo Casini Book Review: François-Marie Arouet de
Voltaire, Éléments de la philosophie de
Newton, critical edition by Robert L.
Walters and W. H. Barber. The Complete
Works of Voltaire, 15. Oxford: Voltaire
Foundation, Taylor Institution, 1992.
Pp. xxii + 850. ISBN 0-7294-0374-2. No
price given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--361
Antoni Malet Book Review: P. M. Harman and Alan E.
Shapiro (eds.), The Investigation of
Difficult Things. Essays on Newton and
the History of the Exact Sciences in
Honour of D. T. Whiteside. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp.
xvi + 531. ISBN 0-521-37435-9. \pounds
90.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--363
Jan Golinski Book Review: Larry Stewart. The Rise of
Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology,
and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian
Britain, 1660--1750. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp.
xxxiv + 453, illus. ISBN 0-521-41700-7.
\pounds 45.00, \$69.95} . . . . . . . . 363--364
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: G. J. Barker-Benfield. The
Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society
in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press,
1992. Pp. xxxiv + 520. ISBN
0-226-03713-4. \pounds 39.95, \$57.50} 364--365
John Pickstone Book Review: Matthew Ramsay,
Professional and Popular Medicine in
France, 1770--1830. The Social World of
Medical Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1988. Pp. xvii + 406.
ISBN 0-521-30517-9. \pounds 35 . . . . . 365--365
Mario A. Di Gregorio Book Reviews: Jacob W. Gruber and John
C. Thackray Richard Owen Commemoration:
Three Studies. London: Natural History
Museum Publications, 1992. Pp. ix + 181.
ISBN 0-565-01109-X. \pounds 29.95.
Richard Owen The Hunterian Lectures in
Comparative Anatomy, May and June 1837,
edited with introduction and commentary
by P. R. Sloan. London: Natural History
Publications, 1992. Pp. xvi + 340. ISBN
0-565-01106-5, \pounds 37.50
(hardcover), 0-565-011448, \pounds 15.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--366
Gerhard H. Müller Book Review: Antonello La Vergata,
L'equilibrio e la guerra della natura.
Dalla teologia naturale al darwinismo.
Naples: Morano, 1990. Pp. 700. L. 60,000
(paperback edition) . . . . . . . . . . 366--368
Steven Turner Book Review: Regine Zott and Emil
Heuser, Die streitbaren Gelehrten.
Justus Liebig und die preussischen
Universitäten. Kommentierte Edition eines
historischen Disputes. Berliner Beiträge
zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften
und der Technik, 15. Berlin: ERS Verlag,
1992. Pp. 289. ISBN 3-928577-13-1. DM
51.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--369
Robert A. Nye Book Reviews: B. C. Blake-Coleman,
Copper Wire and Electrical Conductors:
The Shaping of a Technology.
Philadelphia: Harwood Academic
Publishers, 1992. Pp. xx + 283. ISBN
3-7186-5200-5. \pounds 24.00, \$44.00.
Paul Israel. From Machine Shop to
Industrial Laboratory: Telegraphy and
the Changing Context of American
Invention, 1830--1920. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1992. Pp. viii
+ 251. ISBN 0-0818-4379-0. \pounds
29.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--371
Ben Marsden Book Review: Paul Tunbridge, Lord
Kelvin: His Influence on Electrical
Measurements and Units. London: Peter
Peregrinus Ltd, on Behalf of the
Institution of Electrical Engineers,
1992. Pp. ix + 107. ISBN 0-86341-237-8.
\pounds 19.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372
R. A. Burchell Book Review: Simon Baatz, Knowledge,
Culture and Science in the Metropolis:
The New York Academy of Sciences,
1817--1970. Annals of the New York
Academy of Sciences, vol. 584. New York:
New York Academy of Sciences, 1990. Pp.
ix + 269. ISBN 0-89766-545-7
(hardcover); 0-89766-546-5 (paperback).
No price given . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--372
Alison M. Turtle Book Review: Jaap Van Ginneken, Crowds,
Psychology, and Politics, 1871--1899.
Cambridge Studies in the History of
Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1992. Pp. xii + 269.
ISBN 0-521-40418-5. \pounds 35.00,
\$59.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--373
Geoffrey Blowers Book Review: Patricia Kitcher, Freud's
Dream: A Complete Interdisciplinary
Science of Mind. Cambridge, Mass, and
London: MIT Press, 1993. Pp. ix + 245.
ISBN 0-262-11172-1. \pounds 22.50 . . . 373--374
Geoffrey Tweedale Book Review: William Poundstone,
Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann,
Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Pp. xi + 290. ISBN 0-19-286162-X.
\pounds 7.99 (paperback edition) . . . . 375--376
Willem Hackmann Book Review: E. B. Callick, Metres to
Microwaves: British Development of
Active Components for Radar Systems 1937
to 1944. IEE History of Technology
Series 11. London: Peter Peregrinus Ltd
on behalf of the Institution of
Electrical Engineers, 1990. Pp. xi +
240. ISBN 0-86341-212-2. \pounds 44 . . 376--377
J. A. Jacobs Book Review: Desmond King-Hele, A
Tapestry of Orbits. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1992. Pp. x + 244.
ISBN 0-521-39323-X. \pounds 35.00 . . . 377--378
Willem Hackmann Book Review: E. J. Dijksterhuis, Clio's
Stiefkind, edited with an Introduction
and commentary by Klaus van Berkel.
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 1990.
Pp. 321. ISBN 90-351-0786-1. No price
given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--379
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--383
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--383
Anonymous New Editor for BJHS . . . . . . . . . . 385--385
Anonymous BJH volume 26 issue 3 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b8
Anonymous BJH volume 26 issue 3 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
James A. Secord Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--389
J. R. R. Christie Aurora, Nemesis and Clio . . . . . . . . 391--405
Andrew Cunningham and
Perry Williams De-centring the `big picture': The
Origins of Modern Science and the modern
origins of science . . . . . . . . . . . 407--432
John V. Pickstone Ways of knowing: towards a historical
sociology of science, technology and
medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--458
Andrew Barry The history of measurement and the
engineers of space . . . . . . . . . . . 459--468
Ludmilla Jordanova Gender and the historiography of science 469--483
Lesley B. Cormack Book Review: David N. Livingstone, The
Geographical Tradition. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1992. Pp. viii + 434. ISBN
0-631-18535-6, \pounds 45.00
(hardcover); 0-631-18536-0, \pounds
13.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 485--486
John Hedley Brooke Book Review: Olaf Pedersen, The Book of
Nature, Vatican City and Notre Dame,
Indiana: Vatican Observatory
Publications/University of Notre Dame
Press, 1992. Pp. vii + 92. ISBN
0-268-00690-3. \$9.95} . . . . . . . . . 486--487
John Monfasani Book Review: Brian P. Copenhaver,
Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum
and the Latin Asdepius in a New English
Translation with Notes and Introduction.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1992. Pp. lxxxiii + 320. ISBN
0-521-36144-3. \pounds 45.00, \$69.95} 487--489
Giancarlo Nonnoi Book Review: William A. Wallace,
Galileo's Logic of Discovery and Proof:
The Background, Content and Use of His
Appropriated Treatises on Aristotle's
Posterior Analytics. Dordrecht: Kluwer
Academic, 1992. Pp. xxiii + 323. ISBN
0-7923-1577-4. \pounds 84.00, \$139.00,
Dfl. 240.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--491
Scott Mandelbrote Book Review: Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs. The
Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of
Alchemy in Newton's Thought. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1991
[published 1992]. Pp. xii + 359, illus.
ISBN 0-521-38084-7. \pounds 30.00,
\$47.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--493
W. H. Brock Book Review: Lissa Roberts (ed.), The
Chemical Revolution: Context and
Practices. Special issue of The
Eighteenth Century: Theory and
Interpretation, Volume 3, Part 3.
Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press,
1992. Pp. 195-286. ISSN 0193-5380.
\$19.00 (individuals), \$32.00
(institutions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--494
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: Patrick Tort (ed.),
Darwinisme et société. Paris: Presses
Universitaires de France, 1992. Pp. 690.
ISBN 2-13-044774-0. FF. 480 . . . . . . 494--495
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Martin J. S. Rudwick,
Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictorial
Representations of the Prehistoric
World. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1992. Pp. xiii + 280, illus. ISBN
0-226-73104-9. \pounds 35.95, \$51.75} 495--496
Greta Jones Book Review: Carl N. Degler, In Search
of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival
of Darwinism in American Social Thought.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Pp. xi + 400. ISBN 0-19-506380-5.
\$13.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--496
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--498
Anonymous Books reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--503
Anonymous Index of authors . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--505
Anonymous Report of Council for the year 1992 . . 507--516
Anonymous BJH volume 26 issue 4 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b6
Anonymous BJH volume 26 issue 4 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f3
Anonymous Editorial note . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Jon Agar Making a meal of the big dish: the
construction of the Jodrell Bank Mark 1
radio telescope as a stable edifice,
1946--1957 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--21
Mary R. S. Creese and
Thomas M. Creese British women who contributed to
research in the geological sciences in
the nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . 23--54
Clive Sutton `Nullius in verba' and `nihil in
verbis': public understanding of the
role of language in science . . . . . . 55--64
A. M. Lucas and
P. J. Lucas and
T. A. Darragh and
S. Maroske Colonial pride and metropolitan
expectations: the British Museum and
Melbourne's meteorites . . . . . . . . . 65--87
William H. Donahue Kepler's invention of the Second
Planetary Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--102
Tim Murray The Piltdown man? . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
Nathan Dubowsky and
Scott Michael Dubowsky The final mission of HMS Beagle:
clarifying the historical record . . . . 105--111
W. Schröder and
H.-J. Treder The `Einstein--Laue' discussion . . . . 113--114
John Henry Book Reviews: Michael Hunter (ed.),
Letters and Papers of Robert Boyle: A
Guide to the Manuscripts and Microfilm.
Collections from the Royal Society.
Bethesda, Maryland: University
Publications of America, 1992. Pp. xlix
+ 90. ISBN 1-55655-217-3. No price
given. Peter Jones (ed.), Sir Isaac
Newton: A Catalogue of Manuscripts and
Papers Collected and Published on
Microfilm by Chadwyck-Healey. Cambridge:
Chadwyck-Healey, 1991. Pp. xi + 148.
ISBN 0-85964-226-7. \pounds 50.00
(provided free with the microfilms) . . 115--116
J. R. Milton Book Review: George Berkeley, De motu
and The Analyst. A Modern Critical
Edition with Introductions and
Commentary, edited and translated by
Douglas M. Jesseph. The New Synthese
Historical Library, 41. Dordrecht:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992. Pp. xi
+ 230. ISBN 0-7923-1520-0. \pounds
51.00, \$86.00, Dfl. 150.00} . . . . . . 116--117
Maurice Crosland Book Review: Jean-Pierre Poirier,
Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier 1743--1794.
Paris: Pygmalion/Gérard Watelet, 1993.
Pp. xii + 545. ISBN 2-85704-384-8. 178FF 118--118
Trevor H. Levere Book Review: G. E. Fogg, A History of
Antarctic Science. Studies in Polar
Research. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1992. Pp. xxi + 483.
ISBN 0-521-36113-3. \pounds 55.00 . . . 118--120
Greta Jones Book Review: Mark Pittenger, American
Socialists and Evolutionary Thought,
1870--1920. Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 1993. Pp. x + 310. ISBN
0-299-13600-0, \pounds 48.00
(hardcover); 0-299-13604-3, \pounds
20.00 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 120--122
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: Sahotra Sarkar (ed.), The
Founders of Evolutionary Genetics: A
Centenary Reappraisal. Boston Studies in
the Philosophy of Science, 142.
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1992. Pp. 300. ISBN 0-7923-1777-7.
\pounds 62.00, \$115.00, Dfl. 180.00} 122--122
Willem Hackmann Book Review: James Wood, History of
International Broadcasting. IEE History
of Technology Series, 19. Stevenage:
Peter Peregrinus in association with the
Science Museum, London, 1992. Pp. xvix +
258. ISBN 0-86341-281-5. \pounds 30 . . 122--124
Jon Agar Book Review: Peter Robertson, Beyond
Southern Skies: Radio Astronomy and the
Parkes Telescope. Cambridge, New York
and Melbourne: Cambridge University
Press, 1992. Pp. xi + 357. ISBN
0-521-41408-3. \pounds 40.00 . . . . . . 124--125
Jim Bennett Book Reviews: Stella Butler, Science and
Technology Museums. Leicester, London
and New York: Leicester University
Press, 1992. Pp. xiii + 149. ISBN
0-7185-1357-6. \pounds 35.00. Janet
Carding, Timothy Boon, Nicholas Wyatt
and Robert Bud, Guide to the History of
Technology in Europe. London: Science
Museum, 1992. Pp. 142. ISBN
0-901805-51-3. \pounds 8.00 . . . . . . 125--126
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128
Anonymous BJH volume 27 issue 1 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b6
Anonymous BJH volume 27 issue 1 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
David Kaiser Bringing the human actors back on stage:
the personal context of the
Einstein--Bohr debate . . . . . . . . . 129--152
George A. Reisch Planning science: Otto Neurath and the
International Encyclopedia of Unified
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--175
Mary M. Hartley Conflicts in human progress: sexual
selection and the Fisherian `runaway' 177--196
Jonathan Harwood Institutional innovation in fin de
si\`ecle Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--211
David Oldroyd James Hutton: the founder of modern
geology? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--219
Malcolm Nicolson Book Review: Peter J. Bowler, The
Fontana History of Environmental
Sciences. Fontana History of Science
Series. London: Fontana Press, 1992. Pp.
xv + 634. ISBN 0-00-686184-9. \pounds
8.99 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--223
George Molland Book Review: Hubert L. L. Busard and
Menso Folkerts, Robert of Chester's (?)
Redaction of Euclid's Elements, the
so-called Adelard II Version, 2 vols.
Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhäuser Verlag,
1992. Pp. 959. ISBN 3-7643-2728-6. SFr.
348.00. Ken'ichi Takahashi, The Medieval
Latin Traditions of Euclid's Catoptrica:
A Critical Edition of De speculis with
an Introduction, English Translation and
Commentary. Fukuolca: Kyushu University
Press, 1992. Pp. viii + 373. ISBN
4-87378-299-6. No price given . . . . . 223--223
J. D. North Book Review: Paola Zambelli, The
Speculum astronomiae and its Enigma.
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of
Science 135. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1992. Pp. xvi + 352. ISBN
0-7923-1380-1. \pounds 66.00, \$112.00,
Dfl. 195.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--225
J. V. Field Book Reviews: S. Y. Edgerton, The
Heritage of Giotto's Geometry: Art and
Science on the Eve of the Scientific
Revolution. Ithaca and London: Cornell
University Press, 1991. Pp. x + 319.
ISBN 0-8014-2573-5. \$43.95. T. Da C.
Kaufmann, The Mastery of Nature: Aspects
of Art, Science, and Humanism in the
Renaissance. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1993. Pp. xix + 325,
ISBN 0-691-03204-1. \$39.95 . . . . . . 225--226
Stephen Pumfrey Book Review: David C. Lindberg and
Robert S. Westman (eds.), Reappraisals
of the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp.
xxvii + 551. ISBN 0-521-34804-8. \pounds
14.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--228
Julian Martin Book Review: Roy Porter and Mikulás Teich
(eds.), The Scientific Revolution in
National Context. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1992. Pp. xi + 305.
ISBN 0-521-39510-0, \pounds 35.00
(hardcover); 0-521-39699-9, \pounds
12.99 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 228--229
Paolo Casini Book Review: Zev Bechler, Newton's
Physics and the Conceptual Structure of
the Scientific Revolution. Boston
Studies in the Philosophy of Science
127. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1991. Pp. xviii + 588. ISBN
0-7923-1054-3. \pounds 103.00, \$189.00,
Dfl. 300.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
Dorinda Outram Book Review: J.-C. Beaune, S. Benoit, J.
Gayon, J. Roger and D. Woronoff (eds.),
Buffon 88: Actes du Colloque
international pour le bi-centenaire de
la mort de Buffon (Paris, Montbard,
Dijon, 14-22 June 1988). Paris:
Librairie Philosophique VRIN, 1992. Pp.
ix + 771. ISBN 2-7116-9755-X. 195FF . . 230--230
Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: David Knight, Humphry Davy:
Science and Power. Oxford: Blackwell,
1992. Pp. xiii + 218. ISBN
0-631-16816-8. \pounds 30.00 . . . . . . 230--231
Martin Kusch Book Review: Graham Richards, Mental
Machinery: The Origins and Consequences
of Psychological Ideas, Part 1:
1600--1850. London: The Athlone Press,
1992. Pp. xi + 490. ISBN 0-485-11394-5.
\pounds 50.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--233
Paul Weindling Book Review: Ulfried Geuter, The
Professionalization of Psychology in
Nazi Germany, translated by Richard J.
Holmes. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1992. Pp. xxi + 335. ISBN
0-521-33297-4. \pounds 35, \$54.95} . . 233--234
Geoffrey Blowers Book Review: Alan Gauld, A History of
Hypnotism. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1992. Pp. xvii + 738.
ISBN 0-521-30675-2. \pounds 75.00 . . . 234--235
W. H. Brock Book Review: Hans Werner Schütt, Eilhard
Mitscherlich: Baumeister am Fundament
der Chemie. Abhandlungen und Berichte,
Neue Folge 8. Munich: R. Oldenbourg
Verlag/Deutsches Museum, 1992. Pp. 192.
ISBN 3-486-26273-4. No price given . . . 235--236
Ben Marsden Book Review: A. N. Kolmogorov and A. P.
Yushkevich (eds.), Mathematics of the
19th Century: Mathematical Logic,
Algebra, Number Theory, Probability
Theory. Basel, Boston, Berlin:
Birkhäuser, 1992. Pp. xii + 308. ISBN
3-7643-2552-6. SFr. 198.00 . . . . . . . 236--237
Roger Smith Book Review: David Blitz, Emergent
Evolution: Qualitative Novelty and the
Levels of Reality. Episteme 19.
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1992. Pp. ix + 239. ISBN 0-7923-1658-4.
\pounds 52.00, \$89.00, Dfl. 150.00} . . 237--238
John Hedley Brooke Book Review: Ronald L. Numbers, The
Creationists: The Evolution of
Scientific Creationism. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, Inc., 1992. Pp. xvii + 458.
ISBN 0-679-40104-0. \$27.50} . . . . . . 238--239
Geof Bowker Book Review: E. Roy Weintraub (ed.),
Toward a History of Game Theory, Annual
Supplement to History of Political
Economy, vol. 24. Durham and London:
Duke University Press, 1992. Pp. vi +
306. ISBN 0-8223-1253-0. \pounds 29.95 239--240
Mari Williams Book Review: R. P. T. Davenport-Hines
and Judy Slinn, Glaxo: A History to
1962. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 405. ISBN
0-521-41539-X. \pounds 55.00 . . . . . . 240--241
Marie Boas Hall Book Review: Olaf Pedersen, Lovers of
Learning: A History of the Royal Danish
Academy of Sciences and Letters,
1742--1992. Copenhagen: Munksgaard: Det
Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab,
1992. Pp. 348. ISBN 87-7304-236-6. DKK
300.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--242
Stella Butler Book Review: Mary Holbrook, Science
Preserved: A Directory of Scientific
Instruments in Collections in the United
Kingdom and Eire, with additions and
revisions by R. G. W. Anderson and D. J.
Bryden. London: HMSO, 1992. Pp. 271.
ISBN 0-11-290060-7. \pounds 35.00 . . . 242--243
John Henry Book Review: British Journal for the
History of Philosophy, vol. 1, no. 1,
edited by G. A. J. Rogers. Bristol:
Thoemmes Press, 1993. Pp. 184. ISSN
0960-8788. Subscription: \pounds 28.00
per annum (individual), \pounds 36.00
(institutional) . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
Anonymous BJH volume 27 issue 2 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b8
Anonymous BJH volume 27 issue 2 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Menachem Fisch ``The emergency which has arrived'': the
problematic history of
nineteenth-century British algebra---a
programmatic outline . . . . . . . . . . 247--276
Geoffrey Cantor The making of a British theoretical
physicist --- E. C. Stoner's early
career . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--290
Bert Theunissen Knowledge is power: Hugo de Vries on
science, heredity and social progress 291--311
Susan W. Morris Fleeming Jenkin and \booktitleThe Origin
of Species: a reassessment . . . . . . . 313--343
Paul K. Hoch Whose scientific internationalism? . . . 345--349
David Bloor The moving forces of history . . . . . . 351--355
Frank Greenaway Wanted: new word . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--360
David Gooding Re-presenting Faraday . . . . . . . . . 361--364
Glancarlo Nonnoi Book Review: F. De Gandt (ed.), L'oeuvre
de Torricelli: Science Galiléenne et
nouvelle géométrie. Paris: Les Belles
Lettres, 1989 Pp. 247. ISBN
2-252-62032-X. No price given . . . . . 365--366
Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: Erasmus Bartholin,
Experiments on Birefringent Icelandic
Crystal, translated by Thomas Archibald.
Introduction by Jed Z. Buchwald and Kurt
Moller Pedersen, with a facsimile of the
original publication. Copenhagen: Danish
National Library of Science and
Medicine, 1991. Pp. 63 + 64. ISBN
87-7709-010-1. 160 DKK . . . . . . . . . 366--367
Stephen Johnston Book Review: Frances Willmoth, Sir Jonas
Moore: Practical Mathematics and
Restoration Science. Woodbridge,
Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1993. Pp. xi
+ 244. ISBN 0-85115-321-6. \pounds
35.00, \$70.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--368
Malcolm Oster Book Review: Robert K. Merton, On the
Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean
Postscript, the Post-Italianate Edition,
with a foreword by Umberto Eco, an
afterword by Denis Donoghue and a
Preface and Postface by the Author.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 1993. Pp. xxv + 320. ISBN
0-226-52086-2. \$14.95} . . . . . . . . 368--369
A. Rupert Hall Book Review: Domenico Bertoloni Meli,
Equivalence and Priority: Newton versus
Leibniz. Including Leibniz's Unpublished
Manuscripts on the Principia. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. ix + 318.
ISBN 0-19-853945-2. \pounds 55.00 . . . 369--371
Patricia Fara Book Review: John Brewer and Roy Porter
(eds.), Consumption and the World of
Goods. London: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xxi
+ 564. ISBN 0-415-03712-3. \pounds 75.00 371--373
Emma Spary Book Review: Pascal Duris, Linné et la
France (1780--1850). Histoire des idées
et critique littéraire, 318. Geneva:
Droz, 1993. Pp. 218. No price given . . 373--374
Brian P. Dolan Book Review: Richard Yeo, Defining
Science: William Whewell, Natural
Knowledge and Public Debate in Early
Victorian Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii + 280.
ISBN 0-521-43182-4. \pounds 35.00,
\$54.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--375
Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: Nahum Kipnis, History of
the Principle of Interference of Light.
Basel, Boston and Berlin: Birkhauser
Verlag, 1991. Pp. 271. ISBN
3-7643-2316-7. SFr. 118.00 . . . . . . . 375--376
Ian Higginson Book Review: Trevor H. Levere, Science
and the Canadian Arctic: A Century of
Exploration, 1818--1918. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp.
xiv + 438. ISBN 0-521-41933-6. \pounds
40.00, \$64.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--377
Helge Kragh Book Review: E. A. Tropp, V. Ya. Frenkel
and A. D. Chernin, Alexander A.
Friedmann: The Man who Made the Universe
Expand. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1993. Pp. x + 267. ISBN
0-521-38470-2. \pounds 49.95 . . . . . . 377--378
Bart Simon Book Review: John R. Huizenga, Cold
Fusion: The Scientific Fiasco of the
Century. Rochester, New York: University
of Rochester Press, 1992. Pp. xv + 259.
ISBN 1-878822-07-1. \pounds 29.50 . . . 378--379
Tim Jordan Book Review: Paul Hoyningen-Huene,
Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions:
Thomas S. Kuhn's Philosophy of Science,
translated by Alexander T. Levin with a
foreword by Thomas S. Kuhn; Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1993. Pp.
330. ISBN 0-226-35551-0, \pounds 30.50
(hardcover), 0-226-35551-9, \pounds
12.75 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 379--380
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--382
Anonymous BJH volume 27 issue 3 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b10
Anonymous BJH volume 27 issue 3 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Anne Secord Corresponding interests: artisans and
gentlemen in nineteenth-century natural
history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--408
William J. Ashworth The calculating eye: Baily, Herschel,
Babbage and the business of astronomy 409--441
David Burbridge Galton's 100: An exploration of Francis
Galton's imagery studies . . . . . . . . 443--463
A. Rupert Hall Obituary: Sir William Paton (1917--1993) 465--466
Sydney Ross De Morgan tussles with Smith's
\booktitleHarmonics in a comic poem . . 467--471
George Molland Book Review: George L. McDowell and
Merle A. Sokolik, The Data of Euclid:
Translated from the Text of Menge, with
Introduction by Richard Delahide
Ferrier. Baltimore: Union Square Press,
1993. Pp. xxi + 207. ISBN 0-9635924-0-8.
\$40.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--474
Antoni Malet Book Reviews: Rupert A. Hall, All Was
Light: An Introduction to Newton's
Opticks. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
Pp. xviii + 252. ISBN 0-19-853985-1.
\pounds 35.00. Alan E. Shapiro, Fits,
Passions, and Paroxysms: Physics,
Method, and Chemistry and Newton's
Theories of Colored Bodies and Fits of
Easy Reflection. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii + 400.
ISBN 0-521-40507-6. \pounds 45.00,
\$69.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--476
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Giulio Barsanti, La scala,
la mappa, l'albero. Immagini e
classificazioni della natura fra sei e
ottocento. Firenze: Sansoni, 1992. Pp.
xviii + 310. 60,000 Lire . . . . . . . . 476--477
Crosbie Smith Book Review: D. M. Cannell, George
Green, Mathematician and Physicist,
1793--1841. London: Athlone, 1993. Pp.
xxvi + 265. ISBN 0-485-11433-X. \pounds
35.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--479
Jon Agar Book Review: Alexander S. Sharov and
Igor D. Novikov. Edwin Hubble, the
Discoverer of the Big Bang Universe,
translated by Vitaly Kisin. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xv
+ 187. ISBN 0-521-41617-5. \pounds
19.95, \$34.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--480
Jonathan Harwood Book Review: Ute Deichmann, Biologen
unter Hitler: Vertreibung, Karrieren,
Forschungsförderung. Frankfurt: Campus
Verlag, 1992. Pp. 370. ISBN
3-593-34763-6. DM 38.00 . . . . . . . . 480--481
Colin A. Russell Book Review: Anthony S. Travis, The
Rainbow Makers: The Origins of the
Synthetic Dyestuffs Industry in Western
Europe. Bethlehem: Lehigh University
Press/London and Toronto: Associated
University Presses, 1993. Pp. 335. ISBN
0-934223-18-1. \pounds 41.95 . . . . . . 481--482
Keith Vernon Book Review: Robert Bud, The Uses of
Life: A History of Biotechnology.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1993. Pp. xvii + 299. ISBN
0-521-38240-8. \pounds 12.95, \$19.95
(paperback edition)} . . . . . . . . . . 482--483
Nigel Wright Book Review: Howard E. McCurdy, Inside
NASA: High Technology and Organizational
Change in the U.S. Space Program.
Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv + 215.
ISBN 0-8018-4452-5. \pounds 27.50 . . . 483--484
Malcolm Nicolson Book Review: Michael Shortland (ed.),
Science and Nature: Essays in the
History of the Environmental Sciences.
BSHS Monographs, 8. Oxford: British
Society for the History of Science,
1993. Pp. viii + 291. ISBN
0-906450-08-X. \pounds 10.00 . . . . . . 484--487
Gordon L. Herries Davies Book Review: Les Scientifiques et la
montagne. Actes du 116e Congr\`es
National des Sociétés Savantes, Section
d'Histoire des Sciences et des
Techniques. Paris: Minist\`ere de
l'Education Nationale et de la Culture;
Comité des Travaux Historiques et
Scientifiques, 1993. Pp. 296. ISBN
2-7355-0272-4. FF 300.00 . . . . . . . . 487--487
Jan Golinski Book Review: Harry Collins and Trevor
Pinch, The Golem: What Everyone Should
Know about Science. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1993. Pp. xii + 164.
ISBN 0-521-35601-6. \pounds 10.95,
\$19.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--488
Frank A. J. L. James Book Review: Bryan Appleyard,
Understanding the Present: Science and
the Soul of Modern Man. Paperback
edition, London: Pan Books, 1993
(hardback published 1992). Pp. xix +
283. ISBN 0-330-32013-0. \pounds 6.99 488--489
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--493
Anonymous Books reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--497
Anonymous Index of authors . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--499
G. Bennett Report of Council for the year 1993 . . 501--507
Critchleys Report of the Auditors for the year 1993 508--512
Anonymous BJH volume 27 issue 4 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b8
Anonymous BJH volume 27 issue 4 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Alan Q. Morton Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Patricia Fara `A treasure of hidden vertues': the
attraction of magnetic marketing . . . . 5--35
Larry Stewart and
Paul Weindling Philosophical threads: natural
philosophy and public experiment among
the weavers of Spitalfields . . . . . . 37--62
Alan Q. Morton Concepts of power: natural philosophy
and the uses of machines in
mid-eighteenth-century London . . . . . 63--78
Jane Wess Lecture demonstrations and the real
world: the case of cart-wheels . . . . . 79--90
Roy Porter Medical lecturing in Georgian London . . 91--99
John Henry Book Review: Toby E. Huff, The Rise of
Early Modern Science: Islam, China and
the West. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv + 409.
ISBN 0-521-43496-3. \pounds 35.00,
\$54.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--102
George Molland Book Review: Brian Lawn, The Rise and
Decline of the Scholastic `quaestio
disputata', With Special Emphasis on its
Use in the Teaching of Medicine and
Science. Education and Society in the
Middle Ages and Renaissance, 2. Leiden,
New York, Cologne: E. J. Brill, 1993.
Pp. ix + 176. ISBN 90-04-09740-6.
\$51.50, Gld. 90.00} . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
F. Jamil Ragep Book Review: Gad Freudenthal (ed.),
Studies on Gersonides, a
Fourteenth-Century
Philosopher-Scientist. Leiden: E. J.
Brill, 1992. Pp. xxi + 422. ISBN
90-04-09641-8. \$96.00, Gld. 168.00} . . 103--105
Stephen Pumfrey Book Review: Jean Dietz Moss, Novelties
in the Heavens: Rhetoric and Science in
the Copernican Controversy. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1993. Pp.
xiv + 353. ISBN 0-226-54234-3, \pounds
39.95 (hardcover); 0-226-54235-1,
\pounds 14.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . 105--106
Rob Iliffe Book Review: M. Biagioli, Galileo,
Courtier: The Practice of Science in the
Culture of Absolutism. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1993. Pp.
xii + 402. ISBN 0-226-04559-5. \pounds
23.95, \$29.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--108
Karl Schuhmann Book Review: Beverley C. Southgate,
`Covetous of Truth': The Life and Work
of Thomas White, 1593--1676.
International Archives of the History of
Ideas, 134. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1993. Pp. xi + 189. ISBN
0-7923-1926-5. \pounds 60.00 . . . . . . 108--109
John G. McEvoy Book Review: Marco Beretta, The
Enlightenment of Matter. The Definition
of Chemistry from Agricola to Lavoisier.
Canton, MA: Science History
Publications, 1993. Pp. xvi + 396,
illus. ISBN 0-88135-152-0. \$49.95} . . 109--111
Maurice Crosland Book Review: Arthur Donovan, Antoine
Lavoisier: Science, Administration and
Revolution. Blackwell Science
Biographies. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
Pp. xv + 351. ISBN 0-631-17887-2.
\pounds 35.00, \$29.95} . . . . . . . . 111--112
Martin Kusch Book Review: Michael Heidelberger, Die
innere Seite der Natur: Gustav Theodor
Fechners wissenschaftlich-philosophische
Weltauffassung. Philosophische
Abhandlungen, 60. Frankfurt-on-Main:
Vittorio Klostermann, 1993. Pp. 457.
ISBN 3-465-02590-3. DM 118 . . . . . . . 112--114
Roy Porter Book Review: Magda Whitrow, Julius
Wagner-Jauregg (1857--1940). London:
Smith-Gordon/Niigata-Shi, Japan:
Nishimura, 1993. Pp. xxiv + 221. ISBN
1-85463-012-1. \pounds 20.00 . . . . . . 114--115
Janet Browne Book Review: Colin Finnet, Paradise
Revealed: Natural History in
Nineteenth-Century Australia. Melbourne:
Museum of Victoria, 1993. Pp. xv + 186.
ISBN 0-7306-2494-3. A\$ 34.95} . . . . . 115--116
Peter J. Bowler Book Review: Paul Mengal (ed.), Histoire
du concept de récapitulation:
Ontogen\`ese et phylogen\`ese en
biologie et sciences humaines. Paris:
Masson, 1993. Pp. 132. ISBN
2-225-84057-1. 180 FF . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Ingemar Bohlin Book Review: Peter J. Bowler, Darwinism.
Twayne's Studies in Intellectual
History. New York: Twayne, 1993. Pp. xii
+ 118. ISBN 0-8057-8613-9, \$24.95
(hardcover); 0-8057-8638-4, \$14.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
Mark Harrison Book Review: Lewis Pyenson, Civilizing
Mission: Exact Sciences and French
Overseas Expansion, 1830--1940.
Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1993. Pp. xxi + 377.
ISBN 0-8018-4421-5. \pounds 37.00 . . . 119--120
Anita McConnell Book Review: Mari E. W. Williams, The
Precision Makers: A History of the
Instruments Industry in Britain and
France, 1870--1939. London: Routledge,
1993. Pp. viii + 216. ISBN
0-415-03732-8. \pounds 40.00 . . . . . . 120--121
Keith Vernon Book Review: C. Kenneth Waters and
Albert Van Helden (eds.), Julian Huxley.
Biologist and Statesman of Science.
Proceedings of a Conference held at Rice
University 25-27 September 1987.
Houston: Rice University Press, 1992.
Pp. xii + 344. ISBN 0-89263-314-X.
\$32.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--123
Jon Agar Book Review: Norbert Wiener, Invention:
The Care and Feeding of Ideas, with an
Introduction by Steve J. Heims.
Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press,
1993. Pp. xxiv + 159. ISBN
0-262-23167-0. \pounds 17.95 . . . . . . 123--124
Penelope Gouk Book Review: R. G. W. Anderson, J. A.
Bennett and W. F. Ryan (eds.), Making
Instruments Count: Essays on Historical
Scientific Instruments presented to
Gerard L'Estrange Turner. Aldershot:
Variorum, 1993. Pp. xix + 492. ISBN
0-86078-394-4. No price given . . . . . 124--125
Martin Kusch Book Review: Bruno Latour, We Have Never
Been Modern, translated by Catherine
Porter. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester
Wheatsheaf, 1993. Pp. x + 157. ISBN
0-7450-0682-X. \pounds 13.95 . . . . . . 125--126
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--129
Martin Kusch Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous BJH volume 28 issue 1 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b9
Anonymous BJH volume 28 issue 1 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f3
Stephen Pumfrey Who did the work? Experimental
philosophers and public demonstrators in
Augustan England . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--156
Simon Schaffer The show that never ends: perpetual
motion in the early eighteenth century 157--189
Dong-Won Kim J. J. Thomson and the emergence of the
Cavendish School, 1885--1990 . . . . . . 191--226
Gordon McOuat and
Mary P. Winsor J. B. S. Haldane's Darwinism in its
religious context . . . . . . . . . . . 227--231
Mari E. W. Williams Book Review: John North. The Fontana
History of Astronomy and Cosmology.
London: Fontana, 1994. Pp. xxvii + 697.
ISBN 0-00-686177-6. \pounds 12.99 . . . 233--234
Frank Greenaway Book Review: Donald Cardwell, The
Fontana History of Technology. London:
Fontana, 1994. Pp. xviii + 565. ISBN
0-00-686176-8. \pounds 9.99 . . . . . . 234--235
Antoni Malet Book Review: J. V. Field and Frank A. J.
L. James (eds.), Renaissance and
Revolution: Humanists, Scholars,
Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in
Early Modern Europe. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp.
xvi + 291. ISBN 0-521-43427-0. \pounds
37.50, \$49.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
A. Rupert Hall Book Review: Michel Blay. Les Raisons de
l'infini: Du monde clos \`a l'univers
mathématique. Paris: Gallimard, 1993. Pp.
258. ISBN 2-07-072992-3. 110 FF . . . . 236--237
E. C. Spary Book Review: Tore Frängsmyr (ed.),
Linnaeus: The Man and His Work.
Nantucket: Science History Publications,
1994. Pp. xiv + 206. ISBN 0-88135-154-7.
\$14.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
W. H. Brock Book Review: Ursula Klein, Verbindung
und Affinität. Die Grundlegung der
neuzeitlichen Chemie an der Wende vom
17. zum 18. Jahrhundert. Basel, Boston,
Berlin: Birkhäuser, 1994. Pp. ix + 270.
ISBN 3-7643-5003-2. \pounds 48.00, DM
128.00, SFr 108 00 . . . . . . . . . . . 238--239
Jan Golinski Book Review: Bernadette
Bensaude-Vincent, Lavoisier: Mémoires
d'une révolution. Preface by Michel
Serres. Paris: Flammarion, 1993. Pp.
469. ISBN 2-08-211208-X. 160.00 FF . . . 239--240
Joan Steigerwald Book Review: Stefano Poggi and Maurizio
Bossi (eds.), Romanticism in Science:
Science in Europe, 1790--1840. Boston
Studies in the Philosophy of Science,
152. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1994. Pp. xv + 245. ISBN
0-7923-2336-X. \pounds 70.00, \$107.00,
Dfl. 175.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--241
Iwan Rhys Morus Book Review: Maurice Crosland, Science
Under Control: The French Academy of
Sciences, 1795--1914. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp.
xix + 454. ISBN 0-521-41373-7. \pounds
60.00, \$120.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--242
David Knight Book Review: Mary Jo Nye. From Chemical
Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry:
Dynamics of Matter and Dynamics of
Disciplines, 1800--1950. Berkeley, Los
Angeles, London: University of
California Press, 1994. Pp. xvii + 328.
ISBN 0-520-08210-9. \$48.00} . . . . . . 242--243
Martin Kusch Book Review: Kurt Danziger. Constructing
the Subject: Historical Origins of
Psychological Research. Cambridge
Studies in the History of Psychology.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1994. Pp. ix + 254. ISBN 0-521-46785-3.
\pounds 12.95, \$16.95 (paperback
edition)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--245
Jon Agar Book Review: Gerald L. Geison and
Frederic L. Homes (eds.), Research
Schools: Historical Reappraisals. Osiris
8 (new series). Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 1993. Pp.
viii + 248. ISBN 0-226-28545-6. \$39.00
(hardcover); 0-226-28546-4, \$25.00
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
Arne Hessenbruch Book Review: Svante Lindqvist (ed.).
Center on the Periphery: Historical
Aspects of 20th-century Swedish Physics.
Canton, MA: Science History
Publications, 1993. Pp. iv + 516. ISBN
0-88135-157-1. \$49.95} . . . . . . . . 246--247
Willem Hackmann Book Review: Dan Ch. Christensen (ed.),
European Historiography of Technology
from the TISC-Conference in Roskilde.
Odense University Studies in History and
Social Sciences, 156. Odense, Denmark:
Odense University Press, 1993. Pp. 242.
ISBN 87-7492-910-0. DKK 275.00, \$37.00} 247--249
Anonymous Book Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--253
Joseph Gross The \booktitleNew Dictionary of National
Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--256
Anonymous BJH volume 28 issue 2 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b6
Anonymous BJH volume 28 issue 2 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Hugh Torrens Mary Anning (1799--1847) of Lyme: `the
greatest fossilist the world ever knew' 257--284
Rob Iliffe Material doubts: Hooke, artisan culture
and the exchange of information in 1670s
London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--318
Mark Jackson Images of deviance: visual
representations of mental defectives in
early twentieth-century medical texts 319--337
Mark Edward Lewis The Huainanzi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--343
A. E. L. Davis Kepler translated . . . . . . . . . . . 345--349
Charles W. J. Withers Book Review: Gunnar Eriksson. The
Atlantic Vision: Olaus Rudbeck and
Baroque Science. Uppsala Studies in
History of Science, 19. Canton, MA:
Science History Publications, 1994. Pp.
viii + 196. ISBN 0-88135-158-X. \$27.95} 351--353
Paul Wood Book Review: Albert V. Carozzi and Gerda
Bouvier, The Scientific Library of
Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1797):
Annotated Catalog of an 18th-Century
Bibliographic and Historic Treasure.
Mémoires de la Société de Physique et
d'Histoire naturelle de Gen\`eve, 46.
Gen\`eve: Société de Physique et
d'Histoire naturelle, 1994. Pp. x + 201.
ISSN 0252-7960. \$40 (US)} . . . . . . . 353--353
Mario Di Gregorio Book Review: Christiane Groeben (ed.),
Karl Ernst von Baer (1792--1876), Anton
Dohrn (1840--1909): Correspondence. With
an Introduction by Jane M. Oppenheimer.
Transactions of the American
Philosophical Society, 83. Philadelphia:
The American Philosophical Society,
1993. Pp. v + 156. ISBN 0-87169-833-1.
\$15.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--354
Eric L. Mills Book Review: Tim D. Smith, Scaling
Fisheries: The Science of Measuring the
Effects of Fishing, 1855--1955.
Cambridge Studies in Applied Biology and
Resource Management. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp.
xii + 392. ISBN 0-521-39032-X. \pounds
50.00, \$74.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--355
Heini-Eliisa Hakosalo Book Review: Adam Crabtree, From Mesmer
to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Roots
of Psychological Healing. New Haven and
London: Yale University Press, 1994. Pp.
x + 413. ISBN 0-300-05588-9. \pounds 30 355--357
Martin Kusch Book Review: Richard Noll, The Jung
Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement.
Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1994. Pp. xvi + 387. ISBN 0-691-03724-8.
\pounds 19.95, \$24.95} . . . . . . . . 357--358
Minna Uimonen Book Review: Elizabeth Lunbeck, The
Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge,
Gender, and Power in Modern America.
Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1994. Pp. xiv + 431. ISBN 0-691-04804-5.
\pounds 25.00, \$29.95} . . . . . . . . 358--359
Roger Smith Book Review: Dorothy Ross (ed.),
Modernist Impulses in the Human Sciences
1870--1930. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 379.
ISBN 0-8018-4744-3, \pounds 48.00
(hardcover); 0-8018-4745-1. \pounds
15.50 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 359--361
Norriss S. Hetherington Book Review: Erich Robert Paul, The
Milky Way Galaxy and Statistical
Cosmology, 1890--1924. Cambridge and New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Pp. xiv + 262. ISBN 0-521-35363-7.
\pounds 30.00, \$44.95} . . . . . . . . 361--362
P. M. Harman Book Review: Joseph F. Mulligan (ed.),
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857--1894): A
Collection of Articles and Addresses.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1994. Pp.
xxi + 442. \$70.00} . . . . . . . . . . 362--362
Arne Hessenbruch Book Review: Helmuth Albrecht (ed.),
Naturwissenschaft und Technik in der
Geschichte: 25 Jahre Lehrstuhl für
Geschichte der Naturwissenschaft und
Technik am Historischen Institut der
Universität Stuttgart. Stuttgart: Verlag
für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften
und Technik, 1993. Pp. 402. ISBN
3-928186-15-9. DM 40.00 . . . . . . . . 362--364
Andrew Warwick Book Review: Mara Beller, Juergen Renn
and Robert Schulmann (eds.), Einstein in
Context, Science in Context, vol. 6,
part 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1993. Pp. 368. ISSN
0-691-10250-3. \pounds 25.00, \$43.00
(single part)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--368
Naohiko Hiromasa Book Review: Hideo Yoshikawa and Joanne
Kauffman. Science has no National
Borders: Harry C. Kelly and the
Reconstruction of Science in Postwar
Japan. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT
Press, 1994. Pp. xvii + 137. ISBN
0-262-24037-8. \pounds 19.95, \$29.95} 368--369
Seymour Mauskopf Book Review: David J. Hess, Science in
the New Age: The Paranormal, Its
Defenders and Debunkers, and American
Culture. Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 1993. Pp. xi + 243.
ISBN 0-229-13820-8, \pounds 38.50
(hardcover); 0-229-13824-0, \pounds
16.50 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 369--370
David Edgerton Book Review: Merrit Roe Smith and Leo
Marx (eds.), Does Technology Drive
History? The Dilemma of Technological
Determinism. Cambridge, MA and London:
MIT Press, 1994. Pp. xv + 280. ISBN
0-262-19347-7, \pounds 31.50
(hardcover); 0-262-69167-1, \pounds
14.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . 370--372
Donald Cardwell Book Review: Richard L. Hills, Power
from Wind: A History of Windmill
Technology, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1994. Pp. ix + 324,
illus. ISBN 0-521-41398-2. \pounds
45.00, \$59.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--373
Sally M. Horrocks Book Review: Howard P. Segal, Future
Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of
Technology in America. Amherst:
University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
Pp. xviii + 245. ISBN 0-87023-881-7,
\pounds 38.00 (hardcover);
0-87023-882-5, \pounds 15.20 (paperback) 373--374
Colin A. Hempstead Book Review: Henry Petroski, Design
Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and
Judgement in Engineering. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp.
xii + 209. ISBN 0-521-46108-1, \pounds
30.00, \$42.95 (hardcover);
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(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--375
Bill Gerrard Book Review: Philip Mirowski (ed.),
Edgeworth on Chance, Economic Hazard,
and Statistics. Lanham, MD: Rowman and
Littlefield, 1994. Pp. vii + 462. ISBN
0-8476-7751-6. \$45.00} . . . . . . . . 375--376
Matthias Klaes Book Review: Philip Mirowski (ed.),
Natural Images in Economic Thought:
`Markets read in Tooth and Claw'.
Historical Perspectives on Modern
Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1994. Pp. xiii + 618.
ISBN 0-521-47884-7. \pounds 22.95 . . . 376--377
Tim Murray Book Review: Michael A. Cremo and
Richard L. Thompson, Forbidden
Archeology: The Hidden History of the
Human race. San Diego: Govardhan Hill
Publishing/Bhativedanta Institute, 1993.
Pp. xxxvii + 914. ISBN 0-9635309-8-4.
\pounds 28.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--379
John Henry Book Review: W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter
(eds.), Companion Encyclopaedia of the
History of Medicine, 2 vols. London and
New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xxvi +
1806. ISBN 0-415-04771-4. \pounds 150.00 379--381
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Bernard R. Goldstein and
Peter Barker The role of Rothmann in the dissolution
of the celestial spheres . . . . . . . . 385--403
Harvey W. Becher Radicals, Whigs and conservatives: the
middle and lower classes in the
analytical revolution at Cambridge in
the age of aristocracy . . . . . . . . . 405--426
Roy Macleod `Kriegsgeologen and practical men':
military geology and modern memory,
1914--1918 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--450
Peter Dear Trust Boyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--454
David Oldroyd `Total' history . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--459
A. G. Keller Book Review: Roland Bechmann, Villard de
Honnecourt: La pensée technique au XIIIe
si\`ecle et sa communication. Paris:
Picard, 1991. Pp. 383, ISBN
2-7084-0367-2. 420 FF . . . . . . . . . 461--463
Serafina Cuomo Book Review: R. W. Hadden, On the
Shoulders of Merchants: Exchange and the
Mathematical Conception of Nature in
Early Modern Europe. Albany: State
University of New York, 1994. Pp. xviii
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J. Bruce Brackenridge Book Review: Bruce Stephenson, The Music
of the Heavens: Kepler's Harmonic
Astronomy. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1994. Pp. xi + 260.
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John Henry Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 466--468
Sarah McNaught Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 468--469
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Charles W. J. Withers Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 473--474
Janet Browne Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 474--475
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Michael Shortland Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 477--480
Andrew Warwick Book Review: \booktitleThe collected
papers of Albert Einstein, vol 3, The
Swiss years: Writings, 1909--1911 --- M.
J. Klein, A. J. Kox, J. Renn, R.
Schulmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--482
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David Smith Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 487--488
Noel G. Coley Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 488--489
Mark Jackson Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 489--490
Nigel Wright Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 490--491
Tim Murray Review: [untitled] . . . . . . . . . . . 491--491
Tim Murray Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--514
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David Wright John Fryer and the Shanghai Polytechnic:
making space for science in
nineteenth-century China . . . . . . . . 1--16
Soraya De Chadarevian Laboratory science versus country-house
experiments. The controversy between
Julius Sachs and Charles Darwin . . . . 17--41
M. Eileen Magnello Karl Pearson's Gresham lectures: W. F.
R. Weldon, speciation and the origins of
Pearsonian statistics . . . . . . . . . 43--63
Gerrylynn K. Roberts C. K. Ingold at University College
London: educator and department head . . 65--82
Ute Deichmann Genetics in Germany . . . . . . . . . . 83--87
Cornelius O'Boyle Book Review: Tamsyn Barton, Ancient
Astrology. London and New York:
Routledge, 1994. Pp. xxv + 245. ISBN
0-415-11029-7. \pounds 12.99 . . . . . . 89--91
Charlotte Methuen Book Review: Sachiko Kusukawa, The
Transformation of Natural Philosophy:
The Case of Philip Melanchthon.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1995. ISBN 0-521-47347-0. \pounds 35.00 91--92
Antoni Malet Book Review: Galileo Galilei, Diálogo
sobre los dos máximos sistemas del mundo
ptolemaico y copernicano, edited and
translated by Antonio Beltrán Marí.
Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1994. Pp.
lxxxiii + 417. ISBN 84-206-9412-6. No
price given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--93
Ole Peter Grell Book Reviews: Pamela H. Smith, The
Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture
in the Holy Roman Empire. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp.
xii + 308. ISBN 0-691-05691-9. \pounds
30.00, \$45.00. Raphael Patai, The
Jewish Alchemists: A History and
Sourcebook. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1994. Pp. xv + 617.
ISBN 0-691-03290-4. \pounds 29.95,
\$35.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Peter Anstey Book Review: Michael Hunter (ed.),
Robert Boyle: By Himself and His
Friends. London: Pickering, 1994. Pp.
cvii + 188. ISBN 1-85196-085-6. \pounds
49.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Christopher J. Lawrence Book Review: Adrian Wilson, The Making
of Man-Midwifery: Childbirth in England,
1660--1770. London: UCL Press, 1995 Pp
xii + 240. ISBN 1-85728-292-2. \pounds
40.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--97
Steven Shapin Book Review: Anne Goldgar, Impolite
Learning: Conduct and Community in the
Republic of Letters, 1680--1750. New
Haven, CT, and London: Yale University
Press, 1995. Pp. xv + 395. ISBN
0-300-05359-2. \pounds 25 . . . . . . . 97--98
Maurice Crosland Book Review: Emmanuel Grison, Michelle
Goupil and Patrice Bret (eds.), A
Scientific Correspondence during the
Chemical Revolution: Louis-Bernard
Guyton de Morveau and Richard Kirwan,
1782--1802. Berkeley Papers in History
of Science, 17. Berkeley: Office for
History of Science and Technology,
University of California at Berkeley,
1995. Pp. vi + 257. ISBN 0-918102-21-9.
\$10.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--99
Iwan Rhys Morus Book Review: Christine Blondel and
Matthias Dörries (eds.), Restaging
Coulomb: Usages, controverses et
réplications autour de la balance de
torsion. Biblioteca di Nuncius, Studi e
Testi, 15. Florence: Leo S. Olschki,
1994. Pp. 167. ISBN 88-222-4196-7.
37,000 lire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--101
Michael Shortland Book Review: Jonathan Smith, Fact and
Feeling: Baconian Science and the
Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,
1995. Pp. 277. ISBN 0-299-14350-3,
\pounds 46.95 (hardcover);
0-299-14354-6, \pounds 20.50 (paperback) 101--102
Christopher J. Lawrence Book Review: Mark S. Micale, Approaching
Hysteria: Disease and Its
Interpretations. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1995. Pp. xii + 327.
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\$29.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
A. J. Soyland Book Review: Roger Smith, Inhibition:
History and Meaning in the Sciences of
Mind and Brain. London: Free Association
Books, 1992. Pp. ix + 333. ISBN
1-85343-181-8. \pounds 37.50 . . . . . . 103--104
Richard Yeo Book Review: Robert Chambers, Vestiges
of the Natural History of Creation and
other Evolutionary Writings. Edited with
a new Introduction by James A. Secord.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1994. Pp. xlviii + 390 + 254. ISBN
0-226-10073-1. \pounds 15.95, \$22.95} 104--105
Anne Secord Book Review: Michael Shortland (ed.),
Hugh Miller's Memoir: From Stonemason to
Geologist. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press, 1995. Pp. v + 266.
ISBN 0-7486-0521-5. \pounds 12.95 . . . 105--106
Graeme Gooday Book Review: Adrian Desmond, Huxley: The
Devil's Disciple. London: Michael
Joseph, 1994. Pp. xvii + 475. ISBN
0-7181-3641-1. \pounds 20.00 . . . . . . 106--107
P. M. Harman Book Review: Elizabeth Carber, Stephen
G. Brush and C. W. F. Everitt (eds.),
\booktitleMaxwell on Heat and
Statistical Mechanics: On `Avoiding All
Personal Enquiries of Molecules'.
London: Associated University Presses,
1995, Pp. 550. ISBN 0-934223-34-3.
\pounds 45.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--109
Andrew Warwick Book Review: Martin J. Klein, Anne J.
Kox, Juergen Renn and Robert Schulmann
(eds.), The Collected Papers of Albert
Einstein. Volume 5: The Swiss Years:
Correspondence, 1902--1914. English
translation by Anna Beck and Don Howard.
Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1995. Pp. xvii + 384. ISBN
0-691-00099-9. \pounds 29.95, \$19.50} 109--110
Ben Marsden Book Review: Robert Fox and Anna
Guagnini (eds.), Education, Technology
and Industrial Performance in Europe,
1850--1939. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii + 302.
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\$59.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--112
Malcolm Nicolson Book Review: Joel B. Hagen, An Entangled
Bank: The Origins of Ecosystem Ecology.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University
Press, 1992. Pp. xii + 245. ISBN
0-8135-1823-7, \$38} . . . . . . . . . . 112--114
Mark Harrison Book Review: Anne Godlewska and Neil
Smith (eds.), Geography and Empire.
Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. Pp. xii + 402.
ISBN 0-631-19384-7, \pounds 50.00,
\$64.95 (hardcover); 0-631-19385-5,
\pounds 15.99, \$24.95 (paperback) . . . 114--116
Sally M. Horrocks Book Review: Thomas J. Misa, A Nation of
Steel: The Making of Modern America,
1865--1925. Baltimore and London: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1995, Pp. xxvi
+ 367. ISBN 0-8018-4967-5. \$42.50} . . 116--117
Bill Luckin Book Review: Arne Kaijser and Marika
Hedin (eds.), Nordic Energy Systems:
Historical Perspectives and Current
Issues. Canton, MA: Science History
Publications, 1995. Pp. xi + 246, illus.
ISBN 0-88135-164-4. \$39.95} . . . . . . 117--118
Glenn E. Bugos Book Review: Susan Wright, Molecular
Politics: Developing American and
British Regulatory Policy for Genetic
Engineering, 1972--1982. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1994. Pp.
xxiii + 591. ISBN 0-226-91065-2, \pounds
59.95. \$75.00 (hardcover);
0-226-91066-0, \pounds 23.95, \$29.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--119
Mark McKenzie Book Review: Raymond Corbey and Bert
Theunissen (eds.), Ape, Man, Apeman:
Changing Views Since 1600. Evaluative
Proceedings of the Symposium Ape, Man,
Apeman: Changing Views Since 1600,
Leiden, the Netherlands, 28 June --- 1
July, 1993. Leiden: Department of
Prehistory, Leiden University, 1995. Pp.
408, illus. ISBN 90-73368-05-7. Dfl.
45.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120
Nicolas Rasmussen Book Review: M. Norton Wise (ed.), The
Values of Precision. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp
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John Fauvel Book Review: R. V. Wallis and P. J.
Wallis, Index of British Mathematicians,
Part III: 1701--1800. Newcastle upon
Tyne: Project for Historical
Bibliography (R. V. Wallis, 43
Briarfield Rd, Newcastle NE3 3UH), 1993,
Pp. xiv + 176, illus. ISBN
1-871768-01-2. \pounds 22.00 . . . . . . 121--123
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--127
John Fauvel Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
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David Knight Presidential Address: Getting science
across . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--138
Paul Lucier Court and controversy: patenting science
in the nineteenth century . . . . . . . 139--154
Bruce J. Hunt Scientists, engineers and Wildman
Whitehouse: measurement and credibility
in early cable telegraphy . . . . . . . 155--169
Clive Cohen The early history of chemical
engineering: a reassessment . . . . . . 171--194
Deepak Kumar The `culture' of science and colonial
culture, India 1820--1920 . . . . . . . 195--209
Andrea Napoli Hobbes' correspondence . . . . . . . . . 211--215
Paolo Palladino Bringing the world into the laboratory,
or the (ir)resistible rise of \em
Drosophila melanogaster . . . . . . . . 217--221
Jon Agar History of science on the World Wide Web 223--227
George Molland Book Review: Jens Hòyrup, In Measure,
Number, and Weight: Studies in
Mathematics and Culture. SUNY Series in
Science, Technology and Society. Albany:
State University of New York Press,
1994. Pp. xviii + 430. ISBN
0-7914-1821-9. \$16.95} . . . . . . . . 229--230
Cornelius O'Boyle Book Review: Laura Ackerman Smoller,
History, Prophecy, and the Stars: The
Christian Astrology of Pierre d'Ailly,
1350--1420. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 233.
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\$35.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--232
Marcus Hellyer Book Review: Albert Krayer, Mathematik
im Studienplan der Jesuiten: Die
Vorlesung von Otto Cattenius an der
Universität Mainz (1610/11). Beiträge zur
Geschichte der Universität Mainz, 15.
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991.
Pp. ix + 434. ISBN 3-515-05874-5. DM
98.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--233
L. W. B. Brockliss Book Review: Maija Kallinen, Change and
Stability: Natural Philosophy at the
Academy of Turku, 1640--1713. Helsinki:
Finnish Historical Society, 1995. Pp.
439. ISBN 951-710-001-6. No price given 233--234
Stuart Brown Book Review: Allison P. Coudert, Leibniz
and the Kabbalah. International Archives
of the History of Ideas. Dordrecht:
Kluwer Academic, 1995. Pp. xvii + 218.
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\$109.00, Dfl. 165.00} . . . . . . . . . 234--236
Geoffrey Cantor Book Review: Casper Hakfoort, Optics in
the Age of Euler: Conceptions of the
Nature of Light, 1700--1795. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995, Pp.
vii + 243. ISBN 0-521-40471-1. \pounds
35.00, \$64.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--238
Maurice Crosland Book Review: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
and Ferdinando Abbri (eds.), Lavoisier
in European Context: Negotiating a New
Language for Chemistry. Nantucket:
Science History Publications, 1995. Pp.
vii + 303. ISBN 0-88135-189-X. \$45.95} 238--238
Paolo Palladino Book Review: Gerald L. Geison, The
Private Science of Louis Pasteur.
Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1995. Pp. xiv + 378. ISBN 0-691-03442-7.
\pounds 24.95, \$29.95} . . . . . . . . 239--240
Tim Murray Book Review: A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Men
Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science
and the Discovery of Human Prehistory.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1993. Pp. xv + 267. ISBN 0-226-84991-0,
\$51.75 (hardcover); 0-226-84922-9,
\$19.50 (paperback) . . . . . . . . . . 240--242
Michael Heffernan Book Review: Michael A. Osborne, Nature,
the Exotic, and the Science of French
Colonialism. Bloomington and
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press,
1994. Pp. xvi + 216. ISBN 0-253-34266-X.
\pounds 32.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--244
M. Eileen Magnello Book Review: J. Rosser Matthews,
Quantification and the Quest for Medical
Certainty. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1995. Pp. x + 195.
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M. Norton Wise Book Review: Theodore M. Porter, Trust
in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity
in Science and Public Life. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp.
xiv + 310. ISBN 0-691-03776-0. \pounds
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Ben Marsden Book Review: Robert A. Rosenberg, Paul
B. Israel, Keith A. Nier and Martha J.
King (eds.), The Papers of Thomas A.
Edison. Volume 3: Menlo Park: The Early
Years, April 1876 --- December 1877.
Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1994. Pp. xlvii + 727.
ISBN 0-8018-3102-4. \pounds 54.00 . . . 247--249
Mark Jackson Book Review: Pauline M. H. Mazumdar,
Species and Specificity: An
Interpretation of the History of
Immunology. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995. Pp. xiii + 457.
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\$64.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--250
Edward J. Larson Book Reviews: Ronald L. Numbers (General
Editor), Creationism in
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Anthology of Documents, 1903--1961. New
York: Garland Publishing, 1995. ISBN
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of: Volume 1: Ronald L. Numbers (ed.),
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Pp. xxvi + 505, illus. ISBN
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Nigel Wright Book Review: John Krige and Arturo
Russo, Europe in Space, 1960--1973.
Noordwijk: European Space Agency
Publications Division, 1994. Pp. viii +
142, illus. ISBN 92-9092-125-0. Dfl.
70.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--253
Deborah Brunton Book Review: Lawrence I. Conrad, Michael
Neve, Vivian Nutton, Roy Porter and
Andrew Wear, The Western Medical
Tradition 800 BC to AD 1800. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.
xiv + 556. ISBN, 0-521-38135-5, \pounds
60.00, \$89.95 (hardcover);
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(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--254
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--256
Anonymous BJH volume 29 issue 2 Cover and Back
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Penelope Gouk Performance practice: Music, medicine
and natural philosophy in interregnum
Oxford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--288
Malcolm Nicolson Humboldtian plant geography after
Humboldt: the link to ecology . . . . . 289--310
Hannah Gay Invisible resource: William Crookes and
his circle of support, 1871--1881 . . . 311--336
Richard J. Howarth Sources for a history of the ternary
diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--356
Arie Leegwater Telling the story of science and
religion: a nuanced account . . . . . . 357--359
Faye Getz Book Review: Roger French, Ancient
Natural History: Histories of Nature.
Sciences in Antiquity. London and New
York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. xxii + 357.
ISBN 0-415-11545-0. \pounds 15.99 . . . 361--362
R. N. D. Martin Book Review: Pierre Duhem, The Origins
of Statics: The Sources of Physical
Theory, translated from the French by
Grant F. Leneaux, Victor N. Vagliente
and Guy H. Wagener, with a Foreword by
Stanley L. Jaki. Boston Studies in the
Philosophy of Science, 123. Dordrecht:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. Pp.
xxxvi + 593. ISBN 0-7923-0898-0. \pounds
99.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--363
John Henry Book Review: Edward Grant, Planets,
Stars, and Orbs: The Medieval Cosmos,
1200--1687. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1994. Pp. xxiii + 816.
ISBN 0-521-43344-4. \pounds 45.00,
\$69.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--364
Charlotte Methuen Book Review: Ivo Schneider, Johannes
Faulhaber, 1580--1635: Rechenmeister in
einer Welt des Umbruchs. Vita
Mathematica, 7. Basel, Boston, Berlin:
Birkhäuser, 1993. Pp. xiv + 271. ISBN
3-7643-2919-X. SFr. 88.00, DM 98.00 . . 364--365
Marcus Hellyer Book Review: Otto Von Guericke, The New
(So-Called) Magdeburg Experiments of
Otto von Guericke, translated by
Margaret Glover Foley Ames. Dordrecht:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994. Pp.
xxiv + 394, illus. ISBN 0-7923-2399-8.
\pounds 112.00, \$170.00, Dfl. 280.00} 365--366
Richard Yeo Book Review: Jean Le Rond D'alembert,
Preliminary Discourse to the
Encyclopedia of Diderot, translated by
Richard N. Schwab. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. 224. ISBN
0-226-13476-8. \pounds 8.75 . . . . . . 366--367
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Dorinda Outram, The
Enlightenment: New Approaches to
European History. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995. Pp. xv + 141.
ISBN 0-521-41522-5, \pounds 27.95,
\$44.95 (hardcover); 0-521-42534-4,
\pounds 9.95, \$14.95 (paperback) . . . 367--368
Adrian Johns Book Review: Barbara Maria Stafford,
Artful Science: Enlightenment
Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual
Education. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
1994. Pp. xxix + 350. ISBN
0-262-19342-6. \pounds 24.95 . . . . . . 368--369
Mark Harrison Book Review: Richard H. Grove, Green
Imperialism: Colonial Expansion,
Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of
Environmentalism, 1600--1860. Studies in
Environmental History. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.
xiv + 540. ISBN 0-521-40385-5. \pounds
45.00, \$64.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--372
Crosbie Smith Book Review: Kenneth L. Caneva, Robert
Mayer and the Conservation of Energy.
Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1993. Pp. xxiii + 439. ISBN
0-691-08758-X. \pounds 33.00, \$49.50} 372--373
Nicolas Rasmussen Book Review: Lynn K. Nyhart, Biology
Takes Form: Animal Morphology and the
German Universities. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xiii + 414.
ISBN 0-226-61086-1, \pounds 59.95,
\$75.00 (hardcover); 0-226-61088-8,
\pounds 21.95, \$27.50(paperback) . . . 373--374
Jon Hodge Book Review: Frederick Burkhardt and
Sydney Smith, A Calendar of the
Correspondence of Charles Darwin,
1821--1882, with Supplement. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp.
vii + 690 + 49. ISBN 0-521-43423-8.
\pounds 95.00, \$150.00} . . . . . . . . 374--375
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: Marco Panza and Jean-Claude
Pont (eds.), Les Savants et
l'epistémologie vers la fin du XIXe
si\`ecle. Paris: Blanchard, 1995. Pp.
vii + 282. ISBN 2-85367-196-8. 150.00 FF 375--376
Jeff Hughes Book Review: Bruce R. Wheaton, Inventory
of Sources for History of Twentieth
Century Physics: Report and Microfiche
Index to 700,000 Letters. With the
assistance of Robin E. Rider. Stuttgart:
Verlag für Geschichte der
Naturwissenschaften und der Technik,
1993. Pp. x + 294, and microfiches. ISBN
3-928186-09-4. \$599} . . . . . . . . . 376--377
Tim Jordan Book Review: C. W. Kilmister,
Eddington's Search for a Fundamental
Theory: A Key to the Universe.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1994. Pp. xii + 256. ISBN 0-521-37165-1.
\pounds 35.00, \$59.95} . . . . . . . . 377--378
Martin Kusch Book Review: Allan Megill (ed.),
Rethinking Objectivity. Durham, NC, and
London: Duke University Press, 1994. Pp.
x + 342. ISBN 0-8223-1479-7, \pounds
43.50 (hardcover); 0-8223-1494-0,
\pounds 14.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . 378--380
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--380
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--383
Anonymous BJH volume 29 issue 3 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b2
Anonymous BJH volume 29 issue 3 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
Federico Bonelli and
Lucio Russo The origin of modern astronomical
theories of tides: Chrisogono, de
Dominis and their sources . . . . . . . 385--401
Iwan Rhys Morus Manufacturing nature: science,
technology and Victorian consumer
culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--434
Sophie Forgan and
Graeme Gooday Constructing South Kensington: the
buildings and politics of T. H. Huxley's
working environments . . . . . . . . . . 435--468
Michael B. Roberts Darwin at Llanymynech: the evolution of
a geologist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--478
James Larson Book Review: Marco Beretta, The Starry
Messenger and the Polar Star: Scientific
Relations between Italy and Sweden from
1500 to 1800. Catalogue of an Exhibition
held at the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet,
Stockholm. Uppsala Studies in History of
Science, 22. Prato: Giunti, 1995. Pp.
188, illus. ISBN 88-09-20793-9. No price
given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--480
Harold J. Cook Book Review: Catherine Wilson, The
Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy
and the Invention of the Microscope.
Studies in Intellectual History and the
History of Philosophy. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. x
+ 280. ISBN 0-691-03418-4. \pounds
32.00, \$39.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--481
Maurice Crosland Book Review: Revue d'histoire des
sciences, Volume 48, Parts 1 and 2:
Débats et chantiers actuels autour de
Lavoisier et la révolution chimique.
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France,
1995. Pp. 230. ISBN 2-13-046972-8. ISSN
0151-4105. Subscription: 510 F per annum
outside France . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--482
Richard L. Kremer Book Review: R. Steven Turner, In the
Eye's Mind: Vision and the
Helmholtz-Hering Controversy. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp.
xiv + 338. ISBN 0-691-03397-8. \pounds
37.50, \$49.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--483
Martin Kusch Book Review: Mitchell G. Ash, Gestalt
Psychology in German Culture,
1890--1967: Holism and the Quest for
Objectivity. Cambridge Studies in the
History of Psychology. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.
xii + 513. ISBN 0-521-47540-6. \pounds
35.00, \$54.90} . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--486
Jon Agar Book Reviews: William Sheehan, The
Immortal Fire Within. The Life and Work
of Edward Emerson Barnard. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.
xiv + 429, illus. ISBN 0-521-44489-6.
\pounds 40.00, \$49.95. Gale E.
Christianson, Edwin Hubble. Mariner of
the Nebulae. New York: Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 1995. Pp. x + 420, illus.
ISBN 0-374-14660-8. \$27.50 . . . . . . 486--488
Andrew Warwick Book Review: R. H. Dalitz (ed.), The
Collected Works of P. A. M. Dirac,
1924--48. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995. Pp. xxiv + 1310.
ISBN 0-521-36231-8. \pounds 175.00,
\$250.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--489
Massimo Mazzotti Book Review: J. W. Dauben, Abraham
Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard
Analysis, a Personal and Mathematical
Odyssey. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1995. Pp. xix + 559. ISBN
0-691-03745-0. \pounds 40.00, \$49.50} 489--490
Sally M. Horrocks Book Review: M. Bauer (ed.), Resistance
to New Technology: Nuclear Power,
Information Technology and
Biotechnology. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995. Pp. xii + 422.
ISBN 0-521-45518-9. \pounds 50.00,
\$74.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490--491
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--494
Anonymous Books Reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--497
Anonymous Index of authors . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--499
Anonymous Report of Council for the year 1995 . . 501--506
Critchleys Report of the Auditors for the year 1995 506--507
Anonymous Income and Expenditure Account for the
Year Ended 31 December 1995 . . . . . . 508--512
Anonymous BJH volume 29 issue 4 Cover and Back
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b6
Anonymous BJH volume 29 issue 4 Cover and Front
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
John Brooke Introduction \em `Small beginnings in a
disturbed world' . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Geoffrey Cantor Presidential Address: Charles Singer and
the early years of the British Society
for the History of Science . . . . . . . 5--23
William A. Smeaton History of science at University College
London: 1919--1947 . . . . . . . . . . . 25--28
J. A. Bennett Museums and the establishment of the
history of science at Oxford and
Cambridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--46
Robert Bud History of science and the Science
Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--50
Anna-Katherina Mayer Moralizing science: the uses of
science's past in national education in
the 1920s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--70
Charles Singer The role of the history of science . . . 71--73
Jonathan R. Topham A note on the archives of the British
Society for the History of Science,
1947--1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
Janet Browne Officers and council members of the
British Society for the History of
Science, 1947--1997 . . . . . . . . . . 77--89
Anonymous Foundation members and members of the
British Society for the History of
Science on 1 June 1948 . . . . . . . . . 91--94
Mansel Davies Obituary: Joseph Needham (1900--1995) 95--100
Jon Agar Book Review: Frederik Nebeker,
Calculating the Weather: Meteorology in
the 20th Century. San Diego: Academic
Press, 1995. Pp. vii + 255, illus. ISBN
0-12-515175-6. \$64.95} . . . . . . . . 101--121
Mark Harrison Book Review: Deepak Kumar, Science and
the Raj, 1857--1905. New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 1995. Pp. xv + 273.
ISBN 0-19-563562-0. 425 Rupees . . . . . 101--121
Martin Kusch Book Review: David E. Leary (ed.),
Metaphors in the History of Psychology.
Cambridge Studies in the History of
Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv + 383.
ISBN 0-521-42152-7. \pounds 12.95,
\$17.95 (paperback edition)} . . . . . . 101--121
Scott Mandelbrote Book Review: William R. Newman,
Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George
Starkey, an American Alchemist in the
Scientific Revolution. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1994. Pp. xvi
+ 348, illus. ISBN 0-674-34171-6.
\pounds 39.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--121
Paul McKevitt Book Review: Daniel Crevier, AI: The
Tumultuous History of the Search for
Artificial Intelligence. London and New
York: Basic Books, 1993. Pp. xiv + 386.
ISBN 0-465-02997-3. \pounds 17.99,
\$27.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--121
David R. Oldroyd Book Review: Gordon L. Herries Davies,
North from the Hook: 150 Years of the
Geological Survey of Ireland. Dublin:
Geological Survey of Ireland, 1995. Pp.
xi + 342, illus. ISBN 1-899702-00-8.
\pounds 34.00, \$57.00} . . . . . . . . 101--121
Paolo Palladino Book Review: Alan E. H. Emery and Marcia
L. H. Emery, The History of a Genetic
Disease: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy or
Meryon's Disease. London: Royal Society
of Medicine Press, 1995. Pp. xviii +
248, illus. ISBN 1-85315-249-8. \pounds
20.00, \$40.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--121
Michael H. Shank Book Reviews: Annibale Fantoli, Galileo:
For Copernicanism and for the Church,
translated by George V. Coyne, SJ. Studi
Galileiani, 3. Rome: Vatican Observatory
Publications, 1994 (distributed outside
Italy by University of Notre Dame Press,
Notre Dame, IN). First edition: pp. xix
+ 540. ISBN 0-268-01029-3. Second
edition, revised and corrected, 1996,
pp. xx + 567. ISBN 0-268-01032-3.
\$21.95. Rivka Feldhay, Galileo and the
Church: Political Inquisition or
Critical Dialogue? Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995. Pp. viii + 303.
ISBN 0-521-34468-8. \pounds 35.00,
\$54.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--121
John Sutton Book Review: Georges Canguilhem, A Vital
Rationalist: Selected Writings from
Georges Canguilhem, edited by François
Delaporte and translated by Arthur
Goldhammer. New York: Zone Books, 1994.
Pp. 481. ISBN 0-942299-72-8. \pounds
24.25, \$36.25} . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--121
Mari Williams Book Review: Rene Taton and Curtis
Wilson (eds.), The General History of
Astronomy, Volume 2. Planetary Astronomy
from the Renaissance to the Rise of
Astrophysics. Part B: The Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.
xiii + 281. ISBN 0-521-35168-5. \pounds
45.00, \$69.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--121
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--125
Paul McKevitt Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Paula Gould Women and the culture of university
physics in late nineteenth-century
Cambridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--149
J. F. M. Clark `The ants were duly visited': making
sense of John Lubbock, scientific
naturalism and the senses of social
insects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--176
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang `Stars should henceforth register
themselves': astrophotography at the
early Lick Observatory . . . . . . . . . 177--202
Helge Kragh S. M. Jòrgensen and his controversy with
A. Werner: a reconsideration . . . . . . 203--219
Michael Hunter and
Malcolm De Mowbray Book Review: Essay review The editor in
the republic of letters Eric G. Forbes,
Lesley Murdin and Francis Willmoth
(eds.), The Correspondence of John
Flamsteed, First Astronomer Royal.
Volume 1: 1666--1682. Bristol and
Philadelphia: Institute of Physics
Publishing, 1995. Pp. xlix + 955. ISBN
0-7503-0147-3. \pounds 140.00, \$280.00.
Heinz-Jurgen Hess, James G. O'Hara and
Herbert Breger (eds.), Gottfried Wilhelm
Leibniz: S{\"a}mtliche Schriften und
Briefe. Dritte Reihe, Mathematischer,
naturwissenschaftlicher und technischer
Briefwechsel: Volume 3, 1680--1683;
Volume 4, 1683--1690. Berlin: Akademie
Verlag, 1991, 1995. Pp. lxx+895;
lxvi+747. ISBN 3-05-000766-4, DM 490.00
(Volume 3); 3-05-002602-2, DM 490.00
(Volume 4) (series ISBN: 3-05-000075-9).
Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (ed.), Samuel
Pufendorf. Gesammelte Werke, Band 1:
Briefwechsel (ed. Detlef D{\"o}ring).
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1996. Pp.
xxix+453. ISBN 3-05-001920-4. DM 298.00} 221--225
G. S. Rousseau Book Reviews: Virtual realities Roslynn
D. Haynes, From Faust to Strangelove:
Representations of the Scientist in
Western Literature. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1994. Pp. ix +
417. ISBN 0-8018-4801-6, \pounds 16.50.
George Levine (ed.), Realism and
Representation: Essays on the Problem of
Realism in Relation to Science,
Literature and Culture. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. Pp.
xiii + 330. ISBN 0-229-13630-2, \pounds
40.00 (hardcover); 0-229-13634-5,
\pounds 19.00 (paperback). Sherry
Turkle, Life on the Screen: Identity in
the Age of the Internet. Cambridge, MA:
Simon and Schuster, 1995. Pp. 347. ISBN
0-297-81514-8. No price given . . . . . 227--232
Jon Agar Book Review: Ronald E. Doel, Solar
System Astronomy in America:
Communities, Patronage, and
Inter-disciplinary Science, 1920--1960.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1996. Pp. xxi + 280, illus. ISBN
0-521-41573-X. \pounds 40.00, \$59.95} 233--249
Peter Elmer Book Review: Michael Hunter, Science and
the Shape of Orthodoxy: Intellectual
Change in Late Seventeenth-Century
Britain. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell
Press, 1995. Pp. xii + 345. ISBN
0-85115-594-4. \pounds 55.00, \$89.00} 233--249
Graeme Gooday Book Review: Jed Z. Buchwald, The
Creation of Scientific Effects: Heinrich
Hertz and Electric Waves. Chicago:
Chicago University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv
+ 482. ISBN 0-226-07887-6, \pounds
59.95, \$75.00 (hardcover);
0-226-07888-4, \pounds 26.25, \$32.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--249
Sally M. Horrocks Book Review: Kenneth Blaxter and Noel
Robertson, From Dearth to Plenty: The
Modern Revolution in Food Production.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1995. Pp. xvii + 296. ISBN
0-521-40322-7. \pounds 40.00, \$59.95} 233--249
Sally M. Horrocks Book Review: M. Bauer (ed.), Resistance
to New Technology: Nuclear Power,
Information Technology and
Biotechnology. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995. Pp. xii + 422.
ISBN 0-521-45518-9. \pounds 50.00,
\$74.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--249
Rob Iliffe Book Review: Cesare S. Maffioli, Out of
Galileo: The Science of Waters,
1628--1718. Foreword by Richard S.
Westfall. Rotterdam: Erasmus Publishing,
1994. Pp. xx + 509. ISBN 90-5235-071-X.
Dfl. 125.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--249
Margaret J. Osler Book Review: J. A. van Ruler, The Crisis
of Causality: Voetius and Descartes on
God, Nature and Change. Brill's Studies
in Intellectual History, 66, Leiden, New
York, Cologne: E. J. Brill, 1995. Pp.
xiv + 353. ISBN 90-04-10371-6. \$85.75} 233--249
Roy Porter Book Review: Paul Ilie, The Age of
Minerva. Volume 1: Counter-rational
Reason in the Eighteenth Century. Goya
and the Paradigm of Unreason in Western
Europe; Volume 2: Cognitive
Discontinuities in Eighteenth Century
Thought. From Body to Mind in Physiology
and the Arts. Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. Pp. xiv +
411; xii + 382. ISBN 0-8122-3307-7,
\pounds 52.50 (Volume 1); 0-8122-3308-5,
\pounds 47.50 (Volume 2) . . . . . . . . 233--249
Phillip R. Sloan Book Review: N. Jardine, J. A. Secord
and E. C. Spary (eds.), Cultures of
Natural History. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995. Pp. xxi + 501.
ISBN 0-521-45394-1, \pounds 65.00,
\$89.95 (hardcover); 0-521-55894-8,
\pounds 22.90, \$29.95 (paperback) . . . 233--249
Antonello La Vergata Book Review: Janet Browne, Charles
Darwin. Voyaging. Volume 1 of a
Biography. London: Jonathan Cape, 1995.
Pp. xvii + 606, illus. ISBN
0-224-04202-5. \pounds 25.00 . . . . . . 233--249
Paul S. White Book Review: Karen Wonders, Habitat
Dioramas: Illusions of Wilderness in
Museums of Natural History. Uppsala:
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1993.
Pp. 262. ISBN 91-554-3157-7. No price
given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--249
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--253
Jon Agar Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--254
Janet Browne Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
Adrian Rice Inspiration or desperation? Augustus de
Morgan's appointment to the chair of
mathematics at London University in 1828 257--274
John Tresch `The potent magic of verisimilitude':
Edgar Allan Poe within the mechanical
age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--290
Maisie May Inoculating the urban poor in the late
eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 291--305
Jennifer Tannoch-Bland Dugald Stewart on intellectual character 307--320
Aileen Fyfe The reception of William Paley's
\booktitleNatural Theology in the
University of Cambridge . . . . . . . . 321--335
Adelheid Voskuhl Recreating Herschel's actinometry: An
essay in the historiography of
experimental practice . . . . . . . . . 337--355
Clinton Chaloner The most wonderful experiment in the
world: a history of the cloud chamber 357--374
Barbara K. Stepansky Ambiguity: aspects of the wave--particle
duality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--385
Barbara K. Stepansky Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--386
Anonymous British Journal of History and Science.
Index to volumes 1--30 (1962--1997) . . 387--500
Frances Dawbarn Patronage and power: the College of
Physicians and the Jacobean court . . . 1--19
Vladimir Jankovic Ideological crests versus empirical
troughs: John Herschel's and William
Radcliffe Birt's research on atmospheric
waves, 1843--1850 . . . . . . . . . . . 21--40
Hannah Gay No `Heathen's Corner' here: the failed
campaign to memorialize Herbert Spencer
in Westminster Abbey . . . . . . . . . . 41--54
Daniel Garber Who was that masked man? . . . . . . . . 55--62
Ian Bishop Book Review: Steven Noll, Feeble-Minded
in our Midst: Institutions for the
Mentally Retarded in the South,
1900--1940. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. xiii +
254. ISBN 0-8078-2220-5, \$39.95
(hardcover); 0-8078-4531-0, \$16.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--102
Charles Burnett Book Review: Roshdi Rashed (ed.),
Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic
Science, in collaboration with Régis
Morelon, 3 vols., London: Routledge,
1996. Pp. xiv + 1105. ISBN
0-415-02063-8. \pounds 160 (set) . . . . 63--102
Frances Dawbarn Book Review: Four Treatises of
Theophrastus Von Hohenheim Called
Paracelsus, translated from the original
German, with introductory essays by C.
Lilian Temkin, George Rosen, Gregory
Zilboorg and Henry E. Sigerist. Edited,
with a preface by Henry E. Sigerist,
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8018-5523-3. \pounds
13.00, \$15.95 (paperback edition)} . . 63--102
Brian P. Dolan Book Review: David Philip Miller and
Peter Hanns Reill (eds.), Visions of
Empire: Voyages, Botany, and
Representations of Nature. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.
xix + 370. ISBN 0-521-48303-4. \pounds
40.00, \$59.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--102
Penelope Gouk Book Review: Suzanne B. Butters, The
Triumph of Vulcan: Sculptors' Tools,
Porphyry, and the Prince in Ducal
Florence, 2 vols. Florence: Leo S.
Olschki, 1996. Pp. 724, illus. ISBN
88-222-4411-7. 320,000 lire (set) . . . 63--102
Penelope Gouk Book Review: Thomas L. Hankins and
Robert J. Silverman, Instruments and the
Imagination. Princeton: Princeton
University Press. Pp. xiv + 337. ISBN
0-691-02997-0. \pounds 33.50, \$39.50} 63--102
Mario Di Grigorio Book Review: Noor Giovanni Mazhar,
Catholic Attitudes to Evolution in
Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature.
Memorie di Scienze Morali, Lettere ed
Arti, 60. Venice: Istituto Veneto di
Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 1995. Pp. 284.
ISBN 88-86166-24-9. 35,000 lire . . . . 63--102
Joy Harvey Book Review: Ann B. Shteir, Cultivating
Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's
Daughters and Botany in England 1760 to
1860. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1996. Pp. xi + 301,
illus. ISBN 0-8018-5141-6. \pounds 25.00 63--102
Jonathan Harwood Book Review: Mitchell G. Ash and Alfons
Söllner (eds.), Forced Migration and
Scientific Change: Emigré German-Speaking
Scientists and Scholars after 1933.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1996. Pp. xviii + 301. ISBN
0-521-49741-8. \pounds 35.00, \$59.95} 63--102
Rhodri Hayward Book Review: German Berrios and Roy
Porter (eds.), A History of Clinical
Psychiatry: The Origin and History of
Psychiatric Disorders. London: Athlone
Press, 1995. Pp. xx + 684. ISBN
0-485-24011-4, \pounds 60.00
(hardcover); 0-485-24211, \pounds 19.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--102
Sally M. Horrocks Book Review: Lance Day and Ian McNeil
(eds.), Biographical Dictionary of the
History of Technology. London:
Routledge, 1996. Pp. xiii + 844. ISBN
0-415-06042-7. \pounds 85.00 . . . . . . 63--102
Michael Hunter Book Review: Michael Heyd, `Be Sober and
Reasonable': The Critique of Enthusiasm
in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth
Centuries. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.
Pp. xi + 312. ISBN 90-04-10118-7.
\$92.00. Dfl. 142.00} . . . . . . . . . 63--102
David Knight Book Review: John Hedley Brooke,
Thinking About Matter: Studies in the
History of Chemical Philosophy.
Aldershot: Variorum, 1995. Pp. xii +
290. ISBN 0-86078-464-9. \pounds 47.50 63--102
David Knight Book Review: Margaret Lucas Cavendish,
Grounds of Natural Philosophy, with an
introduction by Colette V. Michael. West
Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1995.
Pp. xx + 311. ISBN 0-933951-66-3.
\$38.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--102
Rolf Krauss Book Review: Marshall Clagett, Ancient
Egyptian Science, Volume 2: Calendars,
Clocks, and Astronomy. Philadelphia:
American Philosophical Society, 1995.
Pp. xiv + 575, illus. ISBN
0-87169-214-7. No price given . . . . . 63--102
Martin Kusch Book Review: José Brunner, Freud and the
Politics of Psychoanalysis. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1995. Pp. xiv + 238. ISBN
0-631-16404-9. \pounds 40.00, \$49.95} 63--102
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Gillian Beer, Open Fields,
Science in Cultural Encounter. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. x +
342. ISBN 0-19-818369-0. \pounds 25.00 63--102
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Geoffrey V. Sutton, Science
for a Polite Society: Gender, Culture,
and the Demonstration of Enlightenment.
Oxford: Westview Press, 1995. Pp. xiii +
391. ISBN 0-8133-1575-1. \pounds 22.50 63--102
Christopher Lawrence Book Review: Michael Shortland and
Richard Yeo (eds.), Telling Lives in
Science: Essays on Scientific Biography.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1996. Pp. xiv + 295. ISBN 0-521-43323-1.
\pounds 50.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--102
Bill Luckin Book Review: Penelope Gouk (ed.),
Wellsprings of Achievement: Cultural and
Economic Dynamics in Early Modern
England and Japan. Aldershot: Variorum,
1996. Pp. viii + 271. ISBN
0-86078-465-7. \pounds 42.50 . . . . . . 63--102
Antoni Malet Book Review: Jose María López Piñero and
Víctor Navarro Brotons, Hist\`oria de la
ci\`encia al País Valenci\`a. Val\`encia:
Edicions Alfons el Magn\`anim, 1995. Pp.
661, illus. ISBN 84-7822-154-9. No price
given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--102
Massimo Mazzotti Book Review: Antoni Malet, Ferran Sunyer
i Balaguer. Barcelona: Societat Catalana
de Matematiques and Societat Catalana
d'Historia de la Ci\`encia i de la
Tecnica, 1995. Pp. 306. ISBN
84-7283-286-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--102
Massimo Mazzotti Book Review: Leo Corry, Modern Algebra
and the Rise of Mathematical Structures.
Basel: Birkhäuser, 1996. Pp. 460. ISBN
3-7643-5311-2. DM 178.00 . . . . . . . . 63--102
Trevor McClaughlin Book Review: David J. Sturdy, Science
and Social Status: The Members of the
Académie des Sciences, 1666--1750.
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press,
1995. Pp. xvi + 461. ISBN 0-85115-395-X.
\pounds 65.00, \$117.00} . . . . . . . . 63--102
Emily Michael Book Review: Julien Offray de la
Mettrie, Machine Man and Other Writings,
translated and edited by Ann Thomson,
Cambridge Texts in the History of
Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1996. Pp. xxx + 179.
ISBN 0-521-47258-X, \pounds 35.00,
\$54.95 (hardcover), 0-521-47849-9,
\pounds 12.95, \$18.95 (paperback) . . . 63--102
Iwan Rhys Morus Book Review: Hermann von Helmholtz,
Science and Culture: Popular and
Philosophical Essays, edited with an
introduction by David Cahan. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp.
xviii + 418. ISBN 0-226-32658-6, \pounds
41.50, \$52.00 (hardcover);
0-226-32659-4, \pounds 14.25, \$17.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--102
Francis Neary Book Review: Eugene Taylor, William
James on Consciousness beyond the
Margin. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1996. Pp. xiii + 215. ISBN
0-691-01136-2. \pounds 27.95, \$35} . . 63--102
Margaret J. Osler Book Review: A. C. Crombie, Science, Art
and Nature in Medieval and Modern
Thought. London: Hambledon Press, 1996.
Pp. xvi + 516. ISBN 1-85285-067-1.
\pounds 40.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--102
John Pickstone Book Review: Alan Irwin and Brian Wynne
(eds.), Misunderstanding Science? The
Public Reconstruction of Science and
Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995. Pp. vii + 229.
ISBN 0-521-43268-5. \pounds 35.00,
\$59.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--102
Emma Spary Book Review: Harmke Kamminga and Andrew
Cunningham (eds.), The Science and
Culture of Nutrition, 1840--1940. Clio
Medica, 32/Wellcome Institute Series in
the History of Medicine. Amsterdam:
Rodopi, 1995. Pp. vii + 344. ISBN
90-5183-818-2. \$33.00, Dfl. 50.00} . . 63--102
Emma Spary Book Review: Theodore W. Pietsch (ed.),
Fishes, Crayfishes, and Crabs: Louis
Renard's Natural History of the Rarest
Curiosities of the Seas of the Indies, 2
vols. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1996. Pp. viii + 224,
xxii + 214, illus. ISBN 0-8018-4790-7.
\pounds 78.50 (set) . . . . . . . . . . 63--102
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--106
Anonymous British Society for the History of
Science. Report of Council for the year
1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--123
J. V. Field and
Frank A. J. L. James Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--128
Susanne B. Keller Sections and views: visual
representation in eighteenth-century
earthquake studies . . . . . . . . . . . 129--159
Massimiano Bucchi Images of science in the classroom:
wallcharts and science education
1850--1920 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--184
Judi Loach Le Corbusier and the creative use of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--215
Sophie Forgan Festivals of science and the two
cultures: science, design and display in
the Festival of Britain, 1951 . . . . . 217--240
J. Bruce Brackenridge Book Review: François de Gandt, Force and
Geometry in Newton's Principia,
translated by Curtis Wilson. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp.
xiv + 296. ISBN 0-691-03367-6. \$49.50} 241--250
Colin Divall Book Review: Robert Fox (ed.),
Technological Change: Methods and Themes
in the History of Technology. Amsterdam:
Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996. Pp.
vii + 271. ISBN 3-7186-5792-9. \pounds
36.00, \$54.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--250
Steve Fuller Book Review: R. G. A. Dolby, Uncertain
Knowledge: An Image of Science for a
Changing World. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1996. Pp. xi + 365.
ISBN 0-521-56004-7, \pounds 40 . . . . . 241--250
P. M. Harman Book Review: Chloe Chard and Helen
Langdon (eds.), Transports. Travel,
Pleasure, and Imaginative Geography,
1600--1830. Studies in British Art, 3.
Published for the Paul Mellon Center for
Studies in British Art and the Yale
Center for British Art. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1996. Pp. viii + 341,
illus. ISBN 0-300-06382-2. \pounds 35.00 241--250
George Molland Book Review: J. L. Bergren and R. S. D.
Thomas. Euclid's Phaenomena: A
Translation and Study of a Hellenistic
Treatise in Spherical Astronomy. Sources
and Studies in the History and
Philosophy of Classical Science, 4. New
York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1996. Pp.
xi + 132. ISBN 0-8153-0493-5. \$36.00} 241--250
Malcolm Oster Book Review: Robert Boyle, A Free
Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received
Notion of Nature, edited by Edward B.
Davis and Michael Hunter. Cambridge
Texts in the History of Philosophy.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1996. Pp. xxxvi + 171. ISBN
0-521-56100-0, \pounds 37.50, \$54.95
(hardcover); 0-521-56796-3 (paperback),
\pounds 13.95, \$18.95 . . . . . . . . . 241--250
Jim Secord Book Review: Michael Shortland (ed.),
Hugh Miller and the Controversies of
Victorian Science. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1996, Pp. x + 401.
ISBN 0-19-854053-1. \pounds 49.50 . . . 241--250
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Katherine Hill `Juglers or schollers?': Negotiating the
role of a mathematical practitioner . . 253--274
Brian Dolan Pedagogy through print: James Sowerby,
John Mawe and the problem of colour in
early Nineteenth-Century natural history
illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--304
Robert Bud Penicillin and the new Elizabethans . . 305--333
Michael Shortland Michel Serres, passe-partout . . . . . . 335--353
Anonymous Archive collections . . . . . . . . . . 355--360
Jon Agar Book Reviews: Martin Campbell-Kelly and
William Aspray, Computer: A History of
the Information Machine. New York: Basic
Books, 1996. Pp. ix + 340. ISBN
0-465-02989-2. No price given. Paul N.
Edwards, The Closed World: Computers and
the Politics of Discourse in Cold War
America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.
Pp. xx + 440. ISBN 0-262-05051-X.
\pounds 33.95. Arthur L. Norberg and
Judy E. O'Neill, Transforming Computer
Technology: Information Processing for
the Pentagon, 1962--1986. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Pp. xiv + 360. ISBN 0-8018-5152-1.
\pounds 41.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--375
David Bloor Book Review: Roger Smith, The Fontana
History of the Human Sciences. London:
Fontana Press, 1997. Pp. xviii + 1036.
ISBN 0-00-686178-4. \pounds 12.99
(paperback edition) . . . . . . . . . . 361--375
Saul Fisher Book Review: Lisa T. Sarasohn,
Gassendi's Ethics: Freedom in a
Mechanistic Universe. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 236.
ISBN 0-8014-2947-1. \pounds 35.50 . . . 361--375
John Henry Book Review: H. Floris Cohen, The
Scientific Revolution: A
Historiographical Inquiry. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1994. Pp.
xviii + 662. ISBN 0-226-11279-9, \pounds
59.95, \$75.00 (hardcover);
0-226-11280-2, \pounds 21.50, \$26.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--375
Jeff Hughes Book Review: G. Batchelor, The Life and
Legacy of G. I. Taylor. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xv
+ 285. ISBN 0-521-46121-9. \pounds 45.00 361--375
George Molland Book Review: Gad Freudenthal,
Aristotle's Theory of Material
Substance: Heat and Pneuma, Form and
Soul. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp.
xii + 235. ISBN 0-19-824093-7. \pounds
30.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--375
Paolo Palladino Book Review: Joan H. Fujimura, Crafting
Science: A Socio-history of the Quest
for the Genetics of Cancer. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp.
x + 322, illus. ISBN 0-674-17553-0.
\pounds 29.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--375
Robert W. Smith Book Review: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin,
An Autobiography and Other
Recollections, second edition, edited by
Katherine Haramundanis. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.
xxii + 277. ISBN 0-521-48251-8, \pounds
35.00 (hardcover); 0-521-48930-5,
\pounds 12.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . 361--375
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--379
Domenico Bertoloni Meli Shadows and deception: from Borelli's
\it Theoricae to the \booktitleSaggi of
the Cimento . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--402
Pat Munday Politics by other means: Justus von
Liebig and the German translation of
John Stuart Mill's \booktitleLogic . . . 403--418
Elizabeth Green Musselman Swords into ploughshares: John
Herschel's progressive view of
astronomical and imperial governance . . 419--435
Martha Fleming A metaphysical subject . . . . . . . . . 437--437
Hamish G. Spencer and
Diane B. Paul The failure of a scientific critique:
David Heron, Karl Pearson and Mendelian
eugenics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--452
Peter J. Bowler Evolution and the Eucharist: Bishop E.
W. Barnes on science and religion in the
1920s and 1930s . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--467
W. H. Brock Book Review: Elisabeth Crawford,
Arrhenius. From Ionic Theory to the
Greenhouse Effect. Uppsala Studies in
History of Science, 23. Canton, MA:
Science History Publications, 1996. Pp.
xiii + 320. ISBN 0-88135-166-0. \$49.95} 469--487
David Harley Book Review: Andrew Cunningham, The
Anatomical Renaissance: The Resurrection
of the Anatomical Projects of the
Ancients. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997.
Pp. xiv + 283. ISBN 1-85928-338-1.
\pounds 45.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--487
David Harley Book Review: Clara Pinto-Correia, The
Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and
Preformation. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xxiii + 396.
ISBN 0-226-66952-1. \$29.95} . . . . . . 469--487
David Harley Book Review: Mary Lindemann, Health and
Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1996. Pp. xiii + 506. ISBN
0-8018-5281-1. \pounds 41.50 . . . . . . 469--487
Rhodri Hayward Book Review: Sally Shuttleworth,
Charlotte Brontë and Victorian
Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv + 289.
ISBN 0-521-55149-8. \pounds 37.50 . . . 469--487
John Henry Book Review: J. E. McGuire, Tradition
and Innovation: Newton's Metaphysics of
Nature. The University of Western
Ontario Series in the Philosophy of
Science, 56. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic,
1995. Pp. xvi + 290. ISBN 0-7923-3617-8.
\pounds 88.00, \$140.00, Dfl. 195.00} 469--487
Katherine Hill Book Review: Catherine Goldstein, Jeremy
Gray and Jim Ritter (eds.), L'Europe
mathématique: Histoires, mythes,
identités/Mathematical Europe: History,
Myth, Identity. Paris: Edition de la
maison des sciences de l'homme, 1996.
Pp. x + 575. ISBN 2-7351-0685-3. 190F 469--487
Robert Iliffe Book Review: Peter Harrison, The Bible,
Protestantism and the Rise of Natural
Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1998. Pp. xi + 313. ISBN
0-521-59196-1. \pounds 40.00, \$64.95} 469--487
Jan Marten and
Ivo Klaver Book Review: Charles Lyell, Principles
of Geology, edited by James A. Secord.
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997. Pp.
xlvii + 472. ISBN 0-14-043528-X. \pounds
9.99 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--487
Steve Sturdy Book Review: Charles Webster, The
National Health Service: A Political
History. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 241. ISBN
0-19-289296-7. \pounds 9.99 (paperback
edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--487
Carsten Timmermann Book Review: Thomas H. Broman, The
Transformation of German Academic
Medicine, 1750--1820. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. x
+ 209. ISBN 0-521-55321-1. \pounds
35.00, \$54.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--487
Alan Wood Book Review: Paul R. Josephson, New
Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the
Siberian City of Science. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp.
xxii + 351. ISBN 0-691-04454-6. \pounds
27.50, \$39.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--487
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--490
Anonymous Books reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--493
John Hedley Brooke Presidential address: Does the history
of science have a future? . . . . . . . 1--20
Buhm Soon Park Chemical translators: Pauling, Wheland
and their strategies for teaching the
theory of resonance . . . . . . . . . . 21--46
Carroll Pursell Domesticating modernity: the Electrical
Association for Women, 1924--1986 . . . 47--67
Mary Jo Nye Temptations of theory, strategies of
evidence: P. M. S. Blackett and the
earth's magnetism, 1947--1952 . . . . . 69--92
David N. Livingstone Tropical climate and moral hygiene: the
anatomy of a Victorian debate . . . . . 93--110
Stephen Gaukroger Book Review: Daniel Garber and Michael
Ayers (eds.), The Cambridge History of
Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, 2 vols.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1998. Pp. xvii + 1616. ISBN
0-521-58864-2. \pounds 90.00 (set) . . . 111--124
David Harley Book Review: Elizabeth Fee and Theodore
M. Brown (eds.), Making Medical History:
The Life and Times of Henry E. Sigerist.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1997. Pp. xii + 387. ISBN
0-8018-5355-9. \pounds 33.00 . . . . . . 111--124
John Henry Book Review: Nancy G. Siraisi, The Clock
and the Mirror: Girolamo Cardano and
Renaissance Medicine. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp.
xiv + 361. ISBN 0-691-01189-3. \pounds
37.50, \$49.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--124
Sally M. Horrocks Book Review: Jeffrey P. Baker, The
Machine in the Nursery: Incubator
Technology and the Origins of Newborn
Intensive Care. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1996. Pp. x + 247.
ISBN 0-8018-5173-4. \pounds 37.00 . . . 111--124
Iwan Rhys Morus Book Review: K. G. Beauchamp, Exhibiting
Electricity. IEE History of Technology
Series, 21. London: Institution of
Electrical Engineers, 1997. Pp. xii +
337. ISBN 0-85296-895-7. \pounds 45.00 111--124
Simon Nightingale Book Review: William H. Brock, Justus
von Liebig: The Chemical Gatekeeper.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1997. Pp. xiv + 374. ISBN 0-521-56224-4.
\pounds 50.00, \$79.95} . . . . . . . . 111--124
Robert Poole Book Review: Nachum Dershowitz and
Edward M. Reingold, Calendrical
Calculations. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1997. Pp. xxi + 307.
ISBN 0-521-56413-1, \pounds 40, \$64.95
(hardcover); 0-521-56474-3, \pounds
14.95, \$22.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . 111--124
Thomas Rohkrämer Book Review: Anne Harrington,
Re-enchanted Science. Holism in German
Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler.
Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1996. Pp. xiii + 309, illus. ISBN
0-691-02142-2. \pounds 13.99, \$29.95} 111--124
Roger Smith Book Review: Loren Graham, What Have We
Learned about Science and Technology
from the Russian Experience? Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xii
+ 177. ISBN 0-8047-2985-9, \pounds
27.95, \$39.50 (hardcover);
0-8047-3276-0, \pounds 10.95, \$14.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--124
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--127
Richard Sorrenson Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--132
Larry Stewart Other centres of calculation, or, where
the Royal Society didn't count:
commerce, coffee-houses and natural
philosophy in early modern London . . . 133--153
Andrea Rusnock Correspondence networks and the Royal
Society, 1700--1750 . . . . . . . . . . 155--169
John Gascoigne The Royal Society and the emergence of
science as an instrument of state policy 171--184
David Philip Miller The usefulness of natural philosophy:
the Royal Society and the culture of
practical utility in the later
eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 185--201
Richard Sorrenson George Graham, visible technician . . . 203--221
Anna-K. Mayer `I have been very fortunate\ldots'.
Brief report on the BSHS Oral History
Project: `The history of science in
Britain, 1945--1965' . . . . . . . . . . 223--235
Neil Brown Book Reviews: Michael Springford (ed.),
Electron: A Centenary Volume. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.
xii + 330. ISBN 0-521-56130-2. \pounds
37.50, \$49.95. Per F. Dahl, Flash of
the Cathode Rays: A History of J. J.
Thomson's Electron. Bristol: Institute
of Physics Publishing, 1997. Pp. xvii +
526. ISBN 0-7503-0453-7. \pounds 29.50,
\$49.50. Edward A. Davis and Isobel J.
Falconer, J. J. Thomson and the
Discovery of the Electron. London:
Taylor & Francis, 1997. Pp. xxvii + 243.
ISBN 0-7484-0696-4. \pounds 45.00,
\$135.00 (hardcover); 0-7484-0720-0.
\pounds 16.95, \$45.00 (paperback) . . . 237--251
Aileen Fyfe Book Review: E. A. Davis (ed.), Science
in the Making: Scientific Development as
Chronicled by Historic Papers in the
Philosophical Magazine -- with
Commentaries and Illustrations, Volume
2: 1850--1900. London: Taylor & Francis,
1997. Pp. xix + 406, 16 plates. ISBN
0-7484-0642-5. \pounds 59.95 . . . . . . 237--251
Sally M. Horrocks Book Review: Marelene Rayner-Canham and
Geoffrey Rayner-Canham, Women in
Chemistry: Their Changing Roles From
Alchemical Times to the Mid-Twentieth
Century. Washington, D.C.: American
Chemical Society and Chemical Heritage
Foundation, 1998. Pp. xiv + 284. ISBN
0-8412-3522-8. \$34.95} . . . . . . . . 237--251
Michael R. Lynn Book Review: Lynette Hunter and Sarah
Hutton (eds.), Women, Science and
Medicine 1500--1700: Mothers and Sisters
of the Royal Society. Stroud: Sutton
Publishing, 1997. Pp. xx + 292. ISBN
0-7509-1334-7. \pounds 40.00, \$72.00
(hardcover); 0-7509-1343-6. \pounds
14.99, \$22.95 (paperback) . . . . . . . 237--251
Charlotte Methuen Book Review: Roger French and Andrew
Cunningham, Before Science: The
Invention of the Friars' Natural
Philosophy. Aldershot: Scolar Press,
1996. Pp. x + 298. ISBN 1-85928-287-3.
No price given . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--251
Diederick Raven Book Review: J. V. Field, The Invention
of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the
Renaissance. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1997. Pp. 264. ISBN
0-19-852394-7. \pounds 29.50, \$35.00} 237--251
William Shea Book Review: John Brooke and Geoffrey
Cantor, Reconstructing Nature. The
Engagement of Science and Religion.
Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1998. Pp. xii +
367. ISBN 0-567-08600-3. \pounds 24.95,
\$49.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--251
David Shotter Book Reviews: John T. Ramsey and A.
Lewis Licht, The Comet of 44 BC and
Caesar's Funeral Games, American
Philological Association: American
Classical Studies, 39. Atlanta: The
Scholars Press, 1997. Pp. xx + 236. ISBN
0-7885-0273-5. \$27.95 (hardcover); ISBN
0-7885-0274-3. \$17.95 (paperback) . . . 237--251
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--251
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--253
Neil Brown Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--254
Michael Hunter Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--260
Michael Hunter Robert Boyle (1627--1691): a suitable
case for treatment? . . . . . . . . . . 261--275
Brett Kahr Robert Boyle: a Freudian perspective on
an eminent scientist . . . . . . . . . . 277--284
John Clay Robert Boyle: a Jungian perspective . . 285--298
Karl Figlio Psychoanalysis and the scientific mind:
Robert Boyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--314
Geoffrey Cantor Boyling over: a commentary on the
preceding papers . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--324
Ian Higginson and
Crosbie Smith `A magnified piece of thermodynamics':
the Promethean iconography of the
refrigerator in Paul Theroux's
\booktitleThe Mosquito Coast . . . . . . 325--342
Lance Day Obituary: John Anthony Chaldecott
(1916--1998) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--344
Arne Hessenbruch Probing historiographical boundaries:
analysing contexts employing specific
narratives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--358
Clive Sutton Preparation for adult life? . . . . . . 359--361
Brian P. Dolan Book Review: David Philip Miller and
Peter Hanns Reill (eds.), Visions of
Empire: Voyages, Botany, and
Representations of Nature. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.
xix + 370. ISBN 0-521-48303-4. \pounds
45.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--378
Patricia Fara Book Review: Robert Poole, Time's
Alteration: Calendar Reform in Early
Modern England. London: UCL Press, 1998.
Pp. xix + 243. ISBN 1-85728-622-7.
\pounds 45.00, \$75.00} . . . . . . . . 363--378
Eckhardt Fuchs Book Review: Andreas Daum,
Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19.
Jahrhundert. Bürgerliche Kultur,
naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die
deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848--1914.
München: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1998. Pp.
xii + 617. ISBN 3-486-56337-8. DM148.00 363--378
David Harley Book Review: Edward Fenton (ed.), The
Diaries of John Dee. Charlbury,
Oxfordshire: Day Books, 1998. Pp. xi +
369. ISBN 0-9532213-0-X. \pounds 18.99 363--378
Simon Nightingale Book Review: Bernard Lightman (ed.),
Victorian Science in Context. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp.
viii + 489. 0-226-48111-5, \pounds
55.95, \$70.00 (hardcover);
0-226-48112-3, \pounds 17.95, \$22.50
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--378
Simon Nightingale Book Review: Michael Power (ed.),
Accounting and Science: Natural Inquiry
and Commercial Reason. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.
xvii + 288. ISBN 0-521-55325-3, \pounds
40.00, \$54.95 (hardcover);
0-521-55699-6, \pounds 14.95, \$19.95
(paperback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--378
Malcolm Oster Book Review: Reijer Hooykaas, Robert
Boyle: A Study in Science and Christian
Belief. English translation by Harry Van
Dyke. Foreword by John H. Brooke and
Michael Hunter. Lanham, MD and Ancaster,
ON: University Press of America and The
Pascal Centre for Advanced Studies in
Faith and Science, 1997. Pp. xxiv + 156.
ISBN 0-7618-0708-X. \$36.50} . . . . . . 363--378
Thomas Rohkrämer Book Review: Alexander von Humboldt,
Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical
Description of the Universe, translated
by Elise C. Otté, 2 vols. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Pp. 375 and 367. ISBN 0-8018-5502-0,
\pounds 13.00, \$15.95 (vol. 1);
0-8018-5503-9, \pounds 13.00, \$15.95
(vol. 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--378
Roger Smith Book Reviews: Polly Young-Eisendrath and
Terence Dawson (eds), The Cambridge
Companion to Jung. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1997. Pp. xxxiv + 332.
ISBN 0-521-47309-8 (hardcover). \pounds
35.00, \$49.95; 0-521-47889-8
(paperback). \pounds 12.95, \$17.95.
Sonu Shamdasani, Cult Fictions: C. G.
Jung and the Founding of Analytical
Psychology. London and New York:
Routledge, 1998. Pp. x + 121. ISBN
0-415-18613-7 (hardcover). \pounds
35.00; 0-415-18641-5 (paperback).
\pounds 12.99 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--378
Robinson M. Yost Book Review: P. M. Harman, \booktitleThe
Natural Philosophy of James Clerk
Maxwell. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 232. ISBN
0-521-56102-7. \pounds 35.00, \$59.95} 363--378
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--380
Stephen D. Snobelen Isaac Newton, heretic: The strategies of
a Nicodemite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--419
Richard J. Noakes Telegraphy is an occult art: Cromwell
Fleetwood Varley and the diffusion of
electricity to the other world . . . . . 421--459
Andrew Hull War of words: the public science of the
British scientific community and the
origins of the Department of Scientific
and Industrial Research, 1914--1916 . . 461--481
George Beccaloni A. R. Wallace Memorial Fund . . . . . . 483--484
John Pickstone Obituary: Professor Donald Cardwell (4
August 1919--8 May 1998) . . . . . . . . 485--488
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--490
Anonymous British Society for the History of
Science Report of Council for the year
1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--508