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Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
George Sarton Preface to Volume 41: D'Arcy Wentworth
Thompson, 1860--1948 . . . . . . . . . . 3--8
Leonard K. Eaton Charles Bulfinch and the Massachusetts
General Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--11
Zoltán Haraszti Young John Adams on Franklin's Iron
Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--14
August Krogh and
Eugene M. Landis and
Cecil K. Drinker Reminiscences of Work on Capillary
Circulation. A Lecture to the Students
in the Harvard Medical School, 1946 . . 14--20
Eduard Farber Chemical Discoveries by Means of
Analogies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--26
M. L. Dufrenoy A Precursor of a Modern Anthropology:
François Bernier (1620--1688) . . . . . . 27--29
Ernest Honigmann The Arabic Translation of Aratus'
\booktitlePhaenomena . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Louise Diehl Patterson Hooke's Gravitation Theory and Its
Influence on Newton. II: The
Insufficiency of the Traditional
Estimate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--45
Adolf Meyer-Abich Teaching of the History of Science . . . 45--46
Anonymous Meetings & Societies . . . . . . . . . . 46--47
Ernest Honigmann and
O. Neugebauer and
H. B. Van Hoesen and
Lynn Thorndike and
Wyndham D. Miles and
George Sarton Notes and Correspondence . . . . . . . . 47--52
Ludwig Keimer and
J. Pelseneer and
Lynn Thorndike and
G. Sarton Queries and Answers . . . . . . . . . . 52--55
Anonymous Personalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Anonymous Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--57
George Sarton and
Frances Siegel Seventy-Fifth Critical Bibliography of
the History and Philosophy of Science
and of the History of Civilization (To
July 1949) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--103
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleKitab Kimiya' al-
`i\dtr watta\ds`idat by Karl Garbers . . 103--104
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleIbn Rochd
(Averro\`es) by Léon Gauthier . . . . . . 104--106
Francis J. Carmody Book Review: \booktitleEl Libro de los
fundamentos de las tablas astronómicas,
de R. Abraham ibn 'Ezra, edición crítica
con introducción y notas by José M. Millás
Vallicrosa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
W. Pagel Book Review: \booktitleSelected Writings
of William Clowes (1544--1604) by F. N.
L. Poynter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
C. Doris Hellman Book Review: \booktitle[Det Kongelige
Danske Videnskabernes Selskab]: Tycho
Brahe's Description of His Instruments
and Scientific Work as Given in
``Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica'' by
Hans Raeder; Elis Stromgren; Bengt
Stromgren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--112
C. Doris Hellman Book Review: \booktitleTycho Brahes
Bogtrykkeri. En
bibliografisk-boghistorisk Undersogelse
by Lauritz Nielsen . . . . . . . . . . . 112--113
Gino Loria Book Review: \booktitleIl carteggio
Linceo della vecchia Accademia di
Federico Cesi (1603--1630) by Giuseppe
Gabrieli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
A. Koyré Book Review: \booktitleNewton
Tercentenary Celebrations 15--19 July
1946 by The Royal Society . . . . . . . 114--116
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleThe Collected
Letters of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek by
Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek . . . . . . . . . 116--117
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleThe Autobiography
of Benjamin Rush by Corner George W.;
Benjamin Rush . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleHenry A. Ward
[1834--1906] Museum Builder to America
by Roswell Ward; Blake McKelvey . . . . 118--119
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleHindu Medicine by
Henry R. Zimmer; Ludwig Edelstein;
\booktitleSpiel um den Elefanten. Ein
Buch von indischer Natur by Henry R.
Zimmer; \booktitleThe Elephant-Lore of
the Hindus. The Elephant-Sport
(Matangalila) of Nilakantha by Franklin
Edgerton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--123
James R. Ware Book Review: \booktitleConfucius, The
Man and the Myth by H[errlee] G[lessner]
Creel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--125
Solomon Gandz Book Review: \booktitleHow Greek Science
Passed to the Arabs by De Lacy O'Leary 125--127
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleThe Winthrop
Family in America by Lawrence Shaw Mayo 127--128
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleThe Earliest
Chemical Industry. An Essay in the
Historical Relations of Economics &
Technology Illustrated from the Alum
Trade by Charles Singer . . . . . . . . 128--131
Frederick O. Koenig Book Review: \booktitleShort History of
the Art of Distillation from the
Beginnings up to the Death of Cellier
Blumenthal by R. J. Forbes . . . . . . . 131--133
Denis Duveen Book Review: \booktitleCrucibles: The
Story of Chemistry from Ancient Alchemy
to Nuclear Fission by Bernard Jaffe . . 133--134
Robert G. Albion Book Review: \booktitleThe Story of the
Ship by Charles E. Gibson . . . . . . . 134--134
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleThe Avian Egg by
Alexis L. Romanoff; Anastasia J.
Romanoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--135
Ashley Montagu Book Review: \booktitleA New Theory of
Evolution by Arthur Keith . . . . . . . 135--136
R. J. Forbes Book Review: \booktitleGeschiedenis der
Kartografie van Nederland van den
Romeinschen tijd tot het midden van de
19de eeuw by S. J. Fockema Andreae . . . 136--137
Walter Pagel Book Review: \booktitleDas Geheimnis der
Seele. Ursprung und Ziel der Psychischen
Energie by Esther Harding . . . . . . . 137--138
Walter Pagel Book Review: \booktitleEranos-Jahrbuch
1947. Vol. XV: ``Der Mensch'' . . . . . 138--138
Mark Graubard Book Review: \booktitleMagic, a
Sociological Study by Hutton Webster . . 138--139
Joseph T. Clark Book Review: \booktitleA Guide to
Historical Method by Gilbert J.
Garraghan; Jean Delanglez . . . . . . . 139--143
W. Pagel Book Review: \booktitleBritish Art and
the Mediterranean by F. Saxl; R.
Wittkower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--144
Mark DeWolfe Howe Book Review: \booktitleLegal Philosophy
from Plato to Hegel by Huntington Cairns 144--145
John B. DeC. M. Saunders Book Review: \booktitleOn the
Contributions of Hugh Owen Thomas of
Liverpool, Sir Robert Jones of Liverpool
and London, John Ridlon, M.D., of New
York and Chicago, to Modern Orthopedic
Surgery by H. Winnett Orr . . . . . . . 145--146
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--148
George Sarton Second Preface to Volume 41 of
\booktitleIsis: Notes on the Reviewing
of Learned Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--158
Robert S. Harper The First Psychological Laboratory . . . 158--161
Alfred Owen Aldridge Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards
on Lightning and Earthquakes . . . . . . 162--164
Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen Was This the Fate of the Library of
Alexander von Humboldt? An Inquiry . . . 164--167
Denis Duveen Antoine Lavoisier's \booktitleTraité
Élémentaire de Chimie. A Bibliographical
Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--171
Clifford Dobell Samuel Hoole, Translator of
\booktitleLeeuwenhoek's Select Works:
With Notes on That Publication . . . . . 171--180
E. S. Kennedy A Fifteenth-Century Planetary Computer:
al-K\=ash\=\i's ``\dTabaq
al-Man\=a\dteq'' I. Motion of the Sun
and Moon in Longitude . . . . . . . . . 180--183
Willy Hartner The Astronomical Instruments of
Cha-ma-lu-ting, Their Identification,
and Their Relations to the Instruments
of the Observatory of Mar\=agha . . . . 184--194
L. Carrington Goodrich and
Alexandre Koyré and
Lynn Thorndike and
Martin Levey and
Emmet Field Horine and
G. S. and
Brooke Hindle Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 194--198
John W. Abrams and
I. B. Cohen and
George Sarton and
Loren C. MacKinney and
Karl K. Darrow Queries and Answers . . . . . . . . . . 198--201
Anonymous Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--202
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleSaint Augustin et
la Fin de la Culture Antique by
Henri--Irénée Marrou . . . . . . . . . . . 202--204
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleL'Essor de la
littérature latine au XIIe si\`ecle by
Joseph De Ghellinck; Le Mouvement
théologique du XIIe si\`ecle. Sa
préparation lointaine, avant et autour de
Pierre Lombard, ses rapports avec les
initiatives des Canonistes. Etudes,
recherches et documents . . . . . . . . 204--205
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleLa Escala de
Mahoma by José Muñoz Sendino . . . . . . . 206--207
G. Sarton Book Review: \booktitleThe Tree of
Battles by Honoré Bonet; G. W. Coopland 207--207
E. J. Dijksterhuis Book Review: \booktitleDie Vorläufer
Galileis im 14. Jahrhundert. Studien zur
Naturphilosophie der Spätscholastik by
Anneliese Maier . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--210
Charles D. O'Malley Book Review: \booktitleThe Epitome of
Andreas Vesalius by L. R. Lind . . . . . 210--212
Henry Guerlac Book Review: \booktitleThe Endeavour of
Jean Fernel, with a List of the Editions
of His Writings by Charles Sherrington 212--213
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitlePetrus Plancius,
Theoloog en Geograaf (1552--1622) by J.
Keuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--214
Dorothy Stimson Book Review: \booktitleFrancis Bacon,
Philosopher of Industrial Science by
Benjamin Farrington . . . . . . . . . . 215--216
C. Doris Hellman Book Review: \booktitleJohannes Kepler
by Max Caspar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--219
Alexandre Koyre Book Review: \booktitleThe Naming of the
Telescope by Edward Rosen . . . . . . . 219--220
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleGalileo in Cina.
Relazioni attraverso il Collegio Romano
tra Galileo e i gesuiti scienziati
missionari in Cina (1610--1640) by
Pasquale M. D'Elia . . . . . . . . . . . 220--222
Theodore Hornberger Book Review: \booktitleAmiable Autocrat,
a Biography of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
[1809--94] by Eleanor M. Tilton . . . . 222--222
Otto Oldenberg Book Review: \booktitleCarl Runge, und
sein wissenschaftliches Werk by Iris
Runge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--224
Henry Guerlac Book Review: \booktitleAlsos by Samuel
A. Goudsmit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--227
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleEssai sur la
formation de la pensée grecque.
Introduction historique \`a une étude de
la philosophie platonicienne by
Pierre-Maxime Schuhl . . . . . . . . . . 227--228
Abbott Payson Usher Book Review: \booktitleBritish Medieval
Population by Josiah Cox Russell . . . . 228--229
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleEstudios sobre
historia de la ciencia española by José
Maria Millás Vallicrosa . . . . . . . . . 229--229
Ilza Veith Book Review: \booktitle``Heilkunde im
Alten China'' by Willy Hartner . . . . . 230--230
Solomon Gandz Book Review: \booktitleHistory of New
Testament Times. With an Introduction to
the Apocrypha by Robert H. Pfeiffer . . 230--231
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleThe Origins of
Modern Science by Herbert Butterfield 231--233
Brooke Hindle Book Review: \booktitleSome Early Tools
of American Science: An Account of the
Early Scientific Instruments and
Mineralogical and Biological Collections
in Harvard University by I. Bernard
Cohen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
Carl B. Boyer Book Review: \booktitleThe Mathematics
of Great Amateurs by Julian Lowell
Coolidge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--236
V. F. Lenzen Book Review: \booktitlePhilosophy of
Mathematics and Natural Science by
Hermann Weyl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--237
Wyndham Miles Book Review: \booktitleThe Alchemists:
Founders of Modern Chemistry by F.
Sherwood Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
Karl Sax Book Review: \booktitleThe Death of a
Science in Russia by Conway Zirkle . . . 238--239
Karl Sax Book Review: \booktitleHeredity --- East
and West by Julian Huxley . . . . . . . 239--240
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleThe
Nature-Nurture Controversy by Nicholas
Pastore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--242
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleLiberty Hyde
Bailey. A Story of Plant Science by
Andrew Denny Rogers . . . . . . . . . . 242--243
Erwin Raisz Book Review: \booktitleThe Story of Maps
by Lloyd A. Brown . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
Aubrey Diller Book Review: \booktitleHistory of
Ancient Geography by J. Oliver Thomson 244--245
O. Neugebauer Book Review: \booktitleWorlds in
Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky . . . . 245--246
G. Sarton Book Review: \booktitleThe Lapps by Björn
Collinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
Robert Ulich Book Review: \booktitleThe Social
Function of Art by Radhakamal Mukerjee 247--247
Walter Pagel Book Review: \booktitleEuropaeische
Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter
by Ernst Robert Curtius . . . . . . . . 247--248
V. F. Lenzen Book Review: \booktitlePhilosophy for
the Future; The Quest of Modern
Materialism by Roy Wood Sellars; V. J.
McGill; Marvin Farber . . . . . . . . . 248--249
Sydney W. Jackman Book Review: \booktitleThe Philosophy of
Civilization by Albert Schweitzer . . . 250--250
Louise Diehl Patterson Book Review: \booktitleScientists and
Amateurs. A History of the Royal Society
by Dorothy Stimson . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Albert R. Goldsmith Book Review: \booktitleSons of Science.
The Story of the Smithsonian Institution
and Its Leaders by Paul H. Oehser . . . 252--253
Alexander Pogo Administrative Documents . . . . . . . . 253--256
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--257
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--260
Marie Boas Boyle as a Theoretical Scientist . . . . 261--268
William Herbert Hobbs Verrazano's Voyage along the North
American Coast in 1524 . . . . . . . . . 268--277
Frederic Luther The Earliest Experiments in
Microphotography . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--281
Denis Duveen James Price (1752--1783) Chemist and
Alchemist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--283
Lynn Thorndike The \booktitleTables of Barcelona of the
XIVth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--285
E. Zinner Cl. Ptolemaeus und das Astrolab.
(German) [Cl. Ptolemy and the astrolabe] 286--287
Edward Rosen The Title of Galileo's Sidereus nuncius 287--289
Herbert Dieckmann The Autopsy Report on Diderot . . . . . 289--290
George Sarton The Critical Bibliographies of
\booktitleIsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--298
Marcel Françon Note sur Rabelais et les nombres.
(French) [Note on Rabelais and numbers] 298--300
George Sarton Queries and Answers . . . . . . . . . . 300--301
Anonymous Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--303
Edwin C. Beal, Jr. and
Louise D. Patterson Notes and Correspondence . . . . . . . . 303--305
Anonymous Personalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--305
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleCorpvs
commentariorvm Averrois in Aristotelem
by Henricvs Avstryn Wolfson; David
Baneth; Franciscvs Howard Fobes . . . . 306--307
G. Sarton Book Review: \booktitleA Descriptive
Catalogue of the Grace K. Babson
Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac
Newton and the Material Relating to Him
in the Babson Institute Library, Babson
Park, Mass by Henry P. Macomber . . . . 307--308
Francis R. Johnson Book Review: \booktitleAll Coherence
Gone by Victor Harris . . . . . . . . . 308--309
D. J. Struik Book Review: \booktitleDie
Entwicklungsgeschichte der Leibnizschen
Mathematik während des Aufenthaltes in
Paris (1672--1676) by J. E. Hofmann . . 309--310
Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider Book Review: \booktitleVorträge der aus
Anlass seines 300. Geburtstages in
Hamburg abgehaltenen wissenschaftlichen
Tagung by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . . 310--313
Eduard Farber Book Review: \booktitleRobert Wilhelm
Bunsen. Lebensbild eines deutschen
Naturforschers by Georg Lockemann . . . 313--314
Josef Bro\vzek Book Review: \booktitleJames McKeen
Cattell, Man of Science, 1860--1944 by
A. T. Poffenberger . . . . . . . . . . . 314--315
Eduard Farber Book Review: \booktitleAus meinem Leben.
Von Arbeit, Musse und Freunden by
Richard Willstätter . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316
Benson Mates Book Review: \booktitleLa logique et
l'épistémologie des Sto\"\iciens, leurs
rapports avec la logique d'Aristote, la
logistique et la pensée contemporaines by
Antoinette Virieux-Reymond . . . . . . . 316--317
Robert Rie Book Review: \booktitleWunder und
Zeichen. Grosse Gestalten des
Hochmittelalters by Friderike Maria
Zweig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--318
A. R. Nykl Book Review: \booktitleInscripções é
Tradições da América Prehistórica
especialmente do Brasil by Bernardo De
Azevedo Da Silva Ramos . . . . . . . . . 318--318
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleThe Conflict of
Science and Society by C. D. Darlington 319--319
Mark Graubard Book Review: \booktitleStudies in
Philosophy and Science by Morris R.
Cohen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--320
Sydney W. Jackman Book Review: \booktitleMarxism &
Contemporary Science by Jack Lindsay . . 320--320
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleFactors of
Evolution by I. I. Schmalhausen; Isadore
Dordick; Theodosius Dobzhansky . . . . . 320--321
Ashley Montagu Book Review: \booktitleThe Meaning of
Evolution by George Gaylord Simpson . . 321--322
H. W. Rickett Book Review: \booktitleThe Natural
Philosophy of Plant Form by Agnes Arber 322--323
Paul Schrecker Book Review: \booktitleCivilisation
traditionnelle et Genres de Vie by Andre
Varagnac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--325
Charles H. Page Book Review: \booktitleSocial Theory and
Social Structure. Toward the
Codification of Theory and Research by
Robert K. Merton . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--326
Sydney W. Jackman Book Review: \booktitleChristianity and
History by Herbert Butterfield . . . . . 326--327
Morris C. Leikind Book Review: \booktitleMalaria, the
Biography of a Killer by Leon J. Warshaw 327--327
George Sarton and
Frances Siegel Seventy-Sixth Critical Bibliography of
the History and Philosophy of Science
and of the History of Civilization (To
May 1950) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--424
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 425--431
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--434
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--51
George Sarton Preface to Volume 42: Science and Peace.
The Development of International Law . . 3--9
Martin Levey The First American Museum of Natural
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Lu Gwei-Djen and
Joseph Needham A Contribution to the History of Chinese
Dietetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--20
Clifford Dobell In Memoriam: Otto Bütschli (1848--1920)
``Architect of Protozoology'' . . . . . 20--22
Walter Pagel William Harvey and the Purpose of
Circulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--38
E. Zinner Magister Alard von Diest und die Pariser
Beobachtungen von 1312--15. (German)
[Master Alard von Diest and the Paris
observations 1312--15] . . . . . . . . . 38--40
Herbert Goldstein and
Erika von Erhardt-Siebold and
G. S. and
Richard L. Schoenwald and
I. B. C. Notes and Correspondence . . . . . . . . 41--46
Anonymous Personalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--46
I. B. Cohen and
George Sarton Queries & Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--48
Anonymous Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--49
Mark Graubard Book Review: \booktitleBrutus: On the
Nature of the Gods; On Divination; On
Duties by Marcus Tullius Cicero; Hubert
M. Poteat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--52
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleRoman Book on
Precious Stones. Including on English
Modernization of the 37th Booke of the
Historie of the World by Plinius
Secundus by Sydney H. Ball . . . . . . . 52--53
M. F. Ashley Montagu Book Review: \booktitleThe Illustrations
from the Works of Andreas Vesalius of
Brussels by J. B. DeC. M. Saunders;
Charles D. O'Malley . . . . . . . . . . 53--53
Harcourt Brown Book Review: \booktitleThe Universe of
Pontus de Tyard by John C. Lapp . . . . 53--54
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleBergwerk- und
Probierbüchlein by Anneliese Grünhaldt
Sisco; Cyril Stanley Smith; De Re
Metallica by Herbert Clark Hoover;
Louhenry Hoover; Georgius Agricola . . . 54--56
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleOeuvres
compl\`etes de Christiaan Huygens by
Christiaan Huygens . . . . . . . . . . . 56--57
Harcourt Brown Book Review: \booktitleScience and
Rationalism in the Government of Louis
XIV, 1661--1683 by James E. King . . . . 57--58
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleWilliam Stukeley.
An Eighteenth-Century Antiquary by
Stuart Piggott . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--60
M. F. Ashley Montagu Book Review: \booktitleAn Autobiography
by Arthur Keith . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Carl B. Boyer Book Review: \booktitleDe Pythagore \`a
Euclide. Contribution \`a l'histoire des
mathématiques preeuclidiennes by
Paul-Henri Michel . . . . . . . . . . . 61--63
Marie Boas Book Review: \booktitleKtesibios Philon
and Heron. A Study in Ancient Pneumatics
by A. G. Drachmann . . . . . . . . . . . 63--63
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleStoria delle
matematiche dall'alba della civit\`a al
secolo XIX by Gino Loria . . . . . . . . 63--64
John F. Embree Book Review: \booktitleHistoire de la
Medecine du Viêtnam by B\`anh, Du'O'Ng Bá 64--65
V. F. Lenzen Book Review: \booktitleHarvard Case
Histories in Experimental Science by
James Bryant Conant; Duane Roller;
Leonard K. Nash . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--66
D. J. Struik Book Review: \booktitleDe mechanisering
van het wereldbeeld by E. J.
Dijksterhuis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--67
Eduard Farber Book Review: \booktitleHistoric
Researches. Chapters in the History of
Physical and Chemical Discovery by T. W.
Chalmers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68
Philipp Frank Book Review: \booktitleThe Basis and
Structure of Knowledge by W. H.
Werkmeister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--69
V. F. Lenzen Book Review: \booktitleThe Nature of
Physical Reality. A Philosophy of Modern
Physics by Henry Margenau . . . . . . . 69--70
V. F. Lenzen Book Review: \booktitleThe Evolution of
Scientific Thought. From Newton to
Einstein by A. d'Abro . . . . . . . . . 70--71
Hugues Leblanc Book Review: \booktitleLe déclin des
absolus mathématico-logiques by Georges
Bouligand; Jean Desgranges . . . . . . . 71--72
L. Jacchia Book Review: \booktitleStoria
dell'Astronomia by G. Abetti . . . . . . 72--72
John W. Streeter Book Review: \booktitleA Concise History
of Astronomy by Peter Doig . . . . . . . 73--75
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleAncient Near
Eastern Texts Relating to the Old
Testament by James B. Pritchard . . . . 75--76
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleAlbert Einstein:
Philosopher-Scientist by Paul Arthur
Schilpp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--79
Cyril Stanley Smith Book Review: \booktitleMan the Maker. A
History of Technology and Engineering by
R. J. Forbes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleSelected Works by
Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin . . . . . . 80--81
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Biology by Charles Singer . . . . . . . 82--82
Agnes Arber Book Review: \booktitleMaize in the
Great Herbals by J. J. Finan . . . . . . 82--83
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleVariation and
Evolution in Plants by G. Ledyard
Stebbins, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleIndex
Rafinesquianus. The Plant Names
Published by C. S. Rafinesque with
Reductions, and a Consideration of his
Methods, Objectives and Attainments by
Elmer D. Merrill . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleThe History and
Social Influence of the Potato by
Redcliff N. Salaman . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleA People's
Academy by Gennadi Fish . . . . . . . . 85--86
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleAmerica's Crop
Heritage: The History of Foreign Plant
Introduction by the Federal Government
by Nelson Klose . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Josef Bro\vzek Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Experimental Psychology by Edwin G.
Boring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleIdeas & Men, The
Story of Western Thought by Crane
Brinton; English Political Thought in
the Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . 88--89
G. de Santillana Book Review: \booktitleFour Views of
Time in Ancient Philosophy by John F.
Callahan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Mark Graubard Book Review: \booktitleOn Being Human by
Ashley Montagu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Bernard Barber Book Review: \booktitleScience Is a
Sacred Cow by Anthony Standen . . . . . 91--92
M. F. Ashley Montagu Book Review: \booktitleHuman Rights.
Comments and Interpretations by UNESCO 92--92
M. F. Ashley Montagu Book Review: \booktitleThe Idea of
Conflict by Kurt Singer . . . . . . . . 92--93
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Conway Zirkle Gregor Mendel & His Precursors . . . . . 97--104
A. Hunter Dupree Some Letters from Charles Darwin to
Jeffries Wyman . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--110
O. Neugebauer The Study of Wretched Subjects . . . . . 111--111
George de Santillana and
Walter Pitts Philolaos in Limbo, or: What Happened to
the Pythagoreans? . . . . . . . . . . . 112--120
Louise Diehl Patterson Leonard and Thomas Digges: Biographical
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
Francis J. Carmody Regiomontanusp' Notes on
al-Bi\dtrûj\^\i's Astronomy . . . . . . . 121--130
Lynn Thorndike Sexagenarium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--133
D. Justin Schove Sunspots, Aurorae and Blood Rain: The
Spectrum of Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--138
H. J. J. Winter and
W. 'Arafat A Statement on Optical Reflection and
``Refraction'' Attributed to Na\ds\=\ir
ud--D\=\in a\dt-\dT\=us\=\i . . . . . . 138--142
E. Newton Harvey Queries & Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--143
Anonymous Personalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Hirata Yutaka and
L. Carrington Goodrich Notes and Correspondence . . . . . . . . 143--145
Anonymous Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--147
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleAutolycus de
Pitane. Histoire du texte suivie de
l'édition critique des traités de la
sph\`ere en mouvement et des levers et
couchers by Joseph Mogenet . . . . . . . 147--148
George Sarton and
I. E. Drabkin Book Review: \booktitleCaelius
Aurelianus. On Acute Diseases and on
Chronic Diseases by I. E. Drabkin . . . 148--150
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleAetii Amideni
Libri medicinales V--VIII by Alexander
Olivieri; \booktitleAëtios of Amida: The
Gynaecology and Obstetrics of the VIth
Century A.D. by James V. Ricci . . . . . 150--152
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleEstudios sobre
Azarquiel by José Maria Millás Vallicrosa 152--153
Leo Marx Book Review: \booktitleJonathan Edwards
by Perry Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--156
Willy Hartner and
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleGoethe. Dichtung,
Wissenschaft, Weltbild by Karl Viëtor;
\booktitleGoethe the Poet. Goethe the
Thinker by Karl Viëtor; Moses Hadas;
Bayard Q. Morgan . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--157
Willy Hartner Book Review: \booktitleBiologie der
Goethezeit by Adolf Meyer-Abich . . . . 157--160
George Urdang Book Review: \booktitleGoethe as a
Scientist by Rudolf Magnus; Heinz Norden 160--160
Gwilym E. Owen Book Review: \booktitleJoseph Henry. His
Life and Work by Thomas Coulson . . . . 160--162
N. T. Bobrovnikoff Book Review: \booktitleLatin Treatises
on Comets between 1238 and 1368 A.D. by
Lynn Thorndike . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--163
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleThe Western World
and Japan. A Study in the Interaction of
European and Asiatic Cultures by G. B.
Sansom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--164
H. J. J. Winter Book Review: \booktitleEl Enigma de la
Luz by Cortes Pla . . . . . . . . . . . 164--164
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleThe Nature of
Natural History by Marston Bates . . . . 164--165
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleFifty Years of
Plant Physiology by Th. Weevers . . . . 165--165
George Urdang Book Review: \booktitleGeschichte der
Medizin. Die historische Entwicklung der
Heilkunde und des ärztlichen Lebens. I.
Band: Von den Anfängen der Medizin bis
zur Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts by Paul
Diepgen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--167
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--172
George Sarton Second Preface to Volume 42. Science and
Peace II. The Botanical Exploration of
Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--176
John F. Fulton The Impact of Science on American
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--191
George A. Foote The Place of Science in the British
Reform Movement 1830--50 . . . . . . . . 192--208
Louise Diehl Patterson Recorde's Cosmography, 1556 . . . . . . 208--218
A. R. Hall Two Unpublished Lectures of Robert Hooke 219--230
Henry P. Macomber A Comparison of the Variations and
Errors in Copies of the First Edition of
Newton's Principia, 1687 . . . . . . . . 230--232
Denis Duveen Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743--1794):
A Note regarding His Domicile during the
French Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
Fr\`ere Garnier Edmond Brunhes (1834--1916) (en
Religion, Fr\`ere Gabriel-Marie, de
l'Institut des Fr\`eres des Écoles
Chrétiennes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--237
George Sarton Bibliography of Dr E. W. Gudger's
Contributions to the History of
Ichthyology (1905--1951) . . . . . . . . 237--242
Marcel Françon and
George Sarton Notes and Correspondence . . . . . . . . 242--243
Anonymous Personalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Anonymous Courses in the History of Science . . . 244--244
Anonymous Dissertations in Progress . . . . . . . 244--244
Walter Pagel Book Review: \booktitleParacelsus. Magic
into Science by Henry M. Pachter . . . . 244--246
J. B. deC. M. Saunders Book Review: \booktitleThe Life and
Times of Gaspare Tagliacozzi, Surgeon of
Bologna, 1545--1599, with a Documented
Study of the Scientific and Cultural
Life of Bologna in the Sixteenth Century
by Martha Teach Gnudi; Jerome Pierce
Webster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
Mark Graubard Book Review: \booktitleGiordano Bruno,
His Life and Thought. On the Infinite
Universe and Worlds by Dorothea Waley
Singer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--248
Sydney W. Jackman Book Review: \booktitleSir Thomas Browne
by William P. Dunn . . . . . . . . . . . 248--249
Gordon Keith Chalmers Book Review: \booktitleSir Thomas
Browne, a Doctor's Life of Science and
Faith by Jeremiah S. Finch . . . . . . . 249--250
Albert Rosenberg Book Review: \booktitleThe Life of Dr.
John Radcliffe 1652--1714, Benefactor of
the University of Oxford by Campbell R.
Hone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--251
Harcourt Brown Book Review: \booktitleThe Breaking of
the Circle by Marjorie Hope Nicolson . . 251--252
C. Doris Hellman Book Review: \booktitleGesammelte Werke
by Johannes Kepler . . . . . . . . . . . 252--255
George A. Foote Book Review: \booktitleGenesis and
Geology. A Study in the Relations of
Scientific Thought, Natural Theology,
and Social Opinion in Great Britain,
1790--1850 by Charles Coulston Gillispie 255--256
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleJohn William
Draper and the Religion of Science by
Donald Fleming; W. E. Calvert . . . . . 256--257
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleBernard Eduard
Fernow, a Story of North American
Forestry by Andrew Denny Rogers . . . . 257--257
D. J. Struik Book Review: \booktitleJosiah Willard
Gibbs: The History of a Great Mind by
Lynde Phelps Wheeler . . . . . . . . . . 257--259
Solomon Gandz Book Review: \booktitleThe Burden of
Egypt. An Interpretation of Ancient
Egyptian Culture by John A. Wilson . . . 259--260
Solomon Gandz Book Review: \booktitleThe Calendars of
Ancient Egypt by Richard A. Parker . . . 260--263
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleThe Ancient Khmer
Empire by Lawrence Palmer Briggs . . . . 263--265
Willy Hartner Book Review: \booktitleHuang Ti Nei
Ching Su Wên. The Yellow Emperor's
Classic of Internal Medicine by Ilza
Veith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266
Solomon Gandz Book Review: \booktitleHellenism in
Jewish Palestine. Studies in Literary
Transmission, Beliefs and Manners of
Palestine in the I Century B.C.E--IV
Century C.E. by Saul Lieberman . . . . . 266--267
Solomon Gandz Book Review: \booktitleThe Mysterious
Numbers of the Hebrew Kings. A
Reconstruction of the Chronology of the
Kingdoms of Israel and Judah by Edwin R.
Thiele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--268
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleMaya Hieroglyphic
Writing by J. Eric S. Thompson . . . . . 268--269
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleScience and
Common Sense by James B. Conant . . . . 269--271
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleHistoire de la
mécanique. Préface de Louis de Broglie by
Réne Dugas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleSourcebook on
Atomic Energy by Samuel Glasstone;
\booktitleFoundations of Nuclear Physics
by Robert T. Beyer; \booktitleThe Atom
at Work by Jacob Sacks; \booktitleNew
Atoms, Progress and Some Memories by
Otto Hahn; W. Gaade; \booktitleA Hundred
Years of Physics by William Wilson . . . 272--273
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleWater, Land and
People by Bernard Frank; Anthony Netboy 273--274
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleDragons in Amber.
Further Adventures of a Romantic
Naturalist by Willy Ley . . . . . . . . 274--275
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleEvolutionary
Thought in America by Stow Person . . . 275--275
Samuel Gelfan Book Review: \booktitleThe History of
Muscle Physiology by E. Bastholm . . . . 276--276
Josef Bro\vzek Book Review: \booktitleReadings in the
History of Psychology by Wayne Denis . . 276--277
W. H. Werkmeister Book Review: \booktitleThe Rise of
Scientific Philosophy by Hans
Reichenbach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--278
J. B. deC. M. Saunders Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Medicine. Volume I by Henry E. Sigerist 278--281
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--282
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--283
John R. Baker Remarks on the Discovery of
Cell-Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--287
Desmond Reilly Salts, Acids & Alkalis in the 19th
Century. A Comparison between Advances
in France, England & Germany . . . . . . 287--296
Thomas S. Kuhn Newton's ``31st Query'' and the
Degradation of Gold . . . . . . . . . . 296--298
Jean Pelseneer Petite Contribution \`a la Connaissance
de Mariotte. (French) [Small
contribution to the knowledge of
Mariotte] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--301
Lynn Thorndike Prediction of Eclipses in the Fourteenth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
Marcel Françon Ausone et le Premier Nombre Parfait . . 302--303
Anonymous Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--306
Richard H. Shryock and
Frans Verdoorn Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 306--307
E. Newton Harvey Queries & Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
Dorothy Wyckoff and
Jane Oppenheimer and
Aaron J. Ihde Teaching the History of Science . . . . 308--308
George Sarton and
Frances Siegel Seventy-Seventh Critical Bibliography of
the History and Philosophy of Science
and of the History of Civilization (To
March 1951) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--395
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--397
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 399--404
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Donald Fleming Latent Heat and the Invention of the
Watt Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--5
George A. Foote Sir Humphry Davy and His Audience at the
Royal Institution . . . . . . . . . . . 6--12
Thomas S. Kuhn Robert Boyle and Structural Chemistry in
the Seventeenth Century . . . . . . . . 12--36
Marshall Clagett A Medieval Fragment of the \booktitleDe
Sphaera et Cylindro of Archimedes . . . 36--38
Richard C. Rudolph A Second-Century Chinese Illustration of
Salt Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--41
E. S. Kennedy A Fifteenth-Century Planetary Computer:
al-K\=ash\=\i's ``\booktitle\dTabaq
al-Man\=a\dteq''. II. Longitudes,
Distances, and Equations of the Planets 42--50
Marshall Clagett Teaching the History of Science . . . . 51--53
Anonymous Personalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--54
George Sarton Queries & Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--54
Anonymous Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--56
Erwin Raisz Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 56--57
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleCorpus Platonicum
medii aevi by Raymundus Klibansky;
\booktitlePlato Arabus by Richardus
Walzer; \booktitleVolumen I. Galeni
compendium Timaei Platonis aliorumque
dialogorum synopsis quae extant
fragmenta by Paulus Kraus; Richardus
Walzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--58
Solomon Gandz Book Review: \booktitleKoheleth --- The
Man and His World by Robert Gordis . . . 58--58
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleHistoire
naturelle by Pline L'Ancien . . . . . . 58--60
Marshall Clagett Book Review: \booktitleUgo Benzi,
Medieval Philosopher and Physician,
1376--1439 by Dean Putnam Lockwood . . . 60--62
G. Lafeuille Book Review: \booktitleBiblioth\`eque
d'Humanisme et Renaissance . . . . . . . 62--64
Walter Pagel Book Review: \booktitleSelected Writings
by Paracelsus; Jolande Jacobi; Norbert
Guterman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
C. Doris Hellman Book Review: \booktitleO cometa do ano
de 1577 by Francisco Sanches . . . . . . 64--65
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleChristopher
Polhem and the Mining Company Stora
Kopparberg by Sten Lindroth . . . . . . 65--66
Hugo Bauer Book Review: \booktitlePaul Ehrlich by
Martha Marquardt . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--66
Walter Pagel Book Review: \booktitleA Seventeenth
Century Doctor and His Patients: John
Symcotts (1592(?)-1662) by F. N. L.
Poynter; W. J. Bishop . . . . . . . . . 66--66
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Autobiography in Antiquity by George
Misch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--69
George Sarton and
Francis J. Carmody Book Review: \booktitleThe Exact
Sciences in Antiquity by Otto Neugebauer 69--73
Sonia S. Wohl Book Review: \booktitleAn Index of
Medieval Studies Published in
Festschriften, 1865--1946, with Special
Reference to Romanic Material by Harry
F. Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--74
Mark Graubard Book Review: \booktitleThe State of Asia
by Lawrence K. Rosinger . . . . . . . . 74--75
M. F. Ashley Montagu Book Review: \booktitleThe History and
Culture of the Indian People. Volume I,
The Vedic Age by R. C. Majumdar; A.D.
Pusalker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
Richard N. Frye Book Review: \booktitleA Medical History
of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate by
Cyril Elgood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleL'oeuvre
mathématique de G. Desargues by René
Taton; \booktitleL'oeuvre Scientifique
de Monge by René Taton . . . . . . . . . 77--79
Eduard Farber Book Review: \booktitleGeschichte der
Ammoniaksynthesc by Alwin Mittasch . . . 79--80
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleThe Origin,
Variation, Immunity and Breeding of
Cultivated Plants by N. I. Vavilov; K.
Starr Chester . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleHorses: The Story
of the Horse Family in the Modern World
through Sixty Million Years of History
by George Gaylord Simpson . . . . . . . 80--81
G. E. Erikson Book Review: \booktitleThe Anatomy of
the Gorilla by William King Gregory . . 81--83
M. F. Ashley Montagu Book Review: \booktitleSocial
Anthropology by E. E. Evans-Pritchard 83--84
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleOf Societies and
Men by Caryl P. Haskins . . . . . . . . 84--85
Morton White Book Review: \booktitleThe Structure of
Appearance by Nelson Goodman . . . . . . 85--87
V. F. Lenzen Book Review: \booktitleContributions to
the Analysis and Synthesis of Knowledge
by Philipp Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
V. F. Lenzen Book Review: \booktitleThe New
Perspective by Rudolf Jordan . . . . . . 88--89
Solomon Gandz Book Review: \booktitleThe Dawn of
Philosophy. A Philosophical Primer by
Georg Misch; R. F. C. Hull . . . . . . . 89--89
M. F. Ashley Montagu Book Review: \booktitleFrontal Lobotomy
and Affective Behavior by John F. Fulton 89--90
C. D. Leake Book Review: \booktitleThe Great Medical
Bibliographers: A Study in Humanism by
John F. Fulton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Erwin H. Ackerkneciit Book Review: \booktitleYellow Fever in
Galveston, Republic of Texas, 1839. An
Account of the Great Epidemic together
with a Biographical Sketch by Chauncey
D. Leake and \booktitleStories of the
Men Who Conquered Yellow Fever by Ashbel
Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Carl B. Boyer Descartes and the Radius of the Rainbow 95--98
Samuel I. Mintz Galileo, Hobbes, and the Circle of
Perfection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--100
Pearl Kibre Lewis of Caerleon, Doctor of Medicine,
Astronomer, and Mathematician (d. 1494?) 100--108
Duane H. D. Roller and
M. Thilorier Thilorier and the First Solidification
of a ``Permanent'' Gas (1835) . . . . . 109--113
Henry Guerriero A Note on Venesection in the New Orleans
Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--116
Anonymous Doctoral Dissertations in Progress . . . 116--117
Anonymous Personalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
Anonymous Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
Ludwig Edelstein and
Giorgio de Santillana and
Walter Pitts and
Marie Boas and
Thomas S. Kuhn and
Herbert Reichner and
Louise Patterson and
George Sarton Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 119--127
George Sarton and
Frances Siegel Seventy-Eighth Critical Bibliography of
the History and Philosophy of Science
and of the History of Civilization (To
December 1951) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--208
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
Otto Blüh The Value of Inspiration. A Study on
Julius Robert Mayer and Josef
Popper-Lynkeus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--220
Albert Rosenberg Bishop Sprat on Science and Imagery . . 220--222
Franz H. Mautner and
Franklin Miller, Jr. Remarks on G. C. Lichtenberg,
Humanist--Scientist . . . . . . . . . . 223--231
Rufus Suter Four Galileian Inscriptions . . . . . . 231--236
Marshall Clagett The Use of the Moerbeke Translations of
Archimedes in the Works of Johannes de
Muris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--242
Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Markov The Pulkovo Observatory and Some
American Astronomers of the Mid-19th
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--246
A. J. J. Van de Velde Jean Palfyn, 1650--1730. Chirurgien de
Gand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--250
Paul Tasch Conservation of Momentum in Antiquity. A
Note on the Prehistory of the Principle
of Jet-Propulsion . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Lynn Thorndike A Record of Eclipses for the Years 1478
to 1506 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--256
Martin Levey The Encyclopedia of Abraham Savasorda: A
Departure in Mathematical Methodology 257--264
Anonymous Personalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--265
Anonymous Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266
Hugh G. Dick and
John C. Eaton and
Edward Fueter and
Paul Schrecker Queries & Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--267
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleMacrobius.
Commentary on the Dream of Scipio by
William Harris Stahl . . . . . . . . . . 267--268
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleAl-Biruni
Commemoration Volume. A.H. 362--A.H.
1362 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--270
Walter Pagel Book Review: \booktitleLeonardo da Vinci
on Movement of the Heart and Blood by K.
D. Keele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--271
Charles D. O'Malley Book Review: \booktitleLazarus Ercker's
Treatise on Ores and Assaying by
Anneliese Grunhaldt Sisco; Cyril Stanley
Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272
Walter Pagel Book Review: \booktitleParacelsus.
Sozialethische und Sozialpolitische
Schriften by Kurt Goldammer . . . . . . 272--272
Iago Galdston Book Review: \booktitleThe Maggid of
Caro by Hirsch Loeb Gordon . . . . . . . 272--274
Chauncey D. Leake Book Review: \booktitleBartolomé de Las
Casas: Bookman, Scholar and Propagandist
by Lewis Hanke . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--275
Heinrich Schneider Book Review: \booktitleLeibniz by Kurt
Huber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleJohn Ray, a
Bibliography by Geoffrey Keynes;
\booktitleA Bio-Bibliography of Edward
Jenner, 1749--1823 by W. R. LeFanu . . . 276--277
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleMémoires
autobiographiques de Charles Bonnet de
Gen\`eve by Charles Bonnet; Raymond
Savioz; La philosophie de Charles Bonnet
de Gen\`eve by Raymond Savioz . . . . . 277--280
Crane Brinton Book Review: \booktitleThe Philosophy of
the Enlightenment by Ernst Cassirer;
Fritz C. A. Koelln; James P. Pettegrove 280--281
Brooke Hindle Book Review: \booktitleThomas Jefferson:
Scientist by Edwin T. Martin;
\booktitleThe Papers of Thomas
Jefferson. Vol. I (1760--1776) by Julian
P. Boyd; Lyman H. Butterfield; Mina R.
Bryan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--282
Wyndham Miles Book Review: \booktitleHerbert H. Dow;
Pioneer in Creative Chemistry by Murray
Campbell; Harrison Hatton . . . . . . . 282--283
Eduard Farber Book Review: \booktitleA Romance in
Research. The Life of Charles F.
Burgess: Student --- Teacher ---
Researcher -- Industrialist by Alexander
McQueen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Cyril Stanley Smith Book Review: \booktitleMetallurgy in
Antiquity. A Notebook for Archaeologists
and Technologists by R. J. Forbes . . . 283--285
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleCorinth. Results
of Excavations Conducted by the American
School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Volume XIV. by Carl Roebuck; F. J. de
Waele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--286
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleThe Alexandrian
Library, Glory of the Hellenic World.
Its Rise, Antiquities, and Destructions
by Edward Alexander Parsons . . . . . . 286--287
Solomon Gandz Book Review: \booktitleThe First Book of
Maccabees by Solomon Zeitlin; Abraham A.
Neuman; Sidney Tedesche;
\booktitleAristeas to Philocrates
(Letter of Aristeas) by Moses Hadas . . 287--288
Ashley Montagu Book Review: \booktitleFolk-Songs of
Chhattisgarh by Verrier Elwin;
\booktitleThe Muria and Their Ghotul by
Verrier Elwin; \booktitleMaria Murder
and Suicide by Verrier Elwin;
\booktitleBondo Highlander by Verrier
Elwin; \booktitleThe Tribal Art of
Middle India by Verrier Elwin . . . . . 288--289
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleOsiris, Vol. 9 by
George Sarton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
D. J. Struik Book Review: \booktitleGeschichte der
Mathematik by O. Becker; J. E. Hofmann 290--291
J. W. Abrams Book Review: \booktitleAstronomie.
Geschichte ihrer Probleme by Ernest
Zinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--292
V. F. Lenzen Book Review: \booktitleThe Rise of the
New Physics: Its Mathematical and
Physical Theories by A. D'Abro . . . . . 292--293
V. F. Lenzen Book Review: \booktitleA History of the
Theories of Aether and Electricity by
Edmund Whittaker . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleHuman Fertility:
The Modern Dilemma by Robert C. Cook . . 294--295
Sonia S. Wohl Book Review: \booktitleThe Art of
Botanical Illustration by Wilfrid Blunt;
William T. Stearn; \booktitleNational
Book League, London: Flower Books and
Their Illustrators: Catalogue of an
Exhibition Arranged for the National
Book League by Wilfrid Blunt;
\booktitleDie botanische Illustration;
ihre Geschichte und Bibliographie by
Claus Nissen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--296
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleThe Old Company's
Garden at the Cape and Its
Superintendents by Mia C. Karsten . . . 296--297
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleDie
Evolutionstheorie, das Grundproblem der
modernen Biologie by Georg Schneider . . 297--298
G. W. Cottrell, Jr. Book Review: \booktitleThe History of
American Ornithology before Audubon by
Elsa G. Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--298
G. W. Cottrell, Jr. Book Review: \booktitleDie Entwicklung
der Ornithologie von Aristoteles bis zur
Gegenwart by Erwin Stresemann . . . . . 298--300
Aaron J. Ihde Book Review: \booktitleGeneral Education
in Science by I. Bernard Cohen; Fletcher
G. Watson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--300
Aaron J. Ihde Book Review: \booktitleCrisis and Hope
in American Education by Robert Ulich 301--301
Sonia S. Wohl Book Review: \booktitleThe Lost Language
of Symbolism; An Inquiry into the Origin
of Certain Letters, Words, Names,
Fairy-Tales, Folklore, and Mythologies
by Harold Bayley . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
Sonia S. Wohl Book Review: \booktitleThe
Bibliographical History of Anonyma and
Pseudonyma by Archer Taylor; Frederic J.
Mosher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--303
Sonia S. Wohl Book Review: \booktitlePrinting Types,
Their History, Forms, and Uses; A Study
in Survivals by Daniel Berkeley Updike 303--304
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--306
Harcourt Brown An Odd Lot. Presidential Address
Delivered at the Close of the Meeting of
the History of Science Society at Brown
University, 5 April 1952 . . . . . . . . 307--311
Alexandre Koyré An Unpublished Letter of Robert Hooke to
Isaac Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--337
Anneliese Sisco How Old Is the Bergbüchlein? . . . . . . 337--343
Edward Rosen Galileo on the Distance between the
Earth and the Moon . . . . . . . . . . . 344--348
William D. Stahlman On the Date of a Comet Ascribed to A.D.
1238 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--351
Karel Hujer Father Procopius Divi\vs --- The
European Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . 351--357
I. Bernard Cohen and
Robert Schofield Did Divi\vs Erect the First European
Protective Lightning Rod, and Was His
Invention Independent? . . . . . . . . . 358--364
G. S. and
Thomas S. Kuhn and
C. W. Adams Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 364--366
George Sarton Queries & Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--368
Chauncey D. Leake Teaching the History of Science . . . . 368--368
Anonymous Dissertations in Progress in the History
of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--369
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleMemoirs by
Benjamin Franklin; Max Farrand;
\booktitleAutobiography by Benjamin
Franklin; Max Farrand . . . . . . . . . 369--371
Robert F. Sutton Book Review: \booktitleRussia's
Lomonosov, Chemist, Courtier, Physicist,
Poet by Boris N. Menshutkin; Jeannette
Eyre Thal; Edward J. Webster; W. Chapin
Huntington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--373
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleThe Works of
George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne by A.
A. Luce; T. E. Jessop . . . . . . . . . 373--374
Chauncey D. Leake Book Review: \booktitleClaude Bernard
and the Experimental Method in Medicine
by J. M. D. Olmsted; E. Harris Olmsted 374--374
Walter Pagel Book Review: \booktitleEthan Allen
Hitchcock. Soldier --- Humanitarian ---
Scholar. Discoverer of the ``True
Subject'' of the Hermetic Art by I.
Bernard Cohen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--375
Owsei Temkin Book Review: \booktitleThe Greeks and
the Irrational by E. R. Dodds . . . . . 375--377
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleA Century of
Science, 1851--1951 by Herbert Dingle;
\booktitleA Century of Technology,
1851--1951 by Percy Dunsheath . . . . . 377--378
Aaron J. Ihde Book Review: \booktitleThe Chemical
Revolution. A Contribution to Social
Technology by Archibald Clow; Nan L.
Clow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--379
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleSoviet Genetics
by Alan G. Morton . . . . . . . . . . . 379--380
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitlePlants and the
Atmosphere by Leonard K. Nash . . . . . 380--381
Heinrich Meyer Book Review: \booktitleDie Einheit
unseres Wirklichkeitsbildes und die
Grenzen der Einzelwissenschaften by E.
Grassi; T. v. Uexküll . . . . . . . . . . 381--382
Carl W. Condit Book Review: \booktitleHistory of the
Development of Building Construction in
Chicago by Frank A. Randall;
\booktitleAmerican Building. The Forces
That Shape It by James Marston Fitch;
\booktitleContemporary Structure in
Architecture by Leonard Michaels . . . . 382--383
Donald Fleming Book Review: \booktitleThe
Counter-Revolution of Science. Studies
on the Abuse of Reason by F. A. Hayek 383--385
George Urdang Book Review: \booktitleGeschichte der
Medizin. Die historische Entwicklung der
Heilkunde und des ärztlichen Lebens. II.
Bd. I. Hälfte: Von der Medizin der
Aufklärung bis zur Begründung der
Zellularpathologie (ca. 1740--ca. 1858)
by Paul Diepgen . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--386
George Urdang Book Review: \booktitleLe prestigieux
passé des eaux minérales. Histoire du
thermalisme et de l'hydrologie des
origines \`a 1950. by E.-H. Guitard . . 386--386
Marie Boas and
I. Bernard Cohen and
Frederick G. Kilgour Administrative Documents . . . . . . . . 387--393
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 394--400
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--402
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Dorothy Stimson The Editing of \booktitleIsis . . . . . 3--4
Edward Rosen Carlo Dati on the Invention of
Eyeglasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--10
Duane H. D. Roller Did Bacon Know Gilbert's \booktitleDe
Magnete? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--13
G. A. Fester Einige Farbstoffe südamerikanischer
Kulturvolker. (German) [Some dyes of the
South American Volker culture] . . . . . 13--16
Marshall Clagett The Medieval Latin Translations from the
Arabic of the \booktitleElements of
Euclid, with Special Emphasis on the
Versions of Adelard of Bath . . . . . . 16--42
Alfred De Grazia Mathematical Derivation of an Election
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--51
Louise Diehl Patterson The Royal Society's Standard
Thermometer, 1663--1709 . . . . . . . . 51--64
Stuart MacClintock Book Review: \booktitleLe Quaestiones de
Anima di Taddeo da Parma by Sofia Vanni
Rovighi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--65
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleLeonardo da Vinci
on the Human Body by Charles D.
O'Malley; J. B. de C. M. Saunders . . . 65--66
Karel Hujer Book Review: \booktitleTwo Pansophical
Works by John Amos Comenius; G. H.
Turnbull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--68
V. F. Lenzen Book Review: \booktitleOpticks by Isaac
Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--69
Brooke Hindle Book Review: \booktitleLetters of
Benjamin Rush by L. H. Butterfield . . . 69--70
Edwin Burrows Smith Book Review: \booktitleJean-Sylvain
Bailly, Revolutionary Mayor of Paris by
Gene A. Brucker . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--72
Henry Guerlac Book Review: \booktitleInventaire du
Fonds Vandeul et inédits de Diderot by
Herbert Dieckmann . . . . . . . . . . . 72--74
Marshall Clagett Book Review: \booktitleLightning
Protection --- 200th Anniversary of the
``Philadelphia Experiment'' by Benjamin
Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleThe Tradition of
the Minor Greek Geographers by Aubrey
Diller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
I. E. Drabkin Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Science. Ancient Science through the
Golden Age of Greece by George Sarton 75--78
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Muslim Historiography by Franz Rosenthal 78--79
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleApes and Ape Lore
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
by H. W. Janson . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleWild Men in the
Middle Ages: A Study in Art, Sentiment
and Demonology by Richard Bernheimer . . 80--80
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleThe Origin of
Life and the Evolution of Living Things.
An Environmental Theory by Olan R.
Hyndman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitlePlants, Man and
Life by Edgar Anderson . . . . . . . . . 81--82
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleFlour for Man's
Bread by John Storck; Walter Dorwin
Teague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
Aaron J. Ihde Book Review: \booktitleThe Evolution of
Chemistry by Eduard Farber . . . . . . . 83--83
Aaron J. Ihde Book Review: \booktitleA Source Book in
Chemistry 1400--1900 by Henry M.
Leicester; Herbert S. Klickstein . . . . 84--84
Mark Graubard Book Review: \booktitleThe Uses of the
Past by Herbert J. Muller . . . . . . . 84--86
Josef Bro\vzek Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Psychology in Autobiography. Vol. 4 by
Edwin G. Boring; Herbert S. Langfeld;
Heinz Werner; Robert Yerkes . . . . . . 86--87
J. G. Beebe-Center Book Review: \booktitleLa psychologie
contemporaine by Paul Foulquié; Gérard
Deledalle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Mark Graubard Book Review: \booktitleSatan by Bruno De
Jesus-Marie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Mark Graubard Book Review: \booktitleMan and His Gods
by Homer W. Smith . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Max Jammer Book Review: \booktitleM'koroth
l'tholdoth habiologia by F. S.
Bodenheimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--91
Marshall Clagett Book Review: \booktitleHorus --- A Guide
to the History of Science by George
Sarton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--93
Mark Graubard Book Review: \booktitleThe Accused by
Alexander Weissberg . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Anonymous Personalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Carl W. Condit Teaching the History of Science . . . . 95--96
J. Pelseneer and
Denis Duveen and
Lynn Thorndike and
E. J. Dijksterhuis and
R. J. Forbes and
Aaron J. Ihde Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 96--99
George Sarton and
C. W. Adams Queries & Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--101
George Sarton and
Frances Siegel Seventy-Ninth Critical Bibliography of
the History and Philosophy of Science
and of the History of Civilization (To
31 August 1952) . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--204
Frederick G. Kilgour and
Charles C. Gillespie and
Marie Boas Administrative Documents . . . . . . . . 205--210
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--212
Owsei Temkin Greek Medicine as Science and Craft . . 213--225
Henry Guerlac A Proposed Revision of the
\booktitleIsis Critical Bibliography . . 226--228
Anonymous Proposed System of Classification for
\booktitleIsis Critical Bibliography . . 229--231
George Sarton Why \booktitleIsis? . . . . . . . . . . 232--242
A. Hunter Dupree Jeffries Wyman's Views on Evolution . . 243--246
S. Pines Un précurseur Bagdadien de la théorie de
l'impetus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--251
Harold Fisch The Scientist as Priest: A Note on
Robert Boyle's Natural Theology . . . . 252--265
Heinrich Schneider An Unpublished Letter concerning Leibniz 266--272
Wilhelm Norlind Copernicus and Luther: A Critical Study 273--276
Anonymous Personalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
W. D. Stahlman and
L. Carrington Goodrich Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 277--277
William D. Stahlman Book Review: \booktitleThe Almagest, by
Ptolemy by Hutchins, Robert; R. Catesby
Taliaferro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--280
Marshall Clagett Book Review: \booktitleAl-Bitruji de
motibus celorum. Critical Edition of the
Latin Translation of Michael Scot by
Francis J. Carmody . . . . . . . . . . . 280--281
J. B. deC. M. Saunders Book Review: \booktitleVesalius on the
Human Brain by Charles Singer . . . . . 281--283
Walter Pagel Book Review: \booktitleVolcher Coiter,
1534--1576 by Herrlinger, Robert . . . . 283--283
Thomas S. Kuhn Book Review: \booktitleBallistics in the
Seventeenth Century, a Study in the
Relations of Science and War with
Reference Principally to England by A.
R. Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--285
Thomas S. Kuhn Book Review: \booktitleThe Scientific
Work of René Descartes (1596--1650) by J.
F. Scott; \booktitleDescartes and the
Modern Mind by Albert G. A. Balz . . . . 285--287
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitlePhilosophiae
naturalis principia mathematica by Isaac
Newton; \booktitleA New System of
Chemical Philosophy by John Dalton . . . 287--288
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleCarl Linnoeus by
Knut Hagberg; Alan Blair . . . . . . . . 288--289
Eduard Farber Book Review: \booktitleFriedrich
Nietzsche als Naturphilosoph by Alwin
Mittasch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
Donald Fleming Book Review: \booktitleThe World of Eli
Whitney by Jeannette Mirsky; Allan
Nevins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--291
Joseph T. Clark Book Review: \booktitleStoic Logic by
Benson Mates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--293
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleScience in
Western Civilization: A Syllabus by
Henry Guerlac . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--295
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleSwedish Men of
Science, 1650--1950 by Sten Lindroth . . 295--296
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleScience and the
Social Order by Bernard Barber . . . . . 296--298
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleIn the Name of
Science by Martin Gardner . . . . . . . 298--298
C. Doris Hellman Book Review: \booktitleThe History of
Astronomy by Giorgio Abetti; Betty Burr
Abetti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--300
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleThe Mind and the
Eye: A Study of the Biologist's
Standpoint by Agnes Arber . . . . . . . 300--301
Erwin H. Ackerknecht Book Review: \booktitleA Hundred Years
of Biology by Ben Dawes . . . . . . . . 301--301
S. E. Morison Book Review: \booktitleA History of the
Practice of Navigation by J. B. Hewson;
\booktitleA Nautica dos Descobrimentos.
Os Descobrimentos maritimos vistos por
un navegador. Colectanea de artigos,
conferencias e trabalhos ineditos by
Almirante Gago Coutinho . . . . . . . . 301--302
Duane H. D. Roller Book Review: \booktitleFrom Lodestone to
Gyro-Compass by H. L. Hutchins; W. E.
May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous Administrative Documents . . . . . . . . 304--306
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
R. C. Stauffer Persistent Errors regarding Oersted's
Discovery of Electromagnetism . . . . . 307--310
L. Pearce Williams Science, Education and the French
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--330
Robert E. Schofield John Wesley and Science in 18th Century
England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--340
Philip Merlan Plotinus and Magic . . . . . . . . . . . 341--348
Alexander Lipski The Foundation of the Russian Academy of
Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--354
Curtis Wilson Pomponazzi's Criticism of Calculator . . 355--362
Edward Lurie Some Manuscript Resources in the History
of Nineteenth Century American Natural
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--370
Marshall Clagett Medieval Mathematics and Physics: A
Check List of Microfilm Reproductions 371--381
G. A. Fester and
J. Pelseneer and
L. J. M. Coleby Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 382--382
Carl B. Boyer Book Review: \booktitleThe Works of
Archimedes by T. L. Heath . . . . . . . 383--384
Erwin Raisz Book Review: \booktitleThe
Vienna-Klosterneuburg Map Corpus of the
Fifteenth Century by Dana Bennett Durand 384--385
Francis R. Johnson Book Review: \booktitleCardano: The
Gambling Scholar by Òystein Òre . . . . . 385--387
Marie Boas Book Review: \booktitleLocke's Travels
in France 1675--1679 by John Lough . . . 387--387
Aram Vartanian Book Review: \booktitleAbraham Trembley
of Geneva: Scientist and Philosopher by
John R. Baker . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--389
Charles C. Gillispie Book Review: \booktitleDiderot and
Descartes, a Study of Scientific
Naturalism in the Enlightenment by Aram
Vartanian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--391
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleLes instruments
scientifiques aux XVIIe et XVIIIe
si\`ecles by Maurice Daumas . . . . . . 391--392
Walter Pagel Book Review: \booktitleDe
Aneurysmatibus. Aneurysms. The Latin
text of Rome, 1745 by Lancisi,Giovanni
Maria; Wilmer Cave Wright . . . . . . . 392--393
Donald Fleming Book Review: \booktitleA Bibliography of
Oliver Wendell Holmes by Thomas Franklin
Currier; Eleanor M. Tilton . . . . . . . 393--394
Edward Lurie Book Review: \booktitleDavid Starr
Jordan: Prophet of Freedom by Edward
McNall Burns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--394
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleThe Mighty Leaf:
Tobacco through the Centuries by Jerome
E. Brooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--395
Mark Graubard Book Review: \booktitleMan's Foods by L.
B. Jensen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--396
William D. Stahlman Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Astronomy from Thales to Kepler.
Formerly Titled History of the Planetary
Systems from Thales to Kepler by J. L.
E. Dreyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--397
Robert H. Pfeiffer Book Review: \booktitleThe Triumph of
the Alphabet: A History of Writing by A.
C. Moorhouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--398
Marshall Clagett Book Review: \booktitleAugustine to
Galileo. The History of Science A.D.
400--1650 by A. C. Crombie . . . . . . . 398--403
Edward Lurie Book Review: \booktitleOrigins of
American Scientists: A Study Made under
the Direction of a Committee of the
Faculty of Wesleyan University by R. H.
Knapp; H. B. Goodrich . . . . . . . . . 403--404
Eduard Farber Book Review: \booktitleBeiträge zur
Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und
der Technik by Edmund O. Von Lippmann 404--404
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleStudies in
Intellectual History . . . . . . . . . . 404--405
Chauncey D. Leake Book Review: \booktitleSalud y Libertad:
Oraciones de un Creyente by C. E.
Paz-Soldan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--405
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 406--409
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Eduard Farber The Color of Venous Blood . . . . . . . 3--9
Henry J. Webb The Science of Gunnery in Elizabethan
England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--21
Lynn Thorndike Albumasar in Sadan . . . . . . . . . . . 22--32
R. A. Chipman An Unpublished Letter of Stephen Gray on
Electrical Experiments, 1707--1708 . . . 33--40
I. Bernard Cohen Neglected Sources for the Life of
Stephen Gray (1666 or 1667--1736) . . . 41--50
Henry Guerlac Lavoisier and His Biographers . . . . . 51--62
George Sarton The Jerusalem Congress . . . . . . . . . 63--77
Li Shu-hua Origine de la Boussole . . . . . . . . . 78--94
Victor Coutant Theophrastus and the Firewalk . . . . . 95--97
Lynn Thorndike and
W. Norlind and
Heinrich Meyer Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 98--99
Thomas S. Kuhn Book Review: \booktitleMain Currents of
Western Thought by Franklin L. Baumer 100--100
Quido Vetter Book Review: \booktitleAstronomy in
Czechoslovakia from the Earliest Times
to Today by H. Slouka . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Aaron J. Ihde Book Review: \booktitleA History of the
American Chemical Society ---
Seventy-Five Eventful Years by Charles
Albert Browne; Mary Elvira Weeks . . . . 101--102
Sonia S. Wohl Book Review: \booktitleThe Mapmaker's
Art: Essays on the History of Maps by
Edward William O'Flaherty Lynam . . . . 102--103
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleHistorical
Aspects of Organic Evolution by Philip
G. Fothergill . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--105
Walter Pagel Book Review: \booktitleGeschichte der
Physiologie by Rothschuh, K. E. . . . . 105--106
Ashley Montagu Book Review: \booktitleFranz Boas by
Melville J. Herskovits . . . . . . . . . 106--107
Clyde Kluckhohn Book Review: \booktitleThe Savages of
America. A Study of the Indian and the
Idea of Civilization by Roy H. Pearce;
\booktitleTheoretical Anthropology by
David Bidney; \booktitleThe World of
Primitive Man by Paul Radin . . . . . . 107--109
Walter Pagel Book Review: \booktitleIndex zur
Geschichte der Medizin,
Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Vol. I by
Walter Artelt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
John B. Blake Book Review: \booktitleThe Epidemiology
of Health by Iago Galdston . . . . . . . 110--110
Edward Tolstoi Book Review: \booktitleThe History of
Diabetes Mellitus by N. S. Papaspyres 110--111
A. W. Richeson Book Review: \booktitleHistorical
Metrology by A. E. Berriman . . . . . . 111--112
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleCorpus
Commentariorum Averrois in Aristotelem.
Versionum Latinarum volumen VI, I.
Commentarium magnum in Aristotelis de
Anima libros by F. Stuart Crawford . . . 112--113
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleThe Gate of
Heaven (Shaar ha-Shamayim) by Rabbi
Gerson Ben Shlomon d'Arles; F. S.
Bodenheimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--115
Pearl Kibre Book Review: \booktitleThe Domesday
Geography of Eastern England by H. C.
Darby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--117
Heinrich Schneider Book Review: \booktitleGoethe the
Alchemist by Ronald D. Gray . . . . . . 117--119
Donald Fleming Book Review: \booktitleBenjamin Franklin
by I. Bernard Cohen . . . . . . . . . . 119--120
Henry E. Sigerist Book Review: \booktitleRudolf Virchow,
Doctor, Statesman, Anthropologist by
Erwin H. Ackerknecht . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Marie Boas and
Charles C. Gillispie Administrative Documents . . . . . . . . 123--126
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--127
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
George Sarton The Death and Burial of Vesalius, and,
Incidentally, of Cicero . . . . . . . . 131--137
C. Donald O'Malley Andreas Vesalius' Pilgrimage . . . . . . 138--144
Lynn Thorndike Oresme and Fourteenth Century
Commentaries on the Meteorologica . . . 145--152
Marie Boas An Early Version of Boyle's:
\booktitleSceptical Chymist . . . . . . 153--168
A. A. Knowlton Henry Crew (1859--1953) . . . . . . . . 169--174
Li Shu-hua Origine de la Boussole II. Aimant et
Boussole. (French) [Origin of Boussole.
II. Aimant and Boussole] . . . . . . . . 175--196
R. J. Forbes and
A. Hunter Dupree Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 197--198
George Sarton and
R. C. Archibald Queries & Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Anonymous Dissertations in Progress in the History
of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--200
Anonymous Doctorates in the History of Science . . 200--200
Robert C. Stauffer Book Review: \booktitleMain Currents of
Scientific Thought. A History of the
Sciences by S. F. Mason . . . . . . . . 201--202
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleScience,
Medicine, and History. Essays on the
Evolution of Scientific Thought and
Medical Practice, Written in Honour of
Charles Singer by E. Ashworth Underwood 202--204
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleHistoire des
sciences et des techniques.
Bibliographie by François Russo . . . . . 204--205
Marie Boas Book Review: \booktitleScience and
Religion by Charles E. Raven . . . . . . 205--206
Rene J. Dubos Book Review: \booktitleThe Conquest of
Plague by L. Fabian Hirst . . . . . . . 206--208
Henry E. Sigerist Book Review: \booktitleThe Unique
Influence of the Johns Hopkins
University on American Medicine by
Richard H. Shryock . . . . . . . . . . . 208--209
Francis R. Johnson Book Review: \booktitleScience and
Religion in Elizabethan England by Paul
H. Kocher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--212
W. E. van Wijk Book Review: \booktitleComputus med
särskild hänsyn till Runstaven och den
Borgerliga Kalendern by Nils Lithberg 212--213
Francis R. Johnson Book Review: \booktitleDialogue on the
Great World Systems by Galileo Galilei;
T. Salusbury; Giorgio de Santillana;
\booktitleDialogue concerning the Two
Chief World Systems --- Ptolemaic and
Copernican by Galileo Galilei; Stillman
Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--215
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleSir Hans Sloane
and the British Museum by G. R. De Beer;
\booktitleSir Joseph Banks, the Autocrat
of the Philosophers by Hector Charles
Cameron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--218
Sanborn C. Brown Book Review: \booktitleAn American in
Europe. The Life of Benjamin Thompson,
Count Rumford by Egon Larsen . . . . . . 218--220
Richard L. Schoenwald Book Review: \booktitleThe Life and Work
of Sigmund Freud. Vol. I: The Formative
Years and the Great Discoveries
1856--1900 by Ernest Jones . . . . . . . 220--221
Morris C. Leikind Book Review: \booktitleLouis Pasteur,
Free Lance of Science by René Dubos;
\booktitleThe White Plague.
Tuberculosis, Man and Society by Jean
Dubos; René Dubos . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--223
George Urdang Book Review: \booktitleHans Spemann, Ein
Meister der Entwicklungsphysiologie,
sein Leben und sein Werk by Otto Mangold 223--224
Eduard Farber Book Review: \booktitleSalpetersäure aus
Ammoniak by Alwin Mittasch . . . . . . . 224--224
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--226
Edward Lurie Louis Agassiz and the Races of Man . . . 227--242
Henry Guerlac The Poets' Nitre . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--255
Cecil Schneer The Rise of Historical Geology in the
Seventeenth Century . . . . . . . . . . 256--268
Marshall Clagett King Alfred and the \booktitleElements
of Euclid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--277
Denis I. Duveen and
Herbert S. Klickstein The Introduction of Lavoisier's Chemical
Nomenclature into America . . . . . . . 278--292
Chauncey D. Leake and
Maria Rooseboom Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 293--293
Joseph T. Clark Book Review: \booktitleAncient Formal
Logic by I. M. Boche\'nski;
\booktitleThe Propositional Logic of
Boethius by Karl Dürr; \booktitleTruth
and Consequence in Medieval Logic by
Ernest A. Moody . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--301
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitlePlough and
Pasture: The Early History of Farming by
E. Cecil Curwen; Gudmund Hatt . . . . . 301--302
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleHistory of the
Rose by Roy E. Shepard . . . . . . . . . 302--303
Joseph Bro\vzek Book Review: \booktitleHistory of
American Psychology by A. A. Roback . . 303--304
Franklin L. Baumer Book Review: \booktitleThe Triumph of
the English Language by Richard Foster
Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--305
Phillip De Lacy Book Review: \booktitleEpicurus and His
Philosophy by Norman Wentworth DeWitt 306--308
William D. Stahlman Book Review: \booktitleHeraclitus, The
Cosmic Fragments by G. S. Kirk . . . . . 308--309
William D. Stahlman Book Review: \booktitleCatalogue of
Astrological and Mythological
Illuminated Manuscripts of the Latin
Middle Ages by Fritz Saxl; Hans Meier;
Harry Bober . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--311
Henry E. Sigerist Book Review: \booktitleMichel Servet,
hérétique et martyr, 1553--1953 by Roland
H. Bainton; \booktitleAutour de Michel
Servet et de Sébastien Castellion by B.
Becker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--313
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleMichael Servetus,
Humanist and Martyr by John F. Fulton;
\booktitleHunted Heretic. The Life and
Death of Michael Servetus, 1511--1553 by
Roland H. Bainton; \booktitleMichael
Servetus by Charles Donald O'Malley . . 313--314
P. W. Bridgman Book Review: \booktitleLes Premiers
congr\`es de physique Solvay et
l'orientation de la physique depuis 1911
by Maurice de Broglie . . . . . . . . . 314--315
John F. Fulton Book Review: \booktitleJoseph Barcroft,
1872--1947 by Kenneth James Franklin . . 315--316
Lester D. Gardner Book Review: \booktitleThe Papers of
Wilbur and Orville Wright by Marvin W.
McFarland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--318
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--322
Thomas P. Harrison Birds in the Moon . . . . . . . . . . . 323--330
M. Plessner The Place of the Turba Philosophorum in
the Development of Alchemy . . . . . . . 331--338
John C. Greene Some Aspects of American Astronomy
1750--1815 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--358
Robert P. Multhauf John of Rupescissa and the Origin of
Medical Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 359--367
Denis I. Duveen and
Herbert S. Klickstein The Introduction of Lavoisier's Chemical
Nomenclature into America: Part 2 . . . 368--382
Eric Ward and
Harold R. Wainerdi and
George Sarton Queries & Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--384
Carl B. Boyer Book Review: \booktitleMathematics in
Western Culture by Morris Kline . . . . 385--387
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleEtudes Américaines
by Emanuel de Margerie . . . . . . . . . 387--388
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleCatalogus Codicum
Astrologorum Graecorum . . . . . . . . . 388--389
Owsei Temkin Book Review: \booktitleNature and the
Greeks by Erwin Schrödinger . . . . . . . 389--390
William D. Stahlman Book Review: \booktitleMiracle and
Natural Law in Graeco-Roman and Early
Christian Thought by Robert M. Grant . . 390--391
Glenn Sonnedecker Book Review: \booktitleAgnus Castus, a
Middle English Herbal Reconstructed from
Various Manuscripts by Gösta Brodin . . . 392--393
M. Plessner Book Review: \booktitleA Mirror for
Princes. The Qabus nama by Kai' Ka'ius
ibn Iskandar; Reuben Levy . . . . . . . 393--395
James R. Ware Book Review: \booktitleChina in the
Sixteenth Century: The Journals of
Matthew Ricci: 1583--1610 by L. J.
Gallagher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--397
C. Doris Hellman Book Review: \booktitleTamburlaine's
Malady and Other Essays on Astrology in
Elizabethan Drama by Johnstone Parr . . 398--399
Aram Vartanian Book Review: \booktitleThe European
Mind. The Critical Years (1680--1715) by
Paul Hazard; J. Lewis May . . . . . . . 399--400
L. Pearce Williams Book Review: \booktitleThe Triumph of
Science and Reason, 1660--1685. The Rise
of Modern Europe, vol. 6 by Frederick L.
Nussbaum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--402
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleThomas
Jefferson's Farm Book by Edwin Morris
Betts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--403
Donald Fleming Book Review: \booktitleScience and
Industry in the Nineteenth Century by J.
D. Bernal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--405
Eduard Farber Book Review: \booktitleWilhelm Ostwald,
Mein Vater by Grete Ostwald . . . . . . 405--406
Aaron J. Ihde Book Review: \booktitleJustus von Liebig
by Hertha Von Dechend . . . . . . . . . 406--407
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleNobel Prize
Winners in Physics, 1901--1950 by Niels
H. de V. Heathcote; \booktitleNobel
Prize Winners in Medicine and
Physiology, 1901--1950 by Lloyd G.
Stevenson; \booktitleNobel Prize Winners
in Chemistry, 1901--1950 by Eduard
Farber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--408
David Joravsky Book Review: \booktitleSoviet Science by
Ruth G. Christman . . . . . . . . . . . 408--409
L. Pearce Williams and
Carl B. Boyer and
Max H. Fisch The History of Science Society . . . . . 410--412
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 413--417
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
David Joravsky Soviet Views on the History of Science 3--13
Donald Fleming Galen on the Motions of the Blood in the
Heart and Lungs . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--21
Nathan Reingold The National Archives and the History of
Science in America . . . . . . . . . . . 22--28
N. H. de V. Heathcote Franklin's Introduction to Electricity 29--35
Milton Kerker Herman Boerhaave and the Development of
Pneumatic Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . 36--49
George Sarton and
I. B. Cohen and
Irving Massey Queries & Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--52
René Taton and
T. D. Phillips and
Lynn Thorndike and
Charles W. David and
Claude K. Deischer and
Harvey P. Hall Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 53--55
Anonymous Doctorates in the History of Science . . 56--56
Anonymous Dissertations in Progress in the History
of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--56
William W. Boone Book Review: \booktitleConventional
Logic and Modern Logic by Joseph T.
Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--57
Carl B. Boyer Book Review: \booktitleGeschichte der
Mathematik by Joseph Ehrenfried Hofmann 57--59
Francis M. Rogers Book Review: \booktitleFilosofia da
Historia Maritima Portuguesa by De Frag.
M.; Júlio Gonçalves . . . . . . . . . . . 59--61
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleAnimals, Men and
Myths. A History of the Influence of
Animals on Civilization and Culture by
Morus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--64
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleIndian Corn in
Old America by Paul Weatherwax . . . . . 64--65
Aubrey Diller Book Review: \booktitleAncient Science
and Modern Civilization by George Sarton 65--66
Marshall Clagett Book Review: \booktitleRobert
Grosseteste and the Origins of
Experimental Science 1100--1700 by A. C.
Crombie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--69
O. Neugebauer Book Review: \booktitleOn the
Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by
Nicolaus Copernicus; Charles Glenn
Wallis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--71
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleJournal by Isaac
Beeckman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--72
Charles D. O'Malley Book Review: \booktitleEpistolae et
epistolae ad eum datae, quas cum proemio
ac notis germanice scriptis by Nicolai
Stenonis; Gustav Scherz; Joanne Raeder 72--74
Heinrich Schneider Book Review: \booktitleLeibnitz and the
Seventeenth-Century Revolution by R. W.
Meyer; J. P. Stern . . . . . . . . . . . 74--76
Harry Woolf Book Review: \booktitleThe Rittenhouse
Orrery, Princeton's Eighteenth-Century
Planetarium, 1767--1954 by Howard G.
Rice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77
Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. Book Review: \booktitleSome Account of
the Pennsylvania Hospital by Benjamin
Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78
Iago Galdston Book Review: \booktitleTwenty Years of
Psychoanalysis by Franz Alexander; Helen
Ross; \booktitleA History of
Psychoanalysis in America by C. P.
Oberndorf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--80
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81
Erwin H. Ackerknecht George Forster, Alexander von Humboldt,
and Ethnology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--95
Jean Pelseneer Peut-on planifier la recherche
scientifique? Ce que nous dit l'histoire
des mathématiques . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--98
I. Bernard Cohen Franklin, Boerhaave, Newton, Boyle & the
Absorption of Heat in Relation to Color 99--104
Peter Huber Zu einem mathematischen Keilschrifttext
(VAT 8512). (German) [On a mathematical
cuneiform text (VAT 8512)] . . . . . . . 104--106
Martin Levey Solomon Gandz, 1884--1954 . . . . . . . 107--110
I. Bernard Cohen and
Katharine Strelsky Eightieth Critical Bibliography of the
History of Science and Its Cultural
Influences (To 1 January 1954) . . . . . 111--220
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--222
I. E. Drabkin Remarks on Ancient Psychopathology . . . 223--234
Francis J. Carmody Notes on the Astronomical Works of
Thabit b. Qurra . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--242
Brooke Hindle The Quaker Background and Science in
Colonial Philadelphia . . . . . . . . . 243--250
Herbert Dieckmann The First Edition of Diderot's Pensees
sur l'interpretation de la nature . . . 251--267
I. Bernard Cohen A Note concerning Diderot and Franklin 268--272
Lynn Thorndike The True Place of Astrology in the
History of Science . . . . . . . . . . . 273--278
I. Bernard Cohen and
Roger Hahn and
Lloyd Espenschied and
Marshall Clagett and
Bertha W. Rubinstein and
George Sarton and
Vasco Ronch and
Bruno Boni and
Chester G. Moore and
Jane D. Oppenheimer and
Vasco Ronchi and
Roberto Almagia Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 278--283
Anonymous Doctorates in the History of Science . . 284--284
Milton Kerker and
Paul Gilbert and
Carl W. Condit and
A. R. Hall Teaching the History of Science . . . . 284--286
V. F. Lenzen Book Review: \booktitleConcepts of
Space. The History of Theories of Space
in Physics by Max Jammer; \booktitleGod
and Space-Time. Deity in the Philosophy
of Samuel Alexander by Alfred P.
Stiernotte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--289
Robert E. Schofield Book Review: \booktitleThe English
Pioneers of Anaesthesia (Beddoes, Davy,
and Hickman) by F. F. Cartwright . . . . 289--290
Lynn White, Jr. Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Mechanical Inventions by Abbott Payson
Usher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--293
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Technology. Volume I: From Early Times
to the Fall of the Ancient Empires by
Charles Singer; E. J. Holmyard; A. R.
Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--296
Robert M. Green Book Review: \booktitleGalen of Pergamon
by George Sarton . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
Anneliese Maier Book Review: \booktitleThe Medieval
Science of Weights by Ernest A. Moody;
Marshall Clagett . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--300
Emile Janssens Book Review: \booktitleThe Nautical
Chart of 1424 and the Early Discovery
and Cartographical Representation of
America. A Study of the History of Early
Navigation and Cartography by Armando
Cortesao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--302
L. Carrington Goodrich Book Review: \booktitleScience and
Civilisation in China. Volume I,
Introductory Orientations by Joseph
Needham; Wang Ling . . . . . . . . . . . 302--304
Marie Boas Book Review: \booktitleThe Scientific
Revolution, 1500--1800. The Formation of
the Modern Scientific Attitude by A. R.
Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--305
N. H. de V. Heathcote Book Review: \booktitleCommentary on the
Effects of Electricity on Muscular
Motion by Luigi Galvani; Margaret Glover
Foley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--309
Marie Boas and
Charles C. Gillispie and
Stanley M. Loomis Administrative Documents . . . . . . . . 310--316
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--318
Donald Fleming William Harvey and the Pulmonary
Circulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--327
Robert Siegfried An Attempt in the United States to
Resolve the Differences between the
Oxygen and the Phlogiston Theories . . . 327--336
Mary B. Hesse Action at a Distance in Classical
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--353
Cyril Stanley Smith A Sixteenth-Century Decimal System of
Weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--357
Lynn Thorndike More Questions on the Meteorologica . . 357--360
George Sarton ``Historians and Philosophers'' of
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--366
Charles W. David and
William P. D. Wightman and
L. Voet Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 367--367
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleScience Awakening
by B. L. Van der Waerden; Arnold Dresden 368--369
Aaron J. Ihde Book Review: \booktitleFrom Classical to
Modern Chemistry. Some Historical
Sketches by A. J. Berry . . . . . . . . 369--369
V. F. Lenzen Book Review: \booktitleThe Development
of the Concept of the Electric Charge.
Electricity from the Greeks to Coulomb
by Duane Roller; Duane H. D. Roller;
James Bryant Conant; Leonard K. Nash . . 369--370
G. W. Cottrell, Jr. Book Review: \booktitleDie illustrierten
Vogelbücher, ihre Geschichte und
Bibliographie by Claus Nissen;
\booktitleFine Bird Books 1700--1900 by
Sacheverell Sitwell; Handasyde Buchanan;
James Fisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--372
Lynn Thorndike Book Review: \booktitleDie Maschine im
Leben der Völker: Ein Überblick von der
Urzeit bis zur Renaissance, mit 205
Abbildungen und I Farbtafel by Franz
Maria Feldhaus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--372
Ashley Montagu Book Review: \booktitleThe Law of
Primitive Man. A Study in Comparative
Legal Dynamics by E. Adamson Hoebel . . 373--373
William H. Hay Book Review: \booktitleOf Learned
Ignorance by Nicholas Cusanus; Fr.
Germain Heron; W. Stark . . . . . . . . 373--374
Donald Fleming Book Review: \booktitleCotton Mather by
Otho T. Beall,; Richard H. Shryock . . . 374--376
Robert E. Schofield Book Review: \booktitleWilliam Withering
of Birmingham by T. Whitmore Peck; K.
Douglas Wilkinson . . . . . . . . . . . 376--377
Thomas S. Kuhn Book Review: \booktitleNew Studies in
the Philosophy of Descartes by Norman
Kemp Smith; \booktitleDescartes'
Philosophical Writings by Norman Kemp
Smith; \booktitleThe Method of
Descartes. A Study of the Regulae by L.
J. Beck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--380
Raymond J. Seeger Book Review: \booktitleHenri Poincaré,
Critic of Crisis. Reflections on His
Universe of Discourse by Tobias Dantzig 380--382
J. B. de C. M. Saunders Book Review: \booktitleWilliam H. Welch
and the Rise of Modern Medicine by
Donald Fleming; Oscar Handlin . . . . . 382--383
J. B. de C. M. Saunders Book Review: \booktitleForgotten Leaders
in Modern Medicine, Valentin, Gouby,
Remak, Auerbach by Bruno Kisch . . . . . 383--385
Ashley Montagu Book Review: \booktitleCharles Darwin
and the Golden Rule by William Emerson
Ritter; Edna Watson Bailey . . . . . . . 385--386
John Finley Freeman Book Review: \booktitleBeyond the
Hundredth Meridian. John Wesley Powell
and the Second Opening of the West by
Wallace Stegner . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--387
Erwin H. Ackerknecht Book Review: \booktitleHumboldt: The
Life and Times of Alexander von
Humboldt, 1769--1859 by Helmut de Terra 387--388
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 389--394
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Erwin Panofsky Galileo as a Critic of the Arts:
Aesthetic Attitude and Scientific
Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--15
Robert E. Schofield Josiah Wedgwood and a Proposed
Eighteenth-Century Industrial Research
Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--19
Frederick B. Tolles Philadelphia's First Scientist: James
Logan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--30
Anonymous The George Sarton Medal . . . . . . . . 31--32
E. S. Kennedy Parallax Theory in Islamic Astronomy . . 33--53
Chauncey D. Leake and
Harry Alpert and
W. H. Brindley and
F. Willett and
O. Neugebauer Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 54--58
C. Truesdell and
Paul W. Hagensick and
Waclaw Slabczynski and
L. A. Mayer and
George Sarton Queries & Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--60
Anonymous Dissertations in Progress in the History
of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--61
L. F. Pinkus and
Duane H. D. Roller and
Charles C. Gillispie and
John C. Greene and
L. E. Klopfer Teaching the History of Science . . . . 61--63
Carl B. Boyer and
L. Pearce Williams and
Max H. Fisch The History of Science Society . . . . . 64--65
Donald Fleming Book Review: \booktitleEssays on the
Social History of Science by S. Lilley 65--66
W. Paul Gilbert Book Review: \booktitleTuning and
Temperament. A Historical Survey by J.
Murray Barbour . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--67
Robert E. Schofield Book Review: \booktitleThe Aim and
Structure of Physical Theory by Pierre
Duhem; Philip P. Wiener . . . . . . . . 67--69
John F. Fulton Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Medicine by Ralph H. Major . . . . . . . 69--70
Owsei Temkin Book Review: \booktitleParva Naturalia
by Aristotle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71
William D. Stahlman Book Review: \booktitleAstrology in
Roman Law and Politics. I. Astrology in
Rome until the End of the Principate by
Frederick H. Cramer . . . . . . . . . . 71--74
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleLibro de
Agricultura by Ibn Ba\ds\dsal . . . . . 74--77
F. Sherwood Taylor Book Review: \booktitleThe Crime of
Galileo by Giorgio de Santillana . . . . 77--78
Edward Rosen Book Review: \booktitleGalileo as a
Critic of the Arts by Erwin Panofsky . . 78--80
Leo Marx Book Review: \booktitleThe New England
Mind: The Seventeenth Century by Perry
Miller; The New England Mind: From
Colony to Province . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleMonge, le savant
ami de Napoléon Bonaparte, 1746--1818 by
Paul V. Aubry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--84
Denis I. Duveen Book Review: \booktitleLavoisier,
théoricien et expérimentateur by Maurice
Daumas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
Henry Guerlac Book Review: \booktitleA Bibliography of
the Works of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier,
1743--1794 by Denis I. Duveen; Herbert
S. Klickstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--88
Owen Gingerich Book Review: \booktitleWilliam Herschel
by J. B. Sidgwick . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Franklin L. Baumer Book Review: \booktitleEuropean Thought
in the Eighteenth Century, from
Montesquieu to Lessing by Paul Hazard;
J. Lewis May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Chauncey D. Leake Book Review: \booktitleEl Hipocratismo
en México by J. J. Izquierdo . . . . . . 90--91
Bentley Glass Book Review: \booktitleApes, Angels, &
Victorians. The Story of Darwin, Huxley,
and Evolution by William Irvine . . . . 91--93
Aaron J. Ihde Book Review: \booktitleMichael Tswett's
First Paper on Chromatography by Gerhard
Hesse; Herbert Weil; \booktitleThe
Elements of Chromatography by Trevor
Illtyd Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Josef Bro\vzek Book Review: \booktitleJan Evangelista
Purkyne by Jarmila Psotnícková . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
Marshall Clagett and
I. Bernard Cohen and
I. E. Drabkin and
John F. Fulton and
Henry Guerlac and
Conway Zirkle George Sarton 1884--1956 . . . . . . . . 99--100
Leonard K. Nash The Origin of Dalton's Chemical Atomic
Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--116
Karl Ernst von Baer and
Charles Donald O'Malley On the Genesis of the Ovum of Mammals
and of Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--153
William D. Stahlman Astronomical Dating Applied to a Type of
Astrological Illustration . . . . . . . 154--160
E. S. Merton The Botany of Sir Thomas Browne . . . . 161--171
Leo Stoller A Note on Thoreau's Place in the History
of Phenology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--181
Erwin Panofsky and
P. H. Brans and
Robert P. Multhaue and
Raoul Michel May Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 182--188
Donald Fleming Book Review: \booktitleScience and
Invention by Mitchell Wilson . . . . . . 188--190
V. F. Lenzen Book Review: \booktitleScience and the
Human Imagination by Mary B. Hesse . . . 190--191
Bernard Barber Book Review: \booktitleScience and
Social Action by W. J. H. Sprott . . . . 191--192
Chauncey D. Leake Book Review: \booktitlePsychoanalysis
and Ethics by Lewis Samuel Feuer; Marvin
Farber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--194
Carl B. Boyer Book Review: \booktitleDie Mathematische
Denkweise by Andreas Speiser . . . . . . 194--195
Morris C. Leikind Book Review: \booktitleThe History and
Conquest of Common Diseases by Walter R.
Bett; \booktitlePomp and Pestilence,
Infectious Disease, Its Origins and
Conquest by Ronald Hare . . . . . . . . 195--196
Chauncey D. Leake Book Review: \booktitleMontaña y los
orígenes del movimento social y científico
de México by José Joaquín Izquierdo . . . . 196--197
Francis R. Johnson Book Review: \booktitleThe Equatorie of
the Planetis by Derek J. Price . . . . . 197--198
Marshall Clagett Book Review: \booktitleDie Practica des
Algorismus Ratisbonensis. Ein Rechenbuch
des Benediktinerklosters St. Emmeram aus
der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts nach den
Handschriften der Munchner
Staatsbibliothek und der
Stiftsbibliothek St. Florian by Kurt
Vogel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--199
Walter Pagel Book Review: \booktitleThe Art of Ramon
Lull. An Approach to It through Lull's
Theory of the Elements by Frances A.
Yates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--200
Dorothy M. Schullian Book Review: \booktitleRobert Estienne,
Royal Printer by Elizabeth Armstrong . . 200--201
Dorothy M. Schullian Book Review: \booktitleJacopo Aconcio by
Charles Donald O'Malley . . . . . . . . 201--203
Robert E. Schofield Book Review: \booktitleThe Crucible. The
Story of Joseph Priestley, LL.D., F.R.S.
by John Graham Gillam . . . . . . . . . 203--204
Josef Bro\vzek Book Review: \booktitleJan Evangelista
Purkyne, badatel --- národní buditel by B.
Nemec; O. Matousek . . . . . . . . . . . 204--204
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--207
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--209
Henry Guerlac A Note on Lavoisier's Scientific
Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--216
J. R. Partington The Life and Work of John Mayow
(1641--1679). Part One . . . . . . . . . 217--230
I. Bernard Cohen Galileo's Rejection of the Possibility
of Velocity Changing Uniformly with
Respect to Distance . . . . . . . . . . 231--235
George I. Manes The Discovery of X-Ray . . . . . . . . . 236--238
Martin Levey and
Miroslav Krek and
Husni Haddad Some Notes on the Chemical Technology in
an Eleventh Century Arabic Work on
Bookbinding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--243
William D. Stahlman Raymond Claire Archibald (1875--1955) 244--246
Conway Zirkle and
John F. Fulton and
I. E. Drabkin and
Carl B. Boyer and
I. Bernard Cohen and
Katharine Strelsky Eighty-First Critical Bibliography of
The History of Science and Its Cultural
Influences (To 1 January 1956) . . . . . 247--360
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--366
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--368
L. Pearce Williams Science, Education and Napoleon I . . . 369--382
Carl B. Boyer Refraction and the Rainbow in Antiquity 383--386
B. L. van der Waerden Tables for the Egyptian and Alexandrian
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--390
Lynn Thorndike Notes upon Some Medieval Latin
Astronomical, Astrological and
Mathematical Manuscripts at the Vatican:
Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--404
J. R. Partington The Life and Work of John Mayow
(1641--1679): Part Two . . . . . . . . . 405--417
I. B. C. and
Thomas H. Grainger and
P. H. Brans and
L. P. Williams Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 418--423
Erwin N. Hiebert Book Review: \booktitleKleine
Weltgeschichte der Wissenschaft by Hans
Joachim Störig . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--426
John C. Greene Book Review: \booktitleEarly American
Science, Needs and Opportunities for
Study by Whitfield J. Bell . . . . . . . 426--427
George A. Foote Book Review: \booktitleBelief and
Unbelief since 1850 by H. G. Wood;
\booktitleScience and Christian Belief
by C. A. Coulson . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--428
P. W. Bridgman Book Review: \booktitleHistory of the
Theories of Aether and Electricity.
Volume II, The Modern Theories,
1900--1926 by Edmund Whittaker . . . . . 428--430
Aaron J. Ihde Book Review: \booktitleAmerican Chemical
Industry. Volume 1, Background and
Beginnings: 1608--1910 by Williams
Haynes; American Chemical Industry.
Volume 5, The Decade of New Products:
1930--1939 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430--431
Gerald Holton Book Review: \booktitlePrinciples and
Applications of Physics by Otto Blüh;
Joseph Denison Elder . . . . . . . . . . 431--433
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleLa Révolution
Agricole by Michel Augé-Laribé . . . . . . 433--433
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleSalamanders and
Other Wonders by Willy Ley . . . . . . . 433--434
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleThe Prevalence of
People by Marston Bates;
\booktitleHungry Generations: The
Nineteenth Century Case against
Malthusianism by Harold A. Boner;
\booktitleStanding Room Only. The
Challenge of Over-Population by Karl Sax 434--438
Josef Bro\vzek Book Review: \booktitleCatholics in
Psychology. A Historical Survey by
Henryk Misiak; Virginia M. Staudt . . . 438--439
J. Théodorid\`es Book Review: \booktitle``L'histoire de
la gale et le roman de l'Acare'' by B.
Dujardin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--441
George Sarton Book Review: \booktitleMining and Copper
Metallurgy in Stora Kopparberg until the
Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by
Sten Lindroth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--443
Sonia S. Wohl Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of the
Greek Collection, Metropolitan Museum of
Art by Gisela M. A. Richter;
\booktitleCatalogue of Greek Sculptures
in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by
Gisela M. A. Richter . . . . . . . . . . 443--444
Walter Pagel Book Review: \booktitleThe Surgery of
Theodoric, ca. A.D. 1267 by Eldridge
Campbell; James Colton . . . . . . . . . 444--445
C. D. O'Malley Book Review: \booktitleLeonardo da
Vinci. Das anatomische Werk by Sigrid
Esche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--447
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleThe Principal
Works of Simon Stevin. Vol. I: General
Introduction --- Mechanics by Simon
Stevin; E. J. Dijksterhuis; C. Dikshoorn 447--448
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleTraité d'optique
by Isaac Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--449
C. Truesdell Book Review: \booktitleLa mécanique au
XVIIe si\`ecle (des antécédents
scolastiques \`a la pensée classique) by
Rene Dugas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--452
Charles C. Gillispie Book Review: \booktitleEntretiens sur la
pluralité des mondes. Digressions sur les
anciens et les modernes by Bernard le
Bovier de Fontenelle; Robert Shackleton 452--453
C. D. O'Malley Book Review: \booktitleCommentary on the
Effect of Electricity on Muscular
Motion. A Translation of De viribus
electricitatis in motu musculari
commentarius by Luigi Galvani; Robert
Montraville Green . . . . . . . . . . . 454--455
Thomas S. Kuhn and
Stanley M. Loomis Administrative Documents . . . . . . . . 455--460
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 461--466
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Benjamin DeMott Science versus Mnemonics: Notes on John
Ray and on John Wilkins' Essay toward a
Real Character, and a Philosophical
Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--12
Seymour L. Chapin The Astronomical Activities of Nicolas
Claude Fabri de Peiresc . . . . . . . . 13--29
Roger Baron Note sur les Variations au XIIe Si\`ecle
de la Triade Géométrique Altimetria,
Planimetria, Cosmimetria. (French) [Note
on the variations in the 12th Century of
the geometric triad, Altimetria,
Planimetria, Cosmimetria] . . . . . . . 30--32
Robert C. Stauffer Speculation and Experiment in the
Background of Oersted's Discovery of
Electromagnetism . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--50
Lynn Thorndike Eclipses in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--57
Conway Zirkle Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Malthus and
the United States Census . . . . . . . . 58--62
John F. Fulton and
Jean F. Leroy and
Stillman Drake and
Edward Rosen and
George A. Summent and
John B. Blake Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 63--70
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleThe Facts of Life
by C. D. Darlington . . . . . . . . . . 71--73
J. B. DeC. M. Saunders Book Review: \booktitleA Short History
of Medicine by Erwin H. Ackerknecht;
\booktitleThe Story of Medicine by
Kenneth Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--76
Lynn White, Jr. Book Review: \booktitleStudies in
Ancient Technology by Robert James
Forbes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Gordon R. Willey Book Review: \booktitleHighway of the
Sun by Victor von Hagen . . . . . . . . 77--79
J. B. DeC. M. Saunders Book Review: \booktitleClio en Epidaure
ou la Médecine et l'Humanisme chez les
Anciens by G. Barraud . . . . . . . . . 79--80
Marshall Clagett Book Review: \booktitleThe Classical
Heritage & Its Beneficiaries by R. R.
Bolgar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
Asger Aaboe Book Review: \booktitleThe Bequest of
the Greeks by Tobias Dantzig . . . . . . 81--83
Ernest A. Moody Book Review: \booktitleOpera omnia,
Tomus XII: Liber de natura et origine
animae by Albertus Magnus;
\booktitleLiber de principiis motus
processivi by Bernhard Geyer;
\booktitleQuaestiones super de
animalibus by Bernhard Geyer; Ephrem
Filthaut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
Anneliese Maier Book Review: \booktitleThomas of
Bradwardine, His Tractatus de
Proportionibus, Its Significance for the
Development of Mathematical Physics by
H. Lamar Crosby . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--87
H. J. J. Winter Book Review: \booktitleAverroës, Tahafut
al-Tahafut (The Incoherence of the
Incoherence) by Averroës; Simon van den
Bergh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
Max Jammer Book Review: \booktitleCosmografía de un
Judío Romano del siglo XVII by José M.
Millás Vallicrosa; David Romano . . . . . 88--90
Cyril Stanley Smith Book Review: \booktitleElizabethan
Copper. The History of the Company of
Mines Royal, 1568--1605 by M. B. Donald 90--91
Thomas S. Kuhn Book Review: \booktitleA Documentary
History of the Problem of Fall from
Kepler to Newton by Alexandre Koyré . . . 91--93
George Urdang Book Review: \booktitleGeschichte der
Medizin. Die historische Entwicklung der
Heilkunde und des ärztlichen Lebens. II.
Band: 2. Hälfte: Die Medizin vom Beginn
der zellularpathologie bis zu den
Anfängen der modernen Konstitutionslehre
(etwa 1858--1900) by Paul Diepgen . . . 93--93
N. H. de V. Heathcote Book Review: \booktitleThomas Young,
Natural Philosopher, 1773--1829 by
Alexander Wood; Frank Oldham; Charles E.
Raven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--96
Richard L. Schoenwald Book Review: \booktitleThe Life and Work
of Sigmund Freud. Volume 2: Years of
Maturity, 1901--1919 by Ernest Jones . . 97--97
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleOne Man in His
Time by N. M. Borodin . . . . . . . . . 97--99
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--101
Joseph A. Mazzeo Notes on John Donne's Alchemical Imagery 103--123
Henry Guerlac Joseph Black and Fixed Air a Bicentenary
Retrospective, with Some New or Little
Known Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--151
Charles C. Gillispie The Discovery of the Leblanc Process . . 152--170
Edward Rosen Was Maurolico's Essay on the Nova of
1572 Printed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--175
I. Bernard Cohen The Eighth International Congress of the
History of Science Florence--Milan, 3--9
September 1956 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--181
Marshall Clagett and
Gerald Gruman and
Maurice Daumas and
Harry Woolf Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 182--188
I. Bernard Cohen and
Katharine Strelsky Eighty-Second Critical Bibliography of
The History of Science and Its Cultural
Influences (To 1 January 1957) (Endorsed
by the History of Science Division of
the International Union of the History
and Philosophy of Science) . . . . . . . 189--280
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--282
Dorothy Stimson Dr. Sarton and the History of Science
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--284
May Sarton A Celebration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--285
I. Bernard Cohen George Sarton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--300
James B. Conant George Sarton and Harvard University . . 301--305
Dorothea Singer and
Charles Singer George Sarton and the History of Science 306--310
John F. Fulton George Sarton and the History of
Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--314
José M. Millás Vallicrosa George Sarton y la Historia de la
Ciencia Oriental . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--319
Marshall Clagett George Sarton: Historian of Medieval
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--322
Lynn Thorndike Some Letters of George Sarton
(1922--1955) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--334
Charles Habib Mâlik Dr. Sarton's Study of Arabic . . . . . . 335--335
Katharine Strelsky Bibliography of the Publications of
George Sarton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--350
Anonymous Dissertations in Progress in the History
of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Anonymous Doctorates in the History of Science . . 351--352
Roger Hahn Book Review: \booktitleCausalités et
accidents de la découverte scientifique.
Illustratration de quelques étapes
caractéristiques de l'évolution des
sciences by René Taton . . . . . . . . . 352--353
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleBibliotheca
Walleriana by Erik Waller; Hans
Sallander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--355
V. F. Lenzen Book Review: \booktitleDe Thal\`es \`a
Bergson. Introduction historique \`a la
philosophie européenne by Philippe Devaux 355--356
Carl B. Boyer Book Review: \booktitleDie geistige
Arbeit by Andreas Speiser . . . . . . . 356--357
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleThe History of
the Telescope by Henry C. King . . . . . 357--358
Cecil J. Schneer Book Review: \booktitleGeschichte der
Geologie und des geologischen Weltbildes
by Carl Christoph Beringer . . . . . . . 358--359
B. L. van der Waerden Book Review: \booktitleGreek Science in
Antiquity by Marshall Clagett . . . . . 359--360
Giorgio De Santillana Book Review: \booktitleFrom Platonism to
Neoplatonism by Philip Merlan . . . . . 360--362
J. B. deC. M. Saunders Book Review: \booktitleOn Anatomical
Procedures. De Anatomicis
Administrationibus by Galen; Charles
Singer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--364
J. M. Millás Vallicrosa and
Brunilda L. Debus Book Review: \booktitleSuwaru'l-Kawakib
by Abu'l-Husayn `Abdu'r-Rahman
A\ds-\dSufi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--365
James R. Ware Book Review: \booktitleScience and
Civilisation in China. Volume II,
History of Scientific Thought by Joseph
Needham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--367
Anneliese Sisco Book Review: \booktitleLazarus Ercker by
Paul R. Beierlein . . . . . . . . . . . 367--368
J. B. DeC. M. Saunders Book Review: \booktitleOpuscula selecta
neerlandicorum de arte medica by Volcher
Coiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--370
Anneliese Sisco Book Review: \booktitleUlrich Rülein von
Calw und sein Bergbüchlein by Wilhelm
Pieper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371
Lloyd Arnold Brown Book Review: \booktitleThe Roanoke
Voyages, 1584--1590. Documents to
Illustrate the English Voyages to North
America under the Patent Granted to
Walter Raleigh in 1584 by David Beers
Quinn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--373
Francis R. Johnson Book Review: \booktitleThe Appreciation
of Ancient and Medieval Science during
the Renaissance (1450--1600) by George
Sarton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--375
C. Doris Hellman Book Review: \booktitleSix Wings: Men of
Science in the Renaissance by George
Sarton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--377
Francis R. Johnson Book Review: \booktitleThe Mathematical
Practitioners of Tudor & Stuart England
by E. G. R. Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378
Giorgio de Santillana Book Review: \booktitleDiscoveries and
Opinions of Galileo by Stillman Drake 378--379
Erwin N. Hiebert Book Review: \booktitleJohann Rudolph
Glauber, 1604--1670, Leben und Werk by
Kurt F. Gugel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--380
Dorothy Stimson Book Review: \booktitleSir Kenelm Digby:
The Ornament of England (1603--1665) by
R. T. Petersson . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--382
Harry Woolf Book Review: \booktitleThe Journals of
Captain Cook on His Voyages of
Discovery. Volume I, The Voyage of the
Endeavour by J. C. Beaglehole;
\booktitleCharts and Views Drawn by Cook
and His Officers and Reproduced from the
Original Manuscripts by R. A. Skelton 382--384
Josef Bro\vzek Book Review: \booktitleGeorgius
Prochaska (1749--1820); De Functionibus
Systematis Nervosi Commentatio by
Georgius Prochaska; Mojmir Petran;
Ernest Gutmann; Med. \booktitleDr. Jirí
Procháska, 1749--1820: Zivot, Dílo, Doba
by Vladislav Kruta . . . . . . . . . . . 384--385
Gerald Holton Book Review: \booktitleLudwig Boltzmann,
Mensch, Physiker, Philosoph by Engelbert
Broda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--386
V. A. Eyles Book Review: \booktitleIllustrations of
the Huttonian Theory of the Earth by
John Playfair . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--388
Josef Bro\vzek Book Review: \booktitleOpera Omnia.
Tomus VI. Dissertationes Discipulorum by
Jan Evangelista Purkyne; Vladislav
Kruta; Zdenek Hornof . . . . . . . . . . 388--389
Anonymous Erratum: The Eighth International
Congress of the History of Science
Florence--Milan, 3--9 September 1956 . . 389--389
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--390
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--392
Stillman Drake Galileo Gleanings I: Some Unpublished
Anecdotes of Galileo . . . . . . . . . . 393--397
Charles C. Gillispie The Natural History of Industry . . . . 398--407
Robert E. Schofield The Industrial Orientation of Science in
the Lunar Society of Birmingham . . . . 408--415
Denis I. Duveen and
Roger Hahn Laplace's Succession to Bézout's Post of
Examinateur des El\`eves de l'Artillerie 416--427
Victor Roberts The Solar and Lunar Theory of Ibn
ash--Sh\=a\dtir: A Pre-Copernican
Copernican Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--432
Henry Guerlac Joseph Black and Fixed Air: Part II . . 433--456
P. H. Brans and
Henry Guerlac and
Lynn Thorndike and
Rufus Suter and
Bernard Dulsey and
E. R. N. Grigg and
V. F. Payne and
Marshall Clagett Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 457--470
Brooke Hindle Book Review: \booktitleScience in the
Federal Government. A History of
Policies and Activities to 1940 by A.
Hunter Dupree . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--471
L. Pearce Williams Book Review: \booktitleScience in
History by J. D. Bernal . . . . . . . . 471--473
Margaret T. Hodgen Book Review: \booktitleThe Acceptance of
Histories: Toward a Perspective for
Social Science by Kenneth E. Bock . . . 473--475
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleThe Biological
Basis of Human Freedom by Theodosius
Dobzhansky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--476
Carl B. Boyer Book Review: \booktitleThe World of
Mathematics by James R. Newman . . . . . 476--479
Erwin N. Hiebert Book Review: \booktitleThe Language of
Modern Physics by Ernest H. Hutton . . . 479--479
Cecil J. Schneer Book Review: \booktitleThe Earth We Live
On. The Story of Geological Discovery by
Ruth Moore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--481
Gerald Gruman Book Review: \booktitleThe Biology of
Senescence by Alex Comfort . . . . . . . 481--482
G. W. Cottrell, Jr. Book Review: \booktitleThey Tell of
Birds: Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Drayton
by Thomas P. Harrison . . . . . . . . . 482--483
Morris C. Leikind Book Review: \booktitleMan's Mastery of
Malaria by Paul F. Russell . . . . . . . 483--484
Carl W. Condit Book Review: \booktitleEngineering in
History by Richard Shelton Kirby; Sidney
Withington; Arthur Burr Darling;
Frederick Gridley Kilgour;
\booktitleHistory of American Technology
by John W. Oliver . . . . . . . . . . . 484--487
William H. Stahl Book Review: \booktitleTheophrastus on
Stones by Earle R. Caley; John C.
Richards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--488
Ernest A. Moody Book Review: \booktitleWilliam
Heytesbury: Medieval Logic and the Rise
of Mathematical Physics by Curtis Wilson 488--489
Juan Vernet Book Review: \booktitleAl-Qanunu' l-Mas
`udi by Abu Ray\dhan Mu\dhammad
al-Biruni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--490
Marshall Clagett Book Review: \booktitleCommentarivm
medivm in Aristotelis de generatione et
corrvptione libros by Averrois
Cordvbensis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490--491
Derek J. Price Book Review: \booktitleIslamic
Astrolabes and Their Works by L. A.
Mayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--492
Cecil J. Schneer Book Review: \booktitleRobert Hooke by
Margaret 'Espinasse . . . . . . . . . . 493--494
Douglas Bush Book Review: \booktitleMilton and
Science by Kester Svendsen . . . . . . . 494--495
A. R. Hall Book Review: \booktitleFranklin and
Newton. An Inquiry into Speculative
Newtonian Experimental Science and
Franklin's Work in Electricity as an
Example Thereof by I. Bernard Cohen . . 495--498
Robert E. Schofield Book Review: \booktitleEarly Electrical
Machines by Bern Dibner . . . . . . . . 498--499
Charles C. Gillispie Book Review: \booktitleRéaumur's Memoirs
on Steel and Iron by René Antoine
Ferchault Réaumur; Anneliese Grunhaldt
Sisco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--500
Chauncey D. Leake Book Review: \booktitleHuman Generation
by Arthur William Meyer . . . . . . . . 500--501
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 502--506
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Alfred Romer The Transformation Theory of
Radioactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--12
John C. Greene Science and the Public in the Age of
Jefferson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--25
Stillman Drake Galileo Gleanings II a Kind Word for
Salusbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--33
Lynn Thorndike Notes upon Some Medieval Latin
Astronomical, Astrological and
Mathematical Manuscripts at the Vatican:
Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--49
Robert Multhauf The Beginning of Mineralogical Chemistry 50--53
C. Truesdell The New Bernoulli Edition . . . . . . . 54--62
Katherine George The Civilized West Looks at Primitive
Africa: 1400--1800 a Study in
Ethnocentrism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--72
Denis I. Duveen and
Herbert S. Klickstein and
P. H. Brans and
G. Polvani and
Ivolino de Vasconcellos Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 73--76
G. M. Waller and
John C. Greene and
Robert E. Schofield and
A. G. Unklesbay and
Harry Woolf Teaching the History of Science . . . . 77--78
N. A. Figourovski and
V. P. Zoubov and
Otakar Matousek Academies and the History of Science . . 78--80
Anonymous Work in Progress in the History of
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
Preston Tuttle and
Carl B. Boyer Sections of the History of Science
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--84
Walter Pagel Book Review: \booktitleBeiträge zur
Geschichte der Technologie und der
Alchemie by W. Ganzenmüller . . . . . . . 84--86
Aaron J. Ihde Book Review: \booktitleDiscovery of the
Elements by Mary Elvira Weeks . . . . . 86--87
Derek J. Price Book Review: \booktitleDeutsche und
niederländische astronomische Instrumente
des 11.-18. Jahrhunderts by Ernst Zinner 87--88
Erwin N. Hiebert Book Review: \booktitleThe Historical
Background of Chemistry by Henry M.
Leicester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Cyril Stanley Smith Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Technology. Volume II, The Mediterranean
Civilizations and the Middle Ages, c.
700 B.C. to c. A.D. 1500 by Charles
Singer; E. J. Holmyard; A. R. Hall;
Trevor I. Williams; E. Jaffé; Nan Clow;
R. H. G. Thomson . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Loren C. MacKinney Book Review: \booktitleI codici di
medicina del periodo presalernitano
(secoli IX, X e XI) by Augusto Beccaria 90--91
Marshall Clagett Book Review: \booktitleArchimedes by E.
J. Dijksterhuis . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Vasco Ronchi Book Review: \booktitleL'optique de
Claude Ptolémée dans la version latine
d'apr\`es l'arabe de l'émire Eug\`ene de
Sicile by Albert Lejeune . . . . . . . . 92--93
Martin Levy Book Review: \booktitleGrundsätze
altindischer Medizin. (Acta Historica
Scientiarum Naturalium et Medicinalium)
by Reinhold F. G. Müller . . . . . . . . 93--94
James R. Ware Book Review: \booktitleFifty Years of
Chinese Philosophy, 1898--1950 by O.
Bri\`ere; Laurence G. Thompson . . . . . 94--94
Harcourt Brown Book Review: \booktitleEtudes
Rabelaisiennes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--96
Henry M. Leicester Book Review: \booktitleLavoisier by Ya.
G. Dorfman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97
George Rosen Book Review: \booktitleArbeitsmedizin im
18. Jahrhundert: Werksarzt und Arbeiter
im Quecksilberbergwerk Idria by Erna
Lesky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Henry R. Viets Book Review: \booktitleNew England
Hospitals, 1790--1833 by Leonard K.
Eaton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--99
Marie Boas Administrative Documents . . . . . . . . 99--104
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--105
Anonymous Award of the George Sarton Medal to Lynn
Thorndike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Dorothy Wyckoff Albertus Magnus on Ore Deposits . . . . 109--122
John J. Beer Coal Tar Dye Manufacture and the Origins
of the Modern Industrial Research
Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--131
Thomas S. Kuhn The Caloric Theory of Adiabatic
Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--140
Carl B. Boyer The Tertiary Rainbow: An Historical
Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--154
Stillman Drake Galileo Gleanings III: A Kind Word for
Sizzi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--165
Martin Levey Alum in Ancient Mesopotamian Technology 166--169
George Rosen Henry E. Sigerist (1891--1957) . . . . . 170--171
Stillman Drake and
I. Bernard Cohen Queries & Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--172
A. Hunter Dupree and
Thomas S. Kuhn Teaching the History of Science . . . . 172--173
Giorgio de Santillana and
J. M. Keynes and
Herman H. Henkle and
E. S. Kennedy and
C. Doris Hellman Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 173--178
I. Bernard Cohen and
Katharine Strelsky Eighty-Third Critical Bibliography of
the History of Science and Its Cultural
Influences (To 1 January 1958) . . . . . 179--296
Marie Boas and
William D. Stahlman Administrative Documents . . . . . . . . 297--300
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--304
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--306
Nathan Reingold Science in the Civil War. The Permanent
Commission of the Navy Department . . . 307--318
Edward Rosen Galileo's Misstatements about Copernicus 319--330
S. Sambursky On Some References to Experience in
Stoic Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--335
Carl B. Boyer Jekuthiel Ginsburg (1889--1957) . . . . 335--336
Martin Levey Gypsum, Salt and Soda in Ancient
Mesopotamian Chemical Technology . . . . 336--342
A. R. Hall and
I. B. C. and
Stillman Drake and
Denis I. Duveen and
Herbert S. Klickstein Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 342--349
Carl B. Boyer Book Review: \booktitleThe Study of the
History of Mathematics, and, The Study
of the History of Science by George
Sarton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--350
Carl B. Boyer Book Review: \booktitleGeschichte der
Mathematik; Vol. II, Von Fermat und
Descartes bis zum Ausbau der neuen
Methoden by Joseph E. Hofmann;
Geschichte der Mathematik; Vol.III, Von
den Auseinandersetzungen um den Calculus
bis zur franzosischen Revolution . . . . 350--352
Aaron Ihde Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Industrial Chemistry by F. Sherwood
Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--352
S. E. Morison Book Review: \booktitleThe Haven-Finding
Art. A History of Navigation from
Odysseus to Captain Cook by E. G. R.
Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--353
J. B. deC. M. Saunders Book Review: \booktitleEssai historique
sur l'Hôpital Saint-Eloi de Montpellier
(1183--1950) by Louis Dulieu . . . . . . 353--354
F. N. L. Poynter Book Review: \booktitleMedicine and the
Navy, 1200--1900 by J. J. Keevil . . . . 354--355
Giorgio Abetti Book Review: \booktitleAstronomical
Cuneiform Texts. Babylonian Ephemerides
of the Seleucid Period for the Motion of
the Sun, Moon, and the Planets by O.
Neugebauer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356
Charles C. Gillispie Book Review: \booktitleThe Physical
World of the Greeks by S. Sambursky . . 356--358
Marshall Clagett Book Review: \booktitleThe Philosophy of
the Church Fathers. Volume I, Faith,
Trinity, Incarnation by Harry Austryn
Wolfson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--359
Marshall Clagett Book Review: \booktitleLe Syst\`eme du
Monde. Vol.VI by Pierre Duhem; Le
Systeme du Monde. Vol.VII . . . . . . . 359--362
Marshall Clagett Book Review: \booktitleBradwardine and
the Pelagians. A Study of His De causa
Dei and Its Opponents by Gordon Leff . . 362--362
J. Filliozat Book Review: \booktitleHistory of
Chemistry in Ancient and Medieval India,
Incorporating the History of Hindu
Chemistry by Prafulla Chandra Ray . . . 362--363
Marie Boas Book Review: \booktitleFrom the Closed
World to the Infinite Universe by
Alexandre Koyré . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--366
Harry Woolf Book Review: \booktitleThe Copernican
Revolution. Planetary Astronomy in the
Development of Western Thought by Thomas
S. Kuhn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--367
Robert Multhauf Book Review: \booktitleThe Admirable
Discourses by Bernard Palissy; Aurele la
Rocque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--368
Anneliese Sisco Book Review: \booktitleGeorg Agricola
und seine Zeit by Helmut Wilsdorf;
\booktitleBermannus oder über den
Bergbau. Ein Dialog by Georg Agricola;
\booktitleSchriften zur Geologie und
Mineralogie I: Epistula ad Meurerum; De
ortu et causis subterraneorum libri V;
De natura eorum quae effluunt ex terra
libri IV by Georgius Agricola . . . . . 368--369
Anneliese Sisco Book Review: \booktitleGeorgius
Agricola, 1494--1555, zu seinem 400.
Todestag, 21. November 1955 by Rolf
Wendler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--370
Giorgio Abetti Book Review: \booktitleGalileo Galilei
by L. Geymonat . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--372
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374
Robert S. Woodbury The First Epicycloidal Gear Teeth . . . 375--377
Carl B. Boyer The Theory of the Rainbow: Medieval
Triumph and Failure . . . . . . . . . . 378--390
C. A. Patrides The Numerological Approach to Cosmic
Order during the English Renaissance . . 391--397
Lynn Thorndike De Complexionibus . . . . . . . . . . . 398--408
Stillman Drake Galileo Gleanings IV Bibliographical
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--413
Robert A. Chipman The Manuscript Letters of Stephen Gray,
F.R.S. (1666/7--1736) . . . . . . . . . 414--433
I. Bernard Cohen and
Marie Thér\`ese d'Alverny Work in Progress in the History of
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--438
Roy G. Neville and
William A. Cole Queries & Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . 438--439
L. R. C. Agnew and
Alexandre Koyré and
V. Ronchi and
J. M. Millás Vallicrosa and
A. Koyré Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 439--445
Aydin Sayili Book Review: \booktitleHistoire Générale
des Sciences, publiée sous la direction
de René Taton, Tome 1. La Science Antique
et Médiévale (des Origines \`a 1450) by
Réne Taton; R. Arnaldez; J. Beaujeu; G.
Beaujouan; R. Bloch; L. Bourgey; P.
Dupont-Sommer; J. Filliozat; R. Furon;
A. Haudricourt; J. Itard; R. Labat; G.
Lefebvre; L. Massignon; P.-H. Michel; J.
Needham; I. Simon; G. Stresser--Péan; J.
Théodorid\`es; J. Vercoutter; Ch.
Virolleaud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--446
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleDictionary of
American Biography by Robert Livingston
Schuyler; Edward T. James . . . . . . . 446--447
William D. Stahlman Book Review: \booktitleVistas in
Astronomy by A. Beer . . . . . . . . . . 447--449
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleThe History of
Photography from the Earliest Use of the
Camera Obscura in the Eleventh Century
up to 1914 by Helmut Gernsheim; Alison
Gernsheim; \booktitleThe World's First
Photographer by Alison Gernsheim; L. J.
M. Daguerre; Helmut Gernsheim . . . . . 449--451
Seyyed Hossein Nasr Book Review: \booktitleAlchemy by E. J.
Holmyard; \booktitleForgerons et
Alchimistes by M. Eliade . . . . . . . . 451--453
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Magic and Experimental Science. Volumes
VII and VIII: The Seventeenth Century by
Lynn Thorndike . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--455
E. J. Dijksterhuis Book Review: \booktitleThe Exact
Sciences in Antiquity by O. Neugebauer 455--456
W. Pagel Book Review: \booktitleAsclepiades, His
Life and Writings by Robert Montraville
Green; \booktitleSoranus' Gynecology by
Owsei Temkin; N. J. Eastman; L.
Edelstein; A. F. Guttmacher . . . . . . 456--457
M. Destombes Book Review: \booktitleArabic
Astronomical and Astrological Sciences
in Latin Translation: A Critical
Bibliography by Francis J. Carmody . . . 457--458
Edward Rosen Book Review: \booktitleBibliografia
kopernikowska, 1509--1955 by Henryk
Baranowski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--459
Giorgio Abetti Book Review: \booktitleDiscorsi e
Dimostrazioni Matematiche intorno a Due
Nuove Scienze a cura di Adriano Carugo e
Ludovico Geymonat by Galileo Galilei . . 459--460
George Rosen Book Review: \booktitleUn Prince, Deux
Préfets. Le mouvement scientifique et
médico-social au Pays de Li\`ege sous le
r\`egne du despotisme éclairé (1771--1830)
by Marcel Florkin . . . . . . . . . . . 460--461
A. Hunter Dupree Book Review: \booktitleThe Exploration
of the Colorado River by John Wesley
Powell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--462
J. F. Scott Book Review: \booktitleNiels Henrik
Abel, Mathematician Extraordinary by
Òystein Òre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--462
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 463--465
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--466
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Henry Guerlac To Our Readers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
H. E. Hoff and
L. A. Geddes Graphic Registration before Ludwig; The
Antecedents of the Kymograph . . . . . . 5--21
O. Neugebauer Ptolemy's Geography, Book VII, Chapters
6 and 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--29
Jackson I. Cope Evelyn, Boyle, and Dr. Wilkinson's
``Mathematico-Chymico-Mechanical
School'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Lynn Thorndike Notes upon Some Medieval Astronomical,
Astrological and Mathematical
Manuscripts at Florence, Milan, Bologna
and Venice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--50
Leonard M. Marsak Cartesianism in Fontenelle and French
Science, 1686--1752 . . . . . . . . . . 51--60
L. Sprague de Camp Sailing Close-Hauled . . . . . . . . . . 61--63
Rufus Suter and
Saul Benison and
Max Savelle Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 64--68
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Luminescence from the Earliest Times
until 1900 by E. Newton Harvey . . . . . 68--69
C. Truesdell Book Review: \booktitleHistory of
Hydraulics by Hunter Rouse; Simon Ince 69--71
J. B. de C. M. Saunders Book Review: \booktitleLes Médecins de
l'Egypte Pharaonique. Essai de
Prosopographie by Frans Jonckheere . . . 71--72
E. S. Kennedy Book Review: \booktitleKlyuch
Arifmetiki; Traktat ob Okruzhnosti. The
Key to Arithmetic and the Treatise on
the Circumference by Dzhemshid
Giyaseddin Al-Kashi; B. A. Rosenfelda;
V. S. Segal; A. P. Yushkevich . . . . . 72--75
Ralph E. Giesey Book Review: \booktitleThe Civilization
of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob
Burckhardt; S. G. C. Middlemore . . . . 75--76
Marie Boas Book Review: \booktitleNatural Magick by
John Baptista Porta; Derek J. Price . . 76--76
Charles C. Gillispie Book Review: \booktitleOeuvres
Philosophiques de Cabanis by Cabanis . . 76--78
Erwin N. Hiebert Book Review: \booktitleGesammelte
Vorträge und Aufsätze by Max Hartmann . . 78--79
Erwin N. Hiebert Book Review: \booktitleDeutsche Chemiker
in der ersten Hälfte des neunzehnten
Jahrhunderts by Wilhelm Prandtl . . . . 79--81
Eduard Farber Book Review: \booktitleProceedings of
the Perkin Centennial 1856--1956
Commemorating the Discovery of Aniline
Dyes by Howard J. White . . . . . . . . 81--81
Aaron Ihde Book Review: \booktitleEdward Williams
Morley (1838--1923), His Influence on
Science in America by Howard R. Williams 81--82
Virgil Hinshaw, Jr. Book Review: \booktitleToward a Critical
Naturalism. Reflections on Contemporary
American Philosophy by Patrick Romanell 82--83
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--151
Anonymous The George Sarton Medal for 1958 . . . . 91--94
William H. Stahl Dominant Traditions in Early Medieval
Latin Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--124
Henry Guerlac A Lost Memoir of Lavoisier . . . . . . . 125--129
V. P. Zoubov Quelques Observations sur l'Auteur du
Traité Anonyme \booktitle``Utrum dyameter
alicuius quadrati sit commensurabilis
costae ejusdem''. (French) [Some
observations on the author of the
anonymous treatise \booktitleWhether the
diameter of the rib of a square is
commensurable] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--134
Brooke Hindle and
Helen M. Hindle David Rittenhouse and the Illusion of
Reversible Relief . . . . . . . . . . . 135--140
Masao Watanabe Count Rumford's First Exposition of the
Dynamic Aspect of Heat . . . . . . . . . 141--144
Marian A. Moore and
Philip Melanchthon A Letter of Philip Melanchthon to the
Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--150
E. J. Aiton and
Stillman Drake and
Rufus Suter and
Jacob Zeitlin and
Roy G. Neville and
I. Bernard Cohen and
P. H. Brans and
D. A. Wittop Koning Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 152--157
Hunter Dupree and
Erwin Hiebert and
Chauncey Leake and
Harry Woolf and
Raymond P. Stearns and
Morris Goran and
Howard J. B. Ziegler and
Harold I. Sharlin News of the Profession . . . . . . . . . 157--158
Gerald Holton Book Review: \booktitleSpace, Time and
Creation. Philosophical Aspects of
Scientific Cosmology by Milton K. Munitz 159--160
Gerald Holton Book Review: \booktitleTheories of the
Universe from Babylonian Myth to Modern
Science by Milton K. Munitz . . . . . . 160--161
Roy G. Neville Book Review: \booktitleThe Pasteur
Fermentation Centennial 1857--1957 . . . 161--162
L. R. C. Agnew Book Review: \booktitleThe Bubonic
Plague and England by Charles F. Mullett 162--163
Charles C. Gillispie Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Technology, Volume III, from the
Renaissance to the Industrial
Revolution, c. 1500--c. 1750 by Charles
Singer; E. J. Holmyard; A. R. Hall;
Trevor I. Williams; Y. Peel; J. R. Petty 163--165
Naum Jasny Book Review: \booktitleGrain-Mills and
Flour in Classical Antiquity by L. A.
Moritz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--169
J. M. Millás-Vallicrosa Book Review: \booktitleTractat
d'Astrologia by Bartomeu de Tresbéns . . 169--169
Katherine George Book Review: \booktitleEthiopian
Itineraries circa 1400--1524, including
Those Collected by Alessandro Zorzi at
Venice in the Years 1519--1524 by O. G.
S. Crawford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--171
C. Doris Hellman Book Review: \booktitleAgricola on
Metals. The Age of Technology Waited for
Better and More Abundant Metals; It
Arrived So Much Sooner because Agricola
Published De Re Metallica, a Mining and
Metallurgical Classic by Bern Dibner . . 171--172
Duane H. D. Roller Book Review: \booktitleOn the Magnet by
William Gilbert; Silvanus P. Thompson;
\booktitleGilbert Club; De Magnete by
William Gilbert; P. F. Mottelay . . . . 172--174
Walter Pagel Book Review: \booktitleDie Kaerntner
Schriften by Theophrast von Hohenheim 174--175
Karl M. Birkmeyer Book Review: \booktitleLeonardo da
Vinci's Trattato della Pittura by Kate
Trauman Steinitz . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--177
Edward Rosen Book Review: \booktitleÉtudes
coperniciennes, Vol. I by Stanislaus
Wedkiewicz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--178
A. R. Hall Book Review: \booktitleIsaac Newton's
Papers and Letters on Natural Philosophy
and Related Documents by I. Bernard
Cohen; Robert E. Schofield; Isaac Newton 178--179
Sydney W. Jackman Book Review: \booktitleAlexander Gordon,
M.D. of Aberdeen, 1752--1799 by Ian A.
Porter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--180
Crane Brinton Book Review: \booktitleCarl Becker's
Heavenly City Revisited by Raymond O.
Rockwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--182
René Taton Book Review: \booktitleJean-Sylvain
Bailly, Astronomer, Mystic,
Revolutionary, 1736--1793 by Edwin
Burrows Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--183
Aaron Ihde Book Review: \booktitleThe Chemical
Industry during the Nineteenth Century.
A Study of the Economic Aspects of
Applied Chemistry in Europe and North
America by L. F. Haber . . . . . . . . . 183--184
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleGregor Mendel und
das Schicksal seiner Vererbungsgesetze
by Ingo Krumbiegel . . . . . . . . . . . 184--185
Erwin N. Hiebert Book Review: \booktitleJohann Conrad
Fischer, 1773--1854 by Karl Schib;
Rudolf Gnade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--187
Anonymous Publications Received December
1958--February 1959 . . . . . . . . . . 188--190
Brooke Hindle Administrative Documents . . . . . . . . 191--192
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--198
Wilson L. Scott The Significance of ``Hard Bodies'' in
the History of Scientific Thought . . . 199--210
J. R. Partington Some Early Appraisals of the Work of
John Mayow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--226
E. S. Kennedy and
Victor Roberts The Planetary Theory of Ibn
al-Sh\=a\dtir . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--235
John M. Steadman Chauntecleer and Medieval Natural
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--244
Stillman Drake Galileo Gleanings VI: Galileo's First
Telescopes at Padua and Venice . . . . . 245--254
Giorgio de Santillana and
Stillman Drake Book Review: \booktitleThe Sleepwalkers 255--260
A. Rupert Hall and
J. R. Ravetz Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 261--265
Anonymous News of the Profession . . . . . . . . . 265--267
Max Black Book Review: \booktitlePatterns of
Discovery by N. R. Hanson . . . . . . . 267--268
Carl B. Boyer Book Review: \booktitleHistory of
Mathematics by David Eugene Smith . . . 268--269
George W. White Book Review: \booktitleGlossary of
Geology and Related Sciences by J. V.
Howell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--270
Iago Galdston Book Review: \booktitleKurze Geschichte
der Psychiatrie by Erwin H. Ackerknecht 270--271
Fritz Schmidl Book Review: \booktitleExistence, a New
Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology
by Rollo May; Ernest Angel; Henri F.
Ellenberger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272
M. Destombes Book Review: \booktitleA Survey of
Islamic Astronomical Tables by E. S.
Kennedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--273
Seyyed Hossein Nasr Book Review: \booktitlePsychologie d'Ibn
Sina (Avicenne) d'apr\`es son oeuvre As
Sifa' by Ibn Sina; Jan Bakos . . . . . . 273--274
J. B. deC. M. Saunders Book Review: \booktitleParacelsus. An
Introduction to Philosophical Medicine
in the Era of the Renaissance by Walter
Pagel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--276
Walter Pagel Book Review: \booktitlePagan Mysteries
in the Renaissance by Edgar Wind . . . . 276--278
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleCollected Letters
by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek; Committee of
Dutch Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--279
D. Burger Book Review: \booktitleHet Land van
Stevin en Huygens by D. J. Struik . . . 280--281
Carl B. Boyer Book Review: \booktitleThe Principal
Works of Simon Stevin. Volume II (A & B),
Mathematics by D. J. Struik . . . . . . 281--282
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleEvolution by
Natural Selection by Charles Darwin;
Alfred Russell Wallace;
\booktitleDarwin's Century by Loren
Eiseley; \booktitleA Century of Darwin
by S. A. Barnett . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--285
J. F. Scott Book Review: \booktitleCarl Friedrich
Gauss: Titan of Science. A Study of His
Life and Work by C. Waldo Dunnington . . 285--286
David Roberts Book Review: \booktitleScottish Social
Welfare, 1864--1914 by Thomas Ferguson 286--287
A. Hunter Dupree Book Review: \booktitleThe Scientific
Thought of Henry Adams by Henry Wasser 288--288
I. Bernard Cohen and
Harry Woolf and
Phyllis Brooks Bosson Eighty-Fourth Critical Bibliography of
the History of Science and Its Cultural
Influences (To 1 January 1959) . . . . . 289--407
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--408
Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--418
Marshall Clagett The Impact of Archimedes on Medieval
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--429
Saul Jarcho Origin of the American Indian as
Suggested by Fray Joseph de Acosta
(1589) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430--438
James A. Weisheipl The Place of John Dumbleton in the
Merton School . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--454
Jacob Zeitlin Thomas Salusbury Discovered . . . . . . 455--458
Jan Z. Wilczynski On the Presumed Darwinism of Alberuni
Eight Hundred Years before Darwin . . . 459--466
Colin M. Turbayne Grosseteste and an Ancient Optical
Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--472
Marie Boas Hall and
A. Rupert Hall Newton's Electric Spirit: Four Oddities 473--476
O. Neugebauer Regula Philippi Arrhidaei . . . . . . . 477--478
Eric T. Carlson and
Erwin Reifler and
C. Truesdell and
Roy G. Neville and
L. Pearce Williams Notes & Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 479--481
Charles W. Paape News of the Profession . . . . . . . . . 482--484
Robert E. Schofield Book Review: \booktitleMoments of
Discovery by P. H. Swartz; Philip W.
Bishop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--486
John C. Greene Book Review: \booktitleMen of Science in
America by Bernard Jaffe . . . . . . . . 486--487
Bernard Barber Book Review: \booktitleScientific
Manpower in Europe. A Comparative Study
of Scientific Manpower in the Public
Service of Great Britain and Selected
European Countries by Edward McCrensky 487--488
Arthur Smullyan Book Review: \booktitleObservation and
Interpretation by S. Körner . . . . . . . 488--489
René Taton Book Review: \booktitleHistory of
Analytic Geometry by Carl B. Boyer . . . 489--492
Conway Zirkle Book Review: \booktitleThe Sloane
Herbarium by J. E. Dandy; James Britten 492--493
F. N. L. Poynter Book Review: \booktitleMedicine and the
Navy 1200--1900. Volume II, 1649--1714
by J. J. Keevil . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--494
Glenn Sonnedecker Book Review: \booktitleHerbals of Five
Centuries. A Contribution to Medical
History and Bibliography by Claus Nissen 494--495
Chester G. Starr Book Review: \booktitleThe Ancient
Mariners; Seafarers and Sea Fighters of
the Mediterranean in Ancient Times by
Lionel Casson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--496
F. A. B. Ward Book Review: \booktitleTime and Its
Measurement; From the Stone Age to the
Nuclear Age by Harrison J. Cowan . . . . 496--498
A. G. Drachmann Book Review: \booktitleStudies in Early
Petroleum History by R. J. Forbes . . . 498--499
John W. Oliver Book Review: \booktitleThe Technical
Development of the Royal Dutch/Shell,
1890--1940 by R. J. Forbes; R. O'Beirne 500--501
Melville Jacobs Book Review: \booktitleFrom Ape to Angel
by H. R. Hays . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--502
Paul Pascal Book Review: \booktitleLibellus de
Natura Animalium . . . . . . . . . . . . 502--503
Edwin Wolf, 2nd Book Review: \booktitleThe Americans;
The Colonial Experience by Daniel J.
Boorstin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--504
L. E. Loemker Book Review: \booktitleGottfried Wilhelm
Leibniz; Barock und Universalismus by
Joachim Otto Fleckenstein . . . . . . . 504--506
Francis R. Johnson Book Review: \booktitleThe Anatomy of
the World. Relations between Natural and
Moral Law from Donne to Pope by Michael
Macklem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--507
Joseph T. Clark Book Review: \booktitlePierre Gassendi:
sa Vie et Son OEuvre, 1592--1655 by
Bernard Rochot; Alexandre Koyré; Georges
Mongrédien; Antoine Adam . . . . . . . . 507--510
Dorothy Stimson Book Review: \booktitleHistory of the
Royal Society by Thomas Sprat; Jackson
T. Cole; Harold Whitmore Jones . . . . . 510--511
L. R. C. Agnew Book Review: \booktitleWilliam Harvey
and the Circulation of the Blood . . . . 511--512
John B. Blake Book Review: \booktitleThe Johns Hopkins
Hospital and the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine: A
Chronicle. Vol. II, 1893--1905 by Alan
M. Chesney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512--514
H. E. Hoff Book Review: \booktitleExperimental
Psychology and Other Essays by I. Pavlov 514--516
Richard G. Hewlett Book Review: \booktitleAdventures in the
World of Science by Charles G. Abbot . . 516--517
Alexander Vucinich Book Review: \booktitleArchaeology in
the U.S.S.R. by Mikhail Miller . . . . . 517--518
Anonymous Publications Received 1 March 1959--1
September 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518--522
Anonymous Errata: Evolution by Natural Selection 522--522
Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--530
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 524--529