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Railway interests and the ‘rope of air’, 1840–8
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Did Jenkin's swamping argument invalidate Darwin's theory of natural selection?
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- 01 September 2004, pp. 281-297
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Textbooks, popular lectures and sermons: the quantum chemist Charles Alfred Coulson and the crafting of science
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- 01 September 2004, pp. 299-342
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Book Review
G. E. R. LLOYD, The Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China. Ideas in Context Series, 64. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi+175. ISBN 0-521-89461-1. £15.95, $22.00 (paperback).
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- 01 September 2004, p. 344
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JOHN F. HEALY, Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xv+467. ISBN 0-19-814687-6. £65.00 (hardback).
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- 01 September 2004, pp. 345-346
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MALCOLM OSTER (ed.), Science in Europe, 1500–1800: A Primary Sources Reader. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xix+282. ISBN 0-333-97002-0. £14.99 (paperback). MALCOLM OSTER (ed.), Science in Europe, 1500–1800: A Secondary Sources Reader. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xii+307. ISBN 0-333-97006-3. £14.99 (paperback).
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- 01 September 2004, pp. 346-347
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M. BARLOW PEPIN, The Emergence of the Telescope: Janssen, Lipperhey, and the Unknown Man. Duncanville, TX: T. Tauri Productions, 2002. Pp. 41. No ISBN. No price given (paperback).
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- 01 September 2004, pp. 347-348
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RUDOLPH GAMPER and THOMAS HOFMEIER, Das Alchemiehandbuch des Appenzeller Wundarztes Ulrich Ruosch. Basel: Schwabe, 2002. Pp. 158. ISBN 3-7965-1975-X. €33.50, SFr 48.00 (hardback).
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- 01 September 2004, pp. 348-349
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SCOTT MANDELBROTE, Footprints of the Lion: Isaac Newton at Work. Exhibition at Cambridge University Library 9 October 2001–23 March 2002. Cambridge: Cambridge University Library, 2001. Pp. 142. ISBN 0-902205-58-7. £7.50 (paperback).
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- 01 September 2004, pp. 349-350
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MICHAEL HOSKIN (ed.), Caroline Herschel's Autobiographies. Cambridge: Science History Publications, 2003. Pp. viii+147. ISBN 0-905193-06-7. £25.00 (hardback). MICHAEL HOSKIN, The Herschel Partnership as Viewed by Caroline. Cambridge: Science History Publications, 2003. Pp. viii+182. ISBN 0-905193-05-9. £25.00 (hardback).
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- 01 September 2004, pp. 350-351
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DORON SWADE, The Cogwheel Brain: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer. London: Little, Brown and Company, 2000. Pp. x+342. ISBN 0-316-64847-7. £14.99 (hardback).
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- 01 September 2004, pp. 351-352
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BRIDGET HOWARD, Mr Lean and the Engine Reporters. Redruth: Trevithick Society, 2002. Pp. 99. ISBN 0-904040-56-9. £9.99 (paperback).
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- 01 September 2004, p. 353
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RICHARD L. HILLS, Life and Inventions of Richard Roberts, 1789–1864. Landmark Collector's Library. Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 2002. Pp. 255. ISBN 1-84306-027-2. £29.95 (hardback).
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- 01 September 2004, pp. 352-353
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RANDAL KEYNES, Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution. London: Fourth Estate, 2001. Pp. xiv+331. ISBN 1-84115-060-6. £16.99 (hardback).
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- 01 September 2004, pp. 353-354
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SUSAN E. LEDERER, Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2002. Pp. ix+78. ISBN 0-8135-3200-0. $30.00 (paperback).
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- 01 September 2004, pp. 354-355
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ROGER HERZ-FISCHLER, The Shape of the Great Pyramid. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000. Pp. xii+293. ISBN 0-88920-324-5. $29.95 (paperback).
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- 01 September 2004, pp. 355-356
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ANDREAS W. DAUM, Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert. Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848–1914. Second edition. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2002. Pp. xii+619. ISBN 3-486-56551-6. €59.80 (paperback).
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- 01 September 2004, pp. 357-358
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J. S. ROWLINSON, Cohesion: A Scientific History of Intermolecular Forces. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. viii+333. ISBN 0-521-81008-6. £65.00 (hardback).
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- 01 September 2004, pp. 358-359
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MICHAEL ECKERT and KARL MÄRKER (eds.), Arnold Sommerfeld: Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel. Band 1: 1892–1918. Berlin, Diepholz and München: Deutsches Museum and Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 2000. Pp. 694. ISBN 3-928186-49-3. €68.00 (hardback).
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- 01 September 2004, pp. 360-361
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ERHARD SCHOLZ (ed.), Hermann Weyl'sRaum-Zeit-Materieand a General Introduction to His Scientific Work. DMV Seminar, 30. Basel, Boston and Berlin: Birkhäuser, 2001. Pp. vii+403. ISBN 3-7643-6476-9. No price given (paperback).
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- 01 September 2004, pp. 361-362
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