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Scottish chemistry, classification and the late mineralogical career of the ‘ingenious’ Professor John Walker (1779–1803)
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‘The progeny of these two “Fellows”’: Robert Willis, William Whewell and the sciences of mechanism, mechanics and machinery in early Victorian Britain
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‘Visible incarnations of the unseen’: Henry Drummond and the practice of typological exegesis
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- 09 December 2004, pp. 435-454
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Deconstructing the bomb: recent perspectives on nuclear history
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- 09 December 2004, pp. 455-464
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PETER HARMAN and SIMON MITTON (eds.), Cambridge Scientific Minds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. viii+343. ISBN 0-521-78612-6. £14.95 (paperback). DAVID MILLAR, IAN MILLAR, JOHN MILLAR and MARGARET MILLAR, The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists. Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+428. ISBN 0-521-00062-9. £14.95, $20.00 (paperback).
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- 09 December 2004, pp. 466-467
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MARIA MICHELA SASSI, The Science of Man in Ancient Greece. Translated by Paul Tucker. With a Foreword by Sir Geoffrey Lloyd. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xxx+224. ISBN 0-226-73530-3. £21.50, $34.00 (hardback).
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H. L. L. BUSARD, Johannes de Tinemue's Redaction of Euclid'sElements, the So-called Adelard III Version. Volume I: Introduction, Sigla and Descriptions of the Manuscripts, Editorial Remarks, Euclides,Elementa.Volume II: Conspectus Siglorum, Apparatus Criticus, Addenda. Boethius, 45. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001. Pp. 632. ISBN 3-515-07975-0. €100.00 (paperback).
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GERHARD W. KRAMER, The Firework Book: Gunpowder in Medieval Germany. The Journal of the Arms and Armour Society, 17(1). London: Arms and Armour Society, 2001. Pp. 89. ISSN 00004-2439. £10 (paperback).
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- 09 December 2004, pp. 469-470
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ROBERT CROCKER (ed.), Religion, Reason and Nature in Early Modern Europe. International Archives of the History of Ideas, 180. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. Pp. xix+228. ISBN 1-4020-0047-2. £65.00, $103.00, €93.50 (hardback).
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RIENK VERMIJ, The Calvinist Copernicans: The Reception of the New Astronomy in the Dutch Republic, 1575–1750. History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands, 1. Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2002. Pp. x+433. ISBN 90-6984-340-4. €49.00 (hardback).
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RINA KNOEFF, Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738): Calvinist Chemist and Physician. History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands, 3. Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2002. Pp. xvi+237. ISBN 90-6984-342-0. €35.00 (hardback).
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J. CHRISTIAAN BOUDRI, What was Mechanical about Mechanics: The Concept of Force between Metaphysics and Mechanics from Newton to Lagrange. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 224. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. Pp. xvi+276. ISBN 1-4020-0233-5. £75.00, $112.00, €112.00 (hardback).
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KEN ALDER, The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey that Transformed the World. London: Little, Brown, 2002. Pp. xiv+466. ISBN 0-316-85989-3. £15.99 (hardback).
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BERIT PEDERSEN (ed.), A Guide to the Archives of the Royal Entomological Society. Ashgate: Aldershot, 2002. Pp. x+198. ISBN 0-7546-0106-4. £42.50 (hardback).
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RICHARD YEO, Science in the Public Sphere: Natural Knowledge in British Culture 1800–1860. Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS726. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. Pp. 324. ISBN 0-86078-865-2. £57.50 (hardback).
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LOUISE PURBRICK (ed.), The Great Exhibition of 1851: New Interdisciplinary Essays. Texts in Culture. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001. Pp. xii+217. ISBN 0-7190-5592-X. £15.99 (paperback).
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- 09 December 2004, pp. 478-479
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HERMIONE HOBHOUSE, The Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition: Art, Science and Productive Industry. A History of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. London and New York: Athlone, 2002. Pp. xx+451. ISBN 0-485-11575-1. £40.00 (hardback).
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- 09 December 2004, pp. 479-480
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MICHAEL WORBOYS, Spreading Germs: Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865–1900. Cambridge History of Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi+327. ISBN 0-521-77302-4. £37.50, $59.95 (hardback).
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- 09 December 2004, pp. 480-481
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GRETA JONES, ‘Captain of All these Men of Death’: The History of Tuberculosis in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ireland. Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine: Clio Medica, 62. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2001. Pp. ii+263. ISBN 90-420-1031-2. $22.50, €24.00 (paperback).
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- 09 December 2004, pp. 481-482
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CHRISTOPHER HERBERT, Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xv+302. ISBN 0-226-32733-7. £10.50, $16.00 (paperback).
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