Volume 22 - Issue 1 - March 1989
Book Reviews
Scott Atran et al., Histoire du Concept d'Espèce dans les Sciences de la VieParis: Guathier-Villars, 1987. Pp. xiii + 324. ISBN 2-900927-19-6. FF 150.00.
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Edwin Clarke & L.S. Jacyna. Nineteenth-Century Origins of Neuroscientific Concepts. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. viii + 593. ISBN 0-520-05694-9. No price given.
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David N. Livingstone. Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science. Tuscaloosa, Al.: The University of Alabama Press, 1987. Pp. xiv + 395. ISBN 0-8173-0305-7. $32.95.
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Emil Heuser & Regine Zott (eds). Justus von Liebig und August Wilhelm Hofmann in ihren Briefen. Nachträge 1845–1869. - Emil Heuser (ed.). Justus von Liebig und Emil Erlenmeyer in ihren Briefen von 1861–1872. Mannheim: Bionomica Verlag, 1988. Pp. 54 + 32 bound in one vol. ISBN 3-88208-012-4. DM 20.00.
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José Mariá López Piṅero. El arte de navegar en la España del Renacimiento. Barcelona: Editorial Labor, 2nd edn, 1986. Pp. 285. ISBN 84-335-0029-5. No price given.
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G.W. Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics and Related Writings, (ed. and tr. by R.N.D. Martin & Stuart Brown). Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp. xi + 170. ISBN 0-7190-2338-6. £25.00.
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Joseph C. Pitt & Marcello Pera (eds). Rational Changes in Science: Essays on Scientific Reasoning. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1987. Pp. xiii + 224. ISBN 9-02772-417-2. £49.50; $64.00.
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Pierre Thuillier. D'Archimède à Einstein: les Faces Cachées de l'Invention Scientifique. Paris: Fayard, 1988. Pp. xxvii + 395. FF 160.00. - Pierre Thuillier. Les Passions du Savoir: Essais sur les Dimensions Culturelles de la Science. Paris: Fayard, 1988. Pp. xii + 267. FF 145.00.
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Science in Context, Volume 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Two issues per volume. ISSN 0269-8897. Subscription for volume 1 £31.00; $65.00 for institutions, £19.00; $37.00 for individuals.
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Rachel Laudan. From Mineralogy to Geology: the Foundations of a Science, 1650–1830. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Pp. xii + 278. ISBN 0-226-46950-6. £21.95; $32.95 in Europe.
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Harry Redner. The Ends of Science: An Essay in Scientific Authority. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1987. Pp. xiv + 344. ISBN 3-0452-0; $39.50.
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Robert Kargon & Peter Achinstein (eds). Kelvin's Baltimore Lectures and Modern Theoretical Physics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: The MIT Press, 1987. Pp. xii + 547. ISBN 0-262-11117-9. £35.95.
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F. Burwick (ed.). Approaches to Organic Form: Permutations in Science and Culture. Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster & Tokyo: D. Reidel, 1987. Pp. xix + 286. ISBN 90-277-2541-1. £43.95; DFl.160.00; $64.00.
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W. J. O'Connor. Founders of British Physiology: A Biographical Dictionary, 1820–1885. Manchester: MUP, 1988. Pp. 264. ISBN 0-7190-2537-0. £27.50.
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Theodore M. Porter, The Rise of Statistical Thinking: 1820–1900. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. xii + 333. ISBN 0-691-08416-5. £23.40. - Stephen M. Stigler, The History of Statistics: the Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986. Pp. ix + 410. ISBN 0-674-40340-1. No price given
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William A. S. Sarjeant. Geologists and the History of Geology. An International Bibliography from the Origins to 1978. Supplement 1979–1984 and Additions. Malabar, Florida: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company, 1987. 2 vols. Pp. xxxii + 1691. ISBN 0-89874-939-5. No price given.
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Rajkumari Williamson (ed.). The Making of Physicists. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1987. Pp. viii + 200. ISBN 0-85274-524-9. £15.00.
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John H. Hammond & Jill Austin. The Camera Lucida in Art and Science. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1987. Pp. xii + 201. ISBN 0-85274-527-3. £19.95.
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Gunther Garbrecht. Hydraulics and Hydraulic Research. A Historical Review. Rotterdam and Boston: A.A. Balkema, 1987. Pp. ix + 362. ISBN 90-6191-621-6. £53.50
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R.V. & P.J. Wallis. Biobibliography of British Mathematics and its Applications, Part II, 1701–1760. Newcastle upon Tyne: Project for Historical Biobibliography, 1986, Pp. xxiii + 502. ISBN 1-85027-003-1. £48.
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