The British Journal for the History of Science: Volume 6 - Issue 3

The Tyranny of Abstractions
William P. D. Wightman
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05 January 2009, pp. 233-246
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Lavoisier's Theory of the Earth
Rhoda Rappaport
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05 January 2009, pp. 247-260
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Lyell and Evolution: An Account of Lyell's Response to the Prospect of an Evolutionary Ancestry for Man
Michael Bartholomew
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05 January 2009, pp. 261-303
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Humphry Davy—An Alleged Case of Suppressed Publication
Maurice Crosland
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05 January 2009, pp. 304-310
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In a letter found not long ago in the Institute of Electrical Engineers and recently republished in the new edition of Faraday's correspondence, certain allegations are made about difficulties experienced by Humphry Davy in getting his work published in Napoleonic France. These allegations have been repeated in the standard Davy bibliography and are believed by at least one other Davy scholar known to the author. A new biography of Faraday makes much of this supposed incident and suggests a comparison with Stalinist Russia. No doubt the letter will continue to be quoted and the story believed until someone takes the trouble to examine the situation more closely.

Nicole Oresme and the Kinematics of Circular Motion. Tractatus de commensurabilitate vel incommensurabilitate motuum celi.
A. G. Molland
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05 January 2009, pp. 311-313
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General - Technology, Science and History. By D. S. L. Cardwell. London: Heinemann, 1972. Pp. xi + 244. £3.00.
R. A. Buchanan
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05 January 2009, pp. 314-315
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General - English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture (London, 1874). By Francis Galton. Second edition with Introduction by Ruth Schwartz Cowan. London: Frank Cass, 1970. Pp xi + 270. £3.75. - The Scientific Basis of National Progress including that of Morality (London, 1899). By G. Gore. Reprint. London: Frank Cass, 1970. Pp. 221. £3.50.
R. G. A. Dolby
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05 January 2009, p. 315
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Medicine - Hunter's Lectures of Anatomy. Foreword by SirCharles Illingworth. Introduction by N. Dowd. London and New York: American Elsevier, 1972. Pp. 320. $11.
Arnold Levene
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05 January 2009, pp. 315-316
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Medicine - Modern Methods in the History of Medicine. Ed. by Edwin Clarke. London: Athlone Press, 1971. Pp. xiv + 389. £5.50.
William F. Bynum
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05 January 2009, pp. 316-317
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Crystallography - Early Papers on Diffraction of X-rays by Crystals. Volume II. Ed. by J. M. Bijvoet, W. G. Burgers and G. Hägg. Utrecht: A. Oosthoek's Uitgeversmaatschappij (for the International Union of Crystallography), 1972. Pp xx + 484. No price stated.
G. L'E. Turner
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05 January 2009, pp. 317-318
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Oceanography - Scientists and the Sea 1650–1900. By Margaret Deacon. London and New York: Academic Press, 1971. Pp. xvi + 445. £5.50.
D. W. Waters
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05 January 2009, pp. 318-319
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Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Mystiques, Spirituels, Alchimistes du XVIe siècle allemand. By Alexandre Koyré. Paris: Gallimard, 1971. Pp. 184. No price stated.
A. J. Turner
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05 January 2009, p. 319
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Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - William Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood. By Gweneth Whitteridge. London: Macdonald, and New York: American Elsevier Inc., 1971. Pp. xiii + 269. £4.
C. B. Schmitt
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05 January 2009, pp. 320-321
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Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - A Bibliography of Sir William Petty, F.R.S. and of Observations on the Bills of Mortality by John Graunt, F.R.S. By SirGeoffrey Keynes. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. xviii + 103. £5.50.
Lindsay Sharp
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05 January 2009, pp. 321-322
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Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - The Annus Mirabilis of Sir Isaac Newton, 1666–1966. Ed. by Robert Palter. Cambridge, Mass, and London: M.I.T. Press, 1971. Pp. viii + 351. £7.
E. J. Aiton
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05 January 2009, pp. 322-323
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Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Le Physicien Ignace Gaston Pardies S.J. (1636–1673). By Ziggelaar S. J. August Copenhagen: Odense University Press, 1971. Pp. 242. Dan. kr. 60.00.
Alice Stroup
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05 January 2009, pp. 324-325
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Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg. Volume VII, 1670–1671; Volume VIII, 1671–1672. Ed. by A. Rupert and Marie Boas Hall. Madison, Milwaukee, and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970 and 1971. Pp. xxviii + 600 and xxvii + 663. $17.50 and $20.00.
K. Theodore Hoppen
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05 January 2009, pp. 325-326
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Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Henry Home, Lord Kames, and the Scottish Enlightenment. By William C. Lehmann. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1971. Pp. xxvi + 358. 60.15 guilders. - Lord Kames and the Scotland of his Day. By Ian Simpson Ross. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1972. Pp. ix + 420. £6.
J. B. Morrell
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05 January 2009, pp. 326-327
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Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Jean d'Alembert. Science and the Enlightenment. By Thomas L. Hankins. Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1970. Pp. xii + 260. £3.50.
Roger Hahn
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05 January 2009, pp. 327-329
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Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Affinity and Matter. Elements of Chemical Philosophy 1800–1865. By Trevor H. Levere. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. xvii + 230. £4.50.
John Hedley Brooke
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05 January 2009, pp. 329-330
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Volume 6 - Issue 3 - June 1973

Presidential Address

The Tyranny of Abstractions

Lavoisier's Theory of the Earth

Lyell and Evolution: An Account of Lyell's Response to the Prospect of an Evolutionary Ancestry for Man

Note

Humphry Davy—An Alleged Case of Suppressed Publication

Essay Review

Nicole Oresme and the Kinematics of Circular Motion. Tractatus de commensurabilitate vel incommensurabilitate motuum celi.

Book Reviews

General - Technology, Science and History. By D. S. L. Cardwell. London: Heinemann, 1972. Pp. xi + 244. £3.00.

Medicine - Hunter's Lectures of Anatomy. Foreword by SirCharles Illingworth. Introduction by N. Dowd. London and New York: American Elsevier, 1972. Pp. 320. $11.

Medicine - Modern Methods in the History of Medicine. Ed. by Edwin Clarke. London: Athlone Press, 1971. Pp. xiv + 389. £5.50.

Crystallography - Early Papers on Diffraction of X-rays by Crystals. Volume II. Ed. by J. M. Bijvoet, W. G. Burgers and G. Hägg. Utrecht: A. Oosthoek's Uitgeversmaatschappij (for the International Union of Crystallography), 1972. Pp xx + 484. No price stated.

Oceanography - Scientists and the Sea 1650–1900. By Margaret Deacon. London and New York: Academic Press, 1971. Pp. xvi + 445. £5.50.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Mystiques, Spirituels, Alchimistes du XVIe siècle allemand. By Alexandre Koyré. Paris: Gallimard, 1971. Pp. 184. No price stated.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - William Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood. By Gweneth Whitteridge. London: Macdonald, and New York: American Elsevier Inc., 1971. Pp. xiii + 269. £4.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - A Bibliography of Sir William Petty, F.R.S. and of Observations on the Bills of Mortality by John Graunt, F.R.S. By SirGeoffrey Keynes. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. xviii + 103. £5.50.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - The Annus Mirabilis of Sir Isaac Newton, 1666–1966. Ed. by Robert Palter. Cambridge, Mass, and London: M.I.T. Press, 1971. Pp. viii + 351. £7.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Le Physicien Ignace Gaston Pardies S.J. (1636–1673). By Ziggelaar S. J. August Copenhagen: Odense University Press, 1971. Pp. 242. Dan. kr. 60.00.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg. Volume VII, 1670–1671; Volume VIII, 1671–1672. Ed. by A. Rupert and Marie Boas Hall. Madison, Milwaukee, and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970 and 1971. Pp. xxviii + 600 and xxvii + 663. $17.50 and $20.00.

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Jean d'Alembert. Science and the Enlightenment. By Thomas L. Hankins. Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1970. Pp. xii + 260. £3.50.

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Affinity and Matter. Elements of Chemical Philosophy 1800–1865. By Trevor H. Levere. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. xvii + 230. £4.50.

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