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Volume 17 - Issue 3 - November 1984

Book Reviews

History of Technology - Woodruff Turner SullivanIII, (ed.), Classics in radio astronomy. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1982. Pp. xxiv + 348. ISBN 90-277-1356-1. Dfl. 140.00, $59.50.

History of Technology - Trevor I. Williams, A short history of twentieth-century technology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. xix + 411. ISBN 0-19-858159-9. £12.50.

History of Technology - K. H. Vignoles, Charles Blacker Vignoles: romantic engineer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xii-f 187. ISBN 0-521-23930-3. £18.00.

History of Technology - John Hubble Weiss, The making of technological man: the social origins of French engineering education. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1982. Pp. xviii + 377. ISBN 0-262-23112-3. £21.

History of Technology - Paul A. Hanle, Bringing aerodynamics to America. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1982. Pp. xiv + 184. ISBN 0-262-08114-8. £14.00.

History of Technology - Brian Wynne, Rationality and ritual: the Windscale Inquiry and nuclear decisions in Britain. Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks.: The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS Monographs 3), 1982. Pp. x + 222. ISBN 0-906450-02-0. £6.50, $13.50.

Science Studies - Jonathan Barnes, Jacques Brunschwig, Myles Burnyeat, Malcolm Schofield (eds), Science and Speculation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xxiv + 351. ISBN 0-521-24689-X. £25.00.

Science Studies - P. T. Landsberg (ed.). The Enigma of Time. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1982. pp. xii + 248. ISBN 0-85274-545-1. £13.95, $28.00.

Science Studies - Alex Keller, The Infancy of Atomic Physics. Hercules in his Cradle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. 230. £12.50. ISBN 0-19-853904-5.

Science Studies - Magda Whitrow (ed), Isis cumulative bibliography 1913–65, volumes 4 and 5: civilizations and periods. London: Mansell, 1982. Volume 4: pp. xviii + 457, ISBN 0-7201-1642-2. Volume 5: pp. xi + 593, ISBN 0-7201-1643-0. £100 the set.

Science Studies - Nan L. Hahn, Medieval Mensuration. Quadrane Vetus and Geometrie Due Sunt Partes Principales … (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 72, Part 8.) Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1982. Pp. lxxxv + 204.

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