Volume 14 - Issue 1 - March 1981
Research Article
W. J. M. Rankine and the Rise of Thermodynamics
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Kekulé, Butlerov, and the Historiography of the Theory of Chemical Structure
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‘The Ballad of Robert Crosse and Joseph Glanvill’ and the Background to Plus Ultra
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Essay Reviews
The Life and Work of Sadi Carnot
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Socialism and Scientists' Politics
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Book Reviews
General - Natural Order: Historical Studies of Scientific Culture. Edited by Barry Barnes and Steven Shapin. London and Beverly Hills: Sage, 1979. pp. 225. £10.00/£4.25 (paperback).
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- 05 January 2009, pp. 84-86
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Natural, History - British Natural History Books, 1495–1900: a Handlist. By R. B. Freeman. London: Dawson, 1980. Pp. 437. £20.00.
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Middle Ages - Witelonis Perspectivae Liber Primus. Book 1 of Witelo's Perspectiva. An English Translation with Introduction and Commentary and Latin Edition of the Mathematical Book of Witelo's Perspectiva by Sabetai Unguru. Studia Copernicana, XV. Wrolcaw et alibi: Ossolineum, The Polish Academy of Sciences Press, 1977. Pp. 332; 14 plates. Zl. 150.
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Renaissance - Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century. Edited by Charles Webster. Cambridge Monographs on the History of Medicine, 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv + 394. $39.95/£18.50.
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Eighteenth Century - The Construction of a Thermometer. By James Six. Prefaced by an Account of his Life & Works and the Use of his Thermometer over Two Hundred Years by Jill Austin & Anita McConnell. London: Nimbus Books, 1980. Pp. 28 + xiv + 64 + xxiv. £15.00.
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- 05 January 2009, pp. 90-91
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Eighteenth Century - The Playfair Collection and the Teaching of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, 1713–1858. By R. G. W. Anderson. Edinburgh: The Royal Scottish Museum, 1978. Pp. viii + 175. £4.50.
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Nineteenth Century - Technology and Toil in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Documents edited by Maxine Berg. London: CSE Books; Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1979. Pp. 246. No price stated.
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Nineteenth Century - Museums of Madness: the Social Organization of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century England. By Andrew T. Scull. London: Allen Lane, 1979. Pp. 275. £8.50.
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Twentieth Century - Rutherford and Physics at the Turn of the Century. Edited by Mario Bunge and William R. Shea. New York: Science History Publications; Folkestone: Dawson, 1979. Pp. viii + 184.£12.50.
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Twentieth Century - The Uranium People. By Leona Marshall Libby. New York: Crane Russak; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979. PP. x + 341. $15.95. - Scientists in Power. By Spencer R. Weart. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1979. PP. xiii + 343. $17.50. - Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections. Edited by Alice Kimball Smith and Charles Weiner. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1980. Pp. xi + 376. $20.00.
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Twentieth Century - The Division in British Medicine: A History of the Separation of General Practice from Hospital Care, 1911–1968. By Frank Honigsbaum. London: Kogan Page, 1979, pp. xvi + 445. £6.95.
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Twentieth Century - Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite. By Joseph Warren Dauben. Cambridge, Mass. & London: Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. ix + 404. $27.50/£19.00.
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Short Notices of Books - Weighing coins: English folding gold balances of the 18th and 19th Centuries. By Michael A. Crawforth, London: Cape Horn Trading Co., 1979. Pp x + 194. £15.00.
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Short Notices of Books - Berzelius och den kemiska atomteorin. (With a summary in English: ‘Berzelius and the chemical atomic theory’.) By Anders Lundgren. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell for the University of Uppsala, 1979. Pp. 210. Sw Kr 75.
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Books Received
Books Received
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