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Volume 25 - Issue 3 - September 1992

Book Reviews

David H. Whiffen. The Royal Society of Chemistry: The First 150 Years. London: Royal Society of Chemistry, 1991. Pp. viii + 270. ISBN 0-85186-2942. £14.95.

James Reardon-Anderson. The Study of Change: Chemistry in China. 1840–1949. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xix + 444. ISBN 0-521-39150-4. £45.00, $59.50.

Milton Wainwright. Miracle Cure: The Story of Penicillin and the Golden Age of Antibiotics. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp. xi + 196. ISBN 0-631-16492-8. £16.95.

Robin Herman. Fusion: The Search For Endless Energy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xi + 267. ISBN 0-521-38373-0. £14.95.

Bill Luckin. Questions of Power: Electricity and Environment in Inter-War Britain. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1990. Pp. viii + 200. ISBN 0-7190-3302-0. £29.95.

David E. Nye. Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. xv + 479. ISBN 0-262-14048-9. £26.95.

Shigeru Nakayama. Science, Technology and Society in Postwar Japan. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1991. Pp. xvi + 259. ISBN 0-7103-0428-5. £45.00.

Masao Watanabe. The Japanese and Western Science, translated by Otto Theodor Benfey. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 141. ISBN 0-8211-8252-3. No price given.

Satpal Sangwan. Science, Technology and Colonisation: An Indian Experience, 1757–1857. Delhi: Anamika Parakashan, 1991. Pp. xviii + 196. ISBN 81-85150. No price given.

Gerard L'Estrange Turner. Scientific Instruments and Experimental Philosophy, 1550–1850. Aldershot, Variorum Press Collected Studies Series. CS 331, 1990. Pp. xii + 329. ISBN 86078-280-8. £49.50.

Karl Hufbauer. Exploring The Sun: Solar Science since Galileo. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Pp. xv + 370. ISBN 0-8018-4098-8. £28.50, $46.00.

Valerie Pinsky and Alison Wylie (eds.). Critical Traditions in Contemporary Archaeology: Essays in the Philosophy, History and Socio-Politics of Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. ix + 160. ISBN 0-521-32109-3. £27.50, $54.50.

Liliane Bodson and Roland Libois (eds.). Contributions à l'histoire des connaissances zoologiques. Colloques d'histoire des connaissances zoologiques, 2. Liège: Université de Liège, 1991. Pp. 123. 450FB.

William Aspray. John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1991. Pp. xvii + 376. ISBN 0-262-01121-2. £31.50.

Marcello Pera and William R. Shea (eds). Persuading Science: The Art of Scientific Rhetoric. Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 1991. Pp. xi + 212. ISBN 0-88135-071-0. $39.95.

Peter Dear (ed.). The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument: Historical Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. ISBN 0-8122-8185-3. No price given.

Marina Benjamin (ed.). Science and Sensibility: Gender and Scientific Enquiry, 1780–1945. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991. Pp. x + 295. ISBN 0-631-16649-1. £35.00.

Elizabeth Garber (ed.). Beyond History of Science: Essays in Honor of Robert E. Schofield. Bethlehem: Lehig University Press, and London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1990. Pp. 325. ISBN 0-934223-11-4.

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