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Volume 23 - Issue 3 - September 1990

Book Reviews

Spencer R. Weart. Nuclear Fear: A History of Images. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1988. Pp. xx + 535. ISBN 0-674-62835-7. £23.50.

G. A. J. Rogers & Alan Ryan (eds). Perspectives on Thomas Hobbes. Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1988. Pp. x + 209. IBSN 0-19-824998-5. £22.50.

Galileo Galileo. Sidereus Nuncius or the Sidereal Messenger, translated with introduction, conclusion, and notes by Albert Van Helden. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Pp. xii + 127. ISBN 0-226-27903-0. £23.95, $34.50 (cloth). £6.25, $9.25 (paper).

Roy Porter. Health for Sale: Quackery in England 1660–1850. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1989. Pp. xii + 280. ISBN 0-7190-1903-6. £19.95.

Nikolaos A. Peppas (ed.). One Hundred Years of Chemical Engineering. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. Pp. vii + 414. ISBN 0-7923-0145-5. £59.00, $99.00

Cynthia Eagle Russett. Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1989. Pp. 245. ISBN 0-674-80290-X. £15.95, $25.00.

Lynn L. Merrill. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xi + 288. ISBN 0-19-505203X. £24.00.

Francisco Sanches. That Nothing is Known (Quod Nihil Scitur), with Introduction, notes and bibliography by Elaine Limbrick, Latin text, annotations, and translation by Douglas F. S. Thomson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. x + 310. ISBN 0-521-35077-8. £35.00, $49.50.

Nicholas H. Clulee. John Dee's Natural Philosophy: Between Science and Religion. London and New York: Routledge, 1988. Pp. xiv + 347. ISBN 0-415-00625-2. £40.00. ISBN 0-415-03122-2. £14.95.

P. J. & R. V. Wallis (with J. G. L. Burnby & T. D. Whittet). Eighteenth Century Medics (subscriptions, licences, apprenticeships). Newcastle-upon-Tyne: PHIBB, second edition, 1988. Pp. xx + 690. ISBN 1-871768-00-4. £80.00.

Daniel M. Fox & Christopher Lawrence. Photographing Medicine: Images and Power in Britain and America since 1840. New York, Westport, London: Greenwood Press, 1988. Pp. 357. ISBN 0-313-23719-0. £36.50.

Jed Z. Buchwald. The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light: Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Pp. xxiv + 474. ISBN 0-226-07884-1 (cloth) and 0-226-07886-8 (paper). £59.95, $86.25 (cloth) £19.95, $28.75 (paper).

David Furley. Cosmic Problems: Essays on Greek and Roman Philosophy of Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv + 258. ISBN 0-521-33330-X.

Ian Wylie. Young Coleridge and the Philosophers of Nature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. x + 176. ISBN 0-19-812983-1. £22.50.

Raymond G. Stokes. Divide and Prosper: The Heirs of I. G. Farben under Allied Authority. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Pp. xiv + 290. ISBN 0-520-06248-5. £24.55.

Anne Harrington. Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. xiii + 336. ISBN 0-691-08465-3. £24.70.

Wilbur R. Knorr. The Ancient Tradition of Geometric Problems. Boston, Basel & Stuttgart: Birkhäuser, 1986. Pp. ix + 381 + 30 (indexes). £57.75. ISBN (US) 0-8176-3148-8/Europe 3-7643-3148-8. $69.00

Andrew Fenton Cooper. British Agricultural Policy, 1912–1936. A Study in Conservative Politics. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1989. Pp. vii + 240. ISBN 0-7190-2886-8. £29.95.

Derek Howse. Nevil Maskelyne, The Seaman's Astronomer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv + 280. ISBN 0-521-36261-X. £40.00, $59.50.

Thomas G. Manning. U.S. Coast Survey vs. Naval Hydrographic Office. A 19th-century Rivalry in Science and Politics. Tuscaloosa and London: The University of Alabama Press, 1988. Pp. 202. ISBN 0-8173-0390-1. $21.95.

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