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Volume 8 - Issue 1 - March 1975

Presidential Address

Josiah Wedgwood (1730–95) — Scientist

Science and Religion in the Writings of Dr William Fulke

Hooke and Wren and the System of the World: Some Points Towards An Historical Account

If Darwin wasn't the Beagle's Naturalist, why was he on Board?

Book Reviews

Sociology of Science - The Sociology of Science. Theoretical and Empirical Investigations. By Robert K. Merton. Ed. by Norman W. Storer. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1973. Pp. xxxi + 605. £6.25.

Geology - The Meaning of Fossils. Episodes in the History of Palaeontology. By Martin J. S. Rudwick. London: Macdonald, and New York: American Elsevier, 1972. Pp. iv + 287. £6.

Medicine - Galenism: Rise and Decline of a Medical Philosophy. By Owsei Temkin. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1973. Pp. xvii + 240. No price stated.

Medicine - An Illustrated History of Brain Function. By Edwin Clarke and Kenneth Dewhurst. Oxford, Sandford Publications, 1972. Pp. 154. £5.50.

Medicine - The Medical Society of London 1773–1973. Ed. by Thomas Hunt. London: Heinemann, 1972. Pp. xviii + 141. £2.50.

Technology - The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices. By Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazzari. Trans, and ed. by Donald R. Hill. Dordrecht, Holland and Boston, Mass.: D. Reidel, 1974. Pp. xxvi + 286. No price stated.

Technology - Windmühlen, der Stand der Forschung über das Vorkommen und den Ursprung. By Jannis C. Notebaart. The Hague and Paris: Mouton Verlag, 1972. Pp. 405. Hfl. 69.

India - Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century. By Shri Dharampal. Delhi: Impex India, 1971. Pp. lxxii + 281. Rs 65.

Seventeenth Century - Der Musiktheoretiker Johannes Kepler. By Michael Dickreiter. Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft, Band 5. Berne and Munich: Francke Verlag, 1973. Pp. 252. 48 Swiss francs.

Seventeenth Century - Critique du ‘De Mundo’ de Thomas White. By Thomas Hobbes. Ed. by Jean Jacquot and Harold Whitmore Jones. Paris: J. Vrin, 1973. Pp. 548. No price stated.

Seventeenth Century - The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat (1601–1665). By Michael Sean Mahoney. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1973. Pp. xviii + 419. £9.30.

Seventeenth Century - The Unpublished First Version of Isaac Newton's Cambridge Lectures on Optics 1670–1672. A facsimile of the autograph. Introduction by D. T. Whiteside. Cambridge: The University Library, 1973. Pp. x + 129. £10.

Seventeenth Century - The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg. Volume IX, 1672–1673. Ed. by A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973. Pp. xxx+706. $20.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Researches into the Physical History of Man. By James Gowles Prichard. Ed. by George W. StockingJr., Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1973. Pp. cxliv + 568. £6.55.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Science for the People. The Origins of the School Science Curriculum in England. By David Layton. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1973. Pp. 226. £3.55.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - The Discovery of the Conservation of Energy. By Yehuda Elkana. London: Hutchinson, 1974. Pp. x + 213. £4.

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Volume 8 - Issue 1 - March 1975

Presidential Address

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