Volume 29 - March 1996
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Book Reviews
Tamsyn Barton, Ancient Astrology. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. xxv + 245. ISBN 0-415-11029-7. £12.99.
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Roger French, Ancient Natural History: Histories of Nature. Sciences in Antiquity. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. xxii + 357. ISBN 0-415-11545. £15.99.
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Catherine Wilson, The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope. Studies in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. x + 280. ISBN 0-691-03418-4. £32.00, $39.50.
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Hobbes' correspondence
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Revue d'histoire des sciences, Volume 48, Parts 1 and 2: Débats et chantiers actuels autour de Lavoisier et la révolution chimique. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1995. Pp. 230. ISBN 2-13-046972-8. ISSN 0151-4105. Subscription: 510 F per annum outside France.
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Sachiko Kusukawa, The Transformation of Natural Philosophy: The Case of Philip Melanchthon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-521-47347-0. £35.00.
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Bringing the world into the laboratory, or the (ir)resistible rise of Drosophila melanogaster
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Pierre Duhem, The Origins of Statics: The Sources of Physical Theory, translated from the French by Grant F. Leneaux, Victor N. Vagliente and Guy H. Wagener, with a Foreword by Stanley L. Jaki. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 123. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. Pp. xxxvi + 593. ISBN 0-7923-0898-0. £99.00.
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Edward Grant, Planets, Stars, and Orbs: The Medieval Cosmos, 1200–1687. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xxiii + 816. ISBN 0-521-43344-4. £45.00, $69.95.
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History of science on the World Wide Web†
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Galileo Galilei, Diálogo sobre los dos máximos sistemas del mundo ptolemaico y copernicano, edited and translated by Antonio Beltrán Marí. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1994. Pp. lxxxiii + 417. ISBN 84-206-9412-6. No price given.
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R. Steven Turner, In the Eye's Mind: Vision and the Helmholtz-Hering Controversy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv + 338. ISBN 0-691-03397-8. £37.50, $49.50.
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Pamela H. Smith, The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 308. ISBN 0-691-05691-9. £30.00, $45.00. - Raphael Patai, The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Sourcebook. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. xv + 617. ISBN 0-691-03290-4. £29.95, $35.00.
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Mitchell G. Ash, Gestalt Psychology in German Culture, 1890–1967: Holism and the Quest for Objectivity. Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xii + 513. ISBN 0-521-47540-6. £35.00, $54.90.
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Ivo Schneider, Johannes Faulhaber, 1580–1635: Rechenmeister in einer Welt des Umbruchs. Vita Mathematica, 7. Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhäuser, 1993. Pp. xiv + 271. ISBN 3-7643-2919-X. SFr. 88.00, DM 98.00.
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Jens Høyrup, In Measure, Number, and Weight: Studies in Mathematics and Culture. SUNY Series in Science, Technology and Society. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. Pp. xviii + 430. ISBN 0-7914-1821-9. $16.95.
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Michael Hunter (ed.), Robert Boyle: By Himself and His Friends. London: Pickering, 1994. Pp. cvii + 188. ISBN 1-85196-085-6. £49.95.
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Otto Von Guericke, The New (So-Called) Magdeburg Experiments of Otto von Guericke, translated by Margaret Glover Foley Ames. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994. Pp. xxiv + 394, illus. ISBN 0-7923-2399-8. £112.00, $170.00, Dfl. 280.00.
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Laura Ackerman Smoller, History, Prophecy, and the Stars: The Christian Astrology of Pierre d'Ailly, 1350–1420. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 233. ISBN 0-691-08788-1. £26.50, $35.00.
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William Sheehan, The Immortal Fire Within. The Life and Work of Edward Emerson Barnard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv + 429, illus. ISBN 0-521-44489-6. £40.00, $49.95. - Gale E. Christianson, Edwin Hubble. Mariner of the Nebulae. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. Pp. x + 420, illus. ISBN 0-374-14660-8. $27.50.
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