Volume 29 - March 1996
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Book reviews
Jean Le Rond D'alembert, Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot, translated by Richard N. Schwab. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. 224. ISBN 0-226-13476-8. £8.75.
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Albert Krayer, Mathematik im Studienplan der Jesuiten: Die Vorlesung von Otto Cattenius an der Universität Mainz (1610/11). Beiträge zur Geschichte der Universität Mainz, 15. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991. Pp. ix + 434. ISBN 3-515-05874. DM 98.00.
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Adrian Wilson, The Making of Man-Midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660–1770. London: UCL Press, 1995 Pp xii + 240. ISBN 1-85728-292-2. £40.00.
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R. H. Dalitz (ed.), The Collected Works of P. A. M. Dirac, 1924–48. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xxiv + 1310. ISBN 0-521-36231-8. £175.00, $250.00.
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J. W. Dauben, Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis, a Personal and Mathematical Odyssey. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. xix + 559. ISBN 0-691-03745-0. £40.00, $49.50.
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Maija Kallinen, Change and Stability: Natural Philosophy at the Academy of Turku, 1640–1713. Helsinki: Finnish Historical Society, 1995. Pp. 439. ISBN 951-710-001-6. No price given.
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Dorinda Outram, The Enlightenment: New Approaches to European History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xv + 141. ISBN 0-521-41522-5, £27.95, $44.95 (hardback); 0-521-42534-4, £9.95, $14.95 (paperback).
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Anne Goldgar, Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680–1750. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 1995. Pp. xv + 395. ISBN 0-300-05359-2. £25.
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M. Bauer (ed.), Resistance to New Technology: Nuclear Power, Information Technology and Biotechnology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xii + 422. ISBN 0-521-45518-9. £50.00, $74.95.
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Barbara Maria Stafford, Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994. Pp. xxix + 350. ISBN 0-262-19342-6. £24.95.
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Allison P. Coudert, Leibniz and the Kabbalah. International Archives of the History of Ideas. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1995. Pp. xvii + 218. ISBN 0-7923-3114-1. £68.00, $109.00, Dfl. 165.00.
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Emmanuel Grison, Michelle Goupil and Patrice Bret (eds.), A Scientific Correspondence during the Chemical Revolution: Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau and Richard Kirwan, 1782–1802. Berkeley Papers in History of Science, 17. Berkeley: Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California at Berkeley, 1995. Pp. vi + 257. ISBN 0-918102-21-9. $10.00.
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Books Received
Books Received
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Casper Hakfoort, Optics in the Age of Euler: Conceptions of the Nature of Light, 1700–1795. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, Pp. vii + 243. ISBN 0-521-40471-1. £35.00, $64.95.
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Richard H. Grove, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600–1860. Studies in Environmental History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv + 540. ISBN 0-521-40385-5. £45.00, $64.95.
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Christine Blondel and Matthias Dörries (eds.), Restaging Coulomb: Usages, controverses et réplications autour de la balance de torsion. Biblioteca di Nuncius, Studi e Testi, 15. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1994. Pp. 167. ISBN 88-222-7. 37,000 lire.
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Books Reviewed
Books Reviewed
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Jonathan Smith, Fact and Feeling: Baconian Science and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. Pp. 277. ISBN 0-299-14350-3, £46.95 (hardback); 0-299-14354-6, £20.50 (paperback).
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Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Ferdinando Abbri (eds.), Lavoisier in European Context: Negotiating a New Language for Chemistry. Nantucket: Science History Publications, 1995. Pp. vii + 303. ISBN 0-88135-189-X. $45.95.
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Kenneth L. Caneva, Robert Mayer and the Conservation of Energy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xxiii + 439. ISBN 0-691-08758-X. £33.00, $49.50.
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