Volume 37 - September 2004
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Book Review
RINA KNOEFF, Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738): Calvinist Chemist and Physician. History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands, 3. Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2002. Pp. xvi+237. ISBN 90-6984-342-0. €35.00 (hardback).
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TREVOR H. LEVERE and GERARD L'E. TURNER, Discussing Chemistry and Steam: The Minutes of a Coffee House Philosophical Society 1780–1787. With contributions from Jan Golinski and Larry Stewart. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. viii+284. ISBN 0-19-851530-8. £65.00 (hardback).
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RENÉ SIGRIST (ed.), H.-B. de Saussure (1740–1799): Un Regard sur la terre. Bibliothèque d'histoire des sciences, 4. Geneva and Paris: Georg Editeur, 2001. Pp. x+540. ISBN 2-8257-0740-6. No price given (paperback). ALBERT V. CAROZZI and JOHN K. NEWMAN (eds.), Lectures on Physical Geography given in 1775 by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure at the Academy of Geneva/Cours de géographie physique donné en 1775 par Horace-Bénédict de Saussure à l'Académie de Genève. Geneva: Éditions Zoé, 2003. Pp. xxii+527. ISBN 2-88182-481-1. No price given (paperback). HORACE-BÉNÉDICTDE SAUSSURE, Voyages dans les Alpes: Augmentés des Voyages en Valais, au Mont Cervin et autour du Mont Rose. With a Foreword by Albert V. Carozzi. Geneva: Editions Slatkine, 2002. Pp. xviii+300. ISBN 2-8321-0047-3. No price given (hardback).
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DORON SWADE, The Cogwheel Brain: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer. London: Little, Brown and Company, 2000. Pp. x+342. ISBN 0-316-64847-7. £14.99 (hardback).
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J. CHRISTIAAN BOUDRI, What was Mechanical about Mechanics: The Concept of Force between Metaphysics and Mechanics from Newton to Lagrange. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 224. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. Pp. xvi+276. ISBN 1-4020-0233-5. £75.00, $112.00, €112.00 (hardback).
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ANKETE HEESEN, The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia. Translated by Ann M. Hentschel. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xii+237. ISBN 0-226-32287-4. £13.00, $20.00 (paperback).
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BRIDGET HOWARD, Mr Lean and the Engine Reporters. Redruth: Trevithick Society, 2002. Pp. 99. ISBN 0-904040-56-9. £9.99 (paperback).
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CLAUDINE COHEN, The Fate of the Mammoth: Fossils, Myth, and History. Translated by William Rodarmor with a foreword by Stephen Jay Gould. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xxxiv+297. ISBN 0-226-11292-6. £19.00, $30.00 (hardback).
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DAVID BOYD HAYCOCK, William Stukeley: Science, Religion and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century England. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2002. Pp. xiii+290. ISBN 0-85115-864-1. £40.00, $70.00 (hardback).
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RICHARD L. HILLS, Life and Inventions of Richard Roberts, 1789–1864. Landmark Collector's Library. Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 2002. Pp. 255. ISBN 1-84306-027-2. £29.95 (hardback).
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KEN ALDER, The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey that Transformed the World. London: Little, Brown, 2002. Pp. xiv+466. ISBN 0-316-85989-3. £15.99 (hardback).
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DAVID ELLISTON ALLEN, Naturalists and Society: The Culture of Natural History in Britain, 1700–1900. Variorum Collected Studies Series: CS724. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. Pp. xiv+298. ISBN 0-86078-863-6. £55.00 (hardback).
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ROGER LUCKHURST, The Invention of Telepathy, 1870–1901. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. ix+324. ISBN 0-19-924962-8. £35.00 (hardback).
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JESSICA RISKIN, Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xiii+338. ISBN 0-226-72079-9. £17.70, $25.00 (paperback).
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RANDAL KEYNES, Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution. London: Fourth Estate, 2001. Pp. xiv+331. ISBN 1-84115-060-6. £16.99 (hardback).
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BERIT PEDERSEN (ed.), A Guide to the Archives of the Royal Entomological Society. Ashgate: Aldershot, 2002. Pp. x+198. ISBN 0-7546-0106-4. £42.50 (hardback).
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RICHARD YEO, Science in the Public Sphere: Natural Knowledge in British Culture 1800–1860. Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS726. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. Pp. 324. ISBN 0-86078-865-2. £57.50 (hardback).
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BENJAMIN H. YANDELL, The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers. Natick, MA: A. K. Peters, 2002. Pp. ix+486. ISBN 1-56881-141-1. £28.00, €46.00, $39.00 (hardback).
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SUSAN E. LEDERER, Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2002. Pp. ix+78. ISBN 0-8135-3200-0. $30.00 (paperback).
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MICHEL CHAOULI, The Laboratory of Poetry: Chemistry and Poetics in the Work of Friedrich Schlegel. Parallax. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv+290. ISBN 0-8018-6884-X. £33.50, $45.00 (hardback).
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