Volume 23 - December 1990
Book Reviews
Hans Queisser. The Conquest of the Microchip: Science and Business in the Silicon Age. Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Harvard University Press, 1988. Translated by Diane Crawford-Burkhardt. Pp. x + 200. ISBN 0-674-16296-X, £19.95.
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Oliver Bloch, Bernard Balan & Paulette Carrive (eds). Entre Forme et Histoire: La Formation de la Notion de Développment à l'Âge Classique. Paris: Méridiens Klincksieck, 1988. Pp. 310. ISBN 2-86563-212-1. (Paperback) 140 FF.
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Roger French & Andrew Wear (eds). The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. viii + 328. ISBN 0-521-35510-9. £35.00.
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Heinrich Von Staden. Herophilus: The art of medicine in Alexandria: Edition, Translation and Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xliii + 666. ISBN 0-521-23640. £75.00, $140 (cloth).
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Andrew David, Rüdiger Joppien & Bernard Smith (eds). The Charts and Coastal Views of Captain Cook's Voyages: The Voyage of the Endeavour (1768–1771). London: The Hak-luyt Society, 1988. Pp. Ixiv + 328. ISBN 0-9041-8023-9. £100.
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J. A. Bennett. The Divided Circle. A History of Instruments for Astronomy, Navigation and Surveying. Oxford: Phaidon-Christie's, 1987. Pp. 224. ISBN 0-7148-8038-8. £45.
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Antonio Pérez-Ramos. Francis Bacon's Idea of Science and the Maker's Knowledge Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. xii + 334. ISBN 0-19-824979-9. £37.50.
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Mark Walker. German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939–1949. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xi + 290. ISBN 0-521-36413-2. $29.95.
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Robert Maddin (ed.). The Beginning of the Use of Metals and Alloys. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1988. Pp. xiv + 393. ISBN 0-262-13232-X. £40.50.
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Marcia Sweet Stayer (ed.). Newton's Dream. Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989. Pp. 135. ISBN 0-7735-0689-6. £15.95.
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Richard G. Hewlett & Jack M. Holl. Atoms for Peace and War, 1953–1961: Eisenhower and the Atomic Energy Commission. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1989. Pp. xxix + 696. ISBN 0-520-06018-0. $60.00.
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Peter Alter, The Reluctant Patron: Science and the State in Britain, 1850–1920. Oxford: Berg, 1987. ISBN 0-907582-67-2 £30.
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Bruno Latour. The Pasteurization of France. London: Harvard University Press, 1988. Trans Alan Sheridan and John Law. Pp. 273. ISBN 0-674-65760-8. £23.95.
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Klaus Mainzer. Symmetrian Der Natur. Ein Handbuch zur Natur-und Wissenschafts-philosophie. Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1988. Pp. 739. ISBN 3-11-011507-7. DM 365.
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Heinz-Jürgen Hess & Fritz Nagel (eds). Der Ausbau des Calculus durch Leibniz und die Brüder Bernoulli (Studia Leibnitiana. Sonderheft 17). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1989. Pp. 175. ISBN 3-515-05082-5. DM 44.
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Frank A. J. L. James (ed.). The Development of the Laboratory: Essays on the Place of Experiment in Industrial Civilization. London: Macmillan Press, 1989. Pp. xv + 260. ISBN 0-333-48331-6. £37.50.
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Roland Turner (ed.). Thinkers of the Twentieth Century. 2nd edition. Chicago and London: St James Press, 1987. Pp. vii and 977. ISBN 0-912289-83-X. £52.50. - David, Ian, John & Margaret Millar. Chambers Concise Dictionary of Scientists. Cambridge and Edinburgh: CUP and Chambers, 1989. Pp. 461. ISBN 1-85296-354-9. £14.95.
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Michael Shortland. Medicine and Film: a checklist survey and research resource. Oxford: Research Publications on the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, No. IX, 1989. Pp. viii + 54. ISSN 0143 7984. £6.00.
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Roger Cooter. Phrenology in the British Isles: An Annotated, Historical Bibliography and Index. Metuchen, N.J. and London: The Scarecrow Press Inc., 1989. Pp. xviii + 431. ISBN 0-8108-2165-6. £47.25.
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Daniel Pick. Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, c.1848–1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. viii + 275. ISBN 0-521-36021-8. £27.50, $39.50.
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