Volume 8 - November 1975
Book Reviews
General - Science and Belief: from Copernicus to Darwin. Open University course AMST 283. 6 volumes. By C. A. Russell, D. C. Goodman, and J. H. Brooke. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1974. Pp. 123; 95; 110; 87; 126; 69. Total price £11.00.
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General - Science and the Arts. A Study in Relationships from 1600 to 1900. By Jacob Opper. Rutherford, Madison, and Teaneck: Farleigh Dickinson University Press. Pp. 226. $10.50.
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Medicine - An Illustrated History of Brain Function. By Edwin Clarke and Kenneth Dewhurst. Oxford, Sandford Publications, 1972. Pp. 154. £5.50.
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Mathematics - De l'infini mathématique (Paris, 1896.) By Louis Couturat. Reprint. Paris: Albert Blanchard, 1973. Pp. xxiv + 668. 56 francs.
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Medicine - The Medical Society of London 1773–1973. Ed. by Thomas Hunt. London: Heinemann, 1972. Pp. xviii + 141. £2.50.
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Mathematics - A Source Book in Classical Analysis. Ed. by G. Birkhoff, with the assistance of U. Merzbach. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1973. Pp. xii + 470. £12.50.
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Geology - Short Classification and Description of the Various Rocks (1786). By Abraham Gottlob Werner. Facsimile, with translation and introduction by Alexander M. Ospovat. New York: Hafner, 1971. £6.95. - The Strata of Derbyshire (1811). By White Watson. Facsimile, with introduction by Trevor D. Ford. Buxton: Moorland Reprints, 1973. £3.60.
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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.
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Genetics - History of Genetics from the Earliest Times to the Rediscovery of Mendel's Laws. By Hans Stubbe. Second edition. Trans, by T. R. W. Waters. Cambridge, Mass., and London: M.I.T. Press, 1972. Pp. x + 356. $14.95.
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China - Chinese Mathematics in the Thirteenth Century. The Shu-shu Chiuchang of Ch'in Chiu-shao. By Ulrich Libbrecht. M.I.T. East Asian Science Series, Volume 1. Cambridge, Mass., and London: M.I.T. Press, 1973. Pp. xxxi+555. $25.00.
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Medicine - Therapeutics from the Primitives to the 20th Century. With an Appendix: History of Dietetics. By Erwin H. Ackerknecht. New York: Hafner Press, and London: Collier Macmillan, 1973. Pp. x + 194. £6.25.
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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.
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China - Science and Civilisation in China. Volume V, Part 2. By Joseph Needham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974. Pp. 510. £12.00.
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India - Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century. By Shri Dharampal. Delhi: Impex India, 1971. Pp. lxxii + 281. Rs 65.
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Technology - Roman and Islamic Water-Lifting Wheels. By Thorkild Schiøler. Odense: Odense University Press, 1973. Pp. 201. No price stated.
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Arabic Science - A Testament of Alchemy. Being the Revelations of Morienus to Khālid ibn Yazīd. Ed. and trans, by Lee Stavenhagen. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, for the Brandeis University Press, 1974. Pp. 76. No price stated.
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Technology - Understanding Technology. By Charles Susskind. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1973. Pp. x + 164. £3.30
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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.
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Seventeenth Century - The New Science of Motion. A Study of Galileo's ‘De motu locali’. By Winifred L. Wisan. Published in Archive for history of exact sciences, xiii, number 2/3. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer Verlag, 1974. Pp. 204. No. price stated.
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Seventeenth Century - Galileo Galilei. Two New Sciences, including Centres of Gravity and Force of Percussion. Trans, by Stillman Drake. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1974. Pp. xxxix+323. No price stated.
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