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Volume 8 - November 1975

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Middle Ages - Myth and Science in the Twelfth Century. A Study of Bernard Silvester. By Brian Stock. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1972. Pp. xvi + 331. £6.25

Seventeenth Century - Critique du ‘De Mundo’ de Thomas White. By Thomas Hobbes. Ed. by Jean Jacquot and Harold Whitmore Jones. Paris: J. Vrin, 1973. Pp. 548. No price stated.

Seventeenth Century - Leibniz in Paris, 1672–1676. His growth to mathematical maturity. By Joseph E. Hofmann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974. Pp. xi+372. £8.50.

Seventeenth Century - The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat (1601–1665). By Michael Sean Mahoney. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1973. Pp. xviii + 419. £9.30.

Middle Ages - Tractatus de Perspectiva. By John Pecham. Ed. with introduction and notes by David C. Lindberg. St Bonaventure, N.Y.: The Franciscan Institute, 1972. Pp. 110. No price stated.

Seventeenth Century - The Unpublished First Version of Isaac Newton's Cambridge Lectures on Optics 1670–1672. A facsimile of the autograph. Introduction by D. T. Whiteside. Cambridge: The University Library, 1973. Pp. x + 129. £10.

Middle Ages - The Book of Secrets of Albertus Magnus. Ed. by Michael R. Best and Frank H. Brightman. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. xlviii + 128. £3.00.

Seventeenth Century - The Baglivi Correspondence from the Library of Sir William Osler. Ed. by Dorothy M. Schullian. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1974. Pp. xxii + 531. £21.40.

Seventeenth Century - The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg. Volume IX, 1672–1673. Ed. by A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973. Pp. xxx+706. $20.

Renaissance - Thomas Harriot, Renaissance Scientist. Ed. by J. W. Shirley. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1974. Pp. x + 181. £6.50.

Nineteenth Century - Between Science and Religion. The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian England. By Frank Miller Turner. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1974. Pp. x+273.

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Physics at 17th and 18th-Century Leiden. By Edward G. Ruestow. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973. Pp. 174. Hfl. 24.50

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Researches into the Physical History of Man. By James Gowles Prichard. Ed. by George W. StockingJr., Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1973. Pp. cxliv + 568. £6.55.

Books Received

Books Received

A List of Theses

A List of Ph.D. Theses in the History of Science and Related Areas in British Universities, 1945–74.

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Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Linnaeus's Öland and Gotland Journey, 1741. By Carl Linnaeus. Trans. by Marie Asberg and William T. Stearn. London: Linnean Society of London, 1974. Pp. viii + 220. £6.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Science for the People. The Origins of the School Science Curriculum in England. By David Layton. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1973. Pp. 226. £3.55.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - The Universities and British Industry 1850–1970. By Michael Sanderson. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972. Pp. x + 436. £6.50.

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

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Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - The Discovery of the Conservation of Energy. By Yehuda Elkana. London: Hutchinson, 1974. Pp. x + 213. £4.

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Volume 8 - November 1975

Book Reviews

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Notes on Contributors

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