Volume 22 - July 1989
Book Reviews
Edwin Clarke & L.S. Jacyna. Nineteenth-Century Origins of Neuroscientific Concepts. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. viii + 593. ISBN 0-520-05694-9. No price given.
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Pietro Corsi. The age of Lamarck: evolutionary theories in France, 1790–1830. Translated by Jonathan Mandelbaum. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Pp. xiii + 360. ISBN 0-520-05830-5. $42.00.
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Daniel Roche. Les Republicains des Lettres. Gens de Culture et Lumières au XVIII Siècle. Paris: Fayard, 1988. Pp. 393. ISBN 2-213-02122-8. 160 FF (paper).
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David N. Livingstone. Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science. Tuscaloosa, Al.: The University of Alabama Press, 1987. Pp. xiv + 395. ISBN 0-8173-0305-7. $32.95.
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Emil Heuser & Regine Zott (eds). Justus von Liebig und August Wilhelm Hofmann in ihren Briefen. Nachträge 1845–1869. - Emil Heuser (ed.). Justus von Liebig und Emil Erlenmeyer in ihren Briefen von 1861–1872. Mannheim: Bionomica Verlag, 1988. Pp. 54 + 32 bound in one vol. ISBN 3-88208-012-4. DM 20.00.
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Adam De Wodeham. Tractatus de Indivisibilibus: A Critical Edition. Introduction, Translation, and Textual Notes by Rega Wood. Synthese Historical Library, Volume 31. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988. Pp. vii + 333. ISBN 90-277-2424-5. £74.00.
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Peter Dear. Mersenne and the Learning of the Schools. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii + 264. ISBN 0-8014-1875-5. $28.50.
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José Mariá López Piṅero. El arte de navegar en la España del Renacimiento. Barcelona: Editorial Labor, 2nd edn, 1986. Pp. 285. ISBN 84-335-0029-5. No price given.
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G.W. Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics and Related Writings, (ed. and tr. by R.N.D. Martin & Stuart Brown). Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp. xi + 170. ISBN 0-7190-2338-6. £25.00.
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Guy Picolet (ed.). Jean Picard et les Débuts de l'Astronomie de Précision au XVIIe Siècle. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1987. Pp. 382. ISBN 2-222-04104-X. FF 150.
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Michael Chapman. Constructive evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-521-33163-3, £12.95 (paperback) 0-521-36712-3, £35 (hardback).
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Joseph C. Pitt & Marcello Pera (eds). Rational Changes in Science: Essays on Scientific Reasoning. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1987. Pp. xiii + 224. ISBN 9-02772-417-2. £49.50; $64.00.
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Pierre Thuillier. D'Archimède à Einstein: les Faces Cachées de l'Invention Scientifique. Paris: Fayard, 1988. Pp. xxvii + 395. FF 160.00. - Pierre Thuillier. Les Passions du Savoir: Essais sur les Dimensions Culturelles de la Science. Paris: Fayard, 1988. Pp. xii + 267. FF 145.00.
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Therésè Charmasson, Anne-Marie Lelorrain, & Yannick Ripa. L'enseignement technique de la Révolution à nous jours Tome 1: 1789–1926. Paris: Institut National de la Recherche Pédagogique and Economica, 1987. Pp. 783. ISBN 2-7342-0146-1/2-7178-1323-3. 350FF.
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Science in Context, Volume 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Two issues per volume. ISSN 0269-8897. Subscription for volume 1 £31.00; $65.00 for institutions, £19.00; $37.00 for individuals.
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Wolfcang-Hagen Hein. Alexander von Humboldt und die Pharmazie. Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgessellschaft, 1988. Pp. 130. ISBN 3-8047-0984-2. DM 29 (paper).
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Rachel Laudan. From Mineralogy to Geology: the Foundations of a Science, 1650–1830. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Pp. xii + 278. ISBN 0-226-46950-6. £21.95; $32.95 in Europe.
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John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, Michael Shortland, & Robin Wilson (eds). Let Newton Be!. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-19-853924-X. £17.50.
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Margot Walker. Sir James Edward Smith 1759–1828. London: Linnean Society, 1988. Pp. viii + 60. ISBN 0-9506207-1-8. £4.00 incl p. & p.; £3.00 if collected from the Linnean Society. - A. T. Gage & W. T. Stearn. A Bicentenary History of the Linnean Society of London. London: Academic Press, 1988. ISBN 0-12-273150-6. No price given. - Gabriele Gramiccia. The Life of Charles Ledger (1818–1905): Alpacas and Quinine. London: Macmillan, 1988. ISBN 0-333-45710-2. £30.00.
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Harry Redner. The Ends of Science: An Essay in Scientific Authority. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1987. Pp. xiv + 344. ISBN 3-0452-0; $39.50.
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