Volume 34 - March 2001
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LORRAINE DASTON and KATHARINE PARK, Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750. New York: Zone Books, 1998. Pp. 511. ISBN 0-942299-90-6. £24.95, $36.50.
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ALBERT E. MOYER, Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. Pp. xii + 348. ISBN 1-56098-776-6. £34.95, $45.00.
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SVEN WIDMALM (ed.), Vetenskapsbärarna – Naturvetenskapen i det svenska samhället, 1880–1950. Hedemora: Gidlunds förlag, 1999. Pp. 368. ISBN 91-7844300-8. No price given. GUSTAV HOLMBERG, Reaching for the Stars: Studies in the History of Swedish Stellar and Nebular Astronomy, 1860–1940. Lund Studies in the History of Science and Ideas, 13. Lund: Ugglan, 1999. Pp. 243. ISBN 91-628-3837-7. £10.00 (paperback).
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Michael Friedman, A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger. Chicago: Open Court Press, 2000. Pp. xv+175. ISBN 0-8126-9425-2. $24·95 (paperback).
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JAMES E. MCLELLAN III and HAROLD DORN, Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Pp. viii+404. ISBN 0-8018-5868-2, £48 (hardback); 0-8018-5869-0, £13 (paperback).
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Marc Rothenberg, Paul H. Theerman, Kathleen W. Dorman, John C. Rumm and Deborah Y. Jeffries (eds.), The Papers of Joseph Henry. Volume 7. The Smithsonian Years, January 1847–December 1849. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. Pp. xlviii+707. ISBN 1-56098-533-X. No price given (hardback). Marc Rothenberg, Kathleen W. Dorman, Deborah Y. Jeffries and Frank R. Millikan (eds.), The Papers of Joseph Henry. Volume 8. The Smithsonian Years, January 1850–December 1853. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. Pp. xlvii+548. ISBN 1-56098-891-6. No price given (hardback).
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ROBERT FOX (ed.), Thomas Harriot: An Elizabethan Man of Science. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. xii+317. ISBN 0-7546-0078-5. £47.50 (hardback).
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MARINA FRASCA-SPADA and NICK JARDINE (eds.), Books and the Sciences in History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv+438. ISBN 0-521-65939-6. £18.95, $29.95.
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ZIAUDDIN SARDAR, Thomas Kuhn and the Science Wars. Postmodern Encounters. Cambridge: Icon Books, 2000. Pp. 76. ISBN 1-84046-136-5. £2.99
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IAN R. BARTKY, Selling the True Time: Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping in America. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi+310. ISBN 0-8047-3874-2. £27.50, $45.00.
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CHRISTOPH MEINEL (ed.), Instrument–Experiment: historische Studien. Berlin: GNT-Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 2000. Pp. 423. ISBN 3-928186-51-5. £34.00.
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William R. Shea (ed.), Science and the Visual Image in the Enlightenment. European Studies in Science History and the Arts, IV. Canton: Science History Publications, 2000. Pp. viii+232. ISBN 0-88135-285-3. $39·95 (hardback).
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EMMA GEE, Ovid, Aratus and Augustus: Astronomy in Ovid'sFasti. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xi+226. ISBN 0-521-65187-5. $54.95.
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COLIN A. RUSSELL (ed.), Chemistry, Society and Environment: A New History of the British Chemical Industry. Cambridge: The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2000. Pp. xvi+360. ISBN 0-85404-599-6. £59.50 (hardback).
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JAMES C. SCOTT, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv+445. ISBN 0-300-07016-0. £27.50, $37.50 (hardback); 0-300-07815-3. £11.95, $16.95 (paperback).
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Jonathan I. Israel, Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650–1750. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xix+810. ISBN 0-19-820608-9. £30·00 (hardback).
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GERARD L'E. TURNER, Elizabethan Instrument Makers: The Origins of the London Trade in Precision Instrument Making. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv+305. ISBN 0-19-856566-6. £79.50 (hardback).
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SVANTE LINDQVIST (ed.) with MARIKA HEDIN and ULF LARSSON (associate eds.), Museums of Modern Science. Nobel Symposium, 112. Canton: Science History Publications, 2000. Pp. xii + 200. ISBN 0–88135–299–3. $39.95.
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Vladimir Janković, Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of the Weather, 1650–1820. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv+272. ISBN 0-7190-5989-5. £16·99 (paperback).
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JACK MORRELL, Science at Oxford, 1914–1939: Transforming an Arts University. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. xx+473. ISBN 0-19-820657-7. £55.00.
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