Volume 40 - June 2007
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Book Review
Allan Franklin, No Easy Answers: Science and the Pursuit of Knowledge. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. Pp. xii+258. $29.95 (hardback). - Michela Massimi, Pauli's Exclusion Principle: The Origin and Validation of a Scientific Principle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv+211. $80.00 (hardback).
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GERARD L'E. TURNER, Renaissance Astrolabes and their Makers. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xii+294. ISBN 0-86078-903-9. £67.50, $124.95 (hardback). KOENRAAD VAN CLEEMPOEL, Astrolabes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Oxford and Greenwich: Oxford University Press and the National Maritime Museum, 2005. Pp. ix+339. ISBN 0-19-853069-2. £99.50 (hardback).
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PETER HANNS REILL, Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. x+388. ISBN: 0-520-24135-5. $55.00, £35.95 (hardback).
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John L. Heilbron (ed.), The Oxford Guide to the History of Physics and Astronomy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxi+358. ISBN 0-19-517198-5. $35.00 (hardback).
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NICOLAAS A. RUPKE, Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005. Pp. 320. ISBN 3-631-53932-0. £22.80 (hardback).
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Janet and Mark Robinson (eds.), The Stargazer of Hardwicke: The Life and Work of Thomas William Webb. Leominster: Gracewing, 2006. Pp. xix+259. ISBN 0-85244-666-7. £14.99 (hardback).
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BRUCE T. MORAN, Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 210. ISBN 0-674-01495-2. £16.95 (hardback). ALLEN G. DEBUS (ed.), Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry: Papers fromAmbix. Huddersfield: Jeremy Mills (for the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry), 2004. Pp. xv+543. ISBN 0-9546484-1-2. £33.00, $60.00 (paperback).
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Arthur I. Miller, Empire of the Stars: Obsession, Friendship, and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Pp xx+364. ISBN 0-618-34151-X. $26.00 (hardback).
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Libby Schweber, Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830–1885. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. ix+277. ISBN 0-8223-3814-9. £14.99 (paperback).
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LAUREN KASSELL, Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London: Simon Forman: Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. Pp. xviii+281. ISBN 0-19-9279055. £50.00 (hardback).
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Cathryn Carson and David A. Hollinger (eds.), Reappraising Oppenheimer: Centennial Studies and Reflections. Berkeley Papers in History of Science, Volume 21. Berkeley: Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California, 2005. Pp. xii+413. ISBN 0-9672617-3-2. $14.00 (paperback).
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KATHARINE ANDERSON, Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. x+331. ISBN 0-226-019680-3. £31.50, $45.00 (hardback).
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Jonathan Smith, Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xxiii+349. ISBN 0-521-85690-6. £60.00 (hardback).
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- 03 December 2007, pp. 618-619
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Ron Amundson, The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: The Roots of Evo-Devo. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii+280. ISBN 0-521-80699-2. $75.00 (hardback).
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WILLIAM A. WALLACE, Domingo de Soto and the Early Galileo: Essays on Intellectual History. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xiv+340. ISBN 0-86078-964-0, $105.95 (hardback). GALILEO GALILEI, Le Operazioni del Compasso Geometrico et Militare. With a translation by Stillman Drake and an introduction by Filippo Camerota. Oakland, CA: Octavo, 2005. ISBN 1-891788-97-3, $35.00 (CD-ROM).
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MICHAEL FREEMAN, Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks to a Lost World. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. x+310. ISBN: 0-300-10334-4. £25.00 (hardback). JAN T. KOZÁK, VICTOR S. MOREIRA and DAVID R. OLDROYD, Iconography of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake. Prague: Geophysical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Academia, the Publisher of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2005. Pp. 84. ISBN: 80-239-4390-1 (GI), 80-200-1322-9 (Academia). No price given (hardback).
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Jenny Reardon, Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. 256. ISBN 0-691-11857-4. £11.95 (paperback).
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HARRO MAAS, William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxii+330. ISBN 0-521-82712-4. $75.00 (hardback).
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MARCUS HELLYER, Catholic Physics: Jesuit Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Germany. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. Pp. xii+337. ISBN 0-268-03071-5. $50.00 (hardback).
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P. Kyle Stanford, Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv+234. ISBN 0-19-517408-9. £26.99 (hardback).
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- 03 December 2007, pp. 619-621
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