Volume 31 - December 1998
Book reviews
Geoffrey V. Sutton, Science for a Polite Society: Gender, Culture, and the Demonstration of Enlightenment. Oxford: Westview Press, 1995. Pp. xiii+391. ISBN 0-8133-1575-1. £22.50.
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G. BATCHELOR, The Life and Legacy of G. I. Taylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xv+285. ISBN 0-521-46121-9. £45.00.
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CATHERINE GOLDSTEIN, JEREMY GRAY and JIM RITTER (eds.), L'Europe mathématique: Histoires, mythes, identités/Mathematical Europe: History, Myth, Identity. Paris: Edition de la maison des sciences de l'homme, 1996. Pp. x+575. ISBN 2-7351-0685-3. 190F.
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J. L. BERGREN and R. S. D. THOMAS. Euclid's Phaenomena: A Translation and Study of a Hellenistic Treatise in Spherical Astronomy. Sources and Studies in the History and Philosophy of Classical Science, 4. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1996. Pp. xi+132. ISBN 0-8153-0493-5. $36.00.
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J. E. MCGUIRE, Tradition and Innovation: Newton's Metaphysics of Nature. The University of Western Ontario Series in the Philosophy of Science, 56. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1995. Pp. xvi+290. ISBN 0-7923-3617-8. £88.00, $140.00, Dfl. 195.00.
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Four Treatises of Theophrastus Von Hohenheim Called Paracelsus, translated from the original German, with introductory essays by C. Lilian Temkin, George Rosen, Gregory Zilboorg and Henry E. Sigerist. Edited, with a preface by Henry E. Sigerist, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8018-5523-3. £13.00, $15.95 (paperback edition).
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ROBERT BOYLE, A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature, edited by Edward B. Davis and Michael Hunter. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xxxvi+171. ISBN 0-521-56100-0, £37.50, $54.95 (hardback); 0-521-56796-3 (paperback), £13.95, $18.95.
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ROGER SMITH, The Fontana History of the Human Sciences. London: Fontana Press, 1997. Pp. xviii+1036. ISBN 0-00-686178-4. £12.99 (paperback edition).
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THOMAS H. BROMAN, The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750–1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. x+209. ISBN 0-521-55321-1. £35.00, $54.95.
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John Hedley Brooke, Thinking About Matter: Studies in the History of Chemical Philosophy. Aldershot: Variorum, 1995. Pp. xii+290. ISBN 0-86078-464-9. £47.50.
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H. FLORIS COHEN, The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Pp. xviii+662. ISBN 0-226-11279-9, £59.95, $75.00 (hardback); 0-226-11280-2, £21.50, $26.95 (paperback).
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Thomas L. Hankins and Robert J. Silverman, Instruments and the Imagination. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Pp. xiv+337. ISBN 0-691-02997-0. £33.50, $39.50.
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ELISABETH CRAWFORD, Arrhenius. From Ionic Theory to the Greenhouse Effect. Uppsala Studies in History of Science, 23. Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 1996. Pp. xiii+320. ISBN 0-88135-166-0. $49.95.
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PETER HARRISON, The Bible, Protestantism and the Rise of Natural Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xi+313. ISBN 0-521-59196-1. £40.00, $64.95.
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Jose María López Piñero and Víctor Navarro Brotons, Història de la ciència al País Valencià. València: Edicions Alfons el Magnànim, 1995. Pp. 661, illus. ISBN 84-7822-154-9. No price given.
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CHARLES LYELL, Principles of Geology, edited by James A. Secord. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1997. Pp. xlvii+472. ISBN 0-14-043528-X. £9.99.
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Leo Corry, Modern Algebra and the Rise of Mathematical Structures. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1996. Pp. 460. ISBN 3-7643-5311-2. DM 178.00.
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Noor Giovanni Mazhar, Catholic Attitudes to Evolution in Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature. Memorie di Scienze Morali, Lettere ed Arti, 60. Venice: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 1995. Pp. 284. ISBN 88-86166-24-9. 35,000 lire.
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