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Volume 38 - June 2005

Book Review

SIGMUND EISNER (ed.), A Variorum Edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Volume VI: The Prose Treatises. Part One: A Treatise on the Astrolabe. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2002. Pp. xxiv+358. ISBN 0-8061-3413-5. $75.00 (hardback).

CARL VON LINNÉ, Nemesis Divina. Edited and translated with explanatory notes by M. J. Petry. Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 177. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. Pp. xviii+483. ISBN 0-7923-6820-7. £119.00, $169.00 (hardback).

NANCY G. SIRAISI, Medicine and the Italian Universities, 1250–1600. Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 12. Leiden: Brill, 2001. Pp. ix+389. ISBN 90-04-11942-6. $122.00, €105.00 (hardback).

DAVID A. KING, The Ciphers of the Monks: A Forgotten Number-Notation of the Middle Ages. Boethius, 44. Stuttgart: FranzSteiner Verlag, 2001. Pp. 506. ISBN 3-515-07640-9. DM 199.49, €102.00 (hardback).

JEAN-LUC CHAPPEY, La Société des observateurs de l'homme (1799–1804): Des Anthropologues au temps de Bonaparte. Bibliothèque d'histoire révolutionnaire, 5. Paris: Société des études robespierristes, 2002. Pp. 573. ISBN 2-908327-45-7. €46.00 (paperback).

AYVAL LESHEM, Newton on Mathematics and Spiritual Purity. International Archives of the History of Ideas, 183. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. Pp. x+230. ISBN 1-4020-1151-2. £58.00, $86.00, €90.00 (hardback).

AMIR R. ALEXANDER, Geometrical Landscapes: The Voyages of Discovery and the Transformation of Mathematical Practice. Writing Science. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii+293. ISBN 0-80473-260-4. £46.95 (hardback).

WILLIAM J. ASHWORTH, Customs and Excise: Trade, Production and Consumption in England 1640–1845. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii+396. ISBN 0-19-925921-6. £55.00 (hardback).

L. W. B. BROCKLISS, Calvet's Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xx+471. ISBN 0-19-924748-X. £55.00 (hardback).

ROBERT J. RICHARDS, The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xix+587. ISBN 0-226-71210-9. £24.00, $35.00 (hardback).

WOLFGANG LEFÈVRE, JÜRGEN RENN and URS SCHOEPFLIN (eds.), The Power of Images in Early Modern Science. Basel, Boston and Berlin: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2003. Pp. ix+308. ISBN 3-7643-2434-1. €118.00 (paperback).

BARBARA T. GATES (ed.), In Nature's Name: An Anthology of Women's Writing and Illustration, 1780–1930. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xxvi+673. ISBN 0-226-28446-8. £17.50, $27.50 (paperback).

JEAN-DANIEL CANDAUX and JEAN-MARC DROUIN (eds.), Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle: Mémoires et souvenirs (1778–1841). Bibliothèque d'histoire des sciences, 5. Geneva: Georg Editeur, 2003. Pp. xv+591. ISBN 2-8257-0832-1. €33.00 (paperback).

HUGH TORRENS, The Practice of British Geology, 1750–1850. Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS736. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. Pp. 372. ISBN 0-86078-876-8. £59.50 (hardback).

RICHARD KEYNES, Fossils, Finches and Fuegians: Charles Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on theBeagle, 1832–1836. London: HarperCollins, 2002. Pp. xix+428. ISBN 0-00-710189-9. £25.00 (hardback).

STANTON J. LINDEN (ed.), The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxv+260. ISBN 0-521-79662-8. £16.95, $24.00 (paperback).

DAVID PHILIP MILLER, Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century ‘Water Controversy’. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xiii+316. ISBN 0-7546-3177-X. £55.00 (hardback).

JOHN CANTRELL and GILLIAN COOKSON (eds.), Henry Maudslay and the Pioneers of the Machine Age. Stroud and Charleston: Tempus, 2002. Pp. 192. ISBN 0-7524-2766-0. £16.99, $26.99 (paperback).

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