Volume 38 - June 2005
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Book Review
WILLIAM R. NEWMAN, Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution. With a New Forward. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xxiv+348. ISBN 0-226-57714-7. £19.50, $27.50 (paperback). WILLIAM R. NEWMAN and LAWRENCE M. PRINCIPE, Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xv+344. ISBN 0-226-57711-2. £28.00, $40.00 (hardback).
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SOFIA ÅKERBERG, Knowledge and Pleasure at Regent's Park: The Gardens of the Zoological Society of London during the Nineteenth Century. Idéhistoriska skrifter, 36. Umeå: Department of Historical Studies, 2001. Pp. 254. ISBN 91-7305-147-0. No price given (paperback).
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IWAN RHYS MORUS, Frankenstein's Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv+324. ISBN 0-691-05952-7. $45.00, £32.50 (hardback).
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AUGUSTÍ NIETO-GALAN, Santponç – Monturiol – Isaac Peral: la seducción de la máquina vapores, submarinos e inventores. With a Preface by Saturnino de la Plaza. Novatores, 2. Madrid: Nivola, 2001. Pp. 129. ISBN 84-95599-10-4. No price given (paperback).
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S. CHANDRASEKHAR, Newton'sPrincipiafor the Common Reader. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii+595. ISBN 0-19-852675-X. £49.95 (paperback). (First published in hardback, 1995).
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JOHN THACKRAY and BOB PRESS, The Natural History Museum: Nature's Treasurehouse. London: Natural History Museum, 2001. Pp. 144. ISBN 0-565-09164-6. £11.00 (paperback).
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UWE HOßFELD, LENNART OLSSON and OLAF BREIDBACH (eds.), Carl Gegenbaur and Evolutionary Morphology. Theory in Biosciences, 122, 2–3 (special issue). Jena: Urban & Fischer, 2003. Pp. 198. ISSN 1431-7613. No price given (paperback).
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P. M. HARMAN (ed.), The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell. Volume I: 1846–1862. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xxviii+748. ISBN 0-521-25625-9. $195.00 (hardback). Volume II: 1862–1873. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xxx+999. ISBN 0-521-25626-7. $285.00 (hardback). Volume III: 1873–1879. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xxvii+932. ISBN 0-521-25627-5. £210.00, $315.00 (hardback).
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MARC ROTHENBERG, KATHLEEN W. DORMAN and FRANK R. MILLIKAN (eds.), The Papers of Joseph Henry. Volume 9. The Smithsonian Years, January 1854–December 1857. With the assistance of Deborah Y. Jeffries. Canton, MA: Smithsonian Institution/Science History Publications, 2002. Pp. l+516. ISBN 1-88135-363-9. $79.95 (hardback).
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BERNADETTE BENSAUDE-VINCENT and BRUNO BERNARDI (eds.), Rousseau et les sciences. Paris, Budapest and Turin: L'Harmattan, 2003. Pp. 316. ISBN 2-7475-5100-8. €25.90 (paperback).
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STEVEN J. DICK, Sky and Ocean Joined: The U.S. Naval Observatory 1830–2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii+609. ISBN 0-521-81599-1. £90.00, $130.00 (hardback).
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JOHN C. THACKRAY, To See the Fellows Fight: Eye-Witness Accounts of Meetings of the Geological Society of London and its Club, 1822–1868. BSHS Monographs, 12. London: British Society for the History of Science, 2003. Pp. xviii+243. ISBN 0-906450-14-4. £15.00. $26.00 (paperback).
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GUILLERMO LUSA MONFORTE (ed.), La creación de la Escuela Industrial Barcelonesa (1851): 1 de octubre de 1851–1 de octubre de 2001. Documentos de la Escuela de Ingenieros Industriales de Barcelona, 11. Barcelona: Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2001. Pp. 168. ISSN 1137-0238. No price given (hardback). GUILLERMO LUSA MONFORTE, Inquietudes y reformas de cambio de siglo: el proyecto de nueva Escuela Industrial (1899–1910). Documentos de la Escuela de Ingenieros Industriales de Barcelona, 12. Barcelona: Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2002. Pp. 191. ISSN 1137-0238. No price given (paperback). GUILLERMO LUSA MONFORTE, El conflicto con la Diputación (1915). La plena incorporación de la Escuela al Estado (1917). Documentos de la Escuela de Ingenieros Industriales de Barcelona, 13. Barcelona: Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2003. Pp. 191. ISSN 1137-0238. No price given (paperback).
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LAWRENCE GOLDMAN, Science, Reform and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association, 1857–1886. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 419+index. ISBN 0-521-33053.
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DANIELLE FAUQUE (ed.), Lavoisier et la naissance de la chimie moderne. Paris: Vuibert, 2003. Pp. 233. ISBN 2-7117-5353-0. No price given (paperback).
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HELEN SMALL and TRUDI TATE (eds.), Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis, 1830–1970: Essays in Honour of Gillian Beer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. vii+255. ISBN 0-19-96667-0. £50.00 (hardback).
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JED Z. BUCHWALD and ANDREW WARWICK (eds.), Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics. Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2001. Pp. xi+514. ISBN 0-262-02494-2. £37.95 (hardback).
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ROGER L. WILLIAMS, French Botany in the Enlightenment: The Ill-fated Voyages of La Pérouse and His Rescuers. International Archives of the History of Ideas, 182. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. Pp. 240. ISBN 1-4020-1109-1. £57.00, $85.00 (hardback).
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MARK McCARTNEY and ANDREW WHITAKER (eds.), Physicists of Ireland: Passion and Precision. Bristol and Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2003. Pp. xiv+298. ISBN 0-7503-0866-4. £40.00, $58.00 (hardback).
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ROGER COOTER and JOHN PICKSTONE (eds.), Companion to Medicine in the Twentieth Century. Routledge World Reference. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xix+756. ISBN 0-415-28603-4. £24.99 (paperback).
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