Volume 20 - October 1987
Book Reviews
J. A. Secord. Controversy in Victorian Geology: the Cambrian-Silurian Dispute. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. xix + 364. ISBN 0-691-08417-3. £37.00.
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Willem Hackmann. Seek and Strike: Sonar, Anti-Submarine Warfare and the Royal Navy, 1914–1954. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1984. Pp. xvii + 487. ISBN 0-11-290423-8. £15.95.
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J. Z. Buchwald. From Maxwell to Microphysics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. xv + 339. ISBN 0-226-07882-5. £59.50.
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Colin A. Russell. Lancastrian Chemist: The Early Years of Sir Edward Frankland. Milton Keynes/Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1986. Pp. ix + 187. ISBN 0-335-15175-2. £30.00.
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Michael J. Crowe. The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750–1900: the Idea of a Plurality of Worlds from Kant to Lowell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xix + 680. ISBN 0-521-26305-0. £40.00.
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John V. Pickstone. Medicine and Industrial Society. A History of Hospital Development in Manchester and its Region, 1752–1946. Manchester and Dover (New Hampshire): Manchester University Press, 1985. Pp. xii + 369. ISBN 0-7190-1809-0. £35.00.
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P. R. De Clerq (ed.). Nineteenth Century Scientific Instruments and their Makers: Papers Presented at the Fourth Scientific Instrument Symposium, Amsterdam 23–26 October 1984. Boerhaave Museum, Leiden, and Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1985. ISBN 90-6292-070-5 (Boerhaave Museum), ISBN 90-6203-917-0 (Rodopi). Pp. 275. No price given.
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David Elliston Allen. The Botanists: A History of the Botanical Society of the British Isles Through a Hundred and Fifty Years. Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1986. Pp. xv + 232. ISBN 0-906795-36-2. £15.00 (post free in U.K. if accompanied by cheque; or plus £1.50 postage if from abroad).
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M. J. G. Cattermole & A. F. Wolfe. Horace Darwin's Shop: a History of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company 1878–1968. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1987. Pp. xvi + 285. ISBN 0-85274-569-9. £35.00.
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Frederic Lawrence Holmes. Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life. An Exploration of Scientific Creativity. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. Pp. xxiv + 565. ISBN 0-299-09980. £36.60.
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Françoise Giroud. Marie Curie: A Life. Translated from the French by Lydia Davis. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1986. Pp. v + 291. ISBN 0-8419-0977-6. $34.50.
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William B. Provine. Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Pp. xvi + 545. ISBN 0-226-68474-1. £25.50.
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James E. McClellanIII. Science Reorganized: Scientific Societies in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. Pp. xxxii + 413. ISBN 0-231-05996-5 (hardback), 0-231-05997-3 (paperback). US $58.50.
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Paolo Galluzzi & Maurizio Torrini (eds). Le Opere Dei Discepoli di Galileo Galilei. Volume II: Carteggio 1649–1656. Florence: Giunti-Barbèra, 1984. Pp. xiv + 494. No price given.
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R. Descartes. The Philosophical Writings. Translated by J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff and D. Murdoch. Cambridge: C.U.P., 1985. 2 vols, pp. xii + 418, ix + 428. ISBN 60-521-2494-X/8. £27.50 each (hard covers); £8.95 each (paperback).
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Books Received
Books Received
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Book Reviews
Roy Porter & Mikulas Teich (eds). Revolution in History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. x + 341. ISBN 0-521-25978-9, £25.00 (hardback); 0-521-27784-1, £8.95 (paperback).
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P. M. Harman (ed). Wranglers and Physicists. Studies on Cambridge [Mathematical] Physics in the Nineteenth Century. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985. Pp. viii + 261. ISBN 0-7190-1756-4. £27.50.
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Martin J.S. Rudwick. The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge Among Gentlemanly Specialists. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. xxxiii + 494. ISBN 0-226-73101-4. £36.75.
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Index of Books Reviewed
Index of Books Reviewed
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