Volume 24 - September 1991
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Book Reviews
David Gooding. Experiment and the Making of Meaning: Human Agency in Scientific Observation and Experiment. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990. Pp. xviii + 310. ISBN 0-7923-0719-4. £60.00.
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Philip Mirowski, More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xii + 450. ISBN 0-521-35042-5. £35.00, $59.50.
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Harry M. Collins. Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. xiii + 266. ISN 0-262-13168-X. £17.95.
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William Lefanu. Nehemiah Grew: A Study and Bibliography of his Writings. Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1990. Pp. xvii + 182. ISBN 0-906795-43-5. £42.00.
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Grorgio Lanaro. II positivismo tra scienza e religione: Studi sulla fortuna di Comte in Gran BretagnaMilan: Franco Angeli Libri, 1990. Pp. 173. ISBN 88-204-6373-3. L. 24000.
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Thomas Robert Malthus. An Essay on the Principle of Population, edited by Patricia James, 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Economic Society, 1990. Pp. xvi + 446; vi + 397. ISBN 0-521-32361-4. L.75, $120.00. - Thomas Robert Malthus. Principles of Political Economy, variorum edition, edited by John Pullen, 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Economic Society, 1989. Pp. lxix + vi + 601; 507. ISBN 0-521-24775-6. L. 75.00, $120.00.
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Mirko D. Grmek. La première révolution biologique: Reflexions sur la physiologic et la medecine du xvii siècle. Paris: Editions Payot, 1990. Pp. 358. ISBN 2-228-88277-1.
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Trevor I. Williams. Robert Robinson: Chemist Extraordinary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. viii + 201. ISBN 0-19-858180-7.
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Joan Austoker and Linda Bryder (eds.). Historical Perspectives on the Role of the MRC. Essays in the History of the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom and its Predecessor, the Medical Research Committee, 1913–1953. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp xi + 259. ISBN 0-19-261651-X. £30.00.
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Bruna Ingrao and Giorgio Israel. The Invisible Hand: Economic Equilibrium in the History of Science, translated by Ian McGilvray. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. xiii + 491. ISBN 0-262-09028-7. £42.75.
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Eugene Cittadino. Nature as the Laboratory: Darwinian Plant Ecology in the German Empire, 1880–1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xi + 199. ISBN 0-521-34045-4. £27.50, $44.50.
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Margaret Atherton. Berkeley's Revolution in Vision. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. xii + 249. ISBN 0-8014-2358-9. S29.90.
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Diana B. Dutton. Worse than the Disease. Pitfalls of Medical Progress. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xx + 528. ISBN 0-521-34023-3. £25, $29.95.
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Mary S. Morgan. The History of Econometric Ideas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xv + 296. ISBN 0-521-37398-0. £25.00, $44.50.
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Rosalind Williams. Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. xi + 265. ISBN 0-262-23145-X. £22.50.
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Saul Jarcho (ed.). Clinical Consultations and Letters by Ippolito Francesco Albertini, Francesco Torti, and Other Physicians. Canton, Mass.: Science History Publications, 1989. Pp. lxix + 356. ISBN 0-88135-089-3. $24.95.
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Charles H. Sternberg. The Life of a Fossil Hunter. Introduction by Rudolf A. Raff. Bloomington and Indiana: University of Indiana Press, 1990. Pp. xxx + 286. ISBN 0-253-35549-4, $29.95 (hardback); 0-253-20571-9, $12.95 (paperback).
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Margaret Schabas. A World Ruled by Number: William Stanley Jevons and the Rise of Mathematical Economics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Pp. xii + 192. ISBN 0-691-08543-9. $29.95.
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Töre Frängsmyr, J. L. Heilbron and Robin E. Rider (eds.). The Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century. Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1990. Pp. vii + 411. ISBN 0-520-07022-4. $35.00.
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Helge Kragh. Dirac: A Scientific Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN 0-521-38089-8. £35.
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