Volume 17 - November 1984
Book Reviews
National Traditions in Science - Geoffrey Howson, A history of mathematics education in England. Cambridge: University Press, 1982. Pp. x + 294. ISBN 0-521-24206-1. £25.
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History of Mathematical Sciences - Simon Schaffer, Science and the English Enlightenment (Video Cassette). Poulshot, Wiltshire: Sussex Publications, 1982. 28½ minutes. £45.42 - Simon Schaffer, Newton, Central TV for Channel 4: Crucible Series, 1982. - Colin A. Ronan. The Cambridge Illustrated History of World Science, Feltham, Middx: Newnes, 1983: Pp. 543. ISBN 0-600-38423-3. £12.95
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History of Technology - Woodruff Turner SullivanIII, (ed.), Classics in radio astronomy. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1982. Pp. xxiv + 348. ISBN 90-277-1356-1. Dfl. 140.00, $59.50.
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National Traditions in Science - J. V. Pickstone (ed.), Health, disease and medicine in Lancashire 1750–1950: four papers on sources, problems and methods. Manchester: U.M.I.S.T., 1980. Pp. 103. £2.00.
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History of Technology - Trevor I. Williams, A short history of twentieth-century technology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. xix + 411. ISBN 0-19-858159-9. £12.50.
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History of Mathematical Sciences - Christine Blondel, Ampère et la Création de l'électrodynámique (1820–1827). Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1982. Pp. 202. ISBN 2-7177-1643-2. 175 F (paper).
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History of Technology - K. H. Vignoles, Charles Blacker Vignoles: romantic engineer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xii-f 187. ISBN 0-521-23930-3. £18.00.
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History of Mathematical Sciences - Don H. Kennedy, Little Sparrow: A Portrait of Sophia Kovalevsky. Athens, Ohio and London: Ohio University Press, 1983. pp. ix + 341. £20.80, ISBN 0-8214-0692-2 (cloth); £10.40, ISBN 0-8214-0703-1 (paper).
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National Traditions in Science - Leslie Hannah, Engineers, managers and politicians. The first fifteen years of nationalised electricity supply in Britain. Research by Margaret Ackrill, Frances Bostock, Rachel Lawrence, Judy Slinn and Stephanie Zarach. London: MacMillan, 1982. Pp. xiii + 336. £15.95. ISBN 0-333-22087-0.
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History of Technology - John Hubble Weiss, The making of technological man: the social origins of French engineering education. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1982. Pp. xviii + 377. ISBN 0-262-23112-3. £21.
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Chemistry and Biochemistry - Robert E. Kohler, From medical chemistry to biochemistry. The making of a biomedical discipline. Cambridge: University Press, 1982. Pp. ix + 399. £22.50.
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National Traditions in Science - Everett Mendelsohn and Yehuda Elkana (eds), Sciences and cultures. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Reidel, 1981. Pp. xvii + 270. ISBN 90-277-1234-4 (cloth)/1235–2 (paper). (No price stated.) - Norbert Elias, Herminio Martins and Richard Whitley (eds), Scientific Establishments and hierarchies. Reidel, 1982. Pp. xi + 368. ISBN 90-277-1322-7 (cloth)/1323–5 (paper). Dfl. 95.00, $42.50 (cloth); Dfl. 50.00, $19.95 (paper).
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Antiquity to the Renaissance - Ivo Schneider, ‘Archimedes’ Erträge der Forschung, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Darmstadt, 1979.
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History of Technology - Paul A. Hanle, Bringing aerodynamics to America. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1982. Pp. xiv + 184. ISBN 0-262-08114-8. £14.00.
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Chemistry and Biochemistry - Claude-Louis Berthollet, Revue de l'Essai de Statique Chimique, édition critique par Michelle Sadoun-Goupil. Paris: École Polytechnique, 1980. Pp. vii + 204. ISBN 2-7302-0019-3. (Price not stated.)
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Antiquity to the Renaissance - Johannes Morsink, Aristotle on the generation of animals, a philosophical study. Washington: University Press of America, 1982. Pp. 192. ISBN 0-8191-2607-1. $19.50 ($9.50 paperback). - Abraham Wasserstein, Galen's Commentary on the Hippocratic Treatise, Airs, Waters, Places. Jerusalem: Proceedings of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, VI.3, 1982. Pp. 119 (paperback). (No price stated.)
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History of Technology - Brian Wynne, Rationality and ritual: the Windscale Inquiry and nuclear decisions in Britain. Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks.: The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS Monographs 3), 1982. Pp. x + 222. ISBN 0-906450-02-0. £6.50, $13.50.
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Chemistry and Biochemistry - Alexander Todd, A Time to Remember: The Autobiography of a Chemist. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1983, Pp. viii + 257. ISBN 0-521-25593-7. £15, $29.95.
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History of Technology - Anita McConnell, Historical instruments in oceanography. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1981. Pp. iv + 51. ISBN 0-11-290324-X. £3.95. - Anita McConnell, No sea too deep: the history of oceanographic instruments. Bristol: Adam Hilger Ltd, 1982. Pp. xiii + 162. ISBN 0-85274-416-1. £19.50.
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Antiquity to the Renaissance - Norman Kretzmann (ed.), Infinity and continuity in ancient medieval thought. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1982. Pp. 367. ISBN 0-8014-1444-X. £20.75, $36.10.
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