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Volume 17 - November 1984

Report of Council for the Year 1983–4

The British Society for the History of Science Report of Council for the Year 1983–4

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Seventeenth Century - M. M. Slaughter, Universal languages and scientific taxonomy in the seventeenth century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. x + 277. ISBN 0-521-24477-3. £25.00.

Science in Culture - George Weisz, The Emergence of Modern Universities in France, 1863–1914. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. xii + 397. £30.20. ISBN 0-691-05375-8.

Seventeenth Century - Michael Hunter, The Royal Society and its Fellows 1660–1700: the morphology of an early scientific institution. Chalfont St Giles, Bucks.: The British Society for the History of Science, 1982. Pp. v + 270. ISBN 0-906450-03-9. £5.90, $11.00.

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Seventeenth Century - James R. Jacob, Henry Stubbe, radical protestantism and the early enlightenment. Cambridge: University Press, 1983. Pp. viii + 222. ISBN 0-521-24876-0. £19.50.

Science in Culture - Karl Snell, Die Schöpfung des Menschen. Vorlesungen über die Abstammung des Menschen (ed. Friedrich A. Kipp). Stuttgart: Verlag Freies Geistesleben, 1981. Pp. 230. DM 28.

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Science in Culture - Marcel Chotkowski la Follette (ed.), Quality in science. Cambridge, Mass., and London: The MIT Press, 1982. Pp. xi + 169. ISBN 0-262-62040-5 (paper). £10.00.

Seventeenth Century - David Castillejo, The expanding force in Newton's cosmos, as shown in his unpublished papers. Madrid: Ediciones de Arte y Bibliofilia, 1981. Pp. 125.

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Seventeenth Century - Zev Bechler (ed.), Contemporary Newtonian research. Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel, 1982. Pp. vi + 241. DF1. 95.00. ISBN 90-277-1303-0.

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Seventeenth Century - Desmond M. Clarke, Descartes' philosophy of science. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1982. Pp. xiv + 249. ISBN 0-7190-0868-9. £19.00.

Seventeenth Century - Margaret Dauler Wilson, Descartes. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982. Pp. xviii + 255. ISBN 0-7100-9208-3. £5.95. - Ralph C. S. Walker, Kant. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982. Pp. xii + 201. ISBN 0-7100-0009-X. £4.95.

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Seventeenth Century - L. C. Palm and H. A. M. Snelders (eds.), Antoni van Leeuwenhoek 1632–1723. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1983. Pp. 212. ISBN 90-6203-824-7. (No price stated.)

Enlightenment - Marguerite Carozzi, Voltaire's attitude toward geology. Geneva: Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle, 1983. Pp. 146. SFRp 28.

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Volume 17 - November 1984

Report of Council for the Year 1983–4

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