Volume 61 - Issue 2 - Summer 2008
Reviews
Kathleen P. Long. Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. x + 268 pp. index. illus. bibl. $94.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5609-8.
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M. A. Peg Katritzky. Women, Medicine and Theatre, 1500–1750: Literary Mountebanks and Performing Quacks. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. xvi + 367 pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-5084-3.
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Helen King. Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. x + 228 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $99.95 ISBN: 978-0-7546-5396-7.
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Luke Demaitre. Leprosy in Premodern Medicine: A Malady of the Whole Body. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xv + 323 pp. index. illus. tbls. $45. ISBN: 978-0-8018-8613-3.
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Pedanius Dioscorides of Anarzarbus. De materia medica. Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien 38. Trans. Lily Y. Beck. Hildesheim: Olms – Weidmann, 2005. xxxviii + 540 pp. index. €78. ISBN: 3-487-12881-0. - Alix Cooper. Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv + 218 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $75. ISBN: 978-0-521-87087-0.
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Evelyn Edson. The World Map, 1300–1492: The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. ix + 300 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $50. ISBN: 978-0-8018-8589-1.
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Stephen Gaukroger. The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210–1685. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. x + 564 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. £35. ISBN: 978-0-19-929644-6.
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- 20 November 2018, pp. 632-633
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Deborah Harkness. The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 349 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-300-11196-5.
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Lawrence M. Principe, ed. Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry. Sagamore Beach, MA: Watson Publishing International, 2007. xiii + 274 pp. index. illus. $45. ISBN: 978-0-88135-396-9.
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Bruce T. Moran. Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire. Sagamore Beach, MA: Watson Publishing International, 2007. viii + 344 pp. index. illus. bibl. $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-88135-395-2.
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Harald Siebert. Die große kosmologische Kontroverse: Rekonstruktionsversuche anhand des Itinerarium exstaticum von Athanasius Kircher S. J. (1602–1680). Boethius: Texte und Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissen-schaften 55. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 384 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. €76. ISBN: 978-3-515-08731-5.
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Vincent Jullien. Philosophie naturelle et géométrie au XVIIe siècle. Sciences, techniques et civilisations du Moyen Âge à l’aube des lumières 9. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur. 478 pp. index. illus. bibl. €83. ISBN: 978-2745313638.
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Domenico Bertoloni Meli. Thinking with Objects: The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xiv + 390 pp. index. illus. bibl. $70 (cl), $29.95 (pbk).ISBN: 0-8018-8426-8 (cl), 0-8018-8427-6 (pbk).
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- 20 November 2018, pp. 642-643
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Florian Ebeling. The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times. Trans. David Lorton. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. xiii + 158 pp. index. gloss. chron. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4546-0.
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Sabrina Ebbersmeyer and Eckhard Keßler, eds. Ethik — Wissenschaft oder Lebenskunst? Modelle der Normenbegründung von der Antike bis zur Frühen Neuzeit/Ethics — Science or Art of Living? Models of Moral Philosophy from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era. Pluralisierung & Autorität 8. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2007. xxxviii + 343 pp. index. illus. €34.90. ISBN: 978-3-8258-0169-4.
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Torrance Kirby. The Zurich Connection and Tudor Political Theology. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 131. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xiii + 283 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $129. ISBN: 978-90-04-15618-0.
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John McCafferty. The Reconstruction of the Church of Ireland: Bishop Bramhall and the Laudian Reforms, 1633–1641. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii + 268 pp. index. tbls. map. bibl. $99. ISBN: 978-0-521-643-18-4.
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Malcolm Airs and Geoffrey Tyack, eds. The Renaissance Villa in Britain 1500–1700. Reading: Spire Books Ltd, 2007. 276 pp. + 13 color pls. index. illus. bibl. $70. ISBN: 978-1-904965-13-8.
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Nancy Cox and Karin Dannehl. Perceptions of Retailing in Early Modern England. The History of Retailing and Consumption. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. xvi + 214 pp. + 5 color and 13 b/w pls. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-3771-4.
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Susan D. Amussen. Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640–1700. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv + 302 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $22.50. ISBN: 978-0-8078-5854-7.
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