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Volume 21 - December 1988

Book Reviews

Paul H. Barret, Peter J. Gautrey, Sandra Herbert, David Kohn & Sydney Smith (eds). Charles Darwin's Notebooks, 1836–1844. London, Cambridge: British Museum (Natural History)/Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. viii + 747. ISBN 0-521-35055-7. £65.00.

James G. Traynham (ed.). Essays on the History of Organic Chemistry, Baton Rouge and London, Louisiana State University Press, 1987, Pp.ix + 145. ISBN 0-8071-1293-3. £21.25.

Brooke Hindle & Steven Lubar. Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790–1860. Washington, D.C., and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986. Pp. 285. ISBN 0-87474-540-3. (cloth)/539–X (paper). $25.95/514.95 (paper).

A. G. Bennett and D. F. Edgar (eds). Isaac Barrow's Optical Lectures 1667. Translated by H. C. Fay. London: The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, Pp. 243 + xxxv. Figs. £25.00. (A printed typescript; orders to the Company, Apothecaries' Hall, Black Friars Lane, London EC4V 6EL).

Phillip A. Nicholls. Homoeopathy and the Medical Profession, Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1988. Pp. 298. ISBN 0-7099-1836-4. £27.50.

P. Masani (ed.). Norbert Wiener: Collected Works. Volume IV. Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, 1985. Pp. xx + 1083. ISBN 0-262-23123-9. £69.50.

Graham Rees assisted by Christopher Upton. Francis Bacon's Natural Philosophy: A New Source. A transcription of manuscript Hardwick 72A with translation and commentary. Chalfont St Giles, Bucks.: British Society for the History of Science, 1984. £7.90.

Elisabeth Crawford, J. L. Heilbron, Rebecca Ullrich. The Nobel Population (1901–1937): A census of the Nominators and Nominees for the Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. Berkeley: Office for History of Science and Technology, 1987. Pp. vii + 337. ISBN 0-918102-15-4. $20.00.

Thomas Söderqvist. The Ecologists, from Merry Naturalists to Saviours of the Nation: A sociologically informed narrative survey of the ecologization of Sweden 1895–1975. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1986. Pp. vii + 330. ISBN 91-22-00827-6. No price given.

Anthony Grafton & Lisa Jardine. From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Europe. London: Duckworth, 1986. Pp. xvi + 224. ISBN 0-7156-2100-9. £29.95.

Jan Goldstein. Console and Classify. The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xiii + 414. ISBN 0-521-32279-0. £30.00, $49.50.

Helen Wright. James Lick's Monument. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xvi + 231. ISBN 0-521-32105-0. £25.00, $32.50.

Scott Atran. Fondements de l'Histoire Naturelle. Pour une Anthropologie de la Science. Bruxelles: Editions Complexe, 1986. Pp. 244. ISBN 2-87027-180-8. FF 145.00.

G. J. R. Parry. A Protestant Vision: William Harrison and the Reformation of Elizabethan England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. ix + 348. ISBN 0-521-32997-3. £27.50.

Ann Moyal. A Bright and Savage Land: Scientists in Colonial Australia. Sydney: Collins. Pp. 192. ISBN 0-00-217555-X. £17.50.

Michael M. Sokal (ed.). Psychological Testing and American Society, 1890–1930. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987. Pp. xi + 205. ISBN 0-8135-1193-3. $28.00.

R. D. Connor. The Weights and Measures of England. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1987. Pp. xvi + 422. ISBN 0-11-290435-1. £30.00.

Stanton J. Linden (ed.). William Cooper. A Catalogue of Chymicall Books, 1673–88. New York and London: Pp. liv + 159. ISBN 0-8240-8557-4. $37.00.

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