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Volume 21 - December 1988

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Book Reviews

Bruce Stephenson. Kepler's Physical Astronomy. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1987. Pp. v + 216. ISBN 3-540-96541-6. DM 118.00.

Barry Brundell. Pierre Gassendi: From Aristotelianism to a New Natural Philosophy. Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster, Tokyo: D. Reidel, 1987. Pp. x + 251. ISBN 90-277-2428-8. £49.00, $64.00.

Ahmad Y. Al-Hassan & Donald R. Hill. Islamic Technology, An Illustrated History. Cambridge and Paris: Cambridge University Press and UNESCO, 1986. Pp. xiv + 304. ISBN 92-3-102294-6. £25.00, $39.50.

S. E. D. Shortt. Victorian Lunacy. Richard M. Bucke and the Practice of Late Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi + 207. ISBN 0-521-30999-9. Price £25.00, $29.95.

Donald J. Wilcox. The Measure of Times Past. Pre-Newtonian Chronologies and the Rhetoric of Relative Time. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Pp. ix + 292. ISBN 0-226-89721-4. £21.50, $32.95.

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Index of Authors

Index of Authors

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H. W. Menard. The Ocean of Truth: A Personal History of Global Tectonics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv + 353 + 24 un-numbered (illustrations). ISBN 0-691-08414-9. $29.50.

Donald E. ThomasJr. Diesel: Technology and Society in Industrial Germany. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1987, Pp. xii, 279. ISBN 0-8173-0295-6 $26.95.

Dorothy Stein. Ada: A Life and a Legacy. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1985. Pp. xix + 321. ISBN 0-262-19242-X. £17.50 (hardback), £8.95 (paper).

Allan Franklin. The Neglect of Experiment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xii + 290. ISBN 0-521-32016-X. £30.00.

Bernard Lightman. The Origins of Agnosticism. Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, Pp. x and 249. ISBN 0-8018-3375-2. £20.95.

Report of Council

Report of Council for the Year 1987–88

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J.D.G. Evans. Aristotle. Sussex and New York: Harvester Press and St. Martin's Press, 1987. Pp. xii + 208. ISBN 0-7108-1042-3 and 0-312-00485-0. £28.50.

Jeremy Adler. ‘Eine fast magische Anziehungskraft’. Goethe's ‘Wahlverwandtschaften’ und die Chemie seiner Zeit. München: C.H. Beck Verlag, 1987. Pp. 260, 10 figs, and 4 plates. ISBN 3-406-3 1559-3. DM 48.00

Ronald L. Numbers (ed.). Medicine in the New World—New Spain, New France and New England. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1987. Pp. 175. ISBN 0-87049-517-8. $18.95.

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BJH volume 21 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

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H. Tristram EngelhardtJr., and Arthur L. Caplan (eds). Scientific Controversies: Case Studies in the Resolution and Closure of Disputes in Science and Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. x + 639. ISBN 0-521-25565-1. £35.00, $59.50 (hardback), £15.00 (paperback).

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Volume 21 - December 1988

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