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Volume 13 - November 1980

Book Reviews

General - Studies in Perception. Interrelations in the History of Philosophy and Science. Edited by Peter K. Machamer and Robert G. Turnbull. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1978. Pp. x + 568. $30.00.

Bibliography - Supplement to the Catalogue of the Crawford Library of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. Pp. xii + 112. Edited by Mary F. I. Smyth and Michael J. Smyth. Edinburgh: Royal Observatory, 1977. £5.00.

Geology - Images of the Earth: Essays in the History of the Environmental Sciences. Edited by L. J. Jordanova and Roy Porter. Chalfont St Giles: British Society for the History of Science, 1979. BSHS Monographs, 1. Pp. xx + 282. £5.95.

Astrology - Astrology and the Popular Press: English Almanacs, 1500–1800. By Bernard Capp. London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1979. Pp. 452. £15.00.

Chemical Industry - Neptune's Gift: A History of Common Salt. By Robert P. Multhauf. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Pp xviii + 325.£15.75.

Medicine - Medicine at Harvard: the First 300 Years. By Henry K. Beecher and Mark D. Altschule. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England. 1977. Pp. xv + 587. $27.50.

Middle Ages and Renaissance - Archimedes in the Middle Ages. Volume iii: The Fate of the Medieval Archimedes, 1300 to 1565. By Marshall Clagett. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1978 (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 125). Pp. 1582 in 3 tomes. $75.00.

Middle Ages and Renaissance - The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. By Elizabeth Eisenstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. pp. xxi + 794 in 2 vols. £35.00.

Scientific Instruments - The Chamber of Physics: Instruments in the History of Science Collections of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. By Gunnar Pipping. Stockholm. Almqvist and Wiksell, 1976. Pp. 250 + 43 plates. 70 Cr.

Renaissance - From Humanism to Science, 1480–1700. By Robert Mandrou. Hassocks, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1979. Pp. 329. £11.50.

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Electricity from Glass: The History of the Frictional Electrical Machine, 1600–1850. By W. D. Hackmann. Alphen aan den Rijn: Sijthoff & Noordhoff, 1978. Pp. xiv & 310. Df189/$44.50.

Middle Ages - Alle origini dell'aristotelismo padovano (sec. XII–XIII). By Paolo Marangon. Padua: Editrice Antenore, 1977. Pp. 189. L. 7,000.

Middle Ages and Renaissance - Symphorien Champier and the Reception of the Occultist Tradition in Renaissance France. By Brian P. Copenhaver, The Hague, Paris & New York: Mouton, 1978. Pp. 368. DM 92.

Renaissance - Man and Nature in the Renaissance. By Allen G. Debus. Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, Pp. + 159. £7.95/£2.50 (paperback).

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics. By J. L. Heilbron. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1979. Pp. xiv + 606. $40.00/£24.00.

Nineteenth Century - Sadi Carnot et l'essor de la thermodynamique. Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1976. Pp. 435. 128 francs

Nineteenth Century - Henry De la Beche: observations on an observer. By Paul J. McCartney. Cardiff: Friends of the National Museum of Wales, 1977. Pp. xiv + 76. £3.00.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - The Temperature of History: Phases of Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century. By Stephen G. Brush. New York: Burt Franklin, 1978. Pp. xii + 210. $18.95.

Scientific Revolution - Hermeticism and the Scientific Revolution. Papers read at a Clark Library Seminar, 9 March 1974. By Robert S. Westman and J. E. McGuire. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1977. Pp. iv + 150. No price stated.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - The Origins and Rise of Ethology: The Science of the Natural Behaviour of Animals. By William H. Thorpe. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1979. Pp. xi + 174. £5.90.

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