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Volume 23 - December 1990

Book Reviews

Richard L. Hills. Power from Steam: A History of the Stationary Steam Engine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xv + 338. ISBN 0-521-34356-9. £45.00.

R. N. Giere. Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1988. Pp. xxi + 321. ISBN 0-226-269205-3. £27.95.

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A very astronomical poet

A profession of discovery: Physiology in nineteenth-century history

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R. Nola (ed.). Relativism and Realism in Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988. Pp. x + 299. ISBN 90-277-2647-7. £48.00.

Amalie M. Kass & H. Kass. Perfecting the World: the Life and Times of Dr. Thomas Hodgkin, 1798–1866. Boston, Massachusetts: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. Pp. xxx + 642. ISBN 0-15-171700-1. £24.50, $34.95.

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Catherine Caufield. Multiple Exposures, Chronicles of the Radiation Age. London: Seeker and Warburg, 1989. Pp. xii + 304. ISBN 0-436-09478-9. £12.95.

George Levine. Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction. Cambridge Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 1989. Pp. xi + 319. ISBN 0-674-19285-0. £21.95.

R. W. Home (ed.). Australian Science in the Making. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press in association with the Australian Academy of Science, 1988 (1989). Pp. xxvii + 413. ISBN 0-521-35556-7. £35.00, $65.00.

Richard Darwin Keynes. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xxix + 464. ISBN 0-521-23503-0. £35.00, $59.50.

Lynn Sumida Joy. Gassendi the Atomist: Advocate of History in an Age of Science. Cambridge: University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii + 311. ISBN 0-521-30142-4. £27.50, $34.50.

John Gascoigne. Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment: Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xi + 358. ISBN 0-521-35139-1. £32.50, $49.50.

Joan L. Richards. Mathematical Visions – The Pursuit of Geometry in Victorian England. New York: Academic Press, 1988. Pp. xiii + 266. ISBN 0-12-587445-6. $34.95.

Rafael Huertas. Orfila, Saber y Poder Médico. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1988. Pp. v + 435. ISBN 84-00-06745-2. No price given.

I. G. Kidd. Posidonius Volume II, The Commentary: (i) Testimonia and Fragments 1–149 & (ii) Fragments 150–293). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xii + 1058. ISBN 0-521-20062-8. £75.00.

Paul E. Ceruzzi. Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989. Pp. xi + 270. Cloth ISBN 0-262-03143-4. Paper ISBN 0-262-53082-1. No price given.

Harald Penrose. An Ancient Air: A Biography of John Stringfellow of Chard, the Victorian Aeronautical Pioneer. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. Pp. 183. ISBN 0-87474-752-X. $22.50.

John S. Doskey (ed.). The European Journals of William Madure. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988. Pp. 815. ISBN: 0-87169-171-X. $40.

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