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Volume 23 - December 1990

Book Reviews

Desmond M. Clarke. Occult Powers and Hypotheses: Cartesian Natural Philosophy under Louis XIV. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, Pp. x + 265. ISBN 0-19-824812-1. £27.50.

David S. Lux. Patronage and Royal Science in Seventeenth-Century France. The Académie de Physique in Caen. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1989. Pp. xiii + 199. ISBN 0-8014-2334-1. $31.50.

Gad Freudenthal (ed). Études sur/Studies on Hélène Metzger. Corpus, no. 8/9 Paris, 1988. Pp. 280. ISSN 0296-8916. Fr.F. 70.

Spencer R. Weart. Nuclear Fear: A History of Images. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1988. Pp. xx + 535. ISBN 0-674-62835-7. £23.50.

G. A. J. Rogers & Alan Ryan (eds). Perspectives on Thomas Hobbes. Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1988. Pp. x + 209. IBSN 0-19-824998-5. £22.50.

Alan Twyman. In Search of the Mysterious Dr Weeks: A Fragment of Sandwich History. Sandwich: The Author (10 Strand Street, Sandwich, Kent, CT13 9DX, England), 1989. Pp. xi + 164. ISBN 0-9513889-0-8. £4.95.

Patrick Brantlinger (ed.). Energy and Entropy: Science and Culture in Victorian Britain. Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1989. Pp. xxii + 352. ISBN 0-253-31928-5. $29.95.

George Basalla. The Evolution of Technology. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-521-29681. £8.95 (paper)

Susan Sheets-Pyenson. Cathedrals of Science: The Development of Colonial Natural History Museums during the Late Nineteenth Century. Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1988. Pp. 144, ill. ISBN 0-7735-0655-1. £19.95.

R. Kieckhefer Magic in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. x + 219. ISBN 0-521-31202-7. Hardback, £20, $39.50; Paperback, £6.95, $9.95.

E. Harrison. Darkness at Night, a Riddle of the Universe. Cambridge, Mass, and London, Harvard University Press: 1987. Pp. 293. ISBN 0-674-19274-0. £19.95 cloth, £10.25 paperback.

Galileo Galileo. Sidereus Nuncius or the Sidereal Messenger, translated with introduction, conclusion, and notes by Albert Van Helden. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Pp. xii + 127. ISBN 0-226-27903-0. £23.95, $34.50 (cloth). £6.25, $9.25 (paper).

Nicole Hulin-Jing. L'organisation de l'enseignement des sciences: la voie ouverte par le second Empire. Paris: Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 1989. Pp. 336. ISBN 2-7355-0171-X. 200 F.Fr.

Robert N. Proctor. Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 1988. Pp. viii + 414. ISBN 0-674-74580-9. £25.25, $34.95.

Roy Porter. Health for Sale: Quackery in England 1660–1850. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1989. Pp. xii + 280. ISBN 0-7190-1903-6. £19.95.

T. N. Clarke, A. D. Morrison-Low & A. D. C. Simpson. Brass & Glass. Scientific Instrument Making Workshops in Scotland as Illustrated by Instruments from the Arthur Frank Collection at the Royal Museum of Scotland. Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland, 1989. Pp. 320. ISBN 0-984636-06-8. £25.00.

Hiram Caton. The Politics of Progress. The Origins and Development of the Commerical Republic, 1600–1835. Gainesville, Florida, University of Florida Press: 1988. Pp. xi 627. ISBN 0-8130-0847-6. $49.

Nikolaos A. Peppas (ed.). One Hundred Years of Chemical Engineering. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. Pp. vii + 414. ISBN 0-7923-0145-5. £59.00, $99.00

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