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Volume 23 - December 1990

Book Reviews

Cynthia Eagle Russett. Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1989. Pp. 245. ISBN 0-674-80290-X. £15.95, $25.00.

Dean Keith Simonton. Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. x + 229. ISBN 0-521-35287-8. £22.50.

Guicciardini Niccolo. The Development of Newtonian Calculus in Britain 1700–1800. Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xii + 228. ISBN 0-521-36466-3. £35.00, $54.50.

J. B. Harley & David Woodward (eds). The History of Cartography, Vol. I: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Pp. xxii + 599, 40 colour plates. ISBN 0-226-31633-5. $100.00.

Lynn L. Merrill. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xi + 288. ISBN 0-19-505203X. £24.00.

John M. Mackenzie. The Empire of Nature: Hunting, Conservation and British Imperialism. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp. x + 340. ISBN 0-7190-2227-4. £35.00.

Gabriel Moked. Particles and Ideas. Bishop Berkeley's Corpuscularian Philosophy. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988. Pp. ix + 245. ISBN 0-19-824990-X. £27.50.

Dominic J. O'Meara. Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and Philosophy in Late Antiquity. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. viii + 251. ISBN 0-19-824485-1. £27.50.

Herbert McLeod. Chemistry and Theology in Mid-Victorian London: The Diary of Herbert McLeod, 1860–1870. Edited with an introduction by Frank A. J. L. James, London and New York: Mansell, 1987. Pp. 30, 23 microfiches, index. No price given.

Robert Marc Friedman. Appropriating the Weather. Vilhelm Bjerknes and the Construction of a Modern Meteorology. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1989. Pp. xx + 251. ISBN 0-8014-2062-8. $38.45.

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Francisco Sanches. That Nothing is Known (Quod Nihil Scitur), with Introduction, notes and bibliography by Elaine Limbrick, Latin text, annotations, and translation by Douglas F. S. Thomson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. x + 310. ISBN 0-521-35077-8. £35.00, $49.50.

William R. Shea (ed.). Revolutions in Science: Their Meaning and Relevance. Canton: Science History Publications, 1988. Pp. xi + 291.

Daniel P. Todes. Darwin without Malthus: The Struggle for Existence in Russian Evolutionary Thought. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. 221. Illustrations. ISBN 0-19-505830-5. £38.00.

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BJH volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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Nicholas H. Clulee. John Dee's Natural Philosophy: Between Science and Religion. London and New York: Routledge, 1988. Pp. xiv + 347. ISBN 0-415-00625-2. £40.00. ISBN 0-415-03122-2. £14.95.

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BJH volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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Peter Weingart, Jürgen Kroll & Kurt Bayertz. Rasse, Blut und Gene. Geschichte der Eugenik und Rassenhygiene in Deutschland. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1988. Pp. 746. ISBN 3-518-57887-1. DM48 (paper).

P. J. & R. V. Wallis (with J. G. L. Burnby & T. D. Whittet). Eighteenth Century Medics (subscriptions, licences, apprenticeships). Newcastle-upon-Tyne: PHIBB, second edition, 1988. Pp. xx + 690. ISBN 1-871768-00-4. £80.00.

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