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Volume 23 - December 1990

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G. J. Whitrow. Time in History: The Evolution of our General Awareness of Time and Temporal Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. 217. ISBN 0-19-215361-7. £14.95.

Daniel M. Fox & Christopher Lawrence. Photographing Medicine: Images and Power in Britain and America since 1840. New York, Westport, London: Greenwood Press, 1988. Pp. 357. ISBN 0-313-23719-0. £36.50.

Peter J. Bowler. The Mendelian Revolution: The Emergence of Hereditarian Concepts in Modern Science and Society. London: Athlone Press, 1989. Pp. viii + 207. ISBN 0-485-11375-9. £35.00.

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Jed Z. Buchwald. The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light: Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Pp. xxiv + 474. ISBN 0-226-07884-1 (cloth) and 0-226-07886-8 (paper). £59.95, $86.25 (cloth) £19.95, $28.75 (paper).

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David Furley. Cosmic Problems: Essays on Greek and Roman Philosophy of Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv + 258. ISBN 0-521-33330-X.

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Ian Wylie. Young Coleridge and the Philosophers of Nature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. x + 176. ISBN 0-19-812983-1. £22.50.

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Report of Council for the Year 1989–90

British Society for the History of Science Report of Council for the Year 1989–90

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Raymond G. Stokes. Divide and Prosper: The Heirs of I. G. Farben under Allied Authority. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Pp. xiv + 290. ISBN 0-520-06248-5. £24.55.

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Anne Harrington. Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. xiii + 336. ISBN 0-691-08465-3. £24.70.

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Wilbur R. Knorr. The Ancient Tradition of Geometric Problems. Boston, Basel & Stuttgart: Birkhäuser, 1986. Pp. ix + 381 + 30 (indexes). £57.75. ISBN (US) 0-8176-3148-8/Europe 3-7643-3148-8. $69.00

Andrew Fenton Cooper. British Agricultural Policy, 1912–1936. A Study in Conservative Politics. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1989. Pp. vii + 240. ISBN 0-7190-2886-8. £29.95.

Derek Howse. Nevil Maskelyne, The Seaman's Astronomer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv + 280. ISBN 0-521-36261-X. £40.00, $59.50.

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Book Reviews

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Report of Council for the Year 1989–90

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