Volume 14 - November 1981
Book Reviews
Natural, History - British Natural History Books, 1495–1900: a Handlist. By R. B. Freeman. London: Dawson, 1980. Pp. 437. £20.00.
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Middle Ages - Witelonis Perspectivae Liber Primus. Book 1 of Witelo's Perspectiva. An English Translation with Introduction and Commentary and Latin Edition of the Mathematical Book of Witelo's Perspectiva by Sabetai Unguru. Studia Copernicana, XV. Wrolcaw et alibi: Ossolineum, The Polish Academy of Sciences Press, 1977. Pp. 332; 14 plates. Zl. 150.
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Renaissance and Seventeenth Century - Robert Fludd and his Philosophicall Key: being a Transcription of the manuscript at Trinity College, Cambridge. With an Introduction by Allen G. Debus. New York: Science History Publications, 1979. Pp. xii +156. $40.00/£20.00.
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Philosophy of Science - Science, Revolution and Discontinuity. By John Krige. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1980. Pp. 231. £18.95.
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Renaissance - Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century. Edited by Charles Webster. Cambridge Monographs on the History of Medicine, 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv + 394. $39.95/£18.50.
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Sociology of Knowledge - Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact. By Ludwik Flek. Ed. by Thaddeus J. Trenn and Robert K. Merton. Translated by Fred Bradley and Thaddeus J. Trenn. Chicago & London: Chicago University Press, 1979. Pp. xxviii + 203. £10.50 $22.75.
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Renaissance and Seventeenth Century - Witch Hunting, Magic and the New Philosophy: An Introduction to Debates of the Scientific Revolution, 1450–1750. By Brian Easlea. Brighton: Harvester, 1980. Pp. xii + 283.£25.00/£8.50 (paperback).
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Geology - Two Hundred Years of Geology in America. Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology. Ed. by Cecil J. Schneer. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1979. Pp. xvii + 385. $20.00.
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Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries - Nature, Culture and Gender. Ed. by Carol P. MacCormack and Marilyn Strathern. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. x + 227. £12.00/£3.95 (paperback).
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Eighteenth Century - The Construction of a Thermometer. By James Six. Prefaced by an Account of his Life & Works and the Use of his Thermometer over Two Hundred Years by Jill Austin & Anita McConnell. London: Nimbus Books, 1980. Pp. 28 + xiv + 64 + xxiv. £15.00.
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Medicine - The Genesis of Cancer: a Study in the History of Ideas. By L. J. Rather. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978, pp. xiv + 262. £12.25.
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Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries - Natural Knowledge in Social Context: the Journals of Thomas Archer Hirst FRS. By William H. Brock and Roy M. MacLeod. London: Mansell, 1980. 80 microfiches. £168.00.
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Eighteenth Century - The Playfair Collection and the Teaching of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, 1713–1858. By R. G. W. Anderson. Edinburgh: The Royal Scottish Museum, 1978. Pp. viii + 175. £4.50.
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Nineteenth Century - Technology and Toil in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Documents edited by Maxine Berg. London: CSE Books; Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1979. Pp. 246. No price stated.
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Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries - German-Jewish Pioneers in Science, 1900–1933: Highlights in Atomic Physics, Chemistry and Biochemistry. By David Nachmansohn. Berlin, Heidelberg, & New York: Springer-Verlag, 1979. Pp. xx + 388. DM60/$33.00.
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Renaissance - The Renaissance Notion of Woman: A Study in the Fortunes of Scholasticism and Medical Science in European Intellectual Life. By Ian Maclean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. viii + 119. £7.50.
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Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries - The kindly fruits of the earth: recollections of an embryo ecologist. By G. Evelyn Hutchinson. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv + 264. (no price stated).
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Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Philosophers at war: the quarrel between Newton and Leibniz. By A. Rupert Hall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. xiv + 338. £15.00.
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Nineteenth Century - Museums of Madness: the Social Organization of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century England. By Andrew T. Scull. London: Allen Lane, 1979. Pp. 275. £8.50.
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Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Chemistry Transformed: the Paradigmatic Shift from Phlogiston to Oxygen. By H. Oilman McCann. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, 1978. Pp. x + 179. $14.95.
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