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Volume 22 - July 1989

Book Reviews

David B. Wilson. Kelvin and Stokes. A Comparative Study in Victorian Physics. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1987. Pp. xvi + 253. ISBN 0-85274-526-5. £35.00.

Whitney R. D. Jones, William Turner: Tudor Naturalist, Physician and Divine. London and New York: Routledge, 1988. Pp. iii + 223. ISBN 0-415-00359-8. £35.00.

Nancy G. Siraisi. Avicenna in Renaissance Italy. The ‘Canon’ and Medical Teaching in Italian Universities after 1500. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. 410. ISBN 0-691-05137-2. £31.40.

N.A. Figurovsku & Yu. I. Solovev. Aleksandr Porfir'evich Borodin. A Chemist's Biography. (Translated from the Russian by Charlene Steinberg & George B. Kauffman.) Berlin, New York and London: Springer Verlag, 1988. Pp. xiv + 171, illus. ISBN. 3-540-17888-0, $79.50.

David Knight. The Age of Science: The Scientific World View in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp. 251. ISBN 0-631-16176-7, £7.95. (Paper: original hardback edition 1986.)

J.R. Beniger. The Control Revolution. Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1986. Pp. x + 493. ISBN 0-674-16985-9. £21.25.

Goulven Laurent, Paléontologie et évolution en France de 1800 à 1860: Une histoire des idées de Cuvier et Lamarck à Darwin. Paris: Editions du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 1987. Pp. xiv + 554. ISBN 2-7355-0126-4. 350 FF.

Jules Six. La découverte du neutron (1920–1936). Paris: Editions du CNRS, 1988. Pp. 175. ISBN 2-222-04052-3. FF110.00 (paper).

Abraham Pais. Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv + 665. ISBN 0-19-851997-4, £9.95. (Paperback: original hardback edition 1986.)

Rowland F. Pocock, The Early British Radio Industry. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp: viii + 184. ISBN 0-7190-2621-0. £27.50.

Rolf Herken (ed.). The Universal Turing Machine: A Half-Century Survey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv + 661. ISBN 0-19-853741-7. £55.00

R.J. Tayler (ed.). History of the Royal Astronomical Society. Volume 2. 1920–1980. Oxford: Published for the Society by Blackwell Scientific Publications. ISBN 0-632-01792-9 (paperback), £14.50; ISBN 0-632-01791-0 (hardback), £29.50

Ronald Rainger, Keith R. Benson and Jean Maienschein, (eds). The American Development of Biology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. Pp. xii + 380. ISBN 0-8122-8092-X.

S. Warren Carey. Theories of the Earth and Universe. A History of Dogma in the Earth Sciences. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988. Pp. xviii + 413. ISBN 0-8047-1364-2. $45.00.

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David Kohn (ed.). The Darwinian Heritage. Princeton: Princeton University Press in association with Nova Pacifica, 1985. Pp. xii + 1138. ISBN 0-691-08356-8. £67.90 (cloth), £15.50 (paper).

J.G. O'Hara & Willibald Pricha. Hertz and the Maxwellians: A Study and Documentation of the Discovery of Electromagnetic Wave Radiation, 1873–1894. London: Peter Peregrinus Ltd., 1987. Pp. xiv + 154. ISBN 0-86341-101-0. £24.00.

Linda Bryder. Below the Magic Mountain. A Social History of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Britain. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Pp. xv + 298. ISBN 0-19-822947-X. £30.00.

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