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Volume 22 - July 1989

Book Reviews

Edwin Clarke & L.S. Jacyna. Nineteenth-Century Origins of Neuroscientific Concepts. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. viii + 593. ISBN 0-520-05694-9. No price given.

Pietro Corsi. The age of Lamarck: evolutionary theories in France, 1790–1830. Translated by Jonathan Mandelbaum. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Pp. xiii + 360. ISBN 0-520-05830-5. $42.00.

Daniel Roche. Les Republicains des Lettres. Gens de Culture et Lumières au XVIII Siècle. Paris: Fayard, 1988. Pp. 393. ISBN 2-213-02122-8. 160 FF (paper).

David N. Livingstone. Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science. Tuscaloosa, Al.: The University of Alabama Press, 1987. Pp. xiv + 395. ISBN 0-8173-0305-7. $32.95.

Adam De Wodeham. Tractatus de Indivisibilibus: A Critical Edition. Introduction, Translation, and Textual Notes by Rega Wood. Synthese Historical Library, Volume 31. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988. Pp. vii + 333. ISBN 90-277-2424-5. £74.00.

Peter Dear. Mersenne and the Learning of the Schools. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii + 264. ISBN 0-8014-1875-5. $28.50.

José Mariá López Piṅero. El arte de navegar en la España del Renacimiento. Barcelona: Editorial Labor, 2nd edn, 1986. Pp. 285. ISBN 84-335-0029-5. No price given.

G.W. Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics and Related Writings, (ed. and tr. by R.N.D. Martin & Stuart Brown). Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp. xi + 170. ISBN 0-7190-2338-6. £25.00.

Guy Picolet (ed.). Jean Picard et les Débuts de l'Astronomie de Précision au XVIIe Siècle. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1987. Pp. 382. ISBN 2-222-04104-X. FF 150.

Michael Chapman. Constructive evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-521-33163-3, £12.95 (paperback) 0-521-36712-3, £35 (hardback).

Joseph C. Pitt & Marcello Pera (eds). Rational Changes in Science: Essays on Scientific Reasoning. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1987. Pp. xiii + 224. ISBN 9-02772-417-2. £49.50; $64.00.

Pierre Thuillier. D'Archimède à Einstein: les Faces Cachées de l'Invention Scientifique. Paris: Fayard, 1988. Pp. xxvii + 395. FF 160.00. - Pierre Thuillier. Les Passions du Savoir: Essais sur les Dimensions Culturelles de la Science. Paris: Fayard, 1988. Pp. xii + 267. FF 145.00.

Therésè Charmasson, Anne-Marie Lelorrain, & Yannick Ripa. L'enseignement technique de la Révolution à nous jours Tome 1: 1789–1926. Paris: Institut National de la Recherche Pédagogique and Economica, 1987. Pp. 783. ISBN 2-7342-0146-1/2-7178-1323-3. 350FF.

Wolfcang-Hagen Hein. Alexander von Humboldt und die Pharmazie. Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgessellschaft, 1988. Pp. 130. ISBN 3-8047-0984-2. DM 29 (paper).

Science in Context, Volume 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Two issues per volume. ISSN 0269-8897. Subscription for volume 1 £31.00; $65.00 for institutions, £19.00; $37.00 for individuals.

Rachel Laudan. From Mineralogy to Geology: the Foundations of a Science, 1650–1830. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Pp. xii + 278. ISBN 0-226-46950-6. £21.95; $32.95 in Europe.

John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, Michael Shortland, & Robin Wilson (eds). Let Newton Be!. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-19-853924-X. £17.50.

Harry Redner. The Ends of Science: An Essay in Scientific Authority. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1987. Pp. xiv + 344. ISBN 3-0452-0; $39.50.

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