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The moving forces of history
David Bloor
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05 January 2009, pp. 351-355
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Peter J. Bowler, The Fontana History of Environmental Sciences. Fontana History of Science Series. London: Fontana Press, 1992. Pp. xv + 634. ISBN 0-00-686184-9. £8.99.
Malcolm Nicolson
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05 January 2009, pp. 221-223
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George L. McDowell and Merle A. Sokolik, The Data of Euclid: Translated from the Text of Menge, with Introduction by Richard Delahide Ferrier. Baltimore: Union Square Press, 1993. Pp. xxi + 207. ISBN 0-9635924-0-8. $40.00.
George Molland
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05 January 2009, pp. 473-474
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Kepler's invention of the second planetary law
William H. Donahue
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05 January 2009, pp. 89-102
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Kepler saw it as one of the chief advantages of the Copernican system that it put order into the planetary motions. Although Copernicus had indeed noted that the planetary periods increase with their distance from the sun, he did not, as far as we know, attempt to find a relationship between the two. Believing that God would not have failed to establish some mathematically precise ratio, Kepler sought from the very first to find it. Thus we see, in some of his earliest surviving letters, his attempts to relate planetary periods to the radii of their orbits using circular quadrants intersected by straight lines. Right from the beginning, Kepler gave the sun that dynamic role that was to characterize his ‘new astronomy based upon physics’. Immediately after describing the nested polyhedra that he believed determined the number and distances of the planets, he wrote:
Next, there is a moving soul and an infinite motion in the sun, and a double decrement of motion in the movables. In the first place, there is the inequality of their circuits, caused by the unequal amplitude of the orbs, which would occur even were the moving power the same in all orbs. But (2) actually this moving power (like light, in optics) is weaker the further it is from the source.

Hubert L. L. Busard and Menso Folkerts, Robert of Chester's (?) Redaction of Euclid's Elements, the so-called Adelard II Version, 2 vols. Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhäuser Verlag, 1992. Pp. 959. ISBN 3-7643-2728-6. SFr. 348.00. - Ken'ichi Takahashi, The Medieval Latin Traditions of Euclid's Catoptrica: A Critical Edition of De speculis with an Introduction, English Translation and Commentary. Fukuolca: Kyushu University Press, 1992. Pp. viii + 373. ISBN 4-87378-299-6. No price given.
George Molland
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05 January 2009, p. 223
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The Piltdown man?
Tim Murray
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05 January 2009, pp. 103-104
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Rupert A. Hall, All Was Light: An Introduction to Newton's Opticks. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. xviii + 252. ISBN 0-19-853985-1. £35.00. - Alan E. Shapiro, Fits, Passions, and Paroxysms: Physics, Method, and Chemistry and Newton's Theories of Colored Bodies and Fits of Easy Reflection. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii + 400. ISBN 0-521-40507-6. £45.00, $69.95.
Antoni Malet
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05 January 2009, pp. 474-476
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Wanted: new word
Frank Greenaway
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05 January 2009, pp. 357-360
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Giulio Barsanti, La scala, la mappa, l'albero. Immagini e classificazioni della natura fra sei e ottocento. Firenze: Sansoni, 1992. Pp. xviii + 310. 60,000 Lire.
Antonello La Vergata
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05 January 2009, pp. 476-477
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Re-presenting Faraday
David Gooding
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05 January 2009, pp. 361-364
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Paola Zambelli, The Speculum astronomiae and its Enigma. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 135. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992. Pp. xvi + 352. ISBN 0-7923-1380-1. £66.00, $112.00, Dfl. 195.00.
J. D. North
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05 January 2009, pp. 224-225
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The final mission of HMS Beagle: clarifying the historical record
Nathan Dubowsky, Scott Michael Dubowsky
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05 January 2009, pp. 105-111
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D. M. Cannell, George Green, Mathematician and Physicist, 1793–1841. London: Athlone, 1993. Pp. xxvi + 265. ISBN 0-485-11433-X. £35.00.
Crosbie Smith
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05 January 2009, pp. 477-479
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The ‘Einstein-Laue’ discussion
W. Schröder, H.-J. Treder
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05 January 2009, pp. 113-114
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F. De Gandt (ed.), L'œuvre de Torricelli: Science Galiléenne et nouvelle géométrie. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1989 Pp. 247. ISBN 2-252-62032-X. No price given.
Glancarlo Nonnoi
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05 January 2009, pp. 365-366
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S. Y. Edgerton, The Heritage of Giotto's Geometry: Art and Science on the Eve of the Scientific Revolution. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991. Pp. x + 319. ISBN 0-8014-2573-5. $43.95. - T. Da C. Kaufmann, The Mastery of Nature: Aspects of Art, Science, and Humanism in the Renaissance. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xix + 325, ISBN 0-691-03204-1. $39.95.
J. V. Field
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05 January 2009, pp. 225-226
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Alexander S. Sharov and Igor D. Novikov. Edwin Hubble, the Discoverer of the Big Bang Universe, translated by Vitaly Kisin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xv + 187. ISBN 0-521-41617-5. £19.95, $34.95.
Jon Agar
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05 January 2009, pp. 479-480
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Michael Hunter (ed.), Letters and Papers of Robert Boyle: A Guide to the Manuscripts and Microfilm. Collections from the Royal Society. Bethesda, Maryland: University Publications of America, 1992. Pp. xlix + 90. ISBN 1-55655-217-3. No price given. - Peter Jones (ed.), Sir Isaac Newton: A Catalogue of Manuscripts and Papers Collected and Published on Microfilm by Chadwyck-Healey. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1991. Pp. xi + 148. ISBN 0-85964-226-7. £50.00 (provided free with the microfilms).
John Henry
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05 January 2009, pp. 115-116
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Erasmus Bartholin, Experiments on Birefringent Icelandic Crystal, translated by Thomas Archibald. Introduction by Jed Z. Buchwald and Kurt Moller Pedersen, with a facsimile of the original publication. Copenhagen: Danish National Library of Science and Medicine, 1991. Pp. 63 + 64. ISBN 87-7709-010-1. 160 DKK.
Frank A. J. L. James
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05 January 2009, pp. 366-367
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David C. Lindberg and Robert S. Westman (eds.), Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xxvii + 551. ISBN 0-521-34804-8. £14.95.
Stephen Pumfrey
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05 January 2009, pp. 226-228
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George L. McDowell and Merle A. Sokolik, The Data of Euclid: Translated from the Text of Menge, with Introduction by Richard Delahide Ferrier. Baltimore: Union Square Press, 1993. Pp. xxi + 207. ISBN 0-9635924-0-8. $40.00.

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Kepler's invention of the second planetary law

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The Piltdown man?

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Wanted: new word

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Giulio Barsanti, La scala, la mappa, l'albero. Immagini e classificazioni della natura fra sei e ottocento. Firenze: Sansoni, 1992. Pp. xviii + 310. 60,000 Lire.

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Re-presenting Faraday

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Paola Zambelli, The Speculum astronomiae and its Enigma. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 135. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992. Pp. xvi + 352. ISBN 0-7923-1380-1. £66.00, $112.00, Dfl. 195.00.

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The final mission of HMS Beagle: clarifying the historical record

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D. M. Cannell, George Green, Mathematician and Physicist, 1793–1841. London: Athlone, 1993. Pp. xxvi + 265. ISBN 0-485-11433-X. £35.00.

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The ‘Einstein-Laue’ discussion

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F. De Gandt (ed.), L'œuvre de Torricelli: Science Galiléenne et nouvelle géométrie. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1989 Pp. 247. ISBN 2-252-62032-X. No price given.

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Alexander S. Sharov and Igor D. Novikov. Edwin Hubble, the Discoverer of the Big Bang Universe, translated by Vitaly Kisin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xv + 187. ISBN 0-521-41617-5. £19.95, $34.95.

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David C. Lindberg and Robert S. Westman (eds.), Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xxvii + 551. ISBN 0-521-34804-8. £14.95.

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