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Volume 4 - June 1968

Book Reviews

Chemistry - Source Book in Chemistry, 1900–1950. (Ed.) Henry M. Leicester. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1968. Pp. xvii + 408. $11.95.

Twentieth Century - The Old Quantum Theory. By D. ter Haar. Edited with a historical introduction. Pp. x + 206. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1967. 21s.

History of Chemistry - Alfred Werner. Founder of Co-ordination Chemistry. By George B. Kauffman. Berlin, Heidelberg and New York: Springer-Verlag. 1966. Pp. xv + 127. DM. 24.

History of Geology - James Hutton—the Founder of Modern Geology. By Edward Battersby Bailey. Pp. xii + 161. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 1967. 50s.

History of Geology - Source Book in Geology, 1900–1950. Ed. by Kirtley F. Mather. Harvard University Press and Oxford University Press. 1967. £5.

Biology and Medicine - Theodor Boveri. Life and Work of a Great Biologist. By Fritz Baltzer, translated from the German by Dorothea Rudnick. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1967. Pp. xii + 165. 57s.

Twentieth Century - Sir Arthur Eddington. By C. W. Kilmister. Pp. vi + 279. The Commonwealth Library: Selected Readings in Physics. Oxford: Pergamon Press. 1966. 21s.

History of Mathematics - The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton, Volume I: 1664–1666. Edited by D. T. Whiteside, with the assistance in publication of M. A. Hoskin. London: Cambridge University Press, 1967. £10 10s.

Biology and Medicine - The Human Brain and Spinal Cord. A Historical Study Illustrated by Writings from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century. By Edwin Clark and C. D. O'Malley. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1968. Pp. xiii + 926. $25.00.

History of Medicine - Tom Rivers. Reflections on a Life in Medicine and Science. An Oral History. By Saul Benison. Pp. xxi + 682. Cambridge, Mass. and London: M.I.T. Press. 1967. 140s.

Science and Medicine in Classical Antiquity - Ancient Medicine. Selected Papers of Ludwig Edelstein. Ed. by Owsei Temkin and C. Lilian Temkin. Johns Hopkins Press and Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. xiv + 496. £5 19s.

Classical Antiquity - Die Fragmente des Eudoxos von Knidos. Herausgegeben, übersetzt und kommentiert von François Lasserre. (Texte und Kommentare—eine altertumswissenschaftliche Reihe, Bd. 4.) Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co.1966. Pp. viii + 299. DM 52.

Engineering - Engineering at Cambridge University 1783–1965. By T. J. N. Hilken. London: Cambridge University Press. 1967. Pp. xi + 276. Figs. 45s.

Science and Medicine in Classical Antiquity - Pythagoras and Early Pythagoreanism. By J. A. Philip. University of Toronto Press and Oxford University Press. 1966. Pp. x + 222. 52s.

Seventeenth Century - Kepler's Somnium: The Dream, or Posthumous Work on Lunar Astronomy. Translated with a commentary by Edward Rosen. Madison, Milwaukee and London: University of Wisconsin Press. Pp. xxiii + 255. 1967. 66s.

Engineering - Engineering: its Role and Function in Human Society. Edited by William H. Davenport and Daniel Rosenthal. New York: Pergamon Press. 1967. Pp. xii + 284. 63s.

History of Mathematics - Arithmetical Books from the Invention of Printing to the Present Time. By Augustus de Morgan. London, Taylor and Walton, 1847. Reprinted with an Introduction by A. Rupert Hall. Pp. (7) + xxviii + 124. London: Hugh K. Elliott Ltd.1966. £5 5s.

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