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Volume 4 - June 1968

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History of Mathematics - The Mathematical Papers of Sir William Rowan Hamilton. Volume III. Algebra. Edited for the Royal Irish Academy by H. Halberstam and R. E. Ingram. Pp. xxiv + 672. London: Cambridge University Press. 1967. £10 10s.

Islam - Science and Civilization in Islam. By Seyyed Hussein Nasr, with a preface by Giorgio de Santillana. Harvard University Press and Oxford University Press. 1968. Pp. 384. 85s. 6d.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Petrus Ramus en de wiskunde. By J. J. Verdenk. Assen, Netherlands. Van Gorcum. 1966. Pp. x + 455. 34.90 Dutch guilders.

Seventeenth Century - Experimental Philosophy. By Henry Power. Ed. by Marie Boas Hall. Johnson Reprint Corporation, New York and London. 1966. Pp. xxvii + 193. $12.50.

History of Crystallography - Origins of the Science of Crystals. By John G. Burke. Pp. 198, illustr. University of California Press and Cambridge University Press. 1966. 52s.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - The Cambridge Economic History of Europe: Vol. IV, The Economy of Expanding Europe in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Edited by E. E. Rich and C. H. Wilson. London: Cambridge University Press. 1967. Pp. xxxii + 642. 75s.

China - John Fryer: The Introduction of Western Science and Technology into Nineteenth Century China. By Adrian Arthur Bennett. Harvard University Press and Oxford University Press. 1967. (Harvard East Asian Monographs no. 24.) Pp. 157 + xii. 31s.

Eighteenth Century - The Elements of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy. By Voltaire. Trans. John Hanna. London: Frank Cass. 1967. Pp. xvi + 363. 90s.

Middle Ages - Albertus Magnus, Book of Minerals. Translated by Dorothy Wyckoff. London: Oxford University Press: Clarendon Press. 1967. Pp. xlii + 309. 84s.

Eighteenth Century - Die Französische Pendule des 18. Jahrhunderts: ein Beitrag zu ihrer Ikonologie. By Klaus Maurice. Berlin: de Gruyter & Co. 1967. Pp. x + 124. 6 figs., 59 plates. Price not stated.

History of Medicine - Bulletin de la Société Française d'Histoire de la Médecine, Tome i. Pp. 505; plates. Paris: R. Lacer [1902], 1967. 48 F.

Seventeenth Century - A Bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne, Kt, M.D. By Geoffrey Keynes. Second Edition. London: Oxford University Press: Clarendon Press. 1968. Pp. xv + 293. Illustr. £7 7s.

History of Botany - Botanical Latin. By William T. Stearn. Pp. xiv + 556. 41 figs. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons. 1966. 105s.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - L'Expérience du Mouvement: Jean-Baptiste Baliani, disciple et critique de Galilée. By Serge Moscovici. Paris: Hermann. 1967. Pp. 263. 9 pl., 26 figs. 15 F.

Eighteenth Century - A Scientific Autobiography of Joseph Priestley (1733–1804): Selected Scientific Correspondence. Edited with Commentary by Robert E. Schofield. Cambridge, Mass. and London: M.I.T. Press. 1966. Pp. xiv + 415. $13.50.

Seventeenth Century - The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College. By John Ward. (Facsimile of the 1740 London edition.) New York and London: Johnson Reprint Corporation. 1967. Pp. xxiv + 338 + 156. Plates. $20.00.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Records of the Australian Academy of Science, Vol. 1. Canberra. No. 1. 1966. Pp. 69. No. 2. 1967. Pp. 154. $A1.50 per issue.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Science in Utopia. A Mighty Design. By Nell Eurich. Harvard University Press. London: Oxford University Press. 1967. Pp. x + 332. 74s.

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