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Volume 12 - November 1979

Book Reviews

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - The Spirit of System: Lamarck and Evolutionary Biology. By Richard W. Burkhardt. Cambridge, Mass. & London: Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. 285. £11.95.

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BJH volume 12 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

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Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Le chimiste Claude-Louis Berthollet, 1748–1822: Sa Vie, son Oeuvre. By Michelle Sadoun-Goupil. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1977. Pp. xv + 392 + VIII plates. 126 francs.

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BJH volume 12 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

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Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - The Development of Microbiology. By Patrick Collard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. viii + 201. £6.50.

Short Notices of Books - Ricerche sull'atomismo del seicento. By Ugo Baldini, Giancarlo Zanier, Paolo Farina, and Francesco Trevisani. Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1977. Pp. 223. L. 5,000.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Pflanzenchemie zwischen Lavoisier und Liebig. By Reinhard Löw. Straubing & München: Donau-Verlag, 1977. Pp. vii + 404 + 75. DM 29.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Dear Russell–Dear Jourdain: a Commentary on Russell's Logic, Based on his Correspondence with Philip Jourdain. By I. Grattan-Guinness. London: Duckworth, 1977. Pp. 234. £14.00.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United States. By Harriet Zuckerman. New York: The Free Press, 1977. Pp. xv + 335. $14.95.

Shorter Notices of Books - Models of Man. By Martin Hollis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. vii + 198. £7.00.

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Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - A Sense of the Future: Essays in Natural Philosophy. By Jacob Bronowski. Cambridge, Mass. & London: The MIT Press, 1977. Pp. x + 286. $12.50.

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Notes on Contributors

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Short Notices of Books - Insects, Hygiene and History. By J. R. Busvine. London: Athlone Press, 1976. Pp. 262. £6.95.

Short Notices of Books - Medicine without doctors: home health care in American history. Edited by Guenter B. Risse, Ronald L. Numbers, and Judith Waltzer Leavitt. New York: Science History Publications, 1977. Pp. 124. $7·95/$4·95 (paperback).

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BJH volume 12 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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Short Notices of Books - The presentation of science by the media. By Greta Jones, Ian Connell, and Jack Meadows. Leicester: Primary Communications Research Centre, 1978. Pp. iv + 76. No price stated.

Television Review

Television Review - The Body in Question. Written and presented by DrJonathan Miller. BBC2 (UK), 111978–021979.

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Book Reviews

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Book Reviews

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