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Volume 6 - December 1973

Book Reviews

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - The Road to Medical Enlightenment, 1650–1695. By Lester S. King. London: Macdonald, 1970. Pp. x + 209. £3.50.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Introduction to Newton's ‘Principia’. By I. Bernard Cohen. London: Cambridge University Press, and Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971. Pp. xxi + 380. £13.

Newtonian Studies - The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton. Volume V, 1683–1684. Ed. by D. T. Whiteside, with the assistance in publication of M. A. Hoskin and A. Prag. London: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. xxiv + 628. £20.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Le Physicien Ignace Gaston Pardies S.J. (1636–1673). By Ziggelaar S. J. August Copenhagen: Odense University Press, 1971. Pp. 242. Dan. kr. 60.00.

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - An Original Theory of the Universe. By Thomas Wright. Reprint with Introduction by Michael A. Hoskin. London: Macdonald, and New York: American Elsevier, 1971. Pp. xxxviii + 178. £10.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - The Experimenters. A Study of the Accademia del Cimento. By W. E. Knowles Middleton. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971. Pp. xvi + 415. £10.70.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg. Volume VII, 1670–1671; Volume VIII, 1671–1672. Ed. by A. Rupert and Marie Boas Hall. Madison, Milwaukee, and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970 and 1971. Pp. xxviii + 600 and xxvii + 663. $17.50 and $20.00.

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - James Hutton's System of the Earth, 1785; Theory of the Earth, 1788; Observations on Granite, 1794; together with Playfair's Biography of Hutton. Introduction by V. A. Eyles. Darien, Conn.: Hafner Publishing Company, 1970. Pp. xxiii + 203. $12.95.

Eighteenth Century - Natural Philosophy through the 18th Century and Allied Topics. Ed. by Allan Ferguson. London: Taylor and Francis, 1972. Pp. xii + 164. £5.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton. Volume IV, 1674–1684. Edited by D. T. Whiteside, with the assistance in publication of M. A. Hoskin and A. Prag. London: Cambridge University Press, 1971. Pp. xxxiv + 678. £18.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Force in Newton's Physics. The Science of Dynamics in the Seventeenth Century. By Richard S. Westfall. London: Macdonald, and New York: American Elsevier, 1971. Pp. xii + 579. £10.

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - La Genèse de la Science des Cristaux. By Hélène Metzger. New edition. Paris: Albert Blanchard, 1969. Pp. 284. 15 francs.

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Jean d'Alembert. Science and the Enlightenment. By Thomas L. Hankins. Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1970. Pp. xii + 260. £3.50.

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - The Caloric Theory of Gases from Lavoisier to Regnault. By Robert Fox. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. xv + 378. £5.

Eighteenth Century - James Burnett. Lord Monboddo. By E. L. Cloyd. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1972. Pp. xii + 196. £4.50.

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Affinity and Matter. Elements of Chemical Philosophy 1800–1865. By Trevor H. Levere. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. xvii + 230. £4.50.

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Dollars for Research: Science and its Patrons in Nineteenth-Century America. By Howard S. Miller. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1970. Pp. xi + 258. $9.50.

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Volume 6 - December 1973

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