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Volume 11 - November 1978

Book Reviews

Medicine - The Rise of the Medical Profession: a Study of Collective Social Mobility. By Noel and José Parry. London: Croom Helm, 1976. Pp. v + 282. £8.50.

General - The Nature of Science: The History of Science in Western Culture since 1600. By David Knight. London: André Deutsch, 1976. Pp. 215. £4.95.

Scientific Instruments - Thinkers and Tinkers: Early American Men of Science. By Silvio A. Bedini. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. Pp. xix + 520. $17.50.

Bibliography - Communication in Science. By A. J. Meadows. London: Butterworths, 1974. Pp. 248. £6.00.

Scientific Instruments - Benjamin Martin: Author, Instrument-Maker, and ‘Country Showman’. By John R. Millburn. Leyden: Noordhoff International Publishing, 1976. Pp. xii + 244. Dfl. 63.

Geology - History of the Earth Sciences during the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions. By D. H. Hall. Amsterdam, Oxford, & New York: Elsevier, 1976. Pp. xi + 297. $19.25.

Middle Ages - Science and Creation in the Middle Ages: Henry of Langenstein (d 1397) on Genesis. By Nicholas H. Steneck. Notre Dame & London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1976. Pp. 231. £9.75.

American Science - The Pursuit of Knowledge in the Early American Republic: American Scientific and Learned Societies from Colonial Times to the Civil War. Ed. by Alexandra Oleson and Sanborn C. Brown. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Pp. xxv + 372. £11.55.

Architecture - English Architecture: An Illustrated Glossary. By James Stevens Curl. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1977. Pp. 192. £9.50.

American Science - No Other Gods. On Science and American Social Thought. By Charles E. Rosenberg. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Pp. xiii + 273. £9.45.

Middle Ages - Richard of Wallingford. An edition of his writings with introductions, English translation, and commentary by J. D. North. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1976. 3 vols. Pp. xxii + 567; v + 387; viii + 318 + XXIV plates. £75.00.

Renaissance - The Italian Renaissance of Mathematics: Studies on Humanists and Mathematicians from Petrarch to Galileo. By Paul Lawrence Rose. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1975. Pp. xiii + 316. No price stated.

Science and Literature - Science and the Human Comedy. By Harcourt Brown. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976. Pp. xx + 224. £9.75.

Antiquity - Articles on Aristotle, Volume i. Science. Edited by Jonathan Barnes, Malcolm Schofield, and Richard Sorabji. London: Duckworth, 1975. Pp. xii + 224. £3.50.

Antiquity - Aristotle's Posterior Analytics. Translated with Notes by Jonathan Barnes. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. xix + 277. £3.00 (paperback).

Science and Literature - ‘Kubla Khan’ and The Fall of Jerusalem. The Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature, 1770–1880. By E. S. Shaffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. x + 361. £9.50.

Renaissance - Essays on the Life and Works of Thomas Linacre, c. 1460-1524. Edited by Francis Maddison, Margaret Peiling, and Charles Webster. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. liii + 416. £12.00.

Science and Literature - The Lay of the Land. Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters. By Annette Kolodny. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1975. Pp. xiv + 186. No price stated.

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