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Volume 11 - November 1978

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Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - The Correspondence of Isaac Newton. Volume vi: 1713–1718. Edited by A. Rupert Hall and Laura Tilling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Society of London, 1976. Pp. xxxviii + 499 + v plates. £25.00.

Antiquity - A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy. By O. Neugebauer. Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, I. Berlin, Heidelberg, & New York: Springer-Verlag, 1975. 3 vols. Pp. xxi + 1456. DM. 290.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century. The Gifford Lectures in the University of Edinburgh, 1973–4. By Owen Chadwick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. v + 286. £6.50. (Paperback, 1978, £3.95).

Middle Ages - Giles of Rome and the Medieval Theory of Conception: A Study of the De formatione corporis humani in utero. By M. Anthony Hewson. London: Athlone Press, 1975. Pp. viii + 268. £10.00.

Antiquity - A Survey of the Almagest. By Olaf Pedersen. Acta historica scientiarum naturalium et medicinalium, Edidit Bibliotheca Hauniensis, xxx. Odense: Odense University Press, 1974. Pp. 454. £20.

Antiquity - Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera Mechanism—a Calendar Computer from ca. 80 B.C. By Derek de Solla Price. New York: Science History Publications, 1975. Pp. 70. $8.50.

Middle Ages - Europe's Inner Demons. An Enquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-Hunt. By Norman Cohn. London: Heinemann for Sussex University Press, 1975. Pp. xvi + 302. £4.50.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Folia Baeriana I. Compiled by M. Valt and T. Ilomets, and edited by V. Kaavere and T. Sutt. Tallinn: Valgus, 1975. Pp. 181. 1.16 roubles.

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - L'etrenne, ou la neige sexangulaire. By Johann Kepler. Traduction critique par Robert Hallenx. Paris: Vrin, 1975. Pp. 169. No price stated.

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Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - The Correspondence of Isaac Newton. Vol. v: 1709–1713. Pp. li + 439. Edited by A. Rupert Hall and Laura Tilling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Society, 1975. £20.00.

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800. By Blanche Henrey. 3 vols. Pp. xxvi + 290; xvi + 178; xvii + 112. 194 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1975. £70.00.

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - An Index of British Mathematicians. Part 2: 1701–1760. By Peter John Wallis. Newcastle: Project for Historical Biobibliography, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1976. Pp. xxviii + 136. £1.50.

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Report of Council for the Year 1977–78

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Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Medical Revolution in France, 1789–1796. By David M. Vess. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press, 1975. Pp. 216. $12.00.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Martinus Van Marum, Life and Work. Ed. by E. Lefebvre and J. G. De Bruijn. Leyden: Noordhoff International Publishing, 1976. Pp. xi + 435 + 23 plates. Dfl. 60.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Darwin in America. The Intellectual Response, 1865–1912. By Cynthia Eagle Russett. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1976. Pp. 228. $4.95 (paperback).

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