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Volume 20 - October 1987

Book Reviews

Trevor Pinch. Confronting Nature. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1986. Pp. xi + 268. ISBN 90-227-2224-2. £34.50, $49.50.

Gerlof Verwey. Psychiatry in an Anthropological and Biomedical Context. Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1985. Pp. xix + 316. ISBN 90-277-1713-3. £30.50.

Lewis Pyenson. The Young Einstein: The Advent of Relativity. Bristol and Boston: Adam Hilger, 1985. Pp. xiv + 246. ISBN 0-85274-779-9. £19.95, $28.00.

Report of the Council

British Society for the History of Science Report of Council for the Year 1986–1987

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Nikolas Rose. The Psychological Complex. Psychology, Politics and Society in England 1869–1939. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985. Pp. viii + 293. ISBN 0-7100-9809-1. £9.95 (paperback).

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BJH volume 20 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

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Edward Rosen. Three Imperial Mathematicians: Kepler Trapped Between Tycho Brahe and Ursus. New York: Abaris Books, 1986. Pp. 384. ISBN 0-89835-242-8. $20.00.

Andre Grelon (ed.). Les Ingénieurs de la Crise. Titre et Profession entre les Deux Guerres. Paris: Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1986. Pp. 461. ISBN 2-7132-0875-0. 250 FF.

A. D. Morrison-Low & J. R. R. Christie (eds), ‘Martyr of Science’: Sir David Brewster, 1781–1868. Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Museum, 1984. Pp. 138. ISBN 0-900733-29-2. £6.00.

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John Hendry. James Clerk Maxwell and the Theory of the Electromagnetic Field. Bristol and Boston: Adam Hilger, 1986. Pp. xix + 305. ISBN 0-85274-563-X. £30.00.

Tom Sorrell. Hobbes (The Arguments of the Philosophers, series ed. Ted Honderich). London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. Pp. xii + 163. ISBN 0-7100-9845-6. £14.95.

Hans Werner Schütt. Die Entdeckung des Isomorphismus. Hildesheim: Gerstenberg Verlag, 1984. Pp. 324. ISBN 3-8067-0902-5. No price given.

David Gooding & Frank A.J.L. James (eds). Faraday Rediscovered. Essays on the Life and Work of Michael Faraday, 1791–1867. London: Macmillan, 1986. Pp. xiv + 258. ISBN 0-333-39320-1. £35.00.

Roger Cooter. The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science: Phrenology and the Organisation of Consent in Nineteenth Century Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv + 418. ISBN 0-521-22743-7. £25.00.

Graham Bird. William James. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. Pp. ix + 221. ISBN 0-7100-9602-X. £15.95.

Steven B. Engelsman. Families of Curves and the Origins of Partial Differentiation. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1984. Pp. x + 238. ISBN 0-444-86897-6. US $29.00, Dfl. 85.00.

B. L. van der Waerden. A History of Algebra: From al-Khwarizmi to Emmy Noether. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo: Springer Verlag, 1985. Pp. xi + 271. ISBN 0-387-13610-X (U.S.) DM 98.00 (hard cover). (English price not given).

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