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ALEX ROLAND with PHILIP SHIMAN, Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983–1993. History of Computing. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2002. Pp. xxvi+427. ISBN 0-262-18226-2. £33.50 (hardback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 622-624
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R. D. CONNOR and A. D. SIMPSON, with A. D. MORRISON-LOW (ed.), Weights and Measures in Scotland: A European Perspective. Edinburgh: NMS Publishing, 2004. Pp. xvi+842. ISBN 1-901663-88-4. £50.00 (hardback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 601-602
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TONY BALLANTYNE (ed.), Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific.The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500–1900. Vol. 6. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xxxv+367. ISBN 0-7546-3562-7. £75.00 (hardback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 591-593
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GRAEME J. N. GOODAY, The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practices. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxvi+285. ISBN 0-521-43098-4. £55.00, $85.00 (hardback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 621-622
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ERIC H. ASH, Power, Knowledge, and Expertise in Elizabethan England. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. ix+265. ISBN 0-8018-7992-2. £30.00 (hardback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 606-607
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ROY PORTER, Flesh in the Age of Reason: How the Enlightenment Transformed the Way We See Our Bodies and Souls. London: Penguin, 2004. Pp. xviii+574. ISBN 0-140-16735-8. £9.99 (paperback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 609-610
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 626-628
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LONDA SCHIEBINGER, Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xii+306. ISBN 0-674-01487-1. £25.95 (hardback). BERNARD BAILYN, Atlantic History: Concepts and Contours. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 149. ISBN 0-674-01688-2. £12.95 (hardback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 588-590
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Science, sociability and the improvement of Ireland: the Galway Mechanics' Institute, 1826–51
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 503-534
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JACK MEADOWS, The Victorian Scientist: The Growth of a Profession. London: The British Library, 2004. Pp. vi+202. ISBN 0-7123-0894-6. £16.95 (hardback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 613-614
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PETER ELMER (ed.), The Healing Arts: Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500–1800. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press in association with The Open University, 2004. Pp. xxix+408. ISBN 0-7190-6734-0. No price given (paperback). PETER ELMER and OLE PETER GRELL (eds.), Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500–1800: A Source Book. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press in association with The Open University, 2004. Pp. xx+380. ISBN 0-7190-6737-5. £16.99 (paperback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 605-606
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THEODORE M. PORTER, Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age. Princeton, NJ and London: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. viii+342. ISBN 0-691-11445-5. £22.95, $35.00 (hardback).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 619-620
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IWAN RHYS MORUS, When Physics Became King. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xii+303. ISBN 0-226-54202-5. $25.00 (paper).
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- 10 November 2006, pp. 610-611
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Misperception, illusion and epistemological optimism: vision studies in early nineteenth-century Britain and Germany
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- 23 August 2006, pp. 383-405
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- 23 August 2006, pp. 473-475
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JOHNVAN WYHE, Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xvii+282. ISBN 0-7546-3408-6. £49.50 (hardback).
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- 23 August 2006, pp. 456-458
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BERNARD LIGHTMAN (general ed.), Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists. 4 vols. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. ISBN 1-85506-999-7. £650.00 (hardback).
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- 23 August 2006, pp. 454-456
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ANITA BURDMAN FEFERMAN and SOLOMON FEFERMAN, Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp vi+425. ISBN 0-521-8049-7. £23.00, $35.00 (hardback).
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- 23 August 2006, pp. 469-470
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THOMAS P. HUGHES, Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xii+223. ISBN 0-226-35933-6. £16.00, $22.50 (hardback).
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- 23 August 2006, pp. 441-442
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KARL GRANDIN, NINA WORMBS and SVEN WIDMALM (eds.), The Science–Industry Nexus: History, Policy, Implications. Nobel Symposium 123. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications and the Nobel Foundation, 2004. Pp. xvii+457. ISBN 0-88135-365-5. $54.95 (hardback).
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- 23 August 2006, pp. 440-441
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