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ERNEST B. HOOK (ed.), Prematurity in Scientific Discovery: On Resistance and Neglect. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xx+378. ISBN 0-520-23106-6. £55.00, $80.00 (hardback).
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GEORGE LEVINE, Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xi+326. ISBN 0-226-47536-0. £31.50, $45.00 (hardback).
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- 24 May 2004, pp. 212-213
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ROSALIND WILLIAMS, Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2002. Pp. xv+252. ISBN 0-262-23223-5. £18.50 (hardback).
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PAOLA GOVONI, Un pubblico per la scienza: La divulgazione scientifica nell'Italia in formazione. Studi storici Carocci, 27. Rome: Carocci editore, 2002. Pp. 351. ISBN 88-430-2321-7. €23.50 (paperback).
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- 24 May 2004, pp. 216-217
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LILLIAN HODDESON and VICKI DAITCH, True Genius: The Life and Science of John Bardeen, the Only Winner of Two Nobel Prizes in Physics. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press, 2002. Pp. xi+467. ISBN 0-309-08408-3. £20.95, $27.95 (hardback).
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- 24 May 2004, pp. 230-231
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PAOLO ROSSI, Logic and the Art of Memory: The Quest for a Universal Language. Translated with an Introduction by Stephen Clucas, London: The Athlone Press, 2000. Pp. xxviii+333. ISBN 0-485-11468-2. £50.00 (hardback).
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- 24 May 2004, pp. 200-201
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PETER DEAR, Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500–1700. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. viii+208. ISBN 0-333-71574-8. £14.99 (paperback).
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RICHARD L. HILLS, James Watt, Volume 1: His Time in Scotland, 1736–1774. Landmark Collector's Library. Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 2002. Pp. 480. ISBN 1-84306-045-0. £29.95 (hardback).
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- 24 May 2004, pp. 203-206
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AGUSTÍ NIETO-GALAN, Colouring Textiles: A History of Natural Dyestuffs in Industrial Europe. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 217. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. Pp. xxv+246. ISBN 0-7923-7022-8. £59.00, $84.00, €97.00 (hardback).
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- 24 May 2004, pp. 214-215
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MICHEL CHAOULI, The Laboratory of Poetry: Chemistry and Poetics in the Work of Friedrich Schlegel. Parallax. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv+290. ISBN 0-8018-6884-X. £33.50, $45.00 (hardback).
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- 24 May 2004, pp. 211-212
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ANTONY KAMM and MALCOLM BAIRD, John Logie Baird: A Life. Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland Publishing, 2002. Pp. xii+465. ISBN 1-901663-76-0. £25.00 (hardback).
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- 24 May 2004, pp. 221-222
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RENÉ SIGRIST (ed.), H.-B. de Saussure (1740–1799): Un Regard sur la terre. Bibliothèque d'histoire des sciences, 4. Geneva and Paris: Georg Editeur, 2001. Pp. x+540. ISBN 2-8257-0740-6. No price given (paperback). ALBERT V. CAROZZI and JOHN K. NEWMAN (eds.), Lectures on Physical Geography given in 1775 by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure at the Academy of Geneva/Cours de géographie physique donné en 1775 par Horace-Bénédict de Saussure à l'Académie de Genève. Geneva: Éditions Zoé, 2003. Pp. xxii+527. ISBN 2-88182-481-1. No price given (paperback). HORACE-BÉNÉDICTDE SAUSSURE, Voyages dans les Alpes: Augmentés des Voyages en Valais, au Mont Cervin et autour du Mont Rose. With a Foreword by Albert V. Carozzi. Geneva: Editions Slatkine, 2002. Pp. xviii+300. ISBN 2-8321-0047-3. No price given (hardback).
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- 24 May 2004, pp. 206-207
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GUY HARTCUP, The Effect of Science on the Second World War. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xvii+214. ISBN 1-4039-0643-2. £17.99 (paperback).
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- 24 May 2004, pp. 241-243
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COLIN DIVALL and ANDREW SCOTT, Making Histories in Transport Museums. Making Histories in Museums. London and New York: Leicester University Press, 2001. Pp. x+221. ISBN 0-7185-0106-3. £60.00 (hardback).
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- 24 May 2004, pp. 238-239
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JOHN WALLER, Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xi+308. ISBN 0-19-280404-9. £18.99 (hardback).
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- 24 May 2004, pp. 236-237
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DAVID CANTOR (ed.), Reinventing Hippocrates. The History of Medicine in Context. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. Pp. x+341. ISBN 0-7546-0528-0. £55.00 (hardback).
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- 24 May 2004, pp. 197-199
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HELEN ROSS and CORNELIS PLUG, The Mystery of the Moon Illusion: Exploring Size Perception. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. ix+277. ISBN 0-19-850862-X. £29.95 (hardback).
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NATALIA LOZOVSKY, ‘The Earth is Our Book’: Geographical Knowledge in the Latin West ca. 400–1000. Recentiores: Latin Texts and Contexts. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Pp. ix+182. ISBN 0-472-11132-9. £28.00, $44.50 (hardback).
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- 24 May 2004, pp. 196-197
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HÉLèNE GISPERT (ed.), ‘Par la Science, pour la patrie’: L'Association française pour l'avancement des sciences (1872–1914), un projet politique pour une société savante. Collection Carnot. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2002. Pp. 372. ISBN 2-86847-681-3. €23.00 (paperback).
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- 24 May 2004, pp. 225-227
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