10019 results in History of science: general interest
MICHAEL HUNTER (ed.), The Occult Laboratory: Magic, Science and Second Sight in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland. A New Edition of Robert Kirk's The Secret Commonwealth and Other Texts. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2001. Pp. vii+247. ISBN 0-85115-801-3. £50.00, $90.00 (hardback).
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RICHARD DRAYTON, Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the ‘Improvement’ of the World. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xxi+346. ISBN 0-300-05976-0. £25.00 (hardback).
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EVELYN FOX KELLER, The Century of the Gene. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. 186. ISBN 0-674-00372-1. £15.95 (hardback).
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BRUCE STEPHENSON, MARVIN BOLT and ANNA FELICITY FRIEDMAN, The Universe Unveiled: Instruments and Images through History. Chicago: Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 152. ISBN 0-521-79143-X. £19.95, $29.95 (hardback).
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SAUL DUBOW (ed.), Science and Society in Southern Africa. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. x+241. ISBN 0-7190-5812-0. £45.00 (hardback).
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MARGARET A. M. MURRAY, Women Becoming Mathematicians: Creating a Professional Identity in Post-World War II America. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. vxiii+277. ISBN 0-262-13369-5. £10.50 (hardback).
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FREDERIC L. HOLMES and TREVOR H. LEVERE (eds.), Instruments and Experimentation in the History of Chemistry. Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. xxi+415. ISBN 0-262-08282-9. £34.50 (cloth).
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RANDALL A. DODGEN, Controlling the Dragon: Confucian Engineers and the Yellow River in Late Imperial China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001. Pp. ix+243. ISBN 0-8248-2366-4. $29.95 (paperback).
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JEFF LOVELAND, Rhetoric and Natural History: Buffon in Polemical and Literary Context. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2001[ratio ]03. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2001. Pp. ix+214. ISBN 0-7294-0747-0. £45.00, $67.50 (paperback).
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PETER DE CLERCQ, Scientific Instruments: Originals and Imitations. The Mensing Collection. Proceedings of a Symposium, held at the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, 15–16 October 1999. Leiden: Museum Boerhaave, 2000. Pp. 144. ISBN 90-6292-129-9. Dfl 75.00, €30.00 (paperback).
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HUGH R. SLOTTEN, Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920–1960. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xv+308. ISBN 0-8018-6450-X. £35.00 (hardback).
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TREVOR H. LEVERE, Transforming Matter: A History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball. Introductory Studies in the History of Science. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. x+215. ISBN 0-8018-6610-3. £12.50 (paperback).
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Diderot's views on artists' and inventors' rights: invention, imitation and reputation
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- 26 July 2002, pp. 129-150
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JOHN S. RIGDEN, Rabi: Scientist and Citizen. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xxix+302. ISBN 0-674-00435-3. £13.95 (paperback).
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PETER J. BEURTON, RAPHAEL FALK and HANS-JÖRG RHEINBERGER (eds.), The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution: Historical and Epistemological Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi+384. ISBN 0-521-77187-0. $59.95 (hardback).
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NEIL CHAMBERS (ed.), The Letters of Sir Joseph Banks: A Selection, 1768–1820. London: Imperial College Press, 2001. Pp. xliii+420. ISBN 1-86094-204-0. £33.00 (hardback).
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INGRID D. ROWLAND, The Ecstatic Journey: Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome. With an introduction by F. Sherwood Rowland. Chicago: University of Chicago Library, 2000. Pp. xiii+109. ISBN 0-94-305625-X. £9.00, $15.00 (paperback).
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Should the cobbler stick to his last? Silvanus Phillips Thompson and the making of a scientific career
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- 26 July 2002, pp. 151-186
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JOSÉ CHABÁS and BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN, Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the Transition from Manuscript to Print. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 90, Part 2. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2000. Pp. xii+196. ISBN 0-87169-902-8 (paper). No price given.
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