10019 results in History of science: general interest
Philip K. Wilson, Surgery, Skin and Syphilis: Daniel Turner's London (1667–1741). Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine: Clio Medica 54. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1999. Pp. xv+312. ISBN 90-420-0526-2. £48, $88·50 (hardback); ISBN 90-420-0516-5. £13·50, $22·50 (paperback).
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Thomas R. Dunlap, Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Studies in Environment and History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xv+350. ISBN 0-521-65700-8. £13·95, $19·95 (paperback).
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- 09 January 2002, pp. 486-488
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Making stars: projection culture in nineteenth-century German astronomy
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- 09 January 2002, pp. 439-451
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Michael Faraday, Experimental Researches in Electricity. Volume I, reprinted from the first edition, 1839. With an introduction by Howard Fisher. Santa Fe: Green Lion Press, 2000. Pp. 10+viii+574. ISBN 1-888009-09-8; Experimental Researches in Electricity. Volume II, reprinted from the first edition, 1844. Sante Fe: Green Lion Press, 2000. Pp. 2+viii+302. ISBN 1-888009-10-1; Experimental Researches in Electricity. Volume III, reprinted from the first edition, 1855. Sante Fe: Green Lion Press, 2000. Pp. viii+588. ISBN 1-888009-11-X. $120·00 (three hardback volumes).
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The discovery of natural goods: Newton's vocation as an ‘experimental philosopher’
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- 09 January 2002, pp. 395-416
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James H. Fetzer (ed.), Science, Explanation, and Rationality: Aspects of the Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xxix+342. ISBN 0-19-512137-6. £37·50 (hardback).
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The hidden truth of creation: Newton's method of fluxions
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Michael Friedman, A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger. Chicago: Open Court Press, 2000. Pp. xv+175. ISBN 0-8126-9425-2. $24·95 (paperback).
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Roger French, Dissection and Vivisection in the European Renaissance. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. Pp. ix+289. ISBN 1-85928-361-6. £55·00, $99·95 (hardback).
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Alan J. Rocke, Nationalizing Science: Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French Chemistry. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2001. Pp. xiii+443. ISBN 0-262-18204-1. £29·50 (hardback).
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William R. Shea (ed.), Science and the Visual Image in the Enlightenment. European Studies in Science History and the Arts, IV. Canton: Science History Publications, 2000. Pp. viii+232. ISBN 0-88135-285-3. $39·95 (hardback).
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Marc Rothenberg, Paul H. Theerman, Kathleen W. Dorman, John C. Rumm and Deborah Y. Jeffries (eds.), The Papers of Joseph Henry. Volume 7. The Smithsonian Years, January 1847–December 1849. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. Pp. xlviii+707. ISBN 1-56098-533-X. No price given (hardback). Marc Rothenberg, Kathleen W. Dorman, Deborah Y. Jeffries and Frank R. Millikan (eds.), The Papers of Joseph Henry. Volume 8. The Smithsonian Years, January 1850–December 1853. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. Pp. xlvii+548. ISBN 1-56098-891-6. No price given (hardback).
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Barbara Howard Traister, The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xviii+250. ISBN 0-226-81140-9. £19·00, $30·00 (hardback).
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Constantin Goschler (ed.), Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit in Berlin, 1870–1930. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. Pp. 232. ISBN 3-515-07778-2. DM 86·00 (paperback).
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Mikuláš Teich, Bier, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft in Deutschland 1800–1914: Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Industrialisierungsgeschichte. Vienna: Böhlau, 2000. Pp. 353. ISBN 3-205-99239-3. DM 69·80 (hardback).
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JUNE Z. FULLMER, Young Humphry Davy: The Making of an Experimental Chemist. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, 237. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2000. Pp. xvi+385. ISBN 0-87169-237-6. $30.00 (hardback).
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- 18 October 2001, pp. 341-373
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GERARD L'E. TURNER, Elizabethan Instrument Makers: The Origins of the London Trade in Precision Instrument Making. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv+305. ISBN 0-19-856566-6. £79.50 (hardback).
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- 18 October 2001, pp. 375-378
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SVEN WIDMALM (ed.), Vetenskapsbärarna – Naturvetenskapen i det svenska samhället, 1880–1950. Hedemora: Gidlunds förlag, 1999. Pp. 368. ISBN 91-7844300-8. No price given. GUSTAV HOLMBERG, Reaching for the Stars: Studies in the History of Swedish Stellar and Nebular Astronomy, 1860–1940. Lund Studies in the History of Science and Ideas, 13. Lund: Ugglan, 1999. Pp. 243. ISBN 91-628-3837-7. £10.00 (paperback).
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