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Volume 26 - Issue 1 - March 1993

Book Reviews

Mary P. Winsor, Reading the Shape of Nature: Comparative Zoology at the Agassiz Museum. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991. ISBN 0-226-90215-3.

Ronald Rainger, An Agenda for Antiquity: Henry Fairfield Osborn and Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, 1890–1935. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991. Pp. xiii + 360. ISBN 0-8173-0536-X. $37.95.

Daniel M. Siegel, Innovation in Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory: Molecular Vortices, Displacement Current, and Light. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. x + 225. ISBN 0-521-35365-3. £30.00, $49.50.

Bruce J. Hunt, The Maxwellians. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991. Pp. xiii + 266. ISBN 0-8014-2641-3. $38.45.

Robert A. Rosenberg, Paul B. Israel, Keith A. Nier and Melodie Andrews (eds.), The Papers of Thomas A. Edison. Volume 2: From Workshop to Laboratory, June 1873 – March 1876. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Pp. xlviii + 842. ISBN 0-8018-3101-6. £54.00.

Yves Cohen and Klaus Manfrass (eds.), Frankreich und Deutschland: Forschung, Technologie und industrielle Entwicklung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Munich: C. H. Beck'schen Veragsbuchhandlung, 1990. Pp. xl + 491. ISBN 3-406-35092-5. DM. 88.

Elisabeth Crawford, Nationalism and Internationalism in Science, 1880–1939: Four Studies of the Nobel Population. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xii + 157. ISBN 0-521-40386-3. £27.95, $44.95.

René van der Veer and Jaan Valsiner, Understanding Vygotsky: A Quest for Synthesis. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991. Pp. xi + 450. ISBN 0-631-16528-2. £35.00.

J. Eisenstaedt and A. J. Kox (eds.), Studies in the History of General Relativity. Boston, Basel, Berlin: Birkhäuser, 1992. Pp. xii + 468. ISBN 0-8176-3479-7. SFr. 198.00.

B. Bertotti, R. Balbinot, S. Bergia and A. Messina (eds.), Modern Cosmology in Retrospect. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xx + 426. ISBN 0-521-37213-5. £45.00, $69.50.

Sabino Maffeo, SJ, In the Service of Nine Popes: 100 Years of the Vatican Observatory, translated by George V. Coyne, SJ. Rome: Specola Vaticana/Pontificia Academia Scientiarum, 1991. Pp. xvi + 241. ISBN 88-7761-046-8. $24.95.

Linda Sage, Pigment of the Imagination: A History of Phytochrome Research. San Diego: Academic Press, 1992. Pp. xx + 562. $99.50.

David F. Channell, The Vital Machine: A Study of Technology and Organic Life. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. xi + 192. ISBN 0-19-506040-7. $22.95.

L. A. Real and J. H. Brown (eds.), Foundations of Ecology: Classic Papers with Commentaries. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press (with the Ecological Society of America), 1991. Pp. xiv + 905.

Harold Dorn. The Geography of Science. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Pp. xx + 219. ISBN 0-8018-4151-8. No price given.

Judith A. Overmier and John Edward Senior, Books and Manuscripts of the Bakken. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press Inc.Folkestone: Shelwing Ltd, 1992. Pp. xvii + 512. ISBN 0-8108-2570-8. £59.65.

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