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Volume 22 - Issue 4 - December 1989

Book Reviews

David L. Hull. Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. xii + 586. ISBN 0-226-36050-4. £31.95.

Pietro Corsi. The age of Lamarck: evolutionary theories in France, 1790–1830. Translated by Jonathan Mandelbaum. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Pp. xiii + 360. ISBN 0-520-05830-5. $42.00.

Daniel Roche. Les Republicains des Lettres. Gens de Culture et Lumières au XVIII Siècle. Paris: Fayard, 1988. Pp. 393. ISBN 2-213-02122-8. 160 FF (paper).

Adam De Wodeham. Tractatus de Indivisibilibus: A Critical Edition. Introduction, Translation, and Textual Notes by Rega Wood. Synthese Historical Library, Volume 31. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988. Pp. vii + 333. ISBN 90-277-2424-5. £74.00.

Peter Dear. Mersenne and the Learning of the Schools. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii + 264. ISBN 0-8014-1875-5. $28.50.

Guy Picolet (ed.). Jean Picard et les Débuts de l'Astronomie de Précision au XVIIe Siècle. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1987. Pp. 382. ISBN 2-222-04104-X. FF 150.

Michael Chapman. Constructive evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-521-33163-3, £12.95 (paperback) 0-521-36712-3, £35 (hardback).

Therésè Charmasson, Anne-Marie Lelorrain, & Yannick Ripa. L'enseignement technique de la Révolution à nous jours Tome 1: 1789–1926. Paris: Institut National de la Recherche Pédagogique and Economica, 1987. Pp. 783. ISBN 2-7342-0146-1/2-7178-1323-3. 350FF.

Wolfcang-Hagen Hein. Alexander von Humboldt und die Pharmazie. Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgessellschaft, 1988. Pp. 130. ISBN 3-8047-0984-2. DM 29 (paper).

John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, Michael Shortland, & Robin Wilson (eds). Let Newton Be!. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-19-853924-X. £17.50.

Charles Webster. The Health Services Since the War. Volume 1. Problems of Health Care. The National Health Service Before 1957. London: H.M.S.O., 1988. Pp. x + 479. ISBN 0-11-630942-3. No price given.

Martin Campbell-Kelly (ed.). The Works of Charles Babbage. London: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd, 1989. 11 vols. ISBN 1-85196-005-8. £500.

Peter Alter. The Reluctant Patron: Science and the State in Britain, 1850–1920. Oxford: Berg, 1987. ISBN 0-907582-67-2. £30.

Montgomery Furth. Substance, Form and Psyche: an Aristotelean Metaphysics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv + 300. ISBN 0-521-34143-4. £30.

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