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Volume 18 - November 1985

Book Reviews

G. E. R. Lloyd, Science, Folklore and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xi + 260. ISBN 0-521-25314-4. £25.00, $49.50. Paperback ISBN 0-521-27307-2. £8.95, $16.95.

Sheldon Krimsky, Genetic Alchemy. The Social History of the Recombinant DNA Controversy. Cambridge, Mass., & London: MIT Press, 1982. Pp. xiii + 444. ISBN 0-262-11083-0. £17.50.

W. E. van Heyningen and John R. Seal. Cholera. The American Scientific Experience, 1947–1980. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1983. Pp. xviii + 343. £24.00.

G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, M. Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii and 501. ISBN 0-521-25444-2 £30.00 (Paperback £10.95).

S. Chandrasekhar, Eddington: The most distinguished astrophysicist of his time. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. 64. ISBN 0-521-25746-8. £7.50, $12.50.

Johannes Büttner (ed.) History of clinical chemistry. Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1983. Pp. 91. ISBN 3-11-008912-2. DM 98.

H. L. L. Busard, ed., The First Latin Translation of Euclid's Elements commonly ascribed to Adelard of Bath. Books I-VIII and Books X.36-XV.2. (Studies and Texts 64.) Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1983. Pp. vi + 425. $37.00.

David C. Lindberg, Roger Bacon's Philosophy of Nature. A Critical Edition, with English Translation, Introduction, and Notes, of De Multiplicatione speciarum and De speculis comburentibus. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Pp. lxxxi + 420. ISBN 0-19-858164-5. £40.00.

Peter Bowler, The eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian evolution theories in the decades around 1900. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Pp. xi + 291. ISBN 0-8018-2932-1. $25.00.

Hans Wussing, The genesis of the abstract group concept. A contribution to the history of the origin of abstract group theory. Cambridge, Mass., and London: MIT Press, 1984. Pp. 331. ISBN 0-262-23109-3. £28.50.

George W. StockingJr., (ed.), Observers Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. Pp. 242. ISBN 0-299-09450-2. $19.95.

A. Rahman, M. A. Alvī, S. A. Khan Ghorī, and K. V. Samba Murthy, Science and technology in mediaeval India—a bibliography of source materials in Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian. Delhi: Indian National Science Academy, 1982. Pp. xxxi + 719. Rs.200 (inland), $70 (foreign).

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. iv + 297. ISBN 0-521-25858-8. £25, $34.50, (Paperback £7.95, $9.95.)

Molly Harrower, Kurt Koffka: an unwitting self-portrait. Gainsville: University Presses of Florida, 1983. Pp. xvi + 334.ISBN 0-8130-0760-7. $30.

Frances A. Yates, Renaissance and reform: the Italian contribution. Collected essays volume II. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983. Pp. xii + 273. ISBN 0-7100-9530-9. £15.95.

John Hendry, The Creation of Quantum Mechanics and the Bohr-Pauli Dialogue. Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1984. Pp. 177. ISBN 90-277-1648-X. DF1 95. £23.50.

Trevor I. Williams, A History of the British Gas Industry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. xvii + 304. ISBN 0-19-858157-2. £18.50.

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