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Volume 10 - November 1977

Book Reviews

General - Women in Science. By H. J. Mozans. Facsimile of 1913 edition. Introduction by Mildred Dressenhaus. Cambridge, Mass., and London: M.I.T. Press, 1974. Pp. xvii + 452. £2.50.

General - Science and Religious Belief. A Selection of Recent Historical Studies. Ed. by C. A. Russell. London: University of London Press in association with The Open University Press, 1973. Pp. viii + 323. £1.70 (paperback).

Sociology of Science - Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory. By Barry Barnes. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974. Pp. x + 192. £3.95; £1–95 (paperback).

Natural History - Natural History Auctions 1700–1972. A Register of Sales in the British Isles. Compiled by J. M. Chalmers-Hunt. London: Sotherby Parke Bernet, 1976. Pp. xii + 189. No price stated.

General - Sale Catalogues of Libraries of Eminent Persons. Vol. II Scientists. General Editor: A. N. L. Munby. Edited with introduction by H. A. Feisenberger. London: Mansell with Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, 1975. Pp. 296. £11.50.

Astronomy - The Milky Way: An Elusive Road for Science. By Stanley L. Jaki. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1973. Pp. xi + 352. £5.95.

Medicine - History of Physiology. By Karl E. Rothshuh. Ed. and trans. by Guenter B. Risse. Huntington, New York: Krieger, 1973. Pp. xxii + 379. No price stated.

Middle Ages - Studies in Medieval Philosophy, Science, and Logic. Collected Papers, 1933–1969. By Ernest A. Moody. Berkeley, Los Angeles, & London: University of California Press, 1975. Pp. xx + 454. £11.00.

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Galileo. By Colin A. Ronan. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1974. Pp. 264. £5.00.

Medicine - Public Health and the Medical Profession in the Renaissance. By Carlo Cipolla. London: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. viii + 136. £5.50.

Medicine - The Birth of the Clinic. An Archaeology of Medical Perception. By Michel Foucault. Trans. by A. M. Sheridan-Smith. London: Tavistock, 1973. PP. xix + 215. £4–20; £3·20 (paperback; 1976).

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Thomas White's De Mundo Examined. By Thomas Hobbes. Translated by Harold Whitmore Jones. London: Bradford University Press in conjunction with Crosby Lockwood Staples, 1976. Pp. xi + 518. £18.00.

Agriculture - Crop Nutrition: Science and Practice before Liebig. By G. E. Fussell. Lawrence, Kansas: Coronado Press, 1971. Pp. 232. No price stated.

Medicine - The Hospital. A Social and Architectural History. By John D. Thompson and Grace Goldin. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1975. Pp. xxviii + 349. $25.00.

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - The Foundations of Newton's Alchemy or, ‘The Hunting of the Greene Lyon’. By Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. XV + 300. £10.50.

Antiquity - Le Problème des métaux dans la science antique. By Robert Halleux. Paris: Société d'Edition ‘Les Belles Lettres’, 1974, Pp. xvi + 236. 40 francs.

Scientific Instruments - Scientific Instruments. By Harriet Wynter and Anthony Turner. London: Studio Vista, 1975. Pp. 239. £12.50.

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