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Volume 10 - November 1977

Book Reviews

Antiquity - Probability and Statistical Inference in Ancient and Medieval Jewish Literature. By Nachum L. Rabinovitch. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1973. Pp. xiii + 205. $12.50.

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - The Gresham Lectures of John Flamsteed. Ed. by Eric G. Forbes. London: Mansell, 1975. Pp. xvii + 479. £18.

American and Canadian Science - Philadelphia's Philosopher Mechanics. A History of the Franklin Institute 1824–1865. By Bruce Sinclair. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkin University Press, 1974. Pp. xiv + 354. $15.00.

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Francis Place and the Early History of the Greenwich Observatory. By Derek Howse. New York: Science History Publications, 1975. Pp. 64. £4·50.

Seventeenth Century - Les Nouvelles Pensées de Galilée. Par Marin Mersenne. Edition critique par Pierre Costabel et Michel-Pierre Lerner. Introduction par Bernard Rochot. 2 vols. Paris: J. Vrin. 1973. Pp. 319. 75 francs.

Seventeenth Century - Medicine in Seventeenth Century England. A Symposium held at UCLA in honor of C. D. O'Malley. Ed. by Allen G. Debus. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1974. Pp. xiii + 485. £8.50.

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Condorcet. From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics. By Keith Michael Baker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975. Pp. xiv + 523. £14.85.

American and Canadian Science - The Formation of the American Scientific Community. The American Association for the Advancement of Science 1848–1860. By Sally Gregory Kohlstedt. Urbana, Chicago, and London: University of Illinois Press, 1976. Pp. xiii + 264 + Appendix. $10.95.

American and Canadian Science - A Curious Field-Book. Science and Society in Canadian History. Ed. by Trevor H. Levere and Richard A. Jarrell. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1974. Pp. x + 233. £3.50.

General - Reason, Ridicule and Religion, The Age of Enlightenment in England, 1660–1750. By John Redwood. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976. Pp. 287. £7.00.

Seventeenth Century - Public Welfare, Science, and Propaganda in Seventeenth Century France. The Innovations of Théophraste Renaudot. By Howard M. Solomon. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1972. Pp. xv + 290. £8.50.

Seventeenth Century - Leibniz and Dynamics: The Texts of 1692. By Pierre Costabel. Trans. by R. E. W. Maddison. London: Methuen, 1973. Pp. 141. £3.00

American and Canadian Science - Let us be Honest and Modest. Technology and Society in Canadian History. Ed. by B. Sinclair, N. R. Ball, and J. O. Petersen. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1974. Pp. xvi + 309. £3.80.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Joseph Fourier: The Man and the Physicist. By John Herivel. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. xii + 35O.

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Scottish Philosophy and British Physics 1750–1880. A Study in the Foundations of the Victorian Scientific Style. By Richard Olson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975. Pp. viii + 350. £11.00

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Visionary Physics. Blake's Response to Newton. By Donald Ault. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1974. Pp. xv + 229. £6.25.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Life Science in the Twentieth Century. By Garland E. Allen. New York, London, Sydney and Toronto: John Wiley and Sons, 1975. Pp. xxv + 258. $12–50.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Conquest of Mind: Phrenology and Victorian Social Thought. By David de Giustino. London: Croom Helm, 1975. Pp. viii + 248. £6.00.

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - William Scoresby Arctic Scientist. By Tom and Cordelia Stamp. Whitby: Caedmon of Whitby Press, 1976. Pp. xii + 253. £2.95.

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