Volume 35 - December 2002
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Book reviews
JON AGAR, Turing and the Universal Machine: The Making of the Modern Computer. Revolutions in Science. Duxford: Icon Books, 2001. Pp. iv+153. ISBN 1-84046-250-7. £5.99, $9.95 (paperback).
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MYLES W. JACKSON, Spectrum of Belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. x+284. ISBN 0-262-10084-3. £23·95 (cloth).
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And? J. V. Field and Frank James (eds.), Science in Art: Works in the National Gallery that Illustrate the History of Science and Technology. BSHS Monographs, 11. Stanford in the Vale: British Society for the History of Science, 1997. Pp. 110. ISBN 0-906450-13-6. £15.00, $26.00 (paperback). James Hamilton (ed.), Fields of Influence: Conjunctions of Artists and Scientists 1815–1860. Birmingham: University of Birmingham Press, 2001. Pp. xiii+174. ISBN 0-902459-10-5. £20.00, $35.00 (hardback). David Bindman, Frèdéric Ogée and Peter Wagner (eds.), Hogarth: Representing Nature's Machines. Barber Institute's Critical Perspectives in Art History. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi+287. ISBN 0-7190-5919-4. £18.99 (paperback).
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EVELYN FOX KELLER, The Century of the Gene. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. 186. ISBN 0-674-00372-1. £15.95 (hardback).
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CHRISTINE KENYON-JONES, Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing. Nineteenth Century. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. Pp. viii+229. ISBN 0-7546-0332-6. £42.50 (hardback).
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ANDREA CARLINO, Paper Bodies: A Catalogue of Anatomical Fugitive Sheets 1538–1687. English translation by Noga Arikha. Medical History, Supplement 19. London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1999. Pp. xvi+352. ISBN 0-85484-069-9. $50·00 (hardback).
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JOHANNES KEPLER, Optics. Paralipomena to Witelo & Optical Part of Astronomy. English translation by William H. Donahue. Sante Fe: Green Lion Press, 2000. Pp. xv+459. ISBN 1-888009-12-8. $55.00.
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DAVID H. DEVORKIN, Henry Norris Russell: Dean of American Astronomers. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xix+499. ISBN 0-691-04918-1. £30.00, $49.50 (hardback).
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PETER MILLARD (ed.), Notes of Me: The Autobiography of Roger North. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Pp. xix+353. ISBN 0-8020-4471-9. £42.00, $65.00 (hardback).
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VACLAV SMIL, Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2001. Pp. xvii+338. ISBN 0-262-19449-X. £23·95 (hardback).
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MICHAEL HEIDELBERGER and FRIEDRICH STEINLE (eds.), Experimental Essays – Versuch zum Experiment. Interdisciplinary Studies, 3. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1998. Pp. xiii+408. ISBN 3-7890-5367-8. DM 88.00 (paperback).
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RUSSELLBURNS, John Logie Baird, Television Pioneer. History of Technology Series, 28. London: Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2000. Pp. xxv+417. ISBN 0-85296-797-7. £55.00 (hardback).
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JEAN MEDAWAR and DAVID PYKE, Hitler's Gift: Scientists who Fled Nazi Germany. London: Piatkus Books, 2001. Pp. xx+268. ISBN 0-7499-22-397. £8.99 (paperback).
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ROBERT BUD and PHILIP GUMMETT (eds.), Cold War, Hot Science: Applied Research in Britain's Defence Laboratories 1945–1990. Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, 7. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic/Science Museum, 1999. Pp. xix+426. ISBN 90-5702-481-0. £42.00, $62.00 (hardback); London: Science Museum, 2002. Pp. xix+426. ISBN 1-900747-47-2. £34.95 (paperback).
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INGRID D. ROWLAND, The Ecstatic Journey: Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome. With an introduction by F. Sherwood Rowland. Chicago: University of Chicago Library, 2000. Pp. xiii+109. ISBN 0-94-305625-X. £9.00, $15.00 (paperback).
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JEREMY J. GRAY, The Hilbert Challenge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xii+315. ISBN 0-19-850651-1. £20·00 (hardback).
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DENIS HOGAN and BRYCE WILLIAMSON (eds.), New Zealand is Different: Chemical Milestones in New Zealand History. Revised edition. Christchurch: Clerestory Press for New Zealand Institute of Chemistry, 2000. Pp. xii+308. ISBN 0-9583706-7-2. £20.00 (paperback).
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JOHN S. RIGDEN, Rabi: Scientist and Citizen. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xxix+302. ISBN 0-674-00435-3. £13.95 (paperback).
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DAVID N. LIVINGSTONE, D. G. HARTAND MARK A. NOLL (eds.), Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective. Religion in America. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. vi+351. ISBN 0-19-511557-0. £39·99 (hardback).
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DAVID WRIGHT, Translating Science: The Transmission of Western Chemistry into Late Imperial China, 1840–1900. Sinica Leidensia, 48. Leiden: Brill, 2000. Pp. xxvi+558. ISBN 90-04-11776-8. No price given (hardback).
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