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Volume 35 - December 2002

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MICHAEL N. FRIED and SABETAI UNGURU, Apollonius of Perga'sConica: Text, Context, Subtext. Mnemosyne, supplement 222. Leiden: Brill, 2001. Pp. xii+499. ISBN 90-04-11977-9. €105.00, $122.00 (hardback).

R. R. ANGERSTEIN, R. R. Angerstein's Illustrated Travel Diary, 1753–1755: Industry in England and Wales from a Swedish Perspective. Translated by Torsten and Peter Berg. With an introduction by Marilyn Palmer. London: Science Museum, 2001. Pp. xii+378. ISBN 1-900747-24-3. £34·95 (hardback).

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PETER DE CLERCQ, Scientific Instruments: Originals and Imitations. The Mensing Collection. Proceedings of a Symposium, held at the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, 15–16 October 1999. Leiden: Museum Boerhaave, 2000. Pp. 144. ISBN 90-6292-129-9. Dfl 75.00, €30.00 (paperback).

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FREDERIC L. HOLMES and TREVOR H. LEVERE (eds.), Instruments and Experimentation in the History of Chemistry. Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. xxi+415. ISBN 0-262-08282-9. £34.50 (cloth).

ANDREW WEAR, Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550–1680. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. viii+496. ISBN 0-521-55827-1. £16.95, $27.95 (paperback).

FRANCIS BACON, TheInstauratio Magna: Last Writings. Edited with introduction, notes, commentaries, and facing-page translations by Graham Rees. The Oxford Francis Bacon, XIII. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. Pp. xcvi+363. ISBN 0-19-818470-0. £80·00 (hardback).

XIANG CHEN, Instrumental Traditions and Theories of Light: The Uses of Instruments in the Optical Revolution. Science and Philosophy, 9. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. Pp. xxiii+211. ISBN 0-7923-6349-3. £60·00, $99·00 (hardback).

SUSAN WHEELER, Five Hundred Years of Medicine in Art: An Illustrated Catalogue of Prints and Drawings from the Clements C. Fry Collection in the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. Pp. xxviii+363. ISBN 0-85967-992-6. £79.50 (hardback).

DAVID A. KIRSCH, The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii+291. ISBN 0-8135-2809. $20.00.

DANIEL GASMAN, Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology. Studies in Modern European History, 33. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. Pp. vii+482. ISBN 0-8204-4108-2. $69·95 (hardback).

SAUL DUBOW (ed.), Science and Society in Southern Africa. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. x+241. ISBN 0-7190-5812-0. £45.00 (hardback).

CHARLES ELTON, Animal Ecology. With New Introductory Material by Mathew A. Leibold and J. Timothy Wootton. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2001. Pp. lvi+209. ISBN 0-226-20639-4. £13.00, $18.00 (paperback).

STEPHEN GAUKROGER, Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xii+249. ISBN 0-521-80536-8. £14·95, $21·95 (paperback).

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BRUCE STEPHENSON, MARVIN BOLT and ANNA FELICITY FRIEDMAN, The Universe Unveiled: Instruments and Images through History. Chicago: Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 152. ISBN 0-521-79143-X. £19.95, $29.95 (hardback).

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PETER D. SMITH, Metaphor and Materiality. German Literature and the World-View of Science 1780–1955. Legenda/Studies in Comparative Literature 4. Oxford: European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2000. Pp. xii+372. ISBN 1-900755-32-7. £27.50, $49.50 (paperback).

RAYMOND G. STOKES, Constructing Socialism: Technology and Change in East Germany, 1945–1990. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xi+260. ISBN 0-8018-6391-0. £33.00 (hardback).

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PETER GALISON and ALEX ROLAND (eds.), Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century. Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 3. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. Pp. xvi+383. ISBN 0-7923-6037-0. £112.00 (hardback).

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