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Volume 35 - December 2002

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JEAN-PAUL PIER (ed.), Development of Mathematics 1950–2000. Basel, Boston and Berlin: Birkhäuser, 2000. Pp. x+1372. ISBN 3-7643-6280-4. DM 298.00 (hardback).

LORENZO MAGNANI, Philosophy and Geometry: Theoretical and Historical Issues. Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. Pp. xix+249. ISBN 0-7923-6933-5. £59.00, $88.00 (hardback).

KEN BEAUCHAMP, History of Telegraphy: Its Technology and Application. IEE History of Technology Series, 26. London: Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2001. Pp. xxiii+413. ISBN 0-85296-792-6. £55.00, $95.00 (hardback).

ANTHONY GRAFTON and NANCY SIRAISI (eds.), Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe. Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 1999. Pp. xi+426. ISBN 0-262-07193-2. £33.50 (hardback).

IAN CARTER, Railways and Culture in Britain: The Epitome of Modernity. Studies in Popular Culture. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv+338. ISBN 0-7190-5966-6. £16.99 (paperback).

RAINER BRÖMER, UWE HOSSFELD and NICOLAAS A. RUPKE (eds.), Evolutionsbiologie von Darwin bis heute. Verhandlungen zur Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie, 4. Berlin: VWB, 2000. Pp. 425. ISBN 3-86135-382-2. DM 68.00 (paperback).

MARGARET A. M. MURRAY, Women Becoming Mathematicians: Creating a Professional Identity in Post-World War II America. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. vxiii+277. ISBN 0-262-13369-5. £10.50 (hardback).

EDMUND RUSSELL, War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I toSilent Spring. Studies in Environment and History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii+315. ISBN 0-521-79937-6. £12.95, $19.95 (paperback).

RICHARD DRAYTON, Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the ‘Improvement’ of the World. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xxi+346. ISBN 0-300-05976-0. £25.00 (hardback).

DOUGLAS M. HAYNES, Imperial Medicine: Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. 229. ISBN 0-8122-3598-3. £26.50, $37.50 (hardback).

MICHAEL T. GHISELIN and ALAN E. LEVITON (eds.), Cultures and Institutions of Natural History. Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, 25. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 2000. Pp. 363. ISBN 0-940228-48-3. $40.00 (hardback).

JOHN M. STEELE, Observations and Predictions of Eclipse Times by Early Astronomers. Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 4. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. Pp. xi+321. ISBN 0-7923-6298-5. £84.00 (hardback).

HUGH R. SLOTTEN, Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920–1960. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xv+308. ISBN 0-8018-6450-X. £35.00 (hardback).

LAURA HOSTETLER, Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xx+257. ISBN 0-226-35420-2. £22.50, $35.00 (hardback).

TREVOR H. LEVERE, Transforming Matter: A History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball. Introductory Studies in the History of Science. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. x+215. ISBN 0-8018-6610-3. £12.50 (paperback).

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