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Volume 15 - November 1982

Book Reviews

Darwiniana - Greta Jones, Social Darwinism and English thought: the interaction between biological and social theory. Brighton: Harvester Press. Atlantic Highlands N.J.: Humanities Press, 1980. Pp. xiv + 234. £22.50.

Darwiniana - Robert C. Bannister, Social Darwinism: science and myth in Anglo-American social thought. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979. Pp. x + 292. $19.95.

Science Studies - Nevill Mott (ed.), The beginnings of solid state physics. London: The Royal Society, 1980. Pp. iv + 177. £9.75 (U.K.)/£10.25 (overseas).

Science in Different Countries - Philip Gummett, Scientists in Whitehall. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1980. Pp. xi + 237. £14.50.

Instruments - Gerard L'E. Turner, Antique scientific instruments. Poole: Blandford Press, 1980. Pp. 168. £3.95/£2.95 (paperback).

The New Physics - Enrico Bellone, A world on paper: studies on the second scientific revolution, trans. by Mirella and Riccardo Giacconi. Cambridge, Mass., & London: MIT Press, 1980. Pp. xiii + 220. £9.30.

Darwiniana - William Bateson, Problems of genetics. Historical introduction by G. Evelyn Hutchinson and Stan Rachootin. Silliman Milestones in Science. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979. Pp. xxii + 258. £12.30; £3.15 (paperback).

Instruments - P. H. Sydenham, Measuring instruments: tools of knowledge and control. London: Peter Peregrinus Ltd in association with the Science Museum, 1979. History of Technology Series No. 1. Pp. xviii + 512. £19 (U.K.)/£22 (overseas excluding Americas).

Darwiniana - Martha McMackin Garland, Cambridge before Darwin: the ideal of a liberal education, 1800–1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. ix + 196. £14.50.

The New Physics - Loyd S. SwensonJr, Genesis of relativity: Einstein in context. New York: Burt Franklin & Co., 1979. pp. xvi + 266. $21.00.

Biography - Stephen J. Pyne, Grove Karl Gilbert: a great engine of research. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1980. Pp. xiv + 306. £12.00

Instruments - G. L'E. Turner, Essays on the history of the microscope. Oxford: Senecio Publishing, 1980. Pp. viii + 245. £14.95.

Biography - Ronald W. Clark, Freud: the man and the cause. London: Jonathan Cape & Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980. Pp. xii + 652. £9.95.

Instruments - D. A. Wittop Koning & G. M. M. Houben, 2000 Jaar Gewichten in de Nederlanden; stelsels, ijkwezen, vormen, makers, merken, gebruik. Lochem-Poperinge: Uitgeversmaatschappij De Tijdstroom, 1980. Pp. 222. Dfl84.50.

The New Physics - Lawrence Badash, Joseph O. Hirschfelder and Herbert P. Broida (ed.), Reminiscences of Los Alamos, 1943–1945. Dordrecht, Boston & London: D. Reidel, 1980. Pp. xxi + 188. Df150/$26.50; Df120/$9.95 (paperback).

Biography - Bentley Glass (ed), The roving naturalist: travel letters of Theodosius Dobzhansky. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1980. Pp. vii + 327. $8.00.

The New Physics - Katherine Russel Sopka, Quantum physics in America, 1920–1935. New York: Arno Press, 1980. Pp. xx + 547. $42.000.

Instruments - Anita McConnell, Geomagnetic instruments before 1900: An illustrated account of their construction and use. London: Harriet Wynter, 1980. Pp. viii + 75. £19.50.

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