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Volume 32 - March 1999

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JOHN BROOKE and GEOFFREY CANTOR, Reconstructing Nature. The Engagement of Science and Religion. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1998. Pp. xii+367. ISBN 0-567-08600-3. £24.95, $49.95.

ROBERT POOLE, Time's Alteration: Calendar Reform in Early Modern England. London: UCL Press, 1998. Pp. xix+243. ISBN 1-85728-622-7. £45.00, $75.00.

NACHUM DERSHOWITZ and EDWARD M. REINGOLD, Calendrical Calculations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xxi+307. ISBN 0-521-56413-1, £40, $64.95 (hardback); 0-521-56474-3, £14.95, $22.95 (paperback).

JOHN T. RAMSEY and A. LEWIS LICHT, The Comet of 44BCand Caesar's Funeral Games, American Philological Association: American Classical Studies, 39. Atlanta: The Scholars Press, 1997. Pp. xx+236. ISBN 0-7885-0273-5. $27.95 (hardback); ISBN 0-7885-0274-3. $17.95 (paperback).

WILLIAM H. BROCK, Justus von Liebig: The Chemical Gatekeeper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv+374. ISBN 0-521-56224-4. £50.00, $79.95.

JEFFREY P. BAKER, The Machine in the Nursery: Incubator Technology and the Origins of Newborn Intensive Care. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. x+247. ISBN 0-8018-5173-4. £37.00.

MICHAEL POWER (ed.), Accounting and Science: Natural Inquiry and Commercial Reason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xvii+288. ISBN 0-521-55325-3, £40.00, $54.95 (hardback); 0-521-55699-6, £14.95, $19.95 (paperback).

LYNETTE HUNTER and SARAH HUTTON (eds.), Women, Science and Medicine 1500–1700: Mothers and Sisters of the Royal Society. Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1997. Pp. xx+292. ISBN 0-7509-1334-7. £40.00, $72.00 (hardback); 0-7509-1343-6. £14.99, $22.95 (paperback).

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J. V. FIELD, The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 264. ISBN 0-19-852394-7. £29.50, $35.00.

EDWARD FENTON (ed.), The Diaries of John Dee. Charlbury, Oxfordshire: Day Books, 1998. Pp. xi+369. ISBN 0-9532213-0-X. £18.99.

MARELENE RAYNER-CANHAM and GEOFFREY RAYNER-CANHAM, Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles From Alchemical Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society and Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1998. Pp. xiv+284. ISBN 0-8412-3522-8. $34.95.

ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, translated by Elise C. Otté, 2 vols. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp. 375 and 367. ISBN 0-8018-5502-0, £13.00, $15.95 (vol. 1); 0-8018-5503-9, £13.00, $15.95 (vol. 2).

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ANDREAS DAUM, Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert. Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848–1914. München: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1998. Pp. xii+617. ISBN 3-486-56337-8. DM148.00.

DAVID PHILIP MILLER and PETER HANNS REILL (eds.), Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xix+370. ISBN 0-521-48303-4. £45.00.

BERNARD LIGHTMAN (ed.), Victorian Science in Context. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. viii+489. 0-226-48111-5, £55.95, $70.00 (hardback); 0-226-48112-3, £17.95, $22.50 (paperback).

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