Volume 40 - June 2007
Book Review
JULIE ROBIN SOLOMON and CATHERINE GIMELLI MARTIN (eds.), Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought: Essays to CommemorateThe Advancement of Learning(1605–2005). Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xiii+257. ISBN 0-7546-5359-5. £47.50 (hardback).
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Judith P. Zinsser (ed.), Men, Women, and the Birthing of Modern Science. De Kalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. Pp. viii+215. ISBN 0-87580-340-7. $38.00 (hardback).
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A. J. Bowden, C. V. Burek and R. Wilding (eds.), History of Palaeobotany: Selected Essays. Geological Society Special Publication 241. London: The Geological Society, 2005. Pp. 304. ISBN 1-86239-174-2. £80.00 (hardback).
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- 23 August 2007, pp. 447-448
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DAVID M. KNIGHT and MATTHEW D. EDDY (eds.), Science and Beliefs: From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science, 1700–1900. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xiv+272. ISBN 0-7546-3996-7. £47.50 (hardback).
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ERNAN MCMULLIN (ed.), The Church and Galileo. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. Pp. xiv+392. ISBN 0-268-03484-2. $30.00 (paperback). MAURICE A. FINOCCHIARO, Retrying Galileo, 1633–1992. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of Califonia Press, 2005. Pp. xii+485. ISBN 0-520-24261-0. $50.00, £32.50 (hardback).
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ANDREA FALCON, Aristotle and the Science of Nature: Unity without Uniformity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii+139. ISBN 0-521-85439-3. £45.00 (hardback).
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David S. Barnes, The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp xi+314. ISBN 0-8018-8349-0. £23.50 (hardback).
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- 23 August 2007, pp. 449-450
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Ivor Grattan-Guinness (ed.), Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640–1940. Amsterdam, San Diego, Oxford and London: Elsevier B. V., 2005. Pp. xvii+1022. ISBN 0-444-50871-6. £158.00 (hardback).
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Hubert Steinke, Irritating Experiments: Haller's Concept and the European Controversy on Irritability and Sensibility, 1750–1790. The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Clio Medicana 76. Union, NJ and Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi B. V., 2005. Pp 354. ISBN 90-420-1852-6. €75.00, $94.00 (hardback).
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Robert Darby, A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-226-13645-5. $35.00 (hardback).
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NOEL MALCOLM and JACQUELINE STEDALL, John Pell (1611–1685) and his Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 657. ISBN 0-19-856484-8. £90.00 (hardback).
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ROSHDI RASHED, Geometry and Dioptrics in Classical Islam. London: al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2005. Pp. xii+1178. ISBN 1873992998. £50.00 (hardback).
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Pietro Corsi, Jean Gayon, Gabriel Gohau and Stéphane Tirard, Lamarck, philosophe de la nature. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2006. Pp. xii+167 pp. ISBN 2-13-051976-8. €20.00 (paperback).
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MARY ARCHER and CHRISTOPHER HALEY (eds.), The 1702 Chair of Chemistry at Cambridge: Transformation and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxi+318. ISBN 0-521-82873-2. £50.00, $90.00 (hardback).
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Robert E. Kohler, All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850–1950. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii+363. ISBN 978-0-691-12539-2. $35.00, £22.95 (hardback).
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- 23 August 2007, pp. 452-453
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GAD FREUDENTHAL, Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions. Variorum Collected Studies Series CS803. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xx+350. ISBN 0-86078-952-7. £62.50 (hardback).
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JOHN NORTH, God's Clockmaker: Richard of Wallingford and the Invention of Time. London and New York: Hambledon and London, 2005. Pp. xix+441. ISBN 1-85285-451-0. £25.00 (hardback).
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Sharon E. Kingsland, The Evolution of American Ecology. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. x+313. ISBN 0-8018-8171-4. £33.50 (hardback). - Kim Cuddington and Beatrix Beisner (eds.), Ecological Paradigms Lost. Routes of Theory Change. London: Academic Press, 2005. Pp. xxiv+435. ISBN 0-12-088459-3. £49.95 (hardback).
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JONATHAN SIMON, Chemistry, Pharmacy and Revolution in France, 1777–1809. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. vi+189. ISBN 0-7546-5044-8. £45.00 (hardback).
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Roger Hahn, Pierre Simon Laplace 1749–1827:A Determined Scientist. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+310. ISBN 0-674-01892-3. £22.95, $35.00, €32.30 (hardback).
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- 03 December 2007, pp. 613-614
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