Volume 28 - December 1995
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Book reviews
Roland Bechmann, Villard de Honnecourt: La pensée technique au XIIIe siècle et sa communication. Paris: Picard, 1991. Pp. 383, ISBN 2-7084-0367-2. 420 FF.
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Donald Cardwell, The Fontana History of Technology. London: Fontana, 1994. Pp. xviii + 565. ISBN 0-00-686176-8. £9.99.
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Gunnar Eriksson. The Atlantic Vision: Olaus Rudbeck and Baroque Science. Uppsala Studies in History of Science, 19. Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 1994. Pp. viii + 196. ISBN 0-88135-158-X. $27.95.
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Medical lecturing in Georgian London
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Albert V. Carozzi and Gerda Bouvier, The Scientific Library of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1797): Annotated Catalog of an 18th-Century Bibliographic and Historic Treasure. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Genève, 46. Genève: Société de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle, 1994. Pp. x + 201. ISSN 0252-7960. $40 (US).
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Toby E. Huff, The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv + 409. ISBN 0-521-43496-3. £35.00, $54.95.
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J. V. Field and Frank A. J. L. James (eds.), Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xvi + 291. ISBN 0-521-43427-0. £37.50, $49.95.
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R. W. Hadden, On the Shoulders of Merchants: Exchange and the Mathematical Conception of Nature in Early Modern Europe. Albany: State University of New York, 1994. Pp. xviii + 191. ISBN 0-7914-2011-6. $14.95.
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Christiane Groeben (ed.), Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876), Anton Dohrn (1840–1909): Correspondence. With an Introduction by Jane M. Oppenheimer. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 83. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1993. Pp. v + 156. ISBN 0-87169-833-1. $15.00.
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Michel Blay. Les Raisons de l'infini: Du monde clos à l'univers mathématique. Paris: Gallimard, 1993. Pp. 258. ISBN 2-07-072992-3. 110 FF.
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Brian Lawn, The Rise and Decline of the Scholastic ‘quaestio disputata’, With Special Emphasis on its Use in the Teaching of Medicine and Science. Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 2. Leiden, New York, Cologne: E. J. Brill, 1993. Pp. ix + 176. ISBN 90-04-09740-6. $51.50, Gld. 90.00.
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Bruce Stephenson, The Music of the Heavens: Kepler's Harmonic Astronomy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. xi + 260. ISBN 0-691-03439-7. £30.00, $39.50.
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Tore Frängsmyr (ed.), Linnaeus: The Man and His Work. Nantucket: Science History Publications, 1994. Pp. xiv + 206. ISBN 0-88135-154-7. $14.95.
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William Eamon, Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. xvii + 490. ISBN 0-691-03402-8. £38.50, $49.50.
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Tim D. Smith, Scaling Fisheries: The Science of Measuring the Effects of Fishing, 1855–1955. Cambridge Studies in Applied Biology and Resource Management. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 392. ISBN 0-521-39032-X. £50.00, $74.95.
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Gad Freudenthal (ed.), Studies on Gersonides, a Fourteenth-Century Philosopher-Scientist. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992. Pp. xxi + 422. ISBN 90-04-09641-8. $96.00, Gld. 168.00.
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Jean Dietz Moss, Novelties in the Heavens: Rhetoric and Science in the Copernican Controversy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Pp. xiv + 353. ISBN 0-226-54234-3, £39.95 (hardback); 0-226-54235-1, £14.95 (paperback).
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Adam Crabtree, From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Roots of Psychological Healing. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994. Pp. x + 413. ISBN 0-300-05588-9. £30.
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Ursula Klein, Verbindung und Affinität. Die Grundlegung der neuzeitlichen Chemie an der Wende vom 17. zum 18. Jahrhundert. Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhäuser, 1994. Pp. ix + 270. ISBN 3-7643-5003-2. £48.00, DM 128.00, SFr 108 00
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Margaret J. Osler. Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xi + 284. ISBN 0-521-46104-9. £32.50, $49.95.
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