Volume 24 - September 1991
Contents
Essay Reviews
How Christiaan Huygens mathematized nature
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Newton's two ‘Moon-tests’
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Eric L. Mills. Biological Oceanography: An Early History, 1870–1960. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989. Pp. xvii + 378. ISBN 0-8014-2340-6. $47.50.
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Artificial phenomena
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Anna Bramwell. Ecology in the Twentieth Century: A History. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. xii + 292. ISBN 0-300-04343, £27.50 (hardback); 0-300-04521-2 £9.95 (paperback).
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Energy and Empire
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Marshall Clagett. Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book. Volume 1: Knowledge and Order (in two tomes). Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1989. Pp. xv + 863. ISBN 0-87169-184-1. $60.00.
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Charles Michael Stanton. Higher Learning in Islam: The Classical Period A.D. 700–1300. Savage, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1990. Pp. xiii + 205. ISBN 0-8476-7637-4. $42.50.
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Raffaella Castagnola (ed.) I Guicciardini e le scienze occulte: L'oroscopo di Francesco Guicciardini, lettere di alchimia, astrologia e cabala a Luigi Guicciardini. Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, Studi e Testi XIX. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1990. Pp. vii+ 397. ISBN 88-222-3761-7. L. 85000.
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A life with enzymes
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Peter J. T. Morris. The American Synthetic Rubber Research Program. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. Pp. xii + 191. ISBN 0-8122-8205-1.
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Brian Cotterell and Johan Kamminga. Mechanics of Pre-Industrial Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xv + 325. ISBN 0-521-34194-9. £30.00, $49.50.
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Nikolaus Gross. Senecas Naturales Quaestiones: Komposition, naturphilosophische Aussagen und ihre Quellen. Palingenesia: Monographien und Texte zur klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, 27. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1989. Pp. viii + 335. ISBN 3-515-05385-9. DM 68.
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Georg Agricola. Bermannus (Le Mineur): Un dialogue sur les mines, introduction, translation and commentary by Robert Halleux and Albert Yans. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1990. Pp. xxx + 185. ISBN 2-251-34504-3.
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Elspeth Whitney. Paradise Restored: The Mechanical Arts from Antiquity through the Thirteenth Century. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 80, Part 1. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1990. Pp. vi + 169. ISBN 0-87169-801-3. $20.00 (paperback).
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H. Benninga. A History of Lactic Acid Making: A Chapter in the History of Biotechnology. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer, 1990. Pp. xxi + 478. Illus. ISBN 0-7923-0625-2. £53.00, Dfl. 150.00.
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Michela Pereira. The Alchemical Corpus Attributed to Raymond Lull. London: Warburg Institute, 1989. Pp. 114. ISBN 0-85481-078-1. £8.
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Michael J. Crowe. Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution. New York: Dover Publications, 1990. Pp. xii + 229. ISBN 0-486-26173-5. £4.45.
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Frederic Lawrence Holmes. Eighteenth-Century Chemistry as an Investigative Enterprise. Berkeley: Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California at Berkeley, 1989. Pp. ii + 144. ISBN 0-918102-2. $16.00 (paperback).
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Finn Aaserud. Redirecting Science: Niels Bohr, Philanthropy and the Rise of Nuclear Physics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xiii + 356. ISBN 0-521-35366-1. £35.00, $47.50.
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