Volume 24 - September 1991
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Book Reviews
Marlene J. Norst. Ferdinand Bauer: The Australian Natural History Drawings. Art in Natural History no. 1. London: British Museum of Natural History, 1989. Pp. 120. ISBN 0-565-01048-4. No price given.
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Armin Gerl. Trigonometrisch-astronomisches Rechnen kurz vor Copernicus: Der Briefwechsel Regiomontanus-Bianchini. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1989. Pp. 357. ISBN 3-515-05373-5. DM 70.
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Atomic Energy for Military Purposes, with a new foreword by Philip Morrison and an essay by Henry DeWolf Smyth. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. Pp. xvi + 324. ISBN 0-8047-1721-4, $39.50 (hardback); 0-8047-1722-2, $12.95 (paperback). - Herbert F. York. The Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller and the Superbomb, with a historical essay by Hans A. Bethe. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv + 201. ISBN 0-8047-1713-3, $32.50 (hardback); 0-8047-1714-1, $8.95 (paperback).
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R. Taton and C. Wilson (eds.). Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics. Part A: Tycho Brahe to Newton. The General History of Astronomy, Vol. 2. General Editor, Michael Hoskin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. X + 274 + xiv. ISBN 0-521-24254-1. £27.50, $49.50.
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Julian Roberts and Andrew G. Watson (eds.). John Dee's Library Catalogue. London: The Bibliographical Society, 1990. Pp. viii + 253. ISBN 0-19-721795-8. £60.00.
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Chandos Michael Brown, Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young Republic. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Pp. xvi + 377. ISBN 0-691-08533-1. $29.95.
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Laurie M. Brown, Max Dresden and Lillian Hoddeson (eds.). Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xxxii + 734. ISBN 0-521-30984-0. £40.00, $59.50.
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Trevor H. Leyere and William R. Shea (eds.). Nature, Experiment and the Sciences, Essays on Galileo and the History of Science in Honour of Stillman Drake. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990. Pp. xv + 349. ISBN 0-7923-0420-9. Dfl. 180, £60.00.
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François Duchesneau. Genèse de la théorie cellulaire. Montréal–Paris: Bellarmin–Vrin, 1987. Pp. 387 + 22. ISBN 2-89007-646-6 (Bellarmin); 2-7116-9427-5 (Vrin). Can $24.00.
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Bruno Rossi. Moments in the Life of a Scientist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xv + 181. ISBN 0-521-36439-6. £27.50, $44.50.
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Mordechai Feingold (ed.). Before Newton: The Life and Times of Isaac Barrow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xii + 380. ISBN 0-521-30694-9. £35.00, $49.50.
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Richard S. Westfall. Essays on the Trial of Galileo. Vatican City: Specola Vaticana, and Notre Dame Press, 1989. Pp. xi + 103. ISBN 0-268-00923-6. $9.95.
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Sarah Hutton (ed.). Henry More (1614–1687): Tercentenary Studies, with a biography and bibliography by Robert Crocker. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989. Pp. xi + 254. ISBN 0-7923-0095-5. $95.00, Dfl. 185.00.
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Michael Hunter and Simon Schaffer (eds.). Robert Hooke. New Studies. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1989. Pp. x + 310. ISBN 0-85115-523-5. £39.50.
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John Hendry. Innovating for Failure: Government Policy and the Early British Computer Industry. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. xviii + 240. ISBN 0-262-08187-3. £31.50.
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Susan Leigh Star. Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific Certainty. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989. Pp. xviii + 278. ISBN 0-8047-1673-0.
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Andrew Cunningham and Nicholas Jardine (eds.). Romanticism and the Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xxii + 345. ISBN 0-521-35602-4, £40.00, $59.50 (hardback); 0-521-35685-7, £15.00, $19.95 (paperback).
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Martin Campbell-Kelly. ICL: A Business and Technical History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. xii + 409. ISBN 0-19-853918-5. £30.00.
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Michael Hunter. Establishing the New Science: The Experience of the Early Royal Society. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1989. Pp. xiv + 382. ISBN 0-85115-506-5. £45.00.
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Anthony Brundage. England's ‘Prussian Minister”: Edwin Chadwick and the Politics of Government Growth, 1832–1854. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988. Pp. 208, ISBN 0-271-00629-3 £20.25, $22.50.
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