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Volume 17 - November 1984

Notes and Essay Reviews

The Radical Enlightenment

Book Reviews

Obituary

Walter Pagel, M.D.—12 November 1898–25 March 1983

Book Reviews

National Traditions in Science - Dirk J. Struik, The land of Stevin and Huygens: a sketch of science and technology in the Dutch Republic during the golden century. Dordrecht. Boston & London: D. Reidel, 1981. Pp. xx + 162. Dfl. 65/$34.00; Dfl. 38/$18.50 (paperback).

Physics and its Concepts - Jonathan Powers, Philosophy and the new physics. London: Methuen, 1982. Pp xvii + 203. ISBN 0-416-73480-4. £3.95.

History of Natural History - William Glen, The Road to Jaramillo: Critical Years of the Revolution in Earth Science. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1982. Pp. xx + 459. ISBN 0-8047-1119-4. $37.50.

Physics and its Concepts - Edward M. MacKinnon, Scientific explanation and atomic physics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982. Pp. 450. £22.

History of Natural History - K. Thomas, Man and the natural world: changing attitudes in England, 1500–1800, London: Allen Lane, 1983. Pp. 426, illus. ISBN: 0-7139-1227-8. £14.95.

National Traditions in Science - Helmut Tammen, Die I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft (1925–1933): ein Chemiekonzern in der Weimarer Republik. Berlin: Verlag Helmuth Tammen, 1978. Pp. 468. Price 82 DM (about £20).

Physics and its Concepts - N. T. Roseveare, Mercury's perihelion from Le Verrier to Einstein. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. viii + 208. ISBN 0-19-858174-2. £20.00.

History of Natural History - Timothy Lenoir, The strategy of life: teleology and mechanics in nineteenth century German biology. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1982. Pp. xii + 314. ISBN 90-277-1363-4. DFL 135.00, $59.00.

National Traditions in Science - Karl Hufbauer, The formation of the German chemical community (1720–1795). Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1982. Pp. viii + 312. £30, $52. ISBN 0-520-04318 (cased) and 0-520-04415 (paper).

History of Natural History - Madeleine Barthélemy-Madaule, Lamarck the mythical precursor: a study of the relations between science and ideology. Translated by M. H. Shank. Cambridge, Mass., and London: The M.I.T. Press, 1982. Pp. xv + 174. ISBN 0-262-02179-X. £12.25.

Physics and its Concepts - Abraham Pais, ‘Subtle is the Lord’: the science and the life of Albert Einstein. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. Pp. xvi + 552. ISBN 0-19-853-907-X. £15.

National Traditions in Science - E. G. Forbes, Tobias Mayer (1723–62). Pioneer of enlightened science in Germany. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1980. Pp. 248. DM 38.

Physics and its Concepts - Gerald Holton and Yehuda Elkana (ed), Albert Einstein: historical and cultural perspective. Princeton: University Press, 1982. Pp. xxxii + 439. ISBN 0-691-08299-5. £24.70.

History of Natural History - Paul Lawrence Farber, The emergence of ornithology as a scientific discipline: 1760–1850. Dordrecht, Boston & London: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1982. Pp. xxi+ 191. 339.50.

National Traditions in Science - W. E. Knowles Middleton, Radar development in Canada: the Radio Branch of the National Research Council of Canada, 1939–1946. Waterloo Ont: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1981. Pp. xii + 147. $9.75.

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Volume 17 - November 1984

Notes and Essay Reviews

Book Reviews

Obituary

Book Reviews