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Volume 17 - November 1984

Book Reviews

National Traditions in Science - Norman T. Gridgeman, Biological sciences at the National Research Council of Canada: the early years to 1952. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1979. Pp. xxi + 153. $7.50.

History of Mathematical Sciences - Ronald Cowing, Roger Cotes—Natural Philosopher, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. x + 210. £22.50. ISBN 0-521-23741-6.

History of Natural History - Gunnar Broberg (ed), Linnaeus: progress and prospects in Linnean research. Stockholm and Pittsburgh: Almquist & Wiksell with the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1978. Pp 318. ISBN 91-22-00385-1. (No price stated.)

National Traditions in Science - James C. Whorton, Crusaders for fitness: the history of American health reformers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. Pp. 359. ISBN 0-691-04694-8. $19.50.

History of Natural History - Ron J. Cleevely, World palaeontological collections. London: British Museum (Natural History) and Mansell, 1982. Pp. 365. ISBN 0-56500-850-1/0-7201-1655-4. £50.

National Traditions in Science - Santiago Garma (ed.), El científico español ante su Historia. La Ciencia en España entre 1750–1850 (I Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias). Madrid: Diputación Provincial, 1980. Pp. 583. (No price stated.)

History of Natural History - Ray Desmond, The India Museum 1801–1879. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1982. Pp. xi+ 215. ISBN 0-11-580088-3. £25.00.

History of Mathematical Sciences - A. Rupert Hall, The Revolution in Science, 1500–1750. London: Longman, 1983, Pp. viii + 373. ISBN 0-582-49133-9. £8.95 (paper).

National Traditions in Science - R. H. Campbell and Andrew S. Skinner (eds.), The origins and nature of the Scottish enlightenment, Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers Ltd., 1982. Pp. viii + 231. £15.00.

History of Mathematical Sciences - Stella Mills (ed.), The collected letters of Colin MacLaurin. Nantwich: Shiva Publishing Limited, 1982. Pp. xix + 496.

History of Technology - William H. McNeill, The Pursuit of Power: Technology Armed Force and Society since AD 1000. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983. ISBN 0-631-13134-5. £15.00.

History of Mathematical Sciences - John T. Cannon and Sigalia Dostrovsky, The evolution of dynamics: vibration theory from 1687 to 1742. New York: Springer, 1981. Pp vi + 184. ISBN 0-387-90626-6. DM 98.

National Traditions in Science - Ian Langham, The building of British social anthropology: W. H. R. Rivers and his Cambridge disciples in the development of kinship studies, 1898–1931. Dordrecht, Boston & London: D. Reidel, 1981. Pp. xxxii + 392. Dfl. 145/$72.50; Dfl. 65/$29.50 (paperback).

National Traditions in Science - T. W. Heyck, The transformation of intellectual life in Victorian England. London and Canberra: Croom Helm, 1982. Pp. 262. ISBN 0-7099-1206-4. £14.50.

History of Technology - C. C. Gillispie, The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, 1783–1784, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. xi+ 210. ISBN 0-691-08321-5. £30.20.

History of Mathematical Sciences - Charles S. Peirce, Writings, vol. 1, 1857–1866. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1982. Pp. xxxvii + 698. £19.50.

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