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Volume 17 - November 1984

Book Reviews

Chemistry and Biochemistry - J. S. Fruton, A bio-bibliography for the history of the biochemical sciences since 1800. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1982. Pp. xiii + 885. ISBN 0-87169-983-4. $20.

Chemistry and Biochemistry - Frank M. McMillan, The chain straighteners. Macmillan: London, 1979. Pp. xvi +207. £17.00.

Science Studies - Jonathan Barnes, Jacques Brunschwig, Myles Burnyeat, Malcolm Schofield (eds), Science and Speculation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xxiv + 351. ISBN 0-521-24689-X. £25.00.

Antiquity to the Renaissance - C. B. Schmitt, Aristotle and the Renaissance. Cambridge (Mass.) and London: Harvard University Press, 1983. Pp. viii + 187. ISBN 0-674-04525-4. £14.80.

Science Studies - P. T. Landsberg (ed.). The Enigma of Time. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1982. pp. xii + 248. ISBN 0-85274-545-1. £13.95, $28.00.

Antiquity to the Renaissance - Walter Pagel, Joan Baptista Van Helmont: reformer of science and medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xi + 219. ISBN 0-521-24807-8. £20.00.

Science Studies - Alex Keller, The Infancy of Atomic Physics. Hercules in his Cradle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. 230. £12.50. ISBN 0-19-853904-5.

Science in Culture - René Descartes, Principles of Philosophy. Translated, with explanatory notes, by V. R. Miller and R. P. Miller. Synthese Historical Library, Vol. 24. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1983. Pp xxviii + 325. Cloth Dfl. 135/$59.00.

Science Studies - Magda Whitrow (ed), Isis cumulative bibliography 1913–65, volumes 4 and 5: civilizations and periods. London: Mansell, 1982. Volume 4: pp. xviii + 457, ISBN 0-7201-1642-2. Volume 5: pp. xi + 593, ISBN 0-7201-1643-0. £100 the set.

Antiquity to the Renaissance - Janis L. Pallister (ed), Ambroise Paré On Monsters and Marvels: translated with an introduction and notes. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Pp. xxxii + 224. ISBN 0-226-64562-2. £14.00.

Science Studies - Nan L. Hahn, Medieval Mensuration. Quadrane Vetus and Geometrie Due Sunt Partes Principales … (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 72, Part 8.) Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1982. Pp. lxxxv + 204.

Seventeenth Century - Steven J. Dick, Plurality of worlds. The origins of the extraterrestrial life debate from Democritus to Kant. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. ISBN 0-521-24308-4. Pp. x + 246. £19.00.

Science in Culture - H. N. Jahnke and M. Otte (eds), Epistemological and social problems of the sciences in the early nineteenth century. Dordrecht, Boston and London: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1981. Pp. xlii + 430. ISBN 90-277-1223-9. Dfl. 60.00, $31.50.

Seventeenth Century - Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum: The secret of the universe. Translation by A. M. Duncan, Introduction and Commentary by E. J. Aiton, with a Preface by I. Bernard Cohen. New York: Abaris Books, 1981. Pp. 267. ISBN 0-913870-64-1. £13.

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Science in Culture - Arthur J. Engel, From clergyman to don: the rise of the academic profession in nineteenth-century Oxford. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. xi + 302. ISBN 0-19-822606-3. £22.50.

Science in Culture - J. David HoevelerJr., James McCosh and the Scottish intellectual tradition: from Glasgow to Princeton. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1981. Pp. xiv + 374. £17.40.

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