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Volume 19 - November 1986

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Research Article

Context, Image and Function: a Preliminary Enquiry into the Architecture of Scientific Societies
Sophie Forgan
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05 January 2009, pp. 89-113
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From the late eighteenth century onwards, urban life underwent increasingly rapid change as towns outgrew their limits, industries polluted their skies and rivers, and a host of new types of building appeared to cater for new needs and activities. Not only did towns look different, but, as Thomas Markus has said, ‘they also ‘felt’ different in the organization of the spaces they contained.’ Buildings which housed scientific activities—the learned societies, literary and philosophical societies, professional institutes, mechanics institutes, and by the end of the century the new civic universities—were one manifestation of this different ‘feeling’. These were quite new types of building, and we should therefore expect them to give us valuable information about the development of science, about ‘images’ of science and the meaning of those images, as well as the actual practice of science.

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Obituary

Obituary: Charles Bernard Schmitt: 1933–1986
John Henry
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05 January 2009, p. 337
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G.L. Toomer (tr). Ptolemy's Almagest. London: Duckworth. Pp. ix + 693. ISBN 0-7156–1588-2. £55.00.
Albert Van Helden
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05 January 2009, pp. 115-116
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Witelo. Perspectivae liber quintius. Book V of Witelo's Perspectiva. Translation, introduction, commentary, and Latin edition by A. Mark Smith. Studia Copernicana, 23 Wroclaw: Ossolineum, 1983. Pp. 267.
Bruce Eastwood
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05 January 2009, pp. 208-209
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Gernot Bōhme et al.Finalization in Science: the Social Orientation of Scientific Progress. Edited by Wolf Schafer. Dordrecht, Boston and Lancaster: D. Reidel, 1983.
Paul K. Hoch
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05 January 2009, p. 116
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I. Bernard Cohen. Revolution in Science. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. xx + 711. ISBN 0-674-76777-2. £22.75.
L. Pearce Williams
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05 January 2009, pp. 339-342
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Bert Hansen. Nicole Oresme and the Marvels of Nature: A Study of his De causis mirabilium with Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1985. Pp. xi + 478. ISBN 0-88844-068-5. $39.00.
David C. Lindberg
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Alexander Fenton & Geoffrey Stell, eds. Loads and Roads in Scotland and Beyond: Road Transport over 6000 Years. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers Ltd, 1984 Pp. vii + 144. ISBN 0-85976-107-X £8.50.
Brian Austen
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05 January 2009, p. 210
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K.C. Barraclough. Steelmaking before Bessemer. Vol. 1 Blister Steel—The Birth of an Industry. Vol. 2 Crucible Steel—the Growth of a Technology. London: The Metals Society, 1984. Pp. xx + 273, xix + 387. ISBN 0-904357-53-8 and 0-904357-64-3. Vol. 1 £19.95, $39.90. Vol. 2 £29.50, $59.
Joe Clarke
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G. V. Coyne, M. Heller & J. Źyciński (eds). The Galileo Affair: A Meeting of Faith and Science. Proceedings of the Cracow Conference, May 1984. Vatican City: Vatican Observatory, 1985. Pp. 179.
Alistair Duncan
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Michael Bliss. The Discovery of Insulin. Edinburgh: Paul Harris, 1983. Pp. 304. ISBN 0-86228-056-7. £15.00.
Jonathan Liebenau
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05 January 2009, pp. 117-118
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Sidney J. Blatt. Continuity and Change in Art: the Development of Modes of Representation. In collaboration with Ethel S. Blatt. Hillsdale, N.J., and London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1984. Pp. xix + 411. ISBN 0-89859-342-5. £35.50, $49.95.
J.V. Field
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05 January 2009, p. 211
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Isaac Benguigui (ed.). Théories Électriques du XVIIIe Siècle: Correspondance entre l'Abbé Nollet (1700–1770) et le Physicien Genevois Jean Jallabert (1712–1768). Geneva: Georg et Cie, 1984. Pp. 234. ISBN 2-8257-0099-1. Fr. 68.00.
R. W. Home
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05 January 2009, p. 344
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Michael W. Dols & Adil S. Gamal, eds. Medieval Islamic Medicine. Ibn Ridwan's Treatise ‘On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt’. Translated and introduced by M. W. Dols, with Arabic text by A. S. Gamal. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1984. Pp. xv + 186 + 63. ISBN 0-420-04836-9. $28.
Roger French
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05 January 2009, pp. 211-212
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W. J. Dempster. Patrick Matthew and Natural Selection: Nineteenth Century Gentleman-Farmer, Naturalist and Writer. Edinburgh: Paul Harris, 1983. Pp 156. ISBN 0-86228-065-6. £8.50.
Janet Browne
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05 January 2009, pp. 118-119
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R. F. Bud & G. K. Roberts. Science versus Practice: Chemistry in Victorian Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984, Pp. 236. ISBN 0-7197-1070-5. £25.
Roy McLeod
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05 January 2009, pp. 119-120
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John W. Shirley. Thomas Harriot: a Biography. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Pp. xii + 508. ISBN 0-19-822901-1. £25.00.
Jon V. Pepper
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05 January 2009, pp. 212-216
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Fritz Nagel. Nicolaus Cusanus und die Entstehung der Exakten Wissenschaften. Buchreihe der Cusanus-Gesellschaft, Band IX. Münster: Aschendorff, 1984. Pp. vii + 192. DM 48.00.
A. G. Molland
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05 January 2009, p. 345
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W. H. Brock. From Protyle to Proton. William Prout and the Nature of Matter, 1785–1985. Bristol and Boston: Adam Hilger, Ltd., 1985. Pp. xii + 252. ISBN 0-85274-801-9. £25.00, $45.00.
Mary Jo Nye
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05 January 2009, pp. 216-217
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Volume 19 - November 1986

Research Article

Context, Image and Function: a Preliminary Enquiry into the Architecture of Scientific Societies

Book Reviews

Obituary

Obituary: Charles Bernard Schmitt: 1933–1986

Book Reviews

G.L. Toomer (tr). Ptolemy's Almagest. London: Duckworth. Pp. ix + 693. ISBN 0-7156–1588-2. £55.00.

Witelo. Perspectivae liber quintius. Book V of Witelo's Perspectiva. Translation, introduction, commentary, and Latin edition by A. Mark Smith. Studia Copernicana, 23 Wroclaw: Ossolineum, 1983. Pp. 267.

Gernot Bōhme et al.Finalization in Science: the Social Orientation of Scientific Progress. Edited by Wolf Schafer. Dordrecht, Boston and Lancaster: D. Reidel, 1983.

I. Bernard Cohen. Revolution in Science. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. xx + 711. ISBN 0-674-76777-2. £22.75.

Bert Hansen. Nicole Oresme and the Marvels of Nature: A Study of his De causis mirabilium with Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1985. Pp. xi + 478. ISBN 0-88844-068-5. $39.00.

Alexander Fenton & Geoffrey Stell, eds. Loads and Roads in Scotland and Beyond: Road Transport over 6000 Years. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers Ltd, 1984 Pp. vii + 144. ISBN 0-85976-107-X £8.50.

K.C. Barraclough. Steelmaking before Bessemer. Vol. 1 Blister Steel—The Birth of an Industry. Vol. 2 Crucible Steel—the Growth of a Technology. London: The Metals Society, 1984. Pp. xx + 273, xix + 387. ISBN 0-904357-53-8 and 0-904357-64-3. Vol. 1 £19.95, $39.90. Vol. 2 £29.50, $59.

G. V. Coyne, M. Heller & J. Źyciński (eds). The Galileo Affair: A Meeting of Faith and Science. Proceedings of the Cracow Conference, May 1984. Vatican City: Vatican Observatory, 1985. Pp. 179.

Michael Bliss. The Discovery of Insulin. Edinburgh: Paul Harris, 1983. Pp. 304. ISBN 0-86228-056-7. £15.00.

Sidney J. Blatt. Continuity and Change in Art: the Development of Modes of Representation. In collaboration with Ethel S. Blatt. Hillsdale, N.J., and London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1984. Pp. xix + 411. ISBN 0-89859-342-5. £35.50, $49.95.

Isaac Benguigui (ed.). Théories Électriques du XVIIIe Siècle: Correspondance entre l'Abbé Nollet (1700–1770) et le Physicien Genevois Jean Jallabert (1712–1768). Geneva: Georg et Cie, 1984. Pp. 234. ISBN 2-8257-0099-1. Fr. 68.00.

W. J. Dempster. Patrick Matthew and Natural Selection: Nineteenth Century Gentleman-Farmer, Naturalist and Writer. Edinburgh: Paul Harris, 1983. Pp 156. ISBN 0-86228-065-6. £8.50.

R. F. Bud & G. K. Roberts. Science versus Practice: Chemistry in Victorian Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984, Pp. 236. ISBN 0-7197-1070-5. £25.

John W. Shirley. Thomas Harriot: a Biography. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Pp. xii + 508. ISBN 0-19-822901-1. £25.00.

Fritz Nagel. Nicolaus Cusanus und die Entstehung der Exakten Wissenschaften. Buchreihe der Cusanus-Gesellschaft, Band IX. Münster: Aschendorff, 1984. Pp. vii + 192. DM 48.00.

W. H. Brock. From Protyle to Proton. William Prout and the Nature of Matter, 1785–1985. Bristol and Boston: Adam Hilger, Ltd., 1985. Pp. xii + 252. ISBN 0-85274-801-9. £25.00, $45.00.

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