Volume 19 - November 1986
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Book Reviews
Peter J. Bowler. Evolution: the History of an Idea. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1984. Pp. xiv + 412. $29.95.
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George W. Stocking, ed. Functionalism Historicized. Essays on British Social Anthropology. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. Pp. vi + 244. ISBN 0-299-09900-8. No price given.
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F. W. J. McCosh. Boussingault: Chemist and Agriculturist. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1984. Pp. xii + 280. ISBN 90-277-1682-X. Dfl. 140.00.
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Dorothy A. Stansfield. Thomas Beddoes MD, 1760–1808. Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster: D. Reidel, 1984. Pp. xix + 306. ISBN 90-277-1686-2. Dfl. 140.
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Oliver M. Ashford. Prophet or Professor? The Life and Work of Lewis Fry Richardson. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1985. Pp. xiv + 364. ISBN 0-85274-774-8. £18/$29.
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Alan E. Shapiro (ed.). The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton. Volume 1. The Optical Lectures, 1670–1672. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xix + 627. ISBN 0-521-25248 2 (v.1). £75.
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Colin Russell. Science and Social Change 1700–1900. London: The Macmillan Press, 1983. Pp. xvii + 307. ISBN 0-333-29272-3. £15.
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Dieter B. Herrmann. The History of Astronomy from Herschel to Hertzsprung. Translated by Kevin Krisciunas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. x + 220. ISBN 0-521-257336. £12.50.
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Janet Oppenheim. The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xii + 503. ISBN 0-521-26505-3. £25, $44.50.
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Michel Blay. La Conceptualisation newtonieene des Phénomènes de la Couleur. Paris: Vrin, 1983. Pp. 307. ISBN 2-7116-0825-5. 99F (paper).
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Wolfgang Pauli. Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel mit Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg u.a. Scientific Correspondence with Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg a.o. Berlin, Heidelberg and New York: Springer, 1985. Pp. xxix + 783. ISBN 3-540-13609-6. DM 298.00.
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Joseph Needham. Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. V (Chemistry and Chemical Technology), Part I by Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin, Paper and Printing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xxv + 485 pp. ISBN 0-521-08690-6. £45.00.
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J. L. Heilbron. Physics at the Royal Society During Newton's Presidencey. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1983. Pp. xiv + 123.
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John Peter Oleson. Greek and Roman Mechanical Water-lifting Devices: the History of a Technology. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1984. Pp. xiv + 458 + 173 ills. ISBN 90-277-1693-5. Dfl. 345, £71.75, $58.
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Alexander Vucinich. Empire of Knowledge. The Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1917–1970). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. Pp. x + 484. ISBN 0-520-04871-7. £23.95.
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Lesley Murdin. Under Newton's Shadow: Astronomical Practices in the Seventeenth Century. Bristol and Boston: Adam Hilger, 1985. Pp. viii + 152. ISBN 0-85274-456-0. £16.75.
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Edward Grant. In Defense of the Earth's Centrality and Immobility: Scholastic Reaction to Copernicanism in the Seventeenth Century. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society1984. Pp. 69. ISBN 0-87169-744-0. Price $10.00 (paper). - Edward Rosen. Copernicus and the Scientific Revolution. Malabar, Florida: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company, 1984. Pp. 220. ISBN 0-89874-573-X. Price $6.50 (paper).
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Nancy Tomes. A Generous Confidence. Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Art of Asylum-Keeping, 1840–1883. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xv + 387. ISBN 0-521-24172-3. £27.50 $39.50.
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Jack Morrell & A. Thackray (eds). Gentlemen of Science: Early Correspondence of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. (Camden Fourth Series, Volume 30). London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, University College, London, Cower Street WC 1, 1984. Pp. 382. ISBN 0-86193-103-3. £7.50.
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Donald E. Osterbrock. James E. Keeler: Pioneer American Astrophysicist and the Early Development of American Astrophysics. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xii + 411. ISBN 0-521-26582-7. £35.00.
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