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Volume 19 - November 1986

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Wilda C. Anderson. Between the Library and the Laboratory: the Language of Chemistry in Eighteenth-Century France. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. Pp. vii + 190. ISBN 0-8018-3229-2. £20.00, $22.50.
Steven Shapin
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05 January 2009, pp. 361-362
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Winfried Scharlau & Hans Opolka. From Fermat to Minkowski. Lectures on the Theory of Numbers and Its Historical Development. Translated from the German by W. K. Bühler and G. Cornell. Berlin and New York: Springer, 1985. Pp xi + 184. ISBN 0-387-90942-7. DM 72.00.
Jeremy Gray
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05 January 2009, p. 362
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Paolo Rossi. The Dark Abyss of Time. The History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico. A translation by Lydia G. Cochrane of I Segni del Tempo (1979). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. xvi + 338. ISBN 0-226-72835-8. £36.75.
Rhoda Rappaport
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05 January 2009, pp. 362-363
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William A. Wallace. Galileo and his Sources. The Heritage of the Collegio Romano in Galileo's Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv + 371. ISBN 0-691-08355-X. £45.80.
Peter Dear
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05 January 2009, pp. 363-364
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Steven B. Engelsman. Families of Curves and the Origins of Partial Differentiation. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1984. Pp. x + 238. ISBN 0-444-86897-6. US $29.00, Dfl. 85.00.
Jeremy Gray
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W. H. Brock & A. J. Meadows. The Lamp of Learning. Taylor & Francis and the Development of Science Publishing. London: Taylor & Francis, 1984. Pp. xvi + 240. ISBN 0-85066-253-2. £15.00.
David Knight
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05 January 2009, pp. 365-366
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Donald Hill. A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times. Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1984. Pp. x + 263. ISBN 0-7099-1209-9. £18.95.
Graham Hollister-Short
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05 January 2009, pp. 366-367
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Derek Gjertsen. The Classics of Science. A Study of Twelve Enduring Scientific Works. New York and Gravesend: Lilian Barber Press, 1984. Pp. iii + 374. ISBN 0-936508–4. £20.00 (hardback), £12.95 (paperback).
David Knight
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F. Neil Johnson. The History of Lithium Therapy. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1984. Pp. xvii + 198 illustrations. ISBN 0-333-36942-4. £35.00.
David Cantor
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05 January 2009, pp. 368-369
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Trevor I. Williams. Howard Florey: Penicillin and After. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Pp. xvi + 404. ISBN 0-19-858173-4. £17.50.
John Patrick Swann
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05 January 2009, pp. 369-370
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Wen-Yuan Qian. The Great Inertia. London: Croom Helm, 1984. Pp. xii + 155. ISBN 0-7099-2104-7. £15.95.
Colin Ronan
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05 January 2009, pp. 370-371
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Ilya Prigogine & Isabelle Stengers. Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature. London: Heinemann, 1984. Pp. xxxi + 349. ISBN 434-603953. £9.95.
Stephen G. Brush
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05 January 2009, pp. 371-372
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Badash Lawrence. Kapitza, Rutherford, and the Kremlin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. Pp. xi + 129. ISBN 0-300-01465-1. £20.00.
Laurie M. Brown
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Index of Books Reviewed

Index of Books Reviewed
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Report of Council for the Year 1985–1986

British Society for the History of Science Report of Council for the Year 1985–1986
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Books Received

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Wilda C. Anderson. Between the Library and the Laboratory: the Language of Chemistry in Eighteenth-Century France. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. Pp. vii + 190. ISBN 0-8018-3229-2. £20.00, $22.50.

Winfried Scharlau & Hans Opolka. From Fermat to Minkowski. Lectures on the Theory of Numbers and Its Historical Development. Translated from the German by W. K. Bühler and G. Cornell. Berlin and New York: Springer, 1985. Pp xi + 184. ISBN 0-387-90942-7. DM 72.00.

Front matter

BJH volume 19 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

Back matter

BJH volume 19 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

Book Reviews

Paolo Rossi. The Dark Abyss of Time. The History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico. A translation by Lydia G. Cochrane of I Segni del Tempo (1979). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. xvi + 338. ISBN 0-226-72835-8. £36.75.

William A. Wallace. Galileo and his Sources. The Heritage of the Collegio Romano in Galileo's Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv + 371. ISBN 0-691-08355-X. £45.80.

Steven B. Engelsman. Families of Curves and the Origins of Partial Differentiation. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1984. Pp. x + 238. ISBN 0-444-86897-6. US $29.00, Dfl. 85.00.

W. H. Brock & A. J. Meadows. The Lamp of Learning. Taylor & Francis and the Development of Science Publishing. London: Taylor & Francis, 1984. Pp. xvi + 240. ISBN 0-85066-253-2. £15.00.

Donald Hill. A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times. Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1984. Pp. x + 263. ISBN 0-7099-1209-9. £18.95.

Derek Gjertsen. The Classics of Science. A Study of Twelve Enduring Scientific Works. New York and Gravesend: Lilian Barber Press, 1984. Pp. iii + 374. ISBN 0-936508–4. £20.00 (hardback), £12.95 (paperback).

F. Neil Johnson. The History of Lithium Therapy. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1984. Pp. xvii + 198 illustrations. ISBN 0-333-36942-4. £35.00.

Trevor I. Williams. Howard Florey: Penicillin and After. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Pp. xvi + 404. ISBN 0-19-858173-4. £17.50.

Wen-Yuan Qian. The Great Inertia. London: Croom Helm, 1984. Pp. xii + 155. ISBN 0-7099-2104-7. £15.95.

Ilya Prigogine & Isabelle Stengers. Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature. London: Heinemann, 1984. Pp. xxxi + 349. ISBN 434-603953. £9.95.

Badash Lawrence. Kapitza, Rutherford, and the Kremlin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. Pp. xi + 129. ISBN 0-300-01465-1. £20.00.

Books Received

Books Received

Index of Books Reviewed

Index of Books Reviewed

Report of Council for the Year 1985–1986

British Society for the History of Science Report of Council for the Year 1985–1986

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BJH volume 19 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

The British Journal for the History of Science

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Volume 19 - November 1986

Books Received

Book Reviews

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Book Reviews

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Index of Books Reviewed

Report of Council for the Year 1985–1986

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