Volume 27 - June 1994
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Book reviews
George Berkeley, De motu and The Analyst. A Modern Critical Edition with Introductions and Commentary, edited and translated by Douglas M. Jesseph. The New Synthese Historical Library, 41. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992. Pp. xi + 230. ISBN 0-7923-1520-0. £51.00, $86.00, Dfl. 150.00.
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Ute Deichmann, Biologen unter Hitler: Vertreibung, Karrieren, Forschungsförderung. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1992. Pp. 370. ISBN 3-593-34763-6. DM 38.00.
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Frances Willmoth, Sir Jonas Moore: Practical Mathematics and Restoration Science. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1993. Pp. xi + 244. ISBN 0-85115-321-6. £35.00, $70.00.
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Roy Porter and Mikuláš Teich (eds.), The Scientific Revolution in National Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xi + 305. ISBN 0-521-39510-0, £35.00 (hardback); 0-521-39699-9, £12.99 (paperback).
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Robert K. Merton, On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript, the Post-Italianate Edition, with a foreword by Umberto Eco, an afterword by Denis Donoghue and a Preface and Postface by the Author. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Pp. xxv + 320. ISBN 0-226-52086-2. $14.95.
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Zev Bechler, Newton's Physics and the Conceptual Structure of the Scientific Revolution. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 127. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. Pp. xviii + 588. ISBN 0-7923-1054-3. £103.00, $189.00, Dfl. 300.00.
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Anthony S. Travis, The Rainbow Makers: The Origins of the Synthetic Dyestuffs Industry in Western Europe. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press/London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1993. Pp. 335. ISBN 0-934223-18-1. £41.95.
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Jean-Pierre Poirier, Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier 1743–1794. Paris: Pygmalion/Gérard Watelet, 1993. Pp. xii + 545. ISBN 2-85704-384-8. 178FF
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Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Equivalence and Priority: Newton versus Leibniz. Including Leibniz's Unpublished Manuscripts on the Principia.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. ix + 318. ISBN 0-19-853945-2. £55.00.
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Robert Bud, The Uses of Life: A History of Biotechnology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii + 299. ISBN 0-521-38240-8. £12.95, $19.95 (paperback edition).
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J.-C. Beaune, S. Benoit, J. Gayon, J. Roger and D. Woronoff (eds.), Buffon 88: Actes du Colloque international pour le bi-centenaire de la mort de Buffon (Paris, Montbard, Dijon, 14–22 June 1988). Paris: Librairie Philosophique VRIN, 1992. Pp. ix + 771. ISBN 2-7116-9755-X. 195FF.
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G. E. Fogg, A History of Antarctic Science. Studies in Polar Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xxi + 483. ISBN 0-521-36113-3. £55.00.
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Howard E. McCurdy, Inside NASA: High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv + 215. ISBN 0-8018-4452-5. £27.50.
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Mark Pittenger, American Socialists and Evolutionary Thought, 1870–1920. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. Pp. x + 310. ISBN 0-299-13600-0, £48.00 (hardback); 0-299-13604-3, £20.00 (paperback).
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John Brewer and Roy Porter (eds.), Consumption and the World of Goods. London: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xxi + 564. ISBN 0-415-03712-3. £75.00.
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David Knight, Humphry Davy: Science and Power. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. Pp. xiii + 218. ISBN 0-631-16816-8. £30.00.
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Michael Shortland (ed.), Science and Nature: Essays in the History of the Environmental Sciences. BSHS Monographs, 8. Oxford: British Society for the History of Science, 1993. Pp. viii + 291. ISBN 0-906450-08-X. £10.00.
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Pascal Duris, Linné et la France (1780–1850). Histoire des idées et critique littéraire, 318. Geneva: Droz, 1993. Pp. 218. No price given.
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Graham Richards, Mental Machinery: The Origins and Consequences of Psychological Ideas, Part 1: 1600–1850. London: The Athlone Press, 1992. Pp. xi + 490. ISBN 0-485-11394-5. £50.00.
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Sahotra Sarkar (ed.), The Founders of Evolutionary Genetics: A Centenary Reappraisal. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 142. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992. Pp. 300. ISBN 0-7923-1777-7. £62.00, $115.00, Dfl. 180.00.
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