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Amalie M. Kass & H. Kass. Perfecting the World: the Life and Times of Dr. Thomas Hodgkin, 1798–1866. Boston, Massachusetts: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. Pp. xxx + 642. ISBN 0-15-171700-1. £24.50, $34.95.
Russell C. Maulitz
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 23 / Issue 4 / December 1990

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05 January 2009, pp. 463-464

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T. N. Clarke, A. D. Morrison-Low & A. D. C. Simpson. Brass & Glass. Scientific Instrument Making Workshops in Scotland as Illustrated by Instruments from the Arthur Frank Collection at the Royal Museum of Scotland. Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland, 1989. Pp. 320. ISBN 0-984636-06-8. £25.00.
Willem Hackmann
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 23 / Issue 4 / December 1990

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05 January 2009, pp. 485-486

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Thomas G. Manning. U.S. Coast Survey vs. Naval Hydrographic Office. A 19th-century Rivalry in Science and Politics. Tuscaloosa and London: The University of Alabama Press, 1988. Pp. 202. ISBN 0-8173-0390-1. $21.95.
Willem D. Hackmann
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 23 / Issue 3 / September 1990

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05 January 2009, pp. 379-380

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Nicholas H. Clulee. John Dee's Natural Philosophy: Between Science and Religion. London and New York: Routledge, 1988. Pp. xiv + 347. ISBN 0-415-00625-2. £40.00. ISBN 0-415-03122-2. £14.95.
Bruce T. Moran
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05 January 2009, pp. 361-363

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Delaroche and Bérard and experimental error
Eric Mendoza
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In 1813, two young physicists, François Delaroche and Jacques-Étienne Bérard, published a series of highly influential measurements of the specific heats of a number of common gases. Their results, obtained in answer to a prize competition set by the Institut de France, were accepted as the most accurate then available and they continued to exert a powerful, if diminishing, influence on studies of heat for the next forty years. Among the results obtained by Delaroche and Bérard were two measurements which showed that the specific heat of air decreased when the pressure was raised. This was a new and important experimental result. The ‘effect’ was found to be spurious of course (definitively by Victor Regnault as late as 1862), but in the meantime it was clear endorsement of some of the tenets of the caloric theory of heat. It could be invoked, for example, to explain the rise of temperature of a gas when it was compressed adiabatically. Robert Fox in his study of the rise and fall of the caloric theory has written:
Their error, although less than 10 per cent, was to prove one of the most influential in the whole history of the study of heat. Backed by the prestige associated with victory in the Institute's competition, the result quickly became standard and… was to mislead many calorists.

Heinrich Von Staden. Herophilus: The art of medicine in Alexandria: Edition, Translation and Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xliii + 666. ISBN 0-521-23640. £75.00, $140 (cloth).
Amal Abou Aly
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Raymond G. Stokes. Divide and Prosper: The Heirs of I. G. Farben under Allied Authority. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Pp. xiv + 290. ISBN 0-520-06248-5. £24.55.
Peter Morris
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Penelope Murray (ed). Genius: The History of an Idea. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp. ix + 235. ISBN 0-631-15785-9. £25.00.
David Knight
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Bruno Latour. The Pasteurization of France. London: Harvard University Press, 1988. Trans Alan Sheridan and John Law. Pp. 273. ISBN 0-674-65760-8. £23.95.
Keith Vernon
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R. N. Giere. Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1988. Pp. xxi + 321. ISBN 0-226-269205-3. £27.95.
R. G. A. Dolby
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Lynn L. Merrill. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xi + 288. ISBN 0-19-505203X. £24.00.
David Knight
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Ian Wylie. Young Coleridge and the Philosophers of Nature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. x + 176. ISBN 0-19-812983-1. £22.50.
Trevor H. Leyere
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Tore Frängsmyr (ed.). Science in Sweden: the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1739–1989. Canton, Mass: Science History Publications, 1989. Pp. viii + 291. ISBN 0-88135-092-3. $45.00.
David Knight
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BJH volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Back matter
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R. Nola (ed.). Relativism and Realism in Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988. Pp. x + 299. ISBN 90-277-2647-7. £48.00.
R. G. A. Dolby
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Jed Z. Buchwald. The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light: Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Pp. xxiv + 474. ISBN 0-226-07884-1 (cloth) and 0-226-07886-8 (paper). £59.95, $86.25 (cloth) £19.95, $28.75 (paper).
Geoffrey Cantor
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P. J.& R. V. Wallis (with J. G. L. Burnby & T. D. Whittet). Eighteenth Century Medics (subscriptions, licences, apprenticeships). Newcastle-upon-Tyne: PHIBB, second edition, 1988. Pp. xx + 690. ISBN 1-871768-00-4. £80.00.
Joan Lane
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David B. Ruderman. Kabbalah, Magic and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenthcentury Jewish Physician. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1988. Pp. xii + 232. ISBN 0-674-49660-4. No price given.
David S. Katz
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Cynthia Eagle Russett. Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1989. Pp. 245. ISBN 0-674-80290-X. £15.95, $25.00.
Michael Bevan
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Amalie M. Kass & H. Kass. Perfecting the World: the Life and Times of Dr. Thomas Hodgkin, 1798–1866. Boston, Massachusetts: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. Pp. xxx + 642. ISBN 0-15-171700-1. £24.50, $34.95.

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T. N. Clarke, A. D. Morrison-Low & A. D. C. Simpson. Brass & Glass. Scientific Instrument Making Workshops in Scotland as Illustrated by Instruments from the Arthur Frank Collection at the Royal Museum of Scotland. Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland, 1989. Pp. 320. ISBN 0-984636-06-8. £25.00.

Thomas G. Manning. U.S. Coast Survey vs. Naval Hydrographic Office. A 19th-century Rivalry in Science and Politics. Tuscaloosa and London: The University of Alabama Press, 1988. Pp. 202. ISBN 0-8173-0390-1. $21.95.

Nicholas H. Clulee. John Dee's Natural Philosophy: Between Science and Religion. London and New York: Routledge, 1988. Pp. xiv + 347. ISBN 0-415-00625-2. £40.00. ISBN 0-415-03122-2. £14.95.

Delaroche and Bérard and experimental error

Heinrich Von Staden. Herophilus: The art of medicine in Alexandria: Edition, Translation and Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xliii + 666. ISBN 0-521-23640. £75.00, $140 (cloth).

Raymond G. Stokes. Divide and Prosper: The Heirs of I. G. Farben under Allied Authority. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Pp. xiv + 290. ISBN 0-520-06248-5. £24.55.

Penelope Murray (ed). Genius: The History of an Idea. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp. ix + 235. ISBN 0-631-15785-9. £25.00.

Bruno Latour. The Pasteurization of France. London: Harvard University Press, 1988. Trans Alan Sheridan and John Law. Pp. 273. ISBN 0-674-65760-8. £23.95.

R. N. Giere. Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1988. Pp. xxi + 321. ISBN 0-226-269205-3. £27.95.

Lynn L. Merrill. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xi + 288. ISBN 0-19-505203X. £24.00.

Ian Wylie. Young Coleridge and the Philosophers of Nature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. x + 176. ISBN 0-19-812983-1. £22.50.

Tore Frängsmyr (ed.). Science in Sweden: the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1739–1989. Canton, Mass: Science History Publications, 1989. Pp. viii + 291. ISBN 0-88135-092-3. $45.00.

BJH volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

R. Nola (ed.). Relativism and Realism in Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988. Pp. x + 299. ISBN 90-277-2647-7. £48.00.

Jed Z. Buchwald. The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light: Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Pp. xxiv + 474. ISBN 0-226-07884-1 (cloth) and 0-226-07886-8 (paper). £59.95, $86.25 (cloth) £19.95, $28.75 (paper).

P. J.& R. V. Wallis (with J. G. L. Burnby & T. D. Whittet). Eighteenth Century Medics (subscriptions, licences, apprenticeships). Newcastle-upon-Tyne: PHIBB, second edition, 1988. Pp. xx + 690. ISBN 1-871768-00-4. £80.00.

David B. Ruderman. Kabbalah, Magic and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenthcentury Jewish Physician. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1988. Pp. xii + 232. ISBN 0-674-49660-4. No price given.

Cynthia Eagle Russett. Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1989. Pp. 245. ISBN 0-674-80290-X. £15.95, $25.00.

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