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Lloyd G. Stevenson (ed.), A celebration of medical history. The fiftieth anniversary of the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine and the Welch Medical Library. Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1982. Pp. vi + 228. £12.75/522.10.
Roy Porter
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 18 / Issue 1 / March 1985

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05 January 2009, pp. 83-84

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William Coleman, Death is a social disease. Public health and political economy in early industrial France. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Madison Press, 1982. Pp. xxi + 322. $35.00/£26.25.
L. J. Jordanova
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05 January 2009, pp. 86-87

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Marin Mersenne, Correspondance, XV (1647). Edited by Cornelis de Waard and Armand Beaulieu. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1983.
Marie Boas Hall
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05 January 2009, p. 100

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Roger Smith, Trial by medicine: insanity and responsibility in Victorian trials. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1981. Pp. ix + 238. £15.00.
Joan Busfield
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05 January 2009, pp. 89-90

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G. N. Cantor. Optics after Newton. Theories of light in Britain and Ireland, 1704–1840. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1983. Pp. ix + 257. ISBN 0-7190-0938-3. £20.
Crosbie Smith
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05 January 2009, pp. 105-107

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A. Rahman, M. A. Alvī, S. A. Khan Ghorī, and K. V. Samba Murthy, Science and technology in mediaeval India—a bibliography of source materials in Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian. Delhi: Indian National Science Academy, 1982. Pp. xxxi + 719. Rs.200 (inland), $70 (foreign).
Dominik Wujastyk
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05 January 2009, pp. 96-97

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Sally Shuttleworth, George Eliot and Nineteenth Century Science. The Make-Believe of a Beginning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv + 257, £20.00 - Redmond O'Hanlon, Joseph Conrad and Charles Darwin. The Influence of Scientific Thought on Conrad's Fiction. Edinburgh: The Salamander Press, 1984. Pp. 189, £17.50
Roy Porter
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05 January 2009, pp. 107-109

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Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. iv + 297. ISBN 0-521-25858-8. £25, $34.50, (Paperback £7.95, $9.95.)
Marie Boas Hall
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05 January 2009, pp. 97-98

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Martin Goldman, The demon in the aether. The story of James Clerk Maxwell. Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing, 1983. Pp. 224. ISBN 0-86228-026-5. £18.
Crosbie Smith
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05 January 2009, pp. 120-121

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Stillman Drake, Cause Experiment and Science: A Galilean dialogue incorporating a new English translation of Galileo's ‘Bodies That Stay atop Water or Move in it.’Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Pp. xxviii + 237. ISBN 0-226-16228-1. $20.00.
R. Naylor
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05 January 2009, p. 102

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G. E. R. Lloyd, Science, Folklore and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xi + 260. ISBN 0-521-25314-4. £25.00, $49.50. Paperback ISBN 0-521-27307-2. £8.95, $16.95.
David Furley
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05 January 2009, pp. 91-93

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Resources for the History of Science in the Science Museum Library
L. R. Day
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The basic guidelines for the Science Museum Library, which determine the nature of the collections and the ways they are placed at the service of the public, were stated in the Government White Paper on the British Library of 1971: ‘The Library will be developed both as a reference library of the history of science and technology and for the provision of specialist services for the staff of the Science Museum’.

The Long Waves of Social Consciousness
Graham Hollister-Short
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05 January 2009, pp. 77-82

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The Mathematics of Society: Variation and Error in Quetelet's Statistics
Theodore M. Porter
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05 January 2009, pp. 51-69

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“Let us apply to the political and moral sciences the method founded upon observation and upon calculus, the method which has served us so well in the natural sciences.” The social sciences have known no truer follower of Laplace's dictum than Adolphe Quetelet. His mécanique sociale, later physique sociale, was conceived as the social analogue to Laplace's mecanique celeste, and embodied the results of an unswerving commitment not only to the presumed method of celestial physics, but even to its concepts and vocabulary. It is too weak to say that Quetelet's goal was the transmission of the achievements of celestial physics into the social sphere. He aspired to nothing less than imitation.

Peter Wright and Andrew Treacher (eds), The problem of medical knowledge. Edinburgh University Press, 1982. Pp. viii + 232. ISBN 0-85224-417-7. £12.00 (paper). - David Armstrong, The political anatomy of the body. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xii + 146. ISBN 0-521-24746-2. £17.50.
Christopher Lawrence
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05 January 2009, pp. 90-91

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Nathan Reingold (ed), The Papers of Joseph Henry, volume 3: January 1836—December 1837, The Princeton Years. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979. Pp. xxxiv + 585. $30. - Nathan Reingold (ed), The Papers of Joseph Henry, volume 4: January 1838—December 1840, The Princeton Years. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. Pp. xxxiv + 475. $30.
David Gooding
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05 January 2009, pp. 113-114

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G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, M. Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii and 501. ISBN 0-521-25444-2 £30.00 (Paperback £10.95).
Catherine Osborne
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05 January 2009, pp. 93-94

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Roy MacLeod (editor), Days of Judgement. Science, Examinations and the Organization of Knowledge in Late Victorian England. Driffield: Studies in Education Ltd., Nafferton Books, 1982. Pp. ix + 250. ISBN 0-905484-15-0. £15.95.
David Layton
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Lloyd G. Stevenson (ed.), A celebration of medical history. The fiftieth anniversary of the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine and the Welch Medical Library. Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1982. Pp. vi + 228. £12.75/522.10.

William Coleman, Death is a social disease. Public health and political economy in early industrial France. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Madison Press, 1982. Pp. xxi + 322. $35.00/£26.25.

Marin Mersenne, Correspondance, XV (1647). Edited by Cornelis de Waard and Armand Beaulieu. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1983.

Roger Smith, Trial by medicine: insanity and responsibility in Victorian trials. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1981. Pp. ix + 238. £15.00.

G. N. Cantor. Optics after Newton. Theories of light in Britain and Ireland, 1704–1840. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1983. Pp. ix + 257. ISBN 0-7190-0938-3. £20.

A. Rahman, M. A. Alvī, S. A. Khan Ghorī, and K. V. Samba Murthy, Science and technology in mediaeval India—a bibliography of source materials in Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian. Delhi: Indian National Science Academy, 1982. Pp. xxxi + 719. Rs.200 (inland), $70 (foreign).

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Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. iv + 297. ISBN 0-521-25858-8. £25, $34.50, (Paperback £7.95, $9.95.)

Martin Goldman, The demon in the aether. The story of James Clerk Maxwell. Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing, 1983. Pp. 224. ISBN 0-86228-026-5. £18.

Stillman Drake, Cause Experiment and Science: A Galilean dialogue incorporating a new English translation of Galileo's ‘Bodies That Stay atop Water or Move in it.’Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Pp. xxviii + 237. ISBN 0-226-16228-1. $20.00.

G. E. R. Lloyd, Science, Folklore and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xi + 260. ISBN 0-521-25314-4. £25.00, $49.50. Paperback ISBN 0-521-27307-2. £8.95, $16.95.

Resources for the History of Science in the Science Museum Library

The Long Waves of Social Consciousness

The Mathematics of Society: Variation and Error in Quetelet's Statistics

G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, M. Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii and 501. ISBN 0-521-25444-2 £30.00 (Paperback £10.95).

Roy MacLeod (editor), Days of Judgement. Science, Examinations and the Organization of Knowledge in Late Victorian England. Driffield: Studies in Education Ltd., Nafferton Books, 1982. Pp. ix + 250. ISBN 0-905484-15-0. £15.95.

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