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Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - The Ethereal Aether. A History of Michelson-Morley-Miller Aether-Drift Experiments, 1880–1930. By Lloyd S. Swenson Jr Austin: University of Texas Press, 1972. Pp. xxii +361. £4.75. - Nineteenth Century Aether Theories. By Kenneth F. Schaffner. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1972. Pp. x + 278. £3.25.
J. O. Marsh
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 7 / Issue 1 / March 1974

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05 January 2009, pp. 96-97

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Property, Patronage, and the Politics of Science: The Founding of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Steven Shapin
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The institutionalization of natural knowledge in the form of a scientific society may be interpreted in several ways. If we wish to view science as something apart, unchanging in its intellectual nature, we may regard the scientific enterprise as presenting to the sustaining social system a number of absolute and necessary organizational demands: for example, scientific activity requires acceptance as an important social activity valued for its own sake, that is, it requires autonomy; it is separate from other forms of enquiry and requires distinct institutional modes; it is public knowledge and requires a public, universalistic forum; it is productive of constant change and requires of the sustaining social system a flexibility in adapting to change. Support for such an interpretation may be found in the rise of modern science in seventeenth-century England, France, and Italy and in the accompanying rise of specifically scientific societies. Thus, the founding of the Royal Society of London may be interpreted as the organizational embodiment of immanent demands arising from scientific activity—the cashing of a blank cheque payable to science written on society's current account.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Selected Writings of Hermann von Helmholtz. Edited, with an Introduction, and translated in part by Russell Kahl. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. Pp. xlvi + 542. $25.
P. M. Heimann
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 7 / Issue 1 / March 1974

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Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Religion and the Rise of Modern Science. By R. Hooykaas. Edinburgh and London: Scottish Academic Press and Chatto and Windus, 1972. Pp. xiv + 162. £2.25; £1.25 (paperback).
Richard S. Westfall
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 7 / Issue 1 / March 1974

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General - Causality and Scientific Explanation. Volume One: Medieval and Early Classical Science. By William A. Wallace. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1972. Pp. xii + 288. $12.
A. G. Molland
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A Microscopic Incident in a Monumental Struggle: Huxley and Antibiosis in 1875
James Friday
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In 1875 T. H. Huxley discovered that a secretion from the mould penicillium glaucum had an ability, unconnected with oxygen deprivation, to inhibit bacterial growth. He recorded his observations in his notebooks and in a single letter to John Tyndall, who at that time was a friend of Lister and a correspondent of Pasteur. Neither Huxley nor Tyndall looked for an explanation of this phenomenon, and neither told anyone else about it.

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General - Natural Science Books in English 1600–1900. By David M. Knight. London: Batsford, 1972. Pp. x + 262. £6.50.
Peter Wallis
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Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Charles Darwin: The Years of Controversy. The ‘Origin of Species’ and its Critics 1859–1882. By Peter J. Vorzimmer. London: University of London Press, 1972. Pp. xx + 300. £4.40.
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
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Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Humanism and the Rise of Science in Tudor England. By Antonia McLean. London: Heinemann, 1972. Pp. 258. £3.75.
Alan G. R. Smith
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Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - The Archives of the Royal Institution of Great Britain in Facsimile. Minutes of Managers' Meetings 1799–1900. Volumes I and II. Ed. by Frank Greenaway and G. A. Stollard. Ilkley: The Scolar Press, 1971. Pp. viii + 280. No price stated for individual volumes.
G. N. Cantor
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 7 / Issue 1 / March 1974

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Ernst Mach: His Work, Life and Influence
I. Grattan-Guinness
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Scientific Knowledge and its Social Problems
Margaret Gowing
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The Mathematical Association Library at the University of Leicester
R. L. Goodstein
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Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Galileo's Intellectual Revolution. By William R. Shea. London: Macmillan, 1972. Pp. xii + 204. £4.95.
C. B. Schmitt
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General - Human Understanding. Volume 1: General Introduction and Part 1. The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts. By Stephen Toulmin. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1972. Pp. xii + 520. £4.75.
Arnold Thackray
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Geology - Charles Lyell. The Years to 1841: The Revolution in Geology. By Leonard G. Wilson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1972. Pp. xiv + 553. £7.50.
Rachel Bush
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Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Colloque International ‘Lamarck’. Tenu au Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, les 1–2 et 3 juillet 1971. Ed. by J. Schiller. Paris: Blanchard, 1971. Pp. 263. 28 francs.
Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr
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Property, Patronage, and the Politics of Science: The Founding of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Selected Writings of Hermann von Helmholtz. Edited, with an Introduction, and translated in part by Russell Kahl. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. Pp. xlvi + 542. $25.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Religion and the Rise of Modern Science. By R. Hooykaas. Edinburgh and London: Scottish Academic Press and Chatto and Windus, 1972. Pp. xiv + 162. £2.25; £1.25 (paperback).

General - Causality and Scientific Explanation. Volume One: Medieval and Early Classical Science. By William A. Wallace. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1972. Pp. xii + 288. $12.

A Microscopic Incident in a Monumental Struggle: Huxley and Antibiosis in 1875

Books Received

General - Natural Science Books in English 1600–1900. By David M. Knight. London: Batsford, 1972. Pp. x + 262. £6.50.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Charles Darwin: The Years of Controversy. The ‘Origin of Species’ and its Critics 1859–1882. By Peter J. Vorzimmer. London: University of London Press, 1972. Pp. xx + 300. £4.40.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Humanism and the Rise of Science in Tudor England. By Antonia McLean. London: Heinemann, 1972. Pp. 258. £3.75.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - The Archives of the Royal Institution of Great Britain in Facsimile. Minutes of Managers' Meetings 1799–1900. Volumes I and II. Ed. by Frank Greenaway and G. A. Stollard. Ilkley: The Scolar Press, 1971. Pp. viii + 280. No price stated for individual volumes.

Ernst Mach: His Work, Life and Influence

Scientific Knowledge and its Social Problems

BJH volume 7 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

The Mathematical Association Library at the University of Leicester

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Galileo's Intellectual Revolution. By William R. Shea. London: Macmillan, 1972. Pp. xii + 204. £4.95.

General - Human Understanding. Volume 1: General Introduction and Part 1. The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts. By Stephen Toulmin. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1972. Pp. xii + 520. £4.75.

BJH volume 7 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

Geology - Charles Lyell. The Years to 1841: The Revolution in Geology. By Leonard G. Wilson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1972. Pp. xiv + 553. £7.50.

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Colloque International ‘Lamarck’. Tenu au Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, les 1–2 et 3 juillet 1971. Ed. by J. Schiller. Paris: Blanchard, 1971. Pp. 263. 28 francs.

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