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John Dalton. 1766–1844. A Bibliography of Works by and about him. By A. L. Smyth. Pp. xvi + 114. Manchester University Press, 1966. 42s.
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Mathematics and Logic in History and in Contemporary Thought. By Ettore Carruccio, translated by Isabel Quigly. London: Faber and Faber, 1964. 63s.
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De Mundo nostro Sublunari Philosophia Nova. By William Gilbert. (Facsimile of the 1651 Amsterdam edition.) Pp. 320. The De Mundo of William Gilbert. By SisterSuzanne Kelly, O.S.B. Pp. 142. Amsterdam: Menno Herzberger & Co., 1965. $40 the set.
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Science and Civilization in China: Volume 4, Part 2: Mechanical Engineering
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Michael Scot. By Lynn Thorndike. Pp. 143. 4 plates. London: Thomas Nelson, 1965. 30s
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The British Society for the History of Science: Report of Council for the Year 1965–66
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Chemical, Medical and Pharmaceutical Books printed before 1800 in the Collections of the University of Wisconsin Libraries. Ed. John Neu. Pp. viii + 280. Madison and Milwaukee: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1965.
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Science in History. Third Edition. By J. D. Bernal. Pp. xviii + 1039. London: C. A. Watts, 1965. £4 4s.
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Twentieth-Century Cosmology
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Theophrastus, De Lapidibus. Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary by D. E. Eichholz. Pp. viii + 141. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. £2 5s.
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Experience and Conceptual Activity. A philosophical essay based upon the writings of A. N. Whitehead. By J. M. Burgers. Pp. vii + 277. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass. and London. $7.50 (57s.).
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History of Biological Sciences and Medicine - History of Science. An Annual Review of Literature, Research and Teaching. Volume 4. 1965. Edited by A. C. Crombie and M. A. Hoskin. Pp. 155. Cambridge: W. Heffer. Cloth, 30s. Paper bound, 21s.
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History of Biological Sciences and Medicine - The Mechanistic Conception of Life. By Jacques Loeb. Edited by Donald Fleming. Pp. xlii + 216. Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1964. £1 14s.
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Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - The Great Intellectual Revolution. By J. F. West. Pp. viii + 132. Plates and illustrations. London: John Murray, 1965. Student's Edition 8s. 6d. Library Edition 16s.
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Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Kepler's Dream… By John Lear. Translated by Patricia Frueh Kirkwood. Pp. 182. University of California Press; London: Cambridge University Press, 1965. 40s. net.
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History of Biological Sciences and Medicine - William Harvey. By Kenneth D. Keele. Pp. xi + 244. Plates. London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., 1965. 42s.
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Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Kepler's Conversation with Galileo's Sidereal Messenger. First Complete Translation, with an Introduction and Notes. By Edward Rosen. Pp. xx + 164. New York and London: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965. $9.
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History of Biological Sciences and Medicine - Circulation of the Blood, Men and Ideas. Edited by Alfred P. Fishman and Dickinson W. Richards. Pp. xiv + 859. New York, Oxford University Press, 1964. £7 7s.
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On the Chinese Origin of the Galley Method of Arithmetical Division
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Before 1600 the most common method of division used in Europe was the galley, batello, or scratch method, and this was still popular up to the end of the eighteenth century. This method is commonly supposed to be of Hindu origin, being based on a method found in India about the fourth century. It will be shown that the Hindu method is identical to the Chinese method of division (ch'u
) mentioned in very early Chinese texts such as the Chiu Chang Suan Shu
(Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, c. first century a.d.). The earliest detailed description of this method is found in the Sun Tzŭ Suan Ching
(The Mathematical Manual of Master Sun, third century a.d.).
) mentioned in very early Chinese texts such as the 
(Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, 
(The Mathematical Manual of Master Sun, third century History of Chemistry - The Development of Modern Chemistry. By Aaron J. Ihde. Pp. xii + 851, with 217 plates and figures. New York, Evanston, and London: Harper and Row, 1964. £5 1s.
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