Volume 25 - December 1992
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Book Reviews
Peter Crowcroft. Elton's Ecologists: A History of the Bureau of Animal Population. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Pp. xx + 177, illus. ISBN 0-226-12146-1, £27.95, $35.00 (hardback); 0-226-12148-8, £12.75, $14.95 (paperback).
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Deepak Kumar (ed.). Science and Empire: Essays in Indian Context (1700–1947). Delhi: Anamika Prakashan, 1991. Pp. xiv + 205. ISBN 81-85150-19-2. £20.00, $30.00, Rs. 200.
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Jaroslav Malina and Zdenek Vǎsícěk. Archaeology Yesterday and Today: The Development of Archaeology in the Sciences and the Humanities, translated and edited by Marek Zvelebil. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 320. ISBN 0-521-26621-1, £40.00, $65 (hardback); 0-521-31977-3, £15.00, $19.95 (paperback).
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Karl Hufbauer. Exploring The Sun: Solar Science since Galileo. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Pp. xv + 370. ISBN 0-8018-4098-8. £28.50, $46.00.
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Abraham Pais. Niels Bohr's Times, in Physics, Philosophy and Polity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. xvii + 565.
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Valerie Pinsky and Alison Wylie (eds.). Critical Traditions in Contemporary Archaeology: Essays in the Philosophy, History and Socio-Politics of Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. ix + 160. ISBN 0-521-32109-3. £27.50, $54.50.
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John Roche (ed.). Physicists Look Back: Studies in the History of Physics. Bristol and New York: Adam Hilger, 1990. Pp. xii + 393. ISBN 0-85274-001-8.
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Liliane Bodson and Roland Libois (eds.). Contributions à l'histoire des connaissances zoologiques. Colloques d'histoire des connaissances zoologiques, 2. Liège: Université de Liège, 1991. Pp. 123. 450FB.
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Klaus Hentschel. Die Korrespondenz Petzold—Reichenbach: Zur Entwicklung der ‘wissenschaftlichen Philosophie’ in Berlin. Berliner Beiträge zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Tecknik, 12. Berlin: Sigma, 1990. Pp. 91. ISBN 3-928068-03-2. DM 18, 90. - Christoph Meinel. Karl Friedrich Zöllner und die Wissenschaftskultur der Gründerzeit: Eine Fallstudie zur Genese konservativer Zivilisationskritik. Berliner Beiträge zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 13. Berlin: Sigma, 1991. Pp. 91. ISBN 3-928068-04-0. DM 16, 50.
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Tore Frängsmyr (ed.). Solomon's House Revisited: The Organization and Institutionalization of Science. Canton, Mass.: Science History Publications (USA), 1990. Pp. xiii + 350. ISBN 0-88135-066-4. $49.50 (USA & Canada), $54.00 (elsewhere).
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William Aspray. John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1991. Pp. xvii + 376. ISBN 0-262-01121-2. £31.50.
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Marilyn Bailie Ogilvie. Women in Science: Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century. A Biographical Dictionary with Annotated Bibliography. Cambridge, Mass, and London: The MIT Press, 1988. Pp. xiii + 254. ISBN 0-262-15031-X. £10.95.
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Robert Clayton and Joan Algar (eds.). A Scientist's War: The War Diary of Sir Clifford Paterson, 1939–45. London: Peter Peregrinus Ltd in association with the Science Museum, 1991. Pp. xxvi + 674. ISBN 0-86341-218-1. £59.00.
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Robert Lambourne, Michael Shallis and Michael Shortland. Close Encounters? Science and Science Fiction. Bristol and New York: Adam Hilger, 1990. Pp. xiii + 184. ISBN 0-85274-141-3. L. 12.95.
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Marcello Pera and William R. Shea (eds). Persuading Science: The Art of Scientific Rhetoric. Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 1991. Pp. xi + 212. ISBN 0-88135-071-0. $39.95.
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Alfred I. Tauber and Leon Chernyak. Metchnikoff and the Origins of Immunology: From Metaphor to Theory. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. xx + 247. ISBN 0-19-506447-X.
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Peter Dear (ed.). The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument: Historical Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. ISBN 0-8122-8185-3. No price given.
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M. Weatherall. In Search of a Cure. A History of Pharmaceutical Discovery. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 298. ISBN 0-19-261747-8. £19.50.
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Books Received
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Book Reviews
Maila L. Walter. Science and Cultural Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Percy Williams Bridgman (1882–1961). Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. Pp. x + 362. ISBN 0-8047-1796-6. $42.50.
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