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DAVID CANTOR (ed.), Reinventing Hippocrates. The History of Medicine in Context. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. Pp. x+341. ISBN 0-7546-0528-0. £55.00 (hardback).
DANIEL BROWNSTEIN
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24 May 2004, pp. 197-199
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SHARON MACDONALD, Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum. Materializing Culture. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002. Pp. xiii+293. ISBN 1-85973-571-1. £14.00 (paperback).
JIM BENNETT
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02 March 2004, pp. 99-100
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Sharon Macdonald, Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum. By Jim Bennett 99
Charles Mollan, William Davis and Brendan Finucane (eds.), Irish Innovators in Science and Technology. By Enda Leaney 100
Pamela O. Long, Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance. By Catherine Eagleton, Karin Tybjerg and Koen Vermeir 101
Antonio Clericuzio, Elements, Principles and Corpuscles: A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century. By Christoph Lüthy 103
Lisa Silverman, Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France. By Sean M. Quinlan 105
Trevor H. Levere and Gerard L'E. Turner, Discussing Chemistry and Steam: The Minutes of a Coffee House Philosophical Society 1780–1787. By William H Brock 106
Claudine Cohen, The Fate of the Mammoth: Fossils, Myth, and History. By Bowdoin Van Riper 107
David Elliston Allen, Naturalists and Society: The Culture of Natural History in Britain, 1700–1900. By Jim Endersby 108
Roger Luckhurst, The Invention of Telepathy, 1870–1901. By Richard Noakes 110
Benjamin H. Yandell, The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers. By I. Grattan-Guinness 112
Emily Thompson, The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900–1933. By Neil Pemberton 113

MARIA MICHELA SASSI, The Science of Man in Ancient Greece. Translated by Paul Tucker. With a Foreword by Sir Geoffrey Lloyd. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xxx+224. ISBN 0-226-73530-3. £21.50, $34.00 (hardback).
LAURENCE M. V. TOTELIN
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09 December 2004, pp. 467-468
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MALCOLM OSTER (ed.), Science in Europe, 1500–1800: A Primary Sources Reader. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xix+282. ISBN 0-333-97002-0. £14.99 (paperback). MALCOLM OSTER (ed.), Science in Europe, 1500–1800: A Secondary Sources Reader. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xii+307. ISBN 0-333-97006-3. £14.99 (paperback).
JOHN HENRY
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01 September 2004, pp. 346-347
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H. L. L. BUSARD, Johannes de Tinemue's Redaction of Euclid'sElements, the So-called Adelard III Version. Volume I: Introduction, Sigla and Descriptions of the Manuscripts, Editorial Remarks, Euclides,Elementa.Volume II: Conspectus Siglorum, Apparatus Criticus, Addenda. Boethius, 45. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001. Pp. 632. ISBN 3-515-07975-0. €100.00 (paperback).
JACKIE STEDALL
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09 December 2004, pp. 468-469
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M. BARLOW PEPIN, The Emergence of the Telescope: Janssen, Lipperhey, and the Unknown Man. Duncanville, TX: T. Tauri Productions, 2002. Pp. 41. No ISBN. No price given (paperback).
HESTER HIGTON
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01 September 2004, pp. 347-348
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CHARLES MOLLAN, WILLIAM DAVIS and BRENDAN FINUCANE (eds.), Irish Innovators in Science and Technology. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2002. Pp. xv+256. ISBN 1-874045-88-7. £28.00 (hardback).
ENDA LEANEY
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02 March 2004, pp. 100-101
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PETER DEAR, Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500–1700. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. viii+208. ISBN 0-333-71574-8. £14.99 (paperback).
JOHN HENRY
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24 May 2004, pp. 199-200
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PAMELA O. LONG, Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii+364. ISBN 0-8018-6606-5. £38.00 (hardback).
CATHERINE EAGLETON, KARIN TYBJERG, KOEN VERMEIR
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02 March 2004, pp. 101-103
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PAOLO ROSSI, Logic and the Art of Memory: The Quest for a Universal Language. Translated with an Introduction by Stephen Clucas, London: The Athlone Press, 2000. Pp. xxviii+333. ISBN 0-485-11468-2. £50.00 (hardback).
JOHN HENRY
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24 May 2004, pp. 200-201
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RUDOLPH GAMPER and THOMAS HOFMEIER, Das Alchemiehandbuch des Appenzeller Wundarztes Ulrich Ruosch. Basel: Schwabe, 2002. Pp. 158. ISBN 3-7965-1975-X. €33.50, SFr 48.00 (hardback).
PAMELA H. SMITH
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01 September 2004, pp. 348-349
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GERHARD W. KRAMER, The Firework Book: Gunpowder in Medieval Germany. The Journal of the Arms and Armour Society, 17(1). London: Arms and Armour Society, 2001. Pp. 89. ISSN 00004-2439. £10 (paperback).
SIMON WERRETT
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09 December 2004, pp. 469-470
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SCOTT MANDELBROTE, Footprints of the Lion: Isaac Newton at Work. Exhibition at Cambridge University Library 9 October 2001–23 March 2002. Cambridge: Cambridge University Library, 2001. Pp. 142. ISBN 0-902205-58-7. £7.50 (paperback).
JOHN FRIESEN
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01 September 2004, pp. 349-350
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ROBERT CROCKER (ed.), Religion, Reason and Nature in Early Modern Europe. International Archives of the History of Ideas, 180. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. Pp. xix+228. ISBN 1-4020-0047-2. £65.00, $103.00, €93.50 (hardback).
SCOTT MANDELBROTE
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09 December 2004, pp. 470-471
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ANTONIO CLERICUZIO, Elements, Principles and Corpuscles: A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century. International Archives of the History of Ideas, 171. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. Pp. xi+223. ISBN 0-7923-6782-0. £65.00, $103.00 (hardback).
CHRISTOPH LÜTHY
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02 March 2004, pp. 103-104
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MARIE BOAS HALL, Henry Oldenburg: Shaping the Royal Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+369. ISBN 0-19-851053-5. £60.00 (hardback).
CHRISTOPH LÜTHY
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24 May 2004, pp. 201-203
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RIENK VERMIJ, The Calvinist Copernicans: The Reception of the New Astronomy in the Dutch Republic, 1575–1750. History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands, 1. Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2002. Pp. x+433. ISBN 90-6984-340-4. €49.00 (hardback).
OWEN GINGERICH
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09 December 2004, pp. 471-472
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RICHARD L. HILLS, James Watt, Volume 1: His Time in Scotland, 1736–1774. Landmark Collector's Library. Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 2002. Pp. 480. ISBN 1-84306-045-0. £29.95 (hardback).
DAVID PHILIP MILLER
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24 May 2004, pp. 203-206
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LISA SILVERMAN, Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xv+264. ISBN 0-226-75754-4. $20.00 (paperback).
SEAN M. QUINLAN
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02 March 2004, pp. 105-106
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MICHAEL HOSKIN (ed.), Caroline Herschel's Autobiographies. Cambridge: Science History Publications, 2003. Pp. viii+147. ISBN 0-905193-06-7. £25.00 (hardback). MICHAEL HOSKIN, The Herschel Partnership as Viewed by Caroline. Cambridge: Science History Publications, 2003. Pp. viii+182. ISBN 0-905193-05-9. £25.00 (hardback).
WILLIAM ASHWORTH
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01 September 2004, pp. 350-351
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DAVID CANTOR (ed.), Reinventing Hippocrates. The History of Medicine in Context. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. Pp. x+341. ISBN 0-7546-0528-0. £55.00 (hardback).

SHARON MACDONALD, Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum. Materializing Culture. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002. Pp. xiii+293. ISBN 1-85973-571-1. £14.00 (paperback).

MARIA MICHELA SASSI, The Science of Man in Ancient Greece. Translated by Paul Tucker. With a Foreword by Sir Geoffrey Lloyd. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xxx+224. ISBN 0-226-73530-3. £21.50, $34.00 (hardback).

M. BARLOW PEPIN, The Emergence of the Telescope: Janssen, Lipperhey, and the Unknown Man. Duncanville, TX: T. Tauri Productions, 2002. Pp. 41. No ISBN. No price given (paperback).

CHARLES MOLLAN, WILLIAM DAVIS and BRENDAN FINUCANE (eds.), Irish Innovators in Science and Technology. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2002. Pp. xv+256. ISBN 1-874045-88-7. £28.00 (hardback).

PETER DEAR, Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500–1700. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. viii+208. ISBN 0-333-71574-8. £14.99 (paperback).

PAMELA O. LONG, Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii+364. ISBN 0-8018-6606-5. £38.00 (hardback).

PAOLO ROSSI, Logic and the Art of Memory: The Quest for a Universal Language. Translated with an Introduction by Stephen Clucas, London: The Athlone Press, 2000. Pp. xxviii+333. ISBN 0-485-11468-2. £50.00 (hardback).

RUDOLPH GAMPER and THOMAS HOFMEIER, Das Alchemiehandbuch des Appenzeller Wundarztes Ulrich Ruosch. Basel: Schwabe, 2002. Pp. 158. ISBN 3-7965-1975-X. €33.50, SFr 48.00 (hardback).

GERHARD W. KRAMER, The Firework Book: Gunpowder in Medieval Germany. The Journal of the Arms and Armour Society, 17(1). London: Arms and Armour Society, 2001. Pp. 89. ISSN 00004-2439. £10 (paperback).

SCOTT MANDELBROTE, Footprints of the Lion: Isaac Newton at Work. Exhibition at Cambridge University Library 9 October 2001–23 March 2002. Cambridge: Cambridge University Library, 2001. Pp. 142. ISBN 0-902205-58-7. £7.50 (paperback).

ROBERT CROCKER (ed.), Religion, Reason and Nature in Early Modern Europe. International Archives of the History of Ideas, 180. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. Pp. xix+228. ISBN 1-4020-0047-2. £65.00, $103.00, €93.50 (hardback).

ANTONIO CLERICUZIO, Elements, Principles and Corpuscles: A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century. International Archives of the History of Ideas, 171. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. Pp. xi+223. ISBN 0-7923-6782-0. £65.00, $103.00 (hardback).

MARIE BOAS HALL, Henry Oldenburg: Shaping the Royal Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+369. ISBN 0-19-851053-5. £60.00 (hardback).

RIENK VERMIJ, The Calvinist Copernicans: The Reception of the New Astronomy in the Dutch Republic, 1575–1750. History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands, 1. Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2002. Pp. x+433. ISBN 90-6984-340-4. €49.00 (hardback).

RICHARD L. HILLS, James Watt, Volume 1: His Time in Scotland, 1736–1774. Landmark Collector's Library. Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 2002. Pp. 480. ISBN 1-84306-045-0. £29.95 (hardback).

LISA SILVERMAN, Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xv+264. ISBN 0-226-75754-4. $20.00 (paperback).

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