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Volume 37 - September 2004

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ROGER HERZ-FISCHLER, The Shape of the Great Pyramid. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000. Pp. xii+293. ISBN 0-88920-324-5. $29.95 (paperback).
BENNO ARTMANN
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01 September 2004, pp. 355-356
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EMILY THOMPSON, The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900–1933. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2002. Pp. ix+500. ISBN 0-262-20138-0. £30.95 (hardback).
NEIL PEMBERTON
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02 March 2004, pp. 113-114
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LOUISE PURBRICK (ed.), The Great Exhibition of 1851: New Interdisciplinary Essays. Texts in Culture. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001. Pp. xii+217. ISBN 0-7190-5592-X. £15.99 (paperback).
NICK FISHER
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09 December 2004, pp. 478-479
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GEORGE LEVINE, Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xi+326. ISBN 0-226-47536-0. £31.50, $45.00 (hardback).
MICHAEL H. WHITWORTH
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24 May 2004, pp. 212-213
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ANDREAS W. DAUM, Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert. Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848–1914. Second edition. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2002. Pp. xii+619. ISBN 3-486-56551-6. €59.80 (paperback).
NICK HOPWOOD
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01 September 2004, pp. 357-358
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AGUSTÍ NIETO-GALAN, Colouring Textiles: A History of Natural Dyestuffs in Industrial Europe. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 217. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. Pp. xxv+246. ISBN 0-7923-7022-8. £59.00, $84.00, €97.00 (hardback).
URSULA KLEIN
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24 May 2004, pp. 214-215
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HERMIONE HOBHOUSE, The Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition: Art, Science and Productive Industry. A History of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. London and New York: Athlone, 2002. Pp. xx+451. ISBN 0-485-11575-1. £40.00 (hardback).
SOPHIE FORGAN
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09 December 2004, pp. 479-480
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MICHAEL WORBOYS, Spreading Germs: Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865–1900. Cambridge History of Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi+327. ISBN 0-521-77302-4. £37.50, $59.95 (hardback).
KENNETH F. KIPLE
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09 December 2004, pp. 480-481
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STUART MCCOOK, States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760–1940. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Pp. xiv+201. ISBN 0-292-75257-1. £17.50 (paperback).
PIERS J. HALE
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24 May 2004, pp. 215-216
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J. S. ROWLINSON, Cohesion: A Scientific History of Intermolecular Forces. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. viii+333. ISBN 0-521-81008-6. £65.00 (hardback).
MARIA YAMALIDOU
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01 September 2004, pp. 358-359
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MICHAEL ECKERT and KARL MÄRKER (eds.), Arnold Sommerfeld: Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel. Band 1: 1892–1918. Berlin, Diepholz and München: Deutsches Museum and Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 2000. Pp. 694. ISBN 3-928186-49-3. €68.00 (hardback).
RICHARD STALEY
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01 September 2004, pp. 360-361
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GRETA JONES, ‘Captain of All these Men of Death’: The History of Tuberculosis in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ireland. Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine: Clio Medica, 62. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2001. Pp. ii+263. ISBN 90-420-1031-2. $22.50, €24.00 (paperback).
JULIANA ADELMAN
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09 December 2004, pp. 481-482
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PAOLA GOVONI, Un pubblico per la scienza: La divulgazione scientifica nell'Italia in formazione. Studi storici Carocci, 27. Rome: Carocci editore, 2002. Pp. 351. ISBN 88-430-2321-7. €23.50 (paperback).
PIETRO CORSI
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24 May 2004, pp. 216-217
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ERHARD SCHOLZ (ed.), Hermann Weyl'sRaum-Zeit-Materieand a General Introduction to His Scientific Work. DMV Seminar, 30. Basel, Boston and Berlin: Birkhäuser, 2001. Pp. vii+403. ISBN 3-7643-6476-9. No price given (paperback).
SUMAN SETH
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01 September 2004, pp. 361-362
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CHRISTOPHER HERBERT, Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xv+302. ISBN 0-226-32733-7. £10.50, $16.00 (paperback).
HAZEL HUTCHISON
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09 December 2004, pp. 482-483
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R. W. HOME, A. M. LUCAS, SARA MAROSKE, D. M. SINKORA and J. H. VOIGT (eds.), Regardfully Yours: Selected Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller. Volume II: 1860–1875. Bern: Peter Lang, 2002. Pp. 865. ISBN 3-906757-09-9. £36.00 (hardback).
JIM ENDERSBY
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24 May 2004, pp. 217-219
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DOUGLAS R. WEINER, Models of Nature: Ecology, Conservation and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia. With a New Afterword. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. Pp. xii+324. ISBN 0-8229-5733-7. $17.95 (paperback).
PIERS J. HALE
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24 May 2004, pp. 219-220
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DAVID TYRRELL and MICHAEL FIELDER, Cold Wars: The Fight Against the Common Cold. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv+253. ISBN 0-19-263285-X. £17.99 (hardback).
HUGH PENNINGTON
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01 September 2004, pp. 362-363
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PAUL ZICHE (ed.), Monismus um 1900: Wissenschaftskultur und Weltanschauung. Ernst-Haeckel-Haus Studien: Monographien zur Geschichte der Biowissenschaften und Medizin, 4. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2000. Pp. 200. ISBN 3-86135-483-7. €24.00 (paperback).
PETER ZIGMAN
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09 December 2004, p. 484
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