Volume 39 - December 2006
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Book Review
EKMELEDDIN IHSANOĞLU, Science, Technology and Learning in the Ottoman Empire: Western Influence, Local Institutions and the Transfer of Knowledge. Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS773. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xiv+352. ISBN 0-86078-924-1. £59.50 (hardback).
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DAVIS BAIRD, Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xxi+273. ISBN 0-520-23249-6. £42.95, $65.00 (hardback). ALLAN FRANKLIN, Selectivity and Discord: Two Problems of Experiment. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. Pp. ix+290. ISBN 0-8229-4191-0. £31.50 (hardback).
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SEAN F. Johnston, A History of Light and Colour Measurement: Science in the Shadows. Bristol and Philadelphia: Institute of Physics, 2001. Pp. xi+281. ISBN 0-7503-0754-4. £45.00, $75.00 (hardback).
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HESTER HIGTON, with contributions from Silke Ackermann, Richard Dunn, Kiyoshi Takada and Anthony Turner, Sundials at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Sundials, Horary Quadrants and Nocturnals in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press and National Maritime Museum, 2002. Pp. x+463. ISBN 0-19-850877-8. £99.50 (hardback).
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CAROLINE BICKS, Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare's England. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xii+212. ISBN 0-7546-0938-3. £40.00 (hardback).
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HASOK CHANG, Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii+286. ISBN 0-19-517127-6. £32.50 (hardback).
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JEAN A. GIVENS, Observation and Image-Making in Gothic Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxiv+231. ISBN 0-521-83031-1. £45.00, $80.00 (hardback).
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VOLKER FRITZ BR¨NING, Bibliographie der alchemistischen Literatur. Band 1: Die alchemistischen Druckwerke von der Erfindung der Buchdruckerkunst bis zum Jahr 1690. München: K. G. Saur, 2004. Pp. xii+500. ISBN 3-598-11603-9. €248.00 (hardback).
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R. D. CONNOR and A. D. SIMPSON, with A. D. MORRISON-LOW (ed.), Weights and Measures in Scotland: A European Perspective. Edinburgh: NMS Publishing, 2004. Pp. xvi+842. ISBN 1-901663-88-4. £50.00 (hardback).
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ROBERT D. HUERTA, Giants of Delft. Johannes Vermeer and the Natural Philosophers: The Parallel Search for Knowledge during the Age of Discovery. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press and London: Associated University Presses, 2003. Pp. 156. ISBN 0-8387-5538-0. £39.50 (hardback).
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FRANCIS BACON, The Instauratio Magna Part II: Novum Organum and Associated Texts. Edited with introduction, notes, commentaries and facing-page translations by Graham Rees with Maria Wakely. The Oxford Francis Bacon, XI. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. Pp. cxxviii+634. ISBN 0-19-924792-7. £120.00 (hardback).
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OWEN GINGERICH, The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus. London: William Heinemann, 2004. Pp. xii+306. ISBN 0-434-01315-3. £12.99 (hardback).
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NICHOLAS HAMMOND (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Pascal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi+287. ISBN 0-521-00611-2. £15.95, $23.00 (paperback).
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JAMIE C. KASSLER, The Beginnings of the Modern Philosophy of Music in England: Francis North'sA Philosophical Essay of Music(1677) with Comments of Isaac Newton, Roger North and in thePhilosophical Transactions. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xiv+243. ISBN 0-7546-0139-0. £40.00 (hardback).
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FA-TI FAN, British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire and Cultural Encounter. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xi+238. ISBN 0-674-01143-0. £32.95 (hardback).
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G. E. R. LLOYD, Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections: Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. Pp. ix+222. ISBN 0-19-927016-3. £25.00 (hardback).
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NICHOLAS J. WADE, Destined for Distinguished Oblivion: The Scientific Vision of William Charles Wells (1757–1817). History and Philosophy of Psychology. New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London and Moscow: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. Pp. xi+310. ISBN 0-306-47385-2. $95.00 (hardback).
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ROSEMARY SWEET, Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain. London and New York: Hambledon and London Ltd., 2004. Pp. xxi+473. ISBN 1-85285-309-3. £25.00 (hardback).
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OLIVER HOCHADEL, Öffentliche Wissenschaft. Elektrizität in der deutschen Aufklärung. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2003. Pp. 364. ISBN 3-89244-629-6. € 35.00 (paperback).
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REVIEL NETZ (ed. and tr.), The Works of Archimedes: Translated into English, together with Eutocius’ Commentaries, with Commentary, and Critical Edition of the Diagrams. Vol. 1: The Two Books on the Sphere and the Cylinder. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. x+375. ISBN 0-521-66160-9. £75.00 (hardback).
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