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Volume 5 - December 1971

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Essays in the History of the Exact Sciences
J. D. North
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05 January 2009, pp. 85-86
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Philosophy of Science - Discovery in the Physical Sciences. By Richard J. Blackwell. Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press. Pp. xii + 240. 1969. 81s.
R. G. A. Dolby
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05 January 2009, p. 187
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Philosophy of Science - Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. Proceedings of the International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, London 1965, Volume 4. Ed. by Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave. London: Cambridge University Press. Pp. viii + 282. 1970. £3.50.
R. G. A. Dolby
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05 January 2009, p. 400
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History and Philosophy of Science - Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. Vol. I. Ed. by Russell McCormmach. University of Pennsylvania Press & Oxford University Press. 1969 [1970]. Pp. x + 314. £4.
Lawrence Badash
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05 January 2009, pp. 292-293
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Scientific Instruments - Astronomy Gnomonics. A Catalogue of Instruments of the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries in the Collections of the National Technical Museum, Prague. By Zdeněk Horsky and Otilie Škopová. Prague. Pp. 202. 43 plates. 1968. Price not stated.
W. F. Ryan
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05 January 2009, pp. 187-188
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Essays in the History of the Exact Sciences
D. T. Whiteside
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05 January 2009, pp. 87-88
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Mathematics - Development of Modern Mathematics. By J. M. Dubbey. London: Butterworths, 1970. Pp. vii + 145. £2.50.
I. Grattan-Guinness
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05 January 2009, p. 401
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History and Philosophy of Science - Dieter v. Stephanitz, Exakte Wissenschaft und Recht, Münsterische Beiträge zur Rechts und Staatswissenschaft, Heft 15. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter. Pp. xii + 273. 1970. D.M. 48.
J. D. North
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Scientific Instruments - Invention of the Meteorological Instruments. By W. E. Knowles Middleton. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press. 1969. Pp. xiv + 362. Illus. £4.70.
D. Chilton
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05 January 2009, pp. 293-294
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Mathematics - A History of Mathematics. By Carl B. Boyer. New York & London: John Wiley & Sons. 1968. Pp. xv + 717. 97s.
A. Prag
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05 January 2009, p. 89
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Mathematics - The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton, Volume III, 1670–1673. Ed. by D. T. Whiteside, with the assistance in publication of M. A. Hoskin and A. Prag. London: Cambridge University Press. 1969. Pp. xxxvii + 576. £10 10s.
J. D. North
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05 January 2009, pp. 188-189
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Mathematics - Lebesgue's Theory of Integration. Its Origins and Development. By Thomas Hawkins. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970. Pp. xv + 227. £5·95.
J. R. Ravetz
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05 January 2009, pp. 401-402
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Physics and Astronomy - The Nature of Light. By Vasco Ronchi. Trans. by V. Barocas. London: Heinemann Educational Books. 1970. Pp. xii + 288. £6.
Roger H. Stuewer
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05 January 2009, pp. 402-403
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Mathematics - The Doctrine of Chances or, A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play. By Abraham de Moivre. 2nd ed. [1738]. London, F. Cass, 1967. Pp. xiv + 258. £6 6s.
Roger Hahn
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05 January 2009, pp. 189-190
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Technology - Moving the Obelisks. By Bern Dibner. (Reprint of Burndy Library Publication no. 6, 1950.) Cambridge, Mass. & London: M.I.T. Press. 1970. Pp. 61. Illus. 95p. (paperback).
A. J. Pacey
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05 January 2009, p. 294
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Mathematics - The Origins of the Infinitesimal Calculus. By Margaret E. Baron. Oxford: Pergamon Press. 1969. Pp. viii + 304. £5.
Carl B. Boyer
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05 January 2009, pp. 89-91
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Physics and Astronomy - The Collected Works of Count Rumford. Volume III, Devices and Techniques; Volume IV, Light and Armament. Ed. by Sanborn C. Brown. Harvard University Press & Oxford University Press. 1970. Pp. vii + 504. Illus. £4·75 each.
P. Swinbank
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05 January 2009, pp. 403-404
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Mathematics - Eléments d'Histoire des Mathematiques. By N. Bourbaki. Deuxième édition revue, corrigée, augmentée. (Histoire de la Pensée, No. IV.) Paris: Hermann. 1969. Pp. 323. 36 francs.
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
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05 January 2009, pp. 190-191
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Mathematics - Nicolas Malebranche, Oeuvres Complètes, Tome XVII-2, Mathematica. Ed. by Pierre Costabel. Paris: Librairie Philosphique J. Vrin. 1968. Pp. ix + 375. Price not stated.
H. J. M. Bos
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05 January 2009, p. 91
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Technology - A History of the Zinc Smelting Industry in Great Britain. By E. J. Cocks and B. Walters. London: Harrap. 1968. Pp. vi + 224, 42 illustr. £2.75.
F. Greenaway
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