ISSN:
1600-0498
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
Notes:
Books reviewed:
Giovanni Dondi, Tractatus Astrarii (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2003). Translation and critical edition by Emmanuel Poulle. 468 pp. hc. ISBN 2-600-00810-1.Bodil Branner; Jesper Lützen (eds.), Caspar Wessel: On the Analytical Representation of Direction (Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1999). 143 pp. pb. DKK 500. ISBN 87-7876-158-1.Jesper Luuml;tzen (ed.), Around Caspar Wessel and the Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers (Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2001). 293 pp. pb. DKK 300. ISBN 87-7876-236-7.Frank A.J.L. James (ed.), ‘The Common Purposes of Life’: Science and society at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002). 472 pp. £55. hc. ISBN 7546-0960-X.Anastasios Brenner, Les origines françaises de la philosophie des sciences (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2003). 224 pp. ISBN 2-13-053150-4.David Knight, Science and Spirituality: The Volatile Connection (London: Routledge,2003). 230 pp. pb. £18.99. ISBN 0-415-25769-7.Sungook Hong, Wireless: From Marconi's Black Box to the Audion (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001). 248 pp. hc. $34.95 / £23.50. ISBN 0-262-08298-5.Peter J. Ramberg, Chemical Structure, Spatial Arrangement: The Early History of Stereochemistry, 1874-1914 (London: Ashgate, 2003). 424 pp. hc. £57.50. ISBN 0-7546-0397-0.Jean-François Stoffel, Le phénoménalisme problématique de Pierre Duhem, Brussels (Académie royale de Belgique) 2002. 392 pp. Eur. 32 pb. ISBN 2-8031-0190-4.Rienk Vermij, The Calvinist Copernicans:The Reception of the New Astronomy in the Dutch Republic, 1575-1750 (Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2002). 433 pp. hc. EUR 49. ISBN 90-6984-340-4.Alois Kernbauer (ed.), Die ‘klinische Chemie’ Jahre 1850. Johann Florian Heller Bericht über seine Studienreise in die deutschen Länder, in die Schweiz, nach Frankreich und Belgien im Jahre 1850 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002). 192 pp. EUR 34. ISBN 3-515-08122-4.Ursula Klein, Experiments, Models, Paper Tools. Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003). xi+305 pp. hc. ISBN 0-8047-4359-2.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.2005.00019.x
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