AMBIX
(Sumario de los Números
Publicados)
- Ordenados por número.
I - XXVII | XVIII - XXVII | 00XXVIII - XLVIII |
ÍNDICE DE CONTENIDOS. PARTE III
NÚMEROS XXVIII (1981) - XLVIII (2001)
RELACIÓN COMPLETA
DE TODOS LOS NÚMEROS
VOL. XXVIII |
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The Decline of Chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique (1794-1805). By Janis Langins |
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The Artifact as Historical Document Part 2: The Palladium and Rhodium of W. H. Wollaston. By B. I. Kronberg, L. L. Coatsworth, and M. C. Usselman |
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The Paracelsians in Eighteenth-Century France: A Renaissance Tradition in the Age of the Enlightenment. By Allen G. Debus |
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Reviews of Books |
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Les Textes Alchimiques. By Robert Halleux |
55 |
Histoire de la Chimie (1866-9). By Ferdinand Hoeffer (reprint) |
55 |
Alchemy. A Bibliography of English-language Writings. By Alan Pritchard |
56 |
The Death of Nature. Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution. By Carolyn Merchant |
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"Concerning Natural Experimental Philosophie". Meric Cassaubon and the Royal Society. By Michael R. G. Spiller |
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Symphorien Champier and the Reception of the Occultist Tradition in Renaissance France. By Brian P. Copenhaver |
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No. 2 July 1981 |
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Articles |
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Dr Thomas Beddoes at Oxford: Radical Politics in 1788-1793 and the Fate of the Regius Chair in Chemistry. By Trevor H. Levere |
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Experiments with Time: Progress and Problems in the Development of Chemical Kinetics. By M. Christine King |
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Styles of Language and Modes of Chemical Thought. By A. M. Duncan |
83 |
Reviews of Books |
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Justus von Liebig "Hochwohlgeborner Freyherr". Die Briefe an Georg von Cotta. Edited by Andreas Kleinert |
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Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 5: Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Part IV. Spagyrical Discovery and Invention. By Joseph Needham, Ho Ping-Yü, Lu Gwei-Djen and Nathan Sivin |
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Alchemy: the Philosophers Stone. By Alison Coudert |
110 |
Sol und Luna. Literar- und alchemiegeschichtliche Studien zu einem altdeutschen Bildgedicht. By Joachim Telle |
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LImmaginazione Alchemica. By Arturo Schwarz |
112 |
The Chemical Theatre. By Charles Nicholl |
113 |
Paracelsus in der deutschen Romantik. By Kurt Goldammer |
114 |
Het Gezelschap der Hollandsche Scheikundigen. By H. A. M. Snelders |
115 |
Stephen Hales: Scientist and Philanthropist. By D. G. C. Allen and R. E. Schofield |
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Lexikon des Mittelalters. Vol. I. Edited by Liselotte Lutz et al |
117 |
Science, Pseudo-Science and Society. Edited by P. Hanen, M. J. Osler and R. G. Weyant |
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Short Notices of Books |
118 |
No. 3 November 1981 |
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Articles |
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A Conflict of Principles: The Discovery of Argon and the Debate over its Existence. By Richard F. Hirsh |
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The Letters of William Crookes to Charles Hanson Greville Williams 1861-2: The Detection and Isolation of Thallium. By Frank A. J. L. James |
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The Library of Gay-Lussac. By Maurice Crosland |
158 |
The Origin and Dissemination of the Term "Ligand" in Chemistry. By William H. Brock, K. A. Jensen, C. K. Jørgensen and G. B. Kauffman |
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Wedgwoods Ceramic Wares for Chemical Use. Production and Supply from 1779 to 1794. By J. A. Chaldecott |
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Lavoisiers Views on Phlogiston and the Matter of Fire before about 1770. By Richard C. Jennings |
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Reviews of Books |
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Psychology and Alchemy. By C. G. Jung |
210 |
Astrology. As illustrated in the Collections of the British Library and the British Museum. By T. S. Pattie |
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Thomas Williss Oxford Lectures. Edited by Kenneth Dewhurst |
212 |
History of Chemical Engineering. Edited by William F. Furter |
212 |
Science and Society in Restoration England. By Michael Hunter |
213 |
Humphry Davy on Geology. Edited by Robert Siegfried and Robert H. Dott Jr. |
214 |
Claude-Louis Berthollet. Revue de lEssai de statique chimique. Edited by Michelle Sadoun-Goupil |
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The Burndy Library and the Dibner Library |
216 |
CONTENTS |
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The Unpublished Alchemical Sonnets of Felice Feliciano: An Episode in Science and Humanism in 15th Century Italy. By Elizabeth B. Welles |
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Circulation, Transformation, Conservation of Matter and the Balancing of the Biological World in the 18th Century. By Mikulá Teich |
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Lavoisiers Table of Simple Substances: Its Origin and Interpretation. By Robert Siegfried |
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Experiments with Time. Progress and Problems in the Development of Chemical Kinetics. Part 2. By M. Christine King |
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Essay Review of Richard S. Westfalls Never at Rest. A Biography of Isaac Newton. By B. J. T. Dobbs |
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Reviews of Books |
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Traité de la chymie. By Christophle Glaser (Reprint) |
63 |
LAbrégé des secrets chymiques. By Pierre-Jean Fabre (Reprint) |
63 |
Science and the Sons of Genius. Studies on Humphry Davy. Edited by Sophie Forgan |
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Gay-Lussac. La carrière dun chimiste français |
64 |
The Early Development of Electron Lenses and Electron Microscopy. By Ernst Ruska |
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Dictionary of Occult, Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils. By Fred Gettings |
66 |
Conceptions of Ether. Edited by G. N. Cantor and M. J. S. Hodge |
67 |
No. 2 July 1982 |
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Articles |
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A Greek Alchemical Formula. By Paul Plass |
69 |
Arabic-Islamic Alchemy: Three Intertwined Stages. By Sami K. Hamarneh |
74 |
Chemistry in a Provincial Context. The Montpellier Société Royale des Sciences in the 18th Century. By Homer E. LeGrand |
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Some Early References to Revolutions in Chemistry. By Jerry B. Gough |
106 |
Reviews of Books |
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Harvey and the Oxford Physiologists. By Robert G. Frank Jr. |
110 |
University of Oxford. Museum of the History of Science. Catalogue 3: Drug Jars. By C. R. Hill and R. E. A. Drey |
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Yakob Berzelius. By J. I. Soloviev, V. I. Kurinnoy and I. S. Dmitriev (in Russian) |
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Otkrytie Khimicheskikh Elementov. By S. V. Altschuler, A. N. Krivomazov, V. P. Melnikov, L. P. Petrov and D. N. Trifanov |
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Les alchimistes grecs. Tome I. By Robert Halleux |
113 |
Williss Oxford Casebook (1650-52). Edited by Kenneth Dewhurst |
114 |
The Letters of Erasmus Darwin. Edited by Desmond King-Hele |
115 |
Poetry Realized in Nature. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Early 19th Century Science. By Trevor H. Levere |
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Jacob Berzelius. The Emergence of his Chemical System. By Evan M. Melhado |
117 |
Dictionary of the History of Science. Edited by W. F. Bynum, E. J. Browne and R. Porter |
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Catalog of the Sidney M. Edelstein Collection of the History of Chemistry, Dyeing and Technology. Compiled by Moshe Ron |
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John Tyndall. Essays on a Natural Philosopher. Edited by W. H. Brock, N. D. McMillan and R. C. Mollan |
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Stereochemistry. By O. B. Ramsay. Inorganic Coordination Compounds. By G. B. Kauffman. Transmutation, Natural and Artificial. By T. J. Trenn |
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Short Notices of Books |
123 |
The Partington Prize (1982) |
124 |
The Dexter Prize (1982) |
124 |
No. 3 November 1982 |
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Articles |
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Thomas Vaughan as an Interpreter of Agrippa von Nettesheim. By William Newman |
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A Reluctant Catalyst: Joseph Black and the Edinburgh Reception of Lavoisiers Chemistry. By C. E. Perrin |
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Maria the Jewess Founding Mother of Alchemy. By Raphael Patai |
177 |
Newtons "Clavis": New Evidence on its Dating and Significance. By B. J. T. Dobbs |
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Reviews of Books |
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Kreatur und Kosmos. Edited by Rosemarie Dilg-Frank |
203 |
Alchemical Imagery in Boschs Garden of Delights. By Laurinda S. Dixon |
203 |
The Expanding Force in Newtons Cosmos as shown in his Unpublished Papers. By David Castillejo |
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Under the Influence. A History of Nitrous Oxide and Oxygen Anaesthesia. By W. D. A. Smith |
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Reference Books for the History of Science: A Handlist. By S. A. Jayawardene |
206 |
European Museums of the History of Chemistry |
207 |
Index to Volume 29 (1982) |
207 |
CONTENTS |
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Subatomic Speculations and the Origin of Structure Theory. By Alan J. Rocke |
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Peter Shaw: Chemistry and Communication in Augustan England. By Jan V. Golinski |
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The Establishment of Spectro-Chemical Analysis as a Practical Method of Qualitative Analysis, 1854-1861. By Frank A. J. L. James |
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Reviews of Books |
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Von Paracelsus zu Goethe und Wilhelm von Humboldt. (Salzburger Beiträge zur Paracelsusforschunge, Folge 22) |
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Romantische Naturphilosophie und Arzneimittellehre 1800-1840. By Dieter Oldenburg |
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Gentlemen of Science. Early Years of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. By Jack Morrell and Arnold Thackray |
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Quellengeschichtliches Lesebuch zur Chemie und Alchemie der Araber im Mittelalter. Edited by Karl Garbers and Jost Weyer |
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Science credenze occulte livelli di cultura. Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Firenze, 26-30 June 1980) |
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The Rise of Robert Millikan. Portrait of a Life in American Science. By Robert H. Kargon |
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From Medical Chemistry to Biochemistry: The Making of a Biomedical Discipline. By Robert E. Kohler |
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Medizin und Pharmacie in der Kosmologie Leonhard Thurneissers zum Thurn (1531-1596). By Peter Morys |
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A Biographical Dictionary of Scientists. Edited by Trevor I. Williams |
62 |
Short Notices of Books |
63 |
No. 2 July 1983 |
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Articles |
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The Mystery of Stephen H. Emmens: Successful Alchemist or Ingenious Swindler? By George B. Kauffman |
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Lavoisiers Memoirs on the Nature of Water and their Place in the Chemical Revolution. By J. B. Gough |
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Sir William B. OShaughnessy, Pioneer Chemical Educator in India. By Mel Gorman |
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Editorial Note |
116 |
Reviews of Books |
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A Bio-bibliography for the History of the Biochemical Sciences Since 1800. By Joseph S. Fruton |
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Die Geschichte der Radioaktivität. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Transurane. By Cornielius Keller |
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Pharmazie und der gemeine Mann. Hausarznei und Apotheke in deutschen Schriften der frühen Neuzeit. (Ausstellungskataloge der Herzog August Bibliothek Nr. 36). Edited by Joachim Telle |
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A History of Platinum and its Allied Metals. By Donald McDonald and Leslie B. Hunt |
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Short Notices of Books |
119 |
No. 3 November 1983 |
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Articles |
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Theory or Practice? The Eighteenth Century Debate on the Scientific Status of Chemistry. By Christoph Meinel |
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Kekulé or Kekule? By John H. Wotiz and Susanna Rudofsky |
133 |
The Study of Spark Spectra 1835-1859. By Frank A. J. L. James |
137 |
The Dexter Award |
162 |
Reviews of Books |
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Joachim Jungius Praelectiones Physicae. Historisch-kritische Edition. Edited by Christoph Meinel |
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The Formation of the German Chemical Community (1720-1795). By Karl Hufbauer |
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Paracelsus Autor der Archidoxis Magica? By Wolfgang Schneider |
164 |
Les débuts de limagerie alchimique (XIVe XVe siècles). By Barbara Obrist |
165 |
Joan Baptista Van Helmont. Reformer of Science and Medicine. By Walter Pagel |
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The Whipple Museum of the History of Science. Catalogue 2. Balances and Weights. By Olivia Brown |
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From Paracelsus to Newton. Magic and the Making of Modern Science. (The Eddington Memorial Lectures, 1980.) By Charles Webster |
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Metropolis and Province. Science in British Culture 1780-1850. Edited by Ian Inkster and Jack Morrell |
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CONTENTS |
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J. B. Van Mons Essai sur les principes de la chemie antiphlogistique: A Mystery Solved. By C. E. Perrin |
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Alchemy, "Locus" of Renewal for Writing in the Moyen de Parvenir of Beroalde de Verville (1610). By Ilana Zinguer |
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The Course of Chemical Change: The Life and Times of Augustus G. Vernon Harcourt (1834-1919). By M. Christine King |
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The Preparation and Uses of Artificial Mineral Waters (ca. 1680-1825). By Noel G. Coley |
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Notices |
48 |
Reviews of Books |
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Theatrum Chemicum, praecipuos selectorum auctorum Tractatus de Chemiae et Lapidis Philosophici antiquitate, veritate, jure, praestantia, & operationibus. 6 vols. Argentorati: Sumptibus Heredum Eberhardi Zetzneri, 1659-1661. With separately bound Introduzione by Maurizio Barrancano |
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Electrons and Valence. Development of the Theory, 1900-1925. By Anthony N. Stranges |
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Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Pharmakognosie als selbständiges Hochschulfach an der Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität Ingolstadt-Landshut München. (Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Pharmazie, Band 17). By Iris Renner |
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Paracelsus. An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance. 2nd revised edition. By Walter Pagel |
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The Royal Society and its Fellows 1660-1700. The Morphology of an Early Scientific Institution. (BSHS Monograph 4.) By Michael Hunter |
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Liebigs Experimentalvorlesung: Vorlesungsbuch und Kekulés Mitschrift. Edited with a commentary by Otto Paul Krätz and Claus Priesner, with contributions by Otto Krätz, Annemarie Diem and Sigrid von Moisy |
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Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. By Elizabeth C. Patterson |
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Joseph Black 1728-1799. A Commemorative Symposium. Edited by A. D. C. Simpson |
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Short Notices of Books |
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No. 2 July 1984 |
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Articles |
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Richard Knight (1768-1844): A Forgotten Chemist and Apparatus Designer. By Leslie B. Hunt and Peta D. Buchanan |
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The Death of Charles Blachford Mansfield (1819-1855). By Edward Ward |
68 |
An Alchemical Ghost: The Rasaratnâkara by Nagarjuna. By Dominik Wujastyk |
70 |
Al-Jawbari on False Alchemists. By Harold J. Abrahams |
84 |
Notices |
88 |
Reviews of Books |
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History of Clinical Chemistry. Edited by Johannes Büttner |
90 |
Pioneer Plastic. The Making and Selling of Celluloid. By Robert Friedel |
90 |
Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 5, part V: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Physiological Alchemy. By Joseph Needham |
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Alchemical Studies. By C. G. Jung, translated by R. F. C. Hull |
91 |
Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments. By Gerard LE. Turner |
92 |
A Time to Remember. The Autobiography of a Chemist. By Alexander Todd |
93 |
Lexikon des Mittelalters. Vol. II. Edited by Liselotte Lutz et al |
93 |
The Quest for Quarks. By Brian McCusker |
94 |
Schweppes. The First 200 Years. By Douglas A. Simmons |
94 |
Science and Social Change 1700-1900. By Colin A. Russell |
95 |
Short Notices of Books |
95 |
No. 3 November 1984 |
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Articles |
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Alchemy in Newtons Library. By Richard S. Westfall |
97 |
Alchemy and Eschatology in Seventeenth Century Poetry. By Stanton J. Linden |
102 |
The Structure of Mythos: On the Cultural Stability of Alchemy. By Rainer E. Zimmermann |
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Notices |
137 |
Reviews of Books |
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The Mercurian Monarch. Magical Politics from Spenser to Pope. By Douglas Brooks-Davies |
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Medicina e filosofia tra 500 e 600. By Giancarlo Zanier |
138 |
The Smiling Spleen. Paracelsianism in Storm and Stress. By Walter Pagel |
139 |
Richard Lowers Vindicatio. A defence of the experimental method. Facsimile introduced, edited and translated by Kenneth Dewhurst |
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Indices Chemicorum Graecorum. I. Papyrus Leidensis, Papyrus Holmiensis. By Robert Halleux |
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The History of Chemical Technology. An Annotated Bibliography. By Robert P. Multhauf |
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La Turba Philosophorum Gallica. Edited with a commentary by Paulette Duval |
141 |
Henry Cort: The Great Finer. Creator of Puddled Iron. By R. A. Mott, edited by Peter Singer |
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The Whipple Museum of the History of Science. Catalogue 5. Spectroscopes, Prisms & Gratings. By J. A. Bennett. The Celebrated Phaenomena of Colours: the Early History of the Spectroscope. By J. A. Bennett |
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Boussingault. Chemist and Agriculturalist. By F. W. J. McCosh |
143 |
Short Notices of Books |
144 |
CONTENTS |
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The Significance of Chemical History. By Allen G. Debus |
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Crookes and Radioactivity: from Inorganic Evolution to Atomic Transmutation. By S. B. Sinclair |
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Chinese and Western Alchemy: the Link through Definition. By H. J. Sheppard |
31 |
Agricola, Paracelsus, and "Chymia". By A. J. Rocke |
37 |
Reviews of Books |
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Chemistry and Modern Society. Historical Essays in Honour of Aaron J. Ihde. Edited by John Parascandola and James C. Whorton |
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Amedeo Avogadro. A Scientific Biography. By Mario Morselli |
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The Ashmolean Museum and Oxford Science 1683-1983. By A. V. Simcock |
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Oxygen and the Conversion of Future Feedstocks. The Proceedings of the Third BOC Priestley Conference, London, September 12-15 1983. Royal Society of Chemistry Publication |
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Thomas Beddoes MD 1769-1808. Chemist, Physician, Democrat. By Dorothy A. Stansfield |
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Kunst und Wissenschaft um Paracelsus: Vorträge 1982/83 (Salzburger Beiträge zur Paracelsus Forschung; Folge 23) |
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Science versus Practice. Chemistry in Victorian Britain. By Robert Bud and Gerrylynn K. Roberts |
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No. 2 July 1985 |
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Articles |
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The Discovery of Line Spectra. By Frank A. J. L. James |
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A Contribution of Natural History to the Chemical Revolution in France. By James W. Llana |
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Reviews of Books |
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The Secret of the Golden Flower. A Chinese Book of Life. By Richard Willhelm |
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The Works of Thomas Vaughan. Edited by Alan Rurdrum with the assistance of Jennifer Drake-Brockman |
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In physicis futurorum saeculum respicio. Joachim Jungius und die Naturwissenschaftliche Revolution des 17.Jahrhunderts. By Christoph Meinel |
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Introduzione allalchimia Indiana. By Arturo Schwarz |
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Steelmaking before Bessemer. By K. C. Barraclough |
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The Tincal Trail. A History of Borax. By N. J. Travis and E. J. Cox |
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No. 3 November 1985 |
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Vincente de Seabra and the Chemical Revolution in Portugal. By A. J. A. de Gouveia |
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Privilege, Communication, and Chemistry: the Hermetic-Alchemical Circle of Moritz of Hessen-Kassel. By Bruce T. Moran |
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Alchemy and Melancholy in Mediaeval and Renaissance Thought: a Query into the Mystical Basis of their Relationship. By Noel L. Brann |
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Reviews of Books |
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Studies in Mediaeval Science. Alchemy, Astrology, Mathematics and Medicine. By Pearl Kibre |
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Philosophers, Iosis and Water of Life. By Anne C. Wilson |
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The Scientific Re-interpretation of Form. By Norma E. Emerton |
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The Beginnings of the Nobel Institution. The Science Prizes, 1901-1905. By Elisabeth Crawford |
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Wie find Ich Literatur zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und Technik. Edited by Burghard Weiss |
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Chansons intellectuelles sur la résurrection du Phénix. By Michel Maier (Reprint) |
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Prvky O ima minulosti. By Jaroslav Zyka and Vladimír Karpenko |
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Le Filet dAriadne pour entrer avec seurete dans le Labryinthe de la Philosophie Hermetique. By Sylvain Maton (Reprint) |
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Astrologische-Magische Theorie und Praxis in der Heilkunde der frühen Neuzeit. By Wolf-Dieter Muller-Jahnke |
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Aurea Catena Homeri. Translated by Sigismund Bacstrom (Reprint) |
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An Interpretation of the Fama Fraternitas with Respect to Dees Monas Hieroglyphica. By T. M. Luhrman |
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Charles Loudon Bloxam A Victorian University and Military Academy Chemistry Teacher. By D. I. Davies, D. C. Lyon and R. J. Spring |
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The British Association Committee on Chemical Symbols 1834: Edward Turners Letter to British Chemists and a Reply by William Prout. By W. H. Brock |
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Reviews of Books |
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Die Pharmazie im Spannungsfield der Neuorientierung: Philipp Lorenz Geiger (1785-1836) Leben, Werk und Wirken Eine Biographie. By Ulrike Thomas |
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Images of Regeneration: a Study of Shakespeares The Tempest and its Cultural Background. By Michael Srigley |
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Francis Bacon Science et Méthode. Actes du Colloque de Nantes. Edited by Michael Malherbe and Jean-Marie Pousseur |
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A History of the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry. By Pieter Edward Verkade |
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Biblioteca magica dalle opere a stampa della Biblioteca Casantense di Roma (secc. xv-xvii). (Biblioteca di bibliografia Italiana CII) |
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Religion and Neoplatonism in Renaissance Medicine. By Walter Pagel |
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Hermaphroditisches Sonn-und Mondskind (Mainz, 1752). Facsimile with a French Translation by Yann Lauthe and Introduction by Sylvain Matton |
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Chimica e Filosophia. Scienzia, Epistemologia, Storia e Religione nellOpera di Pierre Duhem. By Roberto Maiocchi |
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Religion, Science and the World View. Essays in Honour of Richard Westfall. Edited by Margaret J. Osler and Paul Lawrence Farber |
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The Medical Renaissance of the Sixteenth Century. Edited by A. Wear, R. K. French, and I. M. Lonie |
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From Protyle to Proton. William Prout and the Nature of Matter, 1785-1985. By W. H. Brock |
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Recent Developments in the History of Chemistry. Edited by C. A. Russell |
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Science and the Enlightenment. By Thomas Hankins |
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Justus Liebig and August Wilhelm Hofmann in ihren Briefen (1841-1873). Edited by William Hodson Brock |
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No. 2/3 July/December 1986 |
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The Tree of Aristotle: Images of the Philosophers Stone. By Urszula Szulakowska |
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John Dastins Letter on the Philosophers Stone. By Wilfred R. Thiessen |
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Accomplishment or Dogma: Chemistry in the Introductory Works of Jane Marcet and Samuel Parkes. By David Knight |
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The "Social Chemists": English Chemical Societies in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. By Gwen Averly |
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Spiritus Aethereus: Theories of Etherification. By Claus Priesner |
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Reviews of Books |
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Chemistry in America 1876-1976. Historical Indicators. By Arnold Thackray, Jeffrey L. Sturchio, P. Thomas Carroll and Robert Budd |
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Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life. An Explanation of Scientific Creativity. By Frederick Lawrence Holmes |
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Pseudo-Bede: De Mundi Celestis Terrestrisque Constituione. A Treatise on the Universe and the Soul. Edited and translated by Charles Burnett, with the collaboration of members of a Seminar Group of the Warburg Institute |
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Theoriewandel in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte Chemie im 18.Jahrhundert. By Elisabeth Ströker |
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Faraday rediscovered. Essays on the life and work of Michael Faraday, 1791-1867. Edited by David Gooding and Frank A.J.L. James |
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump. Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life. By Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer |
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Justus von Liebig und sein Einfluss auf die Entwicklung des Chemiestudiums und des Chemieunterrichts an Hochschulen und Schulen. By Willi Conrad |
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Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments and their Makers. Papers presented at the Fourth Scientific Instrument Symposium, Amsterdam 1984. Edited by P.R. de Clercq |
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The Prehistory of Metallurgy in the British Isles. By R. F. Tylecote |
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The Societys First Fifty Years: Part I Ambix. By W. A. Smeaton |
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Democritus and the Beginnings of Greek Alchemy. By Jackson P. Hershbell |
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"Chemical Translation" and the Role of Impurities in Alchemy: Examples from Basil Valentines Triumph-Wagen. By Lawrence Principe |
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Moses Stringer (fl. 1695-1713): Iatrochemist and Mineral Master General. By John H. Appleby |
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Reviews of Books |
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The Central Science. Essay on the Uses of Chemistry. Edited by George B. Kauffman and H. Harry Szamant |
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Francis Bacons Natural Philosophy: A New Source. By Graham Rees, assisted by Christopher Upton |
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A Dictionary of Weights and Measures for the British Isles: The Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. By Ronald Edward Zupko |
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Robert T. Gunther and the Old Ashmolean. Edited by A. V. Simcock |
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Folk Medicine. The Art and the Science. Edited by Richard P. Steiner |
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Fullers Earth: A History of Calcium Montmorillonite. By Robert H.S. Robertson |
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Lexicon Des Mittelalters. Vol. III. Edited by Liselotte Lutz et al |
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Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire by Sadi Carnot. A Critical Edition with the Surviving Manuscripts. Translated and Edited by Robert Fox |
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History of Polyolefins. The Worlds Most Widely Used Polymers. Edited by Raymond B. Seymour and Tai Cheng |
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Frederick Soddy (1877-1956). Early Pioneer in Radiochemistry. Edited by George B. Kauffman |
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From Paracelsus to Van Helmont. Studies in Renaissance Medicine and Science. By Walter Pagel. Edited by Marianne Winder |
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Walter Charleton (1620-1707), "Virtuoso": Leben und Werk. By Sabina Fleitmann |
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Justus von Liebig. Briefe an Vieweg. Edited by Margarete and Wolfgang Schneider |
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The Letters of Gerrit Jan Mulder to Justus Liebig (1838-1846). Edited by H.A.M. Snelders |
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Scurvy and Vitamin C. By Kenneth J. Carpenter |
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The History and Preservation of Chemical Instrumentation. Edited by John R. Stock and Mary Virginia Orna |
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Science in the Early Roman Empire: Pliny the Elder, his sources and Influence. Edited by Roger French and Frank Greenaway |
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No. 2 July 1987 |
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The Societys First Fifty Years: Part II Members and Meetings. By W. A. Smeaton |
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"I Am the Poison-Dripping Dragon": Iguanas and their Symbolism in the Alchemical and Occult Paintings of David Teniers the Younger. By Jane P. Davidson |
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The Gurvitsch Rule: an Example of a Rule Misnamed? By Ludmilla Sliwinska and Butron H. Davis |
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J. J. Thomson and the Chemical Atom: from Ether Vortex to Atomic Decay. By S. B. Sinclair |
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Reviews of Books |
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The Physical Sciences Since Antiquity. Edited by Rom Harré |
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Lancastrian Chemist: the Early Years of Sir Edward Frankland. By Colin A. Russell |
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Harmonie mystique ou Accord des Philosophes chymiques. By Le Sr. LAgneau (Paris, 1636); Clavicule de la Philosophie hermetique. By T. F. Geron (Paris, 1753); Cabala mineralis. By Simon Ben Cantara (ca. 1700). All facsimile reprints, published under the direction of Jean-Claude Bailly |
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Oeuvres de Lavoisier. Correspondence. Fascicule IV, 1784-1786. Comité Lavoisier de LAcadémie des Sciences |
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No. 3 November 1987 |
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Alchemy and the World of Science: an Intellectual Biography of Frank Sherwood Taylor. By A. V. Simcock |
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Two Books are Added to Guyton de Morveaus Library: A Study of Personal and Academic Communications in 1785. By W. A. Smeaton |
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Methods and Methodology in the Development of Organic Chemistry. By John Hedley Brooke |
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Kolbe versus the "Transcendental Chemists": the Emergence of Classical Organic Chemistry. By A. J. Rocke |
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The Changing Role of Synthesis in Organic Chemistry. By C. A. Russell |
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Die Alchemie in der europäische Kultur und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. (Wolfenbutteler Forschungen Band 32). Edited by Christoph Meinel |
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All Scientists Now. The Royal Society in the nineteenth century. By Marie Boas Hall |
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Paracelsus in neuen Horizonten. By Kurt Goldammer |
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William Coopers A Catalogue of Chymical Books, 1673-88. A Verified Edition. By Stanton J. Linden |
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Jabirian Numbers, Pythagorean Numbers, and Platos Timeaus. By C. Anne Wilson |
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Raymund de Tarrega Marrano, Heretic, Alchemist. By Raphaele Patai |
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Psychologists and the Dream Accounts of August Kekulé. By Susanna F. Rudofsky and John H. Wotiz |
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Early Applications of Infra-red Spectroscopy to Chemistry. By S. Nunziante Cesaro and E. Torracca |
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Reviews of Books |
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Science and Civilization in China. Vol. V, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 7, Military Technology; the Gunpowder Epic. By Joseph Needham, Ho Ping-Yu, Lu Gwei-Djien and Wang Ling |
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Pollution and Control. A Social History of the Thames in the Nineteenth Century. By Bill Luckin |
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"Eine fast magische Anziehungskraft." Goethes "Walverwandtschaften" und die Chemie seiner Zeit. By Jeremy Adler |
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Chemistry, Alchemy and the New Philosophy 1500-1700. By Allan Debus |
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Chemistry and Theology in Mid-Victorian London. The Diary of Herbert McLeod 1860-70. Edited and Introduced by Frank A.J.L. James |
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Essays on the History of Organic Chemistry. Edited by James G. Traynham |
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No. 2 July 1988 |
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Gold from the Sea: Archibald Liversidge, FRS and the Chemical Prospectors. By Roy M. MacLeod |
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Coins and Medals Made of Alchemical Metal. By V. Karpenko |
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Philipp Lorenz Geiger and Justus Liebig. By Ulrica Thomas |
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J. J. Thomson and Radioactivity, Part I. By S. B. Sinclair |
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Man Masters Nature. 25 Centuries of Science. Edited by Roy Porter |
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Essays on the History of Organic Chemistry in the United States, 1875-1955. By Dean Stanley Tarbell and Tracy Tarbell |
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Intellectual Mastery of Nature. Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein. Vol. 1, The Torch of Mathematics 1800-70; Vol. 2, The Now Mighty Theoretical Physics 1870-1925. By Christa Jungnickel and Russel McCormmach |
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Medical Science and Medical Industry. The Formation of the American Pharmaceutical Industry. By Jonathan Liebenau |
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The Weights and Measures of England. By R. D. Connor |
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Paracelsus und Paracelsisten. Vorträge 1984/85. (Salsburger Beitrage zur Paracelsus-forschung, folge 25) |
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História e Desenvolvimiento da Ciência em Portugal. (Proceedings of the first colloquium on the History of Science in Portugal, held in Lisbon 15-19 April 1985). Academia das Ciências de Lisboa |
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Signatura Rerum. Segni, Magia e Cognoscenza da Paracelso a Leibniz. By Massimo Luigi Bianchi |
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A Centenary Tribute to Sir Robert Robinson, 1886-1975. Royal Society of Chemistry |
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No. 3 November 1988 |
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J. J. Thomson and Radioactivity, Part II. By S. B. Sinclair |
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Thirteenth Century Material Pantheism in the Pseudo-Lullian S-Circle of the Powers of the Soul. By Ursula Szulakowska |
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Medical chemistry at Guys Hospital (1770-1850). By Noel G. Coley |
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Erinnerungen eines deutsches Naturforschers. By Johannes Stark, with an introduction by Andreas Kleinert |
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George Ernst Stahl. By Irene Strube |
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English Science, Bacon to Newton. Edited by Brian Vickers |
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Chrysopoeia. (Revue publiée par la Societé dEtude de lHistoire dAlchimie. Vol. 1, Fasc. 1 & 2) |
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Botticelli, Signorelli and Savonarolla. Theologia poetica and Painting from Boccaccio to Poliziano. By Stanley Meltzoff |
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Gassendi the Atomist. Advocate of History in an Age of Science. By Lynn Sumida Joy |
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The Rosicrucians and Magister Christoph Schlegel. Hermetic Roots of America. By Manley P. Hall, with supplements by A. Russell Slagel and Donald C. Kerr |
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Schets der Leer van Lavoisier door Martinus van Marum. Foreword by A.H.C.A. Weichmann, introduction by H.A.M. Snelders, annotations by Jan W. Van Spronsen |
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My Dear Mr Bell: Letters from Dr Jonathan Periera to Mr Jacob Bell, London, 1844 to 1853. Edited by C.P. Cloughly, J.G.L. Burnby and M.P. Earles |
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Oxford Rebels. The Life and Friends of Nevil Story Maskelyn 1823-1911, Pioneer Oxford Scientist, Photographer and Politician. By Vanda Morton |
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Norman Collie: a Life in Two Worlds. Mountain Explorer and Scientist 1854-1942. By Christine Mill |
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Monsieur and Madame Lavoisier in 1789: The Chemical Revolution and the French Revolution. By W. A. Smeaton |
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The Lavoisier-Bucquet Collaboration: a Conjecture. By C. E. Perrin |
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The "Fatherland of Chemistry": Early Nationalistic Currents in Late Eighteenth Century German Chemistry. By Hans-Georg Schneider |
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Madame Lavoisier, P. S. and E. I. DuPont de Nemours and the Publication of Lavoisiers "Mémoires de Chimie". By W. A. Smeaton |
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Lavoisier and the Phlogistic Connection. By Robert Siegfried |
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Essay Review: Chemical Literature 1700-1860. A Bibliography with Annotations. By William A. Cole |
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Reviews of Books |
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The History of Scientific Discovery: the story of science told through the lives of twelve great scientists. By A.J. Meadows [with W.H. Brock and A.G. Keller] |
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De la Transmutatione de Metalli. Poema dAlchimia del XVI secolo. By Antonio Allegretti. Edited by Mino Gabriele |
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Il Giardino di Hermes. Massimiliano Palombara alchimista e rosacroce nella Roma del Seicento. By Mino Gabriele |
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Robert Fludd and the End of the Renaissance. By William H. Huffman |
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Power and Penury: Government, Technology and Science in Philip IIs Spain. By David C. Goodman |
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Archives of the British Chemical Industry 1750-1914. A Handlist. Compiled by Peter J.T. Morris and Colin A. Russell |
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The Age of Science. The Scientific World-view in the Nineteenth Century. By David Knight |
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University and Community in Nineteenth-Century Sydney. Professor John Smith 1821-1825. Edited by Roy MacLeod |
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No. 2 July 1989 |
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The Aether in Late 19th Century Chemistry. By Helge Kragh |
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Sex and Gestation, the Union of Opposites in European and Chinese Alchemy. By Richard K. Payne |
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Australian Chemists at University College London. By Allan Maccoll |
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Paul Harteck: The Triumphant Decade. By Adalbert Farkas |
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Astrology and Society: Historical Essays. Edited by Patrick Curry |
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Le Incision Alchemico-Metallurgiche di Domenico Beccafumi. By Mino Gabriele |
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Le Don de Dieu. Facsimile with introduction, transcription and notes by Mino Gabriele, together with an 1891 transcription by Albert Poisson |
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The Golden Game. Alchemical Engravings of the Seventeenth Century. By Stanislas Klossowski De Rola |
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Die gestriegelte Rocken-Philosophie. By John Georg Schmidt. Edited by Hans-Joachim Poeckern, with afterword by Roland Busch |
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The History and Natural History of Ephedra as Soma. By S. Mahdihassan |
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Deutschsprachige Chemielehrbücher (1775-1850). By Bettina Haupt |
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Science, Medicine and Dissent. Joseph Priestley (1733-1804). Edited by R.G.W. Anderson and Christopher Lawrence |
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Petrochemicals. The Rise of an Industry. By Peter H. Spitz |
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Justus von Liebig und Julius Eugen Schloßberger in ihren Briefen von 1844-1860. Edited by Fritz Heße and Emil Heuser |
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No. 3 November 1989 |
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Emil Fischer as "Chemical Mediator": Science, Industry, and Government in World War One. By Timothy D. Moy |
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The Research in Organic Chemistry of Aleksandr Borodin. By Ian D. Rae |
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John Keills De Operationum Chymicarum Ratione Mechanica. Translated by Anita Guerrini and Jole R. Shackleford |
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Essay Review: Eighteenth Century Medics. (Subscriptions, Licenses, Apprenticeships). By P. J. and R. V. Wallis |
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Reviews of Books |
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Cosmic Problems. Essays on Greek and Roman Philosophy of Nature. By David Furley |
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Die Berufung des Türhüters. Zur "Chymischen Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz" von Johann Valentin Andreae. By Regine Frey-Jaun |
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Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature. By F. W. J. Schelling. Translated by E.E. Harris and P. Heath |
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Revolutions in Science. Their Meaning and Relevance. Edited by William R. Shea |
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Profiles of Eminent American Chemists. By Raymond B. Seymour and Charles H. Fisher |
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Dopolnitelnye Vidy Periodichnosti v Periodischeskoi Sisteme D. I. Mendeleeva. (Subsidiary Aspects of Periodicity and D. I. Mendeleevs Periodic System). By V.P. Melnikov and I.S. Dmitriev |
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Aleksandr Porfirevich Borodin. A Chemists Biography. By N.A. Figurovskii and Y. I. Solovev. Translated by C. Steinberg and G.B. Kauffman |
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A History of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society 1837-1987. By Vance Hall |
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Social Climbing Through Chemistry: Justus Liebigs Rise from the Niederer Mittelstand to the Bildungsbügurtum. By Pat Munday |
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Alfonso Cossa (1833-1902), a Self-taught Italian Chemist. By George B. Kauffman and Ester Molayem |
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The Study of Spiritual Alchemy: Mysticism, Gold-making and Hermeneutics. By Daniel Merkur |
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Alchemy, Magic, Poisons and the Virtues of Stones in the Old Russian Secretum Secretorum. By W. F. Ryan |
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Australian Science in the Making. Edited by R.W. Home. Australian Academy of Science/ Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 1988 |
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J. D. van der Waals: On the Continuity of the Gaseous and Liquid States [1873]. Edited by J.S. Rowlinson. North Holland, Amsterdam 1988; distributed in N. America by Elsevier Science Publishers NY |
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The Uses of Experiment. Studies in the Natural Sciences. Edited by David Gooding, Trevor Pinch and Simon Schaffer. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1989 |
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Justus von Liebig und der Pharmazeut Friedrich Julius Otto in ihren Briefen von 1837-1840 und 1857-1867. (Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Pharmazie in Braunschweig.) Edited by Emil Heuser. Bionomica Verlag: Mannhein 1989 |
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Hermeticism and the Renaissance: Intellectual History and the Occult in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Ingrid Merkel and Allen G. Debus. Folger Books: Washington DC; Associated University Presses: London, Toronto 1989 |
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Through France with Berzelius. Live Scholars and Dead Volcanoes. By Carl Gustaf Bernhard. Pergamon Press: Oxford 1989 |
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Metaphysische, experimentelle und utilitaristische Traditionen in der Antimonliterature zur zeit der "wissenschaftlichen Revolution" [1520-1820]. By Hermann Fischer. Braunschweig: Seiminar der Technischen Universität Braunschweig (Braunschwseiger Veröffentlichungen zu Geschichte der Pharmazie und der Naturwissenschaften, Bd. 30). Deutscher Apotheker-Verlag: Stuttgart 1988 |
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James Joule. A Biography. By Donald S. L. Cardwell. Manchester University Press: Manchester 1989 |
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No. 2 July 1990 |
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The Oldest Chemical Manuscript in the Czech Language. By Vladimir Karpenko |
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The Foundation of the First Modern Chemical Laboratories in Yugoslav Countries. By Ilinka Sencar-Cupovic |
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Reviews of Books |
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I Ching, or Book of Changes. Translated by Richard Wilhelm, and rendered into English by Cary F. Baines, with a foreword by C.J. Jung. Penguin Books, London 1989 |
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Tao Te Ching. By Lao Tzu. Translation and commentary by Richard Wilhelm, with an English translation by W.H. Ostwald. Penguin Books, London 1989 |
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The Alchemical Corpus Attributed to Raymond Lull. By Michael Pereira. (Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts XVIII). Warburg Institute, London 1989 |
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Johannes de Rupescissa Liber de consideratione quinata essential omnium rerum Deutsch. (Studien zur alchemia Medica des 15. bis 17.Jahrhunderts mit kritischer Edition des Textes.) By Udo Benzenhöffer. Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmBH, Stuttgart 1989 |
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LEspressione e LImmagine. Introduzione a Paracelso. By Giancarlo Zanier. Edizione Lint: Trieste, 1988 |
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Eighteenth Century Chemistry as an Investigative Enterprise. By Frederic Lawrence Holmes. University of California, Berkeley, 1989 |
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Justus von Liebig. Boden, Ernahrung, Leben. Texte aus vier Jahrzehnten. Edited by Wilhelm Lewicki and Georg E. Siebeneicher. Paul Pietsch Verlag, Stuttgart 1989 |
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Justus von Liebig und August Wilhelm Hofmann in ihren Briefen. Nachtrage 1845-1869. Edited by Emil Heuser and Regine Zott. Justus von Liebig und Emil Erlenmeyer in ihren Briefen von 1861-1872. Edited by Emil Heuser. Bionomica-Verlag, Mannheim 1988 |
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One Hundred Years of Chemical Engineering. Edited by Nicholas A. Peppas, Kluwer Academic Publishers; Dordrecht/Boston/London, 1989 |
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An Institute for an Empire. The Physikalische-Technische Reichsanstalt 1871-1918. By David Cahan. University of Cambridge Press, Cambridge 1989 |
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The New Physics. Edited by Paul Davies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1989 |
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Schrödinger. Life and Thought. By Walter Moore. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1989 |
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Sir Henry Bessemer, FRS. An Autobiography. (Reprint of the 1905 Edition.) The Institute of Metals, London 1989 |
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Chronologie Chemie 1800-1980. By Sieghard Neufeldt (2nd Edn). VCH Verlagsgeschellschaft, Mannheim 1987 |
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Linus Pauling. A Man and his Science. By Anthony Sarafini. Paragon House, New York 1989 |
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No. 3 November 1990 |
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Prophecy and Alchemy: the Origin of Eirenaeus Philalethes. By William Newman |
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Christoph Bergner: the last Prague Alchemist. By Vladimir Karpenko |
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Stephanus of Alexandria: Pharmaceutical Notions and Cosmology in his Alchemical Work. By Dr Maria Papathanassiou |
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Liebig, Gregory, and the British Association, 1837-1842. By W. H. Brock and Susanne Stark |
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Reviews of Books |
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Entwicklung und Institutionalisierung der Agrikulturchimie im 19.Jahrhundert: Liebig und die Landwirtschaftlichen Versuchsstationen. By Ursula Schling-Broderson. (Braunschweiger Veröffentlichungen zur Geschichte der Pharmazie und der Naturwissenschaften, Bd. 31). Deutsche Apotheken Verlag, Stuttgart 1989 |
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Paracelsus. Essential Readings. Selected and Translated by Nicholas Goodrich-Clarke. Crucible (The Aquarian Press); Wellingborough, Northants. 1990 |
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Magic in the Middle Ages. By Richard Kieckheffer. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1990 |
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The American Synthetic Rubber Research Programme. By Peter J.T. Morris. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 1990 |
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E. W. R. Steacie and Science in Canada. By M. Christine King. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Buffalo, London, 1989 |
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Energy and Empire, A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin. By Crosbie Smith and M. Norton Wise. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1989 |
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Ambix: Table of Contents and Index 1981-1990. Compiled by Dr W. A. Smeaton |
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Another Look at Robert Boyles Acceptance of the Mechanical Philosophy: its Limits and its Chemical and Social Contexts. By Yung Sik Kim |
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Peter Crossthwaite: John Daltons "Friend and Colleague". By Herbert T. Pratt |
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The Case of Joseph Griffin: from Artisan-Chemist and Author-Instructor to Business-Leader. By Brian Gee and William H. Brock |
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LArt Hermetique à dècouvert ou nouvelle lumiére magique où sont contenus diverses Mystères des Egyptiens, des Hébreux et des Caldéens. By Thomas Vaughan. Facsimile of 1787 Edition, edited by Dorothy Kahn. J.C. Bailly, Gutenberg Reprints, Paris 1989 |
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Bermannus (Le Mineur). Un Dialogue sur les mines. By George Agricola. Introduction, translation and commentary by Robert Halleaux and Albert Yans. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1990. |
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John Dees Natural Philosophy. Between Science and Religion. By Nicholas H. Clulee. Routledge, London and New York 1988 |
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Tommaso Campanella. Sein Beitrag zur Medizin und Pharmazie der Renaissance. By Michael Mönnich. (Heidelberger Schriften zur Pharmazie- und Naturwissenschaftsgeschichte, Bd. 2.) Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft: Stuttgart 1990 |
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Establishing the New Science. The Experience of the Early Royal Society. By Michael Hunter. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1989 |
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Robert Hooke. New Studies. Edited by Michael Hunter and Simon Schaffer. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1990 |
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Chromatographic Adsorption Analysis: Selected Works. By Mikhail Semenovich Tswett. (Compiled by V.G. Berezkin.) Ellis Horwood, New York, London 1990 |
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Georg von Welling (1655-1727). Studien zu Leben und Werk. (Heidelberger Studien zur Naturkunde der frühen Neuezeit Bd. 2.) By Petra Jungmayr. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1990 |
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Robert Robinson: Chemist Extraordinary. By Trevor R. Williams. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990 |
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Early Developments in Radiation Chemistry. Edited by J. Kroh. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge 1989 |
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Man and Nature: the Spiritual Crisis of Modern Man. By Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Unwin Hyman Paperbacks, London 1990 |
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Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling. The Making of a Science in America. By John W. Servos. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1990 |
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No. 2 July 1991 |
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John Dastin: the Alchemist as Co-Creator. By Wilfred Thiesen |
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Benzene and Turpentine: the Pre-History of Drycleaning. By E. M. Cammidge |
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From Pasteur to Parity Violation: Cosmic Dissymmetry and the Origins of Biomolecular Handedness. By Stephen S. Mason |
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Alchemy in Europe. A Guide to Research. By Claudia Kren. Garland Publishing, New York and London 1990 |
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Da Alquimia à Quimica: Um estudo sobre a passagem do pensamento mágico-vitalista ao mecanismo. By Ana Maria Alfonso Goldfarb. (Coleção Ciência Viva.) Nova Stella, São Paulo, 1987 |
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John Dees Library Catalogue. Edited by Julian Roberts and Andrew G. Watson. Oxford University Press, Oxford (for the Bibliographical Society, London) 1990 |
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Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution. Edited by David C. Lindberg and Robert S. Westman. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York etc. 1990 |
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A Company of Scientists: Botany, Patronage and Community at the Seventeenth-Century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences. By Alice Stroup. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford 1991 |
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Alchemical Death and Resurrection. The Significance of Alchemy in the Age of Newton. By B.J.T. Dobbs. Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington DC, 1990 |
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Romanticism and the Sciences. Edited by Andrew Cunningham and Nicholas Jardine. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York etc. 1990 |
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The Correspondence between Sir George Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs. Edited with an Introduction by David B. Wilson. Two volumes (not sold separately): Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York etc. 1990 |
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Chemistry as viewed from Bascomes Hill. A History of the Chemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. By Aaron J. Ihde. Chemistry Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1990 |
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A History of Lactic Acid Making. A Chapter in the History of Biotechnology. By H. Benninga. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London 1990 |
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Études sur/ Studies on Hélène Metzger. Edited by Gad Freudenthal. (Collection de Travaux de lAcadémie Internationale dHistoire des Sciences, 32.) E. J. Brill, Leiden 1990 |
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Dirac: a Scientific Biography. By Helge Kragh. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, New York etc. 1990 |
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Electrochemistry Past and Present. Edited by John T. Stock and Mary Virginia Orna. (ACS Symposium Series 390.) American Chemical Society, Washington 1989 |
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No. 3 November 1991 |
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Heinrich Caro at Roberts, Dale & Co. By Anthony S. Travis |
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Liebigs Metamorphosis: From Organic Chemistry to the Chemistry of Agriculture. By Pat Munday |
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The Rehabilitation of an Agricultural Chemist: Justus von Liebig and the Seventh Edition. By Mark R. Finlay |
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Reviews of Books |
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The Study of Change. Chemistry in China 1840-1945. By James Reardon-Anderson. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York etc. 1991 |
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Experiment, Right or Wrong. By Alan Franklin. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York etc. 1990 |
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Om Krudtets og Salpetersydningens historie. By Rolf W. Berg. (Extract from Danmarks Tekniske Museums Ârsbog 1988.) Danmarks Tekniske Museum, Elsinore, 1989 |
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Die Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie. Hundert Jahre Wechselwirkung zwischen Fachswissenschaft Kommunikationsmedium und Gesellschaft. (Bibliothemata, Bd. 2.) By Thomas Hapke. Verlag Traugott Bautz, Hertz 1990 |
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A Science of Impurity. Water Analysis in Nineteenth Century Britain. By Christopher Hamlin. Adam Hilger, Bristol 1990 |
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The University of London and the World of Learning, 1836-1986. Edited by F.M.L. Thompson. The Hambledon Press, London and Ronceverte, 1990 |
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Vom hylealischen, das is pri-materialischen catholischen oder allgemeinen natürlichen Chaos, der naturgemässen Alchymiae und Alchymisten. By Heinrich Kuhnrath. Facsimile of the Frankfurt 1708 edition with an Introduction by Elmar R. Gruberg. Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz, Austria, 1990 |
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The Historiography of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century: A Preliminary Survey and Bibliography. By Marco Beretta |
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Vauquelin, Balzac and the Chemical Analysis of Hair. By Theodore L. Sourkes |
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John Dalton Settles in Manchester. By Herbert T. Pratt |
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Liebigs Role in the Establishment of Agricultural Chemistry. By Uschi Schling-Brodersen |
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Reviews of Books |
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Toison dOr et Alchimie. By Antoine Faivre. Milan: Archè, 1990. Rev. by Marianne Winder |
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Early Metallurgical Sites in Great Britain BC 2000 to AD 1500. Edited by C.R. Blick. London: Institute of Metals, 1991. Rev. by Marilyn Palmer |
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Rencontres de cultures dans la philosophie médiévale. Traductions et traducteurs de lAntiquité tardive au XIVe. Edited by Jacquelin Hamesse and Marta Fattori. Louvain-la-Neuve: LInstitute dEtudes Médiévales dé lUniversité Catholique de Louvain, 1991. Rev. by Vivian Nutton |
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Science, Culture and Popular Belief in Renaissance Europe. Edited by S. Pumfrey, P.L. Rossi and M. Slawinski. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Rev. by Graham Rees. |
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Basil Valentine. His Triumphant Chariot of Antimony, with Annotations of Theodore Kirkringius (1678). Edited by L.G. Kelly. New York: Garland, 1990. Rev. by R.P. Multhauf |
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La Porta Magica. Luoghi e memorie nel giardino di piazza Vittorio. Edited by Nicoletta Cardano. Rome: Fratelli Palombi Editori, 1990. Rev. by Michaela Pereira |
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Henry More: Magic, Religion and Experiment. By A. Rupert Hall. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990. Rev. by Graham Rees |
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Handlist of Scientific Instrument-Makers Trade Catalogues, 1600-1914. By R.G.W. Anderson, J. Burnett and B. Gee. (National Museums of Scotland Information Series No. 8). Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland in Association with the Science Museum, 1990. Rev. by Frank Greenaway |
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Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist. A Study of Science and Religion in the Nineteenth Century. By Geoffrey Cantor. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991. Rev. by Frank Greenaway |
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The Correspondence of Michael Faraday. Vol. 1, 1811-1831. Letters 1-524. Edited by Frank A.J.L. James. London: Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1991. Rev. by Aubrey Tulley |
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Curiosity Perfectly Satisfyed. Faradays Travels in Europe 1813-1815. Edited by Brian Bowers and Lenore Symons. London: Peter Peregrinus/ Science Museum, 1991. Rev. by Maurice Crosland |
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Sunto di un corso di filosofia chimica. By Stanislao Cannizzaro. Commentary and Notes by Luigi Cerruti; introduction by Leonello Paoloni. Palermo: Sellerio editore, 1991. Rev. by Marco Beretta |
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The Royal Society of Chemistry. The First 150 Years. By David H. Whiffen, with the late Donald H. Hey. London: Royal Society of Chemistry, 1991. Rev. by Gerrylynn K. Roberts |
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Die Rolle des Fleischextrakts für die Ernährungswissenschaften und den Aufsteig der Suppenindustrie. By Hans-Jürgen Teuteberg. (Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte, Nr. 70). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1990. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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At the Sign of the Plough. Allen & Hanburys and the British Pharmaceutical Industry 1715-1990. By Geoffrey Tweedale. London: John Murray, 1990. Rev. by M.P. Earles |
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Steelmaking: 1850-1900. By K. C. Barraclough. London: The Institute of Metals, 1990. Rev. by Sue Cackett |
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Contrasts in Scientific Style. Research Groups in the Chemical and Biochemical Sciences. By Joseph S. Fruton. (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 191). Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1990. Rev. by Jack Morrell |
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From Caveman to Chemist. Circumstances and Achievements. By Hugh W. Salzberg. Washington DC: American Chemical Society, 1991. Rev. by David Knight |
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Stroenie Monosakharidov: Istoricheski0 Ocherk (The Structure of Monosaccharides: A Historical Essay). By Z. E. Gelman, Irkutsk, Siberia: Izdatelstvo Irkutskogo Universiteta, 1991. Rev. by George B. Kauffman |
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Queen Christina of Sweden and her Circle. The Transformation of a Seventeenth-Century Libertine. By Susanna Åkerman. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991. Rev. by Christopher McIntosh |
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Science de lAir. Studi su Felice Fontana. By Ferdinando Abbri. Cosenza: Edizione Brenner, 1991. Rev. by Maurice Crosland |
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No. 2 July 1992 |
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The Chemistry and Metallurgy of Transmutation. By Vladimír Karpenko |
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Robert Boyles Alchemical Secrecy: Codes, Ciphers and Concealments. By L.M. Principe |
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The Mishaps of Peripheral Science: The Life and Work of Manoel Joaquim Henriques de Paiva, Luso-Brazilian Chemist and Physician of the Late Eighteenth Century. By Carlos A. L. Filgueiras |
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Essay Review: Alchemy Revisited. Proceedings of the International Conference in the History of Chemistry at the University of Groningen. Edited by Z. R. W. Von Martels. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990. Rev. by P.M. Rattansi |
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The Early Ethics and Essays of Robert Boyle. By John T. Harwood. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991. Rev. by Malcolm Oster |
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Michael Faradays "Chemical Notes, Hints, Suggestions, and Objects of Pursuit" of 1822. Edited by Ryan D. Tweeny and David Gooding. London: Peter Peregrinus/ Science Museum, 1991. Rev. by Frank Greenaway |
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The Industrial Revolution in Metals. Edited by Joan Day and R. F. Tylecote. London: Institute of Metals, 1991. Rev. by R. Angus Buchanan |
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Nineteenth-Century Attitudes: Men of Science (Chemists and Chemistry, Vol. 13). By Sydney Ross. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. Rev. by B. Gee |
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Berichte der Justus Liebig-Gesellschaft zu Giessen. Band I. Symposium "150 Jahre Agrikulturchemie". Edited by G. K. Judel, M. Winnewisser and J. C. Grecu. Giessen: Justus Liebig-Gesellschaft, 1990 [1992]. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Die Nachläße von Martius, Liebig und den Brüdern Schlagintweit in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek. Edited by Anne Büchler, Rolf Schumacher and Stephan Kellner. (Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Monacensis, tome X, pars 2.) Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1990. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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The Alchemical World of the German Court. Occult Philosophy and Chemical Medicine in the Circle of Moritz von Hessen (1572-1632). (Sudhoffs Archiv, Beiheft H. 29). By Bruce T. Moran. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991. Rev. by Allen G. Debus |
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Anne Bradstreet Revisited. By Rosamond Rosenmeier. Boston: Twayne, 1991. Rev. by Robert Ward |
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Science and Religion. Some Historical Perspectives. (Cambridge History of Science Series.) By John Hedley Brooke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Rev. by Frank A.J.L. James |
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Atoms, Pneuma and Tranquility. Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought. Edited by Margaret J. Osler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Rev. by Marie Boas Hall |
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The Rise of Scientific Europe 1500-1800. Edited by David Goodman and Colin A. Russell. Sevenoaks: Hodder & Stoughton/ Open University, 1991. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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No. 3 November 1992 |
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The Astrologers Assay of the Alchemist: Early References to Alchemy in Arabic and Latin Texts. By Charles Burnett |
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Phlogiston After Oxygen. By Douglas Allchin |
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The Chemical Society of London and the Dye Industry in the 1860s. By Peter J. T. Morris and Anthony S. Travis |
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Karl Aloys Schenzingers Novel, Anilin: Chemistry and Chemical Technology in Nazi Literaturpolitik. By Michael N. Keas |
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Essay Review: In Search of a Cure. A History of Pharmaceutical Discovery. By M. Weatherall. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Rev. by Sir William Paton |
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Reviews of Books |
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Histoire de lésotérisme et des sciences occultes. By Jean-Paul Corsetti. Paris: Références Larousse, 1992. Rev. by Keith Hutchinson |
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The Summa Perfectionis of Pseudo-Geber. A Critical Edition, Translation & Study. By William R. Newman. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991. Rev. by Michèle Mertens |
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Philosophy, Science and Religion in England 1640-1700. Edited by Richard Kroll, Richard Ashcraft and Perez Zagorin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by G. Rees |
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Sir Isaac Newton. A Catalogue of Manuscripts and Papers collected and published on microfilm by Chadwyck-Healey. Edited by Peter Jones. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1991. Rev. by B.J.T. Dobbs |
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Bibliotheca Tinctoria. Annotated Catalog of the Sydney M. Edelstein Collection in the History of Bleaching, Dyeing, Finishing and Spot Removing. By Moshe Ron. Jerusalem: Jewish National and University Library, 1992. Rev. by W.A. Smeaton |
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Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1841-1991. A Political and Social History. By S.W.F. Holloway. London: The Pharmaceutical Press, 1991. Rev. by Gerrylynn K. Roberts |
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Badani Cia» Radioaktywnych. [1904]. By Marya Sklodowska-Curie. Edited by Józefa Hurwica. Warszawa: Ike-Instytut Kszta» cenia Ekonomicznego Pte, 1992. Rev. by S.B. Sinclair |
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Harriet Brooks, Pioneer Nuclear Scientist. By Marlene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1992. Rev. by A.G. Keller |
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A Semiempirical Life. By Michael S. Dewar. (Profiles, Pathways and Dreams Series). Washington DC: American Chemical Society, 1992. Rev. by M.L. Tobe |
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Calculated Risks: The Toxicity and Human Health Risks of Chemicals in our Environment. By Joseph V. Rodricks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by T.B. Mepham |
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Du flou au clair? Histoire de laffinité chimique de Cardan à Prigogine. By Michelle Goupil. Paris: Éditions du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 1991. Rev. by A.M. Duncan |
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Soedineniià Vysshego Poriàdka (Compounds of Higher Order). By Yu. N. Kukushkin. Leningrad: Khimiià, 1991. Rev. by George B. Kauffman |
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Ideas in Chemistry. A History of the Science. By David Knight. London: The Athlone Press, 1992. Rev. by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent |
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Chemical Evolution: Origin of the Elements, Molecules, and Living Systems. By Stephen F. Mason. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Rev. by M.A. Sutton |
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Joseph Black: A bibliography. By J.G. Fyffe and R.G.W. Anderson. London: Science Museum, 1992. Rev. by W.A. Smeaton |
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Historical Atlas of Crystallography. Edited by J. Lima-DeFaria. Dordrecht: The International Union of Crystallography/ Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. Rev. by D.R. Russell |
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A Scientists War. The War Diaries of Sir Clifford Paterson 1939-45. Edited by Robert Clayton and Joan Algar. London: Peter Peregrinus/ Science Museum, 1991. Rev. by D. Edgerton |
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Exploring the Sun. Solar Science since Galileo. By Karl Hufbauer. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Rev. by F.A.J.L. James |
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Indian Alchemy or Rasayana in the Light of Asceticism and Geriatrics. By S. Mahdihassan. Delhi: Motilal Barnasidass Publishers, 1991. Rev. by D. Pingree |
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The Development of Science and Scientific Communication: Justus Liebigs Two Famous Publications of 1840. By Regine Zott |
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When is a tool not a tool? Understanding the Role of Laboratory Equipment in the Early Colloidal Chemistry Laboratory. By Andrew Ede |
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Note: Alembics, Cucurbits, Phials, Crucibles: A 16th-Century Alchemical Laboratory Inventory Excavated in Austria. By R. W. Soukup, S. von Osten, and H. Mayer |
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Graf Wolfgang II von Hohenlohe und die Alchemie. Alchemistische Studien in Schloss Weikersheim 1587-1610. By Jost Weyer. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1992. Rev. by Lawrence M. Principe |
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Hexenkräuter oder Arznei. Die Arbeitungsmittel im 16. und 17.Jahrhundert. By Larissa Leibrock-Plehn. Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1992. Rev. by Marianne Winder |
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Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance. By F. David Hoeniger. Newark, Del: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1992. Rev. by Andrew Wear |
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Nicholas Culpeper. English Physician and Astrologer. By Olav Thulesius. New York: St. Martins Press; Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992. Rev. by D.E. Allen |
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Promoting Experimental Learning. Experiment and the Royal Society 1660-1727. By Marie Boas Hall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Rev. by David Gooding |
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Letters and Papers of Robert Boyle. A Guide to Manuscripts and Microfilm. Compiled by Michael Hunter. (Collections from the Royal Society). Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America. Rev. by Malcolm Oster |
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Die Alchemie und ihr Stummes Buch (Mutus Liber). Vollständige Wiedergabe der Original-Ausgabe von La Rochelle 1677. Introduction and commentary by Eugène Canseliet. Amsterdam: Edition Weber, 1991. Rev. by Y.K. Centeno |
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The Invisible College: A Study of Three Original Rosicrucian Texts. By Stanley W. Beeler. New York: AMS Press, 1991. Rev. by Deborah L. Madsen |
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The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason. Eighteenth-Century Rosicrucianism in Central Europe and its Relationship to the Enlightenment. By Christopher McIntosh. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992. Rev. by C. Webster |
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Jonathan Swift and the Millenium of Madness: The Information Age in Swifts A Tale of the Tub. By Kenneth Craven. Leiden, New York and Cologne: E.J. Brill, 1992. Rev. by Stuart Sim |
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Chemical Lectures of H. T. Scheffer. Edited by Torbern Bergman (1775) and translated by J. A. Schufle. (Chemists and Chemistry, vol. 14). Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992. Rev. by W.A. Smeaton |
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Vulkanismusstreit und Geochemie: Die Bedeutung der Chemie und des Experiments in der Vulkanismus-Neptunismus-Kontroverse. By Bernhard Fritscher. (Boethius. Texte und Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften. Bd. XXV). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991. Rev. by Martin Guntau |
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Eilhard Mitscherlich. Baumeister am Fundament der Chemie. By Hans Werner Schütt. (Abhandlungen und Berichte, Neue Folge, Bd. 8). München: Deutsches Museum/R. Oldenburg Verlag, 1992. Rev. by Robin Keen |
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Naturwissenschaften und Chemische Industrie in Deutschland. Voraussetzungen und Mechanism ihres Aufstiegs in 19.Jahrhundert. By Walter Wetzel. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991. Rev. by Jeffrey A. Johnson |
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Weighed in the Balance. A History of the Laboratory of the Government Chemist. By P. W. Hammond and Harold Egan. London: HMSO, 1992. Rev. by Ray Anderson |
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The Historical Development of Chemical Concepts. By Roman Mierzecki. (Chemists and Chemistry, vol. 12). Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers; Warsaw: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe-Polish Scientific Publishers, 1991. Rev. by Colin A. Russell |
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No. 2 July 1993 |
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Alchemy and the Society of Jesus in the Seventeenth Century: Strange Bedfellows? By Martha Baldwin |
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Justus von Liebig, Eben Horsford and the Development of the Baking Powder Industry. By Paul R. Jones |
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Adolphe Wurtz and the Atomism Controversy. By Ana Carneiro |
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Essay Review: Psyche and Matter. By Marie-Louise Franz. Boston, London: Shambala Publications, 1992. Rev. by Kenneth Craven |
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Faszination Chemie: 7000 Jahre Lehre von Stoffen und Prozessen. By Otto Krätz. Munich: Callwey Verlag, 1990. Rev. by George B. Kauffman |
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Histoire de la chimie. By Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Isabelle Stengers. Paris: Editions Découverte, 1993. Rev. by Maurice Crosland |
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The Fontana History of Chemistry. By William H. Brock. London: Fontana Press, 1992. Rev. by Alec Campbell |
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The History of Chemistry. By John Hudson. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992. Rev. by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent |
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A History of the International Chemical Industry. By Fred Aftalion. Trs. Otto Theodor Benfey. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Square Rounds. By Tony Harrison. London, Boston: Faber and Faber, 1992. Rev. by Pat Munday |
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Science Preserved. A Directory of Scientific Instruments in Collections in the United Kingdom and Eire. By Mary Holbrook, with R.G.W. Anderson and D.G. Bryden. London: HMSO, 1992. Rev. by Frank Greenaway |
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The Laboratory Revolution in Medicine. Edited by Andrew Cunningham and Perry Williams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by Michael Worboys |
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Die okkulten Wissenschaften in der Renaissance. Edited by August Buck. (Wolfenbütteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung, Bd. 12). Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1992. Rev. by Marianne Winder |
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Rationalité de lAlchimie au XVIIe Siècle. By Bernard Joly. Includes Latin text and French translation of Manuscriptum ad Fredericum (1653) by Pierre-Jean Fabre. Paris: Libraire Philosophique J. Vrin, 1992. Rev. by Allen G. Debus |
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The Rise of Public Science. Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660-1750. By Larry Stewart. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by Anita Guerrini |
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Science as Public Culture. Chemistry and the Enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820. By Jan Golinski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by R.G.W. Anderson |
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LAVOISIER et le Révolution Chimique. Edited by Michelle Goupil with Patrice Bret and Francine Masson. [SABIX-Société des Amis de la Bibliothéque de lEcole polytechnique]. Paris: Ecole polytechnique, 1992. Rev. by Arthur Donovan |
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Enlightenment Science in the Romantic Era. The Chemistry of Berzelius & its Culture Setting. Edited by Evan M. Melhado and Tore Frängsmyr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by Mi Gyung Kim |
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Goethe und die Naturwissenschaften. By Otto Krätz. Munich: George Callwey Verlag, 1992. Rev. by George B. Kauffman |
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Humphry Davy. Science and Power. By David Knight. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. Rev. by Frank Greenaway |
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Die streitbaren Gelehrten. Justus Liebig und die preußischen Universitäten. Kommentierte Edition eines historischen Disputes. Edited by Regine Zott and Emil Heuser. (Berliner Beitrage zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 15). Berlin ERS (Ellen R. Swinne) Verlag, 1992. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Universität und Ministerium im Vormärz. Justus Liebigs Briefwechsel mit Justin von Linde. By Eva-Marie Felschow und Emil Heuser. (Studiana Giessensia 3). Giessen: Verlag der Ferberschen Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1992. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Lettere a Stanislao Cannizzaro. Scritti e Carteggi 1857-1862. Edited by Leonello Paoloni. Palermo: Facoltà di Scienza, Università di Palermo. Rev. by Catherine Kounelis |
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Die Allianz von Wissenschaft und Industrie: August Wilhelm Hofmann (1818-1892): Zeit, Werk, Wirkung. Edited by C. Meinel and H. Scholz. Weinheim, New York, Cambridge, Basel: VCH, 1992. Rev. by David H. Leaback |
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Nationalism and Internationalism in Science 1880-1939. Four Studies of the Nobel Population. By Elisabeth Crawford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by Peter Collins |
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Penicillin-herstellung. Von den Anfängen bis zur Großproduktion. By Ingrid Pieroth. (Heidelberger Schriften zur Pharmazie- und Naturwissenschafts-geschichte, Bd. 9). Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgessellschaft, 1992. Rev. by Trevor I. Williams |
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Glaxo: A History to 1962. By R. P. T. Davenport-Hines and Judy Slinn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by T.B. Mepham |
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A Skeptical Biochemist. By Joseph S. Fruton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. Rev. by Mikuls Teich |
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Following the Trail of Light. A Scientific Odyssey. By Melvin Calvin. (Profiles, Pathways and Dreams Series). Washington DC: American Chemical Society, 1992. Rev. by Lord Porter |
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Rosarium Philosophorum. Ein alchemisches Florilegium des Spätmittelalters. (Faksimilie der illustrierten Erstausgabe Frankfurt 1550). Edited by Joachim Telle with German translation by Lutz Claren and Joachim Huber. 2 vols. Weinheim: VCH Verlagsgesellschaft, 1992. Rev. by Joscelyn Godwin |
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No. 3 November 1993 |
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Between Magic and Science: Numerical Magic Squares. By Dr Vladimír Karpenko |
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The Alchemy of Michael Sendivogius: His Central Nitre Theory. By Zbigniew Szydlo |
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The Correspondence of a XVII Century Chymicall Gentleman: Sir Cheney Culpeper and the Chemical Interests of the Hartlib Circle. By Stephen Clucas |
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LOro dei Filosofi. Saggio sulle idee di un Alchemista del Trecento. By Michela Pereira. (Biblioteca di Medioevo Latino, 7). Spoleto: Centro di Studi sullAlto Medioevo, 1992. Rev. by Antonio Clericuzio |
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Francis Bacon. History, Politics & Science, 1561-1626. By B. H. G. Wormald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Rev. by Graham Rees |
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Before and After Cannizzaro. A Philosophical Commentary on the Development of the Atomic and Molecular Theories. By John Bradley. Caithness: Published for John Bradley by Whittles Publishing Services, 1992. Rev. by John Hedley Brooke |
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The Kekulé Riddle. A Challenge for Chemists and Psychologists. Edited by John H. Wotiz. Clearwater, FL; Vienna, IL: Cache River Press, 1993. Rev. by Anthony S. Travis |
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Modern Esoteric Spirituality. Edited by Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman. London: SCM Press, 1993. Rev. by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke |
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De geschiedenis van de scheikunde in Nederland. Van alchemie tot chemie en chemische industrie rond 1900. By H. A .M. Snelders. Delft: Delftse Universitaire Pers, 1993. Rev. by Willem Hackmann |
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Half a Century of Free Radical Chemistry. By D. H. R. Barton and S. I. Parekh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Rev. by Colin A. Russell |
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Historiography of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century: Hermann Boerhaave and William Cullen. By J.R.R. Christie |
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History and Science, History of Science: Adolphe Wurtz and the Renovation of the Academic Professions in France. By A.J. Rocke |
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Square Rounds and Other Awkward Fits: Chemistry as Theatre. By Gillian Beer |
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Essay Review: Hermetica. The Greek Corpus Hermetica and the Latin Asclepius in a new English translation, with notes and introduction. By Brian P. Copenhaver. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by B. Vickers |
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Die Alchemistische Lehrdichtung des Gratheus filius philosophi in Cod. Vind. 2372. Zugleich ein Beitrag zur okkulten Wissenschaft im Spätmittelalter. I: Einleitung Untersuchungen Kommentar. II: Textedition Übersetzung Register. By Helmut Birkham. 2 vols. Österreichische Akademie der Wissensschaften, philosophisch-historische Klasse, Sitzungsberichte 591. Wien. Österreichische Akademie der Wissensschaften, 1992. Rev. by N.F. Palmer |
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The Janus Face of Genius. The Role of Alchemy in Newtons Thought. By Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by P.E. Spargo |
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The Life of Isaac Newton. By Richard Westfall. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Rev. by A.A. Mills |
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Joseph Priestley Political Writings. Edited by P.N. Miller. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Rev. by J. Golinski |
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Berzelius und Liebig. Ihre Briefe 1831-1845. Edited by Wilhelm Lewicki. Göttingen, Augsburg. Jürgen Cromm Verlag, 1991. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Die organische Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Physiologie und Pathologie. By Justus Liebig. Facsimile of 1st ed., Braunschweig 1842, plus supplement edited by Wilhelm Lewicki. Pinneberg. Agrimedia Hils oHG im Verlag Alfred Strohe, 1992. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Robert Mayer and the Conservation of Energy. By Kenneth L. Caneva. Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press, 1993. Rev. by F.A.J.L. James |
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Contesting Cultural Authority. Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life. By Frank M. Turner. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Rev. by J.B. Morrell |
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The Rainbow Makers. The Origins of the Synthetic Dyestuffs Industry in Western Europe. By Anthony S. Travis. Bethlehem, PA. Lehigh University Press, 1993. Rev. by D.H. Leaback |
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Van Beroep Chemiker. De opkomst van de industriële chemicus en het polytechnische onderwijs in Duitsland (1790-1850). [Chemiker by Occupation: The Rise of the Industrial Chemist and Polytechnic Education in Germany (1790-1850)]. By Ernst Homburg. Delft. Delftse Universitaire Pers, 1993. Rev. by T.H. Levere |
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Der Fall Clara Immerwahr. Leben für eine humane Wissenschaft. By Gerit von Leitner. Munich. Verlag C. H. Beck, 1993. Rev. by J.A. Johnson |
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Enjoying Organic Chemistry, 1927-1987. By Egbert Havinga. Washington DC. American Chemical Society, 1991. Rev. by W.J. Hornix |
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Institut Obschei i Neorganischeskoi Khimii im. N. S. Kurnakova Rosiiskoi Akademii Nauk: Istoricheskii ocherk [N. S. Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Historical Essay]. By Yu. I. Solovev. Moscow. Nauka, 1993. Rev. by G.B. Kauffman |
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Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 1901-1992. Edited by Laylin K. James. History of Modern Chemical Sciences. Washington DC. American Chemical Society/ Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1993. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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No. 2 July 1994 |
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Le Châtelier, Public Prosecutor of Darzens. By Pierre Laszlo |
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Emma Perry Carr: The Spectrum of a Life. By Carole B. Shmurak |
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The Development of Ingolds System of Organic Chemistry. By K. Schofield |
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La parole des choses ou le langage de la chimie. By Pierre Laszlo. Collection Savoir. Paris. Hermann, 1993. Rev. by G.B. Kauffman |
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Gnosis. An Esoteric Tradition of Mystical Visions and Unions. By Dan Merkur. Albany, NY. State University of New York Press, 1993. Rev. by N. Goodrick-Clarke |
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500 Years of Gnosis in Europe. (Exhibition Catalogue of Printed Books and Manuscripts from the Gnostic Tradition). Compiled by Carlos Gilly and Marina Afanasyeva. Amsterdam. In de Pelikaan (Bibliotheca Hermetica), 1993. Rev. by O.P. Grell |
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Robert Boyle Reconsidered. Edited by Michael Hunter. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Rev. by M.B. Hall |
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Lavoisier. Memoires dune révolution. By Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent. Paris. Flammarion, 1993. Rev. by W.A. Smeaton |
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Affinity and Shinwya Ryoku. Introduction of Western Chemical Concepts in early Nineteenth-Century Japan. By Togu Tsukahara. Amsterdam. J. C. Gieben, 1993. Rev. by D.M. Knight |
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Defining Science. William Whewell, Natural Knowledge and Public Debate in early Victorian Britain. By Richard Yeo. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Rev. by D.B. Wilson |
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The World of Physical Chemistry. By Keith J. Laidler. Oxford. Oxford University Press, 1993. Rev. by M.A. Sutton |
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Institut Obschei i Neorganischeskoi Khimii im. N. S. Kurnakova Rosiiskoi Akademii Nauk: Istoricheskii ocherk [N. S. Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Historical Essay]. By Yu. I. Solovev. Moscow. Nauka, 1993. Rev. by G.B. Kauffman |
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Salt and Water in Culture and Medicine. By Poul Astrup, Peter Bie and Hans Chr. Engell. Copenhagen. Munksgaard, 1993. Rev. by N.G. Coley |
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No. 3 November 1994 |
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Islamic Alchemy According to al-Khwarizmi. By Karin C. Ryding |
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The Sources of Arthur Dees Fasciculus Chemicus (1631). By Lyndy Abraham |
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Angelo Sala, an Iatrochemist of the Late Renaissance. By Zahkar E. Gelman |
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Alchemie et Philosophie à la Renaissance. Edited by Jean Claude Margolin and Sylvan Matton. Paris. Libraire Philosophique J. Vrin, 1993. Rev. by L.M. Principe |
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Chemistry Imagined. Reflections on Science. By Roald Hoffmann and Vivian Torrence. Washington DC. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. Rev. by G. Beer |
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After Newton: Essays on Natural Philosophy. By P. M. Harman. Aldershot, Hants. Variorum, 1993. Rev. by G.A.J. Rogers |
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The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Vol. 2, 1832 December 1840, Letters 525-1333. Edited by Frank A.J.L. James. London. Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1993. Rev. by B. Gee |
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Auguste Laurent and the Prehistory of Valence. By Marya Novitski. Chur, Switzerland. Harwood Academic Publishers, 1992. Rev. by J.H. Brooke |
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Lettere a Stanislao Cannizzaro 1863-1868. Edited by Leonello Paoloni. Seminario de Storia della Scienza Quaderni N. 3, 1993. Rev. by C. Kounelis |
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Organic Chemistry: Its Language and its State of the Art. Edited by M. Volkan Kisakürek. Basel, Switzerland. Verlag Helvetica Chemica Acta, 1993. Rev. by G.B. Kauffman |
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Leaving No Stone Unturned. Pathways in Organometallic Chemistry. Profiles, Pathways and Dreams Series. Washington DC. American Chemical Society, 1993. Rev. by C.A. Russell |
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From Turkey Red to Tyrian Purple. Textile Colours for the Industrial Revolution. By Anthony S. Travis. Jerusalem, The Jewish National and University Library. Sidney M. Edelstein Collection, 1993. Rev. by F.G. Page |
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Science as Cultural Ornament: Bunsen, Kirchhoff and Helmholtz in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Baden. By Frank A.J.L. James |
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Artificial Dyes in John Lightfoots Broad Oak Laboratory. By Anthony S. Travis |
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Chemical Organisation in Australia and New Zealand. By Ian D. Rae |
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Essay Review: The Chemistry of Light. Fits, Passions and Paroxysms: Physics, Method and Chemistry and Newtons Theories of Colored Bodies and Fits of Easy Reflections. By Alan E. Shapiro. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Rev. by R.W. Home |
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The Mirror of Alchimy Composed by the Thrice-Famous and Learned Fryer, Roger Bachon. Edited by Stanton J. Linden. (English Renaissance Hermeticism Series, vol. 4). New York. Garland Publishing Inc., 1992. Rev. by G. Rees |
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The Enlightenment of Matter. The Definition of Chemistry from Agricola to Lavoisier. By Marco Beretta. Canton, MA. Science History Publications, 1993. Rev. by A.M. Duncan |
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Linné et la France (1780-1850). By Pascal Duris. (Histoire des idées et critique littéraire, vol. 318). Genève. Librairie Droz, 1993. Rev. by W.A. Smeaton |
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The Teaching of Science at Christs Hospital Since 1900 AD. Compiled by Gordon Van Praagh. Crawley, W. Sussex. Frognal Publishers, 1992. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Highlights of Chemistry as Mirrored in Helvetica Chemica Acta. Edited by M. Volkan Kisakürek and Edgar Heilbronner. Basel. Verlag Helvetica Chemica Acta; Weinheim. VCH Verlagsgesellschaft, 1994. Rev. by George B. Kauffman |
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75 vuotta toimintaa kemian hyväski-Suomalaisten Kemistien Seura 1919-1994. By Lauri Ninistö. Helsinki. Suomalaisten Kemistien Seura, 1994. Rev. by George B. Kauffman |
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Collins Biographical Dictionary of Scientists. Edited by Trevor Williams. Glasgow. Harper Collins Publishers, 1994. Rev. by John Hudson |
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Machines are Frozen Spirit. The Scientification of Refrigeration and Brewing in the 19th Century - A Weberian Interpretation. By Mikael Hård. Frankfurt am Maine. Campus Verlag, 1994. Rev. by Ray Anderson |
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Chemical Sciences in the Modern World. Edited by Seymour Mauskopf. (The Chemical Sciences in Society Series.) Philadelphia, PA. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. Rev. by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent |
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From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry. Dynamics of Matter and Dynamics of Disciplines 1800-1950. By Mary Jo Nye. Berkeley, CA. University of California Press, 1993. Rev. by Martin D. Saltzman |
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The Earth, Humanity and God. By Colin A. Russell. (The Templeton Lectures, Cambridge, 1993). London. UCL Press, 1994. Rev. by Ben Mepham |
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Fritz Haber. Chemiker, Nobelpreisträger, Deutscher, Jude. Eine Biographie. By Dietrich Stoltzenberg. Weinheim. VCH, 1994. Rev. by Peter Alter |
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Opting for Oil: The Political Economy of Technological Change in the West German Chemical Industry, 1945-1961. By Raymond G. Stokes. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Rev. by Jeffery A. Johnson |
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No. 2 July 1995 |
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The Mysticism and Science of Johann Baptista van Helmont (1579-1644). By Berthold Heinecke |
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E. F. Geoffroys Table of Different Rapports Observed Between Different Chemical Substances A Reinterpretation. By Ursula Klein |
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Lavoisier, the Two French Revolutions and the Imperial Despotism of Oxygen. By Maurice Crosland |
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The New (So-Called) Magdeburg Experiments of Otto von Guericke. Translated and edited by Margaret Glover Foley Ames. Dordrecht. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994. Rev. by Stephen Pumfrey |
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The Royal Society and its Fellows 1660-1700: The Morphology of an Early Scientific Institution. By Michael Hunter. Stanford in the Vale, Faringdon, Oxon. British Society for the History of Science, 1994. Rev. by Alan B.H. Taylor |
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Verbindung und Affinität. Die Grundlegung der neuzeitlichen Chemie an der Wende vom 17. zum 18. Jahrhundert. By Ursula Klein. Berlin. Berkhäuser Verlag, 1994. Rev. by Togo Tsukahara |
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Antoine Lavoisier: Science, Administration and Revolution. By Arthur Donovan. (Blackwell Scientific Biographies). Oxford. Blackwell, 1993. Rev. by Frank Greenaway |
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Justus von Liebig und Hermann Kolbe in ihren Briefen, 1846-1873. Edited by Alan J. Rocke and Emil Heuser. Mannheim. Bionomica Verlag, 1994. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Chemists and Chemistry in Nature and Society, 1770-1878. By Trevor H. Levere. Aldershot, Hants. Variorum (Ashgate Publishing Limited), 1994. Rev. by K.D. Watson |
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Geschiedenis van de Techniek in Nederland. De wording van een moderne samenleving 1800-1890. Edited by H.W. Linsten et al. (Delfstoffen, machine-en scheepsbouw, stoom, chemie, telegrafie en telefonie, vol. 4). Zutphen. Stichting Historie der Techniek, Walburg Pers, 1993. Rev. by Willem Hackmann |
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American Chemists and Chemical Engineers, volume 2. Edited by Wyndham D. Miles and Robert F. Gould. Guildford, CT. Gould Books, 1994. Rev. by George B. Kauffman |
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No. 3 November 1995 |
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Nikolai Zinin at Kazan University. By Nathan M. Brooks |
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The Chemist as Expert: The Consulting Career of Sir William Ramsay. By Katherine D. Watson |
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Some Aspects of the Work of Arthur Lapworth. By K. Schofield |
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The Business of Alchemy. Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire. By Pamela H. Smith. Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press, 1994. Rev. by Mikulá Teich |
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Alchemy and Chemistry in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Edited by Pio Rattansi and Antonio Clericuzio. Dordrecht. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994. Rev. by Marianne Winder |
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Water Which Does Not Wet Hands. The Alchemy of Michael Sendivogius. By Zbigniew Szydlo. Warsaw. Polish Academy of Sciences, 1994. Rev. by Lawrence M. Principe |
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The Mirror of Alchemy. Alchemical Ideas and Images in Manuscripts and Books from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century. By Gareth Roberts. London. The British Library, 1994. Rev. by Allen G. Debus |
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The Atlantic Vision. Olaus Rudbeck and Baroque Science. By Gunnar Eriksson. Canton, MA. Science History Publications, 1994. Rev. by David Knight |
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In the Shadow of Lavoisier; the Annales de Chimie and the Establishment of a New Science. By Maurice Crosland. Stanford in the Vale, Faringdon, Oxon, 1994. Rev. by Jack Meadows |
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The Quiet Revolution. Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemistry. By Alan J. Rocke. Berkeley, CA. University of California Press, 1993. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Constructing Symbolic Spaces: Chemical Molecules in the Académie des Sciences. By Mi Gyung Kim |
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Colloids and Quantification: The Ultracentrifuge and its Transformation of Colloid Chemistry. By Andrew Ede |
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Chemical Librarianship: A Kind of Womens Work in America. By Margaret Rossiter |
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Essay Review: A Social History of Truth. Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England. By Stephen Shapin. Chicago. University of Chicago Press, 1994. Rev. by P. Laszlo |
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Protein and Energy. A Study of Changing Ideas in Nutrition. By Kenneth J. Carpenter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Rev. by H. Kamminga |
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Berthold Schwarz. Chemie und Waffentechnik im 15.Jahrhundert. By Gerald W. Kramer. Munich. Deutsches Museum, 1995. Rev. by R.W. Soukup |
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Changing Tools. Case Studies in the History of Scientific Methodology. By Márta Fehér. Budapest. Akadémiai Kiadó, 1995. Rev. by D.M. Knight |
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Access to Western Esotericism. By Antoine Faivre. Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press, 1994. Rev. by N. Goodrick-Clarke |
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No. 2 July 1996 |
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Paracelsus, Religion and Dissent: The Case of Philipp Homagius and Georg Zimmermann. By Bruce T. Moran |
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The Influence of the Central Nitre Theory of Michael Sendivogius on the Chemical Philosophy of the Seventeenth Century. By Zbigniew Szydlo |
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Essay Review: The Jewish Alchemists, A History and Source Book. By Raphael Patai. Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press, 1994. Rev. by P.M. Rattansi |
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The Diffident Naturalist. Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment. By Rose-Mary Sargent. Chicago. University of Chicago Press, 1995. Rev. by M.B. Hall |
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Historia de las Cátedras de Quimica y Mineralogia de Bergara a finales del siglo XVIII. By Inés Pellón and Ramon Gago. Bergara. Berarako Udala, 1994. Rev. by Amorim Costa |
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Bibliotheca Lavoiseriana. The Catalogue of the Library of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. By Marco Beretta. Firenze. Leo S. Olschki, 1995. Rev by W.A. Smeaton |
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A Scientific Correspondence during the Chemical Revolution. Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau and Richard Kirwan, 1782-1802. Ed. by Emmanuel Grison, Michelle Goupil and Patrice Bret. Berkeley, CA. Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1994. Rev. by F. Greenaway |
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Libres Propos sur lhistoire des sciences. By François Russo. Paris. Bibliothèque Scientifique Albert Blanchard, 1995. Rev. by M. Crosland |
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The Rise of Early Modern Science. Islam, China and the West. By Toby E. Huff. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Rev. by A.G. Keller |
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Weighing Imponderables and Other Quantitative Science around 1800. By J.L. Heilbron. Berkeley, CA. Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. Supplement to vol. 24, Part 1, 1993. Rev. by C. Smith |
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Paradigmenwechsel und Generationenkonflikt. Eine Fallstudie zur Struktur wissenschaftlicher Revolutionen: die revolution der Chemie des späten 18.Jahrhundert. By Hans-Georg Schneider. Frankfurt. Peter Lang, 1992. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Acquired Taste. The French Origins of Modern Cooking. By T. Sarah Peterson. Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press, 1994. Rev. by M.J. Freeman |
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Coordination Chemistry. A Century of Progress. Ed. by George B. Kauffman. Washington DC. American Chemical Society, 1994. Rev. by J. Burgess |
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Drugs and Narcotics in History. Ed. by Roy Porter and Mikulas Teich. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1995. Rev. by M.P. Earles |
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Optics in the Age of Euler. Conceptions of the Nature of Light, 1700-1795. By Caspar Hakfoort. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1995. Rev. by M.A. Sutton |
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Robert Boyle by Himself and his Friends, with a fragment of William Wottons lost Life of Boyle. Ed. with an intro by Michael Hunter. London. William Pickering, 1994. Rev. by D. Thorburn Burns |
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Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation. Studies in Intellectual Communication. Ed. by Mark Greengrass, Michael Leslie and Timothy Raylor. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Rev. by G. Rees |
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Studia Arnaldiana, Trabajos en torno a la obra médica de Arnau de Vilanova. By Juan A. Paniagua. Barcelona. Fundación Uriach 1838, 1995. Rev. by David Gentilcore |
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Adam Haslmayr. Der erste Verkünder der Manifeste der Rosenkreuzer. By Carlos Gilly. Pimander: Texts and Studies published by the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, 5. Amsterdam. In de Pelikaan, 1994. Cimelia Rhodostaurotica. Die Rosenkreuzer im Spiegel der zwischen 1610 und 1660 entstandenen Handschriften und Drucke. Ed. by Carlos Gilly. Austellung der Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica Amsterdam und der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. Amsterdam. In de Pelikaan, 1995. Rev. by H. Hotson |
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Education, Technology and Industrial Performance in Europe, 1850-1939. Ed. by Robert Fox and Anna Guagnini. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press/ Editions de la Maison des Sciences de lHomme, 1995. Rev. by G.K. Roberts |
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The Eternal Hermes. From Greek God to Alchemical Magus. By Antoine Faivre. Grand Rapids, MI. Phanes Press, 1995. Rev. by N. Goodrick-Clarke |
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Die Gerätschaft der chymischen Kunst. Der Traktat "Die Sceuastica Artis" des Andreas Libavius von 1606. By Bettina Meitzner. Stuttgart. Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995. Rev. by R.W. Soukup |
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Gehennical Fire. The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution. By William R. Newman. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press, 1994. Rev. by A. Clericuzio |
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Martin Heinrich Klaproth. Vorlesungen über die Experimental-Chemie (1789). Ed. by Rudiger Stoltz, Peter Lange and Rita Schwertner. Berlin. Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte, Dr Michael Engel, 1993. Martin Heinrich Klaproth. Chemie nach der Abschrift von Arthur Schopenhauer (1811/12). Ed. by Brita Engel. Berlin. Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte, Dr Michael Engel, 1993. Martin Heinrich Klaproth. Chemie nach der Abschrift von Stephan Friedrich Barez (1807/08). Ed. by Brita Engel. Berlin. Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte, Dr Michael Engel, 1994. Von der Phlogistik zür modernen Chemie. Symposium aus Anlass des 250. Geburtstages von Martin Heinrich Klaproth. Berlin. Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte, Dr Michael Engel, 1994. Rev. by W.A. Campbell |
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Lavoisier in European Context. Negotiating a New Language for Chemistry. Ed. by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Ferdinando Abbri. Canton, MA. Science History Publications, 1995. Rev. by W.A. Smeaton |
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Lettere a Stanislao Cannizzaro 1868-1872. Ed. by Leonello Paoloni. Seminario di Storia della Scienza, Quaderni N.4. Palermo. Facultà di Scienza, Università di Palermo, 1994. Rev. by C. Kounelis |
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Thinking about Matter. Studies in the History of Chemical Philosophy. By John Hedley Brooke. Aldershot. Variorum, 1995. Rev. by M.G. Kim |
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Historic Scientific Instruments in Denmark. By Hemming Andersen. Copenhagen. The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1995. Rev. by R. Anderson |
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Cultures of Natural History. Ed. by N. Jardine, J.A. Secord and E.C. Spary. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Rev. by D.M. Knight |
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The Science and Culture of Nutrition, 1840-1940. Ed. by Harmke Kamminga and Andrew Cunningham. Amsterdam. Clio Medica, Rodopi, 1995. Rev. by J. OHara-May |
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Adventures of a Chemist Collector. By Alfred Bader. London. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995. Rev. by K. Schofield |
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No. 3 November 1996 |
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Joseph Priestleys American Defense of Phlogiston Reconsidered. By Michael F. Conlin |
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William Odling: Interpreter and Liaison-Officer Advocate of a New System of Chemistry. By Susie Fisher |
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Studies in the History of Animal Chemistry and its Relation to Physiology. By Noel G. Coley |
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Note: An Error in Dating. By Michael Stanley |
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To See the Obvious. By Arthur J. Birch. Profiles, Pathways and Dreams Series. Washington DC. The American Chemical Society, 1995. Rev. by I.D. Rae |
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The Development of Plastics. Ed. by S.T.I. Mossman and P.J.T. Morris. Cambridge. Royal Society of Chemistry, 1994. Rev. by T. Macnamara |
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Quest-ce que lAlchimie? By Pierre Laszlo. Paris. Hachette, 1996. Rev. by A.G. Debus |
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Public Lectures in Chemistry in Russia, 1750-1860 by Nathan M Brooks |
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The Introduction of Aniline Dyes to Paper Printing and Queen Victorias Postage Stamps by Tony Travis and Carsten Reinhardt |
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The Chemical Philosophy of Theodore W. Richards by Hannah Gay |
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In Appreciation: Trevor I. Williams (1921-1996); Margaret Mary Haslam (1898-1995) |
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Aus dem Leben des Chemikers Julius Lothar Meyer. By Günther Schwanicke. (Vareler Heimathefte 8). Varel. Heimatverein Varel eV, 1995. Rev. by P. Munday |
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Die Schöpfung im Reagenzglas. Eine Geschichte der Basler Chemie (1850-1920). By Tobias Straumann. Basel. Helbing & Lichtenbahn Verlag, 1995. Rev. by W. Wetzel |
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Istoriià Otkritiià Elementov Metodami Spektralnogo Analiza (The History of Chemical Elements Discovered by the Method of Spectral Analysis). By Vadim Petrovich Melnikov. Moscow. Nauka, 1995. Rev. by G.B. Kaufmann |
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Chemical Kinetics and Chain Reactions: Historical Aspects. By V. A. Kritsman, G. E. Zaikov and N. M. Emanuel. Commack, NY. Nova Science Publishers, 1994. Rev. by G.B. Kaufmann |
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The Chemistry of the Atmosphere Oxidants and Oxidation in the Earths Atmosphere. 7th BOC Priestley Conference. Ed. by A. R. Bandy. Cambridge. Royal Society of Chemistry, 1995. Rev. by J. Hudson |
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Fifty Years of Free Radicals. By Chevres Walling. Washington DC. American Chemical Society, 1995. Rev. by C.A. Russell |
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Science for All. Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. By William H Brock. Aldershot, Hants. VARIORUM, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1996. Rev. by J.B. Morrell |
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Latomo fantasma. Genesi storici dellipotesi di Avogadro. By Marco Ciardi. Firenze. Olschki, 1995. Rev. by L. Cerruti |
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Linus Pauling. A Life in Science and Politics. By Ted Goertzel and Ben Goertzel. New York, NY. Basic Books, 1995. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Appunti SullIndustria Chimici Dai Viaggi in Inghilterra del 1851 e del 1862. By Raffaele Piria and Ed. by Leonello Paoloni. Seminario di Storia della Scienza, Quaderno N.6. Palermo. Facoltà di Scienze, Università di Palermo, 1995. Rev. by N.G. Coley |
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Paracelso e la tradizone paracelsiana. By Allen G. Debus. Naples. La Citta del Sole, 1996. Rev. by D. Gentilcore |
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Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy. Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain. By Michael Hunter. Woodbridge, Suffolk. Boydell and Brewer, 1995. Rev. by S. Pumfrey |
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André-Marie Ampère. Enlightenment and Electrodynamics. By James R. Hofmann. Cambridge Science Biography Series. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Rev. by C.L. Dowland-Pillinger |
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Telling Lives in Science. Essays on Scientific Biography. Ed. by Michael Shortland and Richard Yeo. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Rev. by M.A. Sutton |
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No. 2 July 1997 |
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Studies on the Chemistry of Atmospheric Deposition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by Fabio Decet and Rosario Mosello |
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Before and after the Bomb Some Literary Speculations on the use of the Atomic Bomb by Robert Ward |
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Essay Review: Edward Frankland. Chemistry, Controversy and Conspiracy in Victorian England. By Colin A. Russell. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Rev. by J.H. Brooke |
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Alchemical Poetry 1575-1700. From Previously Unpublished Manuscripts. Ed. by Robert M. Schuler. New York, NY. Garland Publishing Inc, 1995. Rev. by G. Rees |
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Stanislao Cannizzaro. Scritti di Storia Politica e Chimica. Correspondenza Varia. Ed. by Leonello Paoloni. Seminario di Storia della Scienza, Quaderno N. 5. Palermo. Facoltà di Scienze, Università di Palermo, 1995. Rev. by C. Kounelis |
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Enough for One Lifetime. Wallace Carrothers, Inventor of Nylon. By Matthew E. Hermes. History of Modern Chemical Sciences Series. Washington D C. American Chemical Society and the Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1996. Rev. by J. Hudson |
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Bibliography on the History of Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century. Ed. by Valentein Wehefritz and Zoltan Kobats. Munich. K. G. Saur, 1994. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Darke Hierogliphicks. Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration. By Stanton J. Linden. Lexington, KY. The University Press of Kentucky, 1996. Rev. by G. Rees |
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A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature. By Robert Boyle. Ed. by Edward B. Davis and Michael Hunter. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Rev. by D.M. Knight |
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Grounds of Natural Philosophy. By Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. Facsimile of 1668 Edition with Introduction by Colette V. Michael. West Cornwall, CT. Locust Hill Press, 1996. Rev. by M. Hunter |
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LEtonnant Parcours du Républicain J. H. Hassenfratz (1755-1827). By Emmanuel Grison. Paris. Les Presses de lEcole des Mines, 1996. Rev. by M. Crosland |
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Law and Order in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry. By Alistair Duncan. Oxford. Clarendon Press, 1996. Rev. by U. Klein |
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The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Volume 3, 1841-1848. Ed. by Frank A.J.L. James. London, Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1996. Rev. by B. Gee |
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Dire les Choses: Auguste Laurent et la méthode chimique. By Marika Blondel-Megrelis. Paris. Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin and Lyon. Institut Interdisciplinaire dEtudes Epistémologiques, 1996. Rev. by D.M. Knight |
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Demonstrar ou Manipular? O Laboratório de Quimica Mineral da Escola Politénica de Lisboa (1884-1894). Demonstrate or Manipulate? The Mineral Chemistry Laboratory of the Polytechnic School of Lisbon (1884-1894). Ed. by Ana Luísa Janeira, Maria Elisa Maia and Pilar Pereira. Lisbon. Livraria Escolar Editora, 1996. Rev. by A. da Costa |
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Dr Becker in geheimer Mission an Queen Victoria Hof 1850 bis 1861. By Charlotte Pangels. Hamburg. Jahn & Ernst Verlag, 1996. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Episodes from the History of the Rare Earth Elements. Ed. by C.H. Evans. Dordrecht. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996. Rev. by S.F. Mason |
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Chemical Curiosities. By H.W. Roesky and K. Möckel. Weinheim. VCH, 1996. Rev. by A. Hubbard |
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Berthollets Conception of Chemical Change in Context by Pere Grapí and Mercè Izquierdo |
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Spectrum Analysis: The Priority Claims of Stokes and Kirchhoff by Ian D. Rae |
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Essay Review: "Just one word..." ... The Historiography of Plastics. Early Plastics. Perspectives 1850-1950. Ed. by Susan Mossman. London. Leicester University Press/Science Museum, 1997; American Plastic: A Cultural History. By Jeffrey I. Meikle. New Brunswick, NJ. Rutgers University Press, 1995; From Small Organic Molecules to Large. A Century of Progress. By Herman F. Mark. Profiles, Pathways and Dreams Series. Washington DC. American Chemical Society, 1993. Rev. by P.J.T. Morris |
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Renaissance and Revolution. Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe. Ed. by J.V. Field and Frank A.J.L. James. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1994 (pbk 1997). Rev. by A.G. Keller |
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Pharmazie und Pharmaziestudium an der Universität Gießen. By Christine Billig. Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Pharmazie, Band 67. Stuttgart. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1994. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Fritz Haber. Briefe an Richard Willstätter 1910-1934. Ed. by Petra Werner and Angelika Irmscher. Studien und Quellen zur Geschichte der Chemie, Band 6. Berlin. Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte Dr. Michael Engel, 1995. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Das Rätselkabinett des Doktor Krätz. Weinheim. VCH, 1996. Rev. by G.B. Kaufmann |
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The Alchemical Body. Siddha Traditions in Medieval India. By David Gordon White. Chicago, IL. University of Chicago Press, 1996. Rev. by M. Winder |
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Alector ou le coq. Histoire fabuleuse. By Barthélemy Aneau. Ed. by Marie-Madeleine Fontaine. Geneva. Droz, Textes Littéraires français, 1996. Rev. by A. Saunders |
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The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler. Translated into English with Introduction and Notes by E.J. Aiton (=), A.M. Duncan and J.V. Field. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 209. Philadelphia, PA. American Philosophical Society, 1997. Rev. by A.J. Meadows |
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Gunpowder. The History of an International Technology. Ed. by Brenda J. Buchanan. Bath. Bath University Press, 1996. Rev. by M. Palmer |
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Instrumenti di Chimica. Un Laboratorio del XIX Secolo. By Gabriella Rambaldi. Genoa. Pirella Editore, 1996. Rev. by R. Anderson |
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Ideen und Naturwissenschaft. Wechselwirkungen zwischen Chemie und Philosophie am Beispiel des Justus von Liebig und Moriz Carrière. By Brigette Jaschke. Stuttgart. Chemisches Institut der Universität Stuttgart, 1996. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Science, Vine and Wine in Modern France. By Harry W. Paul. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1997. Rev. by R.G. Anderson |
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Wilhelm Ostwald und Walter Nernst in ihren Briefen sowie in denen einiger Zeitgenossen. Ed. by Regine Zott. Berlin. Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte Dr. Michael Engel, 1995. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Sir Christopher Ingold. A Major Prophet of Organic Chemistry. By Kenneth T. Leffek. Victoria, BC. Nova Lion Press, 1996. Rev. by C.A. Russell |
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Stalins Captive. Nikolaus Riehl and the Soviet Race for the Bomb. By Nikolaus Riehl and Frederick Seitz. History of Modern Chemical Sciences Series. Washington DC. American Chemical Society and Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1996. Rev. by A.G. Keller |
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Chemistry and the Chemical Industry in the Nineteenth Century. By Wilfred Farrar. Ed. by Richard L. Hills and W.H. Brock. Aldershot, Hants. VARIORUM, 1997. Rev. by J.B. Morrell |
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Uncertain Knowledge. Towards an image of science for the 21st century. By R.G.A. Dolby. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Rev. by N.P. Edwards |
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The Chemical Revolution and Pharmacy: A Disciplinary Perspective by Jonathan Simon |
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Pythagorean Theory and Dionysian Practice: The Cultic and Practical Background to Chemical Experimentation in Hellenistic Egypt by C. Anne Wilson |
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Correction by Marianne Winder |
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The History of the Faraday Society. By Leslie Sutton and Mansel Davies. Rev. by M. Sutton |
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The Hermetic Museum: Alchemy and Mysticism. By Alexander Roob. Rev. by N.G. Coley |
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Bayerische Messing. Franz Matthias Ellmayrs "Mössing-Werkh AO, 1780". By Claus Priesner. Rev. by P. De Clercq |
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Préhistorie & Histoire de la Thermodynamique Classique (Une historie de la chaleur). By Robert Locqueneux. Rev. by Hasok Chang |
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Scientists since 1660. A Bibliography of Biographies. By Leslie Howsam. Rev. by D.M. Knight |
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August Friedrich Horstmann und die physikalische Chemie. By Alexander Kipnis. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Chemie in Österreich. Wurzeln und Entwicklung 100 Jahre Gesellschaft Österreichischer Chemiker 1897-1997. Edited by Peter Markl. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Old Wine, New Flasks: Reflections on Science and Jewish Tradition. By Roald Hoffmann and Shira Leibowitz Schmidt. Rev. by A.S. Travis |
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Oeuvres de Lavoisier. Correspondence. Volume VI, 1789-1791. Edited by Patrice Bret. Rev. by W.A. Smeaton |
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Nationalismus und Internationale Zusammenarbeit in den Naturwissenschaften. Die Deutsche-Französischen Wissenschaftsbeziehungen zwischen Revolution und Restauration, 1789-1832. By Kai Torsten Kanz. Rev. by Maurice Crosland |
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Science, Culture and Politics in Britain, 1750-1870. By Jack Morrell. Rev. by John Hedley Brooke |
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No. 2 July 1998 |
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Mendeleev: Beyond the Periodic Table. Editorial Introduction by Nathan M. Brooks |
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D. I. Mendeleev and Siberia by Beverly S. Almgren |
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Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev and the Emergence of the Modern Russian Petroleum Industry, 1863-1877 by Francis Michael Stackenwalt |
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Mendeleevs Public Opposition to Spiritualism by Richard E. Rice |
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Making Newtons: Mendeleev, Metrology, and the Chemical Ether by Michael D. Gordin |
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Mendeleev and Metrology by Nathan M. Brooks |
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The Bible, Protestantism and the Rise of Natural Science. By Peter Harrison. Rev. by Stephen D. Snobelen |
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Antoine Lavoisier the Next Crucial year or the Sources of his Quantitative Method in Chemistry. By Frederic Lawrence Holmes. Rev. by A.M. Duncan |
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Die Waage des Chemikers. The Chemists Balance. By Hans R. Jenemann. Rev. by P. Buchanan |
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Arthur Rudolf Hantsch im Briefwechsel mit Wilhelm Ostwald. Edited by Joachim Stocklöv. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Science at Oxford 1914-1939: Transforming an Arts University. By Jack Morrell. Rev. by P.M. Laws |
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No. 3 November 1998 |
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Blowpipes and Batteries: Humphry Davy, Edward Daniel Clark, and Experimental Chemistry in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain by Brian P. Dolan |
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Ars Sine Arte: Nicholas Lemery and the End of Alchemy in Eighteenth-Century France by John C. Powers |
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Justus von Liebig: The Chemical Gatekeeper. By William H. Brock. Rev. by C.A. Russell |
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LArte de Sole e della Luna. Alchimia e Filosofia nel Medioevo. By Chiara Crisciani and Michela Pereira. Rev. by Antonio Clericuzio |
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The Aspiring Adept. Robert Boyle and his Chemical Quest. By Lawrence Principe. Rev. by Malcolm Oster |
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Archives of the Scientific Revolution. Edited by Michael Hunter. Rev. by Malcolm Oster |
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Operative Chymist [Thomas Morson]. By Anthony Morson. Rev. by M.P. Earles |
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Lavoisier et lEncyclopédie Méthodique: le Manuscrit des Régisseurs des Poudres et Salpêtre Pour le Dictionnaire de lArtillerie. By Patrice Bret. Rev. by Maurice Crosland |
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Justus Liebig: Eine Biographie. By Wilhelm Strube with Helga Strube. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Chemie in der Schweiz. Geschichte der Forschung und der Industrie. Edited by Thomas Busset, Andrea Rosenbusch and Christian Simon. Rev. by Carsten Reinhardt |
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Eloge du Mixte. Matériaux Nouvaux et Philosophie Ancienne. By Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent. Rev. by Norma Emerton |
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J. J. Thomson and the Discovery of the Electron. By E.A. Davis and J.J. Falconer. Rev. by Michael A. Sutton |
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The Rise of Analytical Chemistry and its Consequences for the Development of the German Chemical Profession (1780-1860) by Ernst Homburg |
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Protein Chemists Bypass the Colloid/Macromolecule Debate by Charles Tanford and Jacqueline Reynolds |
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J.J. Thomson and the Discovery of the Electron. By A.A. Davies and I.J. Falconer. Rev. by Michael Sutton |
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Electron: A Centenary Volume. Ed. by Michael Springford. Rev Isobel Falconer |
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The Diaries of John Dee. Ed. by Edward Fenton. Rev. by John Henry |
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Lavoisier: Chemist, Biologist, Economist. By Jean-Pierre Poirer; and Lavoisier: la rivoluzione chimica. By Marco Beretta. Rev. by Noel Coley |
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Selected Scientific Works of Hans Christian Ørsted. Ed. And tr. By Karen Jelved, Andrew D. Jackson and Ole Knudsen. Rev. by David Knight |
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Coleridge: Darker Reflections. By Richard Holmes. Rev. by David Knight |
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Women in Chemistry. Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-twentieth Century. By Marlene and Geoffrey Rayner-Canham. Rev. by Katherine D. Watson |
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The Making of the Chemist: The Social History of Chemistry in Europe 1789-1914. Ed. By David Knight and Helge Kragh. Rev. by A.J. Rocke |
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Inventing Polymer Science. Staudinger, Carothers and the Emergence of Macromolecular Chemistry. By Yasu Furukawa. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Private Science, Biotechnology and the Rise of the Molecular Sciences. Ed. by Arnold Thackray. Rev. by Sally M. Horrocks |
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No. 2 July 1999 |
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John Dastins Alchemical Vision by Wilfred Theisen |
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Phoebus Levene and the Tetranucleotide Structure of Nucleic Acids by Graeme K. Hunter |
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Before Big Science. The Pursuit of Modern Chemistry and Physics 1800-1940. By Mary Jo Nye. Rev. by Kostas Gavroglu |
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Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749-1827. A Life in Exact Science. By Charles Coulston Gillispie with the collaboration of Robert Fox and Ivor Grattan-Guiness. Rev. by Frank A.J.L. James |
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Alchemistisches Gold, Paracelsistische Pharmaka. Laboratoriumstechnik im 16.Jahrhundert. Chemiegeschichte und Archaometrische Untersuchungen am Inventar des Laboratoriums von Oberstockstall/Kirchberg am Wagram. By Rudolf Werner Soukup and Helmut Mayer. Rev. by Lawrence M. Principe |
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The Chemical Industry in Europe, 1850-1914: Industrial Growth, Pollution and Professionalization. Ed. by Ernst Homburg, Anthony S. Travis and Harm G. Schrotter. Rev. by Sally M. Horrocks |
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Science in the Romantic Era. By David M. Knight. Rev. by Frank A.J.L. James |
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The Cosmogenic Experiments of Robert Fludd: A Translation with Introduction and Commentary by D. Graham Burnett |
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Note on the Date of the Publication of the English Translation of Lavoisiers Traité Élémentaire de Chymie by John D. Baird |
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Journals and History of Science. Ed. by Marco Beretta, Claudio Pogliano and Pietro Redondi. Rev. by W. H. Brock |
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The Science of Energy. A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain. By Crosbie Smith. Rev. by Hasok Chang |
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Emblems and Alchemy. Ed. by Alison Adams and Stanton J. Linden. Rev. by Lawrence M. Principe |
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Reconstructing Nature: the Engagement of Science and Religion. By John Brooke and Geoffrey Cantor. Rev. by David Knight |
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Mateu Orfilas Elémens de Chimie Médicale and the Debate about Medical Applications of Chemistry in Early Nineteenth-Century France by José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez and Antonio García Belmar |
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Rychard Bostok of Tandridge, Surrey (c.1530-1605), M.P., Paracelsian Propagandist and Friend of John Dee by David Harley |
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Devitalising the Elements: Johann Friedrich John (1782-1847) and the Liberation of Phosphorus and Potassium from a Vital Force by Theodore L. Sourkes |
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Note on the Date of Publication of the English Translation of Lavoisiers Traité Elémentaire de Chymie by John D. Baird |
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Journals and History of Science. Ed. by Marco Beretta, Claudio Pogliano and Pietro Redondi. Biblioteca di Nucius Studi e Testi XXXII. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki. Rev. by W. H. Brock |
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The Science of Energy. A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain. By Crosbie Smith. London and Chicago: The Athlone Press and the University of Chicago Press, 1998. Rev. by Hasok Chang |
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Emblems and Alchemy. Ed. by Alison Adams and Stanton J. Linden. Glasgow Emblem Series, Department of French, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ. Rev by Lawrence M. Principe |
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Reconstructing Nature: the Engagement of Science and Religion. By John Brooke and Geoffrey Cantor. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1998. Rev. by David Knight |
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A History of the Society of Apothecaries. By Penelope Hunting. London: Society of Apothecaries, 1998. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Trimethius and Magical Theology: a Chapter in the Controversy over Occult Studies in Early Modern Europe. By Noel L. Brann. State University of New York Press, 1998. Rev. by P.J. Fitzpatrick |
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A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery. By Lyndy Abraham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Rev. by Sachiko Kusukawa |
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The Alchemy of Culture: Intoxicants in Society. By Richard Rudgley. London: British Museum Press, 1998. Rev. by Andreas-Holger Maehle |
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Chemischer Atomismus. Anwendung, Veränderung, Alternativen im deutsch-sprachigen Raum in der zweiten Hälfte des 19.Jahrhunderts. By Britta Görs. Berlin: ERS-Verlag, 1999. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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The Nasser D Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. Volume XII. Science, Tools and Magic. General Editor Julian Raby. Part One: Body and Spirit, Mapping the Universe. By Francis Maddison and Emilie Savage-Smith. Part Two: Mundane Worlds. By Emilie Savage-Smith with contributions from Francis Maddison, Ralph Pinder-Wilson and Tim Stanley. London: The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1997. Rev. by R.G.W. Anderson |
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A History of Science in the Netherlands: Surveys, Themes and Reference. Ed. by Klaas van Berkel, Albert van Helden and Lodewijk Palm. Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, 1999. Rev. by Trevor Levere |
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Natural Dyestuffs and Industrial Culture in Europe, 1750-1880. Ed. by Robert Fox and Agustí Nieto-Galan. Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 1999. Rev. by David Knight |
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Lessico Filosofico dei secoli XVII e XVIII Sezione Latina a cura di Marta Fattori. Vol 1, 4 artificiosus - bulla. Coordinamento Eugenio Canone Giacinta Spinosa. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1999. Rev. by P.J. Fitzpatrick |
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Determinants in the Evolution of the European Chemical Industry, 1900-1939: New Technologies, Political Frameworks, Markets and Companies. Ed. by A.S. Travis, H.G. Schrötter, E. Homburg and P.J.T. Morris. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. Rev. by Viviane Quirke |
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Science, Politics and Universities in Europe, 1600-1800. By John Gascoigne. Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 1998. Rev. by Jack Morrell |
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The Life and Times of Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, Gentleman, Scientist and Inventor, 1793-1895. By Dale H. Porter. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, Associated University Presses. Rev. by Ben Marsden |
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Le cas Spencer: religion, science et politique. By Daniel Becquemont and Laurent Mucchielli. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1998. Rev. by Hannah Gay |
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No. 2 July 2000 |
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A.W. Hauchs Role in the Introduction of Antiphlogistic Chemistry into Denmark by Anja Skaar Jacobsen |
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Justus von Liebig and his Influence on Clinical Chemistry by Johannes Büttner |
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I wish Id made you angry earlier: essays on science, scientists and humanity. By Max Perutz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Rev. by David Knight |
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No. 3 November 2000 |
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Ernst Dieffenbachs Comments on the State of Chemistry in Britain in 1846 by W.H. Brock |
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Pillars of the College: Assistants at the Royal College of Chemistry, 1846-1871 by Hannah Gay |
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The Death of Vitalism and the Birth of Organic Chemistry: Wöhlers Urea Synthesis and the Disciplinary Identity of Organic Chemistry by Peter Ramberg |
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Joseph Needhams Science and Civilisation in China, volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, part XIII, Mining. By Peter J. Golas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Rev. by Hugh S. Torrens |
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Faith, Medical Alchemy and Natural Philosophy: Johan Moriaen, Reformed Intelligencer and the Hartlib Circle. By J.T. Young. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. Rev. by Sachiko Kusukawa |
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The Great Exhibition. By John R. Davis. Stroud, Glos: Sutton Publishing, 1999. Rev. by Elsbeth Heaman |
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A Chemical History Tour. Picturing Chemistry from Alchemy to Modern Molecular Science. By Arthur Greenberg. New York: Wiley Interscience, 2000. Rev. by Pierre Laszlo |
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John Dees Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy and the End of Nature. By Deborah E. Harkness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Rev. by John Henry |
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Luigi Galvani International Workshop: Proceedings. Ed. by Marco Bresadola and Giuliano Pancaldi. Bologna Studies in History of Science, Vol. 7: Dipartimento di Filosophia, Universita di Bologna, 1999. Rev. by David Knight |
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Disziplin, Profession und Nation: Die Ideologie der Chemie in Frankreich vom Zweiten Kaiserreich bis in die Zwischenkriegzeit. By Ulrike Fell. Deutsch-Französische Kulturbibliothek, Vol. 14. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2000. Rev. by A.J. Rocke |
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China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge. Ed. by Timothy Brook and Gregory Blue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Rev. by Keith Pratt |
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The Culture of English Geology, 1815-1851: A Science Revealed through its Collecting. By Simon J. Knell. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. Rev. by Jack Morrell |
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Scientist, Soldier, Statesman, Spy. Count Rumford. The Extraordinary Life of a Scientific Genius. By G.I. Brown. Sutton Publishing Ltd.: Phoenix Mill, Thrupp etc. 1999. Rev. by Anna Märker |
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Michael Sendivogius on Nitre and the Preparation of the Philosophers' Stone by Paulo Alves Porto |
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Amedeo Avogadro's Concept of the Atom: Some New Remarks by Marco Ciardi |
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The Constant Battery and the Daniell-Becquerel-Grove Controversy by Dawn Owen |
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Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context: The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675-1975. By Dwight Atkinson. Lawrence Erlbaum Asssociates: Mahwah, N.J. 1999. Rev. by Jack Meadows |
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La Découverte Scientifique. By Pierre Laszlo. Presses Universitaires de France: Paris. 1999. Rev. by Eric Francoeur |
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Geheimnisse der Alchemie. By Manuel Bachmann and Thomas Hofmeier. Schwabe & Co.: Basel. 1999. Rev. by Marianne Winder |
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Alchemie: Lexicon einer hermetische Wissenschaft. Ed. by Calus Priesner and Karin Figala. C.H. Beck: München. 1998. Rev. by Mike Walton |
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De tribus impostoribus. [By Johann Joachim Müller]. Ed. by Winfried Schröder. Fromann-Holzboog: Stuttgart-Bad. 1999. Rev. by Mike Walton |
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Medicine for the Soul. The Life, Death and Resurrection of an English Medieval Hospital. By Carole Rawcliffe. Sutton Publishing: Stroud, Gloucestershire. 1999. Rev. by Margaret Harvey |
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Science and Engineering in Ireland in 1798: A Time of Revolution. Edited by Patrick N. Wyse Jackson. Royal Irish Academy: Dublin. 2000. Rev. by David Knight |
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The Correspondence of Michael Faraday. Vol. 4: January 1849 - October 1855. Letters 2146-3032. Edited by Frank A.J.L. James. The Institution of Electrical Engineers: London. 1999. Rev. by Joost Mertens |
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Ludwig Boltzmann. The Man who Trusted Atoms. By Carlo Cercignani. Oxford University Press: Oxford. 1998. Rev. by W.H. Brock |
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Vital Forces: The Discovery of the Molecular Basis of Life. By Graeme K. Hunter. Academic Press: San Diego, New York. 2000. Rev. by Noel Coley |
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Techniek in Nederland in de Twintigste Eeuw. Vol. II: Delfstoffen, Energie, Chemie. Edited by J.W. Schot et. al. Walburg Pers: Zutphen (Neth.). 2000. Rev. by Jasper Faber |
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Research tussen Vetkool en Zoetstof. Zestig Jaar DSM Research 1940-2000. Edited by H. Lintsen, with contributions by T. van Helvoort, E. Homburg, E. van Royen, J. Schueler, F. Veraart and P. Vincken. Walburg Pers: Zutphen (Neth.). 2000. Rev. by H. Deelstra |
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No. 2 July 2001 |
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William Arthur Smeaton An Appreciation |
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Alchemical Reproduction and the Career of Anna Maria Zieglerin by Tara E. Nummedal |
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Marie Meurdrac: Paracelsian Chemist and Feminist by Lucia Tosi |
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Jesuits and Alchemy in the Early Seventeenth Century: Father Johannes Roberti and the Weapon-Salve Controversy by Carlos Ziller Camenietzki |
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The Making of a Calvinist Chemist: Herman Boerhaave, God, Fire and Truth by Rina Knoeff |
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The Order of Nature in Aristotle's Physics: Place and the Elements. By Helen S. Lang. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 1998. Rev. by Gregor Schiemann |
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A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery. By Lyndy Abraham. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 1998. Rev. by David Knight |
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Cavendish: The Experimental Life. By Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCorm-mach. Bucknell University Press: Cranbury NJ. 1999. Rev. by Ursula Klein |
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Young Humphry Davy: The Making of an Experimental Chemist. By June Z. Fullmer. American Philosophical Society: Philadelphia. 2000. Rev. by Julianne Tuttle |
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Communicating Chemistry. Textbooks and their Audiences, 1789-1939. Edited by Anders Lundgren and Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent. Science History Publications: Canton, MA. 2000. Rev. by W. H. Brock |
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La fine dei privilegi. Scienze fisiche, tecnologia e istituzioni scientifiche sabaude nel Risorgimento. (Biblioteca di Nuncius, Studi e Testi XXXIV). By Marco Ciardi. Leo S. Olschki: Firenze. 1999. Rev. by Luisa Dolza |
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De Natuur Voorbij: het begin van de productie van synthetische geneesmiddelen. By Thijs Jan Rinsema. The Author: Meppel. 2000. Rev. by Henk van den Belt |
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Wissenschaft in turbulenter Zeit: Erinnerungen eines Chemikers an die Technische Hochschule München 1933-1953. (Alorgismus: Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, 25). By Helmut Behrens. Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften: Munich. 1998. Rev. by Peter Morris |
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No. 3 November 2001 |
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Thomas Philipot and Chemical Theories of the Tides in Seventeenth-Century England by Anne Marie Roos |
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The 'Doctrine of Salts' and Rev. John Walker's Analysis of a Scottish Spa (1749-1761) by M. D. Eddy |
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Woodward, Robinson, and Strychnine: Chemical Structure and Chemists' Challenge by Leo B. Slater |
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Reviews of Books Transforming Matter: A History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball. By Trevor H. Levere. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, London. 2001. Rev. by Christoph Meinel |
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Sciences of the Earth: Studies in the History of Mineralogy and Geology. By David Oldroyd. Ashgate Variorum: Aldershot. 1998. Rev. by Gordon L. Herries Davies 192 George Ripley's Compound of Alchymy (1591). Edited by Stanton J. Linden. Ashgate: Aldershot, Hants. 2001. Rev. by Peter J. Forshaw |
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Alchemomedizinsche Briefe 1585 bis 1597. By Oswaldus Crollius; edited by Wilhelm Kühlmann and Joachim Telle. Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart. 1998. Rev. by Tara E. Nummedal |
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Das Problem der Autonomie der Naturwissenschaft bei Galilei. By Matthias Dorn. Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart. 2000. Rev. by Gerhard Wiesenfeldt |
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The Alchemy of Light. Geometry and Optics in Late Renaissance Alchemical Illustration. By Urszula Szulakowska. Brill: Leiden, Boston, Köln. 2000. Rev. by John Henry |
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Représentations scientifiques et images poétiques en Angleterre au XVIIe siècle. By Margaret Llasera. CNRS Editions: Paris. 1999. Rev. by Alison Shell |
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The Occult Laboratory: Magic, Science and Second Sight in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland. A New Edition of Robert Kirk's The Secret Commonwealth and Other Texts. Edited and introduced by Michael Hunter. The Boydell Press: Woodbridge. 2001. Rev. by R. I. McCallum |
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Robert Boyle (1627-91): Scrupulosity and Science. By Michael Hunter. The Boydell Press: Woodbridge. 2000. Rev. by Rina Knoeff |
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Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer: Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century. By J. R. Harris. Ashgate: Aldershot. 1998. Rev. by Serge Chassagne |
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Stoffwechsel im tierischen Organismus: Historische Studien zu Liebigs 'Thier-Chemie'. Edited by Johannes Büttner and Wilhelm Lewicki. HisChymia Buchverlag: Seesen. 2001. Rev. by W. H. Brock |
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Nationalizing Science: Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French Chemistry. By Alan J. Rocke. The MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.), London. 2001. Rev. by Maurice Crosland. |
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Bier, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft in Deutschland, 1800-1914. Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Industrialisierungsgeschichte. By Mikulás Teich. Böhlau Verlag: Wien, Köln, Weimar. 2000. Rev. by Ray Anderson |
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Chimie Nouvelle 17 (December 1999). Special Issue on the History of Chemistry in Belgium in the 20th Century. Edited by Hendrik Deelstra and Brigitte van Tiggelen. Société Royale de Chimie: Bruxelles. 1999. Rev. by Ulrike Fell |
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The Coming of Materials Science. By Robert W. Cahn. Pergamon: Amsterdam, London, New York. 2001. Rev. by Susan Mossman |
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Chemicals and Long Term Economic Growth. Edited by Ashish Arora, Ralph Landau, and Nathan Rosenberg. Wiley-Interscience, in conjunction with the Chemical Heritage Foundation: New York. 2001. Rev. by Arjan van Rooij |
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Pharmaceutical Innovation: Revolutionizing Human Health. Edited by Ralph Landau, Basil Achilladelis and Alexander Scriabine. Chemical Heritage Press: Philadelphia. 1999. Rev. by Florence Charue Duboc |
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Institute of Biology: The First Fifty Years. Edited by Brian J. Ford. Institute of Biology: London. 2000. Rev. by Patricia E. Faasse |
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Chemie achter de dijken. Uitvindingen en uitvinders in de eeuw na Van't Hoff. Edited by Herman van Bekkum and Jan Reedijk. Edita KNAW: Amsterdam. 2001. Rev. by Ernst Homburg |
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