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BOOK REVIEWS-ISIS, 80: 4: 304 (1989) 747

portant view of the interface of science and the reading public in the 1980s. Moreover, historians are served by the inclusion of works on history per se. An entire chapter (done by Robert A. Hatch) is devoted to the history of science, technology, and medicine, and more specialized historical works appear throughout the book. The en- tries on individual authors add the perspective of significant lives in science.

CLARK A. ELLIOTr

Ulrike Emrich; Michael Globig (Editors). Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck- Gesellschaft. (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Be- richte und Mitteilungen, 1/88.) 84 pp., illus., apps. Munich: Max-Planck-Gesell- schaft, 1988. (Paper.)

Marianne Reinold may now have to be added to the list of important people who have worked over the last seventy-eight years in Germany at what was originally the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and is now the Max Planck Society for the support of science. In February 1945, in spite of aerial bombing attacks that endangered their lives, Frau Reinold, a secretary for the society, and her colleagues shuttled boxes of society documents to safety. Writing later as to why she had bothered to save the old files, annual reports, and busts of Planck and Adolf von Harnack, she said that though the boss had said to save their own heads, "those heads needed help, too" (p. 20).

It is a pleasure to read in these pages of the work of Reinold and others to preserve the records of one of the world's great centers for science. Although the text ap- pears in the Max Planck Society's Berichte series-for the last decade a source of historical and contemporary information on the society's current institutes-this model history, inventory, and prospectus of the society's archive deserves a wide circula- tion. This guide makes it difficult to believe that the formal archive is little more than a decade old, credit to the organizational skills of Rolf Neuhaus and his successor as director, Eckart Henning.

Though for some older institutes the archive at present contains little more than official reports, it promises to be a source of fresh information for years to come. Many of the ever-growing holdings of personal papers must, by German law, be kept from public view for a number of years

after their acquisition: only in 1990 will Max von Laue's notes finally be released. Yet papers from the likes of Max Rubner and K. F. Bonhoeffer, the minutes of negotiations over institutes for fiber research and psychiatry, and mementos from a le- gion of Nobel laureates will make the future Max Planck Society known not just as one of the best patrons of science but as one of the best friends of history of science as well.

ERIC ELLIOTT

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Edmund F. Byrne; Joseph C. Pitt (Editors). Technological Transformation: Contextual and Conceptual Implications. (Papers pre- pared for a conference on Technology Transfer and the Third World: Issues in the History and Philosophy of Technology, 15-18 July 1987, Virginia Polytechnic Insti- tute and State University, Blacksburg, Vir- ginia.) (Philosophy and Technology, 5.) xi + 314 pp., figs., index. Dordrecht/Boston/ London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. Dfl 175, $89, ?58.

Intra-Cultural Transformation. J. Margolis, "The Technological Self'; T. Lai, "Cryptanalysis: Un- covering Objective Knowledge of Hidden Reali- ties"; P. T. Durbin, "Research and Development from the Viewpoint of Social Philosophy"; P. T. Shepard, "Impartiality and Interpretive Inter- vention in Technical Controversy"; J. A. Crane, "The Problem of Valuation in Risk-Cost-Benefit Assessment of Public Policies"; A. Nordmann, "Fusion and Fission, Governors and Elevators"; J. Klagge, "The Good Old Days: Age-Specific Perceptions of Progress"; A. Borgmann, "Tech- nology and the Crisis of Liberalism: Reflections on Michael J. Sandel's Work"; C. Christians, "A Theory of Normative Technology"; E. F. Byrne, "Globalization and Community: In Search of Transnational Justice."

Cross-Cultural Transformation. S. R. Carpen- ter, "What Technologies Transfer: The Contin- gent Nature of Cultural Responses"; B. Denou- den, "Transferred and Transformed Technology: The C.R.S. Thresher/Winnower"; R. Sviedrys, "A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Technology Transfer to the Third World"; L. Xue, "Appropriate Technology in Technology Transfer: A View from the People's Republic of China"; S. Muthuchidambaram, "Diffusion of Technology vis-a-vis Transformation: Increasing Contradictions between Technocratic Market Values and Social Democratic Values"; F. Rapp, "Cultural Alienation through Technology Trans- fer"; K. Shrader-Frechette, "Risk and Technol-



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ogy Transfer: Equal Protection across National Borders"; J. Agassi, "Technology Transfer to Poor Nations"; M. Bunge, "Development and the Environment."

A. Cadeddu; G. Nonnoi; C. Dess. Ques- tiones di storia del pensiero filosofico e scientifico. Introduction by Silvano Taglia- gambe. (Annali della Facoltac di Magistero dell'Universita' degli Studi di Cagliari, 28.) xvi + 160 pp. Cagliari: Istituto di Filosofia, 1987. (Paper.)

A. Cadeddu, "Pasteur e le origini dell'immuno- logia classica"; G. Nonnoi, "Galileo e la ques- tione del vuoto: Tra storia e storiografia"; C. Dess, "Un dibattito medico-filosofico su stre- goneria e possessione demoniaca: II caso Gau- fridy a Aix (161 1)."

Robert Darnton; Daniel Roche (Editors). Revolution in Print: The Press in France, 1775-1800. xv + 351 pp., illus. Berkeley/ Los Angeles/London: University of Cali- fornia Press, with the New York Public Li- brary, 1989. $50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Part I. Prerevolutionary Conditions. D. Roche, "Censorship and the Publishing Industry"; R. Darnton, "Philosophy under the Cloak"; R. Birn, "Malesherbes and the Call for a Free Press."

Part II. Revolution in the Printing Trades. C. Hesse, "Economic Upheavals in Publishing"; P. Casselle, "Printers and Municipal Politics"; P. Minard, "Agitation in the Work Force"; M. Vemus, "A Provincial Perspective."

Part ILL. The Products of the Press. J. D. Pop- kin, "Journals: The New Face of News"; A. de Baecque, "Pamphlets: Libel and Political My- thology"; J. Dhombres, "Books: Reshaping Science"; L. Andries, "Almanacs: Revolutioniz- ing a Traditional Genre"; R. Reichardt, "Prints: Images of the Bastille"; L. Mason, "Songs: Mix- ing Media"; J. Leith, "Ephemera: Civic Educa- tion through Images."

Manuel G. Doncel; Armin Hermann; Louis Michel; Abraham Pais (Editors). Symme- tries in Physics (1600-1980): Proceedings of the First International Meeting on the History of Scientific Ideas Held at Sant Fliu de Guixols, Catalonia, Spain: Sep- tember 20-26, 1983. xv + 678 pp., illus., figs., indexes. Barcelona: Seiminari d'His- toria de les Ciencies, Universitat Auto- noma de Barcelona, 1987.

J. J. Roche, "A Critical Study of Symmetry in Physics from Galileo to Newton"; D. Speiser, "The Principle of Relativity in Euler's Work"; A. Hermann, "Unity and Metamorphosis of

Forces (1800-1850): Schelling, Oersted and Far- aday"; K. Mainzer, "G. W. Leibniz: Principles of Symmetry and Conservation Law"; W. Kaiser, "Symmetries in Romantic Physics"; S. d'Agostino, "Symmetry in Ampere's Electro- dynamics"; E. Donini, "Einstein and a Realistic Conception of Light-Matter Symmetry, 1905- 1925"; H. A. Kastrup, "The Contribution of Emmy Noether, Felix Klein, and Sophus Lie to the Modern Concept of Symmetries in Physical Systems"; J. M. Sanchez-Ron, "The Role Played by Symmetries in the Introduction of Rel- ativity in Great Britain"; L. A. Radicati, "Re- marks on the Early Developments of the Notion of Symmetry Breaking"; S. Bergia, "Who Dis- covered the Bose-Einstein Statistics?" E. Amaldi, "The Fermi-Dirac Statistics and the Statistics of Nuclei"; B. R. Wheaton, "Symme- tries of Matter and Light: Early Reactions to the Lightquantum"; A. A. Miller, "Symmetry and Imagery in the Physics of Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg"; K. von Meyenn, "Pauli's Belief in Exact Symmetries"; A. Pais, "Conservation of Energy"; R. U. Sexl, "Symmetries in Cosmol- ogy"; L. Michel, "Charge Conjugation"; M. G. Doncel, "From Magnet Reversal to Time Rever- sal"; V. L. Telegdi, "Parity Violation"; V. L. Fitch, "A Personal View of the Discovery of CP Violation"; M. Gell-Mann, "Particle Theory from S-Matrix to Quarks"; Y. Ne'eman, "Ha- dron Symmetry, Classification and Composite- ness"; F. Giirsey, "Quaternionic and Octonionic Structures in Physics"; H. Fritzsch, "The Devel- opment of Quantum Chromodynamics"; E. P. Wigner, "Initial Conditions, Laws of Nature, Symmetries, and Their History in Physics."

S. J. Doorman (Editor). Images of Science: Scientific Practice and the Public. (Studies of Science in Europe.) xi + 237 pp., illus., index. Brookfield, Vt.: Gower, 1989. $56.95.

Part I: Images of Science and Forms of Rational- ity. G. H. von Wright, "Images of Science and Forms of Rationality."

Part II: Science as Seen by Scientists. T. Mayer-Kuckuk, "The Image of Physics: An In- sider's View"; R. J. Taylor, Comments; 0. H. Iversen, "Life Science: A Biological View- point"; J. M. Scott, Comments; H. Nowotny, "Heroism, Order and Collective Self-Under- standing: Images of the Social Sciences"; Y. L0chen, Comments; Dilemmas.

Part III: Science, Rationality and Relativism. G. Bohme, "What Science Is and What It Is Not"; J. Ben-David, "Rationality and Scientific Research in the Social Sciences"; R. Harre, Comments; Dilemmas.

Part IV: Images of Science and the Public. I. Jonsson, "Images of Science in Literature"; G. Krol, Comments; R. Silverstone, "Science and the Media: The Case of Television"; S. Dun- woody, Comments; Dilemmas.




S. Dunlop; M. Gerbaldi (Editors). Star- gazers: The Contribution of Amateurs to Astronomy: Proceedings of Colloquium 98 of the IAU, June 20-24, 1987. (Based on papers presented at Colloquium No. 98, "The Contribution of Amateurs to Astron- omy," sponsored by the International As- tronomical Union, 20-24 June 1987, Paris.) 237 pp., figs., tables. Berlin/Heidelberg/ New York: Springer-Verlag, 1988. $29.50 (paper).

Part I: Historical. J. Seidengart, "Amateur As- tronomy from Its Origins to Camille Flammar- ion"; J. Pernet, "Camille Flammarion (1842- 1925): Founder of the Societe Astronomique de France"; P. Couteau, "The Historical Contribu- tion of Amateurs to the Study of Double Stars"; A. J. Meadows, "Twentieth-Century Amateur Astronomy"; T. R. Williams, "Criteria for Iden- tifying an Astronomer as an Amateur"; C. Iwan- iszewska, "Johannes Hevelius: Polish Seven- teenth-Century Brewer and Astronomer"; A. Dollfus, "Eugene Antoniadi (1870-1944) and Planetary Observation"; N. Sperling, "Investi- gating Astronomy's History"; A. Dollfus, "Charles Boyer and the Rotation of Venus"; F. B. Wood, "The Amateur and Eclipsing Bi- nary Stars"; K. Turaj, "Amateur Astronomy in Poland: Past and Present"; G. Favero and S. Baroni, "Giovanni Battista Lacchini: An Ama- teur Astronomer from Italy"; E. J. Hysom, "The Instruments of H. E. Dall"; T. R. Williams, "Roberts of Lovedale and Eclipsing Binary Stars"; E. Ribes-Nesme and J. C. Ribes, "Sev- enteenth-Century Solar Observations: Funda- mental Results with Amateur Instruments"; A. Demerliac, "Sailors and Astronomy"; J. Barbier, "The Map of the Heavens at the Chateau de Saint-Jean-de-Chepy"; S. Dumont and S. Grillet, "Amateur Astronomy in France, 1789-1830: Two Examples"; F. Hourmat, "Some French Amateurs of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century"; A. Heurtel, M. Rougeot, and J. P. Parisot, "Comet Halley in 1910 in Franche- Comte; or, Collective Memory at Fault"; A. Ri- chardot, "A Renowned, yet Forgotten Astron- omer: Marcel de Kerolyr"; A. Koeckelenbergh, "Historical Session: The Contribution of Ama- teurs to Astronomy, Yesterday and Today."

Part II: Observational Methods; Part III: Ob- servations and Results; Part IV: Popularization.

William Eisler; Bernard Smith. Terra Aus- tralis: The Furthest Shore. (Catalogue of an exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 July-9 October 1988.) 240 pp., illus., color plates, bibl., index. Sydney: In- ternational Cultural Corporation of Austra- lia, 1988. (Paper.)

Terra Australis to New Holland. W. Eisler, "Terra Australis: Art and Exploration, 1500- 1768"; H. Wallis, "Visions of Terra Australis in

the Middle Ages and Renaissance"; L. de Albu- querque, "Crossing the Equator: The Historical Background to Portuguese Navigational Tech- niques in the Age of Discovery"; E. van den Boogaart, "The Mythical Symmetry in God's Creation: The Dutch and the Southern Conti- nent, 1569-1756"; A. Vickers, "The King of Bali"; A. Vickers, "The Javanese Kris"; A. Vickers, "Images of Batavia"; J. Heniger, "Dutch Contributions to the Study of Exotic Natural History in the Seventeenth and Eigh- teenth Centuries"; K. Zandvliet, "Golden Op- portunities in Geopolitics: Cartography and the Dutch East India Company During the Lifetime of Abel Tasman."

Terra Australis in the Age of Enlightenment. B. Smith, "The Intellectual and Artistic Frame- work of Pacific Exploration in the Eighteenth Century"; T. M. Perry, "Australia and Cartogra- phy of the Late Eighteenth-Century Expedi- tions"; P. Whitehead, "Natural History Drawing on British Eighteenth-Century Expeditions to the Pacific"; A. L. Kaeppler, "Pacific Culture and European Voyages"; A. Beresford, "Omai"; J. Waldersee, "The Malaspina Expedition, 1789-1794"; M. Terry, "Terre Napoleon"; B. Berzins, "The Mitchell and Dixson Collections in the State Library of New South Wales."

Herman Feshbach; Tetsuo Matsui; Alexan- dra Oleson (Editors). Niels Bohr: Physics and the World. (Proceedings of the Niels Bohr Centennial Symposium, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 12-14 No- vember 1985, Boston, Mass.) xix + 364 pp., figs., index. Chur, Switzerland: Har- wood Academic Publishers, 1988. (Paper.)

A. Pais, "Niels Bohr and the Development of Physics"; A. I. Miller, "On the Origins of the Copenhagen Interpretation"; D. Kleppner, "Niels Bohr and Atomic Physics Today"; M. E. Fisher, "Condensed Matter Physics: Does Quantum Mechanics Matter?" H. Feshbach, "Nuclear Physics: Comments and Reflections"; J. D. Bjorken, "The New Ether"; G. Field, "Re- cent Developments in Cosmology"; G. 't Hooft, "Black Holes and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics"; T. D. Lee, "Do Black Holes Emit Black-Body Radiation?" S. L. Adler, "Quater- nionic Quantum Field Theory"; G. S. Stent, "Light and Life: Niels Bohr's Legacy to Con- temporary Biology"; J. S. Bell, "Bertlmann's Socks and the Nature of Reality"; A. Aspect and P. Grangier, "Fifty Years Later: When Gedan- ken Experiments Become Real Experiments"; A. Shimony, "Physical and Philosophical Issues in the Bohr-Einstein Debate"; L. R. Graham, "The Soviet Reaction to Bohr's Quantum Me- chanics"; M. J. Sherwin, "Niels Bohr and the First Principles of Arms Control"; J. Stein- bruner, "American Attitudes on Security: Com- ments"; E. Amaldi, "Science, Technology, and the Arms Race: European Perspectives."




Kostas Gavroglu; Yorgos Goudaroulis; Pan- telis Nicolacopoulos (Editors). Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 111.) xi + 465 pp., index. Dordrecht/Boston/ London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. Dfl 225, $119, ?73.

Part I. J. Watkins, "The Methodology of Scien- tific Research Programmes: A Retrospect"; A. Musgrave, "Deductive Heuristics"; H. Horz, "Development of Science as a Change of Types"; J. J. C. Smart, "Methodology and On- tology"; F. Dainian, "Imre Lakatos in China"; R. Hilpinen, "On the Characterization of Cogni- tive Progress."

Part IL. M. Cini, "Continuity and Discontin- uity in the Definition of a Disciplinary Field: The Case of Twentieth-Century Physics"; P. Clark, "Determinism, Probability, and Randomness in Classical Statistical Physics"; C. U. Moulines, "The Emergence of a Research Programme in Classical Thermodynamics"; K. Gavroglu, "The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes and Some Developments in High Energy Phys- ics"; Y. Goudaroulis, "Many-Particle Physics: Calculational Complications That Become a Blessing for Methodology"; T. M. Christides and M. Mikou, "The Relative Autonomy of Theoretical Science and the Role of Crucial Ex- periments in the Development of Superconducti- vity Theory."

Part III. N. Avgelis, "Lakatos on the Evalua- tion of Scientific Theories"; M. Pera, "Method- ological Sophisticationism: A Degenerating Proj- ect"; P. D. Nicolacopoulos, "Through the Looking Glass: Philosophy, Research Pro- grammes, and the Scientific Community"; E. Metaxopoulos, "A Critical Consideration of the Lakatosian Concepts: 'Mature' and 'Immature' Science"; U. Gahde, "Bridge Structures and the Borderline between the Internal and External History of Science."

Part IV. I. Niiniluoto, "Corroboration, Verisi- militude, and the Success of Science"; J. D. Sneed, "Machine Models for the Growth of Knowledge: Theory Nets in PROLOG"; A. Baltas, "Louis Althusser and Joseph D. Sneed: A Strange Encounter in Philosophy of Science?" W. Balzer, "On Incommensurability"; G. Oddie, "Partial Interpretation, Meaning Variance, and Incommensurability"; N. J. Nersessian, "Scien- tific Discovery and Commensurability of Mean- ing."

Part V. D. A. Anapolitanos, "Proofs and Re- futations: A Reassessment"; V. Rantala, "Coun- terfactual Reduction"; A. Koutougos, "Research Programmes and Paradigms as Dialogue Struc- tures"; P. Kroes, "Philosophy of Science and the Technological Dimension of Science"; G. Radnitzky, "Falsificationism Looked at from an 'Economic' Point of View."

Part VI. P. Urbach, "The Bayesian Alterna- tive to the Methodology of Scientific Research

Programmes"; G. Currie, "Frege and Popper: Two Critics of Psychologism"; D. Papineau, "Has Popper Been a Good Thing?" D. Sfendoni- Mentzou, "Popper's Propensities: An Ontologi- cal Interpretation of Probability."

Norman Gevitz (Editor). Other Healers: Unorthodox Medicine in America. x + 302 pp., bibl., index. Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. $37.50 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).

N. Gevitz, "Three Perspectives on Unorthodox Medicine"; W. G. Rothstein, "The Botanical Movements and Orthodox Medicine"; J. C. Whorton, "Patient, Heal Thyself: Popular Health Reform Movements as Unorthodox Med- icine"; S. E. Cayleff, "Gender, Ideology, and the Water-Cure Movement"; M. Kaufman, "Ho- meopathy in America: The Rise and Fall and Persistence of a Medical Heresy"; N. Gevitz, "Osteopathic Medicine: From Deviance to Dif- ference"; W. I. Wardwell, "Chiropractors: Evo- lution to Acceptance"; R. B. Schoepflin, "Chris- tian Science Healing in America"; D. E. Harrell, Jr., "Divine Healing in Modern American Prot- estantism"; D. J. Hufford, "Contemporary Folk Medicine."

Janet Golden (Editor). Infant Asylums and Hospitals: Medical Dilemmas and Devel- opments, 1850-1920: An Anthology of Sources. (Medical Care in the United States: The Debate before 1940.) [xxiv] + 290 pp. New York/London: Garland Pub- lishing, 1989. $40.

Philopedos, "A Few Remarks about Sick Chil- dren in New York and the Necessity of a Hospi- tal for Them" (1852); M. A. Du Bois, "Thirty Years' Experience in Hospital Work" (1886); A. Jacobi, "Foundlings and Foundling Institutions" (1909); A. Jacobi, "In re the Nursery and Child's Hospital" (1909); H. D. Chapin, "Are Institu- tions for Infants Necessary?" (1915); First An- nual Report of the Board of Managers of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (1856); Forti- eth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (1896); M. L. Rogers, "Children's Hospitals in Amer- ica" (1864); S. McLean, "Standards for a Chil- dren's Hospital" (1918); C. A. Coolidge, T. M. Rotch, and R. W. Lovett, "Children's Hospital of Boston, 1869-1914: The History and Progress of Forty-Five Years" (1914); Mauran, Russell & Crowell, S. S. Goldwater and B. S. Veeder, "The St. Louis Children's Hospital" (1915); J. F. Meigs, "Observations upon the Sanitary Care and Treatment of Children and Their Diseases" (1881); C. A. Leale, "Sea-Side Hospitals for Sick Children" (1888); "Convalescent Hospitals for Children" (1911); A. F. Hess, "The Tubercu- losis Preventorium" (1913).




R. J. Hankinson (Editor). Method, Medi- cine and Metaphysics: Studies in the Phi- losophy of Ancient Science. (Apeiron 21[2].) viii + 194 pp., bibl., indexes. Ed- monton: Academic Printing & Publishing, 1988.

Introduction; R. J. Hankinson, "Science and Certainty-The Central Issues"; D. S. Hutchin- son, "Doctrines of the Mean and the Debate concerning Skills in Fourth-Century Medicine, Rhetoric and Ethics"; J. Barnes, "Scepticism and the Arts"; M. Frede, "The Empiricist Atti- tude towards Reason and Theory"; M. Matthen, "Empiricism and Ontology in Ancient Medi- cine"; R. J. Hankinson, "Stoicism, Science and Divination."

Stanley L. Jaki. The Absolute beneath the Relative and Other Essays. viii + 233 pp., index. Lanham, Md./London: University Press of America, with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1988. $25 (cloth); $12.75 (paper).

"The Absolute beneath the Relative: Reflections on Einstein's Theories"; "The Impasse of Planck's Epistemology"; "The Metaphysics of Discovery and the Rediscovery of Metaphys- ics"; "God and Man's Science: A View of Cre- ation"; "Brain, Mind, and Computers"; "The Role of Physics in Psychology: The Prospects in Retrospect"; "Order in Nature and Society: Open or Specific"; "Scientific Ethics and Ethical Science"; "The Physics of Impetus and the Im- petus of the Koran"; "The Last Century of Science: Progress, Problems, and Prospects"; "Science and Censorship: Helene Duhem and the Publication of the Systeme du monde"; "Monkeys and Machine-Guns: Evolution, Dar- winism, and Christianity"; "The Demythologiza- tion of Science"; "Science and Hope."

Michael E. Kraft; Norman J. Vig (Editors). Technology and Politics. xv + 358 pp., figs., tables, index. Durham, N.C./London: Duke University Press, 1988. $59.75 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

I. Understanding Technology: Philosophy and Politics. N. J. Vig, "Technology, Philosophy, and the State: An Overview"; L. Winner, "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" A. Borgmann, "Tech- nology and Democracy."

II. Governing Technology: Institutions and Processes. W. H. Lambright and D. Rahm, "Presidential Management of Technology"; J. H. Gibbons and H. L. Gwin, "Technology and Governance: The Development of the Office of Technology Assessment"; R. G. Noll and L. R. Cohen, "Economics, Politics, and Govern- ment Research and Development"; A. Mazur,

"Controversial Technologies in the Mass Media."

III. Regulating Technology: Risk Assessment and Management. H. Brooks, "Controlling Technology: Risks, Costs, and Benefits"; M. E. Kraft, "Analyzing Technological Risks in Fed- eral Regulatory Agencies"; E. J. Woodhouse, "Sophisticated Trial and Error in Decision Mak- ing about Risk."

IV. Evaluating Technology: Cases and Con- troversies. R. H. Blank, "Ethics and Policy: Issues in Biomedical Technology"; M. E. Kraft, "Evaluating Technology through Public Partici- pation: The Nuclear Waste Disposal Contro- versy"; R. D. Masters and A. R. Kantrowitz, "Scientific Adversary Procedures: The SDI Ex- periments at Dartmouth."

Nelson Lichtenstein; Stephen Meyer III (Ed- itors). On the Line: Essays in the History of Auto Work. (The Working Class in Ameri- can History.) 258 pp., index. Urbana/Chi- cago: University of Illinois Press, 1989. $32.50 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).

N. Lichtenstein, "Introduction: The American Automobile Industry and Its Workers"; W. Lewchuk, "Fordism and the Moving Assembly Line: The British and American Experience, 1895-1930"; T. Klug, "Employers' Strategies in the Detroit Labor Market, 1900-1929"; S. Meyer, "The Persistence of Fordism: Workers and Technology in the American Automobile In- dustry, 1900-1960"; S. Jefferys, "'Matters of Mutual Interest': The Unionization Process at Dodge Main, 1933-1939"; R. Milkman, "Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Management's Postwar Purge of Women Automobile Workers"; N. Lichtenstein, "'The Man in the Middle': A So- cial History of Automobile Industry Foremen"; S. Amberg, "The Triumph of Industrial Ortho- doxy: The Collapse of Studebaker-Packard"; S. Tolliday and J. Zeitlin, "Shop Floor Bargaining, Contract Unionism, and Job Control: An Anglo- American Comparison."

Robert Lumley (Editor). The Museum Time-Machine: Putting Cultures on Dis- play. ix + 241 pp., illus., table, index. London/New York: Routledge, Comedia, 1988. $34.50 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

Part I: The Landscape of Nostalgia. P. Hoyau, "Heritage and the 'Conserver Society': The French Case"; B. West, "The Making of the En- glish Working Past: A Critical View of the Iron- bridge Gorge Museum"; T. Bennett, "Museums and 'The People.' "

Part II: Museums in a Changing World. S. Kirby, "Policy and Politics: Charges, Sponsor- ship, and Bias"; G. Porter, "Putting Your House in Order: Representations of Women and Do- mestic Life"; A. Morton, "Tomorrow's Yester-




days: Science Museums and the Future"; B. Durrans, "The Future of the Other: Changing Cultures on Display in Ethnographic Museums"; J. Silver, "'Astonished and Somewhat Terri- fied': The Preservation and Development of Aural Culture."

Part III: Sociology of the Museum Public. N. Heinich, "The Pompidou Centre and Its Public: The Limits of a Utopian Site"; E. Hooper- Greenhill, "Counting Visitors or Visitors Who Count?"

Roy MacLeod (Editor). The Commonwealth of Science: ANZAAS and the Scientific Enterprise in Australasia, 1888-1988. xvi + 417 pp., illus., apps., index. Oxford/ New York/Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1988. $45.

Part I: Launching the Enterprise. R. MacLeod, "Organizing Science under the Southern Cross"; R. MacLeod, "From Imperial to National Science"; J. Davenport, "The Impulse of Science in Public Affairs, 1945-1986."

Part II: Charting the Sciences. L. Gillbank, "The Life Sciences: Collections to Conserva- tion"; D. Branagan and T. Vallance, "The Earth Sciences: Searching for Geological Order"; R. W. Home, "The Physical Sciences: String, Sealing Wax, and Self-Sufficiency"; I. D. Rae, "Chemists at ANZAAS: Cabbages or Kings?" D. J. Mulvaney, "Australasian Anthropology and ANZAAS: 'Strictly Scientific and Criti- cal' "; A. Turtle, "Education, Social Science and the 'Common Weal.'"

Part III: Serving Society. J. M. Powell, "Pro- tracted Reconciliation: Society and the Environ- ment"; B. Davidson, "Developing Nature's Treasures: Agriculture and Mining in Australa- sia"; J. Powles, "Professional Hygienists and the Health of the Nation"; R. Johnston, "Social Re- sponsibility of Science: The Social Mirror of Science"; T. Wheelwright and G. Crough, "The Political Economy of Technology"; S. Encel, "Technology, Employment and Post-Industrial Society."

Mohan Matthen (Editor). Aristotle Today: Essays on Aristotle's Ideal of Science. (Based on papers originally presented at a conference in Edmonton in March 1986.) viii + 196 pp., indexes. Edmonton: Aca- demic Printing & Publishing, 1987. $34.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Introduction; M. Matthen, "The Structure of Ar- istotelian Science"; F. Sparshott, "Aristotle's World and Mine"; J. Barnes, "An Aristotelian Way with Scepticism"; M. Furth, "Aristotle on the Unity of Form"; S. M. Cohen, "The Credi- bility of Aristotle's Philosophy of Mind"; A. Code, "Metaphysics and Logic"; M. Matthen, "Individual Substances as Hylomorphic Com- plexes."

Michael R. Matthews (Editor). The Scien- tific Background to Modern Philosophy: Selected Readings. x + 162 pp., figs., bibl. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publish- ing, 1989. $17.50 (cloth); $4.95 (paper).

I. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.). Physics, Book LI, Chapters 1-3; Book IV, Chapter 8; Book VII, Chapters 1, 2, 5. Posterior Analytics, Book I, Chapters 1, 2, 13.

II. Copernicus (1473-1543). The Commentar- iolus, pages 1-5. On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Dedication.

III. Bacon (1561-1626). The New Organon, Aphorisms 31-46, 95-96.

IV. Galileo (1564-1642). The Assayer. Dia- logues concerning the Two Chief World Sys- tems, The Second Day, pages 1-10, 51-55, 138-140, 164-166. Discourses concerning the Two New Sciences, The Third Day, pages 202-208.

V. Descartes (1596-1650). Discourse on Method, Parts II, VI. Principles of Philosophy, Letter from the Author; Parts I, II, IV.

VI. Boyle (1627-1691). The Excellency and Grounds of the Corpuscular or Mechanical Phi- losophy.

VII. Huygens (1629-1695). Treatise on Light, Preface; Chapter 1.

VIII. Newton (1642-1727). Principia, Preface to First Edition; Scholium; Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy; General Scholium. Opticks, Query 31.

Viggo Mortensen; Robert C. Sorensen (Edi- tors). Free Will and Determinism. (Papers from an interdisciplinary research conference sponsored by the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science; Department of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion, Aarhus Uni- versity; and Scandinavian Seminar College; 14-17 August 1986, Holte, Denmark.) 214 pp., figs., bibl. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1987. Dkr 113, $12.50 (paper).

R. J. Russell, "The Meaning of Causality in Con- temporary Physics"; S. Katz, "Free Will: Does It Have a Bio-Cultural Evolutionary Basis?" H. Fink, "'Mountain Peaks Do Not Float Unsup- ported': On Free Will and Biocultural Evolu- tion"; R. C. Sorenson, "Abundance and the Illu- sion of Free Choice"; E. Olsen, "Freedom and Choice"; T. B. Jansen, "Choosing Futures: Re- formulation of Free Will and Determinism as a Research Problem"; S. Andersen, "Determinism or Meaninglessness: The Philosophical Chal- lenge of Science in Kant and L0gstrup"; H. Deuser, "'Determinism or Meaninglessness': Science and Religion"; P. Hefner, "Freedom in Evolutionary Perspective"; N. H. Gregersen, "Freedom and Evolution: Systems Theoretical and Theological Perspectives"; J. Lindhardt, "Free Will and the Senses"; M. Ruse, "Sociobi- ology and Determinism"; J. Hoffmeyer, "The




Constraints of Nature on Free Will"; V. Morten- sen, "Free Will, Determinism, and Responsibil- ity."

Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale on Hospital Reform. Edited by Charles Ro- senberg. (Medical Care in the United States: The Debate before 1940.) xiii + xi + 187 + xv + l10 pp., figs., tables, maps, plans, app., bibl. Notes on Hospitals (3rd ed., 1863) bound with Introductory Notes on Lying-in Institutions (1871). New York/ London: Garland Publishing, 1989. $60.

Matthew H. Nitecki (Editor). Evolutionary Progress. (Based on papers presented at the 1987 Field Museum Spring Systematics Symposium.) viii + 354 pp., figs., bibls., index. Chicago/London: University of Chi- cago Press, 1988. $42.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Introduction. M. H. Nitecki, "Discerning the Criteria for Concepts of Progress."

Philosophy of Progress. D. L. Hull, "Progress in Ideas of Progress"; W. B. Provine, "Progress in Evolution and Meaning of Life"; F. J. Ayala, "Can 'Progress' Be Defined as a Biological Con- cept?" M. Ruse, "Molecules to Men: Evolution- ary Biology and Thoughts of Progress."

Historical and Comparative Studies. R. J. Richards, "The Moral Foundations of the Idea of Evolutionary Progress: Darwin, Spencer, and the Neo-Darwinians"; R. C. Richardson and T. C. Kane, "Orthogenesis and Evolution in the Nineteenth Century"; R. C. Dunnell, "The Con- cept of Progress in Cultural Evolution"; A. Ur- banek, "Morpho-Physiological Progress."

Empirical Approaches. J. M. Smith, "Evolu- tionary Progress and Levels of Selection"; W. C. Wimsatt and J. C. Schank, "Two Con- straints on the Evolution of Complex Adapta- tions and the Means of Their Avoidance"; E. 0. Wiley, "Entropy, Evolution and Progress"; D. M. Raup, "Testing the Fossil Record for Evolutionary Progress"; S. J. Gould, "On Re- placing the Idea of Progress with an Operational Notion of Directionality."

Roy Porter (Editor). Man Masters Nature: Twenty-Five Centuries of Science. 233 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. New York: George Braziller, 1988. $19.95.

G. Lloyd, "Aristotle: The Theory and Practice of Science"; J. North, "Ptolemy: The Synthesis of Ancient Astronomy"; C. Ronan, "Galileo Ga- lilei: 'Modern' Science"; J. Bennett, "Johannes Kepler: The New Astronomy"; A. Cunningham, "William Harvey: The Discovery of the Circula- tion of the Blood"; A. R. Hall, "Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Key to Nature"; J. Christie, "Joseph Priestley: Science, Religion, and Poli-

tics in the Age of Revolution"; M. Crosland, "Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier: The Chemical Rev- olution"; D. Cardwell, "James Watt: Cross-Fer- tilisation between Science and Industry"; D. Knight, "Michael Faraday: The Use of Pure Science"; J. Durant, "Charles Darwin: Solving the Problem of Organic Diversity"; W. Bynum, "Louis Pasteur: In Pursuit of the Infinitely Small"; C. Kilmister, "Albert Einstein: Ques- tioning Space and Time"; J. Hendry, "Niels Bohr: A World beyond Visualisation"; A. P. Hodges, "Alan Turing: The Mind and the Ma- chine"; E. Yoxen, "James Watson and Francis Crick: Discovering the Secret of Life."

Gerard Radnitzky; W. W. Bartley III (Edi- tors). Evolutionary Epistemology, Ratio- nality, and the Sociology of Knowledge. xiv + 475 pp., indexes. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1987. $39.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

Part I: Evolutionary Epistemology. W. W. Bart- ley ILL, "Philosophy of Biology versus Philoso- phy of Physics"; D. T. Campbell, "Evolutionary Epistemology"; D. T. Campbell, "Blind Varia- tion and Selective Retention in Creative Thought as in Other Knowledge Processes"; K. Popper, "Campbell on the Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge"; G. Wachtershauser, "Light and Life: On the Nutritional Origins of Sensory Per- ception"; K. Popper, "Natural Selection and the Emergence of Mind"; R. Egidi, "Emergence, Reduction, and Evolutionary Epistemology"; G. Vollmer, "On Supposed Circularities in an Em- pirically Oriented Epistemology."

Part II: Theory of Rationality and Problems of Self Reference. W. W. Bartley ILL, "Theories of Rationality"; J. F. Post, "The Possible Liar"; J. F. Post, "Paradox in Critical Rationalism and Related Theories"; J. F. Post, "A Godelian Theorem for Theories of Rationality"; J. Wat- kins, "Comprehensively Critical Rationalism: A Retrospect"; G. Radnitzky, "In Defense of Self- Applicable Critical Rationalism"; W. W. Bartley ILL, "A Refutation of the Alleged Refutation of Comprehensively Critical Rationalism."

Part III: Rationality and the Sociology of Knowledge. P. Munz, "Philosophy and the Mir- ror of Rorty"; A. Flew, "Must Naturalism Dis- credit Naturalism?" W. W. Bartley ILL, "Alien- ation Alienated: The Economics of Knowledge versus the Psychology and Sociology of Knowl- edge."

Charles Rosenberg (Editor). Caring for the Working Man: The Rise and Fall of the Dispensary: An Anthology of Sources. (Medical Care in the United States: The Debate before 1940.) xi + 291 pp., tables. New York/London: Garland Publishing, 1989. $45.

J. C. Lettsom, "Hints Designed to Promote the Establishment of a Dispensary, for Extending




Medical Relief to the Poor at Their Own Habita- tions" (1801); J. G. Coffin, "An Address Deliv- ered before the Contributors of the Boston Dis- pensary, at Their Seventeenth Anniversary, October 21, 1813"; J. F. Schroeder, "Plea for the Industrious Poor and Strangers, in Sickness" (1830); [W. Lawrence], "Medical Relief to the Poor" (1877), pages 3-54; M. P. Hatfield and R. Park, "The Abuses of Medical Charities: A Paper Read before the Chicago Medical Society, February 2, 1880 . . ."; Report of the Special Committee of the Medical Association of the District of Columbia, "Hospital and Dispensary Abuse in the City of Washington" (1896); F. H. Wiggin, "The Abuse of Medical Charity" (1897); G. W. Gay, "Abuse of Medical Charity: Discus- sion by Drs. Hasket Derby, J. W. Elliot, Alfred Worcester, Farrar Cobb, John C. Munro, Fre- deric A. Washburn, Jr., E. W. Cushing, Samuel Crowell and Charles Cook" (1905); S. S. Gold- water, "Dispensary Ideals: With a Plan for Dis- pensary Reform Based upon the Adoption of the Principle of Restricted Numbers" (1907); R. C. Cabot, "Suggestions for the Reorganization of Hospital Out-Patient Departments, with Special Reference to the Improvement of Treatment" (1907); M. M. Davis, Jr., "The Functions of a Dispensary or Out-Patient Department" (1914).

Charles Rosenberg (Editor). The Origins of Specialization in Modern American Medi- cine: An Anthology of Sources. (Medical Care in the United States: The Debate before 1940.) xiv + 200 pp. New York/Lon- don: Garland Publishing, 1989. $40.

H. D. Noyes, "Specialties in Medicine" (1865); W. Hooker, "Report of the Committee of Medi- cal Ethics on Specialties. Also, Minority Report by Henry I. Bowditch" (1866); A. Woodward, "Specialism in Medicine: Read before the New London County Medical Meeting, April 12th, 1866"; E. D. Foree, "A Lecture on Specialism in Medicine, Delivered before the Class Inaugura- ting His Annual Course of Instruction, Sep- tember 21, 1876"; M. H. Henry, "Specialists and Specialties in Medicine: Address Delivered before the Alumni Association of the Medical De- partment of the University of Vermont" (1876); L. A. Duhring, "The Rise of American Derma- tology: Being the President's Address before the Third Annual Meeting of the American Derma- tological Association" (1879); A. Jacobi, "The President's Address: The Relations of Pediatrics to General Medicine" (1889); L. D. Bulkley, "On the Relation between the General Practi- tioner and the Consultant or Specialist, No- vember 13, 1888"; F. C. Shattuck, "Specialism, the Laboratory, and Practical Medicine"; F. C. Shattuck, "Specialism in Medicine" (1900); J. L. Hildreth, "The General Practitioner and the Spe- cialist: The Annual Discourse Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Medical

Society, June 13, 1906"; G. E. Shambaugh, "The Preparation of the Specialist: A Problem in Medical Education"; C. E. Rosenberg, "Doctors and Credentials: The Roots of Uncertainty" (1984).

Juan Jose Saldana (Editor). Cross-Cultural Diffusion of Science: Latin America. (Cua- dernos de Quipu, 2.) (Acts of the XVIIth International Congress of History of Science, 5.) (Papers presented at the Sym- posium "Cross-Cultural Transmission of Natural Knowledge and Its Social Implica- tions: Latin America," XVIIth Interna- tional Congress of History of Science, 31 July-8 August 1985, Berkeley, California.) 133 pp., figs. [Col. del Valle]: Sociedad La- tinoamericana de Historia de las Ciencias y la Tecnologia, 1988. (Paper.)

A. Lafuente and E. Estrella, "Scientific Enter- prise, Academic Adventure and Drawing-Room Culture in the Geodesic Mission to Quito"; J. J. Saldania, "The Failed Search for 'Useful Knowl- edge': Enlightened Scientific and Technological Policies in New Spain"; R. Ruiz, "Haeckel and Mexican Biology"; R. Chabran, "The Reception of Darwinism in Argentina"; R. Cabral, "The Per6n-Richter Fusion Program: 1948-1953"; H. M. C. Vessuri, "The Implantation and Devel- opment of Modern Science in Venezuela and Its Social Implications"; U. D'Ambrosio, "Socio- Cultural Influences in the Transmission of Sci- entific Knowledge and Alternative Methodolo- gies."

Jose Manuel Sanchez Ron (Editor). Ciencia y sociedad en Espafia: De la Ilustraci6n a la Guerra Civil. (Temas de Nuestro Tiempo.) 306 pp., tables. Madrid: Edi- ciones el Arquero/CSIC, 1988. (Paper.)

J. L. Peset, "Educaci6n y ciencia en el fin del Antiguo Regimen"; A. Moreno Gonzalez, "De la fisica como medio a la fisica como fin: Un episo- dio entre la Ilustraci6n y la crisis del 98"; A. La- fuente, J. Puerto Sarmiento, and C. Callega Fol- guera, "Los profesionales de la sanidad tras su identidad en la Ilustraci6n espaniola"; S. Garma, "Cultura matematica en la Espania de los siglos XVIII y XIX"; R. Gago, "Cultivo y ensenianza de la quimica en la Espania de principios del siglo XIX"; A. Albarracfn Teul6n, "Las ciencias bio- medicas en Espania, de 1800 a 1936"; J. Sala Ca- tala, "Ciencia biol6gica y polemica de la ciencia en la Espania de la Restauraci6n"; R. Alvarez Pelaez, "Origen y desarrollo de la eugenesia en Espafia"; T. F. Glick, "El impacto del psicoana- lisis en la psiquiatria espafiola de entreguerras"; A. Roca Rosell, "Ciencia y sociedad en la epoca de la Mancomunitat de Catalunya (1914-1923)";




M. Hormig6n, "Las matematicas en Espania en el primer tercio del siglo XX"; J. M. SAnchez Ron, "La fisica en Espafia durante el primer tercio del siglo XX."

Karl W. Schweizer (Editor). Lord Bute: Essays in Reinterpretation. xiv + 279 pp., index. [Leicester]: Leicester University Press, 1988. (Distributed by Columbia Uni- versity Press.) $45.

K. W. Schweizer, "Lord Bute: Interpreted in History"; J. L. Bullion, "Securing the Peace: Lord Bute, the Plan for the Army, and the Ori- gins of the American Revolution"; K. W. Schweizer, "Lord Bute, William Pitt, and the Peace Negotiations with France, April-Sep- tember 1761"; F. O'Gorman, "The Myth of Lord Bute's Secret Influence"; K. W. Schweizer, "Lord Bute and the Press: The Origins of the Press War of 1762 Reconsidered"; M. Peters, "Pitt as a Foil to Bute: The Public Debate over Ministerial Responsibility and the Powers of the Crown"; A. Murdoch, "Lord Bute, James Stuart Mackenzie, and the Government of Scotland"; R. L. Emerson, "Lord Bute and the Scottish Universities, 1760-1792"; R. B. Sher, "'The Fa- vourite of the Favourite': John Home, Bute, and the Politics of Patriotic Poetry"; D. P. Miller, "'My Favourite Studdys': Lord Bute as Natu- ralist"; P. D. Brown, "Bute in Retirement."

William R. Shea (Editor). Revolutions in Science: Their Meaning and Relevance. xi + 291 pp., figs., bibls. Canton, Mass.: Watson, Science History Publications, 1988. $45; $49 outside USA and Canada.

P. M. Rattansi, "Recovering the Paracelsian Mi- lieu"; A. G. Debus, "The Chemical Philosophy and the Scientific Revolution"; D. Knight, "Rev- olutions in Science: Chemistry and the Romantic Science"; W. R. Shea, "The Unfinished Revolu- tion: Johann Bernoulli (1667-1748) and the De- bate between the Cartesians and the Newton- ians"; P. Redondi, "Theology and Epistemology in the Scientific Revolution"; J. M. L6pez Pi- niero, "Eighteenth-Century Medical Vitalism: The Paracelsian Connection"; M. Pera, "Radical Theory Change and Empirical Equivalence: The Galvani-Volta Controversy"; A. Funkenstein, "Revolutionaries on Themselves"; T. Frangs- myr, "Revolution or Evolution; or, How to De- scribe Changes in Scientific Thinking"; D. Pearce, "Revolutionary Progress and Concep- tual Growth: From Classical to Relative Mass"; H. F. Spinner, "The Silent Revolution in Ratio- nality in Contemporary Science"; B. Sitter, "The New Categorical Imperative"; J. P. Sousa Dias, "Secret Medicines and Pharmaceutical Chemistry in Portugal in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"; A. M. Amorin da Costa,

"Chemical Practice and Theory in Portugal in the Eighteenth Century"; B. V. Subbarayappa, "The Impact of European Science on Colonial India"; U. D'Ambrosio, "The Ethos of Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Enterprises."

Abner Shimony; Debra Nails (Editors). Nat- uralistic Epistemology: A Symposium of Two Decades. (Boston Studies in the Phi- losophy of Science, 100.) vi + 384 pp., index. Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: D. Reidel, 1987. Dfl 150, $74, ?52.95.

Part I: Historical Figures. J. Webb, "Immanuel Kant and the Greater Glory of Geometry"; P. Skagestad, "Peirce's Conception of Truth: A Framework for Naturalistic Epistemology?" M. Capek, "The Philosophical Significance of Pia- get's Researches on the Genesis of the Concept of Time"; T. J. Kalikow, "Konrad Lorenz as Evolutionary Epistemologist: The Problem of Intentionality"; W. A. Rottschaefer, "Wilfrid Sellars on the Nature of Thought."

Part II: The Use of Cognitive Psychology in Epistemology. D. T. Campbell, "Neurological Embodiments of Belief and the Gaps in the Fit of Phenomena to Noumena"; J. Heffner, "Causal Relations in Visual Perception"; E. S. Reed, "Why Ideas Are Not in the Mind: An Introduc- tion to Ecological Epistemology"; L. M. An- tony, "Naturalized Epistemology and the Study of Language"; J. Levine, "Quine on Psychol- ogy"; A. Shimony, "Integral Epistemology."

Part III: Criticisms of Naturalistic Epistemo- logy. P. T. Sagal, "Naturalistic Epistemology and the Harakiri of Philosophy"; J. Agassi, "Naturalistic Epistemology: The Case of Abner Shimony"; M. W. Wartofsky, "Epistemology Historicized."

John T. Stock; Mary Virginia Orna (Edi- tors). Electrochemistry, Past and Present. (ACS Symposium Series, 390.) (Developed from a symposium sponsored by the Divi- sion of the History of Chemistry and the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society, at the Third Chemical Congress of North America [195th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society], 5-11 June 1988, To- ronto, Canada.) ix + 606 pp., indexes. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical So- ciety, 1989. $89.95; $107.95 outside the USA and Canada.

J. T. Stock, "Electrochemistry in Retrospect: An Overview."

Foundations of Electrochemistry. M. C. Us- selman, "Wollaston's Microtechniques for the Electrolysis of Water and Electrochemical In- candescence: A Pioneer in Miniaturization";




F. A. J. L. James, "Michael Faraday's First Law of Electrochemistry: How Context De- velops New Knowledge"; S. V. F. Butler, "The Universal Agent of Power: James Prescott Joule, Electricity, and the Equivalent of Heat"; K. J. Laidler, "The Contribution of Electrochemistry to the Development of Chemical Kinetics"; R. Heyrovska, "A Reappraisal of Arrhenius' Theory of Partial Dissociation of Electrolytes"; M. Spiro, "Historical Highlights in Transference Number Research"; M. D. Archer, "Genesis of the Nernst Equation"; A. W. von Smolinski, C. E. Moore, and B. Jaselskis, "The Choice of the Hydrogen Electrode as the Base for the Electromotive Series"; R. G. Bates, "Pursuit of the Elusive Single-Ion Activity"; B. E. Conway, "Historical Development of the Understanding of Charge-Transfer Processes in Electrochemis- try"; W. A. E. McBryde, "William Lash Miller (1866-1940)."

Organic and Biochemical Electrochemistry. M. M. Baizer, "History of Organic Electro- synthesis"; J. M. Bobbitt, "Anodic Electroor- ganic Chemistry and Natural Products"; M. V. Orna, "Oxygen Electrode: History, Design, and Applications"; M. J. Allen, "Bioelectroche- mistry-Before and After."

Electroanalytical Chemistry. H. Guna- singham, "Development of Electrochemical In- strumentation"; B. Jaselskis, C. E. Moore, and A. von Smolinski, "Development of the pH Meter"; B. Jaselskis, C. E. Moore, and A. von Smolinski, "Development of the Glass Elec- trode"; K. L. Cheng, "The pH Glass Electrode and Its Mechanism"; J. D. R. Thomas, "Ion-Se- lective Electrodes: From Glasses to Crystals and Crowns"; B. R. Shaw, "Modification of Solid Electrodes in Electroanalytical Chemistry, 1978-1988"; P. Zuman, "With the Drop of Mer- cury to the Nobel Prize"; M. Heyrovsky, L. No- votny, and I. Smoler, "Past and Future of the Dropping Electrode"; J. Osteryoung and C. Wechter, "Development of Pulse Polarography and Voltammetry"; L. B. Rogers, "Fortuitous Experiments: Discoveries of Underpotential and of Quantitative Anodic Stripping Voltammetry"; G. W. Ewing, "Coulometric Titrimetry"; H. A. Laitinen, "History of Electroanalytical Chemis- try in Molten Salts"; T. S. Light, "Electrodeless Conductivity"; W. R. Heineman and W. B. Jen- sen, "Spectroelectrochemistry Using Transpar- ent Electrodes: An Anecdotal History of the Early Years"; L. M. Robinson, "Borrowing from Industry: Edgar Fahs Smith's Rotating Anode and Double-Cup Mercury Cathode"; J. T. Stock, "Henry J. S. Sand (1873-1944): A Well-Remembered Tutor."

Industrial Electrochemistry. J. J. Leddy, "In- dustrial Electrochemistry"; P. R. Roberge, "In- dustrial Diaphragms and Membranes"; R. V. V. Nicholls, "Gibbs, LeSueur, and Willson: Pio- neers of Industrial Electrochemistry"; S. Tejada, "History of Electrochemistry in Mexico"; S.

Das Gupta, "The Search for Portable Electricity: History of High Energy-Density Batteries"; B. Fleet, "Evolution of Electrochemical Reactor Systems for Metal Recovery and Pollution Con- trol"; J. A. McGeough and M. B. Barker, "Elec- trochemical Machining: Development and Appli- cation."

Randall E. Stross. Technology and Society in Twentieth-Century America: An Anthol- ogy. vi + 273 pp. Chicago: Dorsey Press, 1989. (Paper.)

D. J. Boorstin, "The Americans: The Demo- cratic Experience"; D. B. Danbom, "The Re- sisted Revolution: Urban America and the In- dustrialization of Agriculture, 1900-1930"; H. Braverman, "Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century"; D. F. Noble, "America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capital- ism"; J. K. Galbraith, "The New Industrial State"; D. M. Kennedy, "Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger"; I. Il- lich, "Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health"; J. Flink, "The Car Culture"; K. T. Jackson, "Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbaniza- tion of the United States"; R. Rhodes, "The Making of the Atomic Bomb"; P. Boyer, "By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age"; W. A. McDougall, ". . . The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age"; R. S. Cowan, "More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave"; N. Postman, "Amusing Our- selves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business"; S. Turkle, "The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit."

Werner Traxel; Horst Gundlach (Editors). Ebbinghaus-Studien 1. (Passauer Schriften zur Psychologiegeschichte, 4.) 219 pp., illus. Passau: Passavia Universitatsverlag. 1986. (Paper.)

W. Traxel, "Hermann Ebbinghaus und die ex- periementelle Erforschung des Gedachtnisses: Anmerkungen zu einem Jubilaum"; H. Gund- lach, "Uber das Gedachtnis und der Weg dorthin Versuch einer Rekonstruktion der Ursprunge der Forschung Ebbinghaus' "; G. Schuster-Tyroller, "Hermann Ebbinghaus als Experimentator: Zur Methodologie seiner Gedachtnisuntersuchun- gen"; W. G. Bringmann and N. J. Bringmann, "Hermann Ebbinghaus, 1875-1879: The Missing Years"; W. G. Bringmann and N. J. Bringmann, "Hermann Ebbinghaus and Cornell University"; H. Gundlach, "Apparative Moglichkeiten und Begrenzungen des Werkes Ebbinghaus' "; U. Zschuppe, "Zur Weiterentwicklung psycholo-




gischer Apparate durch Ebbinghaus"; H. Gund- lach, "Hermann Ebbinghaus: Eine kommentierte Bibliographie."

Werner Traxel (Editor). Ebbinghaus-Stu- dien 2. (Proceedings of the Internationales Hermann-Ebbinghaus-Symposion held in Passau, 30 May-2 June 1985.) (Passauer Schriften zur Psychologiegeschichte, 5.) 279 pp., illus., figs., index. Passau: Passa- via Universitatsverlag, 1987. (Paper.)

E. Scheerer, "Ebbinghaus, Herbart, and Hegel; or: Not the Syllable Was Meaningless, but the Syllables Series"; W. van Hoorn and T. Ver- have, "Ebbinghaus, Perception, and Memory"; H. van Rappard, "Ebbinghaus' Memory Ob- served"; M. Marshall and B. Rodway, "Her- mann Ebbinghaus and the Legacy of Gustav Theodor Fechner"; E. Heineken, "Das subjek- tive Moment in der Geburtsstunde der experi- mentellen Gedachtnisforschung"; J. Abresch, "Hermann Ebbinghaus: Kindheit und Jugend im Wuppertale"; L. Sprung and H. Sprung, "Eb- binghaus an der Berliner Universitat: Ein akade- misches Schicksal eines zu fruh Geborenen?" S. Sporer, "Gedachtnis in vitro und in vivo: Von Hermann Ebbinghaus' sinnlosen Silben zur ex- perimentellen Padagogik und zur Aussagepsy- chologie"; G. Baumler, "Ebbinghaus' Experi- ment zum Erlernen abgeleiteter Reihen"; M. McPherson, "The Ebbinghaus Combination Method: Its Origins and Later Influences on Psychometrics, 1897-1985"; F. Rodi, "Die Eb- binghaus-Dilthey-Kontroverse: Biographischer Hintergrund und sachlicher Ertrag"; H.-P. Brauns, "Ebbinghaus gegen Dilthey: Hat die weitere Entwicklung in der Psychologie zu einer Entscheidung gefahrt?" L. W. Brandt, "French Research on Memory by Ebbinghaus' Contem- poraries"; J. Hoskovec, "Ebbinghaus' Einfluss in slawischen Landern"; J. Brozek, "Hermann Ebbinghaus in America: His Luck-Good and Bad"; J. A. Popplestone, "The Legacy of Mem- ory in Apparatus and Methodology"; K. Dan- ziger, "Hermann Ebbinghaus and the Psycholog- ical Experiment"; J. Smedslund, "Ebbinghaus, the Illusionist: How Psychology Came to Look Like an Experimental Science"; A. Caparr6s, "Hermann Ebbinghaus: Ein funktionalistischer Domainforscher"; C. Togel, "Vergangenheit und Geschichte: Anmerkungen zu Ebbinghaus' psy- chologiehistorischer Konzeption"; P. J. Beh- rens, "History of the Experimental Study of Ani- mal Memory (1880-1980)."

Hebe Vessuri (Editor). Las instituciones cientfficas en la historia de la ciencia en Venezuela. 388 pp., bibls. Caracas: Funda- cion Fondo Editorial Acta Cientifica Vene- zolana, [1987]. (Paper.)

H. Vessuri, "Introducci6n: El papel de las Insti- tuciones Cientificas en la Sociedad"; Y. Texera, "Tras la huella perdida: La botanica en Vene- zuela durante el siglo XIX"; Ma. Estela de Por- tillo, "El Instituto Pasteur de Maracaibo"; S. Strozzi, "Julio C. Salas y la Sociedad Venezo- lana de Americanistas 'Estudios Libres' "; Y. Freites, "La Academia de Ciencias Ffsicas, Ma- tematicas y Naturales: Una concepci6n de la ciencia en Venezuela"; Y. de Valero, "La popu- larizaci6n de la ciencia en un contexto subdesar- rollado: El Instituto de Ciencias Naturales del Estado Zulia"; I. Quintero, "Del Observatorio Cajigal al Centro de Investigaciones de Astrono- mia: Dos instituciones en un siglo"; 0. Castillo, "Un centro de investigaci6n cultural: El Instituto Nacional de Folklore"; M. Roche, "El discreto encanto de la martinalidad: Historia de la Fun- daci6n Luis Roche"; H. Ruiz, "Cambio y per- manencia en los modelos de institucionalizaci6n de la actividad cientifica en Venezuela: El caso de la fisica y la energia nuclear en el IVNIC- IVIC"; J. L. Avila Bello, "El Instituto Nacional de Dermatologia: Proceso de creaci6n y evolu- ci6n posterior"; I. Licha, "II impacto moderni- zador de la ingenieria sanitaria en Venezuela: El caso del INOS y de otras instituciones sani- tarias"; G. Ferrer, "Hospital General del Sur de Maracaibo: Una instituci6n en la historia de la ciencia en Venezuela"; A. Pirela, "El INVESTI y la innovaci6n tecnol6gica."

R. P. W. Visser; C. Hakfoort (Editors). Werkplaatsen van wetenschap en techniek: Industriele en academische laboratoria in Nederland, 1860-1940. (Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde, Natuurwe- tenschappen, Wiskunde en Techniek, 9[4].) iv + 184 pp., illus., tables. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987. (Paper.)

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Ian Winchester; Kenneth Blackwell (Edi- tors). Antinomies and Paradoxes: Studies in Russell's Early Philosophy. 248 pp., bibls. (The Journal of the Bertrand Russell Archives, Summer/Winter 1988, 8[1-2].) Hamilton, Ontario: McMaster University Library Press, 1989. Can$24 (institutions), Can$15 (individuals) (paper).

Residual Hegelianism. N. Griffin, "The Tiergar- ten Programme"; I. Winchester, "The Antinomy of Dynamical Causation in Leibniz and the Prin- ciples and Russell's Early Picture of Physics"; G. H. Moore, "The Roots of Russell's Para- dox."

Early Mathematical and Logical Work. J. L. Richards, "Bertrand Russell's Essay on the Foundations of Geometry and the Cambridge Mathematical Tradition"; I. Grattan-Guinness, "Russell's Logical Manuscripts: An Apprehen-

sive Brief [abstract]"; A. Urquhart, "Russell's Zigzag Path to the Ramified Theory of Types"; D. J. O'Leary, "The Propositional Logic of Principia Mathematica and Some of Its Forerun- ners"; J. Couture, "Are Substitutional Quanti- fiers a Solution to the Problem of the Elimination of Classes in Principia Mathematica?" M. Sey- mour, "The Referential Use of Definite Descrip- tions"; M. Harrell, "Extension to Geometry of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems II."

Philosophy, Knowledge, and Mind. J. G. Slater, "Russell's Conception of Philosophy"; J. Farrell Smith, "Russell's Re-evaluation of Mein- ong, 1913-14: An Analysis of Acquaintance"; M. Bradie, "Russell's Scientific Realism"; R. Tully, "Russell's Neutral Monism"; W. V. 0. Quine, "Logical Correspondence with Russell."

Panel Discussion. A. J. Ayer (moderator), I. Grattan-Guinness, N. Griffin, R. Tully, and W. V. 0. Quine, "The Tenability of Russell's Early Philosophy."

Illustrations in the book review section are from the following sources: on page 673 from D'Archi- mede d Einstein; on page 680 from Fasting Girls; on page 685 from Mathematics and Measurement; on page 695 from Agricola's Vom Bergkwerck XII Biicher; on page 699 from Pascal's Arithmetical Triangle; on page 705 courtesy of the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry; on page 716 from Darwin's Forgotten Defenders; on page 727 from Great and Desperate Cures (both courtesy of the National Library of Medicine); and on page 743 courtesy of the Beckman Center.



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