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Front MatterSource: Isis, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Mar., 1978), pp. 1-3Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/230604 .
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THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION * WASHINGTON, D.C. 20560, U.S.A.
Committee on ISIS of the History of Science Society
LEONARD G. WILSON, University of Minnesota
NATHAN SIVIN CAMILLE LIMOGES
University of Pennsylvania University of Montreal
RUTH SCHWARTZ COWAN MICHAEL S. MAHONEY
State University of New Princeton University York, Stony Brook
Former Editors of ISIS GEORGE SARTON, I. BERNARD COHEN, HARRY WOOLF
Advisory Editors E. J. AITON, Manchester Polytechnic, Didsbury Faculty HAROLD L. BURSTYN, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia MAURICE P. CROSLAND University of Kent LOREN R. GRAHAM Columbia University THOMAS L. HANKINS, University of Washington S. A. JAYAWARDENE, Science Museum, London DAVID C. LINDBERG, University of Wisconsin ERNAN MCMULLIN, University of Notre Dame CHARLES ROSENBERG, University of Pennsylvania A. I. SABRA, Harvard University CECIL J. SCHNEER, University of New Hampshire G. J. TOOMER, Brown University
PUBLICATIONS OFFICE: Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, 12th St. and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20560. Isis, the official journal of the History of Science Society, is published in March, May, June, September, and December by the History of Science Society; the May issue is the annual Critical Bibliography. Annual membership in the History of Science Society, which includes a subscription to Isis, costs $18.00 for individual subscribers ($9.00 for students), and $21.00 for institutional subscriptions. The price of a current single issue is $4.00, a single Critical Bibliography, $7.00; back issues a year or more old add $ 1.00 each; plus postage ($.1 0 per copy or $.25 per volume; foreign postage $.25 per copy or $.50 per volume). Inquiries concerning editorial matters should be addressed to Dr. Robert P. Multhauf, Editor, Isis, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560; inquiries concerning membership and subscriptions should be addressed to Isis Business Office, Science History Publications, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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History of Science 92 Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, 4 vols., rev. by CHRISTOPH J. SCRIBA; Derek de Solla Price: Science Since Babylon, enlarged ed., rev. by PETER BUCK.
Scientific Institutions 94 Clive E. Handler (ed.): Guy's Hospital-250 Years, rev. by BARBARA GUTMANN ROSENKRANTZ; A. McGehee Harvey: Adventures in Medical Research: A Century of Discovery at Johns Hopkins, rev. by PETER D. OLCH; K6nya Sandor et al.: A Magyar Tudoma'nyos Akademia mdsfel 6vszdzada (1825-1975), (One and a half centuries of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), ed. by Zsigmond PaI Pach, and Jainosne Frater: A Magyar Tudomdnyos Akademia dlland6 bizottsagai 1854-1949 (Permanent Committees of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), rev. by FERENC SZABADVARY.
Social Relations of Science 97 Nicholas H. Steneck (ed.): Science and Society: Past, Present, and Future, rev. by WILBUR APPLEBAUM.
Physical Sciences 98 Hans Blumenberg: Die Genesis der kopernikanischen Welt, rev. by EDWARD ROSEN; David C. Lindberg: Theories of Vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler, rev. by PETER MACHAMER; Armin Teske: The History of Physics and the Philosophy of Science: Selected Essays, rev. by P.M. HEIMANN.
Biological Sciences 100 Wayne Hanley: Natural History in America, from Mark Catesby to Rachel Carson, rev. by MARGARET F. SOMMER.
Sciences of Man 101 Jan Ehrenwald (ed.): The History of Psychotherapy: From Healing Magic to Encounter, rev. by CAROL E. MCMAHON; Fred Voget: A History of Ethnology, rev. by MURRAY J. LEAF.
Medicine & Medical Sciences 103 Harris L. Coulter: Divided Legacy: A History of the Schism in Medical Thought, Vol. I: The Patterns Emerge: Hippocrates to Paracelsus, Vol. II: Progress and Regress: J. B. Van Helmont to Claude Bernard, rev. by GERT H. BRIEGER; Mary Roth Walsh: "Doctors Wanted: No Women Need Apply". Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, 1835-1975, rev. by VERN L. BULLOUGH.
Technology 105 Bert S. Hall; Delno C. West (eds.): On Pre-Modern Technology and Science: A Volume of Studies in Honor of Lynn White, jr., rev. by BARBARA M. KREUTZ; Kenneth Hudson: The Archaeology of Industry, rev. by LARRY D. LANKTON.
Ancillary Disciplines 108 J. M. Chalmers-Hunt (comp.): Natural History Auctions 1700-1972, A Register of Sales in the British Isles, rev. by DON R. BAESEL.
Prehistory & Primitive Societies 108 Anthony F. Aveni (ed.): Archaeoastronomy in Pre-Columbian America, rev. by SHARON GIBBS.
Classical Antiquity 109 Dorotheus Sidonius: Carmen astrologicum, ed. by David Pingree, rev. by GEORGE SALIBA; Robert Halleux: Le probleme des metaux dans la science antique, rev. by ROBERT P. MULTHAUF; Paul Moraux: Der Aristotelismus bei den Griechen, von Andronikos bis Alexander von Aphrodisias, Vol. I: Die Renaissance des Aristotelismus im 1. Jahrhundert vor Chr., rev. by ANDREAS GRAESER; Theophrastus: De Ventis, ed. by Victor Coutant and Val L. Eichenlaub, rev. by JAMES LONGRIGG.
Middle Ages 113 Allan Franklin: The Principle of Inertia in the Middle Ages, rev. by EDITH SYLLA; Robert Kilwardby: De ortu scientiarum, ed. by Albert G. Judy, rev. by STEPHEN C. MCCLUSKEY; Albert Quentin: Naturkenntnisse und Naturanschauungen bei Wilhelm von Auvergne, rev. by JOAN CADDEN; Richard of Wallingford: An Edition of His Writings with Introductions, English Translation and Commentary by J. D. North, 3 vols., rev. by DAVID C. LINDBERG.
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Islamic Cultures 117 Ahmad Y. Hassan: Taql al-DTn and Arabic Mechanical Engineering. With the Sublime Methods of Spiritual Machines. An Arabic Manuscript of the Sixteenth Century, rev. by DONALD R. HILL; Ibn a~-$alah: Zur Kritik der Koordinateniuberlieferung im Sternkatalog des Almagest, ed. by Paul Kunitzsch, rev. by BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN;, Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Islamic Science. An Illustrated Study, rev. by EMILIE SAVAGE-SMITH; Manfred Ullmann: Katalog der arabischen alchemistischen Handschriften der Chester Beatty Library, Teil II: Worterverzeichnis, rev. by ALBERT Z. ISKANDAR.
The Far East 121 Joseph Needham with Ho Ping-yu and Lu Gwei-djen: Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. V: Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Pt. 2: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Historical Survey, from Cinnabar Elixirs to Synthetic Insulin, rev. by JOHN S. MAJOR.
Renaissance & Reformation 122 Henri Baers ou Vekenstyl: Les tables astronomiques de Louvain de 1528, ed. by Emmanuel Poulle and Antoine De Smet, rev. by KRISTIAN PEDER MOESGAARD; Bronislaw Bilin'ski: La vita di Copernico di Bernardino Baldi dell'anno 1588 alla luce dei ritrovati manoscritti delle Vite dei matematici, rev. by PAUL LAWRENCE ROSE; Robert Kolb: Caspar Peucer's Library: Portrait of a Wittenberg Professor of the Mid-Sixteenth Century, rev. by ROBERT S. WESTMAN.
Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries 126 Florimond de Beaune: Doctrine de l'angle solide. Inventaire de sa bibliotheque, ed. by Pierre Costabel, rev. by TIMOTHY LENOIR; Francis Courtbs: La raison et la vie: Ide'al scientifique et ideologie en Allemagne de la Reforme jusqu'a Kant, rev. by PHILLIP R. SLCAN; Johannes Dorflinger: Die Geographie in der "Encyclopedie." Eine wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Studie, rev. by H. HOLDER; Leonhardi Euleri Opera Omnia, Ser. Secunda: Opera Mechanica, Vol. XX: Commentationes mechanicae et astronomicae ad scientiam navalem pertinentes, ed. by Walter Habicht, and Ser. Tertia: Opera Physica miscellanea epistolae, Vol. IX: Commentationes opticae, ed. by Walter Habicht and Emil Alfred Fellman, rev. by E. J. AITON; The Autobiography of John Fitch, ed. by Frank D. Prager, rev. by WALTER E. GROSS; George Gifford, Jr. (ed.): Physician Signers of the Declaration of Independence, rev. by VIRGINIA E. ALLEN; E. Lefebvre and J. G. De Bruijn (eds.): Martinus Van Marum, Life and Work, Vol. VI, rev. by ALBERT VAN HELDEN; Carl Linnaeus: Linnaeus' Oland and Gotland Journey, 1741, trans. by Marie Asberg and William T. Stearn, rev. by FRANK N. EGERTON, III; Maurizio Mamiami: Isaac Newton filosofo della natura. Le lezioni giovanili di ottica e la genesi del metodo newtoniano, rev. by WILLIAM R. SHEA; Agostino Ramelli: The Various and Ingenious Machines of Captain Agostino Ramelli, trans. by Martha Teach Gnudi, glossary by Eugene S. Ferguson, rev. by ROBERT P. MULTHAUF; Luigi Turco: Dal sistema al senso comune. Studi sul newtonismo e gli illuministi britannici, rev. by LOUISE MARCIL LACOSTE.
Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries 137 Stephen G. Brush: The Kind of Motion We Call Heat: A History of the Kinetic Theory of Gases in the 19th Century, Bk. 1: Physics and the Atomists, Bk 2: Statistical Physics and Irreversible Processes, rev. by ROGER H. STUEWER; Oeuvres complNtes d'Augustin Cauchy, rev. by PIERRE SPEZIALI; Brian Coe: The Birth of Photography: The Story of the Formative Years, 1800-1900, rev. by REESE V. JENKINS; Neil Coughlan: Young John Dewey: An Essay in American Intellectual History, rev. by MICHAEL M. SOKAL; Pierre Dugac: Richard Dedekind et les fondements des mathematiques, rev. by JOSEPH W. DAUBEN; Ernst Mach: Knowledge and Error: Sketches on the Psychology of Enquiry, rev,. by GARY GUTTING; Jeannette Mirsky: Sir Aurel Stein, Archaeological Explorer. rev. by FRANK W. IKLt; Ronald L. Numbers: Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White, rev. by GLENN VANDERVLIET.
Contemporary Sciences 147 Maurice Goldsmith: Frederic Joliot-Curie. A Biography, rev. by ROBERT E. FILNER; Sandra G. Harding (ed.): Can Theories Be Refuted? Essays on the Duhem-Quine Thesis, rev. by JOHN F.
POST; Armin Hermann: Werner Heisenberg: 1901-1976, trans. by Timothy Nevill, rev. by EDWARD MACKINNON; A. Landsborough Thomson: Halfa Century of Medical Research, Vol. 1: Origins and Policy of the Medical Research Council (UK), and Vol. Il: The Programme of the Medical Research Council (UK), rev. by ROBERT E. KOHLER; Milton Lomask: A Minor Miracle. An Informal History of the National Science Foundation, rev. by DANIEL P. JONES;
Joseph Meites; Bernard T. Donovan; Samuel M. McCann (eds.): Pioneers in Neuroendocrinology, rev. by MELVYN KEINER.
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 155 Cover: Seal on the cover of the Journal of the Statistical Society,
1838-1857 (see p. 21).
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