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Front MatterSource: Isis, Vol. 67, No. 2 (Jun., 1976), pp. 157-159Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/230920 .
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THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 0 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20560, U.S.A.
Committee on Isis of the History of Science Society ROBERT SIEGFRIED, University of Wisconsin
ROBERT E. KOHLER, JR. LEONARD G. WILSON
University of Pennsylvania University of Minnesota
NATHAN SIVIN RUTH SCHWARTZ COWAN
Massachusetts Institute of Technology SUNY, Stony Brook
Former Editors of Isis
GEORGE SARTON, I. BERNARD COHEN, HARRY WOOLF
Advisory Editors E. J. AITON, Didsbury College of Education, Manchester HAROLD L. BURSTYN, The William Paterson College MAURICE P. CROSLAND, University of Kent LOREN R. GRAHAM, Columbia University THOMAS L. HANKINS, University of Washington AARON J. IHDE, University of Wisconsin S. A. JAYAWARDENE, Sience Museum, Lndmon HANS KANGRO, Universitat Hamburg DAVID C. LINDBERG, University of Wiscomsin Orro M. MARX, Newton, Massachusetts 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, Broun 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, antd Dece&er 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 $1.00 each; plus postage ($.10 per copy or $.25 pei 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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MICHAEL MC VAUGH; SEYMOUR H. MAUSKOPF: J. B. Rhine's Extra-Sensory Perception and Its Background in Psychical Research 161
MILTON KERKER: The Svedberg and Molecular Reality 190
ARTHUR DONOVAN: Pneumatic Chemistry and Newtonian Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century: William Cullen and Joseph Black 217
H. E. LE GRAND: Claude-Louis Berthollet's Essai de statique chimique and Acidity 229
STILLMAN DRAKE: The Evolution of De motu (Galileo Gleanings XXIV) 239
REMKE KRUK: Pseudo-Aristotle: An Arabic Version of Problemata physica X 251
YAKOV M. RABKIN: Trends and Forces in the Soviet History of Chemistry 257
NOTES & CORRESPONDENCE
EDRIC CANE: Jean d'Alembert between Descartes and Newton: A Critique of Thomas L. Hankins' Position; Reply by THOMAS L. HANKINS 274
NEWS 279
BOOK REVIEWS
The tip of the bioberg Garland Allen: Life Sciences in the Twentieth Century, rev. by MELVYN KEINER. 284
Philosophy of Science 286 Robert J. Baum (ed.): Philosophy and Mathematics. From Plato to the Present, rev. by WOLFGANG BREIDERT.
Scientific Institutions 287 J. G. Crowther: The Cavendish Laboratory 1874-1974, rev. by THADDEUS J. TRENN.
Scientific Education 289 Sanborn C. Brown; Leonard M. Rieser: Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth. From Surveyors' Chains to the Pressure of Light, rev. by LAWRENCE BADASH.
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Social Relations of Science 290 Bruce Sinclair; Norman R. Ball; James 0. Peterson (eds.): Let Us Be Honest and Modest: Technology and Society in Canadian History and Trevor H. Levere; Richard A. Jarrell (eds.): A Curious Field Book: Science and Society in Canadian History, rev. by CHRISTOPHER
C. SMART; Sal P. Restivo; Christopher K. Vanderpool (eds.): Comparative Studies in Science and Society, rev. by JOANNE S. MORTIMER; Henry John Steffens; H. N. Muller, III (eds.): Science, Technology, and Culture, rev by WALTER F. SNYDER.
Humanistic Relations of Science 294 John Passmore: Man's Responsibility for Nature. Ecological Problems and Western Traditions, rev. by JOHN BAIRD CALLICOrT.
Mathematics 295 Herman H. Goldstine: The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann, rev. by HENRY S. TROPP;
Lubos Novy: Origins of Modern Algebra, rev. by ELAINE KOPPELMAN.
Physical Sciences 297 Zdenek Kopal; Robert W. Carder: Mapping of the Moon: Past and Present, rev. by ALBERT
VAN HELDEN; Eberhard Schmauderer (ed.): Der Chemiker im Wandel der Zeiten. Skizzen zur geschichtlichen Entwicklung des Berufsbildes, rev. by KARL HUFBAUER.
Earth Sciences 299 Dietlinde Goltz: Studien zur Geschichte der MVineralnamen in Pharmazie. Chemie und MWedizin von den Anfangen bis Paracelsus, rev, by ROBERT P. MULTHAUF.
Biological Sciences 300 Elisabeth Geck; Guido Pressler (eds.): Festschrift fur Claus Nissen zum siebzigsten Geburtstag, 2 September 1971, rev. by A. D. KRIKORIAN.
Sciences of Man 300 Regna Darnell (ed.): Readings in the History of Anthropology, rev. by ELIZABETH FEE; Solomon Diamond (ed. and trans.): The Roots of Psychology: A Sourcebook in the History of Ideas, and Fred S. Keller (ed.): Selected Readings in the History of Psychology: A PSI Companion, rev. by JOSEF BROZEK.
Technology 303 Friedrich Rapp (ed.): Contributions to a Philosophy of Technology: Studies in the Structure of Thinking in the Technological Sciences, rev. by OTTO MAYR.
Ancillary Disciplines 304 Antoine Leon: Histoire de l'enseignement en France, rev. by JEAN-CLAUDE GUEDON.
Ancient Near East 304 Paul Ghalioungui: The House of Life: Magical and Medical Science in Ancient Egypt, rev. by GUENTER B. RISSE.
Classical Antiquity 306 Jaakko Hintikka: Time and Necessity. Studies in Aristotle's Theory of Modality, rev. by J. M. MORAVCSIK.
Islamic Cultures 307 Salah Ahmad; Roshdi Rashed (eds.): Al-Bahir en Algebre d'As-Samaw'al, rev. by DAVID
A. KING.
Far East 308 Aichi Daigaku Chu-Ni dai jiten Hensansho: Chui-Ni dai jiten and Liang Shih-ch'iu (ed.): A New Practical Chinese-English Dictionary and Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage, rev. by N. SIVIN; Ulrich Libbrecht: Chinese Mathematics in the Thirteenth Century. The Shu-shu chiu-chang of Ch'in Chiu-shao, rev. by KURT VOGEL.
Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries 311 Condorcet: Essai sur l'application de l'analyse d la probabiliti des decisions reudues a la pluraliti des voix and Condorcet. Mathwmatique et societe, rev. by KEITH MICHAEL BAKER; Thomas Hobbes:
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De homine: Traite de l'homme, rev. by ALAN E. SHAPIRO; Joseph Ehrenfried Hofmann: Leibniz in Paris (1672-1676). His Growth to Mathematical Maturity, rev. by PIERRE COSTABEL; Eberhard Knobloch: Die mathematischen Studien von G. W. Leibniz zur Kombinatorik, rev. by HENRY W. GOULD; Martha List; Volker Bialas: Die Coss von Jost Biirgi in der Redaktion von Johannes Kepler. Ein Beitrag zur frihen Algebra, rev. by WOLFGANG KAUNZNER; Maria Luisa Righini Bonelli: Vita di Galileo, rev. by WILLIAM R. SHEA; Charles Webster (ed.): The Intellectual Revolution of the Seventeenth Century, rev. by JAMES MAC LACHLAN.
Ninteenth & Twentieth Centuries 319 Bernard Bolzano: Theory of Science, ed. and trans. by Rolf George, and Bernard Bolzano: Theory of Science, ed. by Jan Berg and trans. by Burnham Terrell, rev. by JOHN T. BLACKMORE; James R. Friday; Roy M. MacLeod; Philippa Shepard: John Tyndall, Natural Philosopher, 1820-1893. Catalogue of Correspondence, Journals and Collected Papers, rev. by CLARK A. ELLIOTr; W. P. Jolly: Sir Oliver Lodge: Psychical Researcher and Scientist, rev. by SETH LANDEFELD; Edward Lurie: Nature and the American Mind: Louis Agassiz and the Culture of Science, rev. by MORGAN SHERWOOD.
Contemporary Sciences 323 Robert A. Kargon (ed.): The Maturing of American Science: A Portrait of Science in Public Life Drawn from the Presidential Addresses of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1920-1970, rev. by SALLY GREGORY KOHLSTEDT; Robert Olby: The Path to the Double Helix, rev. by E. J. YOXEN.
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 327
Cover: Designs of the "E.S.P. cards" in use today. Introduced in 1937, they are a version of the original Zener cards first used in 1930-1934 (see p. 161).
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