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On John Dee's celestial egg: see page 385.

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VOLUME 70 NUMBER 253 SEPTEMBER 1979

ARTICLES

RONALD CALINGER: Kant and Newtonian Science: The Pre-Critical Period 349

GARY C. HATFIELD; WILLIAM EPSTEIN: The Sensory Core and the Medieval Foundations of Early Modern Perceptual Theory 363

J. PETER ZETTERBERG: Hermetic Geocentricity: John Dee's Celestial Egg 385

DAVID KONSTAN: Problems in Epicurean Physics 394

ELOGE

HENRY S. TROPP: Kenneth 0. May, July 8, 1915-December 1, 1977 419

NOTES & CORRESPONDENCE

BRUCE EASTWOOD: Al-Fdrdbi on Extramission, Intromission, and the Use Qf Platonic Visual Theory 423

NEWS OF THE PROFESSION 426

REVIEW SYMPOSIUM

Paradigm Lost? 429 Thomas S. Kuhn: Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912, rev. by MARTIN J. KLEIN, ABNER SHIMONY, and TREVOR J. PINCfl.

BOOK REVIEWS

History of Science 441 V. K. Kuzakov: Ocherki razvitiia estestvennno-nauchnykh i tekhnicheskikh predstavlenii na Rus v X-XVII vv (Essays on the development of scientific and technical ideas in Russia in the 10-17th centuries), rev. by ALEXANDER VUCINICH.

Historiography & Historical Method 441 Joseph Anthony Mazzeo: Varieties of Interpretation, rev. by BARRY BARNES.

Scientific Instruments 442 Gunnar Pipping: The Chamber of Physics. Instruments in the History of Science Collections qf the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, rev. by SILVIO A. BEDINI.

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Physical Sciences 451 Y. Maeyama; W. G. Saltzer (eds.): Prismata: Naturwissenschaftsgeschichtliche Studien. Festschrift fulr Willy Hartner, rev. by E. J. AITON; Mary F. I. Smyth; Michael J. Smyth: Supplement to the Catalogue of the Crawford Library of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, rev. by OWEN GINGERICH.

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Technology 458 Bertrand Gille (ed.): Histoire des techniques, rev. by GALE AVRITH; L. T. C. Rolt; J. S. Allen: The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen and G. N. von Tunzelmann: Steam Power and British Industrialization to 1860, rev. by ARTHUR DONOVAN; Nathan Rosenberg: Perspectives on Technology, rev. by ROBERT FRIEDEL.

Prehistory 461 Aubrey Burl: The Stone Circles of the British Isles, and Euan W. MacKie: Science and Society in Prehistoric Britain, rev. by SHARON GIBBS.

Ancient Near East 462 Philo of Byzantium. Pneumatica. The First Treatise on Experimental Physics: Western Version and Eastern Version, trans. and ed. by Frank David Prager, rev. by E. J. MCCULLOUJGHE.

Classical Antiquity 463 G. E. R. Lloyd; G. E. L. Owen (eds.): Aristotle on Mind and the Senses. Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium Aristotelicum, rev. by JULIA ANNAS.

Middle Ages 463 Marbode of Rennes' (1035-1123) "De Lapidus," ed. by John M. Riddle, rev. by BARBARA BEIGUN KAPLAN.

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Islamic Cultures 464 Khalil Jaouiche: Le livre du qarastun de Tabit Ibn Qurra: Etude sur l'origine de la notion de travail et du calcul du moment statique d'une barre homogene, rev. by GEORGE SALIBA.

The Far East 465 Edward H. Schafer: Pacing the Void: T'ang Approaches to the Stars, rev. by HO PENG YOKE.

Renaissance & Reformation 466 Frangois Viete: Einfuhrung in die Neue Algebra, rev. by R. C. H. TANNER.

Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries 466 Ronald Calinger: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, rev. by FREDERICK C. KREILING; Franco Crispini: Metafisica del senso e scienZe della vita: Tommaso Cornelio, rev. by MAURICE A. FINOCCHIARO;

Joseph Ehrenfried Hofmann: Register zu Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Mathematische Schriften und Der Briefwechsel mit Mathematikern, rev. by MICHAEL S. MAHONEY; Lomonosov, Statei i materialov, rev.,by HENRY M. LEICESTER; Lazzaro Spallanzani: I Giornali delle SperienZe e Osservazioni Relativi alla Fisiologia della Generazione alla Embriolgia Sperimentale, rev. by JANE M. OPPENHEIMER; Istvan Szab6: Geschichte der mechanischen Prinzipien und ihrer wichtigsten Anwendungen, rev. by E. A. FELLMANN; David Scofield Wilson: In the Presence of Nature, rev. by EDMUND BERKELEY.

Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries 472 Erwin Bunning: Wilhelm Pfeffer. Apotheker, Chemiker, Botaniker, Physiologe, rev. by PAULINE M. H. MAZUMDAR; G. M. Caroe: William Henry Bragg 1862-1942: Man and Scientist, rev. by LAWRENCE BADASH; Paul Gasser: Charles Krafft (1863-1921), ein Pionier der Appendektomie und der Krankenpflege in Europa, rev. by GERT H. BRIEGER; John C. Greene; John G. Burke: The Science of Minerals in the Age of Jefferson, rev. by GEORGE W. WHITE; Albrecht Hirschmuller: Physiologie und Psychoanalyse im Leben und Werk Josef Breuers, rev. by ERWIN H. ACKERKNECHT; Robert Jameson: The Wernerian Theory of the Neptunian Origin of Rocks, rev. by GORDON Y. CRAIG; Martin Kaufman: American Medical Education: The Formative Years, 1765-1910, rev. by RONALD L. NUMBERS; James G. Paradis: T. H. Huxley: Man's Place in Nature, rev. by PETER J. BOWLER; Gunter D. Roth: Joseph von Fraunhofer: Handwerker, Forscher, Akademiemitglied, 1787-1826, rev. by ALBERT VAN HELDEN; C.

Truesdell; S. Bharatha: The Concepts and Logic of Classical Thermodynamics as a Theory of Heat Engines, Rigorously Constructed upon the Foundation Laid by S. Carnot and F Reech, rev. by EDWARD E. DAUB; L. Pearce Williams: Album of Science: The Nineteenth Century, rev. by DAVID KNIGHT.

Contemporary Sciences 479 Hamilton Cravens: The Triumph of Evolution: American Scientists and the Heredity- Environment Controversy, 1900-1941, rev. by GEORGE W. STOCKING, JR.; Elizabeth M. R. Lomax, with the assistance of Jerome Kagan and Barbara G. Rosenkrantz: Science and Patterns of Child Care, rev. by JOHN D. BURNHAM; Ronald L. Numbers: Almost Persuaded: American Physicians and Compulsory Health Insurance, 1912-1920, rev. by ROSEMARY A.

STEVENS.

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 482

Cover: Portrait of John Dee by Richard Bentley (photo courtesy of E. F. Smith Memorial Collection in the History of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania). See p. 385.

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