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Front MatterSource: Isis, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Jun., 1983), pp. 153-157Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/233100 .
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SHIRLEY A. ROE: John Turberville Needham and the Generation of Living Organisms 159
STUART JENKS: Astrometeorology in the Middle Ages 185
HELENA M. PYCIOR: The Three Stages of Augustus De Morgan's Algebraic Work 211
NOTES & CORRESPONDENCE
RAYMOND E. FANCHER: Biographical Origins of Francis Galton's Psychology 227
CATHERINE OSBORNE: Archimedes on the Dimensions of the Cosmos 234
NEWS OF THE PROFESSION
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society 243
Symposium on History of Science Today 248
ESSAY REVIEWS
DAVID EDGE on The Social Basis of Scientific Discoveries, by AUGUSTINE BRANNIGAN; Frames of Meaning, by H. M. COLLINS and T. J. PINCH; The Manufacture of Knowledge; An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science, by KARIN D. KNORR-CETINA; Essays in the Sociology of Perception, edited by MARY DOUGLAS; Sciences and Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Studies of the Sciences, edited by EVERETT
MENDELSOHN and YEHUDA ELKANA; and the June 1982 issue of Philosophy of the Social Sciences 250
BOOK REVIEWS
Bibliographical Tools 257 S. A. Jayawardene: Reference Books for the Historian of Science: A Handlist, rev. by R. P. MULTHAUF; Concise Dictionary of Scientific Biography, ed. by James F. Maurer et al., and A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists, ed. by John Daintith, Sarah Mitchell, and Elizabeth Tootil, rev. by WILLIAM MONTGOMERY.
Philosophy of Science 258 Craig Dilworth: Scientific Progress: A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories, and Ian Hacking (ed.): Scientific Revolutions, rev. by ROY BHASKAR; Philip Kitcher: Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism, rev. by RICHARD M. BURIAN; Robert McLaughlin (ed.): What? Where? When? Why?: Essays on Induction, Space and Time, Explanation, rev. by DAVIS BAIRD; Anthony O'Hear: Karl Popper, rev. by TOBY E. HUFF.
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Scientific Institutions 262 William M. Evan (ed.): Knowledge and Power in a Global Society, rev. by BRIGITTE SCHROEDER-GUDEHUS; G. D. Komkov, B. V. Levsin, and L. R. Semenov: Geschichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften der UdSSR, trans. by Gerhard Basler, Conrad Grau, and Dieter Mtihle, rev. by ALEXANDER VUCINICH.
Social Relations of Science 263 Benjamin Nelson: On the Roads to Modernity: Conscience, Science, and Civilizations, ed. by Toby E. Huff, rev. by TIMOTHY LENOIR; Stephen J. Pyne: Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire, rev. by JAMES WHORTON; Andrew Scull (ed.): Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, rev. by DAVID ROSNER; Pierre Thuillier: Darwin and Co., rev. by H. W. PAUL; Charles Webster (ed.): Biology, Medicine, and Society, 1840-1940, rev. by RUTH SCHWARTZ COWAN.
Humanistic Relations of Science 267
Anke Janssen: Francis Godwins "The Man in the Moone": Die Entdeckung des Romans als Medium der Auseinandersetzung mit Zeitproblemen, rev. by SARAH HUTTON; Ronald E. Martin: American Literature and the Universe of Force, rev. by PAUL THEERMAN.
History of Philosophy 268 Steven J. Dick: Plurality of Worlds: The Origins of Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Democritus to Kant, rev. by MICHAEL J. CROWE.
Mathematics 270 P. L. Butzer; F. Feher (eds.): E. B. Christoffel: The Influence of His Work on Math- ematics and the Physical Sciences, rev. by E. SCHOLZ.
Physical Sciences 271 Michael Hoskin: Stellar Astronomy: Historical Studies, rev. by CURTIS A. WILSON; Garry Hunt (ed.): Uranus and the Outer Planets, rev. by SIMON SCHAFFER; T. J. Trenn: Transmutation: Natural and Artificial, rev. by JOAN BROMBERG.
Earth Sciences 273 Arthur H. Robinson: Early Thematic Mapping in the History of Cartography, rev. by GEORGE KISH.
Biological Sciences 273 Robert E. Kohler: From Medical Chemistry to Biochemistry: The Making of a Bio- medical Discipline, rev. by JOHN W. SERVOS; Lamarck et son temps-Lamarck et notre temps: Colloque international dans le cadre du Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches inter- disciplines de Chantilly, rev. by PAUL LAWRENCE FARBER; A. G. Morton: History of Botanical Science: An Account of the Development of Botany from Ancient Times to the Present Day, and John Prest: The Garden of Eden: The Botanic Garden and the Re- Creation of Paradise, rev. by KAREN REEDS.
Social Sciences 277 Wolf Lepenies (ed.): Geschichte der Soziologie: Studien zur kognitiven, sozialen, und historischen Identitat einer Disziplin, rev. by HARRY LIEBERSOHN.
Medicine 278 Philip Cash; Eric H. Christianson; J. Worth Estes (eds.): Medicine in Colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820: A Conference Held 25 and 26 May 1978 by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, rev. by MORRIS J. VOGEL; Jan Larsson: Ars Chirurgica: Kirurgi och medicinsk teori vid Lunds Universitet under 1700-talet, rev. by JAMES LARSON; Francis Schiller: A Mobius Strip: Fin-de-Siecle Neuropsychiatry and Paul Mobius, rev. by HANNAH S. DECKER; John C. Sheehan: The Enchanted Ring: The Untold Story of Penicillin, rev. by JOHN PARASCANDOLA.
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Technology 281 Svante Lindqvist: The Teaching of History of Technology in USA-A Critical Survey in 1978, rev. by CARROLL PURSELL; Otto Mayr; Robert C. Post (eds.): Yankee Enter- prise: The Rise of The American System of Manufactures, rev. by RUSSELL I. FRIES; Carroll W. Pursell (ed.): Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas, rev. by BERNARD S. FINN.
Classical Antiquity 283 Max Steck; Menso Folkerts (eds.): Bibliographia Euclideana: Die Geisteslinien der Tradition in den Editionen der "Elemente" (2TOIXEIA) des Euklid (um 365-300), rev. by SABETAI UNGURU.
India 284 Bina Chatterjee: ?isyadh7vrddhida Tantra of Lalla, with the Commentary of Mal- likiarjuna Suri, Volume I: Critical Edition and Commentary, rev. by DAVID PINGREE.
Renaissance 285 Warren Van Egmond; Practical Mathematics in the Italian Renaissance: A Catalog of Italian Abbacus Manuscripts and Printed Books to 1600, rev. by S. A. JAYAWARDENE.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 286 R. H. Campbell; Andrew S. Skinner (eds.): The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment, rev. by STEVEN SHAPIN; Franqois Duchesneau: La Physiologie des lumieres: Empirisme, modeles et theories, rev. by MARTIN S. STAUM; Huygens et la France, rev. by ALBERT VAN HELDEN; [Antoine Laurent Lavoisier; Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace:] Memoir on Heat: Read to the Royal Academy of Sciences, June 28, 1783, by Messrs. Lavoisier and De La Place of the same Academy, trans. and ed. by HENRY GUERLAC, rev. by JAN V. GOLINSKI.
Nineteenth Century 290 Paul Russell Cutright; Michael J. Brodhead: Elliot Coues: Naturalist and Frontier Historian, rev. by KEIR B. STERLING; Martin Fichman: Alfred Russel Wallace, rev. by MALCOLM KOTTLER; Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick: Rafinesque: A Sketch of His Life with Bibliography, ed. by Charles Boewe, rev. by CHARLOTTE M. PORTER; Anthony Hyman: Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer, rev. by JOAN L. RICHARDS; Dov Ospovat: The Development of Darwin's Theory: Natural History, Natural The- ology, and Natural Selection, 1838-1859, rev. by MICHAEL RUSE; Charles Pierce: Writings of Charles S. Pierce: A Chronological Edition, ed. by Max H. Frisch, rev. by BRUCE KUKLICK.
Twentieth Century 294 Richard Goldschmidt: The Material Basis of Evolution, intro. by Stephen Jay Gould, and Leonie K. Piternick (ed.): Richard Goldschmidt: Controversial Geneticist and Creative Biologist, intro. by Karl von Frisch, rev. by ELOF AXEL CARLSON; Paul A. Hanle; Bringing Aerodynamics to America, rev. by EDWARD W. CONSTANT; Hans Krebs: Reminiscences and Reflections, rev, by FREDERIC L. HOLMES; Frank G. McMillan: The Chain Straighteners, Fruitful Innovation: The Discovery of Linear and Stereoregular Synthetic Polymers, and G. Allan Stahl (ed.): Polymer Science Over- view: A Tribute to Herman F. Mark, rev. by CLAUS PRIESNER; Girolamo Ramunni: Les conceptions quantiques de 1911 a 1937, rev. by KARL VON MEYENN; Joseph H. Udelson: The Great Television Race: A History of the American Television Industry 1925-1941, rev. by ROBERT FRIEDEL.
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 301
Cover: Portrait of Francis Galton as a student at Cambridge Uni- versity. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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