Volume 75; Issue 2

Isis

Volume 75; Issue 2
1

Galileo and the Process of Scientific Creation

Winifred Lovell Wisan
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Isis
Year:
1984
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english
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PDF, 2.89 MB
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2

Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes on Imagination and Analogy

Katharine Park, Lorraine J. Daston and Peter L. Galison
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Isis
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1984
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english
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4

On Electrified Societies

Review by: Leslie Hannah
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Isis
Year:
1984
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english
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5

Ballooning in France and Britain, 1783-1786: Aerostation and Adventurism

Richard Gillespie
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Isis
Year:
1984
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english
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6

Galilean Analogies: Imagination at the Bounds of Sense

Lorraine J. Daston
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Year:
1984
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english
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7

Descartes's Comparisons: From the Invisible to the Visible

Peter Galison
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Isis
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1984
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english
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PDF, 462 KB
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8

Guldin's Theorem--Or Pappus's?

Ivor Bulmer-Thomas
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Isis
Year:
1984
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english
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PDF, 182 KB
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9

Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, 27-30 October 1983

Frederick Gregory and Robert A. Hatch
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Isis
Year:
1984
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english
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10

International Symposia

Nathan Reingold and Ann Hibner Koblitz
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Isis
Year:
1984
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english
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11

Eloge: Walter Pagel, 14 November 1898-1 April 1983

Audrey B. Davis
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Isis
Year:
1984
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english
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12

On Differential Calculuses

Review by: Michael S. Mahoney
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Isis
Year:
1984
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english
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PDF, 223 KB
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13

On Hypothetical Approaches

Review by: Ernan McMullin
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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
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PDF, 186 KB
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14

On Unified Biographies

Review by: Martin J. Klein
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Isis
Year:
1984
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english
File:
PDF, 130 KB
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16

Geschichte der Naturwissenschaftenby Hans Wussing

Review by: L. Pearce Williams
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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 121 KB
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19

Scientific Explanation and Atomic Physicsby Edward M. MacKinnon

Review by: David C. Cassidy
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Isis
Year:
1984
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english
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PDF, 118 KB
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20

Philosophy and the New Physicsby Jonathan Powers

Review by: Peter Barker
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 118 KB
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21

La formation de l'ecole francaise de geographie (1870-1914)by Vincent Berdoulay

Review by: G. S. Dunbar
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 118 KB
english, 1984
22

The Papers of the Dublin Philosophical Society, 1683-1708by K. Theodore Hoppen

Review by: James E. McClellan III
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 96 KB
english, 1984
23

Praelectiones Physicae: Historisch-kritische Editionby Joachim Jungius; Christopher Meinel

Review by: Owen Hannaway
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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 147 KB
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24

Los relojes y automatas de Juanelo Turrianoby Jose A. Garcia-Diego

Review by: Silvio A. Bedini
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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 118 KB
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25

Science and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Scienceby Joseph Agassi

Review by: Jerry Gaston
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 94 KB
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26

The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Centuryby Svetlana Alpers

Review by: Bruce Eastwood
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 107 KB
english, 1984
27

The Mathematical Science of Christopher Wrenby J. A. Bennett

Review by: Albert Van Helden
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 129 KB
english, 1984
29

Collected Papers of J. E. Littlewoodby J. E. Littlewood; London Mathematical Society

Review by: Harold G. Diamond
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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 118 KB
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31

Neyman: From Lifeby Constance Reid

Review by: Steve J. Heims
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 117 KB
english, 1984
33

The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades around 1900by Peter J. Bowler

Review by: John Farley
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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 117 KB
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34

The Secular Ark: Studies in the History of Biogeographyby Janet Browne

Review by: Frank N. Egerton
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 118 KB
english, 1984
35

The Idea of Race in Science: Great Britain, 1800-1960by Nancy Stepan

Review by: Greta Jones
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
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PDF, 118 KB
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36

Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Mythby Derek Freeman

Review by: Virginia Yans-McLaughlin
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 116 KB
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37

Ruth Benedict: Patterns of a Lifeby Judith Schachter Modell

Review by: Richard Handler
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 412 KB
english, 1984
38

L'architecture du divin: Mathematique et philosophie chez Plotin et Proclusby Annick Charles-Saget

Review by: Ian Mueller
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
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PDF, 95 KB
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39

The Medieval Latin Translation of the Data of Euclidby Shuntaro Ito

Review by: Sabetai Unguru
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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 118 KB
english, 1984
42

Principles of Philosophyby Rene Descartes; Valentine Rodger Miller; Reese P. Miller

Review by: Margaret J. Osler
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
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PDF, 119 KB
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43

Henry Stubbe, Radical Protestantism and the Early Enlightenmentby James R. Jacob

Review by: Steven Shapin
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 479 KB
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44

Briefwechsel zwischen Alexander von Humboldt und Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichletby Kurt-R. Bierman

Review by: Eric G. Forbes
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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
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PDF, 119 KB
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45

Ludwig Boltzmann: Man--Physicist--Phylosopherby Engelbert Broda; Larry Gay

Review by: Martin Curd
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 97 KB
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47

Evolution without Evidence: Charles Darwin and the Origin of Speciesby Barry G. Gale

Review by: Muriel L. Blaisdell
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 119 KB
english, 1984
48

Adam Sedgwick: Geologist and Dalesman, 1785-1873: A Biography in Twelve Themesby Colin Speakman

Review by: Martin Rudwick
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 97 KB
english, 1984
49

George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbolby Linda O. McMurry

Review by: Margaret W. Rossiter
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
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PDF, 563 KB
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51

Rationality and Ritual: The Windscale Inquiry and Nuclear Decisions in Britainby Bryan Wynne

Review by: Steven L. Del Sesto
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 115 KB
english, 1984
52

Disease and Its Control: The Shaping of Modern Thoughtby Robert P. Hudson

Review by: John B. Blake
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 94 KB
english, 1984
54

Sources in the History of American Pharmacologyby John Parascandola; Elizabeth Keeney

Review by: John Harley Warner
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 404 KB
english, 1984
55

History of Clinical Chemistryby J. Buttner

Review by: James Whorton
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 96 KB
english, 1984
58

Medizin im mittelalterlichen Abendlandby Gerhard Baader; Gundolf Keil

Review by: Luke Demaitre
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 124 KB
english, 1984
59

An Enumeration of Chinese Materia Medicaby Shiu-ying Hu; Y. C. Kong; Paul P. H. But

Review by: Elling O. Eide
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 121 KB
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60

William Hunter, 1718-1783: A Memoirby Samuel Fort Simmons; John Hunter; C. H. Brock

Review by: Toby Gelfand
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 98 KB
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61

The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Feverby Ignaz Semmelweis; K. Codell Carter

Review by: Keith R. Benson
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 119 KB
english, 1984
62

Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britainby Anthony S. Wohl

Review by: Terry M. Parssinen
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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 95 KB
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63

Back Matter

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Isis
Year:
1984
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english
File:
PDF, 737 KB
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64

Did Lavoisier Report to the Academy of Sciences on His Own Book?

C. E. Perrin
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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
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PDF, 213 KB
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67

Carteggio (1768-1798)by Leopoldo M. A. Caldani; Lazzaro Spallanzani; Giuseppe Ongaro

Review by: Jane M. Oppenheimer
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 139 KB
english, 1984
68

Compulsory Health Insurance: The Continuing Debateby Ronald L. Numbers

Review by: Allan M. Brandt
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 124 KB
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71

Vorlesungen uber die Medizin im Islamby Felix Klein-Franke

Review by: Emilie Savage-Smith
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 701 KB
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73

Scienza e filosofia nella cultura positivisticaby Antonio Santucci

Review by: Maurice A. Finocchiaro
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Isis
Year:
1984
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english
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PDF, 159 KB
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75

Front Matter

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Isis
Year:
1984
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english
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PDF, 338 KB
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76

Wiley: One Hundred and Seventy Five Years of Publishingby John Hammond Moore; A. Wayne Anderson

Review by: Susan Sheets-Pyenson
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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
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PDF, 166 KB
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77

Bacon's "Enchanted Glass"

Katharine Park
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 408 KB
english, 1984
78

Liebigs Experimentalvorlesung: Vorlesungsbuch und Kekules Mitschriftby Otto Paul Kratz; Claus Priesner

Review by: Alan J. Rocke
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 189 KB
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79

Amici e corrispondenti di Galileoby Antonio Favoro; Paulo Galluzi

Review by: William R. Shea
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 137 KB
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80

Charles Blacker Vignoles: Romantic Engineerby K. H. Vignoles

Review by: Russell I. Fries
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
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PDF, 158 KB
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82

How the Laws of Physics Lieby Nancy Cartwright

Review by: Arthur Fine
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 159 KB
english, 1984
85

The Earth Sciences: An Annotated Bibliographyby Roy Porter

Review by: Cecil J. Schneer
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 167 KB
english, 1984
86

Stronger Than a Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheelby Terry S. Reynolds

Review by: Janis Langins
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 168 KB
english, 1984
87

Cholera: The American Scientific Experience, 1947-1980by W. E. van Heyningen; John R. Seal

Review by: Pauline M. H. Mazumdar
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 130 KB
english, 1984
88

Pure Politics and Impure Science: The Swine Flu Affairby Arthur M. Silverstein

Review by: Harry M. Marks
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
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PDF, 149 KB
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90

Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain Anthony S. Wohl

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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 37 KB
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91

Back Matter

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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
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PDF, 675 KB
english, 1984
92

How the Laws of Physics Lie . Nancy Cartwright

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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 68 KB
english, 1984
93

The Earth Sciences: An Annotated Bibliography Roy Porter

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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 76 KB
english, 1984
94

Ruth Benedict: Patterns of a Life Judith Schachter Modell

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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 349 KB
english, 1984
95

Carteggio (1768-1798) . Leopoldo M. A. Caldani, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Giuseppe Ongaro

Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 93 KB
english, 1984
96

The Mathematical Science of Christopher Wren . J. A. Bennett

Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 78 KB
english, 1984
97

The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever . Ignaz Semmelweis, K. Codell Carter

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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 69 KB
english, 1984
99

The Secular Ark: Studies in the History of Biogeography . Janet Browne

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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 69 KB
english, 1984
100

The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology . Anthony Pagden

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Isis
Year:
1984
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english
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PDF, 344 KB
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101

Amici e corrispondenti di Galileo . Antonio Favoro, Paulo Galluzi

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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 46 KB
english, 1984
103

Henry Stubbe, Radical Protestantism and the Early Enlightenment . James R. Jacob

Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 416 KB
english, 1984
104

Collected Papers of J. E. Littlewood . J. E. Littlewood, London Mathematical Society

Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 68 KB
english, 1984
105

The Papers of the Dublin Philosophical Society, 1683-1708 . K. Theodore Hoppen

Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 45 KB
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106

Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen. Volumes V + VI: Keilschrifttexte aus Ninive . Franz Kocher

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Isis
Year:
1984
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english
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PDF, 68 KB
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107

American Design Ethic: A History of Industrial Designby Arthur J. Pulos

Review by: Jeffrey L. Meikle
Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
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english
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PDF, 207 KB
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108

On Differential Calculuses The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton. Volume VIII: 1697-1722 . Isaac Newton, D. T. Whiteside

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Isis
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1984
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english
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PDF, 168 KB
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109

Laennec: Catalogue des manuscrits scientifiques . Lydie Boulle, Mirko D. Grmek, Catherine Lupovici, Janine Samion-Contet

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Isis
Year:
1984
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english
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PDF, 40 KB
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110

Bacon's "Enchanted Glass"

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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
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PDF, 314 KB
english, 1984
111

Eloge: Walter Pagel, 14 November 1898-1 April 1983

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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
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PDF, 440 KB
english, 1984
113

La formation de l'ecole francaise de geographie (1870-1914) . Vincent Berdoulay

Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 75 KB
english, 1984
114

Science and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Science . Joseph Agassi

Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 37 KB
english, 1984
115

Cholera: The American Scientific Experience, 1947-1980 . W. E. van Heyningen, John R. Seal

Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 39 KB
english, 1984
116

Did Lavoisier Report to the Academy of Sciences on His Own Book?

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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
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PDF, 158 KB
english, 1984
117

Galileo and the Process of Scientific Creation

Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
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PDF, 2.84 MB
english, 1984
118

Descartes's Comparisons: From the Invisible to the Visible

Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
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PDF, 409 KB
english, 1984
119

Zermelo's Axiom of Choice: Its Origins, Development, and Influence . Gregory H. Moore

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1984
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english
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PDF, 68 KB
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121

Adam Sedgwick: Geologist and Dalesman, 1785-1873: A Biography in Twelve Themes . Colin Speakman

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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
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PDF, 47 KB
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122

A Comparison of Selected Poetic and Scientific Works of Albrecht von Haller . Dorothy Roller Wiswall, Otto G. Graf

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1984
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english
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PDF, 66 KB
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124

American Design Ethic: A History of Industrial Design . Arthur J. Pulos

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Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
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PDF, 46 KB
english, 1984
125

Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes on Imagination and Analogy

Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 82 KB
english, 1984
126

Galilean Analogies: Imagination at the Bounds of Sense

Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 210 KB
english, 1984
127

Ballooning in France and Britain, 1783-1786: Aerostation and Adventurism

Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 1.09 MB
english, 1984
128

Sources in the History of American Pharmacology . John Parascandola, Elizabeth Keeney

Journal:
Isis
Year:
1984
Language:
english
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PDF, 340 KB
english, 1984
129

On Hypothetical Approaches Science and Hypothesis: Historical Essays on Scientific Methodology . Larry Laudan

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1984
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english
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PDF, 136 KB
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130

Pure Politics and Impure Science: The Swine Flu Affair . Arthur M. Silverstein

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Isis
Year:
1984
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PDF, 57 KB
1984