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Volume 22; Issue 2

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Volume 22; Issue 2

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THE CHALLENGE OF VARIATIONS: THE OBSERVATIONAL TRADITIONS OF PTOLEMY AND ARISTOTLE, AND COPERNICUS' HELIOCENTRIC SOLUTION

P.D. MUNNS, DAVID

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"OPERE DI CRISTALLO DELICATISSIME E MERAVIGLIOSE": WORKS OF ART FOR CONNOISSEURS AND SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS FOR THE ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO

GRAZIA TAGLIAVINI, MARIA

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VINCENT JULLIEN, Philosophie naturelle et géométrie au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Honore Champion, Paris, 2006. 477 pp., ISBN 2-7453-1363-0.

GALUZZI, MASSIMO

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WILLIAM R. NEWMAN, LAWRENCE M. PRINCIPE (eds.), George Starkey: Alchemical laboratory notebooks and correspondence. Chicago: The University of Chicago press, 2004. XXXVI+352 pp., ISBN 0226577015.

CLERICUZIO, ANTONIO

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HARRY LIEBERSOHN, The Traveler's World. Europe to the Pacific. Cambridge (Mass.) and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. XIII+380 pp., ISBN: 0-674-02185-1.

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ELISABETH R. NESWALD, Thermodynamik als Kultureller Kampfplatz. Zur Faszina tionsgeschichte. Berling: Verlag, 2006. 475 pp., ISBN 3-7930-9448-0.

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ROBERTA PASSIONE (ed.), Ugo Cerletti. Scritti sull'elettroshock. Milano: Angeli, 2006. 236 pp., ISBN 88-464-7823-1.

MORABITO, CARMELA

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MARC J. RATCLIFF, MARTINE RUCHAT (eds.), Les Laboratoires de l'esprit. Une histoire de la psychologie à Genève, 1892-1965. Geneve: Musee d'Histoire des Sciences de Geneve, 2006. 181 pp., ISBN 2-606-01215-1.

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LAURA J. SNYDER, Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. x+386 pp., ISBN 0-226-76733-7.

MORUS, IWAN RHYS

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WHAT'S NEW IN PTOLEMY'S ALMAGEST?

R. GOLDSTEIN, BERNARD

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GENESIS OF MERSENNE'S HARMONIE UNIVERSELLE: THE MANUSCRIPT LIVRE DE LA NATURE DES SONS

FABBRI, NATACHA

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LEONID ZHMUD, The Origin of the History of Science in Antiquity. Translated from the Russian by Alexander Chernoglazov. Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006. VIII+331 pp., ISBN 10: 3-11-017966-0.

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MARIANNE COJANNOT-LE BLANC, MARISA DALAI EMILIANI, PASCAL GLATIGNY (eds.), L'artista, l'opera e la sfida della prospettiva. Roma: Ecole Française de Rome, 2006. 485 pp., ISBN 2-7283-0740-7.

CÀNDITO, CRISTINA

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ALLEN G. DEBUS, The Chemical Promise. Experiment and Mysticism in The ChemicalPhilosophy: 1550-1800. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publication/Watson.

PETER GRELL, OLE

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KATHLEEN P. LONG, Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. x+268 pp., ISBN 0-7546 5609 8.

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VOLKER REMMERT, Widmung, Welterklärung und Wissenschaftslegitimierung. Titelbilderund ihre Funktionen in der WissenschaftlichenRevolution. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005. 267 pp., ISBN 3-447-05337-2.

BREDEKAMP, HORST

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Enlightenment

GUIJARRO MORA, VÍCTOR

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FELIX DRIVER, LUCIANA MARTINS (eds.), Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. 279 pp., ISBN 0-226-16472-1.

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GUIDO CHIESURA, Charles Darwin geologo. La formazione del giovane Darwin. Docenti e mentori, il viaggio iniziatico tra vulcani e atolli. Le opere geologiche. Benevento: Hevelius Edizioni, 2002. 207 pp., ISBN 88-86977-28-X; GUIDO CHIESURA (ed.), Charles Darwin: opere geologiche. Benevento: Hevelius Edizioni, 2004. 431 pp., ISBN 88-86977-59-X.

CANDELA, ANDREA

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FRIEDRICH STEINLE, Explorative Experimente. Ampère, Faraday und die Ursprünge der Elektrodynamik. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. 450 pp., ISBN 3-515-08185-2.

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PETER DEAR, The Intelligibility of Nature. How Science Makes Sense of the World. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. XII+242 pp., ISBN 0-226-13948-4.

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Luc PAUWELS (ed.), Visual Cultures of Science.Rethinking Representational Practices in Knowledge Building and Science Communication. Hanover (N.H.): Dartmouth College Press, 2006. xx+300 pp., ISBN 1-58465-512-7.

POGLIANO, CLAUDIO

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ALIX COOPER, Inventing the Indigenous. Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 218 pp., ISBN 978-0-521-87087-0.

EGMOND, FLORIKE

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KATHARINE PARK, Secrets of Women. Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection. New York: The MIT Press, 2006. 419 pp., ISBN 1-890951-67-6.

GUERRINI, ANITA

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ALESSANDRO PASTORE, Le regole dei corpi. Medicina e disciplina nell'Italia moderna. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2006. 246 pp., ISBN 88-15-11277-4.

BRAMBILLA, ELENA

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GEORGE SALIBA, Islamic Science and the Makingof the European Renaissance. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2007. XI+315 pp., ISBN-13: 978-0-262-19557-7.

DE CALLATAY, GODEFROID

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URSZULA SZULAKOWSKA, The Sacrificial Body and the Day of Doom. Alchemy and ApocalypticDiscourse in the Protestant Reformation.Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2006. 180 pp., ISBN 90-04-15025-0.

PEREIRA, MICHELA

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JEFFREY CRELINSTEN, Einstein's Jury. The Race to Test Relativity. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. XXIX+ 397 pp., ISBN: 978-0-691-12310-3.

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Modern and Contemporary Science

LAVENIA, VINCENZO

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GEOFFREY CANTOR, Quakers, Jews and science: religious responses to modernity and the sciences in Britain, 1650-1900. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. XI+420 pp., ISBN 0199276684.

SIVASUNDARAM, SUJIT

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LYNNE TATLOCK (ed.), Justine Siegemund: The Court Midwife. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. XXXII+260 pp., ISBN 0-226-75709-9.

PENNUTO, CONCETTA

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STAGECRAFT AND MATHEMATICAL MAGIC IN EARLY MODERN LONDON

TURNER, ANTHONY

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WILLIAM R. SHEA, MARIANO ARTIGAS, Galileo Observed. Science and the Politics of Belief. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications/Watson Publishing International, 2006. 212 pp., ISBN 0-88135-356-6.

FANTOLI, ANNIBALE

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MARIACARLA GADEBUSCH BONDIO (ed.), Blood in History and Blood Histories. Firenze: Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2005. 385 pp., ISBN 88-8450-162-8.

CONFORTI, MARIA

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JAMES DELBOURGO, A most amazing scene of wonders. Electricity and enlightenment in early America. Cambridge (MA) and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii+367 pp., ISBN 978-0-674-02299-7.

PANCALDI, GIULIANO

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WILLIAM CLARK, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. 576 pp., ISNB 0-226-10921-6.

BROCKLISS, LAURENCE

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Renaissance and Early Modern Science

FABBRI, NATACHA

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CLAUDE BLANCKAERT, MICHEL PORRET (eds.), L'Encyclopédie Methodique (1782- 1832): des lumières au positivisme. Geneve: Droz, 2006. 830 pp., ISBN 2-600-00805-5.

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General

CHINNICI, ILEANA

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TULLIO GREGORY, Origini della terminologia filosofica moderna. Linee di ricerca. Firenze: Olschki, 2006. x+118 pp., ISBN 88-222-5566-6.

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OLD AND NEW MUSEUMS IN TURIN

POGLIANO, CLAUDIO

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CRISTINA VIANO, La matière des choses. Le livre IV des Météorologiques d'Aristote et son interprétation par Olympiodore. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2006. 409 pp., ISBN 2-7116-1828-5.

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DOMENICO BERTOLONI MELI, Thinking with Objects: The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 389 pp., ISBN 0-8018-8426-8.

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ARTHUR GREENBERG, From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story. New York: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2007, XXIII+ 637 pp., ISBN: 0-471-75154-5.

BERNARDONI, ANDREA

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BARBARA OBRIST, La cosmologie médiévale: Textes et images. I: Les fondements antiques. Florence: Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2004. 384 pp., ISBN 88-8450-140-7.

STRANO, GIORGIO

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AD MESKENS, Joannes della Faille S.J.: Mathematics, Modesty, Missed Opportunities. Brussels and Rome: Istituto Storico Belga di Roma (Commercial distribution Brepols Publishers), 2005. 177 pp., ISBN 90-74461-53-0.

RITA PALMERINO, CARLA

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ANDREW BROWN, J. D. Bernal. The sage of science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. XIV+562 pp., ISBN 0-19-851544-8.

WHITAKER, ANDREW

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ALBERT EINSTEIN, The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 10: The Berlin Years: Correspondence, May-December 1920, and Supplementary Correspondence, 1909-1920. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. LXIX+ 686 pp., ISBN 978-0-691-12825-2.

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STEFFAN MÜLLER-WlLLE, HANS-JÖRG RHEINBERGER (eds.), Heredity Produced. At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press, 2007. x+496 pp., ISBN 9-780262-134767.

POGLIANO, CLAUDIO

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WILHELM KOHLMANN, JOACHIM TELLE (eds.), Der Frühparacelsismus. Zweiter Teil. Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2004. XII+1090 pp., ISBN 3484365897.

T. DANIEL, DANE

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PHILIPP FELSCH, Laborlandschaften. Physiologische Alpenreisen im 19. Jahrhundert, Gottingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2007. 254 pp., ISBN 3-8353-0159-7.

CANADELLI, ELENA

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ANTONIO BARRERA-OSORIO, Experiencing Nature. The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2006. XII+211 pp., ISBN 0292-70981-1.

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INKEN REBENTROST, Das Labor in der Box. Technikentwicklung und Unternehmengründungin der frühen deutschen Biotechnologie.Miinchen: Verlag, 2006. 310 pp., ISBN 978-3-406-54403-3.

WIELAND, THOMAS

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NEWSLETTER

ROLFO, IOLANDA, STRANO, GIORGIO

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Antiquity and Middle Ages

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JEAN A. GIVENS, KAREN M. REEDS, ALAIN TOUWAIDE (eds.), Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550.Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xx+ 278 pp., ISBN 0-7546-5296-3.

EGMOND, FLORIKE

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LAUREN KASSELL, Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London. Simon Forman: Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. XVIII+281 pp., ISBN 0-19-927905-5 2005.

M. PRINCIPE, LAWRENCE

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