Isis Books Received, Quarterly Report to 25 February 2000

Albree, Joe; Arney, David C.; Rickey, V. Frederick. A Station Favorable to the Pursuits of Science: Primary Materials in the History of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy. (History of Mathematics, 18.) xii + 272 pp., tables, apps., bibl. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, 2000. $59.

Atkins, Stephen E. Historical Encyclopedia of Atomic Energy. xii + 491 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. $65.

Baker, Robert B.; Caplan, Arthur L.; Emanuel, Linda L.; Latham, Stephen R. (Editors). The American Medical Ethics Revolution: How the AMA's Code of Ethics Has Transformed Physician's Relationships to Patients, Professionals, and Society. (Based on papers presented at AMA sesquicentennial conference, "Ethics and American Medicine: History, Change, and Challenge," Philadelphia, March 14-15, 1997.) xl + 396 pp., table, apps., bibls., index. Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. $59.95.

Bastos, Cristiana. Global Responses to AIDS: Science in Emergency. xx + 225 pp., bibl., index. Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999. $27.95.

Benzenhöfer, Udo. der Gute Tod?: Euthanasie und Sterbehilfe in Geschichte und Gegenwart. (Beck'sche reihe.) 272 pp., bibl., index. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1999. DM 24 (paper).

Beretta, Marco. Lavoisier: Die Revolution in der Chemie. (Special issue of Spektrum der Wissenschaft: Biographie.) 106 pp., illus., figs. Milan: Le Scienze, 1998. DM 16.80, SFr 16.80, öS 135.

Bewell, Alan. Romanticism and Colonial Disease. (Medicine and Culture.) xviii + 373 pp., illus., bibl., index. Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. $45.

Blanckaert, Claude; Blondiaux, Loïc; Loty, Laurent; Renneville, Marc; Richard, Nathalie (Editors). L'histoire des sciences de l'homme: trajectoire, enjeux et questions vives. (Histoire des Sciences Humaines.) 304 pp., illus., tables, app., bibls., index. Paris/Montréal: L'Harmattan, 1999. Fr 170.

Boulnois, Olivier. Être et représentation: une généalogie de la métaphysique moderne à l'époque de Duns Scot (XIII -XIV siècle). (Épiméthée.) 538 pp., figs., tables, bibl. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1999. Fr 278.

Bowden, Mary Ellen; Hahn, Trudi Bellardo; Williams, Robert V. (Editors). Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems. Foreword by Arnold Thackray. (ASIS Monograph Series.) (Based on papers presented at the Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems, 23-25 October 1998, Pittsburgh) xii + 291 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibls., index. Medford, N.J.: Information Today, 1999. $39.50 (paper).

Bresadola, Marco; Pancaldi, Giuliano (Editors). Luigi Galvani International Workshop: Proceedings. (Bologna Studies in History of Science, 7.) (Based on papers presented at Luigi Galvani International Workshop, October 9, 1998, Bologna.) 215 pp., illus., index. Bologna: CIS, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Universita di Bologna, 1999. (Paper.)

Bret, Patrice (Editor). L'expédition d'Égypte: une entreprise des Lumières, 1798-1801. (Acts of colloquium 8-10 June 1998.) xiv + 436 pp., illus., figs., tables, app., bibl., index. Paris: Editions Tec&Doc/Academie des Sciences, 1999. (Paper.)

Brömer, Rainer; Hoßfeld, Uwe; Rupke, Nicolaas A. (Editors). Evolutionsbiologie von Darwin bis heute. (Verhandlungen zur Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie, 4.) 425 pp., illus., tables, apps., index. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2000. DM68 (paper).

Bromwich, David. Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic. xxiv + 456 pp., frontis., bibl., index. Originally published 1983. New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press, 1999. $18 (paper).

Brown, Louis. A Radar History of World War II: Technical and Military Imperatives. xvi + 563 pp., illus., figs., apps., bibl., indexes. Bristol, Eng./Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1999. $38.00, £27.50.

Burgio, Alberto (Editor). Nel nome del razza: Il razzismo nella storia d'Italia, 1870-1945. 565 pp., bibls., index. Bologna: Societa editrice il Mulino, 1999. L80,000 (paper).

Camarasa, Josep M.; Roca Rosell, Antoni. Ciència i tècnica als països catalans: una aproximació biogràfica. 2 Volumes. 1550 pp., illus., figs., bibls., indexes. Barcelona: Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca, 1995.

Campbell, Mary Baine. Wonder & Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe. xvi + 366 pp., illus., bibl., index. Ithaca, N.Y./London: Cornell University Press, 1999. $35.00

Capitaine, N. (Editor). Systèmes de référence spatio-temporels: Concepts et convention pour la rotation de la Terre et leurs applications pratiques. (Based on papers presented at Journées 1998, 21-23 September 1998, Paris.) x + 273 pp., illus., figs., tables. Paris: Observatoire de Paris, 1999. (Paper.)

Carlino, Andrea. Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning. Translated by John Tedeschi and Anne C. Tedeschi. xiv + 266 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. $29.00, £20.50.

Carter, Edward C. (Editor). Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930. (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, 231.) xvi + 344 pp., illus., app., index. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1999. $25.

Casaubon, Meric. Generall Learning: A Seventeenth-Century Treatise on the Formation of the General Scholar by Meric Casaubon. Edited by Richard Serjeantson. (Renaissance Texts from Manuscript, 2.) xx + 251 pp., app., bibl, index. Cambridge, Eng.: RTM Publications, 1999. (Paper.)

Cassirer, Ernst. Das Erkentnissproblem in der Philosophie und Wissenschaft der neuren Zeit: Erster Band. Vol. 2 of Gesammelte Werke. xiv + 563 pp., bibl. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1998. DM148.

Cassirer, Ernst. Das Erkentnissproblem in der Philosophie und Wissenschaft der neuren Zeit: Zweiter Band. Vol. 3 of Gesammelte Werke. viii + 667 pp., bibl. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1998. DM178.

The Centennial of S. A. Andree's North Pole Expedition. (Proceedings of a Conference held in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, 16-17 August 1997 by the Center for History of Science of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.) (Bidrag Till Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Historia, 29.) 212 pp., illus., figs., tables. Stockholm: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1999. $18 (paper).

Cerdá, Tomás. Tratado de Astronomía. Edited and with interpretations, introduction, and annotations by Lluis Gassiot i Matas. Foreword by Manuel Garcia Doncel. xxx + 162 pp., figs., bibl., index. Barcelona: Reial Acadèmia de Ciències I Arts, 1999. (Paper.)

Cesarani, David. Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind. x + 646 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: The Free Press, 1999. $30.

Chan, Mary; Kassler, Jamie C. (Editors). Roger North's Writings on Music, c. 1704-c.1709. Analytical Indexes by Janet D. Hine. (North Papers, 5.) viii + 172 pp., bibl. Kensington, Australia: University of New South Wales, 1999. (Paper.)

Chatelet, Gilles. Figuring Space: Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics. Translated by Robert Shore and Muriel Zagha. (Science and Philosophy, Vol. 8.) 197 pp., illus., figs., apps. Dordrecht/Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. $138, £86.

Cheney, Margaret; Uth, Robert. Tesla: Master of Lightning. xiv + 184 pp., illus., figs., bibls., index. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1999. $14.98.

Chevalley, Claude. Theory of Lie Groups I. (Princeton Landmarks in Mathematics.) xii + 217 pp., index. Fifteenth edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. $19.95 (paper); £12.50 (paper).

Christianson, John Robert. On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe and His Assistants, 1570-1601. xii + 451 pp., frontis., illus., figs., app., bibl., index. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $34.95.

Colon, A. R. Nurturing Children: A History of Pediatrics. with P. A. Colon. 329 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. Westport, Conn./London: Greenwood Press, 1999. $69.50.

Comte, Auguste. Synthèse Subjective: ou Système universel des conceptions propres à l'état normal de l'Humanité. Edited by Juliette Grange. (Corpus des oeuvres de philosophie en langue Française.) 940 pp., apps. Paris: Fayard, 2000. Fr 450.

Condit, Celeste Michelle. The Meaning of the Gene: Public Debates about Human Heredity. xii + 325 pp., tables, apps., bibl., index. Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Cordle, Daniel. Postmodern Postures: Literature, Science and the Two Cultures Debate. viii + 202 pp., bibl., index. Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate Publishing, 1999. $69.95.

Crary, Jonathan. Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture. (October Books.) xii + 397 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 1999. $39.95.

Crone, Robert A. A History Of Color: The Evolution of Theories of Lights and Colors. 282 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Reprinted from Documenta Ophthalmologia, 96, Nos. 1-3, 1999. Dordrecht/Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. $67, £38.

Daszkiewicz, T.; Aikhenbaum, Jean. Aurochs: le retour . . . d'une supercherie nazie. 160 pp., illus., apps. Paris: Histoire, Sciences, Totalitarisme, Éthique et Société, 1999. Fr80 (paper).

de Conchis, Guillelmus. Corpus Christianorum: Continuatio Mediaevalis CLVIII. cxlvi + 384 pp., illus., figs., bibl., indexes. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 1999. EUR 192, BEF 7770.

de Li, Andrés. Reportorio de los tiempos. Edited by Laura Delbrugge. 157 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Rochester, N.Y./London: Tamesis, 1999. $55.

Delano-Smith, Catherine; Kain, Roger J.P. English Maps: A History. xiv + 320 pp., illus., bibl., index. Toronto/Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1999. $40.

Dialogo entre un vizcayno y un montanes sobre la fabrica de navios. Transcribed by Isabel Vicente Maroto. (Estudio General, 11.) 218 pp., illus. Salamanca, Spain: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 1998.

Divination et rationalité en Chine ancienne. (Special issue of Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident, 21.) 171 pp., illus., app. Saint-Denis: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 1999. EU 13.72, Fr 90 (paper).

Dreger, Alice Domurat. Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex. xvi + 268 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, Mass./London, Eng.: Harvard University Press, 1998. $16.95 (paper).

Duffin, Jacalyn. History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction. xvi + 432 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibls., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. $65 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Edgerton, Harold E. Exploring the Art and Science of Stopping Time: A CD-ROM Based on the Life and Work of Harold E. Edgerton. CD-ROM in folder with booklet. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. $37.95.

Elgin, Suzette Haden. The Language Imperative: How Learning Languages Can Enrich Your Life and Expand Your Mind. xx + 276 pp., app., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Books, 2000. $24, Can$36.50.

Ellsworth, Mary Ellen. A History of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 1799-1999. (Transactions, 55.) vii + 254 pp., illus., figs., table, apps., bibl., index. New Haven, Conn.: The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999. $35 (cloth); $17.50 (paper).

Engs, Ruth Clifford. Clean Living Movements: American Cycles of Health Reform. xiv + 312 pp., bibl., index. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2000. $69.50.

Engstrom, Eric J.; Weber, Matthias M.; Hoff, Paul (Editors). Knowledge and Power: Perspectives in the History of Psychiatry. (Based on selected papers from the Third Triennial Conference of the European Association for the History of Psychiatry, 11-14 September 1996, Munich, Germany.) 234 pp., illus., figs., tables. Berlin: VWB, Verlag fur Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1999. DM 68.

Entine, Jon. Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk About It. Foreword by Earl Smith. x + 387 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. New York: Public Affairs, 2000. $25.

Eustachius, Bartholomaeus. A Little Treatise on the Teeth: The First Authoritative Book on Dentistry (1563). Edited and Introduced by David A. Chernin and Gerald Shklar. Translated by Joan H. Thomas. (Dental Classics in Perspective.) xxiii + 274 pp. (pages not numbered), figs., bibl. Canton, Mass.: Science History Publications, 1999.

Feyerabend, Paul. Conquest of Abundance: The Tale of Abstraction versus the Richness of Being. xviii + 285 pp., illus., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. $27, £19.

Finger, Stanley. Minds Behind the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and their Discoveries. xiv + 364 pp., illus., figs., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. $35.

Fischer, Holger (Editor). Deutsch-ungarische Beziehungen in Naturwissenschaft und Technik nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. (Südosteuropäische Arbeiten, 103.) 555 pp., illus., figs., tables. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1999.

Frankel, Charles. The End of the Dinosaurs: Chicxulub Crater and Mass Extinctions. xii + 223 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Originally published in French as La mort des dinosaures, 1996. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $24.95.

Franklin, Benjamin. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin: Vol. 35. May 1 through October 31, 1871. Edited by Barbara B. Oberg, Ellen R. Cohn, Jonathan R. Dull, Karen Duval, Leslie J. Lenenauer, Kate M. Ohno, and Claude A. Lopez. lxvi + 742 pp., frontis., illus., index. New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press, 1999. $80.

Freeland, Guy; Corones, Anthony (Editors). 1543 And All That: Image and Word, Change and Continuity in the Proto-Scientific Revolution. Foreword by R.W. Home. (Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.) xvi + 404 pp., frontis., illus., figs., table, index. Dordrecht/Boston, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. $180, £112.

Friedewald, Michael. Die "Tönenden Funken": Geschichte eines frühen drahtlosen Kommunikationssystems, 1905-1914. (Aachener Beiträge zur Wissenchafts- und Technikgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, 2.) 185 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Berlin/Diepholz: GNT-Verlag, 1999. Euro 18.

Friedland, Andrew J.; Folt, Carol L. Writing Successful Science Proposals. 171 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., index. New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press, 2000. $25.00 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).

Fudge, Erica; Gilbert, Ruth; Wiseman, Susan (Editors). At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies, and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period. (Based on papers presented at an informal colloquium held in Senate House, University of London, 1995.) xii + 269 pp., illus., index. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. $59.95.

Fuller, Steve. The Governance of Science: Ideology and the Future of the Open Society. (Issues in Society.) xii + 167 pp., tables, bibl., index. Buckingham, Eng./Philadelphia: Open University Press, 2000. $24.95.

Garfinkel, Simson. Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century. viii + 312 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly & Associates, 2000. $24.95.

Gee, Henry. In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life. iv + 267 pp., illus., index. New York/London: The Free Press, 1999. $26, Can$38.50.

Godlewska, Anne Marie Claire. Geography Unbound: French Geographic Science from Cassini to Humboldt. xii + 444 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. $45.50, £45.50 (cloth); $27.50, £19.50 (paper).

Gootenberg, Paul (Editor). Cocaine: Global Histories. Foreword by Ethan Nadelmann. xvi + 213 pp., tables, bibls., index. London/New York: Routledge, 1999. $90, Can$135 (cloth); $25.99, Can$38.99 (paper).

Grafton, Anthony. Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer. xiv + 284 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. $ 35, £21.95.

Greene, Gayle. The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation. Foreword by Helen Caldicott. xii + 321 pp., frontis., illus., bibl., index. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 1999. $35, £19.95

Grimaldus. Le Liber Accipitrum de Grimaldus: un Traite d'Autourserie du haut moyen age. Edited, translated and annotated by An Smets. (Bibliotheca Cynegetica, 2.) 188 + [viii] pp., illus., tables, app., bibl. Nogent-le-roi: J. Laget, 1999. Fr350.

Guston, David H. Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity of Research. xviii + 213 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $54.95.

Hagner, Michael. Ecce Cortex: Beiträge zur Geschichte des modernen Gehirns. 352 pp., illus., figs., app. Gottingen: Wallstein Verlag, 1999. DM48, oS350, SFr46 (paper).

Hahn, Ralf. Gold aus dem Meer: Die Forschungen des Nobelpreisträgers Fritz Haber in den Jahren 1922-1927. 101 pp., frontis., illus., app., bibl., index. Berlin/Deipholz: GNT-Verlag, 1999. Euro 13.50.

Halliwell, Martin. Romantic Science and the Experience of Self: Transatlantic Crosscurrents from William James to Oliver Sacks. (Studies in European Cultural Transition, 2.) viii + 283 pp., bibl., index. Aldershot, Eng./Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1999. $78.95.

Haraway, Donna J.; Goodeve, Thyrza Nichols. How Like a Leaf: An Interview with Donna Haraway. x + 197 pp., app., bibl., index. New York: Routledge, 2000. $70, Can$105 (cloth); $17.95, Can$26.95 (paper).

Hars, Florian. Ferdinand Braun, 1850-1918: Ein wilhelminischer Physiker. 272 pp., illus., apps., bibls., index. Berlin/Diepholz: GNT, 1999. Eu29.50.

Hart, D.G. The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education. xiv + 321 pp., bibl., index. Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. $38.00

Hazen, Craig James. The Village Enlightenment in America: Popular Religion and Science in the Nineteenth Century. xii + 194 pp., illus., bibl., index. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. $34.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Helsham, Richard. Lectures on Natural Philosophy. Edited by D.A. Attis, P. Kelly, and D. Weaire. 18 + x + 404 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl. Reprint of 4th ed. originally published in 1767. Bremen: Verlag MIT, 1999. $59, £35.

Hottois, Gilbert. Essais de philosophie bioéthique et biopolitique. 189 pp., index. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1999. Fr 145.

Howes, Ruth H.; Herzenberg, Caroline L. Their Day in the Sun: Women in the Manhattan Project. Foreword by Ellen C. Weaver. (Labor and Social Change.) viii + 264 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. $34.50.

Jammer, Max. Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy. xii + 180 pp., index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. $39.50, £24.95.

Jesseph, Douglas M. Squaring the Circle: The War Between Hobbes and Wallis. (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations.) xiv + 419 pp., figs., app., bibl., index. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. $80, £56 (cloth); $28, £20 (paper).

Karg, Anita L.; Tomasic, Sharon; Walker, Margot; Bridson, Gavin D.R.; Burdet, Herve M.; Chautems, Marie-Martine; Moruzzi-Bayo, Tina (Compilers.) Catalogue of Portraits of Naturalists, Mostly Botanists: in the collections of the Hunt Institute, The Linnean Society of London and the Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Geneve. Part 3: Portraits of Individuals, E-H. xii + 230 pp., bibl. Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1999. $20.

Kehoe, A.; Emmerichs, Mary Beth. Assembling the Past: Studies in the Professionalization of Archaeology. (Based on papers presented at the First Joint Archaeological Congress, January 6, 1989 and the American Anthropological Association annual meeting, November 16, 1989, Washington, D.C.) viii + 241 pp., bibls., index. Albuquerque, N.Mex.: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. $49.95.

Kiger, Robert W.; Tancin, Charlotte A.; Bridson, Gavin D.R. Index to Scientific Names of Organisms Cited in the Linnaean Dissertations: together with a Synoptic Bibliography of the Dissertations and a Concordance for Selected Editions. vi + 300 pp., frontis., illus., bibls. Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1999. $40.

Koerner, Lisbet. Linnaeus: Nature and Nation. x + 298 pp., illus., figs., app., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 1999. $39.95, £24.95.

Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory; Sokal, Michael M.; Lewenstein, Bruce V. The Establishment of Science in America: 150 Years of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould. Introduction by Keith Benson and Jane Maienschein. xvi + 236 pp., illus., apps., index. New Brunswick, N.J./London: Rutgers University Press, 1999.

Kolchinski, E.I. V poiskakh sovetskogo "sopiaeuza" filosofii i biologii: diskussii i repressii v 20-kh-nachale 30-kh gg. 273 pp., bibls., index. St. Petersburg: D. Bulanin, 1999.

Krech, Shepard, III; Hail, Barbara A. (Editors). Collecting Native America, 1870-1960. Foreword by William C. Sturtevant. vi + 298 pp., illus., index. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. $45.

Kremer-Marietti, Angèle. Philosophie des sciences de la nature. (L'interrogation philosophique.) viii + 280 pp., index. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1999. Fr158 (paper).

Kühlmann, Wilhelm; Müller-Jahncke, Wolf-Dieter. Iliaster: Literatur und Naturkunde in der frühen Neuzeit. Festgabe für Joachim Telle zum 60. Geburtstag. 368 pp., frontis., apps., index. Heidelberg: Manutius, 1999.

Landau, Ralph; Achilladelis, Basil; Scriabine, Alexander (Editors). Pharmaceutical Innovation: Revolutionizing Human Health. (Chemical Heritage Foundation Series in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2.) xxiv + 408 pp., illus., figs., tables, app., bibls., index. Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Press, 1999. $44.95.

Leonardi, Claudio (Editor). Micrologus VII: Il cadavere [The corpse]. (Micrologus: Natura, scienze e societa medievali [Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies], 7.) 552 pp., illus., indexes. Florence: Sismel, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 1999. (Paper.)

Lindemann, Mary. Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe. xiv + 249 pp., frontis., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $49.95.

Litten, Freddy. der Rücktritt Richard Willstätters 1924-1925 und seine Hintergründe: Ein Münchener Universitätsskandal? (Algorismus, 32.) 88 pp., illus. Munich: Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, 1999. (Paper.)

Livingstone, David N.; Withers, Charles W. J. (Editors). Geography and Enlightenment. viii + 455 pp., illus., tables, app., bibls., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2000. $52, £36.50 (cloth); $25, £17.50 (paper).

Logsdon, John M. (Editor). Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program. With Ray A. Williamson, Roger D. Launius, Russell J. Acker, Stepher J. Garber, and Jonathan L. Friedmen. (Vol. 4: Accessing Space.) NASA SP-4407. xxxii + 679 pp., illus., figs., tables, apps., index. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1999. $50.

Longo, Oddone. Volatilia: Animali dell'aria nella storia della scienza da Aristotele ai giorni nostri. (Cultura, 6.) 310 pp., illus., figs., indexes. Naples: Generoso Procaccini, 1999. L65,000.

Lyons, Sherrie L. Thomas Henry Huxley: The Evolution of a Scientist. 347 pp., illus., bibl., index. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1999. $54.95.

MacLeod, Roy M. (Editor). Science and the Pacific War: Science and Survival in the Pacific, 1939-1945. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 207.) 320 pp., frontis., illus., tables, bibl., index. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. $149, £93.

Magoc, Chris J. Yellowstone: The Creation and Selling of an American Landscape, 1870-1903. xviii + 266 pp., illus., bibl., index. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Man, John. Atlas of the Year 1000. 144 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. $26.

Marinella, Lucrezia. The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men. Translated and edited by Anne Dunhill. (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe.) xxviii + 200 pp., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. $45, £31.50 (cloth); $18, £13 (paper).

McElroy, Wendy. Queen Silver: The Godless Girl. 290 pp., illus., apps., index. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2000. $28.95.

Melling, Joseph; Forsythe, Bill (Editors). Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914: A Social History of Madness in Comparative Perspective. (Studies in the Social History of Medicine.) xii + 328 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. New York: Routledge, 1999. $90.

Melosi, Martin V. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. (Creating the North American Landscape.) xiv + 578 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. $59.95.

Mey, Eberhard (Editor). Beiträge zur Kultur- und Naturgeschichte Indonesiens: Supplement 3, Rudolstäder Naturhistorische Schriften. 151 pp., illus., figs., bibls. Rudolstadt: Naturhistorisches Schriften, 1999. (Paper.)

Meyer, Frederick G.; Trueblood, Emily Emmart; Heller, John L. The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs: De historia stirpium commentarii insignes, 1542 [Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants]. Foreword by Joseph Ewan. 2 Volumes. xxiv + 895 + 900 pp., frontis., illus., apps., bibl., indexes. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. $249.50.

Milbrath, Susan. Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars. x + 348 pp., illus., tables, apps., bibl., index. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. $55 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Miller, G. Wayne. King of Hearts: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery. xvi + 302 pp., illus., fig., bibl., index. New York: Times Books, 2000. $25.

Mitman, Gregg. Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film. viii + 263 pp., illus., apps., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. $29.95.

Morange, Michel. A History of Molecular Biology. Translated by Matthew Cobb. 336 pp., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 1998. $18.95 (paper).

More, Ellen S. Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995. xii + 340 pp., illus., tables, index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. $49.95.

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