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Volume 23 (2008): Issue 1 (Jan 2008)

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GALILEO'S DISCORSI AND MERSENNE'S NOUVELLES PENSEES: MERSENNE AS A READER OF GALILEAN 'EXPERIENCE'
By: RENEE RAPHAEL
Pages: 7–36
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
NICOLAUS STENO'S NEW MYOLOGY (1667): RATHER THAN MUSCLE, THE MOTOR FIBRE SHOULD BE CALLED ANIMAL'S ORGAN OF MOVEMENT*
By: TROELS KARDEL
Pages: 37–64
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
UNA COLLEZIONE DI STRUMENTARIA SCIENTIFICA ALL'AVVENTO DELL'OSPEDALE MODERNO: GLI STRUMENTI FISICO-MATEMATICI DI VINCENZO VIVIANI E L'OSPEDALE DI SANTA MARIA NUOVA DI FIRENZE (1871-1895) *
By: ESTHER DIANA
Pages: 65–90
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
THE NEW ASTRONOMICAL ELDORADO: THE FRENCH UNDERSTANDING OF AMERICAN ASTROPHYSICS, 1900-1920
By: ARNAUD SAINT-MARTIN
Pages: 91–113
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
THE MANY FACETS OF BOYLE'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY MICHAEL HUNTER (with contributions by Edward B. Davis, Harriet Knight, Charles Littleton and Lawrence M. Principe), The Boyle Papers. Understanding The Manuscripts of Robert Boyle, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007) 674+xi pp. $ 139.95/£ 70.00 *ISBN 0754655687. Boyle on Atheism. Transcribed and edited by John J. MacIntosh (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005) 493+xxv pp. £ 60.00 *ISBN 0802090184.
By: ANTONIO CLERICUZIO
Pages: 115–126
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
Antiquity and Middle Ages SERAFINA CUOMO, Technology and culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 212 pp., ISBN 978-0-521-00903-4.
By: GIOVANNI DI PASQUALE
Pages: 127–128
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
LUKE DEMAITRE, Leprosy in Premodern Medicine.A Malady of the Whole Body. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xvi+323 pp., ISBN 978-0-8018-8613-3.
By: CONCETTA PENNUTO
Pages: 128–130
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
IGNACIO GONZLEZ TASCON and ISABEL VELSQUEZ, Ingeniera romana en Hispania. Historia y tcnicas constructivas. Madrid: Edicin Fundacin Juanel Turriano, 2005. 542 pp., ISBN 89 95457 52 0.
By: GIOVANNI DI PASQUALE
Pages: 130–131
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
BRUNO LAURIOUX, Gastronomie, humanisme et socit Rome au milieu du XVe sicle. Firenze: Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2006. 653 pp., ISBN 88-8450-198-9.
By: MASSIMO MONTANARI
Pages: 131–132
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
DANIEL LE BLVEC (ed.), L'universite de mdecine de Montpellier et son rayonnement (XIIIe-XVe sicles). Actes du colloque international de Montpellier (Universite Paul-Valry-Montpellier III), 17-19 mai 2001. Tournhout: Brepols, 2004. 356 pp., ISBN 2-503-51642-4.
By: ELISA ANDRETTA
Pages: 132–134
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
DARYN LEHOUX, Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World. Parapegmata and Related Texts in Classical and Near-Eastern Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. XIV+566 pp., ISBN 978-0-521-85181.
By: FABIO ACERBI
Pages: 134–135
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
RITA LIBRANDI and ROSA PIRO (eds.), Lo scaffale della biblioteca scientifica in volgare (secoli XIII-XVI). Atti del convegno (Matera, 14-15 ottobre 2004). Firenze: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2006. 526 pp., ISBN 10: 88-8450-210-1.
By: LAURA MINERVINI
Pages: 135–136
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
REVIEL NETZ and WILLIAM NOEL, The Archimedes Codex. Revealing the Secrets of the World's Greatest Palimpsest. London: Weidenfeld e Nicolson, 2007. XII+305 pp., ISBN 978-0-297-64547-4 [tr. it.: Il codice perduto di Archimede. La storia di un libro ritrovato e dei suoi segreti matematici.Milano: Rizzoli, 2007. 428 pp., ISBN 978-88-17-01601-8].
By: FABIO ACERBI
Pages: 136–138
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
Renaissance and Early Modern Science ALESSANDRO ALESSANDRINI and ALESSANDRO CEREGATO (eds.), Natura Picta. Ulisse Aldrovandi, Bologna: Editrici Compositori, 2007. 670 pp., ISBN 978-88-7794-490-0. ADRIANO SOLDANO (ed.), L'erbario di Ulisse Aldrovandi, vols. I-XV, Venezia: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti. 2000-2005. 1369 pp., no ISBN.
By: ILVA BERETTA
Pages: 138–140
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
CLARA BARTOCCI (ed.), John Josselyn. Rarit della Nuova Inghilterra. New England's Rarities. Perugia: Morlacchi Editore, 2006. xxxiv+243 pp., ISBN 88-6074-044-4.
By: ANTONIO CLERICUZIO
Pages: 140–141
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
FLORIKE EGMOND, PAUL HOFTIJZER and ROBERT VISSER (eds.), Carolus Clusius. Towards a Cultural History of a Renaissance Naturalist. Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2007. vi+349 pp., ISBN 978-90-6984-506-7.
By: DANIEL MARGOCSY
Pages: 141–142
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
MAURICE A. FINOCCHIARO, Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992. Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press, 2005. 485 pp., ISBN 9780520242616.
By: FEDERICA FAVINO
Pages: 142–144
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
FABIO GARBARI LUCIA TONGIORGI TOMASI (eds.), Flora: The Erbario Miniato and other Drawings. London: Brepols, 2007. 664 pp. (2 vols.). Vol. 1: ISBN 978-1-905375-20-2, Vol. 2: ISBN 978-1-905375-21-9.
By: GIUSEPPE OLMI
Pages: 144–145
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
ANNE GOLDGAR, Tulipmania. Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. xx+425 pp., ISBN 978-0-226-30125-9.
By: ABBRI
Pages: 145–146
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
DARIO GENERALI MARC RATCLIFF (eds.), From Makers to Users. Microscopes, Markets,and Scientific Practices in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Dagli artigiani ai naturalisti. Microscopi, offerta dei mercati e pratiche scientifiche nei secoli XVII e XVIII. Firenze: Olschki, 2007. xv+336 pp., ISBN 978-88-222-5669-0.
By: ARIANE DROSCHER
Pages: 146–148
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
JAMES HANKINS (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvi+430 pp., ISBN 978-0-521-60893-0.
By: ANNARITA ANGELINI
Pages: 148–149
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
VINCENT ILARDI, Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 2007. xv+378 pp., ISBN 978-0-87169-259-7.
By: A. MARK SMITH
Pages: 149–150
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
LAWRENCE M. PRINCIPE (ed.), Chymists and Chymistry, Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry. Sagamore Beach: Chemical Heritage Foundation and Science History Publications, 2007. XIII+274 pp., ISBN 9780881353969.
By: ANDREA BERNARDONI
Pages: 150–152
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
SYLVIE TAUSSIG (ed.), Pierre Gassendi. Vie et murs d'picure. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2006. 2 vols., I vol.: CXIX+279 pp., II vol.: 396 pp., ISBN 2-251-79983-4.
By: LUIGI GUERRINI
Pages: 152–153
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
Enlightenment PAOLA BERTUCCI, Viaggio nel paese delle meraviglie.Scienza e curiosit nell'Italia del Settecento. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2007. 294 pp., ISBN 9788833918020.
By: LUCIO FREGONESE
Pages: 153–154
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
ANNIE CHASSAGNE, La Bibliothque de l'A-cadmie Royale des Sciences au XVIIIe sicle. Paris: Editions du Comit des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 2007. 305 pp., ISBN 9-782735-506378.
By: MARCO BERETTA
Pages: 154–156
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
JOS CORREIA DA SERRA, Itinerrios Histrico-Naturis, Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Carneiro e Ana Simoes (eds.), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003. VIII+104 pp., ISBN 972-0-34262-5. ANA SIMES, MARIA PAULA DIOGO e ANA CARNEIRO, Cidado do Mundo. Una Biografia Cientifica do Abade Correia da Serra. Porto: Porto Editora, 2006. v+185 pp., ISBN 978-972-0-45090-6.
By: GINO L. DI MITRI
Pages: 156–157
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
MICHL DUCHET (ed.), Buffon: De l'homme. Presentation par Michele Duchet. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2006. 467 pp., ISBN 2-296-01033-4.
By: GIULIO BARSANTI
Pages: 157–158
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
JOSEPH S. FRUTON, Fermentation. Vital or Chemical Process? Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. xv+141 pp., ISBN 978 90 04 15268 7.
By: ANGELA BANDINELLI
Pages: 158–159
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
ETIENNE GUYON (ed.), L'cole normale de l'an III. Leons de physique, de chimie, d'histoire naturelle. Edition annotee des cours de Hay, Berthollet et Daubenton, avec introductions, notes et annexes. Paris: Editions rue d'Ulm, 2006. 645 pp., ISBN 2-7288-0356-0.
By: MARCO BERETTA
Pages: 159–160
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
RICHARD L. HILLS, James Watt Volume 1: His Time in Scotland, 1736-1774. Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 2002. 480 pp., ISBN 1-84306-045-0. RICHARD L. HILLS, James Watt Volume 2: The Years of Toil, 1775-1785. Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 2005. 256 pp., ISBN 1-84306-046-9. RICHARD L. HILLS, James Watt Volume 3: Triumph Through Adversity, 1785-1819. Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 2006. 288 pp., ISBN 13: 978-1-84306-193-9.
By: ROBERT G.W. ANDERSON
Pages: 160–162
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
URSULA KLEIN - WOLFGANG LEFVRE, Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science. A Historical Ontology. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 2007. x+345 pp., ISBN 978-0-262-11306-9.
By: DAVID KNIGHT
Pages: 162–163
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
MICHAEL R. LYNN, Popular science and public opinion in eighteenth-century France. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. IX+177 pp., ISBN 0 7190 7373.
By: MARIE THBAUD-SORGER
Pages: 163–164
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
MARIA TERESA MONTI (ed.), criture et mmoire. Les carnets medico-biologiques de Vallisneri a . Wolff. Milano: Franco Angeli, 2006. 226 pp., ISBN 88-464-7937-8.
By: HUBERT STEINKE
Pages: 164–165
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
MARIA TERESA MONTI, Spallanzani e le rigenerazioni animali. L'inchiesta, la comunicazione, la rete. Firenze: Olschki, 2005. 424 pp., ISBN 88 222 5493 7.
By: MARTA STEFANI
Pages: 165–166
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
MARCO PICCOLINO - MARCO BRESADOLA, Rane, torpedini e scintille. Galvani, Volta e l'elettricit animale. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2003. 723 pp., ISBN 88-339-1470-4.
By: FRANCO GIUDICE
Pages: 167–168
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
CLARA SILVIA ROERO (ed.), Alle origini dell'Accademia. I contributi di Leonhard Euler.Firenze: Olschki, 2007. x+178 pp., ISBN 978 88 222 5658 4.
By: MASSIMO GALUZZI
Pages: 168–169
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
WAYNE WILD, Medicine-by-Post. The ChangingVoice of Illness in Eighteenth-Century British Consultation Letters and Literature. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2006. 286 pp., ISBN 90-420-1868-2.
By: MARCO BRESADOLA
Pages: 169–170
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
Modern and Contemporary Science JOS RAMN BERTOMEU-SNCHEZ AGUST NIETO-GALAN (eds.), Chemistry, Medicine and Crime: Mateu J.B. Orfila (1787-1853) and His Times. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications, 2006. xxvi+306 pp., ISBN 0-88135-275-6.
By: MATTHEW D. EDDY
Pages: 170–171
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
OLAF BREIDBACH, Visions of Nature. The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel. Mnchen: Prestel Verlag, 2006. 304 pp., ISBN 3-7913-3664-9.
By: ELENA CANADELLI
Pages: 171–172
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
W.F. BYNUM, A. HARDY, S. JACYNA and E. TANSEY, The Western Medical Tradition. 1800-2000. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 628 pp., ISBN 13: 9780521 475 655, ISBN 10: 0521475651.
By: MAURO CAPOCCI
Pages: 172–173
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
VALERIA DEL GAMBA, Il Ragazzo di Via Panisperna. L'avventurosa vita del fisico Franco Rasetti. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2007. 167 pp., ISBN 978-88-339-1746-7.
By: SIMONE TURCHETTI
Pages: 174–175
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
MICHAEL FRIEDMAN ALFRED NORDMAN (eds.), The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006. VI+370 pp., ISBN 978-0-262-06254-1.
By: PHILLIP R SLOAN
Pages: 175–176
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
KLAUS HENTSCHEL, The Mental Aftermath. The Mentality of German Physicists 1945-1949. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 205 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-920566-0.
By: JOHN KRIGE
Pages: 176–177
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
MYLES W. JACKSON, Harmonious Triads Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press, 2006. 395 pp., ISBN 0-262-10116-5.
By: ROLAND WITTJE
Pages: 177–178
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
ALBERTO MESCHIARI, Edizione Nazionale delle Opere e della Corrispondenza di Giovanni Battista Amici. Napoli: Bibliopolis, 2006. 2 vols., 1085 pp., ISBN 88-7088-519-4.
By: FRANCESCA SODI
Pages: 178–179
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
CHRISTINE NAWA CHRISTOPH MEINEL, Instrumente und Apparaturen in Heidelberger Laboratorien skizziert von Friedrich Veith (1817-1907). Regensburg: Universitt Regensburg, 2007. 127 pp., no ISBN.
By: PETER HEERING
Pages: 179–180
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
RICHARD NEWBURY, John Maynard Keynes. Vita pubblica e privata di un grande economista ed esteta trasgressivo. Milano: Boroli, 2007. 175 pp., ISBN 978-88-7493-113-2.
By: FERDINANDO ABBRI
Pages: 180–182
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
CARSTEN REINHARDT, Shifting and Rearranging: Physical Methods and the Transformation of Modern Chemistry. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications, 2006. x+428 pp., ISBN 0-88135-354-X.
By: LUIGI CERRUTI
Pages: 182–183
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008
SIMONE TURCHETTI, Il caso Pontecorvo. Fisica nucleare, politica e servizi di sicurezza nella guerra fredda. Sironi: Milano, 2007. 285 pp., ISBN 978-88-518-0081-9.
By: GIULIO MALTESE
Pages: 183–184
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008