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Volume 7 (1992): Issue 1 (Jan 1992)

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Brill
GUIDOBALDO DAL MONTE AND THE ARCHIMEDEAN REVIVAL
By: DOMENICO BERTOLONI MELI
Pages: 3–34
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
THE POMAR CODEX (CA. 1590): PLANTS AND ANIMALS OF THE OLD WORLD AND FROM THE HERNADEZ EXPEDITION TO AMERICA
By: JOSE M. LÓPEZ PINERO
Pages: 35–52
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
I RAPPORTI TRA SPALLANZANI E GIRARDI E LE «OSSERVAZIONI ANATOMICHE INTORNO AI PIPISTRELLI» DI MICHELE GIRARDI
By: CARLO CASTELLANI
Pages: 53–91
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
GEOLOGIA E ATTIVITÀ MINERARIA IN ITALIA SETTENTRIONALE TRA SETTECENTO ED OTTOCENTO: L'INFLUENZA DELLA «SCUOLA DI FREIBERG» SU ALCUNI SCIENZIATI ITALIANI 1
By: EZIO VACCARI
Pages: 93–107
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
'NOTHING IN NATURE THAT IS NOT USEFUL' THE ANTI-VACCINATION CRUSADE AND THE IDEA OF HARMONIA NATURAE IN ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE *
By: GIACOMO SCARPELLI
Pages: 109–130
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
MELCHISEDECH THEVENOT, THE BUBBLE LEVEL, AND THE ARTIFICIAL HORIZON
By: A. J. TURNER
Pages: 131–145
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
PER UN ARCHIVIO DELLA CORRISPONDENZA DEGLI SCIENZIATI ITALIANI
By: RAFFAELE A. BERNABEO, BONIFACIO PISTACCHIO, DONATELLA LIPPI, and STEFANO ARIETI
Pages: 147–166
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
ISTITUZIONI E FONTI
By: MENSO FOLKERTS, MICHAEL SEGRE, and ANDREAS KÜHNE
Pages: 167–171
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
COMMISSION ON BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE*
Pages: 173
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
REPORT ON THE CONFERENCE «NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION IN SCIENCE PRIOR TO 1900» (Trento, lst-3rd October 1991)
By: LUCA CIANCIO
Pages: 174–179
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
RICORDO
By: ANTONELLO LA VERGATA
Pages: 181–194
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
DISCUSSIONI CRITICHE
By: FERDINANDO ABBRI
Pages: 195–205
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
FEDERICO II E LE SCIENZE: UN CONVEGNO DI STORIA DELLA SCIENZA MEDIEVALE *
By: PIERO MORPURGO
Pages: 207–217
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
IL RESTAURO DELLA COLLEZIONE DI APPARECCHI DI FISICA DEL LICEO VISCONTI DI ROMA
By: PAOLO BRENNI
Pages: 219–222
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
MARSHALL CLAGETT, Ancient Egyptian Science. A Source Book, Vol. I: Knowledge and Order, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1989 («Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society», Vol. 184), 15 + 736 pp., ca. 150 figs., US 60.
By: ERIK HORNUNG
Pages: 223–225
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
The Second Sense. Studiesin HearingandMusical Judgementfrom Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century, ed. by Charles Burnett, Michael Fend and Penelope Gouk, The Warburg Institute, London, 1991 («Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts», XXII), 245 pp., ind., bibl., ill.
By: STEFANO CAROTI
Pages: 225–227
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
Attidel IIIConvegnonazionale distoria e fondamentidellachimica. F. Abbri - F. Crispini (a cura di), Cosenza, Edizioni Brenner, 1991, 402 pp.
By: MICHELE VISTA
Pages: 227–231
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
ISAIA IANNACCONE, ADOLFO TAMBURELLO (a cura di), Dall'Europa alla Cina: contributi per una storia dell'Astronomia, Napoli, Università degli Studi «Federico II», Istituto Universitario Orientale Napoli, 1990, 256 pp.
By: MARA MINIATI
Pages: 231–238
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
WILMA GEORGE - BRUNSDON YAPP, The Naming of the Beasts. Natural history in the medieval bestiary, London, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd., 1991, xiv + 231 pp., ill., bibl., ind.
By: GIUSEPPE OLMI
Pages: 238–240
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
MICHELLE GOUPIL, Du Flou au clair? Histoire de l'affinité chimique de Cardan à Prigogine, Paris, Edition du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 1991, 348 pp., ill.
By: MARCO BERETTA
Pages: 240–242
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
GERARD L'E. TURNER, Scientific Instruments and Experimental Philosophy 1550-1850, Aldershot, Hampshire, Variorum, 1990, XII + 329 pp., fig.
By: MARA MINIATI
Pages: 242–243
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
Questionsd'histoire de la médecine.Actesdu113eCongrès NationaldesSociétés Savantes (Strasbourg, 5-9 avril 1988). Sectiond'histoire dessciences etdestechniques, Editions du C.T.H.S., Paris, 1991, 113 pp., bibl., ill.
By: STEFANO CAROTI
Pages: 244–245
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
ALLEN G. DEBUS, The French Paracelsians. The Chemical Challenge to Medical and Scientific Tradition in Early Modern France, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991, XVI + 247 pp.
By: FERDINANDO ABBRI
Pages: 246–248
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
Attidelconvegnointernazionale distudi suBernardinoTelesio, Cosenza, Accademia Cosentina, 1990, 220 pp.
By: SANDRA PLASTINA
Pages: 248–253
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
GERARD L'E. TURNER, God bless the microscope, Oxford, Royal Microscopical Society, 1989.
By: GIULIO MALTESE and GIORGIO DRAGONI
Pages: 253–255
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
PAUL HULTON, F. NIGEL HEPPER & IB FRIIS, Luigi Balugani's Drawings of African Plants. From the collection made by James Bruce of Kinnaird on his travels to discover the source of the Nile 1767-1773. New Haven, The Yale Center for British Art - Rotterdam, A. A. Balkema, 1991, 140 pp., 16 fig., 330 tav. (di cui 48 a colori).
By: LUCIA TONGIORGI TOMASI
Pages: 255–258
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
L. C. ROOKMAAKER, The Zoological Exploration of Southern Africa 1650-1790. Rotterdam, A. A. Balkema, 1989, XII + 368 pp., ill.
By: MARCO BERETTA
Pages: 258–260
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
WILLIAM R. SHEA, The Magic of Numbers and Motion. The Scientific Career of René Descartes, Canton Mass., Science History Publications, 1991, XIII + 371 pp.
By: FERDINANDO ABBRI
Pages: 260–262
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
EDWIN BANFIELD, Barometer Makers and Retailers 1660-1900, Trowbridge, Baros Book, 246 pp.
By: PAOLO BRENNI
Pages: 263
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
ARCHIVIO DI STATO DI FIRENZE, La Toscana dei Lorena nelle mappe dell'Archivio di Stato di Praga. Memorie ed immagini di un Granducato. Catalogo e mostra documentaria Firenze, 31 maggio-31 luglio 1991. Roma, Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali, Ufficio Centrale per i Beni Archivistici, 1991, 430 pp., fig.
By: MARA MINIATI
Pages: 264–267
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
PAUL U. UNSCHULD, Forgotten Traditions of Ancient chinese Medicine, Brook-line Massachusetts, Paradigm Publication, 1990, 403 pp.
By: ISAIA IANNACCONE
Pages: 267–270
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
ROBERT DARNTON and DANIEL ROCHE (Editors), Revolution in Print. The Press in France 1775-1800, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1989, xv + 351 pp., ill.
By: MARCO BERETTA
Pages: 270–272
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
Curiosity perfectly satisfied.Faraday'stravelsin Europe1813-1815. A cura di B. Bowers e L. Symons. IEE History of Technology Series 16, Peter Peregrinus Ltd in association with The Science Museum, London, 1991, 168 pp. (ISBN 0 86341 234 3) («IEE History of Technology Series», 16).
By: PAOLO BRENNI
Pages: 272–274
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
History, humanityand evolution.EssaysforJohnC. Greene, edited by James R. Moore, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989, XII + 429 pp., (ISBN 0-521-33511-6).
By: ANTONELLO LA VERGATA
Pages: 274–278
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
PETER M. HARMAN, The scientific letters and papers of James Clerk Maxwell, 1846-1862, vol. I, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990, XXVIII + 748 pp. (ISBN 0 521 256259)
By: MARCO SEGALA
Pages: 278–281
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
DANIEL PICK, Faces of degeneration. A European disorder, c. 1848-1918, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press («Ideas in Context»), 1989, VI + 275 pp., L. 27,50 ($ 39,50) (ISBN 0-521-36021-8).
By: ANTONELLO LA VERGATA
Pages: 281–284
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
The Correspondence of CharlesDarwin,Volume6, 1856-1857, a cura di Frederick Burkhardt e Sydney Smith, Cambridge & New York, Cambridge University Press, 1990, XXXII + 673 pp., L. 35.00 / $ 49.50 (ISBN 0 521 25586 4).
By: GIACOMO SCARPELLI
Pages: 284–286
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
BRUNO P. F. WANROOIJ, Storia del pudore. La questione sessuale in Italia 1860-1940, Venezia, Marsilio Editori, 1990, 234 pp.
By: FERDINANDO ABBRI
Pages: 286–289
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
STRUMENTARIA
By: MARA MINIATI
Pages: 291
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
E. RAGOZZINO, R. RINZIVILLO, E. SCHETTINO, I microscopia del passato. Una introduzione allo studio delle qualità ottiche e meccaniche dei microscopi del museo, Napoli, CUEN, 1991, 72 pp., fig.
By: MARA MINIATI
Pages: 291–292
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
AA.VV., Les mécanismes du génie, Editéur responsable Europalia Dr. Robert De Smet, Charleroi, 1991, 426 pp.
By: PAOLO BRENNI
Pages: 292–293
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
KENNETH LYALL, Electrical and Magnetic Instruments, Catalogue 8, Cambridge, The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1991, 136 pp.
By: PAOLO BRENNI
Pages: 293–294
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
RONALD EDWARD ZUPKO, Revolution in Measurement: Western European Weights and Measures Since the Age of Science, Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society, 1990, 547 pp., ind., app., ill.
By: STEFANO CAROTI
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
COMUNE DI PESARO-CASSA DI RISPARMIO DI PESARO, La terra e le sue copie. Leonardo, Raffaello, Boscovich, la cartografia del ducato e della legazione di Urbino, a cura di Enrico Gamba e Vico Montebelli, Urbino, Quattroventi, 1991, 95 pp., fig.
By: MARA MINIATI
Pages: 295
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
WILMA DI PALMA, Aspetti della Cultura Matematica a Roma dal I al VI secolo d.C., Roma, Fratelli Palombi Editori, 1991, 27 pp., fig. (Comune di Roma, Assessorato alla Cultura Centro di Coordinamento Didattico, 40)
By: MARA MINIATI
Pages: 295–296
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
LAURIE M. BRAUN - MAX DRESDEN - LILLIAN HODDESON (eds.), Pions to quarks. Particle physics in the 1950s, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1989, XXXII + 734 pp. (ISBN 0 521 30984 0).
By: MARCO SEGALA
Pages: 296–297
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
LILIA CAPOCACCIA ORSINI, GIORGIO DORIA, GIULIANO DORIA (a cura di), 1492-1992 Animali e piante dalle Americhe all'Europa, Genova, Sagep Editrice, 1991, 323 pp., fig.
By: MARA MINIATI
Pages: 297–298
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
IRMA B. JAFFE, GIANNI EUGENIO VIOLA, FRANCA ROVIGATI (eds.), Imagining the New World. Columbian Iconography, Roma, New York, Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1991, xi + 234 pp. fig.
By: MARA MINIATI
Pages: 298–299
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
FABIO GARBARI, LUCIA TONGIORGI TOMASI, ALESSANDRO Tosi, Giardino dei Semplici, l'orto botanico di Pisa dal XVI al XX secolo, Pisa, Cassa di Risparmio di Pisa, 1991, 397 pp., ed. fuori commercio.
By: LORENZO MARRI MALACRIDA
Pages: 299–300
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
Oceania. Collezionedell'Oceania del Museo diAntropologia edEtnografia dell'Università di Padova, Padova, Editime, 1991, 58 pp., fig.
By: MARA MINIATI
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992