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The explanation of the before Justina experienced the method of first child Justine helped deliver is quite ex- detaching it, peeling it off with her little fin- emplary. The young Justine, tient. But these readings are of lit- and the manoeuvres , but also of the way to tle help. Justina tries a manoeuvre to place acquire a sound experienced knowledge of the child back and in the right position. None of the ele- One of the merits of the book lies in the ments, therefore, relative to a variety of do- mains, from social to theoretical, is ex- fact that it provides, confirming precisely cluded from this account of the context in what the authors point out in the introduc- which innovations slowly emerged.

To accomplish this, the first chap- dertaken by A. Lavoisier that turned out in ter draws our attention to the key topics of the idea that the cause of the increase of eighteenth-century chemistry. Moreover, in this section we sier was not isolated from the scientific come across some other issues, partially community in the working process. To complete the content supplementary actions. Apart from addi- of this volume, it incorporates at the end a tional experimental investigations, in parti- useful glossary and an up-to-date bibliogra- cular the ones carried out with the calori- phy.

This task, assumed as something like narrated. In July Monarchy, half a century later. Panckoucke himself personally with chemical novelties who made a few supervised the project from until contributions in particular areas of the dis- , overseeing 56 of the volumes that cipline. To com- medicine during the period in question bine these two functions, Panckoucke de- was at the forefront of European theory vised an ingenious organisational plan: But setting aside the matter of uneven volumes to each field of knowledge to be coverage, the particular topics that are ad- covered, but within the volumes devoted dressed are handled with thorough scholar- to each specific field, the topics would ap- ship.

This alphabetisa- Historians of science will probably be tion would enable the work to be used for attracted first to the section on Nature, reference purposes. In addition, however, sciences et techniques, which consists of for each field of knowledge there would chapters on naval architecture, physics, also be a guide indicating the non-alphabe- mathematics, chemistry, botany, zoology tical order in which the articles should be and agriculture.

But there are also chapters read so as to provide a systematic treatise on anthropology and geography under the on that field as a whole. This index is sparingly illustrated and concludes with would be the key to the reference function an index of personal names. To what extent was this original concep- tion actually realised? Cambridge MA and Lon- assigned subjects at a time when most of the don: Harvard University Press, These addition to the literature on science and are the questions which the essays collected the Enlightenment.

Focusing on a geogra- by Blanckaert and Porret seek to address. Hunter published its first detailed descrip- The genre adopted throughout is cultural tion. The tion of the first electric battery in Gale, of Galway, New York. As a result, the received view of advocated by Elisha Perkins of Plainfield, the intertwining of scientific, political, and Connecticut, is discussed in chapter 7. Per- religious motives in the early history of elec- kins also advocated a form of self-treat- tricity shifts.

Despite or because of its popu- The second part of the book explores a larity on both sides of the Atlantic, Perkin- broader range of authors and themes. Perkins indeed made no in South America in the s. According to this reviewer, that ap- the tropical world heritage. The series of articles com- the seed of his philanthropic aestheticiza- piled by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins tion of the Tropics.

In contrast to those The text introduced by the co-editors, Felix parallel construction sites of the Tropic, Driver and Luciana Martins, and after- the first article by Starr Douglas and Felix worded by Denis Cosgrove is divided in Driver scrutinizes the work of the naturalist three parts: Voyages, Mappings and Sites. European Tra- The last section of articles, Sites, provides velers and North American Indians Cam- analysis about how different discourses, bridge University Press, An expert views and visions dealing with tropical geo- on the topic, Liebersohn brings an insightful graphical locations are represented and con- and thorough book to the field that is well structed.

This new book focuses on European to India and the Himalayas. On the other travelers in the Pacific, specifically in the hand Leonard Bell engages in the decon- Polynesian islands of Hawaii and Tahiti in struction of the photographic representation the period between and Much of Tropicalism of the South Seas and Samoa has already been written about the most fa- in particular during the nineteenth and early mous travel writers and explorers of those twentieth centuries.

Nevertheless, the author course of tropical diseases and its degenera- manages to condense the most vital and in- tive connotations, where leprosy is the epi- teresting information about these travelers, tome of the disease of tropicality. Tropic as a flush of interaction through his- Additionally, this study focuses on three tory between the diversity of experiences of lesser known travelers: Philibert Commer- the travellers who visited it and the physical son, a French naturalist aboard Louis de world envisioned.

Prussian who served as naturalist on the voy- The revisionist glaze of this compilation not only stands out by the character of its age of captain Otto von Kotzebue content and cross disciplinary analysis but All three writers produced texts that also by the tropical focus envisioned and re- attracted debate and controversy, as there visited, which is accompanied by an excel- was a vast audience anxious for travel ac- lent critical apparatus, a select bibliography counts with descriptions of foreign lands and appropriate illustrations related to the and peoples during this timeframe.

Europe to the Pacific. The book accomplishes its two goals with and London: Harvard University Press, ease: In this volume he continues to develop the old regime to the new European order. The author provides global network whose intellectual production a fascinating account of Polynesians like is subject to many different and powerful in- terests. In an attempt to cover the most im- Ahutoru, Mahi, Kadu and others who be- portant facets of the travel writing of the time, came celebrities in their own right once they the book is divided in sections devoted to reached Europe. Postcolonial studies have provided a the- This book will be equally attractive to the oretical framework that allows for the read- neophyte who seeks to understand the so- ing of travel narratives as texts produced by cial, political and human implications of tra- the metropolis with the intention of provid- vel writing during the Enlightenment and ing the intellectual, scientific and moral jus- Romantic eras, and to the specialist who tification for European expansion.

Lieber- wants to expand his knowledge by gaining son does not contest this. Still, he is able — insight into the life and writings of three les- in an unusual twist — to expand this type ser known travel writers. Scienza e immaginazione teologica, giu- scopo di salvare la madre in pericolo di vita.

Nel la mato sin dal primo istante di vita, giustificas- stessa accademia dovette pronunciarsi su un se la soppressione della donna. Scottata dal feto, entrambi battezzati? Violava il decalogo e i codici? Esso sta- donna al feto. A rompere il veto ippocratico to a durare. E tato nelle scuole di area cattolica. The sage of make a major contribution towards estab- science. Oxford University Press, lishing the discipline of crystallography, Unlike many of those The task of achieving a wide-ranging he encouraged, Bernal was not awarded a open-minded biography of Desmond Ber- Nobel Prize, but Brown p.

A Life in Science and first stimulated by Bernal while working Politics, edited by Brenda Swann and Fran- with him on operational research in North cis Aprahamian, was published by Verso, Africa during the war, and who ended up providing much interesting information, sharing the Nobel Prize with Perutz; and but a total lack of critical analysis. Lyell sarebbe il mi- the afternoon of D-day was a fantasy, gliore [ Il prossimo it in the main narrative.

While adopting a generally volesse cimentarsi, ti chiederei di prendere neutral tone, Brown is prepared to be caus- consiglio dal Sig. Do- quello presentato da Charles Darwin geolo- centi e mentori, il viaggio iniziatico tra go, che Chiesura ripercorre servendosi in- vulcani e atolli.

Bene- nanzitutto delle fonti primarie manoscritte vento: Il testo ripropone in ed. Se, co- gere la geologia del N. Beagle, editi separatamente osservazioni effettuate durante il viaggio ver- tra il e il Tra gli apparati si segnala in- ico e, pertanto, di origine delle montagne. Si segnala infine in appendice, la lettera di William The work under review is two very dif- Daniel Conybeare a Lyell febbraio , ferent books under the same cover.

The modern uni- nineteenth-century research university in versity, on the other hand, is built on perso- Protestant northern Germany. On another, nal charisma, as much as it is built on bu- it is a subjective and earnest investigation reaucratic values. In some degree, this into the modern university and its ills writ- stems from the Idealist and Romantic rede- ten in a demotic and personal style which finition of the researcher as an original academic historians traditionally avoid. The first adds data-collector of the Enlightenment, but it considerably to the revisionist argument de- also reflects the emphasis placed on publi- veloped by R.

It does so by seeing the research attribute but one manufactured and ma- university as an aspect of Weberian moder- nipulated in the market-place. This then allows him to demon- words, the modern university, pace the strate the extent to which the Protestant rhetoric, was built on the twin pillars of bu- German universities of the eighteenth cen- reaucracy and capitalism with potentially tury already betrayed the hall-marks of a damaging results. Historians of science and sation, a meritocratic professoriate, the ob- higher education should read it simply for jective evaluation of student abilities etc.

Besides obvious versity which continue to haunt the present points of entry — state visitations, travelo- day. Academic appointments, we are told, gues, letters and so on — the author uses a are far less rational than one might suppose, number of rebarbative archival sources, for evaluation still turns on subjective criter- which have been largely neglected by for- ia, such as oral performance at conferences, mer historians of the early modern univer- gossip and off-the-record telephone refer- sity, such as lecture lists, student evaluation ences, while many academic scientists and forms, professorial dossiers and library cat- medics are not specialised impartial seekers alogues.

He also exploits visual material to after truth but the subsidised agents of drug good effect. This, then, is a book based companies and commercial interests. The on lengthy and careful research. Over the past thirty the United States, tested the predictions of years, social historians of science have quer- General Relativity concerning the three ied sometimes gently, sometimes not the standard effects: And his fine book fully confirms edge is socially constructed.

But their gaze the point, insofar as the author demon- has fallen on wider society — its language, strates, by thoroughly examining a large concerns and structure. No-one hitherto, amount of documents, that many details es- to the best of my knowledge, has looked caped mention in previous accounts, so specifically at the institution in which so many were the trees one did not look at, much of modern science is created — the that one ended up outlining a scarcely rea- university.

The Race city have overshadowed the historical reali- to Test Relativity. Princeton University Press, First and fore- most, to the eyes of a large part of the scien- Historical accounts of the development tific community those results did not in the of one or another natural science given by least appear decisive. The second and in people active in the field are usually mythi- some ways substantially new aspect is that cal: Historians of science, by contrast, occasion of an eclipse had seen a substantial base their accounts on first hand docu- number of American astronomers involved ments, thus providing a much more reliable from an early stage.

Even the tradition that account of the events. There is another further relevant aspects. We should how- series of events which are given circumstan- ever be warned against this conclusion by tial evidence, with the consequence of pro- the obvious consideration that no historical viding us with a much more detailed pic- account — no matter what the field — can be ture, namely the tantalizing series of really exhaustive. Another and 9, dating from the period between aspect the author lays stress on is the cir- May and April The remaining letters them generically referred to its essential were obtained from other repositories.

In this vo- told liberates us from a rigid understanding lume letters written by Hans Albert and of how the scientific community accepts Eduard Einstein are presented for the first scientific theories. Albert Einstein, Volume The Berlin This episode was by no means an isolated Years: In the Introduction, the editors men- , and Supplementary Corresponden- tion an entire series of events which took ce, Mean- tion was characterized, among other things, while Einstein had probably maintained by the circumstance that philosophers had the attitude he had showed once talking started reflecting on the epistemological im- with the astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung: Quite an interesting amply documented in the volume.

They include Niels Bohr, H.

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Jahrhundert, Levi Civita, and Arthur Eddington. On 6 November ing work. Einstein had started of Alps physiology in the nineteenth cen- receiving partial reports on the matter in tury. A story with a lot of characters, but mid-August In a letter to Eddington, one main protagonist: Angelo Mosso dated 11 June , while acknowledging , one of the best known Italian he had received direct information, he ex- experimental physiologist of the time.

In a letter to physiological functions of the human body, Elsa dated 23 October, Einstein wrote: My theory has been terials still largely unknown. Now no reasonable tion. The essay, subdivided into four tic traveller; as the subtitle of the third well articulated chapters, begins with an chapter says, sublime becomes exhaustion. At an altitude jective mechanic? There, of Italian academicians for mountaineering, where nature is immense, life is more in- an activity charged with meanings related to tense and feelings are extreme.

At the end the recently achieved Risorgimento. Like for nature and love for science p. Around over the book on Mosso, but mainly a book about inhospitable Alps peaks we do not find some theoretical problems he brought out, the solitary and horrible Dr. One of the human body reactions and behaviours un- most interesting aspects of this work is in- der extreme conditions. As said in the introduc- noises and industries, or a sanatorium to re- tion, this cultural history of Alps physiology store health, but also a silent and exhausting is linked to three branches of studies, con- physiological laboratory.

Work is hard cerning history of physiology, the graphic there, and every movement means fatigue. The sev- als Kultureller Kampfplatz. This part is as a notable example for the importance a clear description of how entropy and en- of cultural studies in the history of sciences.

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Yet, This is partly due to her topic which is ex- from my point of view, it is the second part tremely well chosen: Nes- and difficult the coherent interpretation of wald explains the choice of her topic expli- the entropy was. This complexity is rele- citly; according to her study, the concept of vant, as it shows the scope of interpretation entropy is particularly appropriate as it is that remained after the formulation of the semantically underdetermined as well as concept. In what follows, she discusses the complex, yet it also claims a general validity.

Here, fundamental Yet, it is not only the chosen topic which theological as well as philosophical beliefs makes this study so relevant and convincing were expressed in interpreting entropy in but also the overall approach. Instead of fo- a manner that seemed to be adequate on cusing on the genesis of the concept of en- the basis of these attitudes.

Her approach is very recently got a topicality that historical explicitly meant to be an expansion of the studies normally do not develop. But also Edinburgh school of sociology of scientific the discussion on what life means and knowledge and the science in context ap- how it can be interpreted goes significantly proach in the history of science p. Par- beyond the scope of most historical studies.

The study is published cept of entropy became relevant in various in German and by this choice, Neswald has discourses shows particularly well the open- limited her readership; a limitation that ness and the resulting ability of interpreting seems to me totally unjustified for such a re- this concept in different manners. Yet, Nes- markable study. It deals with one of da Nissl ad Alzheimer e a Kraepelin e con- the most intriguing historiographical topics temporaneamente con il potere locale, primo of recent years, namely the study, the inven- interlocutore di quanti fossero motivati ad tion and the use of those instruments which espandere gli spazi angusti della ricerca pur contributed significantly to the progressive senza rinunciare a seguirne in prima persona transformation of psychology, and the con- le ricadute applicative, cliniche.

Unlike previous books, which tolineando che il volume chiarisce, in modo focused on the scientific research of Gene- interessante e a tratti appassionante, come va-based psychologists such as E. Ruchat and to, contraddistinguendone il processo di ri- S. Fischer affirm in the Introduction cerca e acquisizione di uno status disciplina- p. The dif- cerebrale fosse tuttavia sempre legata ad una ferent authors who contribute to the book profonda consapevolezza della portata etica therefore have a common aim.

It be- costruzione storiografica che metta in luce la gins with M. Eloquenti in proposito, le pa- Spirit should underline, according to Ru- role dello stesso Cerletti: Une histoire say by M. The second part nologie. Founded in ciplinary branches treated in the labora- by three post-docs and a university tories between and , M. Ratcliff place in a rapidly changing environment. It concerns the development of chapters. Chapters one to three establish perceptions and optical illusions, a subject the research context and historical back- which has always fascinated psychologists.

The emphasis is on In fact, in the s and s J. Piaget the history of instruments and methods and some of his collaborators M. Lamber- used in molecular biology research and on cier, A. Ratcliff and tor in Germany. The core of the study is Hauert throw useful light on the issue. Verdon and Hauert re-evaluate about to Simplicity was therefore the spirit early history, and chapter seven gives a of the Genevan laboratory.

Ratcliff is clever short resume. Although DIAGEN developed into a The appeal of the book is enhanced by its market leader in separation technologies rich illustrations. According to book makes clear, the lab in the box was the first business plans, DIAGEN was envi- as much a product of DIAGEN as of mole- sioned as a research and development firm cular biologists seeking a technology to get specialised in molecular diagnostics for rid of tedious laboratory routines.

Separation technologies played only a minor role. A the company had to focus on projects that Victorian Debate on Science and Society. The University of time. Though they never met in the nancial constraints, scientific interests, per- flesh, Mill and Whewell were old enemies. Their debates were time when a fast growing number of aca- wide ranging, embracing scientific method, demic researchers entered the field of ge- morality, political economy and reform. This makes it all the more surprising success.

After dealing with acids. Although technical crea- tively. As far as Whewell was concerned came in close contact with customers when as well, there was nothing abstract or dis- the company changed its business model connected about such an ambition. Reform- and started its own sales activities. She certainly succeeds in demonstrat- Whewell saw it, was inextricably bound to ing the importance of paying due attention the defence of political morality.

Snyder to the particulars of philosophical debate shows how Whewell developed his induc- as a way of making sense of the dynamics tive vision across his career, drawing on of long running controversies such as the his reading of Francis Bacon, the English one under the microscope here. She is, it hero of the inductive philosophy. Mill must be said, rather less successful as a his- would have regarded Bacon as a hero too, torian. It becomes Master of Trinity College. Mill, as Snyder clear quite quickly, however, that any con- shows, certainly agreed with Whewell that text here is almost entirely textual.

We get getting the inductive grounds of knowledge very little sense of what was actually going right was a prerequisite of reform. This on as opposed to being written.

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It is cer- use of philosophy in defence of orthodoxy tainly a corrective to the labelling tendency so objectionable. She organizes these remaining chap- easy black and white. Much of der Elektrodynamik. First of all, he offers a deadly grip on other areas of cultural life valuable concept for describing experimen- would be similarly weakened. Whewell, on tal practice in a thorough manner. Sec- the other hand, saw it as part of his mission ondly, he reconstructs source material in a to combat the utilitarianism that he re- new manner and convincingly demonstrates garded as being so corrupting of political the strength of his approach.

And finally, he and religious life. Although they are well- both saw method as a way of making philo- known, Steinle presents a new and signifi- sophy matter to Victorian culture. Snyder is extremely good at proach, as well as from his epistemological dissecting details, drawing out nuances conception. In doing if one is not familiar with the history of elec- so, Steinle strongly criticizes other descrip- tricity, are probably helpful, even though tions, namely the studies of David Gooding they appear to be insufficient to compen- p.

This strategy can be speci- experiments were not theory-laden, but fied as being seemingly theory-free, which can be better described as an attempt to de- it is not: This epistemological conception newly opened field before Biot, the leading is crucial for the case studies developed by French researcher in the field of Galvanism, Steinle, as it enables him to focus on the would return to Paris to work in this field.

Therefore, readers who tation. Again, Steinle offers a complex de- have no expertise in the history of electro- scription of the emergence of a new effect dynamics will benefit from this study. If that could not result merely from estab- something is to be criticized, it is the num- lished knowledge.

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Oxford University Press, to esauriente il contributo di P. Di particolare interesse, infine, i con- the equation. How can a religious community re- stone about his telegraphic researches. But define itself and its place in society by enga- some scientific causes were particularly im- ging science? How might members of a re- portant for Quakers: Can science nological Society, which were closely allied provide a common language across the with Quaker ethics.

We hear how science was taught chapter. Science done by wealthy amateurs, in Quaker schools by the middle of the traders, travellers, engineers and entrepre- nineteenth century. John Ford, who taught neurs, educators and social statisticians at a school in Bootham, encouraged his stu- come into view. The general argument is dents to found their own journal, The Nat- that there was a diversity of ways in which uralist in Moving on to higher educa- science and religion interacted within these tion, Cantor documents Quaker preference communities.

A fascinating set of character for medical education in Edinburgh, where portraits also appear. The chapter ends with such education was under secular control. For Morgan established a circle of Jewish math- instance the Jew, Joseph Jacobs, used ematicians, and to Cambridge and Oxford, statistics to debunk long-standing ideas that where some Quakers and Jews excelled Jews were particularly prone to infectious early despite religious tests.

Cantor suggests disease, but in doing so he ended up dissol- that education allowed the testing of belief, ving the notion of a distinct Jewish race. But education was a dangerous busi- ing a religious tradition, but it came with ness: Within the Royal So- commitment to the Inner Light of revela- ciety, patronage networks amongst both tion within each individual, meant that they Quakers and Jews saw them support the were particularly attracted to the observa- election of other members from their com- tional sciences and shied away from mathe- munities in the first half of the nineteenth matics and astronomy.

The arrival of century. So science did not bert Were Fox, a Quaker scientist from only fit alongside religious beliefs, it allowed Cornwall. Unlike Quakers, Jews were approach increasingly affect what can avid theorizers and sought to embrace meaningfully be said in natural philosophy. Here too science was a means of precisely determine what was going on in defining the community. There can be no doubt that it will Dear as an attempt by Bohr to do away with stand the test of time as a definitive account the distinction between instrumentality and of Quaker and Jewish views of science.

Although, as he points out, press. This counts as an important interven- the old distinctions still lingered: The University of scientific enterprise. It also leads him to em- Chicago Press, The result, anyway, is to in the philosophy of science, this is in fact add freshness to what is essentially a famil- a brief history of science, from the mechan- iar set of stories.

Dear presents his history of losophy came to be seen as essentially unin- the development of modern science as the telligible as a more instrumental approach result of the interactions of two enterprises: In world featured in the development of the another version of the history of science, Origin of Species. Chapter five shows how therefore, commitment to theory could be the concept of what eventually became shown to displace intelligibility.

Fi- and light, and various presumed atomic renze: Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo, phenomena, in terms of quanta of energy. It is impor- of the foremost bodily fluid hardly needed tant to note, however, that it is only one re-examination. The groundbreaking work way of reading the history of science among on blood by Pietro Camporesi pro- many other equally possible and equally vided a fascinating, albeit historically vague, plausible ways of understanding it.

However, the symbolic, intelligibility. After all, in order to tell his religious, and cultural implications of the story Dear has had to play down the unin- scientific and medical discoveries and the- telligibility of some of the ways of thinking ories on blood, in fact still needed assess- his story required him to tell and I can ment. Similarly, the nine- simple object.

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Scripta in naturali et universali philosophia. Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum: Typis Petri Mettayer, Fragmens extraits des oeuvres du chancelier Bacon, editionangloise de P Shaw, M. Historia naturalis et experimentalis ad condendam philosophiam. Haviland; impensis Matthaei Lownes, B32 vault Bacon, Francis Chez Iaques Dugast, Apud Joannem Billium, B quarto vault Bacon, Francis Of the advancement and proficience of learning; or The partitions of sciences, IX bookes. B24 vault Bacon, Francis Opera omnia, quae extant philosophica, moralia, politica, historica.

B quarto vault. Sylva sylvarum sive Hist. Twoo bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of learning, diuine and humane. Printed for Henrie Tomes, A new edition by Basil Montagu. B25 vault Bacon, Roger ? The cure of old age, and preservation of youth. B3 vault Bacon, Roger ? De arte chymiae scripta cui accesserunt opuscula alia eiusdem authoris. B32 vault Bacon, Roger ? B vault Bacon, Roger ? Opera quaedam hactenus inedita. Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, B2 vault Bacon, Roger ?

Typis Gulielmi Bowyer, B2 O6 folio vault Bacon, Roger. De mirabili potestate artis et naturae. De his quae mundo eveniunt. Baier, Johann Jacob Monumenta rerum petrificatarum praecipua Oryctographiae Noricae supplementi loco iungenda. In commissione Georgii Lichtenstegeri, Oryctographia Norica, siue Rerum fossilium et ad minerale regnum pertinentium in territorio Norimbergensi eiusque vicinia obseruatarum succincta descriptio cum supplementis.

In commissione Wolffgangi Schwarzkopffii, Oryktographia [in Greek] Norica, siue rerum fossilium et ad minerale regnum pertinentium, in territorio Norimbergensi Impensis Wolfgangi Michahellis, B34 vault Bailey, Vernon Howe Empire State, a pictorial record of its construction;' drawings by Vernon Howe Bailey. William Adlard, Printer to the Society, Printed by William Adlard, G7B quarto vault Bailey, William fl.

G7B quarto copy 2 vault Bailey, William fl. One hundred and six copper plates of mechanical machines, and implements of husbandry. Printed for Benjamin White, G7B27 folio vault Baillet, Adrien La vie de Monsieur Des-Cartes. Chez Daniel Horthemels, D4B15 copy 1 vault Baillet, Adrien D4B15 copy 2 vault. Bailly, Jean Sylvain B2 vault Bailly, Jean Sylvain Chez De Bure, B15 vault Bailly, Jean Sylvain Lettres sur l'origine des sciences, et sur celle des peuples de l'Asie.

Chez les Freres Debure; London: B23 vault Bailly, Jean Sylvain B2 vault Baily, Francis Astronomical collections, containing a catalogue of zodiacal stars. B2 vault Baily, Francis Memoir relative to the annular eclipse of the sun, which will happen on September 7. An account of the Revd. Royal astronomical society of London.

An astronomicall description of the late comet. B34 vault Baker, Henry An attempt towards a natural history of the polype: H9B34 vault Baker, Henry The microscope made easy. Essai sur la theorie des satellites de Jupiter. The microscope made easy: The nature, uses and magnifying powers of the best kinds of microscopes An account of what surprizing discoveries have been already made by the microscope.

B2 vault Baker, Robert Horace B vault Bakewell, Frederick C. Geology for schools and students: Publishsed at the Office of the "Nationl Illustrated Library," B34 vault Bakewell, Robert An introduction to geology. B2 vault Bakewell, Robert An introduction to geology: B16 vault Bakewell, Robert Longman [and 5 others], B2 vault Baldi, Bernardino B34 vault Baldi, Bernardino De verborum Vitruvianorum significatione: Siue perpetuus in M. In mechanica Aristoteles problemata exercitationes.

B34 vault Baldwin, R. Printed for the Author, A treaise on comparative embryology. B22 vault Baliani, Giovanni Battista De motu naturali grauium solidorum et liquidorum. B25 vault Ball Gemology Collection Index. Sangerfield [ Northern District of New York]: An atlas of astronomy. B2 vault Ball, Robert Stawell B34 vault Ball, Robert Stawell B25 vault Ball, Robert Stawell The Story of the heavens.

London; Paris; New York; Melbourne: Recent acquisitions Cage Ball, Robert Stawell Ball, Robert Stawell The story of the heavens. Cassell and company, limited, B vault Ball, Robert Stawell London; New York; Toronto; Melbourne: With eleven full-page plates and numerous illustrations. London, Paris, New York and Melbourne: B25 vault Bammacaro, Nicola Tentamen de vi electrica Experimental researches concerning the philosophy of permanent colours.

B2 vault Banks, Joseph Illustrations of Australian plants collected in during Captain Cook's voyage round the world in H. Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, B3 folio flat vault Banks, Joseph Banta, Nathaniel Moore ed. Nature neighbors, embracing birds, plants, animals, minerals, in natural colors by color photography, containing articles by Gerald Alan Abbott, Dr. Albert Schneider, William Kerr Higley American Audubon association, B36 vault Barba, Alvaro Alonso b. Arte de los metales. En la Imprenta de Bernardo Peralta. A costa de Francisco Assensio, B3 vault Barba, Alvaro Alonso b.

La Oficina de la Viuda de M. Auf Gottfried Schultzens Kosten [? A collection of scarce and valuable treatises upon metals, mines and minerals. Barba by Ross E. Trattato della origine delle sorgenti, e de' fiumi. G7B3 vault Barclay, Vera Charlesworth b. Darwin is not for children. B33 , Cage Baretti, Martino M68 B3 vault Barin, Theodore Le monde naissant, ou la creation du monde.

Pour la Compagnie des Libraires, B vault Barlow, Edward Meteorological essays, concerning the origin of springs, generation of rain, and production of wind. Printed for John Hooke, and Thomas Caldecott, B37 vault Barlow, Peter A Treatise on the strength of timber, cast iron, malleable iron, and other materials; with rules for application in architecture, construction of suspension bridges, railways, etc.

John Weale, Architectural Library, B vault Barnard, Edward Emerson A photographic atlas of selected regions of the Milky Way. Carnegie Institution of Washington, B3 quarto vault Barnes, Joseph Remarks on Mr. John Fitch's reply to Mr. James Rumsey's pamphlet, by Joseph Barnes, Im Schwickertschen verlage, Tinterlin et Ce, B37 quarto vault Baronio, Giuseppe Saggio di naturali osservazioni sulla elettricita voltiana.

Presso Pirotta e Maspero, B37 vault Barral, Pierre De l'Imprimerie d'Etienne Batini, B3B2 vault Barrelier, Jacques Plantae per Galliam, Hispaniam et Italiam observatae, iconibus aeneis exhibitae. Apud Stephanum Ganeau, D'Houry pere et L. B27 vault Barrington, Daines The possibility of approaching the North pole asserted.

B26 vault Barrow, Isaac B3 vault Barrow, Isaac B28 vault Barrow, Isaac The usefulness of mathematical learning explained and demonstrated. Barrow, John Sir Voyages of discovery and research within the Arctic regions, from the year to the present time: Abridged and arranged from the official narratives, with occasional remarks, by Sir John Barrow. Im Verlage von J. B33 vault Bartholin, Caspar De ouariis mulierum et generationis historia epistola anatomica, antea Romae edita.

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Excudebat Georgius Hantzschius, B35 vault Bartholin, Caspar Specimen philosophiae naturalis, praecipua physices capita exponens. B36 vault Bartholin, Thomas De lacteis thoracicis; Historia Anatomia. De luce animalium libri III. B37 vault Bartholin, Thomas De unicornu obseruationes nouae.

B37 vault Bartholinus, Erasmus. Renoti des Cartes Principia B quarto vault Bartoli, Cosimo Del modo di misurare le distantie, le superficie, i corpi, le piante, le prouincie, le prospettiue. Per Francesco Franceschi Sanese, Bartoli, Cosimo - B37 vault Bartoli, Daniello Del ghiacio e della coagulatione.

Per il Varese, B25 vault Bartoli, Daniello Del suono de' tremori armonici e dell' udito. B35 vault Bartoli, Daniello Della vita del P. Z82B27 vault Bartoli, Daniello La ricreatione del savio in discorso con la natura e con Dio. Nella Stamperia d'Ignatio de' Lazzeri, B22 vault Bartoli, Daniello La tensione, e la pressione disputanti. B vault Bartoli, Daniello La tensione, e la pressione disputanti qual di loro sostenga l'argenti vivo ne'cannelli, dopo fattone il vuoto. A spese di Nicolo Angelo Tinassi, B vault Bartolo, of Sassoferrato Tractatus de fluminibus tripertitus. Apud Ioannem Roscium, B37 vault Barton, William fl.

Memoirs of the life of David Rittenhouse, LL. Published by Edward Parker R4B3 vault Barton, William P. William Paul Crillon B3 vault Barton, William P. A flora of North America. B35 quarto vault. Vegetable materia medica of the United States ; or medical botany. B35 quarto vault Bartram, William Botanical and zoological drawings, American Philosophical Society, B3 folio vault Bartram, William Printed by James and Johnson, ; London: S6B28 vault Bartsch, Jacob Planisphaerium stellatum seu Vice-globus coelestis in plano delineatus Cui adjectae sunt Ephemerides.

Chez Pierre Moet, B vault Basilius Valentinus Currus triumphalis antimonii. Apud Petrum Bosc, B37 vault Basilius Valentinus Cymische Schriften Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the Equator, during eleven years of travel. B3 vault Bates, Henry Walter Christion Ernst Gabler, B2 vault Battani, Muhammad ibn Jabir d.

De scientia stellarum liber cum aliquot additionibus Ioannis Regiomontani ex Bibliotheca vaticana transcriptus. Typis haeredis Victorij Benatij, B26 vault Battle of Waterloo [Map]. B25 folio vault. Balduinus De calceo antiquo, et Jul. Nigronus De caliga veterum The australian flower paintings of Ferdinand Bauer Bibliotheca librorum rariorum vniuersalis. Martin Jacob Bauer, Translated from the German with Additions by L. Spencer with twenty plates and ninety four figures in the text. Charles Griffin and Company, Ltd.

Ball 8 vault Bauhin, Caspar Sumptibus et typis Ludovici Regis, B38 vault Bauhin, Caspar Impensis Joannis regis, B38 vault Bauhin, Johann Historia novi et admirabilis fontis balneique Bollensis.

B37 vault Bauhin, Johann Didot le jeune, B3 vault Baur, Erwin B38 vault Bausch, Johann Lorenz Schediasma posthumum de coeruleo et chrysocolla. Impensis Viti Jacobi Trescher B28 vault Baxter, William T. Gem Cutting, and Metalcraft: B29 vault Bayer, Johannes fl. Excudit Christophorus Mangus, B folio flat vault Bayle, Pierre Dictionaire Historique et Critique.

Chez Reinier Leers, B39 folio vault Bayle, Pierre The dictionary, historical and critical of Mr. Knapton [and 28 others], Avec plusieurs Reflexions Morales et Politiques, et Plusieurs Observations Historiques; et la Refutation de quelques erreurs populaires. Chez Pierre Marteau, B39 vault Beard, Charles R. A Chapter of Popular Superstition. Ball 10 vault Beati, Gabriele Sphaera triplex artificialis, elementaris, ac caelesttis. B vault Beaufoy, Mark Nautical and hydraulic experiments, with numerous scientific miscellanies.

Printed at the private press of H. B4 quarto vault Beaugrand, Nicolas Le mareschal expert taictant du naturel des cheuaux. Chez Anthoine Robinot, B42 vault Beaumont, William B4 vault Beausard, Pierre Annuli astronomici instrumenti cum certissimi tum commodissimi vsus. Ex Officina Ioannis Steelsij, B39 vault Beavan, Arthur H. Crowning the King with Ten Illustrations. Typis Joannis Baptistae Fontana, Nuovi sperimenti di Giambatista Beccaria Nella Reale Stamperia, A sua altezza reale il signor Duca di York Sperienze, ed osservazioni. Nella Stamperia reale, Beccaria, Giambatista Dell' elettricismo artificiale e naturale libri due.

Dell'elettricismo artificiale, e naturale libri duo. Nella Stampa di F. B vault Beccaria, Giambatista Dell' elettricismo; lettere di Giambattista Beccaria Colle Ameno all'insegna dell'iride, Della elettricita terrestre atmosferica a cielo sereno osservazioni. B42 vault Beccaria, Giambatista Nella Stamperia Reale, B vault Beccaria, Giambatista Elettricismo artificiale.

B quarto vault Beccaria, Giambatista Experimenta, atque observationes, quibus electricitas vindex late constituitur, atque explicatur. Ex typographia Regia, Ex Typographia Regia, A treatise upon artificial electricity. B quarto vault Becchetti, Filippo Angelico Teoria generale della terra. Per Paolo Giunchi, B38 vault Becher, Johann Joachim Actorum laboratorii chymici monacensis, seu Physicae subterraneae libri duo. B37 vault Becher, Johann Joachim Johann Georg Schiele, Institutiones chimicae prodromae id est B vault Becher, Johann Joachim B vault Becher, Johann Joachim Opuscula chymica rariora.

Johann Daniel Tauberi [Taubers], Haug Verlag, []. Physica subterranea profundam subterraneorum genesin, e principiis hucusque ignotis, ostendens. Becher, Johann Joachim Physica subterranea profundam subterraneorum genesin: B41 vault Beck, Dominikus B42 vault Becket, John Brice An essay on electricity: Prince, at Oxford; W. Frederick, at Bath; and E. Thorn, at Exeter, QC And applied particularly to the purpose of detecting counterfeit gold coin: Printed for the author Cruttwell, in Bath, Translated from the German by William Johnston.

Beckmann, John A history of inventions, discoveries, and origins, by John Beckman. B42 vault Becquerel, Edmond B4 vault Beebe, Charles William Henry Holt and Company, Edge of the jungle. Henry Holt and company, Putnam's sons; The Knickerbocker Press, The log of the sun: A monograph of the pheasants. G2B39 folio vault Beebe, Charles William Tropical wild life in British Guiana Published by the New York Zoological Society, Two bird-lovers in Mexico. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and company, Beebe, Mary Blair d.

Our search for a wilderness; an account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's strait, to co- operate with the polar expeditions: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, B41 quarto vault Beer, Wilhelm B4 quarto vault Beer, Wilhelm Simon Schropp et Comp.?

B vault Beer, Wilhelm Fragments sur les corps celestes du systeme solaire. B43 vault Beer, Wilhelm Memories of Past Times with the Diggers of Diamondia: Maskew Miller, Limited, ? Diamond Fields Advertiser, Limited, Apud Matheum le Maistre, Part One of the Manual of Instrumentation. Instruments Publishing Company, Behrens, Georg Henning Narrative of a voyage round the world, performed in Her Majesty's ship Sulphur, during the years Published under the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

Henry Colburn, publisher, B38 vault Belcher, Edward Sir Narrative of the voyage of H. Samarang, during the years ; employed surveying the islands of the Eastern archipelago; accompanied by a brief vocabulary of the principal languages. Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, B44 vault Belcher, William Intellectual electricity, novum organum of vision and grand mystic secret Delle sensazioni del calore, e del freddo dissertazione. B44 vault Belgrado, Jacopo B quarto vault Belidor, M. Bernard Forest de Architectura hydraulica.. Bernard Forest de ? Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, B45 quarto vault Belidor, M.

Bernard Forest de Architecture hydraulique Bernard Forest de La science des ingenieurs.. Chez Firmin Didot, Number ,, for Improvement in Telegraphy. United States Patent Office, Its mechanism and vital endowments as evincing design. B4 vault Bell, Peter Robert Darwin's biological work: B4 , Cage Bell, Thomas A History of British Quadrupeds, including the Cetacea. John Van Voorst, Recent acquisitions Cage Bell, Thomas A History of British Reptiles.

A monograph of the testudinata. Libro del misurar con la vista. B4 vault Belon, Pierre ? De aquatilibus, libri duo cum eiconibus ad viuam effigiem B vault Belon, Pierre ?