Annals of Science
Volume: 56, Number: 1, January 1999

G. L'E. TURNER A New Editor 1

Main Articles

SILKE ACKERMANN and JOHN CHERRY Richard II, John Holland and Three
Medieval Quadrants 3

ELIZABETH HENRY BELLMER The Statesman and the Ophthalmologist:
Gladstone and Magnus on the Evolution of Human Colour Vision, One Small
Episode of the Nineteenth-century Darwinian Debate 25

PATTI WILGER HUNTER An Unofficial Community: American Mathematical
Statisticians before 1935 47

ANNE C. VAN HELDEN and ROB H. VAN GENT The Lens Production by
Christiaan and Constantijn Huygens 69

BERNADETTE BENSAUDE-VINCENT Atomism and Positivism: A Legend about
French Chemistry 81

Essay Review

Priestley Enlightened

ROBERT E. SCHOFIELD The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley : A Study of his
Life and Work from 1733 to 1773. Reviewed by J. JONES 95

Book Reviews

Biographies

WILLIAM H. BROCK Justus von Liebig: The Chemical Gatekeeper (M.J.
Duck) 99

JEAN-PIERRE POIRIER Lavoisier, Chemist, Biologist, Economist (P. Bret) 100

Medieval Science

EDWARD GRANT The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages :
Their religious, institutional, and intellectual contexts (B. Vickers) 101

Renaissance and Reformation

NANCY G. SIRAISI The Clock and the Mirror: Girolamo Cardano and
Renaissance Medicine (M. J. Duck) 103
Natural History
P. J. BOWLER Life's Splendid Drama (B. Bracegirdle) 104

Mathematics and Logic

SILVIA MAZZONE and CLARA S. ROERO Jacob Hermann and the diffusion of the
Leibnizian calculus in Italy (N. Guicciardini) 104

Astronomy, Cosmology, Space and Time
C. WALKER (editor) Astronomy Before the Telescope (J. A. Bennett) 106

Physical Sciences: Heat, Optics, Chemistry

MARY Jo NYE Before Big Science: The Pursuit of Modern Chemistry and
Physics, 1800-1940 (D. E. H. Edgerton) 107

WILFRED VERNON FARRAR Chemistry and the Chemical Industry in the 19th
Century : The Henrys of Manchester and Other Studies (T. H. Levere) 107

Medicine and Health

CHRISTIAN G. BIEN, Erklarungen zur Entstehung von Miftbildungen im
physiologischen und medizinischen Schrifttum der Antike. Sudhoffs Archiv,
Beiheft 38 (V. Nutton) 109

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Annals of Science
Volume 56 , Number 3, July 1999

Contents

GUIDO TAGLIAFERRI and PASQUALE Tucci Carlini and Plana on the Theory
of the Moon and their Dispute with Laplace 221

JUNE BARROW-GREEN 'A Corrective to the Spirit of too Exclusively Pure
Mathematics': Robert Smith (1689-1768) and his Prizes at Cambridge
University 271

Book Reviews

Biographies
SIR ALAN COOK Edmond Halley, Charting the Heavens and the Seas
(A. Chapman) 317

ELLIS L. YOCHELSON Charles Doolittle Walcott, Paleontologist (D. Oldroyd) 318

l. S. GLASS Victorian Telescope Makers. The Lives and Letters of Thomas and
Howard Grubb (R. W. Smith) 320

CHARLES COULSTON GILLESPIE Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827. A Life in
Exact Science (R. Thiele) 321

Scientific Revolution

MICHAEL HUNTER (editor) Archives of the Scientific Revolution: The
Formation and Exchange of Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe (L. M.
Principe) 322

Mathematics and Logic
A. N. KOLMOGOROV and A. P. YUSHKEVICH (editors) Mathematics of the
19th Century (I. Grattan-Guinness) 323

M. FOLKERTS (with P. KUNITZSCH) (editor) Die älteste lateinische Schrift
über das indische Rechnen nach al-Huärizmi (J. Sesiano) 323

Instruments and Measurement
SILKE ACKERMANN (editor) Humphrey Cole : Mint, Measurement and Maps
in Elizabethan England (D. J. Bryden) 324

JOHN J. ROCHE The Mathematics of Measurement : A Critical History (P. M.
Harman) 325


Earth Sciences
LUDMILLA JORDANOVA and ROY PORTER (editors) Images of the Earth: Essays
in the History of the Environmental Sciences (D. Oldroyd) 326

Medicine and Health
JOHN HARLEY WARNER Against the Spirit of System : The French Impulse in
Nineteenth'Century American Medicine (A. B. Davis) 328