84 matching record(s)
file R (Babbage)Anonymous
Review
of Charles Babbage, Reflexions on the Decline of Science in England, and some of its Causes (London, 1830); extract from The Quarterly Review, vol. XLIII no. LXXXVI, 1830, pp. 305-342.
[Unknown]
1830
file T (Stack)Aaboe, Asger
Review
of G. L. Huxley, Anthemius of Tralles; offprint from Scripta Mathematica, vol. 26, 1961.
[Unknown]
1961
file T (Stack)Aaboe, Asger
Review
of Tobias Dantzig, The Bequest of the Greeks (New York, etc., 1955); offprint from Isis, vol. 48 part 1 no. 151, March 1957, pp. 82-83. (A bad book on Greek mathematics).
[Unknown]
1957
file Q (Faraday)Ferguson, Allan
Review
of Thomas Martin (ed.), Faraday's Diary: being the various Philosophical Notes of Experimental Investigation made by Michael Faraday, D.C.L., F.R.S., during the Years 1820-1862 and bequeathed by him to the Royal Institution of Great Britain; offprint and extract from Nature, vol. 130 no. 3292, December 3, 1932, pp. 828-830. (One extract and one offprint). Presented by J. Ferguson Esq., from the papers of Allan Ferguson
[1972-81]
1932
file N (Stack)Anderson, R. G. W.
Review
of C. R. Hill, University of Oxford. Museum of the History of Science. Catalogue I: Chemical Apparatus; from Ambix, vol. 19 no. 3, November 1972, pp. 218-219.
[1973-16]
1972
file Q (Humboldt)Anonymous
Review
of two books about Alexander von Humboldt; offprint from Zeitschrift fur Meteorologie, band 15 heft 9, September 1961, 2 pages.
[1964- ]
1961
file U (Chapin)Anonymous
Review
of Harrold E. Gillingham, Some Early Philadelphia Instrument Makers; extract from Antiques: A Monthly Magazine, November 1927, p. 406. (Filed under Chapin, Howard M.).
[Unknown]
1927
Q (Murdoch)Hackmann, Willem
Review
of John Griffiths, The Third Man ... (London, 1992); photocopy from Nature, vol. 361, February 18, 1993, p. 601. (Re. William Murdoch).
[1993-47]
1993
file R (Stack)Holmyard, E. J.
Review
of C. H. Haskins, Studies in the History of Mediaeval Science (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1924); extract from Nature, vol. 115 no. 2895, April 25, 1925, pp. 599-600.
[Unknown]
1925
PER Anonymous
Review
of Roger Barlow's A Brief Summe of Geographie; in The Mariner's Mirror, vol. XVIII no. 4, {...}, p. 439.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
OXF (Turner)Bowen, E. J.
Review
of Early Science in Oxford, vol. XV; in Oxford (The Oxford Society), vol. XXI no. 3, December 1967, pp. 78-82. 2 copies.
[1967-327]
1967
file D (Stack)Brasch, Frederick E.
Review
of Solon I. Bailey, The History and Work of Harvard Observatory, 1839-1927 (New York & London: McGraw Hill Book Co., 1931); offprint from Science, vol. 74 no. 1928, December 11, 1931, pp. 598-599.
[Unknown]
1931
file O (Stack)Britten, James
Review
of R. T. Gunther, Early British Botanists and their Gardens (1922); offprint from The Journal of Botany, vol. 60, December 1922, pp. 365-369. Attached to Gunther's book (other copies in file O and in 'Misc. Tracts on Botany, &c.'). Several copies. (*)
[Unknown]
1922
MS Stapleton 202Bruins, E. M.
Review
of Neugebauer; offprint from Janus, vol. XLVII no. 1, 1958, pp. 68-72. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1958
file U (Stack)Bryden, D. J.
Review
of an inventory of the Greenwich Museum, Engberts' Rijksmuseum Telescopes Catalogue, and Green and Lloyd's "Kelvin's Instruments ..."; photocopy from Museums Journal, vol. 71 no. 4, March 1972.
[Unknown]
1972
G (Stack)Burckhardt, Rud.
Review
of Jules Soury, Le systeme nerveux central, structure et fonctions. Histoire critique des theories et des doctrines (Paris, 1899); offprint from Zeitschrift fur Psychologie und Physiologie der Sinnesorgane, band 27, 1901, separately paginated (1-4). Bound with other pamphlets in volume 'Physiology. I.'
[Unknown]
1901
file I (Stack)Chapman, Allan
Review
of Stella Butler, Science and Technology Museums (Leicester, 1992); offprint from Annals of Science, vol. 50, 1993, pp. 389-402. Presented by the author
[1993-36]
1992
Pending Chapman, Allan
Review
of C. F. C. Beeson, Clockmaking in Oxfordshire 1400-1850, 3rd edition, 1989; in The Wadham College Gazette, new series vol. 3 no. 6, January 1991, pp. 81-83. Presented by the publisher
[1991-48]
1991
U (Stack)Clercq, Peter de
Review
of Anthony Turner, Early Scientific Instruments: Europe 1400-1800 (London, 1987); in Marian Fournier & Bert Theunissen (eds.), Het Instrument in de Wetenschap (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988), pp. 289-293.
[1989-150]
1988
S - oversizeFerguson, Allan
Review
/ A.F. Review of Sir Henry Lyons, The Royal Society 1660-1940: A History of its Administration under the Charters (Cambridge, 1944); offprint from the Proceedings of the Physical Society, vol. LVII, 1945, pp. 255-257. Presented by J. Ferguson Esq.
[1972- ]
1945
file OXF (Stack)Feingold, Mordechai
Review
of Prudence Leith-Ross, The John Tradescants ... (London, 1984); Arthur MacGregor (ed.), Tradescant's Rarities ... (Oxford, 1983); Michael Hunter (compiler), Elias Ashmole, 1617-1692 ... (Oxford, 1983); and A. V. Simcock, The Ashmolean Museum and Oxford Science, 1683-1983 (Oxford, 1984); offprint from Isis, vol. 76 part 4 no. 284, 1985, pp. 600-602. Presented by the publisher
[1986-17]
1985
S - oversizeFerguson, Allan
Review
of F. Kohlrausch, edited by F. Henning, Praktische Physik (Leipzig, n.d.); offprint from the Journal of Scientific Instruments, vol. XII no. 12, December 1935, pp. 400-401. Presented by J. Ferguson Esq.
[1972- ]
1935
S - oversizeFerguson, Allan
Review
of The Encyclopaedia Britannica, fourteenth edition (London, 1929); offprint from the Journal of Scientific Instruments, vol. VIII no. 7, July 1931, pp. 235-237. Presented by J. Ferguson Esq.
[1972- ]
1931
file Q (Henry)Hackmann, W. D.
Review
of Nathan Reingold (ed.), The Papers of Joseph Henry, vol. 2 (1975); offprint from The British Journal for the History of Science, [?vol. IX, 1976], p. 85.
[Unknown]
1976
file R (Stack)Hackmann, W. D.
Review
of Peter Galison, How Experiments End (Chicago, 1987); photocopy from Physics Today, vol. 42 no. 3, March 1989, pp. 98 and 100.
[1989-86]
1989
file R (Stack)Hackmann, Willem D.
Review
of Leo Beek, Dutch Pioneers of Science (1985); photocopy from Isis, vol. 79, 1988, pp. 132-134.
[1988-83/2]
1988
file W (Stack)Hoke, Donald
Review
of F. R. Maddison & A. J. Turner, University of Oxford, Museum of the History of Science: Catalogue 2 - Watches (1973); offprint from Technology and Culture, n.d., pp. 360-361.
[Unknown]
1973
Envelope files Hughes, Henry, & Son
Review
April 9, 1936. Duplicated typescript.
[Unknown]
1936
file F (Stack)Jacob, Mike
Review
of American Daguerreotypes from the Matthew R. Isenburg Collection (Yale, 1989); photocopy from Photographica World, [?no. 54], 1990, p. 31. Presented by the author
[1990-134]
1990
file F (Stack)Jacob, Mike
Review
of Francoise Reynauld (ed.), Paris et le Daguerreotype (Paris, 1990), Janet E. Buerger, French Daguerreotypes (Chicago, 1989), and Uwe Scheid, Die Erotische Daguerreotypie (1989); photocopy from Photographica World, no. 56, March 1991, pp. 30-32. Presented by the author
[1991-72]
1991
file N (Stack)Josten, C. H.
Review
of Douglas McKie (ed.), The Essays of Jean Rey. A facsimile reprint of the original edition of 1630 (London: Edward Arnold, 1951); offprint from French Studies, {...}, p. 356. 5 copies.
[Unknown]
1951
file Y (Stack)Kennedy, E. S.
Review
of P. H. Van Cittert, Astrolabes: A Critical Description of the Astrolabes, Noctilabes and Quadrants in the Care of the Utrecht University Museum (Leiden, 1954); offprint from Speculum, vol. XXXI no. 1, January 1956. From the library of Professor A. F. L. Beeston; Transferred from the Oriental Institute Library
[1997-6]
1956
file U (Stack)Korber, H.-G.
Review
of books by E. G. R. Taylor and Ernst Zinner; from Deutsche Literaturzeitung, January 1969.
[1970-10]
1969
file R (Stack)Krafft, Fritz
Review
of G. H. Knutzen, Technologie in den hippokratischen Schriften; in{?} Deutsche Literaturzeitung (Berlin), May 1967.
[1968-90]
1967
file U (Stack)Luscher
Review
of C. Pulfrich, Uber Photogrammetrie aus Luftfahrzeugen und die ihr dienenden Instrumente (Jena, 1919); photocopy from Zeitschrift fur Instrumentenkunde, n.d., p. 224.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file W (Boullin)McDonald, A. G.
Review
of Beeson, Clockmaking in Oxfordshire 1400-1850, 3rd edition (Oxford, 1989); in Horological Journal, vol. 133 no. 2, August 1990, p. 56.
[Unknown]
1990
file F (Stack)Morrison-Low, A. D.
Review
of Sara Stevenson, Hill and Adamson's The Fishermen and Women of the Firth of Forth (Edinburgh, 1991); photocopy from Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, NS vol. 3, 1994, pp. 143-144. Presented by the author
[1996-123]
1994
file N (Stack)Multhauf, Robert P.
Review
of C. R. Hill, Chemical Apparatus, Oxford, 1971; offprint from Technology and Culture, vol. 15 no. 2, April 1974, pp. 365-367.
[1977-69]
1974
file OXF - MHSMulthauf, Robert P.
Review
of C. R. Hill, Chemical Apparatus (Oxford: Museum of the History of Science, 1971); offprint from Technology and Culture, vol. XV, April 1974, pp. 365-367.
[Unknown]
1974
OXF Museums Journal
Review
of R. T. Gunther, Historic Instruments for the Advancement of Science (1925), and Old Ashmolean Reprints 1 (1925); in The Museums Journal, vol. 24 no. 12, June 1925, pp. 289-290.
[Unknown]
1925
Pending New College Record
Review
notice of C. F. C. Beeson, Clockmaking in Oxfordshire 1400-1850, 3rd edition, 1989; in New College Record, 1990, p. 9. Presented by the Editor (Prof. H. G. Nicholas)
[1991-49]
1990
file R (Stack)North, J. D.
Review
of S. M. Macey, Patriarchs of Time ... (1987), S. J. Tester, A History of Western Astrology (1987), and La Diffusione delle Scienze Islamiche nel Medio Evo Europeo (1987); offprint from Notes and Queries, vol. 233 no. 4, December 1988, pp. 502-505. Presented by the author
[1989-123]
1988
file R (Stack)North, John D.
Review
of J. E. Murdoch & E. D. Sylla (eds.), The Cultural Context of Medieval Learning (Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1975); {?...} from an unknown periodical{?}, pp. 166-168.
[1977-62]
[n.d.]
X (Stack - x oversize)Piggott, Stuart
Review
of Dorothy M. Owen (ed.), The Minute-Books of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society 1712-1755 (Lincoln Record Society, 1981); photocopy from The Antiquaries Journal, vol. LXII part II, 1982, pp. 444-445. Enclosed in the work reviewed.
[Unknown]
1982
E (Diocles)Rashed, Roshdi
Review
of G. J. Toomer (ed.), Diocles on Burning Mirrors (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1976); photocopy from Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, vol. 28, 1978, pp. 329-333. Enclosed in the book reviewed.
[Unknown]
1978
file Q (Tradescant)Simcock, A. V.
Review
of Prudence Leith-Ross, The John Tradescants: Gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen (London: Peter Owen, 1984); offprint from Annals of Science, vol. 42, 1985, pp. 167-169. Presented by the publisher
[1987-111]
1985
OXF - periodicalsSimcock, A. V.
Review
of Oliver Impey & Arthur MacGregor (eds.), The Origins of Museums (Oxford, 1985); in The Ashmolean, no. 8, Autumn 1985, p. 23.
[Unknown]
1985
Q (Beddoes)Simcock, A. V.
Review
of Dorothy A. Stansfield, Thomas Beddoes, M. D. ... (Dordrecht, 1984); offprint from Isis, vol. 76 part 4 no. 284, 1985, pp. 641-642. (Inserted in the book reviewed). Presented by the author
[1986-16]
1985
file T (Stack)Scriba, C. J.
Review
of two books, one by C. E. Sjostedt, the other on Otto von Guericke. 1970.
[1972-37]
1970
file R (Stack)Scriba, Christoph J.
Review
of Joachim Fischer, Napoleon und die Naturwissenschaften (Stuttgart, 1988); offprint from Historia Mathematica, vol. 16, 1989, p. 180. Presented by the author
[1990-87]
1989
file BIBL Simcock, A. V.
Review
of Charles Mollan & others, Nostri Plena Laboris: An Author Index to the RDS Scientific Journals 1800-1985 (Dublin, 1987); offprint from Annals of Science, vol. 45 no. 5, September 1988, pp. 541-542. Presented by the author
[1989-111]
1988
file OXF (Stack)Simcock, A. V.
Review
of Ivor Guest, Dr John Radcliffe and his Trust (London: The Radcliffe Trust, 1991); offprint from Annals of Science, vol. 51, 1994, pp. 548-549.
[1998-28]
1994
file D (Stack)T[aylor], F. S.
Review
of Lynn Thorndike, The Sphere of Sacrobosco and Its Commentators (Chicago, 1949); offprint from Medium AEvum, n.d., pp. 86-88. Duplicate from the papers of F. Sherwood Taylor; Presented by Mrs M. Sherwood Taylor
[1988-68/2]
1949
file Q (Darwin)Turner, G. L'E.
Review
of Desmond King-Hele, Doctor of Revolution: The Life and Genius of Erasmus Darwin (London: Faber & Faber, 1977); offprint from Notes and Queries, February 1979, pp. 76-78.
[1979-150]
1979
file Q (Hales)Turner, G. L'E.
Review
of D. G. C. Allan & R. E. Schofield, Stephen Hales: Scientist and Philanthropist (London: Scolar Press, 1980); offprint from Notes and Queries, vol. 28 no. 6, December 1981, pp. 551-552. Another copy enclosed in the book reviewed.
[Unknown]
1981
File U (Stack)Turner, G. L'E.
Review
of Inventaire des instruments scientifiques historiques conserve en France; offprint from{?} Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences, vol. 20 nos. 78-79, January-June 1967.
[1968-18]
1967
R - pamphletsAnonymous
Review
of Joseph Priestley, History and Present State of Electricity; extract{?} from The Political Register, 1767. Bound in 'Cambridge Papers'.
[1964-24]
1767
file N (Stack)Plessner, M.
review
of Alfred Siggel, Decknamen in der arabischen alchemistischen Literatur (Berlin, 1951); offprint from Oriens, vol. VII, n.d., pp. 368-373. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
[n.d.]
file E oversizePirenne, Maurice
review
of Decio Gioseffi, Perspectiva Artificialis; per la storia della prospettiva; spigolature e appunti; offprint from The Arts Bulletin, vol. XLI no. 2, June 1959, pp. 213-217.
[1963-30]
1959
file D (Stack)Gingerich, Owen
Review
Review of 'An account of the Revd. John Flamsteed' by Francis Baily. Reprinted from Sky and Telescope 35-37, July 1967.
[Unknown]
1967
file D (Stack)Gingerich, Owen
Review
Review of 'Bibliographie Generale de L'Astronomie Jusqu'en 1880' by J.C. Houzeau and A. Lancaster. Reprinted from Sky and Telescope, December 1965.
[Unknown]
1965
file D (Stack)Gingerich, Owen
Review
Review of 'Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres' newly translated by A.M. Duncan. Reprinted from Isis, Vol. 69, No. 2, 1978.
[Unknown]
1978
file D (Stack)Gingerich, Owen
Review
Review of 'Kepler's Somnium. The dream, or posthumous work on lunar astronomy' translation and commentary by Edward Rosen. Reprinted from Science, Vol. 157, No. 3787, July 28, 1967.
[Unknown]
1967
file D (Stack)Gingerich, Owen
Review
Review of Kepler's Dreams' by John Lear. Reprinted from Isis, Vol. 56, No. 4, 1965.
[Unknown]
1965
file D (Stack)Gingerich, Owen
Review
Review of 'A Vienna Demotic Papyrus on Eclipse- and Lunar- Omnia' by Richard A. Parker. Reprinted from the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 87, No. 3, 1967.
[Unknown]
1967
file D (Stack)Aaboe, Asger
Review
Review of 'Egyptian Astronomical Texts, II. The Ramesside Star Clocks' by O. Neugebauer and Richard A. Parker. Reprinted from the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 87, No. 3, 1967. Printed on the back of a review by Owen Gingerich and filed under 'Gingerich'.
[Unknown]
1967
file D (Stack)Aaboe, Asger
Review
Review of 'Anthemius of Tralles: A study in later Greek geometry' by G.L. Huxley. Reprinted from Scripta Mathematica, Vol. 26, 1961.
[Unknown]
1961
file D (Stack)Anonymous
Review
Review of 'Kepler's Dream' by John Lear from the Times Literary Supplement, Thursday 10 June 1965.
[Unknown]
1965
file D (Stack)North, J. D.
Review
Review of 'Campanus of Novara and medieval planetary theory: Theorica planetarum' edited by Francis S. Benjamin, Jr. and G.J. Toomer.
[1977-79]
[n.d.]
file E (Stack)Turner, Gerard L'E
Review
Review of Das Mikroskop by P. Harding. Offprint from History of Science, Volume XI, 1973. pp. 62-67.
[1973-54]
1973
file E opthalmoscopesBron, Anthony J.
Review
Review of W. Jaeger 'Die Erfindung der Opthalmoskopie'. Offprint from Archives Internationales d' Histoire des Sciences, Volume 30, 1980.
[Unknown]
1980
file G (Stack)Anonymous
Review
Review of The Fasciculo di Medicina, a facsimile reproduction of text and illustrations with an English translation, introduction and notes by Charles Singer. Offprint from the Times Literary Supplement, Thursday, February 11, 1926.
[Unknown]
1926
file G (Stack)Viets, Henry R.
Review
Review of A History of Medicine by Henry E. Sigerist. Reprinted from Centaurus, 1951.
[Uknown]
1951
file L (Stack)Heawood, Edward
Review
Review of Claudii Ptolemaei Geographiae Codex Urbinas Graecus by Joseph Fischer. Offprint from the Geographical Journal Volume, LXXXII, No. 1, July 1933.
[Unknown]
1933
file N (Stack)Mellor, J.W.
Review
Review of 'Origins and Development of Applied Chemistry' by Professor J.R. Partington. Extract from Nature, August 24, 1935.
1935
file O (Stack)A.B.R.
Review
Review of The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides illustrated by a Byzantine, A.D. 512, edited by Robert T. Gunther.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file OXF - MHSAnonymous
Review
Review of 'Historic Instruments for the Advancement of Science' by R. T. Gunther, Oxford, 1925. Review in The Museums Journal, Volume 24, No. 12, June 1925.
[Unknown]
1925
file Q (Stack)Scriba, Christoph J.
Review
Review of 'The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', vols. VII and VIII (1970 and 1971), edited and translated by A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall. Offprint from Sudhoffs Archiv, vol. 58 no. 3, [1974], pp. 322-324. Presented by the author
[Unknown]
1974
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Review
Review of 'Sir William Osler' by Harvey Cushing in an unknown newspaper from 1925, p. 20.
[Unknown]
1925
file Q (Stack)A. S. M.
Review
Review of 'The Life of Sir William Osler' by Harvey Cushing. Extract from Nature Vol. 115, No. 2894, pp 563-564.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file R (Stack)A. H.
Review
Review of Early Science in Cambridge by Dr. R. T. Gunther. Extract from Nature July 24, 1937, pp. 130-131.
[Unknown]
1937
file R (Stack)Holmyard, E. J.
Review
of F. S. Marvin, Science and Civilisation. London: Oxford University Press, 1926. Extract from Nature October 16, 1926, pp. 547-548.
[Unknown]
1926
file R (Stack)Holmyard, E. J.
Review
of Job of Edessa, Encyclopaedia of Philosophical and Natural Sciences as taught in Baghdad about A.D. 817, or Book of Treasures. Edited by A. Mingana. Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, 1935. Extract from Nature, December 7, 1935, pp.889-890.
[Unknown]
1935
file Q (Stack)Scriba, Christoph J.
Review
Review of 'The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', vols. V and VI, edited and translated by A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall. Offprint from Sudhoffs Archiv, vol. 55, 1971, pp. 99-101. Presented by the author
[Unknown]
1971