BOOKS RECEIVED
- Atoms and Powers. An Essay on Newtonian Matter-Theory and the Development of Chemistry. By ARNOLD THACKRAY. Pp. xxv ± 326, with 13 illustrations. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1970. Price $12.00.
- John Dalton and the Atomic Theory. The Biography of a Natural Philosopher. By ELIZABETH C. PATTERSON. Pp. xii + 348 + 39 illustrations. Garden City, New York: Doubleday. 1970. Price $6.95.
- Musaeum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum. A facsimile reprint of the 1678 Frankfurt edition, with an Introduction by KARL R. H. FRICK. Pp. xliii + (xii) + 864 ± 4 folding tables. Graz (Austria): Akade-mische Drucku. Verlaganstalt. 1970. Price 0. Sch. 1,130 ($45.00).
- Alchimia: Ideologie und Technologie. By E. E. Pwss, H. ROOSEN-RUNGE, H. SCHIPPERGES and H. BUNTZ. Pp. 228, with many illustrations. Munich: Heinz Moos Verlag. 1970.
- A New View of the Origin of Dalton's Atomic Theory. By HENRY E. ROSCOE and ARTHUR HARDEN. A facsimile of the 1896 edition, with a new Introduction by ARNOLD THACKRAY. Pp. xxv + ix ± 191. New York and London: Johnson Reprint Corporation. 1970. Price $9.00.
- Autobiography of Joseph Priestley. A new edition of Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley (1806) with an Introduction by JACK LINDSAY. Pp. 159. Bath: Adams and Dart. 1970. Price £2.10.
- Science and Education in the Seventeenth Century. The Webster-Ward Debate. By ALLEN G. DEBLTS. Pp. 307. London: Macdonald; New York: American Elsevier. (History of Science Library: Primary Sources). 1970. Price £6.00 ($15.00).
- A History of Chemistry. Volume I, Part I: The Theoretical Background. By the late J. R. PARTINGTON. Pp. xlv 370. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press. 1970. Price £10.00.
- La Genese de la Science des Cristaux (first published 1918). By HÉLÈNE METZGER. Pp. 248. Paris: Librairie Albert Blanchard. 1969. Price Fr. 15.00.
- Les Doctrines Chimiques en France du debut du XVII4 a la fin du XVIII4 Siècle (first published 1923). By HÉLÈNE METZGER. Pp. 496. Paris: Librairie Albert Blanchard. 1969. Price Fr. 25.00.
- Religion and the Decline of Magic. Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England. By KEITH Thomas. Pp. xix 716. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1971. Price 8.00.
- Achilles Pirmin Gasser, 1505–1577. Artzt und Naturforscher, Historiker und Humanist. By KARL HEINZ BURMEISTER. VOL I: Biographie. Pp. xi -F221. VOL II: Bibliographie. Pp. viii 84. Wiesbaden: Guido Pressler Verlag. 1970. Price Vol. I: DM. 88; Vol. II. DM. 68.