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Giovanni Dondi,Tractatus Astrarii(Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2003). Translation and critical edition by Emmanuel Poulle. 468 pp. hc. ISBN 2-600-00810-1.Bodil Branner; Jesper Lützen (eds.),Caspar Wessel: On the Analytical Representation of Direction(Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1999). 143 pp. pb. DKK 500. ISBN 87-7876-158-1.Jesper Luuml;tzen (ed.),Around Caspar Wessel and the Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers(Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2001). 293 pp. pb. DKK 300. ISBN 87-7876-236-7.Frank A.J.L. James (ed.),‘The Common Purposes of Life’: Science and society at the Royal Institution of Great Britain(Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002). 472 pp.£55. hc. ISBN 7546-0960-X.Anastasios Brenner,Les origines françaises de la philosophie des sciences(Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2003). 224 pp. ISBN 2-13-053150-4.David Knight,Science and Spirituality: The Volatile Connection(London: Routledge,2003). 230 pp. pb.£18.99. ISBN 0-415-25769-7.Sungook Hong,Wireless: From Marconi's Black Box to the Audion(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001). 248 pp. hc.$34.95 /£23.50. ISBN 0-262-08298-5.Peter J. Ramberg,Chemical Structure, Spatial Arrangement: The Early History of Stereochemistry, 1874-1914(London: Ashgate, 2003). 424 pp. hc.£57.50. ISBN 0-7546-0397-0.Jean-François Stoffel,Le phénoménalisme problématique de Pierre Duhem, Brussels (Académie royale de Belgique) 2002. 392 pp. Eur. 32 pb. ISBN 2-8031-0190-4.Rienk Vermij,The Calvinist Copernicans:The Reception of the New Astronomy in the Dutch Republic, 1575-1750(Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2002). 433 pp. hc. EUR 49. ISBN 90-6984-340-4.Alois Kernbauer (ed.),Die‘klinische Chemie’ Jahre 1850. Johann Florian Heller Berichtüber seine Studienreise in die deutschen Länder, in die Schweiz, nach Frankreich und Belgien im Jahre 1850(Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002). 192 pp. EUR 34. ISBN 3-515-08122-4.Ursula Klein,Experiments, Models, Paper Tools. Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003). xi+305 pp. hc. ISBN 0-8047-4359-2. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]