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History of Mathematical Sciences - Huygens et la France. Foreword by René Taton. Paris: Vrin. 1982. Pp. ix + 268. ISBN 2-7116-2018-2. 210F. - Henry Guerlac, Newton on the Continent. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981. Pp. 169. ISBN 0-8014-1409-1. £8.75. - Marie-Françoise Biarnais, Les Principia de Newton: Genèse et structure des chapitres fondamentaux avec traduction nouvelle. Foreward by A. Rupert Hall. Paris: Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, 1982. Pp. 287. ISBN 2-222-03094-3. (Cahiers d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences, Nouvelle série, No. 2.) 25F.

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Simon Schaffer
Simon Schaffer
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Imperial College, London
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , July 1984 , pp. 227 - 230
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