The scientific revolution and the origins of modern science

Abstract

Reviewsfor many years the chief compiler of 'Garrison and Morton', and the present volume naturally leans heavily on that bible of the antiquarian bookseller.GM numbers are given at the end of relevant entries.Each year with an entry, from 3000 BC (Edwin Smith Papyrus) to 1996 (three deaths), is divided, where appropriate, into three main categories, events, births and deaths.Since 1901, information about the Nobel Prize (always for medicine or physiology, but also for chemistry or physics if there were medical implications) heads the list of events, and the authors are understandably chary ofjudging what was significant in the recent world of discovery: AIDS in 1981 and BSE in 1985 are the only two non-Nobel events noted since 1978.The volume is thus fullest for the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, where entries often have explanatory paragraphs, either qualifying the information or expounding briefly the career of the individual being cited.Morton and Moore have been admirably cosmopolitan in their trawling, and the full list of journal titles in which something significant was published occupies sixteen pages.A simple system of numbering, reasonable amount of cross-referencing and good subject and name indexes increase the usefulness of the volume.People looking for something to celebrate can start here, of course: 1999 will be the centennial, inter alia, of the founding of the London School of Tropical Medicine, the introduction of aspirin, the births of Max Theiler, Charles Best, Alfred Blalock and Macfarlane Burnet, and the deaths of Lawson Tait, James Paget and Theodore Puschmann.More generally, historians will appreciate the ready access to "context" which this attractive volume provides.

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