Augustan England. Professions, state, and society, 1680–1730

language; this is followed by a little on texts available, followed in turn by a long discussion of the taxonomy of such texts and a defence of the study of "academic" or "learned" vernacular texts. There is much to be learned here, although the author has not attempted a coherent study. Bert S. Hall devotes himself to considering problems of understanding and interpreting mostly published texts in the history of late medieval technology (nothing medical here); while Bernard Cohen's 'Thrice revealed Newton' is a detailed history of the publication of Newton's writings from 1687 to 1980. This is an excellent introduction for the novice (although, curiously it omits several seventeenthand eighteenth-century publications), but, of course, there is nothing of specifically medical interest here. The historian of medicine would profit from Drake's exceptionally cogent account, from Voigts' specialized analysis and, for correspondence, from Beaulieu's survey. Marie Boas Hall Tackley, Oxford