Book reviewKästner A. & Ehrendorfer F. [Jäger E. J. (ed.)]: Gustav Hegi. Illustrierte Flora von Mitteleuropa. Band VI — Teil 2B — 2. Auflage. Spermatophyta: Angiospermae: Dicotyledones 4 (2/2). Rubiaceae. Kaffeegewächse, Krappgewächse, Rötegewächse. — Jena: Weissdorn-Verlag Jena, 2016. — ISBN 978-3-936055-28-3. — 26.5 × 20 cm, [8] + 348 pp., 145 line drawings/distribution maps, 19 colour plates; hardback. — Price: EUR 129.90.— Available at http://www.weissdorn-verlag.de/

Crystallography - An Introduction, 3rd ed. By Walter Borchardt-Ott. Springer, 2012. Pp. xvi + 357. Price (paperback) EUR 42.75. ISBN 978-3-642-16451-4

Nathan Sivin, Health Care in Eleventh-Century China (Cham, Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London: Springer, 2015), pp. xvii, 223, $119, e-book, ISBN: 978-3-319-20427-7; $159, hardback, ISBN: 978-3-319-20426-0.

The history of medicine in China is often studied through the lens of a textual approach, grounded on classical manuals or on the accounts of practitioners who, until fairly recently, were mostly involved with curing the ailments of the upper class. As such, the ‘other’ types of response to illness, namely the folk therapy, religious rites and other magical treatments tend to be left outside th...

Mathematical Stereochemistry. By Shinsaku Fujita. De Gruyter, 2015. Pp. xviii + 437. Price EUR 129.95, USD 182.00, GBP 97.99. ISBN 978-3-11-036669-3.

The author of this book, Professor Shinsaku Fujita, has had a long and productive research career as a chemist, both in industry and in academic research laboratories. This is his fourth book, which builds on the theory developed in the others while minimizing overlap. The author states that the purpose of this book is to disambiguate vocabulary terms used in stereochemistry by introducing more...

Bonding, Structure & Solid-state Chemistry. By Mark Ladd. Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 527. GBP 32.50 (paperback), GBP 65.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-0-19-872995-2.

According to the author, the book ‘should find its place in any year of the degree studies in the physical and biochemical sciences’ and it ‘presumes a background in science and mathematics of approximately A-level standard’. In fact, some more than basic knowledge of chemistry, physics and mathematics is required, such as integral calculus, symmetry notations and thermodynamics (free energy, e...

Thomas Bartholin, The Anatomy House in Copenhagen, Niels W. Bruun (ed.) (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2015), pp. 222, $53.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-87-635-4259-3.

The period from about 1600 to 1680 was a golden age for Danish medicine and natural philosophy as cultivated by a small but powerful group of professors at the University of Copenhagen. A network of families known as the Fincke–Bartholin–Worm clan or dynasty had a dominating influence at the Faculty of Medicine and occupied nearly all the professorships during the seventeenth century. The most ...