Questions of Policy (editorial) ..................................... 1--4



Problèmes d'histoire de l'analyse mathématique au XIXéme 

      siècle. Cas de Karl Weierstrass et de Richard Dedekind      

      Pierre Dugac ....................................................... 5--19



Shifting the foundations: Descartes's transformation of ancient geometry 

      A. G. Molland ..................................................... 21--49



Quantitative growth of modern mathematics in Japan prior to 1930 

      Katsuhiko Yoshida ................................................. 51--54



Développements récents de la théorie des graphes 

      Jean Mayer ........................................................ 55--62



Oronce Fine's De speculo ustorio: A heretofore ignored early French 

      Renaissance printed treatise on mathematical optics 

      Richard P. Ross ................................................... 63--70



The anonymous Professor Gergonne 

      Stephen M. Stigler ................................................ 71--74



BOOK REVIEWS ........................................................... 87--109



Istoriya Matematiki s Drevneishikh Vremen do Nachala XIX Stoletiya      

      by A. P. Yushevich et al. 

      (Hubert C.Kennedy) ............................................... 87--109





Science Awakening II. The Birth of Astronomy by Bartel L. van der Waerden 

      (David Pingree) ................................................... 90--91



L'arithmétique Amusante by Edouard Lucas 

      (William L. Schaaf) ............................................... 91--93



Functional Analysis in Historical Perspective by A. F. Monna 

      (Bernard Aupetit) ................................................. 93--95



The Heritage of Copernicus: Theories ``Pleasing to the Mind'' edited 

      by Jerzy Neyman 

      (maurice Kendall) ................................................. 95--96



Physics at Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Leiden by 

      Edward G. Ruestow 

      (Lewis Pyenson) .................................................. 96--100



From Mathematics to Philosophy by Hao Wang 

      (Mario Bunge) ................................................... 100--102



A Boolean Anthology by D. G. Tahta 

      (N. T. Gridgeman) ............................................... 102--103      



Galileo's Intellectual Revolution: Middle Period, 1610--1632 by 

      William R. Shea 

      (Winifred L. Wisan) ............................................. 103--109



ABSTRACTS ............................................................. 110--132                              

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