Books on History of Science
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Electrical Conquest. New Approaches to the History of Electrification.
lxxxix 280p hardback, purple and green laminated boards, excellent condition, first edition, ...
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Sapientia Astrologica: Astrology, Magic and Natural Knowledge, ca. 1250 - 1800. 1. Medieval Structures (1250 - 1500): Conceptual, Institutional, Socio-Political, Theologico-Religious and Cultural.
lxxxix 515p hardback, purple and green laminated boards, excellent condition, first edition, ...
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From Automated to Autonomous Driving. A Transnational Research History of Pioneers, Artifacts and Technological Change (1950-2000)
xi 307p hardback, purple and green laminated boards, excellent condition, first edition, Archimedes ...
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Elusive Phenomena, Unwieldy Things. Historical Perspectives on Experimental Control.
viii 307p hardback, purple and green laminated boards, excellent condition, first edition, ...
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One Hundred Years of Pressure. Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton.
197p hardback, purple and green laminated boards, excellent condition, first edition, Archimedes 51
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Mathematical Knowledge.
x 188p hardback, illustrated Melancholic grey dustjacket, collection produced following a Cambridge ...
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Historical Perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen.
320p hardback, purple and green laminated boards, excellent condition, first edition, Archimedes 21
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Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature 1450 - 1750
ix 198p hardback, purple and green laminated boards, excellent condition, as good as new, ...
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The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe.
xxviii 1094p large hardback with very good unclipped dustjacket, first edition in excellent ...
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The Optics of Giambattista Della Porta (ca. 1535 - 1615): A Reassessment.
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Robert of Chester's (?) Redaction of Euclid's Elements, the so-called Adelard II Version. Volume 2.
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Robert of Chester's (?) Redaction of Euclid's Elements, the so-called Adelard II Version. Volume 1.
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The World as a Mathematical Game. John von Neumann and Twentieth Century Science.
xii 207p green hardback, excellent condition, as good as new, translated from the Italian by Ian ...
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Experimentation in the Sciences. Comparative and Long-Term Historical Research on Experimental Practice.
ix 148p hardback, purple and green laminated boards, excellent condition, as good as new, ...
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Collected Wisdom of the Early Modern Scholar. Essays in Honor of Mordechai Feingold.
xii 390p hardback, purple and green laminated boards, excellent condition, as good as new, ...
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A Princely Pandect on Astronomy. Nasir al-Din Tusi's Mu'iniya Epistle and its Appendix.
xix 516p hardback, purple and green laminated boards, excellent condition, as good as new, ...
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Theoretical Knowledge in the Mohist Canon.
vii 207p hardback, purple and green laminated boards, excellent condition, as good as new, ...
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Weighing the World. The Reverend John Michell of Thornhill.
xvii 488p hardback, purple and green laminated boards, excellent condition, as good as new, ...
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Crystals and Compounds. Molecular Structure and Composition in Nineteenth-Century French Science. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society)
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Bernard de Fontenelle, the Idea of Science in the French Enlightenment. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society).
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L'Hydrodynamique au XVIIIe Siècle. Aspects Scientifiques et Sociologiques.
27p stapled booklet, pages very clean throughout, slightly dusty cover, otherwise a good copy of ...
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Newton et Epicure.
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Boltzmann und das Ende des Mechanistischen Weltbildes.
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Nuova Voltiana: Studies on Volta and his Time. Volume 4 (2002).
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A Scientific Autobiography of Joseph Priestly, 1733 - 1804: Selected Scientific Correspondence.
xiv 415p burgundy cloth hardback, white lettering title to spine and frontispiece portrait, very ...
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Der Wandel der Elektrizitätslehre zu Ohms Zeit. Eine Methodengeschichtliche Untersuchung und Logische Rekonstruktion.
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Unpublished Scientific Papers of Isaac Newton. A Selection from the Portsmouth Collection in the University Library, Cambridge.
xx 415p pink cloth, gilt title to spine, dustjacket a bit dusty but in good order, ex libris ...
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Feedback Mechanisms in the Historical Collections of the National Museum of History and Technology.
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Pierre–Simon Laplace, 1749 – 1827: A Life in Exact Science.
xii 322 hardback dark blue gilt title to spine, solid copy, as new, pages fresh and clean, no signs ...
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Science and the Visual Image in the Enlightenment.
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Electricity, Electrolysis, Electrometer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ninth Edition.
208p part publication of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ninth Edition, this volume in original paper ...
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Galileo Engineer.
xxii 320p hardback, blue laminated boards as new, no names, no stamps, no signs of use: new
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Strangeness and Soundness in Louis De Broglie's Early Works.
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Louis Néel: Le Magnétisme et Grenoble. Récit de la Création d'un Empire Physicien dans la Province Française 1940 - 1965.
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The English Galileo: Thomas Harriot's Work on Motion as an Example of Preclassical Mechanics. Volume 1: Interpretation, Volume 2: Sources.
xx 762p two hardback volumes with fresh dark blue dustjacket, excellent set, volume two with ...
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Experiment, Differenz, Schrift. Zur Geschichte epistemischer Dinge.
100p white paperback, name to cover, author dedication, a fresh clean copy
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Early History of Planck's Radiation Law.
xvii 282p large format hardback, brown dustjacket with portrait present with marginal wear and ...
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Lawrence and Oppenheimer.
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The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822 - 1854.
xii 372p hardback, bright yellow boards, fresh and clean and tight copy of the first edition, no ...
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The Concept of Matter in Descartes and Leibniz.
33p stapled booklet, brown card cover, with illustrations, a nice clean copy, not ex library, no ...
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Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century.
xvi 405p fresh paperback, with frontispiece, nice clean copy, no names or stamps, very good
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Selected Writings on the History of Science. Edited by Yehuda Elkana.
xxxviii 391p grey paperback, nice, a tight and clean copy, square and without names or stamps, ...
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Creating Modern Probability: Its Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy in Historical Perspective.
x 320p large hardback, white dustjacket excellent, a fresh clean copy, name in ink, no traces of use
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Making Natural Knowledge. Constructivism and the History of Science.
xiv 236p blue cloth with gilt lettering, as new condition, author note inserted, excellent
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The Pasteurization of France.
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Constructing Experience.
viii 267p hardback fresh dustjacket, new copy, no traces of use, excellent
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Nature Engaged: Science in Practice from the Renaissance to the Present.
ix 301p hardback, green laminated boards, new copy, never used, fresh and tight and square
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Mersenne: Le Grand Minime.
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Sources for the History of Quantum Physics: An Inventory and Report.
xii 176p large format hardback, A4 size, with grey dustjacket, a fresh and clean copy, extensive ...
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The Uses of Science in the Age of Newton.
xxii 204p cloth hardback with fresh dustjacket, essays by Earl Miner, Marie Boas Hall, Albert Van ...
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