Books on History of Science
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Les Lettres Provinciales de Blaise Pascal.
xxxviii 360p hardback in navy cloth, good condition, light wear to boards and spine commensurate ...
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Life on the Edge. The Coming Age of Quantum Biology.
461p paperback, white cover, good condition, some light wear to cover surfaces, spine creased, ...
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How To Win The Nobel Prize. An Unexpected Life in Science.
xiii 271p hardback, grey and black cloth with illustrated jacket, very good condition, some minimal ...
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DNA. The Secret of Life.
xiv 446p large paperback with black lacquered cover, good condition, light wear to edges and cover ...
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Sage. A Life of J D Bernal.
255p hardback in yellow boards with dark green jacket with portrait, good condition, some very ...
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Dictionary of Theories.
viii 637p large paperback in red cover, like new condition, minimal/no wear, binding strong, spine ...
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The Missing Factor in Science. Inaugural Lecture by Herbert Dingle, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University College London.
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Wrinkles in Time. The Imprint of Creation.
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The Herschel Partnership. As Viewed by Caroline.
182p hardback, green cloth in black illustrated jacket, like new condition, binding strong, pages ...
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The Compatibility Gene.
xvi 232p hardback, purple cloth with white jacket, signed first edition, very good condition, some ...
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The Harvest of a Quiet Eye. A Selection of Scientific Quotations.
xii 192p hardback in brown cloth, lacquered illustrated jacket, first edition with personal ...
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Physiciens et Télégraphists Français face à la Téorie de Maxwell, 1860 - 1890.
33p offprint, spine secured with adhesive tape, binding a bit precarius, a little worn, a clean copy
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The Social Status of Italian Mathematicians, 1450 - 1600.
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On the Dialectical Origin of the Research Seminar.
44p offprint, clean and fresh copy, housed in blue card cover, not stapled, very good
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The Spreading of the Word: New Directions in the Historiography of Chemisty, 1600 - 1800.
30p offprint, stapled, clean and fresh copy, blue card cover, printed on rectos only, very good,
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Cyborg History and the World War II Regime.
48p offprint, stapled, author note, graphs, very well preserved
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Swimming against the Tide. Adrianus Pijper and the Debate over Bacterial Flagella, 1946 - 1956.
30p offprint, stapled, Isis cover, very good , a clean and fresh copy, author note inserted
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Galileo the Emblem Maker.
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Cybernetics, Information, Life: The Emergence of Scriptural Representations of Heredity.
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The Astronomer's Role in the Sixteenth Century: A Preliminary Study.
40p offprint, a clean and fresh copy, author note "Warum nicht?", very good
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Fresnel and Diffraction Theory.
75p offprint, a clean and fresh copy, author note, a few marginal marks, graphs, very good
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Who Wrote the Book of Life? Information and the Transformation of Molecular Biology, 1945 - 1955.
25p offprint, stapled, very good , a clean and fresh copy, author note
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Legenden um die deutsche Atombombe.
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Styles and Credit in Early Radio Engineering: Fleming and Marconi on the First Transatlantic Wireless Telegraphy.
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Note sur Certains Objets Chevelus.
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Zur Rolle der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften bei der Entwicklung der Physik in Göttingen (1880 - 1930)
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Technology and Society in the Graeco-Roman World. A General Report.
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Neo-Classical Aesthetics of Art and Science: Hermann Helmholtz and the Frog-Drawing Machine. (Rausing Lecture 2007)
36p stapled booklet, colour illustrations, fresh and clean copy, very good
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Companion to the History of Modern Science.
xxvi 1081p very thick hardback with burgundy jacket, well preserved, barely used, name to prelims, ...
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Buying the Dark Lines of the Solar Spectrum.
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L'Essor des Mathématiques Appliquées aux États-Unis: L'Impact de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale.
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Repetetive Order and the Human Walking Apparatus: Prussian Military Science versus Weber's Locomotion Research.
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Controversy over Voltaic Contact Phenomena, 1862 - 1900.
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Vom Mikrosom zum Ribosom. Strategien der Repräsentation, 1935 - 1955.
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Weighing the Risks: Stalemate in the Classical / Balance Controvesy.
30p stapled offprint, very good: Dobzhanzky vs Muller
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From Organ Pipes to Atmospheric Motions: Helmholtz on Fluid Dynamics.
50p stapled offprint, with illustrations, very good
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Baconian Bees in the Electromagnetic Fields: Experimenter-Theorists in Nineteenth Century Electrodynamics.
40p stapled offprint, author note to cover, with illustrations, very good
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Physics and Propaganda: Werner Heisenberg's Foreign Lectures under National Socialism.
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Henri Poincaré's Criticism of Fin de Siècle Electrodynamics.
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Faraday's Initial Mistake Concerning the Direction of Induced Currents, and the Manuscript of Series I of his Researches.
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God, Waterwheels, and Molecules: Saint-Venant's Anticipation of Energy Conversation.
70p stapled offprint, author note to cover and short letter inserted, very good
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Music and Mathematics. From Pythagoras to Fractals.
189p large orange paperback, well preserved copy, very good condition
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Il Libro Illustrato di Astronomia nella Biblioteca Universitaria di Padova, Sec. XV-XVIII : Mostra Bbliografica, Padova, Maggio 1983.
90p tall format paperback, blue card cover, a fresh and clean copy, with plates
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Collected Experimental Papers.
seven large volumes in grey cloth with burgundy title label to spine, excellent clean set, without ...
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Die Studienreise Robert Bunsens nach Berlin - Paris - Wien 1832 / 1833.
80p offprint, dark green paper cover, excellent copy, many plates and portraits, very good indeed
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The Rational Evaluation of Astrology in the Period of Arabo-Latin Translation, ca. 1126 - 1187 AD.
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Centaurus. International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology. Volume 24, 1980. = Olof Pedersen Festschrift.
368p thick paperback, green card cover, frontispiece portrait, excellent copy, clean and tight, ...
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Zur Veränderung der physikalischen Arbeitsweise durch die Verwendung von Computern. (Dissertation)
253p paperback, well preserved copy, tight and clean, with illustrations, includes a case study on ...
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Coming to Terms with the Scientific Revolution. (Rausing Lecture 2005)
36p stapled booklet, fresh and clean copy, very good
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