Books on History of Science
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The Discovery of Galaxies. A Science Jackdaw.
Large dark blue folder, very clean and well preserved, contains collection of interesting primary ...
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An Explaining and Pronouncing Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Words.
viii 397p plum cloth with silver titles, good clean copy, first edition
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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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Scientific Papers by Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt). SixVolumes Bound as Three.
three very thick and stout volumes, approx 1000p each, a firm and strong hardback set, all ...
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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.
xi 245p large format thesis binding, text reproduced from typescript (photocopy), text of footnotes ...
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The Early Days of Yeast Genetics.
x 477p hardback in brown cloth, very good condition, binding firm, minimal wear, very light mark on ...
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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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The Structure of Knowledge: Classifications of Science and Learning since the Renaissance.
vi 158p paperback, fresh copy, clean and without name or stamp: Five lectures by Findlen, Darnton, ...
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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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The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment.
xiv 310p hardback, fresh bustjacket, a seemingly very good copy, but introduction (first 20 pages) ...
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The History of Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge.
xiv 521p hardback with green dustjacket, a little damage to jacket including 2 inch tear along edge ...
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The Picture Story of British Inventions.
157p large format hardback with illustrated cover, a little darkened along spine edge, otherwise ...
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Greek Science: Its Meaning for Us.
320p blue and white vintage paperback, first publication of the two parts in one volume, nice and ...
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Species and Specificity: An Interpretation of the History of Immunology.
xiii 457p large format hardback, red illustrated dustjacket, a fresh and clean and unsused copy, as ...
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Mechanism, Experiment, Disease: Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy.
xii 439p green cloth fresh, tight copy, but introduction annotated and underlined in ink
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Research and Pedagogy - A History of Quantum Physics through Its Textbooks.
large format hardback, illustrated cover with Vleck between two fans, as new copy, stamped ...
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Philosophische und populärwissenschaftliche Schriften.
three volumes hardback, shrinkwrapped set, new
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Modelling Biology: Structures, Behaviours, Evolution.
large format hardback, blue laminated boards, clean and tight copy, as new
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Gong ting yu di fang: shi qi zhi shi ba shi ji de ji shu jiao liu. (Court and Places: Seventeen to Eighteen Century Technology Exchange)
353p large format paperback, gilt cover, as new, shrinkwrapped copy, never used
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A Medieval Spanish Collectanea of Astronomical Instruments: An Integrated Compilation.
this is a 10p essay in the Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, for ...
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Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. Volume 2.
xii 356p hardback with dustjacket, a fresh and clean copy, very good
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Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. Volume 1.
xii 314p hardback with dustjacket (light wear), a fresh and clean copy, very good
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Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. Volume 4.
xii 235p hardback with well preserved dustjacket, a fresh and clean copy, very good
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Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. Volume 9.
xii 362p hardback with bright red boards, a fresh and clean copy, very good, ink note to endpaper
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Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. Volume 10.
xii 334p hardback with bright red boards, a fresh and clean copy, very good
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Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. Volume 8.
xii 300p hardback with bright red boards, a fresh and clean copy, very good, ink note to endpaper
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Athenaeus Mechanicus: On Machines (Peri Mechanematon). Translated with Introduction and Commentary.
236p large format paperback, card cover with white and dark burgundy panels, an excellent copy, as ...
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Le Systeme du Monde: Histoire des Doctrines Cosmologiques de Platon a Copernic.
ten volumes, large format paperback volumes, with armorial bookplate, text clean, binding still ...
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Physical Reality.
xx 220p period paperback, grey cover design, fresh and clean copy, never used, publisher note ...
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Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony.
xvi 317p large paperback, as new, clean and tight copy without traces of use
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American Scientists and Nuclear Weapons Policy.
x 352p hardback with fresh dustjacket, first edition, very good indeed, clean and tight copy ...
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Realism and Representation: Essays on the Problem of Realism in Relation to Science, Literature and Culture.
xiii 330p large format paperback, bright red cover, as new
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Physikalisches Wissen im Geschlechterdiskurs: Thermodynamik und Frauenstudium um 1900.
263p blue paperback, excellent copy, as new
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Science and Subjectivity.
viii 132p colorful paperback, first printing, excellent clean copy with publisher note inserted
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Sciences and Culture.
xvii 270p paperback with blue illustrated card cover, editor inscription "in friendship", ...
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Private Science: Biotechnology and the Rise of the Molecular Sciences.
xii 268p hardback with fresh green dustjacket, as new, excellent copy
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States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and the Social Order.
xii 317p large format paperback, black cover with eye design, excellent copy, as new
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A History of Engineering and Science in the Bell System: Transmission Technology (1925 - 1975)
xv 812p thick hardback with fresh dustjacket, clean and tight copy, first edition, without name or ...
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Science, Technology and Society.
thick hardback with colourful dustjacket, a fresh and clean copy, published for the International ...
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The Evolution of Technology.
vii 248p paperback, fresh and clean copy, without name or stamps, very good indeed
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Zur Struktur wissenschaftlicher Kontroversen.
451p paperback, Habilitationsschrift from Universität Mainz, cover as title page, reproduced from ...
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Applied Genetics. The Technology of Inheritance.
192p paperback with white illustrated cover, good condition, cover a little sunned and spine faded, ...
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The Myth of Solid Ground. Earthquakes, Predictions, and the Fault Line between Reason and Faith.
x 290p paperback with b&w photo cover and orange spine, minimal/no wear, spine uncreased, pages ...
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The Tools of Empire.Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century.
x 221p clean and tight paperback, no name no stamps, excellent
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