Books on History of Science
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Science in Russian Culture. Volume 1 - A History to 1860.
xv 463p hardback, black cloth, very good condition, minimal wear, binding firm, a few light marks ...
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Les Metaux dans l'Ancien Monde du V.e au XI.e Siècle.
295p large format paperback, white and green cover, very good condition, light wear to cover edges ...
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Islamic Science and Engineering.
xii 250p paperback, brown and black cover, very good condition, spine sunned, binding firm, pages ...
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La Tentazione dell'Occulto. Scienza ed Esoterismo nell'Età Vittoriana.
297p hardback with white illustrated jacket, includes colour plates, excellent fresh copy, as new, ...
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A History of Inventions and Discoveries. Translated from the German, by William Johnston. Second Edition. Volume 3 ONLY.
461p bound in plain blue boards with brown paper spine, perhaps covering a previous binding, all ...
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A History of Inventions and Discoveries. Translated from the German, by William Johnston. Second Edition. Volume 4 ONLY.
682p bound in plain blue boards with brown paper spine, perhaps covering a previous binding, all ...
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A History of Inventions and Discoveries. Translated from the German, by William Johnston. Volume 2 ONLY.
443p bound in plain blue boards with brown paper spine, perhaps covering a previous binding, all ...
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Opere scelte di Marcello Malpighi. A Cura di Luigi Belloni.
1024p large format hardback with transparent jacket, with plates and illustrations, gift ...
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Herder and the Philosophy and History of Science.
xii 358p blue cloth, large format, silver lettering to spine, excellent fresh copy, name to ...
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Animal Doctor. Birds and Beasts in Medical History. An Exhibition at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. November 1994.
64p slim paperback, many illustrations, also in colour, excellent copy, uncommon title
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Victorian People.
320p paperback, covers Trollope, Samuel Smiles, Disraeli, bibliography, index, fresh and clean
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John Harrison and His Timekeepers.
22p booklet, excellent condition, staple binding firm, Woudhuysen ex libris, pages and plates like ...
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Formen der europäischen Aufklärung. Untersuchungen zur Situation von Christentum, Bildung und Wissenschaft im 18. Jahrhundert.
274p large paperback, red lettering, fresh copy: Polnisches Schulwesen, Längenausdehnung Asiens, ...
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Leonardo da Vinci. Der Denker, Forscher und Poet. Nach den veröffentlichten Handschriften. Zweite vermehrte Auflage.
well preserved hardback, vellum spine with gilt lettering fresh and firm, tiny flaw to front board, ...
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Vom Neandertal nach Afrika: Der Streit um den Ursprung der Menschheit im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert.
424p hardcover, dustjacket, as new, first edition, excellent condition
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Science.
436p hardcover, dustjacket, as new, first edition, excellent condition
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Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450-1700.
xix 364p hardback, dustjacket, as new, never used, excellent copy
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Useful Knowledge of William Hutton: Culture and Industry in Eighteenth-century Birmingham.
xiv 221p hardback, dustjacket, as new, never used, excellent copy
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The Double Helix. A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA.
178p black paperback, newspaper clipping inserted, with plates, nice clean and tight copy
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Sociabilité et Érudition. Les Sociétés Savantes en France, XIXe - XXe Siècles.
xix 479p small paperback, blue and yellow cover, very good condition, little to no wear, binding ...
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Teaching the History of Technology.
48p stapled booklet, white cover, text from typescript, very good
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Salve Academicum II: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. (Veröffentlichungen des Stadtsarchivs Schweinfurt 5).
126p large white paperback, colour frontispiece and plates, illustrations, fresh and clean: Muller ...
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Joseph Needham: 20th-Century Renaissance Man.
170p tall format paperback, white cover with portrait, well preserved copy, clean and tight, name ...
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The Eighteenth Century Revolution in Science - The First Phase.
viii 60p grey card cover, clean copy, spine opening a little, well preserved, no names or stamps
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Some Notes on Galen's Anatomy.
42p slim booklet, light blue card cover, a little dusty, spine opening a little, first edition, ...
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Nel '300 a Treviso: Vita Cittadina vista nell'Attivita? della "Scuola" Santa Maria dei Battuti e del suo Ospedale
240p oversized paperback, large volume, text in two columns, many plates throughout, excellent ...
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El Hospital de Santa Cruz y San Pablo. El Hospital de Barcelona.
248p oversized hardback, dustjacket present, small piece missing at back, many plates, excellent ...
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The Development of Technical Education in France, 1500 - 1850.
x 274p hardback, maroon cloth with scarlet jacket, good condition, light wear to jacket edges and ...
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L'Institution Médicale.
xiii 191p large format hardback, laminated brown cover, like new condition, no noticeable wear, ...
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Arts and Sciences in China. Volume 1, Number 1. Jan - Mar 1963.
40p stapled booklet, white and red cover, very good condition, minimal wear, some marks to spine, ...
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Medical Acts and Medical Facts. The Polish Tradition of Practice-grounded Reflections on Medicine and Science, from Tytus Cha?ubin?ski to Ludwik Fleck.
146p slim paperback, fresh clean copy with author inscription
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From Maxwell to Microphysics: Aspects of Electromagnetic Theory in the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century.
xiii 339p large hardback, dustjacket, a clean and tight copy, without names or stamps, very well ...
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Wissenschaft in der Maschinenstadt: Emil du Bois-Reymond und seine Laboratorien in Berlin.
303p paperback, a tight copy, with illustrations, initial pages with some ink underlining, a very ...
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The Anatomy of Madness. Essays in the History of Psychiatry, Volume 3: The Asylum and Its Psychiatry
xii 353p hardback, fresh dustjacket, editor inscription signed "Roy", a fresh and clean copy, ...
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Wonder, the Rainbow, and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences.
191p hardback (very silver) dustjacket, as new with MS letter by the author inserted
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Bodies of Evidence: Medicine and the Politics of the English Inquest, 1830 - 1926.
x 245p hardback, dustjacket, as new
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Mind-Forg'd Manacles - A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency.
xii 411p hardback, fresh dustjacket, first edition, excellent copy, no names or stamps, almost as ...
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Instruments, Travel and Science: Itineraries of Precision from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century.
xi 303p hardback, dark cover showing some sunning, no traces of use, excellent copy, no names or ...
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Experiments, Models, Paper Tools Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century.
x 305p hardback, dustjacket, author inscription, excellent copy
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Schädlinge: Geschichte eines wissenschaftlichen und politischen Konstrukts, 1840 - 1920.
434p large format paperback, red cover slightly sunned, with illustrations, an excellent copy with ...
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Materia Medica. A New Cabinet of Medicine and Art.
64p paperback, illustrated beige cover, like new condition, no visible wear, binding tight, pages ...
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Nimrod the Astronomer.
55p offprint, very good, with plates, a clean copy, excellent and hard to find
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Transactions of the Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology. Volume 37 (1964 - 1965).
xvii 161p large format paperback, white card cover with arms to front, many plates in the back, ...
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Transactions of the Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology. Volume 36 (1963 - 1964).
xvii 210p large format paperback, white card cover with arms to front, many plates in the back, ...
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Transactions of the Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology. Volume 35 (1962 - 1963).
xvii 265p large format paperback, white card cover with arms to front, many plates in the back, ...
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Transactions of the Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology. Volume 46 (1973 - 1974).
xvii 96p large format paperback, white card cover with arms to front, many illustrations, excellent ...
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Transactions of the Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology. Volume 30 (1955 - 1956 and 1956 - 1957).
xvii 279p large format paperback, double volume, white card cover with arms to front, more than 50 ...
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Transactions of the Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology. Volume 43 (1970 - 1971).
xvii 218p large format paperback, white card cover with arms to front, many plates in the back, ...
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Transactions of the Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology. Volume 40 (1967 - 1968).
xvii 204p large format paperback, white card cover with arms to front, many plates in the back, ...
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