Books on History of Science
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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.
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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.
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Experiment, Differenz, Schrift. Zur Geschichte epistemischer Dinge.
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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.
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Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.
xx 624p large hardback, green illustrated dustjacket as new, excellent copy, no names, no stamps, ...
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The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio.
xxvi 477p red paperback, fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, no traces of use, spine solid ...
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The Concept of Matter in Descartes and Leibniz.
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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.
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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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Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology.
xvi 365p hardback, fresh dustjacket, many illustrations, excellent copy, as new, no names or stamps
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Trust in Numbers. The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life.
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Science in the Renaissance. Volume 1: An Introduction to the Study of the Emergence of the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century; Volume 2: An Annotated Bibliography of the 16. Century Books relating to the Science in the Library in the Library of the Univers
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Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science.
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The Origins of Scientific Thought. From Anaximander to Proclus 600 BC to 300 AD.
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Zeichen der Kraft. Wissensformationen 1800 - 1900.
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Roger Joseph Boscovich SJ, FRS, 1711 - 1787: Studies of His Life and Work on the 250th Anniversary of His Birth.
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Kepler's Dream - With the Full Text and Notes of Somnium, Sive Astronomia Lunaris, Joannis Kepleri.
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Robert Boyle's Experiments in Pneumatics.
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Interactions. Some Contacts between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences.
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Eighteen-Century Chemistry as an Investigative Enterprise.
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The Overthrow of the Phlogiston Theory; The Chemical Revolution of 1775 - 1789.
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To Save the Phenomena: An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo.
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Circulation and Respiration: The Evolution of an Idea.
ix 278p paperback with blue illustrated cover, nice clean copy, no names or stamps, uncommon title
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The Six-Cornered Snowflake. Edited and Translated by Colin Hardie. With Essays by L L Whyte and B F J Mason.
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Science in the Middle Ages.
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The Exact Sciences in Antiquity.
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Conceptions of Ether: Studies in the History of Ether Theories, 1740 - 1900.
vii 351p hardback, green dustjacket a little worn but complete and intact, a very well preserved ...
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The Values of Precision.
369p hardback, fresh dustjacket, excellent copy, with essays by Olesko, Schaffer, Porter, Wise, etc
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The Birth of a New Physics.
200p paperback with brown cover, nice clean copy, firm and square: "Science Study Series"
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Moderne - Sprache - Mathematik. Eine Geschichte des Streits um die Grundlagen der Disziplin und des Subjekts formaler Systeme.
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Scientific Knowledge and its Social Problems.
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Max Planck: A Bibliography of his Non-Technical Writings.
69p slim paperback, text from typescript, with frontispiece, gift inscription by "BW"
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Die Viskositätsexperimente von J C Maxwell und O E Meyer - Eine wissenschaftshistorische Studie über die Entstehung, Messung und Verwendung einer physikalischen Grösse.
viii 350p light blue paperback, very fresh copy, as new, never used, with illustrations, graphs and ...
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The Copernican Achievement.
405p hardback, dark blue dustjacket fresh, this copy without library markings or stamps, excellent ...
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