Books on History of Science
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Nineteenth-Century Spectroscopy: Development of the Understanding of Spectra 1802 - 1897.
xii 233p hardback with fresh dustjacket, clean and tight copy, no signs of use, no names or stamps, ...
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Paul Ehrenfest: Volume 1: The Making of a Theoretical Physicist.
xvi 330p hardback with fresh dustjacket with portrait, frontispiece, no names or stamps, excellent ...
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The Life of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Discoverer of the X Ray.
xi 355p hardback, fresh purple dustjacket, nice clean copy, name to endpaper only, no traces of ...
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Molecular Reality: A Perspective on the Scientific Work of Jean Perrin
xi 201p hardback, fresh dustjacket purple, excellent copy, no names or stamps, no traces of use
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Rutherford. Recollections of the Cambridge Days
xiii 158p hardback with purple dustjacket, fresh clean copy, no names or stamps, first edition, ...
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The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 4: Eighteenth Century Science.
xxvii 912p thick hardback, fresh green cloth with black title panel, green dustjacket excellent, a ...
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The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making.
xxi 753p thick and large paperback, illustrated cover, a fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, ...
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The Power of Images in Early Modern Science.
ix 308p large format paperback with bright blue cover, many illustrations throughout, also in ...
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Mechanics in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Selections from Tartaglia, Benedetti, Guido Ubaldo, and Galileo.
xii 428p large hardback, grey dustjacket with light soiling, a clean and solid copy, never used
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The Age of Economic Measurement.
viii 397p blue cloth fresh, silver lettering to front and spine, sharp corners, as new, no names or ...
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Niels Bohr: His Heritage and Legacy. An Anti-Realist View of Quantum Mechanics.
xxii 263p hardback, rose laminated boards fresh and bright, first edition, this copy with ink ...
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Medieval Religion and Technology: Collected Essays.
xxiv 360p hardback, red dustjacket with illustrations, small tears, creases, nice clean copy with ...
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Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763 - 1815.
xvi 476p hardback with fresh dustjacket, this copy with ink annotation to quite a few pages, ...
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The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages.
xxix 711p large hardback volume blue cloth fresh and tight, with illustrations and plates, private ...
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The Social Process of Scientific Investigation.
xxv 325p hardback blue jacket, as new copy, first edition, no names, no stamps
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Structural Analysis: A Historical Approach.
xii 174p hardback, light blue laminated boards fresh, corners sharp, as new condition, except for ...
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An Exhibition to Illustrate the Development of the Theory of Colour Vision: Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge, August 26th, 1982.
27items, stapled booklet, well preserved, with illustrations
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Second International Congress of Cytology, Amsterdam (?1930): Indications and Program.
24p stapled programme for the Second International Congress of Cytology, Amsterdam, staples rusty, ...
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Hans Spemann and the Organiser.
65p offprint, stapled, fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, substantial piece
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Genetics of Primula Senensis.
34p essay from the Journal of Genetics, original print, removed from binding, solid and original ...
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Segregation. Being the Joseph Leidy Memorial Lecture of the University of Pennsylvania, 1922.
34p essay from the Journal of Genetics, original print, removed from binding, without cover, solid ...
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The Manuscript of al-Malik al-Afdal: A Medieval Arabic Anthology from the Yemen.
27p plus 542 pages of facsimile of Yemeni text, excellent clean copy, as new, no traces of use, no ...
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Scientific Thought.
555p original black cloth, gilt lettering to spine bright, hinges firm and tight, name to endpaper, ...
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Pomp and Pestilence: Infectious Disease, its Origins and Conquest.
222p hardback, dustjacket, a few minor flaws (dustjacket encounters cigarette), still well ...
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De Opmars van Deskundigen: Souffleurs van de Samenleving.
220p large format paperback, blue illustrated cover, fresh and clean copy, text in Dutch, with a ...
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Enzymes: One Hundred Years. (FEBS Letters, Volume 62, February 1976, Supplement)
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The Development of Microbiology.
vii 201p hardback, green dustjacket marginally browned, nice clean copy, first edition, name to ...
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Science and Politics in the Ancient World.
242p brown cloth, excellent copy, clean and firm, no names or stamps, early edition, nice title ...
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The Radical Cure of Inguinal Hernia; The Results of Operations for the Cure of Cancer of the Breast.
This is a single issue of the Medical Classics Series (Volume 3, Number 4), large paperback, approx ...
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Über eine eigenartige Symmetrische Erkankung der Thränen und Mundspeicheldrüse (1892); Darmcarcinom (1903)
This is a single issue of the Medical Classics Series (Volume 2, Number 2), large paperback, approx ...
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Three Cases of Extirpation of Diseased Ovaria; Treatment of Vesico-Vaginal Fistula.
This is a single issue of the Medical Classics Series (Volume 2, Number 7), large paperback, approx ...
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Remarks on that Kind of Palsy of the Lower Limbs; Pott's Fracture.
This is a single issue of the Medical Classics Series (Volume 1, Number 4), large paperback, approx ...
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The Idea of Progress.
xi 241p paperback in like new condition, blue cover with white title, little to no wear, binding ...
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A History of Biochemistry. Selected Topics in the History of Biochemistry. Personal Recollections 1.
xviii 404p large hardback, green dustjacket, well preserved copy, a few pencil traces, includes ...
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Technicians. Special Issue of Notes and Records of the Royal Society.
148p paperback, fresh clean copy, special issue of journal
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Korrespondenz. Collection of Copies of Manuscript Correspondence Relating to Academic Affairs.
this is a simple folder with approx 36 pages reproducing letters and drafts of letters in neat ...
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Jin dai Zhongguo ke ji shi lun ji. (Science and Technology in Modern China)
390p large format paperback, blue cover, English title on back cover, a fresh and clean copy, no ...
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Uncertain Knowledge. Scepticism, Relativism, and Doubt in the Middle Ages. First Edition.
vi 345p large sturdy hardback, smooth blue boards with colour artwork, like new condition, tight ...
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Of Clouds and Statistics. Inferring Causal Structures from the Data.
50p grey card cover, clean and fresh copy, very good, with illustrations
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Academic Self-Regulation and the Chemical Profession in Imperial Germany.
30p offprint, grey card cover, author inscription, excellent copy
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The Qur'an First Commandment. Seek Knowledge.
x 281p sturdy hardback, bright green laminated boards, like new condition, free from wear, pages ...
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Justus von Liebig und August Wilhelm Hofmann in ihren Briefen (1841 - 1873).
262p hardback in sturdy yellow cloth, like new, free from wear and marks, no notes or stamps, ...
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Dr John Lee of Hartwell, 1783 - 1866.
34p stapled booklet, brown cover with portrait, very good condition, spine sunned, otherwise free ...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bulletin 1975-76. Summer Session Catalogue Issue.
42p stapled booklet with white and green cover, very good condition, cover a bit tanned and with ...
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Investigacâo Cientifica e Tecnológica. Discursos Proferidos no Acto de Posse do Presidente da Junta Nacional, Prof Eng Fransisco de Paula Leite Pinto, no Palacio de S Bento, em 22 de Julho de 1967.
22p thread-bound booklet with tanned cover, a little light wear but still in good condition, ...
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The International Union of Crystallography: Its Formation and Early Development. (Acta Crystallographica, 1989).
581-601p stapled booklet, greyish-green card covers, a little tanning around edges, pages clear and ...
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Address to the Botanical Section, British Association for the Advancement of Science. Bristol, 1898.
20p threadbound booklet in earth-brown card covers, light wear to edges, handwritten title label to ...
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Address to the Botanical Section. British Association for the Advancement of Science. Liverpool, 1896.
20p threadbound booklet in earth-brown card covers, light wear to edges, handwritten title label to ...
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The Making of Newton's Principia, 1664 - 1687. An Exhibition in the University Library
12p stapled booklet, no cover, as issued, uncommon
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Milton and Science.
viii 304p hardback in terracotta cloth, sharp black lettering to spine, firm binding, a bit of ...
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