Books on History of Science
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Science and Religion in Dialogue. (The Boyle Lecture 2013)
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Is the World Unfinished? On Interactions between Science and Theology in the Concepts of Nature, Time and Future. (The Boyle Lecture 2011)
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The Legacy of Robert Boyle: Then and Now. (The Boyle Lecture 2010)
32p booklet, illustration to front, a fresh and clean copy, with a response by Geoffrey Cantor, no ...
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Biografische Bijdragen over Achttiende-Eeuwers. Fragmenten van Jaarredes Hollandsche Mij. der Wetenschappen 1979 - 1985.
175p small neat hardback, grey cloth with brown titles, a fresh copy, tight binding, pages clean ...
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Biology and the Nature of Man. University of Durham Riddell Memorial Lectures.
xii 122p small neat hardback, sky-blue cloth with bright red jacket, good condition, jacket tanned ...
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The Meaning of Man. The Foundations of Scientific Knowledge.
455p large heavy paperback with curved corners, glossy grey cover, firm binding, a little wear to ...
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Science And Technology in the Industrial Revolution.
xi 534p large paperback, brown covers with gilt titles, a little light wear to corners, spine not ...
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Die Erfindung der Organtransplantation. Erfolg und Scheitern des Chirurgischen Organersatzes (1880 - 1930).
390p paperback in navy cover, like new condition, no noticeable wear, firm binding, pages clean and ...
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Establishing the New Science. The Experience of the Early Royal Society.
xiv 382p large heavy hardback, crimson cloth boards and jacket, strong binding, a little light wear ...
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The End of Science? Attack and Defense. Nobel Conference XXV.
xiii 88p sturdy hardback, grass-green jacket with shiny gilt titles, tight binding and no ...
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Intellectual Revolution of the Seventeenth Century. First Edition.
x 445p large sturdy hardback, blue cloth with red and purple jacket, a little wear to flaps, ...
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Scientific Medicine and the Medical Sciences at Cambridge, 1851 - 1939. (Thesis Submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, May 1994.)
vi 238p very large hardback thesis, black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, like new condition, ...
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Calendar of the Correspondence of Dr William Hunter 1740 - 1783.
xiv 124p paperback, beige cover with b&w portrait, minimal wear to cover surfaces, tight binding, ...
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Beyond the Laboratory. Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America.
x 360p paperback, like new condition, glossy white cover with scarlet spine, firm binding, pages ...
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Science, Hegemony and Violence. A Requiem for Modernity.
viii 301p sturdy paperback, blue cloth in glossy black jacket, minimal wear, free from marks and ...
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William Hunter and the Eighteenth-Century Medical World. First Edition.
xi 424p large sturdy hardback, crimson with sunned white jacket, a little wear to jacket edges and ...
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Resources and Human Well-Being. Inputs from Sciences and Technology. Address by the General President, 74th Session.
xxx 123p paperback, beige cover with orange and brown design, a little wear to cover corners, ...
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Michael Faraday of the Royal Institution.
stapled booklet, with illustrations, very good
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Les Hygiénistes. Enjeux, Modèles et Pratiques (XVIIIème-XXème Siècles).
540p thick paperback, while illustrated cover, fresh clean copy, no names or stamps, excellent
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Biology, Medicine and Society, 1840 - 1940.
ix 344p hardback, well preserved dustjacket with minor tear, first edition, clean and tight copy, ...
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In Search of Penicillin. First Edition.
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Glory and Failure. The Difference Engines of Johann Müller, Charles Babbage and Georg and Edvard Scheutz. Second Edition.
414p large format hardback, dark cloth with lilac jacket, minimal wear, jacket a bit sunned, pages ...
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Revolutions in Science. Their Meaning and Relevance.
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Le Terrain des Sciences Humaines. (XVIII - XX Siècle)
404p large format paperback, window view to front cover, as new copy, no traces of use, no names or ...
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A Manual of Surgery for Students and Practitioners. Fourth Edition.
xiv 1182p hardback, blood-red faux leather covers, gilt lettering to spine, scarlet edges and black ...
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Civil Engineers' Commemorative Plaques: Biographical Notes on the Civil Engineers whose Names are Commemorated on the Facade of the Department of Civil Engineering Building.
32p stapled booklet, fresh clean copy, no traces of use, uncommon title
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Wonders of World Engineering. Epics of Conquest in Story and Picture. Volume 1 and 2.
two large hardback volumes in green cloth blind-stamped, fresh set, binding firm, tight set, clean ...
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Darwin to Einstein: Historical Studies on Science and Belief.
x 335p paperback, nice clean and tight copy, name to prelims, never used
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Research Techniques in Nondestructive Testing. Volume 7.
x 376p black cloth with gilt lettering to front, green title panel to spine, hardback, a very good ...
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Discorso Pronunziato da S E il Ministro della Pubblica Instruzione nella Solenne Inaugurazione del XII Congresso degli Orientalisti a Roma, 4, Ott 1899.
This is a single sheet, folded, title in red ink to front, the address itself is in Latin, single ...
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Charles Darwin.
this is a short essay (20p), removed from binding, spine holding, clean copy, original extraction, ...
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Recent Progress in Physics.
this is a short essay (p185 - p205), removed from binding, spine holding, clean copy, original ...
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Extraterrestrial Life and our World View at the Turn of the Millennium.
vii 47p stapled booklet, fresh clean copy with Copernicus to front
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Der elektromagnetische Telegraph von Gauss und Weber aus dem Jahre 1833. Aufbau einer Ausstellung. Schriftliche Hausarbeit.
120p exam thesis, A4 format, yellow card cover, from typescript, many original photographs glued ...
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Histoire des Sciences en Belgique, 1815 - 2000. Two Volumes Complete.
342p 312p large format hardback, purple dustjacket, in their slipcase, as new set, no names or ...
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The Royal Society and Its Dining Clubs.
xv 457p hardback, red boards with transparent jacket, very good condition, minimal wear, edges of ...
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Measurement, Objectivity. and Trust.
40p offprint, grey card cover, includes discussion by various authors and "Rejoinder" by Porter
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Making Things Quantitative.
20p offprint, stapled, as new, together with a related offprint buy the same "Chance Subdued by ...
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The Hall Effect and Maxwellian Electrodynamics in the 1880's. Part 1: The Discovery of a New Electric Field.
this is a 50p essay in Centaurus, Volume 23, No 1, for sale is the entire issue of this journal, ...
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L'Événement Astronomique du Siècle? Histoire Sociale des Passages de Vénus, 1874 - 1882 (Special Issue, Cahiers François Viète, No 11-12, 2006)
190p large paperback, white cover, fresh clean copy, editor note inserted, as new, with ...
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Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution.
xi 211p hardback, fresh dustjacket, nice copy, a few faint pencil marks seen in the introduction ...
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Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America.
xiii 229p hardback, fresh dustjacket, as new, never used, faint name to endpaper
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Science and Ideology: A Comparative History.
xv 267p large paperback, colourful cover, fresh clean copy, as new, never used, square and tight
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Companion to Medicine in the Twentieth Century.
xix 756p solid, big and heavy tome, blue illustrated cover, clean copy, no names or stamps, spine ...
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On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550 - 1900.
xxxviii 567p thick hardback, well preserved dustjacket, a nice copy, with faint and neat pencil ...
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Les Sciences de la Vie dans la Pensée Française au XVIIIe Siècle: La Génération des Animaux, de Descartes à l'Encyclopédie.
xxxix 848p thick paperback, black cover, a fresh and tight and square time, hardly used, spine not ...
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Observation And Explanation. A Guide to Philosophy of Science.
ix 84p neat hardback in dark cloth, turquoise jacket, very good condition, light fading and foxing ...
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The Theater of Nature. Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science.
xiii 382p hardback, white illustrated dustjacket excellent, a new copy without traces of use, tight ...
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Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science.
xxi 495p hardback, fresh dustjacket excellent copy, first edition no traces of use, as new
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