Books on History of Science
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Jews in the Origins of Modern Science and Bacon's Scientific Utopia: The Life and Work of Joachim Gaunse, Mining Technologist and first Recorded Jew in English-Speaking North America.
40p tall format booklet, fresh and clean copy, with portrait
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Pour une Histoire des Sciences à Part Entière.
475p blue paperback, fresh and clean copy, collection of essays, very good indeed
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Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800 - 1840. From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics. Volume 1: The Setting.
574p, large hardback, fresh dustjacket green, in excellent condition, no traces of use, volume 1 of ...
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Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800 - 1840. From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics. Volume 3: The Data.
paginated 1320 - 1601, large hardback, fresh dustjacket green, in excellent condition, no traces of ...
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Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800 - 1840. From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics. Volume 2: The Turn.
paginated 584 - 1312, large hardback, fresh dustjacket green, a mighty tome in excellent condition, ...
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A Scientist's Voice in American Culture. Simon Newcomb and the Rhetoric of Scientific Method.
xviii 301p hardback, fresh dustjacket, excellent copy, no names or stamps, as new, with plates
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A History of the Theories of Rain and Other Forms of Precipitation.
viii 223p hardback, green dustjacket with white frame present, nice clean copy, no names or stamps, ...
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The Earth in Decay: A History of British Geomorphology, 1578 - 1878.
xv 390p faint green hardback, green dustjacket with white frame well preserved, a clean and tight ...
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Les Saint-Simoniens: Raison, Imaginaire et Utopie.
381p paperback, white cover. tight and clean copy, author note inserted, excellent condition, as new
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The Letters of Georges Cuvier: A Summary Calendar of Manuscript and Printed Materials Preserved in Europe, the United States of America, and Australasia.
102p slim paperback, purple cover, text reproduced from typescript, uncommon title
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La Science Économique à la Recherche de ses Fondements. La Tradition Épistémologique Ricardienne, 1826 - 1891.
277p white paperback, red lettering, compliments card inserted, as new
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Newton on Matter and Activity.
viii 160p green paperback, neat and tight copy, fresh and clean, no names or stamps, excellent
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Books and the Sciences in History.
438p large paperback, blue illustrated cover, well illustrated title, this is a new copy without ...
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Social Epistemology.
xxxi 316p hardback, blue illustrated dustjacket, fresh clean copy, no names or stamps, excellent ...
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The Pasteurization of France.
xii 273p hardback, terracotta cloth, dustjacket a little worn and aged and sunned with well hidden ...
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Das Reich des Zufalls: Wissen zwischen Wahrscheinlichkeiten, Häufigkeiten und Unschärfen.
374p hardback, blue laminated boards, excellent clean copy, no stamps not names, no traces of use,
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Innovation in Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory: Molecular Vortices, Displacement Current, and Light.
x 225p hardback, purple dustjacket, never used, excellent copy
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Science and Public Reason.
xvi 286p hardback, brown laminated cover, excellent clean copy with author inscription
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The Normal and the Pathological. With an Introduction by Michel Foucault.
317p hardback, fresh green dustjacket, excellent copy, as new
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Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760 - 1820.
xi 342p hardback fresh black illustrated jacket, a nice clean copy, with illustrations, no traces ...
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The Authority of Experts: Studies in History and Theory.
xxxix 278p hardback, fresh dustjacket, excellent copy, name to endpaper, likely never used
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The Correspondence between A A Markov and A A Chuprov on the Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics.
xvii 181p hardback, brown boards, nice copy, name to endpaper, faint and neat pencil marks to the ...
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In the Eye's Mind: Vision and the Helmholtz-Hering Controversy.
xiv 338p hardback, black dustjacket, as new copy, no names or stamps, excellent, never used, first ...
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Stalinist Science.
xvii 371p large hardback, black jacket with white lettering, a tight and clean copy, no names or ...
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The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope.
x 280p fresh paperback, excellent condition, no traces of use
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The Invisible Hand: Economic Equilibrium in the History of Science.
xiii 491p hardback, bright green jacket with hand motif, a tight, clean and fresh copy of the first ...
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Academic Scientists and the Pharmaceutical Industry - Cooperative Research in Twentieth-Century America.
xi 249p hardback, bright green dustjacket, with illustrations, fresh copy, as new
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Réseaux Techniques et Conflits de Pouvoir. Les Dynamiques Historiques des Villes Contemporaines.
328p large format paperback, ivory boards, fresh clean copy, as new, no names or stamps, excellent
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The Marginal Revolution in Economics. Interpretation and Evaluation.
viii 366p hardback, fresh dustjacket, excellent copy, almost as new, name to endpaper
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Understanding Infrared Metaphysics: Melloni's Quest for Identity.
50p grey card cover, clean and fresh copy, very good
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Mechanical Rationality. Jevons and the Making of Economic Man.
40p grey card cover, clean and fresh copy, very good, with illustrations, together with two ...
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Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880 - 1930.
474p oversized hardback, black jacket present well preserved, yellow cloth binding tight, many ...
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The English Paracelsians.
222p hardback with green dustjacket, a well preserved clean copy, hardly used, excellent, name to ...
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Science on the Run: Information Management and Industrial Geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920 - 1940.
viii 191p hardback, purple dustjacket, new condition, never used, no names or stamps, excellent
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Measurement in Psychology: A Critical History of a Methodological Concept.
xv 246p hardback, black dustjacket, excellent copy, as new, no traces of use, no names or stamps
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Heat and Life. The Development of the Theory of Animal Heat.
x 208p hardback with dustjacket, excellent copy, fresh and tight, first edition, no names no ...
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Scottish Philosophy and British Physics, 1750-1880: A Study in the Foundations of the Victorian Scientific Style.
vii 349p hardback, fresh dustjacket, clean and tight copy, no flaws, name in ink
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Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in the Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology.
xii 231p hardback, fresh green dustjacket, first edition, no names, no stamps, no traces of use, ...
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Scientific Illustration.
172p grey cloth fresh, tight and clean copy, black lettering to spine, many illustrations and ...
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The Rise of Neo-Kantianism: German Academic Philosophy between Idealism and Positivism.
xiii 290p hardback, grey dustjacket fresh, a clean and tight copy, excellent condition, as new
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Taddeo Alderotti and His Pupils: Two Generations of Italian Medical Learning.
xxiii 461p large format hardback, boight green dustjacket, as new copy, never used, excellent, ...
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The Making of Technological Man: The Social Origins of French Engineering Education.
xviii 378p hardback, bright yellow dustjacket, nice clean copy
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Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling.
xxiii 402p hardback, fresh dustjacket, clean and tight copy, name in pencil, excellent condition, ...
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From Natural History to the History of Nature: Readings from Buffon and His Critics.
xiv 406p solid hardback, blue cloth, fresh and tight copy, text reproduced from typescript, no ...
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L'Orbite de la Géographie de Jean Gottmann. (Special issue of La Géographie, January 2007)
311p large paperback, portrait to cover, fresh clean copy, essays by Pinchemel, Gay, Vigarie, ...
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L'Histoire des Sciences de l'Homme: Trajectoire, Enjeux et Questions Vives.
308p large paperback white cover with red lettering, as new condition, wit essays by Blanckaert, ...
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Of Flies, Mice and Men.
159p paperback, beige cover with colour artwork, like new condition, no noticeable wear, tight ...
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Savoirs et Savants. Les Études sur la Science en France.
viii 282p large paperback, bright yellow cover, this copy as new, never used, no names or stamps, ...
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Gabriel Tarde et la Criminologie au tournant du Siècle. (=Revue d'Histoire des Sciences Humaines, No 3, Nov 2000)
224p large paperback, white cover, fresh copy, essays by M Borlandi, L Mucchielli, C Blanckaert, E ...
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La Découverte du Social: Naissance de la Sociologie en France (1870 - 1914).
572p large and tick paperback, white cover, fresh copy, only very few faint pencil markings to the ...
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