Books on History of Science
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A Pearl in an Oyster. Scientific and Technical Illustrations in the Old Collection of the Royal Institute of Technology Library.
32p square stapled booklet, like new condition, no noticeable wear, binding firm, pages very clean ...
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A Planetarium for London (in Discovery: The Magazine of Scientific Progress)
10 page article, for sale is the complete issue of Discovery (December 1956) with numerous plates, ...
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A Popular Explanation of the Elements and General Laws of Chemistry.
vii 607p, half leather, scuffed mrbled boards, five raised bands, front hinge cracked, preliminary ...
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A Pox on the Provinces. Proceedings of the 1. Annual Congress of the British Society for the History of Medicine.
222p hardback with dustjacket, index, illustrations, very good
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A Primer of the History of Mathematics.
150p small format green cloth fresh, dustjacket present, name to endpaper, very good
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A Radical Voice in the Science of Science.
194p large paperback, index, a fresh and clean copy
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A Science of Impurity: Water Analysis in Nineteenth Century Britain.
xiii 342p hardback, blue dustjacket fresh, many tables and illustrations, a few faint pencil marks ...
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A Scientific Theory of Culture and other Essays. With a Preface by Huntington Cairns.
ix 228p blue cloth, index, well preserved copy from a Cambridge college library, loss to free front ...
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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 Select List of Books in Natural and Physical Science, Mathematics and Technology published by Messrs Longmans, Green & Co.
40p removed from binding, stitched, very good
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A Short History of Biology. A General Introduction to the Study of Living Things.
xxxv 572p hardback in green cloth, frontispiece, first edition, good condition with signs of use, ...
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A Short History of Cardiology. First Edition.
258p red cloth, very well preserved copy, with frontispiece and additional plates, printed on fine ...
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A Short History of Medicine.
277p paperback, from a Cambridge college library, hardly used, very good
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A Short History of Science.
xiv 320p cloth, plates, illustrations, index, first edition, dustjacket present and protected under ...
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A Short History of Science. Revised Edition.
xxi 512p red cloth, gilt lettering to spine & emblem to cover, printed endpapers, frontispiece, ...
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A Sociology of Medical Practice.
318p maroon paperback, sunned and worn cover, from a Cambridge college library with labels half ...
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A Station Favorable to the Pursuits of Science: Primary Materials in the History of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy.
272p green hardback in excellent condition, as new
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A Treatise on Chemistry. Volume 1: The Non-Metallic Elements.
931p original burgundy cloth, Dalton frontispiece with tissue-guard, many woodcut illustrations of ...
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A Treatise on Optics. Second Edition.
viii 328p green cloth, spine missing, boards detached, binding weak, this copy discarded from the ...
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A View of the Philosophical Principles of Phrenology. Third Edition, Greatly Improved.
viii 216p original paper-covered boards with new cloth spine, new spine label, text clean, binding ...
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About Fluoridation. The Case Against Mass Medication.
62p slim paperback with purple cover, clean firm copy, very good
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About the Granite Problem and some Masters of the Study of Granite.
12p offprint, grey paper cover, "best wishes for Christmas", plates, very good, one old pencil note
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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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Achievements of the British Chemical Industry in the Last Twenty-Five Years. Three Lectures Delivered to the Royal Society of Arts on February 13th, 20th and 27th, 1939.
59p nice fresh copy in bright blue cloth with gilt lettering to front, excellent condition
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Acronyms and Abbreviations for the Polar Science Community.
42p large yellow stapled booklet with illustrated card cover, pages clean, very good
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Acta Materialia. Golden Jubilee Issue. Selected Topics in Material Science and Engineering: Past, Present and Future.
approx 500p large format hardback with gilt laminated boards, includes an essay by R W Cahn on the ...
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Actes du Colloque International sur Ibn Khaldoun.
362 pages in French, 6 pages in Arabic, some yellowing to paper cover, otherwise in excellent ...
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Address to the Chemical Section of the British Association, Swansea 1880.
28p small print, no imprint, removed from binding, "Swansea 1880" to heading, gives a review of ...
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Admissions to the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge. Part 1 (1629 - 1665) and Part 2 (1665 - 1715)
172p 495p two volumes, aged and worn, partly disbound, text clean, from a Cambridge college ...
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Adventures of Ideas.
xii 392p blue cloth hardback, cloth slightly worn, binding tight, hinges tight, text clean and ...
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Agnes Arber, 1879 - 1960. Orbituary Notice.
12 page orbituary notice with frontispiece and bibliography, very good, library stamp
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Agricultural Science and the Quest for Legitimacy: Farmers, Agricultural Colleges, and Experiment Stations, 1870 - 1890.
x 269p hardback, fresh dustjacket, excellent copy, as new, never used, no names or stamps
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Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry.
xiv 344p hardback, fresh dustjacket, a nice copy, with a lot of faint and neat pencil marking to ...
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Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin. Izdanie Tret'e, Dopolnennoe.
144p white paperback, spine a little worn, frontispiece, extensive bibliography
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Alexander Fleming and the Development of Penicillin. (Education Resource Pack)
large format green folder with un-bound resource pack in pocket, as new
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Alfred Nobel. Dynamite King. Architect of Peace.
323p black cloth with gilt lettering, minor shelfwear, yellowing to edges, binding firm, portrait, ...
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Alice Through the Microscope: Power of Science Over Women's Lives.
paperback with blue cover, nice clean copy
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All Scientists Now: The Royal Society in the Nineteenth Century.
xiv 262p cloth, dustjacket, frontispiece & 26 illustrations, bibliography, index, as new
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Allgemeine Biologie. Bound with: Die Verdauung und Resorption der Nährstoffe (= Physiologische Chemie: Erster Theil, Zweiter Theil)
618p (continuous pagination) bound in half calf with spine torn and detaching, clean and fresh ...
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Allmogeurmakeriet i Västergötland och i västra Småland.
242p large format paperback, blue card cover, printed on art paper with photographic illustrations ...
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Almost a Man of Genius: Clemence Royer, Feminism, and Nineteenth-Century Science.
xv 274p hardback, red cloth very fresh, gilt lettering to front and spine, excellent, as new, no ...
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Alte Uhren.
32p plus plates with 34 illustrations, hardback with dustjacket, excellent
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American Science in the Age of Jackson.
282p first edition hardback with blue dustjacket, nice, well preserved copy
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An Elementary Treatise on Heat. First Edition.
xx 392p maroon cloth with gilt lettering, binding expertly repaired with new endpapers, 20p ...
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An Institute for an Empire. The Physikalisch - Technische Reichsanstalt 1871 - 1918.
315p black hardback with gilt lettering to spine and burgundy bordered gilt title on cover, pages ...
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An Introduction to Science Studies. The Philosophical and Social Aspects of Science and Technology.
xi 203p hardback with fresh dustjacket, clean and tight copy, no name or stamps
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An Introduction to Scientific Research.
375p red cloth hardback with silver lettering, first edition, this copy from a Cambridge college ...
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An Introduction to the History of Medicine. Fourth Edition.
996p large heavy hardback, brown cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine, very good condition, ...
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An Introduction to the Logic of the Sciences.
viii 180p red cloth, index, very good with bookplate
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An Outline of Philosophy.
vi 315p paperback, brown cover with photograph of author, very good condition, minimal wear, ...
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