Books on History of Science
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British Chemical Industry: Its Rise and Development.
large format green cloth, cover dusty, clean humble copy, with plates and without faults
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British Engineering Societies.
37p white/blue paperback, many b&w illustrations, very good condition
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British Industry.
51p grey paperback, binding slightly worn, from a Cambridge college library, some staining to few ...
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British Marine Gas Turbines. (13th Parsons Memorial Lecture delivered 10 Dec 1948, Excerpt from the Institution Transactions, Vol 65)
[pp117 - 192] large stapled paper cover, spine a bit torn, photographic plates, many folding ...
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British Medicine in an Age of Reform.
x 260p hardback with illustrated dustjacket, as new
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British Scientific Literature in the Seventeenth Century.
244p red cloth (dusty), notes, appendix, index, very good
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British Society for the History of Science. List of Members 2001.
48p stapled booklet, red card cover, very good
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Brunonianism in Britain and Europe. Medical History Supplement No. 8. 1988.
x 104p slim hardback, terracotta cloth, includes essays by Christopher Lawrence and Guenter Risse, ...
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Bureau of Investigation, American Medical Association. Cancer Cures.
2 single sheets, containing reports about popular cancer cures
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Business and Financial Papers 1780 - 1939. Series 2: The Economic Impact of Scientific and Technical Change. A Listing and Guide to Parts 1 and 2.
63p grey booklet with laminated card cover, little use, pages clean with chronology, very good
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Butterini di Sorrento. (= Zeitschrift für Untersuchung der Nahrungs- und Genussmittel, 6.Jg, 15 Juli 1903)
4p essay removed from binding, very good
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Buying the Dark Lines of the Solar Spectrum.
offprint, with author note, includes illustrations, together with two additional offprints by the ...
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Cambridge Scientific Minds.
viii 343p paperback, various contributors, bibliography, as new, very good
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Camels and Grumblers: Little Talks to Children.
48p grey cloth, dustjacket, moral advice to children, jacket slightly torn but largely intact, very ...
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Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa.
xv 304p hardback with colourful dustjacket, as new, never used
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Can a Scientist Believe?
24p blue stapled booklet with illustrated cover, as new, pages clean, very good
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Carnegie Institution: Annual Report of the Director, Geophysical Laboratory, 1979 - 1980. (Reprint from Carnegie Institution of Washington Year Book 79)
[204]p large paperback, 50 papers on subjects from geology to palaeobotany and liquid mechanics, ...
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Cartesian Method as Mythic Speech: A Diachronic and Structural Analysis.
pp. 33 - 95 disbound stapled offprint from 'The Politics and Rhetoric of Scientific Method', tanned ...
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Cartography in France, 1660 - 1848: Science, Engineering, and Statecraft
xx 194p large format hardback, fresh dustkjacket, with colour plates, excellent copy, no names or ...
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Catalogue of Lewis's Medical and Scientific Circulating Library. New Edition Revised to the End of 1927.
575p red cloth, gilt lettering to spine & cover, catalogue with index, a fresh and clean copy
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Catalogue of Lewis's Medical and Scientific Lending Library. New Edition Revised to December 31st 1949.
xii 1152p red cloth, gilt lettering to spine & cover, catalogue with index, a fresh and clean copy
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Catalogue of Printed Books Comprising the Library of Charles Singer and Mrs Dorothea Singer. Auction Catalogue.
145p paperback with worn paper cover, some auction room ink notes to cover, hand lettering to ...
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Catholic Physics: Jesuit Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Germany.
Hardback with dustjacket, very good
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Cellular Mechanisms in Hearing: En Hommage à Georg von Békésy. Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 63, Alfred Nobel's Björkborn, Karlskoga 2-6 September 1985.
ix 326p large format hardback, white cloth binding firm and fresh, editor inscription, many plates ...
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Centaurus. International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology. Volume 24, 1980. = Olof Pedersen Festschrift.
368p thick paperback, green card cover, frontispiece portrait, excellent copy, clean and tight, ...
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Centenaire de la Societe Chimique de France (1857-1957); 100 Years of the Chemical Society of France.
249p original printed cream card cover with some loss to glassine wrapper, roughcut pages extremely ...
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Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolecules.
52p large paperback, 57 half-tone plates of laboratory equipment, appendices, dusty otherwise very ...
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Ceramic Innovations in the 20th Century.
308p hardback with blue and brown laminated boards, as new, excellent copy, never used
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Ceremony to Mark the Nomination of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina to the National Academy of Sciences. Nova Acta Leopoldiana. Volume 98, Number 362. German and English.
76p paperback in like new condition, blue and yellow covers, minimal wear, tight binding, clear and ...
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Ces Astres Qui Vous Font Signe.
289p hardback in black cloth with black illustrated jacket, like new condition, binding strong, ...
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Chambers Concise Dictionary of Scientists.
461p blue paperback with laminated cover, some use, pages clean with chronology and index, very good
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Changing Attitudes toward American Technology.
240p paperback, fresh and clean copy, without name or stamps
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Changing Perspectives in the History of Science. Essays in Honour of Joseph Needham.
xxi 490p hardback, clean and tight copy, without name or stamps, very good, first edition, with ...
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Chaos Bound. Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science.
309p large format paperback, as new, pages clean with bibliography and index, excellent
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Charles Darwin.
xi 290p hardback, red dustjacket present, text clean throughout, book has been very well cared for
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Charles Darwin's Letters: A Selection, 1825–1859.
xxv 250p fresh and tight paperback, as new, with library stamp, never used
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Charles Vernon Boys, 1855 - 1944. [Obituary].
18p plates, very good from the Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society
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Che cos'è questa Scienza? La sua Natura e i suoi Metodi.
160p paperback with illustrated cover, pages clean and unmarked, very good copy, translated by Aldo ...
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Chemical and Physical Researches.
lvi 660p original dark cloth with gilt lettering and black ornaments, tear to spine, binding broken ...
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Chemistry at London.
short essay, with plates, on the history of chemistry @ London University, paper entitled: The ...
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Chemistry at the Centenary (1931) Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
272p black cloth with gilt title on spine and cover, very good copy from a Cambridge college ...
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Chemistry in the Twentieth Century. An Account of the Achievement and the Present State of Knowledge in Chemical Science.
281p green/white cloth, spine slightly rubbed, some pages dog-eared, binding firm, index, very good ...
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Chemistry: A Brief Outline of Its History and Development. Part 1: Historical Review.
74p brown paperback, minor shelfwear, yellowing to edges, index, very good condition
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Chernobyl and the Safety of Nuclear Reactors in O.E.C.D. Countries.
96p paperback, very good condition, very slight cover wear, pages crisp and clean, contains ...
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Children and Primary Science.
241p white and blue hardback with laminated cover, hardly used copy from a Cambridge college ...
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Chinese Science. Number 13, 1996.
148p fresh paperback, brown cover, with illustrations, a fresh and clean copy: Papers by Geoffrey ...
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Chips and Jobs: Acceptance of New Technology at Work.
166p orange paperback, very good condition, covers very slightly worn
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Choix d'Eloges. Ed. Paul Janet.
386p boards with cloth spine binding, very good, authentic and original
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