Books on History of Science
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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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Industrial Archaeology in Gloucestershire.
32p stapled booklet, illustrated, maps, bibliography, a fresh and clean copy
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Die Maschinen-Elemente und ihre Berechnung und Konstruktion. Vol of Plates only. 8th Edition.
57 plates (spreads, printed on one side only, plus 29 p of tables, no title page, edition taken ...
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Coast Survey. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, Submitting a Report in Reply to a Resolution of the Senate of December 17, 1848, Relating to the Expenditures and Results of the United States Coast Survey.
111p removed from binding, original print, binding tight, spine holding well, without cover, this ...
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Oswaldus Crollius und Daniel Sennert im frühneuzeitlichen Istanbul.
489p paperback, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm, includes fold out chart, in excellent condition, ...
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100 Years of Textiles at MIT.
64p paperback, large slim volume with white and colour cover, very good condition, a few very light ...
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Sylva Sylvarum, sive Historia Naturalis, in decem centurias distribute, Anglice olim conscripta, a Francisco Bacono Barone Verulamio, nunc Lati[n]o transscripta a Jacobo Grutero P.F. Medicina Candidato.
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Nobels. Nobel Laureates photographed by Peter Badge.
620p enormous hardback, very good purple dustjacket with the lightest signes of use, almost as new, ...
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Die refraktometrische Untersuchung von Milch und Sahne und ihre Verwendbarkeit in der Nahrungsmittel-Kontrolle. (= Zeitschrift für Untersuchung der Nahrungs- und Genussmittel, Heft 7, Vol 13, 1 April 1907).
12p essay removed from binding, tables, illustrations, last page missing, very good
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Soviet Science in the Stalin Period: The Case of V I Vernadskii and his School, 1928 - 1945.
19 page essay in Slavic Review, for sale is the entire issue, includes additional essays on ...
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Science in Progress.
viii 322p cloth, 90 illustrations, 20 plates, index, from a Cambridge college library, very little ...
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History of Botany. (Papers Read at the Clark Library Seminar, 1963)
70p stapled booklet, grey card cover, notes, bibliography, fresh and clean copy
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Universities in Politics. Case Studies from the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.
137p cloth, brown dustjacket fresh, a very good and clean copy: Hyde on Bologna, Verger on Paris, ...
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Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830 - 1930.
xiii 581p thick hardback with fresh dustjacket (minor tear to back), else a virtually new copy, ...
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Professor Aleksandr Chaianov, 1888 - 1937. (Professor Alexander Chayanov)
304p hardback grey boards with black lettering to front, with many plates, very well preserved, ...
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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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Fifth Cooley's Anemia Symposium = Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 445.
470p red paperback, very good with inscription
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The Sociology of Science.
viii 662p green cloth, from a Cambridge college library but very good condition, a very important ...
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The Sociology of Science.
viii 662p green cloth, very good condition, a very important collection: Merton to Weber
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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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Pure Chemistry. A Brief Outline of its History and Development. Part 1: Historical Review. Part 2: Descriptive Catalogue.
75p 75p paper cover, many plates, index, very good set
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Saponarin, a New Glucoside Coloured Blue with Iodine. (Author's Presentation Copy).
15p essay on the isolation of saponarin by Barger, an important figures in turn-of-the-century ...
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Visual Communication in Science: Learning Through Sharing Images.
122p cream paperback, pages clean and unmarked, some pages dog-eared including front cover, binding ...
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Greek Physics. (Encyclopaedia Metropolitana)
pp 329 - 368, slim booklet, paperback, front cover missing, text clean
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El Arbol de la Ciencia.
250p black/white paperback, from a Cambridge college library, very good
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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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A Continuous Record of Atmospheric Nucleation.
large format, xvi 226p original paper cover with tape along spine: Rain making science, many ...
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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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Science and Society. The Meaning and Importance of Scientific Method.
96p paperback, unused, pages clean and unmarked, excellent condition
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The Utilisation of the Nile Waters.
pp523 - 558 blue stapled offprint with card cover, library stamp, hardly used, pages clean with ...
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Letteratura e Scienza.
234p paperback with "bed of type" illustration to front, nice fresh copy, no names or stamps, spine ...
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Le Macchine Cifrate di Giovanni Fontana. Il Bellicorum Instrumentorum Liber.
167p large format hardback, white dustjacket, in its simple slipcase, gift card inserted, excellent ...
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IX Internationalen Congress für Radiologie 1959 in München.
43p white cloth, gilt lettering & decoration to cover, plastic slipcase (damaged), 9 colour plates, ...
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Muscular Work. A Metabolic Study with Special Reference to the Efficiency of the Human Body as Machine.
vii 176p large format paperback, front and back cover detached, spine largely missing, first ...
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Weighing the Risks: Stalemate in the Classical / Balance Controvesy.
30p stapled offprint, very good: Dobzhanzky vs Muller
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Social Thought From Lore to Science. Volume Three. Third Edition.
xii 793-1178p cxciii paperback, turquoise and yellow covers, good condition, a bit slanted, binding ...
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A History of Inventions and Discoveries. Translated from the German, by William Johnston. Second Edition. Volume 3 ONLY.
461p bound in plain blue boards with brown paper spine, perhaps covering a previous binding, all ...
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A History of Inventions and Discoveries. Translated from the German, by William Johnston. Second Edition. Volume 4 ONLY.
682p bound in plain blue boards with brown paper spine, perhaps covering a previous binding, all ...
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Vorschläge des Ausschusses zur Abänderung des Abschnittes Kakao und Schokolade der 'Vereinbarungen'. (= Zeitschrift für Untersuchung der Nahrungs- und Genussmittel, Vol 12, 15 Juli 1906)
50p essay removed from binding, very good
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Recherches Expérimentales sur l'Action du Sel dans la Végétation, et sur son emploi en Agriculture.
35p booklet, together with: Recueil de Mémoires relatifs a l'Emploi du sel marin en Agriculture ...
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Harvey's Third Circulation: De Circulo Sanguinis in Corde. The Harveian Oration of 1968.
15p red cloth with gilt lettering, slightly sunned, minor shelfwear, pages unmarked, binding firm, ...
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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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Bell Manuscript.
Unnumbered pages, brown slipcase containing Bell Manuscript facsimile and 10p pamphlet essay ...
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Rising of the Land Around Hudson Bay. Geological Survey of Canada.
8p removed from bound volume: Annual Report of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to July ...
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A Bold Experiment. The Story of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
large format, oblong, grey cloth, striking photographs, preface by Aaron Klug, as new
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Walter B Cannon: The Life and Times of a Young Scientist.
xiv 520p large format hardback, grey cloth, light markings from a Cambridge library, very good, ...
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1900: The New Age. A Guide to the Exhibition.
101p spiral bound, fresh copy, many illustrations, uncommon title
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Lavoisier: Mémoires d'une Révolution.
469p thick paperback, colour portrait to cover, excellent clean copy, no traces of use, no names or ...
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Unassuming Instruments: Tracing the Tachistoscope in Experimental Psychology.
239p large paperback, illustrated cover, author note inserted, fresh and clean copy, Proefschrift
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