Books on History of Science
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Social Change and Scientific Organisation. The Royal Institution 1799 - 1844.
xxv 223p hardback, well preserved dustjacket, a fresh copy, clean pages, a very good copy
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Science and Human Welfare: The Proceedings of a Conference held in London on 15th - 17th Feb 1946.
72p stapled paper cover, various contributors, in excellent condition
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The Extension of Man: A History of Physics before 1900.
317p green hardback, dustjacket with tear, text clean, very good copy, minor flaws
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Bernard Quaritch. Catalogue 1010: Medicine, Science, Technology.
112p printed on art paper, many illustrations, very good
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Bernard Quaritch. Catalogue 1018: Medicine, Science, Technology.
68p illustrated card cover, many illustrations, very good
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Bernard Quaritch. Catalogue 996: Books on Medicine, Science, and Technology.
48p illustrated card cover, 201 items, very good
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Bernard Quaritch. Catalogue 999. Australian, New Zealand, The Pacific.
58p illustrated card cover, 210 items, many illustrations, very good
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and her Research Stations in Kristineberg, Abisko and the Canary Islands.
40p, 40p, 64p, 48p 20cm square paperbacks with blue slipcase, first volume embossed card cover with ...
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Through France with Berzelius. Live Scholars and Dead Volcanoes.
viii 199p large hardback, dustjacket, many polates, some in colour, author inscription addressed to ...
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Science, Life and Christian Belief. A Survey and Assessment.
305p paperback with pictorial cover, hardly used, pages clean and unmarked, bibliography, index, a ...
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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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Mechanism, Experiment, Disease: Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy.
xii 439p green cloth fresh, tight copy, but introduction annotated and underlined in ink
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Memories and Musings of an Octogenarian Biologist.
248p hardback, dustjacket, as new, signed copy
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Über die Beurteilung von Radauplätzchen, Liliputmunition und ähnlichen Knallkörpern. (= Zeitschrift für Untersuchung der Nahrungs- und Genussmittel, Vol 33, Heft 8, 15 April 1917)
14p essay removed from binding, tables, very good
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Über die Untersuchung und Begutachtung von Brauselimonaden. (= Zeitschrift für Untersuchung der Nahrungs- und Genussmittel, Vol 12, 15 Juli 1906)
approx 15p essay removed from binding, very good
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Über die Verwendung der Schwefligen Säure als Konservierungsmittel, insbesondere den jetzigen Stand der Beurteilung geschwefelten Dörrobstes. (= Zeitschrift für Untersuchung der Nahrungs- und Genussmittel, Vol 8, 1 Juli 1904)
approx 24p essay removed from binding, includes essay by W Kerp: Schweflige Säure in ...
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Etiquette, Interdependence and Sociability in Seventeenth-Century Science.
44p offprint, author note in ink, very good
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Galileo the Emblem Maker.
30p offprint, a clean and fresh copy, with illustrations, author note, very good
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Galileo’s Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy.
302p large format paperback, a few faint pencil marks to the text, still very useful and little used
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The Social Status of Italian Mathematicians, 1450 - 1600.
55p offprint, clean and fresh copy, housed in blue card cover, not stapled, very good, with author ...
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Vorlesungen über Differentialgeometrie. Autorisierte Deutsche Ubersetzung. Zweite, Vermehrte und Verbesserte Auflage. (German)
721p quarter calf with calf corners, spine in terrible condition but title labels still present, ...
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Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles. (Nouvelle période, Vol 26)
358p blue paper cover with faded hand written title to spine, roughcut edges, tables, various ...
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History of the Liverpool Medical Institution in Special Relation to the Question of the Lease.
39p green card cover, with a few plates and architectural plans, appendix, lists, this copy ...
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Electro-Physiology. First Edition. Volume 1 and 2 Complete Set.
522p 500p 2 volumes green cloth, from a Cambridge college library with engraved bookplate, boards ...
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Elektrophysiologie.
Two large volumes half buckram cloth, top edge gilt, gilt lettering to spine, viii 857p binding ...
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B K Anand: Easy to Admire, Difficult to Emulate.
x 115p hardback, purple jacket, many plates throughout, printed on art paper, author dedication to ...
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First International Congress of Biochemistry. Held at Cambridge 19-25 August 1949. Report of Opening & Concluding Sessions and Three Lectures Delivered to the Congress.
50p paperback report, good condition, light wear commensurate with age, spine creased and worn at ...
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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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As Pulsões e Seus Destinos. Do Corporal ao Psíquico.
161p paperback with yellow cover, very good condition, as new, Portuguese translation
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How to Win the Nobel Prize. An Unexpected Life in Science.
xiii 271p hardback, grey and black cloth with illustrated jacket, very good condition, some minimal ...
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Interfacing to Microprocessors and Microcomputers.
147p yellow paperback, very good condition, from a Cambridge college library
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The New Laboratory of Physical Chemistry at Upsala University.
266p large format, paperback with wrapper, many plates, fresh clean copy, very good indeed
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Science and the Nation. Introd P M S Blackett.
249p period paperback, very good copy, nice and clean
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Blackman Export Co. Catalogue.
137p oblong format paperback, figures, tables, illustrations throughout, cover detaching, pages ...
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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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Time Lord. The Remarkable Canadian Who Missed His Train, and Changed the World.
256p first Canadian edition, hardback with illustrated brown dustjacket, excellent condition, as new
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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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On Faith and Science in Surgery.
xii 109p blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, many b&w illustrations, clean pages, ...
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Begründer der Experimentellen Physiologie: Founders of Experimental Physiology. (XXV International Congress of Physiological Sciences Munich 1971)
approx 260p hardback with dustjacket, reprints fundamental texts in facsimile from Descartes to ...
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Begründer der Experimentellen Physiologie: Founders of Experimental Physiology. (XXV International Congress of Physiological Sciences Munich 1971)
approx 260p hardback with dustjacket, reprints fundamental texts in facsimile from Descartes to ...
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Discovering the Cosmos.
714p plus appendix, grey illustrated cloth, large and heavy book, a fresh and tight copy, ...
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Turning Points in Physics: A Series of Lectures Given at Oxford University in Trinity Term 1958.
192p paperback, introduction by A C Crombie, very well preserved copy, Blin-Stoyle: The End of ...
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Précis d'Électricité Théorique.
476p original paper cover, large format, spine replaced by old adhesive tape, dog-earing, pages ...
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Précis d'électricité théorique.
vi 476p large black cloth binding with red spine, mathematical notations, first edition, minor ...
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Linguistic Aspects of Science. International Encyclopaedia of Unified Sciences, Vol I, Number 4.
iv 59p paperback, bright turquoise cover with white lettering, very good condition, minimal wear, ...
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Technologie und Terminologie der Gewerbe und Künste bei Griechen und Römern. Vierter Band.
629p nice half calf binding with minor library labels to spine, top spine compartment missing and ...
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Eclosion and Synthesis: Perspectives on the History of Knowledge.
264p grey cloth, this copy discarded from the library of the Manchester Institute of Science & ...
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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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Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England. (Papers Read at the Clark Library Seminar, 1967).
55p terracotta wrappers, stapled, nicely printed, very good indeed
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