Books on History of Science
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Ziele vulkanologischer Forschung. Eine Begründung des Antrages der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften auf Internationalisierung der vulkanologischen Forschung.
46p large paperback, orange paper cover, excellent fresh copy, clean and tight, folding map, very ...
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The New Astronomy and Space Science Reader.
ix 371p very large paperback, figures, diagrams, from Copernicus to Carl Sagan, cover creased, very ...
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Annales. Économies Sociétés Civilisations, Vol 36, No 4, 1981.
approx 220p, excellent copy, contains many essays, includes a section on Societes Urbaines, and a ...
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Applications of Critical Path Techniques: A Conference Under the Aegis of the NATO Scientific Affairs Committee.
447p black hardback, silver lettering to spine & cover, first edition, diagrams, very good
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A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar, 24th Ed. with a new Appendix of Questions without Answers.
vi 488p small format original cloth, inner front hinge soft and some yielding, minor spotting, ...
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Collected Experimental Papers.
seven large volumes in grey cloth with burgundy title label to spine, excellent clean set, without ...
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Science in its Context. A Symposium with Special Reference to Sixth - Form Studies. With a Forewod by Sir Howard Florey.
372p black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, stamps and stickers, edges a little yellowed but ...
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Science in its Context. A Symposium with Special Reference to Sixth - Form Studies. With a Forewod by Sir Howard Florey.
372p black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, dustjacket present, clean and unmarked, very good ...
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The Nobel Century: A Chronicle of Genius.
276p large format, fresh dustjacket, nice clean copy, attractive and clean
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Victorian People.
320p paperback, covers Trollope, Samuel Smiles, Disraeli, bibliography, index, fresh and clean
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Quantenmechanik der Multipolstrahlung.
60p card cover, stine a bit hurt, Proefschrift, Stellingen, with 3 pages of MS notes inserted
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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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Report of the 102nd Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, York 1932.
xliv 458p 122p original orange cloth, some humidity marks to both boards spine bright, maps, ...
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Report of the 69th Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Dover in September 1899.
cxxiv 1071p large cloth, folding map, indices, list of members, a well preserved copy from a ...
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Report of the 90th Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Hull 1922.
xxxiii 508p original orange cloth, folding maps, indices, list of members, very good copy without ...
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The Advancement of Science. Vol 1, No 1-4. The Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
576p orange card cover, set of 4 vols, from a Cambridge college library with labels on spines and ...
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Human Biology: An Exhibition of Ourselves.
120p oblong format large paperback, many colour & halftone figures in text, index, a clean and ...
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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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Galen on the Natural Faculties: English translation by Arthur John Brock.
lv 339p hardback, green cloth with bright green jacket, good condition, light wear to jacket edges ...
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Galen on the Natural Faculties: With an English translation by Arthur John Brock.
339p green cloth, from a Cambridge college library, slightly worn boards, otherwise near fine ...
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H E Armstrong and the Teaching of Science 1880 - 1930.
x 161p cloth red jacket, index, notes, bibliography, nice copy, very good
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H E Armstrong and the Teaching of Science 1880 - 1930.
161p hardback with red and white paper jacket, from a Cambridge college library, first edition, ...
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The Manchester Medical Society and the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester.
12p offprint with grey card cover, frontispiece, printed author compliments, removed from binding ...
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Engelbert Broda zum Gedenken. "Sein Leben für den Frieden wird seinen Tod überdauern" (Prälat Dr. Leopold Ungar, 31. 10. 1983)
40p slim booklet, blue cover, very good
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Franz Kreuzer im Gespräch mit Engelbert Broda und Rupert Riedl.
124p without cover, marked as Sonderdruck, but seems to be complete, includes texts by Boltzmann
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Science and Technology in 19th Century Germany. An Exhibition of the Deutsches Museum Munich and the Goethe-Institut London & Manchester 1982/83.
72p white paperback, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many colour and b&w plates,
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The Metamorphosis of British Euphausiidae (=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburg, vol 15, 1887 - 1888)
8p essay, removed from binding, very good, included is a second paper by Brook on a Lucifer-like ...
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Berkeley's Philosophy of Science.
210p hardback, fresh dustjacket, excellent copy, first edition
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The Starship and the Canoe.
270p paperback, colourfully illustrated cover, very good condition, a little light wear to cover ...
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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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Conceptions of Inquiry.
xv 334p card cover, indices, illustrations, very good copy from a Cambridge college library, hardly ...
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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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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Edited by Simon Wilkin, Volume 2. The Three Last Books of Vulgar Errors, Religio Medici, and the Garden of Cyrus.
iv 563p burgundy cloth with fresh gilt lettering, spine tight. binding firm pages unmarked, binding ...
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On a Case of Absence of the Corpus Callosum in the Human Brain. (=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburg, vol 15, 1887 - 1888)
25p essay, removed from binding, many plates showing the brain, very good
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Health, Disease and Society in Europe 1800-1930. A Source Book.
xvii 310p blue bright paperback, as new, text is fresh and clean
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Semantic Source of the Concept of Law; Science and Logic: Some Thought on Newton's Second Law of Motion in Classical Mechanics.
two offprints, stapled, very good, published 1951 and 1967, the set
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The Image of Newton and Locke in the Age of Reason.
116p small paperback, paper browning, a clean copy with ex libris featuring a deer
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Fresnel and Diffraction Theory.
75p offprint, a clean and fresh copy, author note, a few marginal marks, graphs, very good
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From Maxwell to Microphysics: Aspects of Electromagnetic Theory in the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century.
xiii 339p large hardback, dustjacket, a clean and tight copy, without names or stamps, very well ...
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Die Erkennung der Mandeln und verwandter Samen. (= Zeitschrift für Untersuchung der Nahrungs- und Genussmittel, Heft 12, 5.Jg, 15 Juni 1902)
approx 10p essay removed from binding, plate, very good
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Science. (=Granta 16. The Magazine of New Writing)
256p large paperback, short stories and essays on the theme of science, includes Germaine Greer, ...
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Maurice Neville Hill, 1919 - 1966.
12p obiturary with frontispiece, nice fresh copy, includes bibliography
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The Challenge of Atomic Energy.
x 137p small light blue hardback, index, ink underlinings, cover marked, still a useful copy
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Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents: Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1846. 29th Congress, 2nd Session, House of Representatives. Document No 52. January 23, 1847.
This is the original Document No 52 from US House, 29th Congress, 2nd Session, removed from ...
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Patent Office. Report from the Commissioner of Patents showing the Operations of the Patent Office during the Year 1842. 27th Congress, 3rd Session, House of Representatives. Document No 109. February 1, 1843.
This is the original Document No 109 from US House, 27th Congress, 3rd Session, removed from ...
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The Spirit of System. Lamarck and Evolutionary Biology.
258p hardback, unclipped dustjacket sunned to spine, a very nice copy, pages clean, bright and ...
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Telluris Theoria Sacra. Orbis Nostri Originem & Mutationes Generales. Editio Tertia, recognita et contracta.
336p, 4 parts in one volume, bound in contemporary full parchment with title label direct to spine, ...
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