Books on History of Science
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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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The Image of Newton and Locke in the Age of Reason.
116p small format paperback, good condition, spine and covers have detached in one piece but ...
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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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The Hall Effect and Maxwellian Electrodynamics in the 1880's. Part 1: The Discovery of a New Electric Field.
this is a 50p essay in Centaurus, Volume 23, No 1, for sale is the entire issue of this journal, ...
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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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Growing Up with Science. Developing Early Understanding of Science.
295p paperback, glossy white cover with blue and yellow design, like new condition, no significant ...
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Highlights of British Science.
viii 240p large format hardback, very good condition, blue cloth cover with minimal wear, gilt ...
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Publications of A S V Burgen, 1947 - 1962.
300?p large format hardback, red cloth with gilt lettering to spine, bound collection of fifty ...
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The Responsibility of the Scientist to Science and Society. Offprints, Science and Public Policy, Vol 17, No 2, and Academia Europaea Inaugural Symposium.
36p stapled booklet with white cover, a collection of offprint essays, very good condition, minimal ...
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The United Kingdom and The Reconstruction of German Science: The Rebirth of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft. Offprint, Technology in Society 23.
10p offprint, stapled booklet in like new condition, no significant wear, pages clean and neat, a ...
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The Polymerisation of Cyanamide. Offprint, Transactions of the Chemical Society, Vol 105.
16p thread-bound offprint, very good condition, a little light wear to edges, binding intact, pages ...
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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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Bodies of Evidence: Medicine and the Politics of the English Inquest, 1830 - 1926.
x 245p hardback, dustjacket, as new
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Das Old Red-Gebiet am Moskusoksefjord. Attempt at a Correlation of the Series of Various Devonian Areas in Central East Greenland.
188p blue card cover, 60 figures, 5 plates, worn with sellotape around edges, markings from a ...
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Il Luogo delle Ipotesi. Femminismo e Conoscenze = Nuova Dwf. Donnawomanfemme. Quaderni di Studi Internazionali Sulla Donna, No 15, Inverno 1981.
198p journal with red card cover, some use, pages clean, Italian language, very good
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Über havarierten bleihaltigen Thee: Ein Beitrag zur Überwachung des Verkehrs mit Thee. (= Zeitschrift für Untersuchung der Nahrungs- und Genussmittel, Vol 10, 15 Juli 1905)
7p essay removed from binding, tables, illustrations, very good
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The Origins of Modern Science, 1300 - 1800.
x 217p hardback, blue cloth with blue jacket, jacket poor, boards and binding in good condition, ...
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Razvitie Biologii v SSSR.
764p large and heavy hardback volume, blue dustjacket with gilt lettering present, address label of ...
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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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The Anatomy of Madness. Essays in the History of Psychiatry, Volume 3: The Asylum and Its Psychiatry
xii 353p hardback, fresh dustjacket, editor inscription signed "Roy", a fresh and clean copy, ...
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Scientific Council for Africa South of the Sahara: Ninth Meeting of the Scientific Council, Accra 1958.
173p large paperback with brown cover, library bookplate, very good copy, uncommon title
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Pasteur, Estudio integral de sus obras: El hombre, el filosofo, el creyente.
151p large format paperback, beige card covers, tiny shelf labels to spine, edges fraying, pages ...
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Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450-1700.
xix 364p hardback, dustjacket, as new, never used, excellent copy
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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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Der Druck des Wissens. Geschichte und Medium der wissenschaftlichen Publikation.
76p large paperback, grey card cover, mint copy
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Die Rhetorik der Wissenschaft im Medium der Typographie. Zum Beispiel die Fussnote. (Räume des Wissens )
Offprint, 16p, important essay about footnotes
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The Printing of Science. A Further Listing.
Offprint from Publishing History, 16p, very good, supplement to the bibliography contained in Druck ...
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Wissenschaft im Medium der Typographie: Collected Papers aus Cambridge, 1880 - 1910. Offprint.
22p offprint, very good
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University Addresses, Being Addresses on Subjects of Academic Study Delivered to the University of Glasgow.
x 383p original blue cloth fresh and tight, gilt lettering to spine, old gift inscription, nice ...
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The Future of a Troubled World.
220p hardback with original dustjacket, a very good copy from a Cambridge college library with ...
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