Books on History of Science
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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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Courtaulds. An Economic and Social History. Vol 1: The Nineteenth Century: Silk & Crèpe; Vol 2: Rayon.
xxii 274p, xxii 521p blue cloth fresh, indices, (folding) tables, plates, comprehensive study, nice ...
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The Mysterious Universe.
viii 142p blue hardback, spine faded, text very fresh, appears unread
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Atomic Energy in Cosmic and Human Life. Fifty Years of Radioactivity.
x 161p hardback in red cloth, first edition with original illustrated jacket, good condition, wear ...
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Memories and Musings of an Octogenarian Biologist.
248p hardback, dustjacket, as new, signed copy
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The Science of Electricity as Applied in Peace and War.
42p review essay of Kelvin's Papers and some work on telegraphs from Quarterly Review 1877, with ...
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The Organization of Research Establishments.
275p cloth, dustjacket (short), index, plates, very clean copy from a Cambridge college library, ...
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Address to the Chemical Section of the British Association, Swansea 1880.
28p small print, no imprint, removed from binding, "Swansea 1880" to heading, gives a review of ...
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Produits Chimiques. [Exposition Universelle de 1878 a Paris] Cinquième Groupe, Classe 47.
34p offprint, with two colour samples (silk?) on one page, removed from binding, together with ...
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Beitrag zur Morphologie des M.omo-hyoides und der ventralen inneren Interbranchialmusculatur in der Reihe der Wirbelthiere. Dissertation (gewidmet Karl Möbius).
105p many plates, folding tables, inscribed by the author, removed from binding
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Memoire sur la Vessie Natatoire au point du vue de la station et de la locomotion du poisson.
Text & illustrations lithographically reproduced from MS, 5p, 4 illustrations (instruments to ...
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Recollections of a Technologist.
204p cloth, dustjacket (torn), plates, index, metallurgy & material sciences: Cambridge metallurgy ...
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Science and State Government. A Study of Scientific Activities of State Government Agencies in Six States.
xvi 160p cloth, dustjacket, tables, index, fresh and clean copy
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Géographie des Textiles.
564p red library cloth, 48 illustrations, 32 plates, notes, index, from a Cambridge college ...
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The Royal Society. Or: Science in the State and in the Schools.
131p large format, red cloth, plates, worn and aged, from a Cambridge college library: What science ...
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The House of Intellect.
276p hardback, black cloth spine and brown boards, fresh clean copy, no name or stamps, well ...
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Bright Paradise. Victorian Scientific Travellers.
276p hardback, dustjacket in excellent condition, a new copy, signed by the author
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Atomtheorie des festen Zustandes. (Dynamik der Kristallgitter) Zweite Auflage.
vii pp 527 - 789, half cloth (green cloth spine) title printed directly to front cover, minor ...
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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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A Short History of Biology. A General Introduction to the Study of Living Things.
xxxv 572p hardback in green cloth, frontispiece, first edition, good condition with signs of use, ...
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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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Proceedings of the National Electronics Conference. Chicago 1955, Vol 11.
xiv 1040p xliv original cloth, advesive transparent film, many illustrations, very good copy from a ...
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Dr Bentley. A Study in Academic Scarlet.
303p hardback, dustjacket in excellent condition, illustrated endpapers, a fresh copy, clean paes, ...
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The Anatomy of Inquiry. Philosophical Studies in the Theory of Science.
333p cloth, dustjacket, bibliography, index, neat underlining on a few pages, very good
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The Making of Physics.
viii 200p hardback, dustjacket, index, plates, fresh copy, with review and similar notes, copy was ...
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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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Science and Public Affairs. No 1 (1986).
116p card cover, fresh and clean, first issue of this journal
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The Life of Sir J J Thomson, Sometime Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
x 299p tan cloth, index, plates, fresh clean copy, very light Cambridge library markings only, ...
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From the Foundation to Gilbert Scott. A History of the Buildings of St John's College Cambridge, 1511 - 1885.
viii 183p red cloth, white jacket, very good condition, nice clean copy
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Traité de Mécanique Rationnelle. Vol 1 and Vol 2 (mixed edition).
Vol 1= 5th edition, 619p plain red cloth nice, very good; volume 2 = 4th edition, 575p, original ...
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The Cambridge Philosophical Society. A History, 1819 - 1969.
114p large paperback, many plates, index, fresh clean copy
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A Catalogue of Manuscripts and Drawings in the General Library of the Natural History Museum, London.
xii1 126p indices, plates, hardback, new
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Charles Darwin. Evolution by Natural Selection.
xi 290p green cloth fresh, index, many plates, first edition, very good indeed
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Vectorial Mechanics. With 112 Diagrams.
xii 382p hardback in red cloth, very good condition, light wear to cover edges and surfaces, spine ...
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Penrose to Cripps. A Century of Building in the College of St John the Evangelist, Cambridge.
235p hardback, dustjacket, map, plates, letter from author, very good
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The National Academy of Sciences. The First Hundred Years, 1863 - 1963.
xv 694p cloth, indices, appendices, illustrations & portraits, a clean and fresh copy
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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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The Mathematical Theory of Relativity. Second Edition.
ix 270p paperback, brown and white cover, very good condition, minimal wear, name on endpaper, ...
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The Variational Principles of Mechanics. Fourth Ed.
xxix 418p paperback, green and yellow cover, very good condition, minimal wear to cover edges, ...
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Generations- und Wirtswechsel bei Trypanosoma und Spirochaete. Vorläufige Mitteilung.
52p bound in plain cloth, large format, original paper cover bound in, Nuttall donation bookplate, ...
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The New Conceptions of Matter.
viii 192p cloth (a bit worn & soft), index, from a Cambridge college library, frontispiece and ...
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Genetics and Metabolism.
xi 444p cloth, index, bibliography, many illustrations, fresh copy from a Cambridge college library
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Vorlesungen über Bildung und Spaltung von Doppelsalzen. Deutsch bearbeitet von T Paul mit 54 Figuren im Text.
95p first edition, olive green pebbled boards still fresh very small paper shelfmarks to spine, ...
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Grundgedanken der Erbkunde und Rassenhygiene in Frage und Antwort.
64p paper cover with nice label to front cover, under protective paper cover, illustrations, neat ...
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Modern Scientific Ideas, Especially the Idea of Discontinuity.
72p paper cover, slim booklet, bookplate from a Cambridge college library, a firm and clean copy
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The Molecular Volumes of Liquid Chemical Compounds from the Point of View of Kopp.
xii 275p cloth boards, bibliography, very good, library bookplate and paper labels to spine
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Bound collection of offprints on Biomolecular Glycollaldehyde; Absorption Spectra (Benzene, Aliphatic Substances, Substances w/ two Benzene Nuclei), Fluorescence, Electron Theory (2x).
approx 100p, red cloth, some plates, author donation bookplate, library bookplate, some authorial ...
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