Books on History of Science
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Bound collection of offprints on Absorption Spectra (Permanganates, Diketopyrroline, Chlorobenzene, Iodine, Sulphur Compounds, Pyridine, Furan, Aniline, Naphtalene)
approx 120p blue cloth, library bookplate, plates, work from the Cambridge Chemical Laboratory, ...
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The Origins of Scientific Sociology.
[x] 600p cloth, dustjacket (wear), index, from a Cambridge college library, a well preserved copy
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Functionalism, Exchange and Theoretical Strategy.
x 262p cloth, dustjacket (worn), bibliography, index, from a Cambridge college library, a well ...
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Harold Jeffreys. (Rendiconti Lincei Suppl. Serie IX, Vol 2).
[24]p stapled, plates, bibliography, as issued
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The Materials of Life: A Simple Presentation of the Science of Biochemistry.
218p cloth, bibliography, index, very good
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Symbols, Signs and Abbreviations Recommended for British Scientific Publications.
20p stapled, as issued
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The Nature of Science: The History of Science in Western Culture Since 1600.
215p hardback with dustjacket, bibliography, index, hardly used, very good
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The Smithsonian: America's Treasure House.
306p black cloth, 64 plates, index, nice copy
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Astronomy in Canada: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.
vi [128]p large paperback, gloss paper, reprint of nine articles from Society's Journal, plates, ...
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The New Outlook in Physics (Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Vol 80, 1935 / 1936.)
pp 7 - 23p, removed from binding, but with cover of this issue and table of contents, presidential ...
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Problems Confronting the Industrial Scientist.
35p stapled booklet, light blue card cover, large format, with faint library stamp to cover
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The Origin of Species.
434p small format, brown boards, spine absent, handy edition without the spine backstrip
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Jubilee Banquet, September 29, 1977.
64p stapled booklet, yellow paper with white card cover, list of guests with seating arrangements, ...
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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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The Laws of Motion: A Dialogue. Reprint from the Mathematical Gazette December 1927.
6p sewn pamphlet, card wrapper, imagined dialogue between Newton and a confused student, inscribed ...
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Studies from the Morphological Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. Vol 6 (1896).
229p original paper cover, 22 plates (folding), very good: Papers by A Sedgwick (3x), Hickson, ...
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The Jargon of the Professions.
146p paperback, bibliography, index, very good with light library markings
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A Brief History of Old English Porcelain and its Manufactories.
xvi 256p cloth embossed in blue, bevelled edges, top edge gilt, title printed in red and black, ...
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Carnegie Institution: Annual Report of the Director, Geophysical Laboratory, 1979 - 1980. (Reprint from Carnegie Institution of Washington Year Book 79)
[204]p large paperback, 50 papers on subjects from geology to palaeobotany and liquid mechanics, ...
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The Relations between the Sciences, Ed. A M Pantin and W H Thorpe.
x 206p cloth, bright dustjacket, appendixes, notes, index, as new, excellent copy
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The Structure of Scientific Thought: An Introduction to Philosophy of Science.
ix 381p blue cloth fresh with gilt lettering to front and spine, a tight and clean copy, first ...
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Cosmology, Physics and Philosophy.
xv 522p hardback, dustjacket, large format book with appendices, index, fresh clean copy, very good ...
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The Anticipation of Nature.
112p black hardback with gilt lettering to spine, diagrams, tables, index, bookplate, as new
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The Conflict Between Atomism and Conservation Theory 1644 - 1860.
xiv 312p cloth, jacket, frontispiece, notes, index, bookplate, nice fresh copy with yellowing to ...
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Quantity and Quality: The Hayden Colloquium on Scientific Method and Concept.
221p green cloth, bibliography, bookplate, very good. includes Stevens: The Quantification of ...
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The Electron Microscope: Its Development, Present Performance and Future Possibilities.
104p red paperback, top of spine a little owrn, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, fresh clean ...
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History of the Biochemical Society 1911 - 1986.
vi 181p hardback with yellow laminated boards, many illustrations, tables, short bibliography, ...
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The Orange and the Rose: Holland and Britain in the Age of Observation 1600 - 1750.
86p orange paperback, very good copy: Catalogue of an exhibition of British and Dutch art, craft, ...
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The Growth of Scientific Ideas.
xii 495p burgundy cloth, maps in endpapers, frontispiece, plates, bibliography, indices, very good ...
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Europe - Japan: Futures in Science, Technology and Democracy.
xiii 172p white hardback, tables, notes, appendices, very good. includes science & democracy, ...
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Our Future Inheritance: Choice or Chance? A Study by a British Association Working Party.
xiii 141p blue paperback with illustrated laminated cover, plates, diagrams, tables, bibliography, ...
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Philosophy of Medicine and Science: Problems and Perspectives.
292p cloth blue dustjacket, edges worn, tables, diagrams, letter and leaflets about the institute ...
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Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina 1652 - 1977. (Acta Historica Leopoldina, Supplementum 1)
104p paperback, frontispiece, illustrations (some colour), binding a bit fragile, very good
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Indira Gandhi on Science, Technology and Self-Reliance, with a tribute from T N Khoshoo.
94p hardback with yellow jacket, illustrations, inscription and card from T N Khoshooy to endpaper, ...
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Energy Resources in Science Education.
xvi 214p hardback, graphs, tables, bibliography, index, very good
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Pontificia Academia Scientiarum: Annuaire General 1987. 2nd ed.
xxv 375p large paperback, illustrations, tables, bibliography, index: Biographies and ...
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Das kaiserliche Privileg der Leopoldina vom 7. August 1687. (Acta Historica Leopoldina no. 17.)
72p paperback, colour frontispiece, illustrations (some colour), bibliography, fresh and clean
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Salve Academicum: Festschrift der Stadt Schweinfurt anlaßlich des 300. Jahrestages der Privilegierung der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina durch Kaiser Leopold I. vom 7. August 1687 (Veröffentlichungen des Stadtsarchivs Schweinfurt 1).
85p large white paperback, colour frontispiece and plate, illustrations, fresh and clean: Ilse Jahn ...
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Die Sechshundertjahrfeier der Universität Wien. Offizieller Festbericht.
xii 412p broad red cloth with gilt emblem to cover, incluces colour plates and facsimiles of ...
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Lectures on the History of Physiology during the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
310p petrol cloth, gilt lettering & highlights to spine, frontispiece with tissueguard, some old ...
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Growing Points in Science.
viii 216p paperback library rebound as hardback, 12 essays on "a number of fields where there have ...
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International Symposium on Electronic Components 1957. Malvern 1957.
224p large hardback library binding, essays on magnetic pulse generators, multigang variable ...
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Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolecules.
52p large paperback, 57 half-tone plates of laboratory equipment, appendices, dusty otherwise very ...
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The Industrial Revolution. (Fontana Economic History of Europe 3)
624p paperback, fresh copy, very slight signs of use, name cut from half title, includes ...
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From Humanism to Science 1480 - 1700.
329p paperback, bibliography, maps, index, bright copy
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Selected Writings, 1877 - 1930.
x 368p blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine & cover, frontispiece, 16 other halftone plates, 9 ...
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