Books on History of Science
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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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Operational Research: Techniques and Examples.
ix 275p hardback, red dustjacket (fresh), exercises with answers, index, very good copy from a ...
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A Radical Voice in the Science of Science.
194p large paperback, index, a fresh and clean copy
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Vorlesungen über theorethische Spektroskopie. Mit 65 Figuren und einer Tafel im Text.
viii 256p large buckram cloth, rebound, diagrams, sections on mechanische, elektromagnetische and ...
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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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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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Annales du Conservatoire Impérial des Arts et Métiers, Premiere Série, Tome 2, 1862.
600p half calf binding in poor condition, cover dusty, leather spine detached, corners rubbed, ...
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An Introduction to the Electron Theory of Metals. (Institute of Metals Monograph and Report Series No 4).
x 98p cloth, dustjacket tearing, index, bibliography, illustrations, still very good, no names or ...
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High Productivity in Heavy Engineering: Production, Inspection and Cost Control in Welded Fabrication.
viii 339p large cloth with blue dustjacket worn across the top edge and corner, illustrations, ...
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The British Association Granada Lectures: 'Dons or Crooners?'
111p paperback, illustrations, bookplate, very good: Three Lectures given London in October 1959 on ...
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Science in Primary Schools: The Multicultural Dimension.
viii 175p large paperback, figures in text, bibliography, index, a well preserved copy from 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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Fifty Years of British Standards 1901 - 1951. With a Foreword by Sir John Anderson.
103p cloth, frontispiece, appendices, illustrations, photographic plates, front free endpaper torn ...
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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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La logique du vivant: Une histoire de l'hérédité.
354p large paperback, index, very good
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Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915: Miscellany. (San Francisco, California, Sept 20 - 25, 1915)
v 543p large cloth volume, contains papers No 223 - 240 on airplanes, refrigeration, etc, sessions ...
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Thomas Henry Huxley. Second Impression.
xiii 226p small cloth, index, chronology, very good, interesting newspaperclipping included
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Biographisch-literarisches Handworterbuch der exakten Naturwissenschaften. Band 7B, Teil 3: F - Hem (1932 - 1962)
pp 1313 - 1948 black library cloth, single volume, excellent copy from a Cambridge college library
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Concerning Science.
xii 141p red cloth, index, a well preserved copy from a Cambridge college library, first edition
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Engines and Innovation: Lewis Laboratory and American Propulsion Technology.
x 276p large paperback A4 format, appendices, indices, tables, almost as new, very good
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The Cambridge Natural History, Vol 2: Worms, Rotifers and Polyzoa. By W Gamble, L Sheldon, A Shipley, M Hartog, W Benham, F Beddard, and S Harmer.
xii 560p large green cloth, spine worn, gilt on cover and spine, index, many illustrations, weak ...
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Twenty-five Years of Soviet Chemistry: A Collection of Papers.
287p large cloth, various contributors, text in Kyrillic
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Éléments de Physique expérimentale et de Météorologie, Vol 1: Texte.
vi 836p large half calf, boards detached, spine absent, with 'table des équivalents chimiques', ...
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Science in Hungary.
316p imitation leather, original printed clear plastic dustjacket, essays on physical sciences, ...
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Treatise on Heat. (Cabinet Cyclopaedia)
viii 429p rebound in card cover with facsimile of title page pasted on, decorative title page with ...
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World Sea Fisheries.
xiv 307p light blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, halftone plates, diagrams, appendix, index, ...
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Education and the Professions.
viii 88p hardback with dustjacket, notes, index, clean copy, light library markings
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Teaching and Learning about Science and Society.
ix 181p black cloth, silver jacket, diagrams, index, fresh copy from a Cambridge college library
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Britain's Scientific and Technological Manpower.
xiii 466p red cloth, silver lettering to spine, tables, appendices, bibliography, index, a well ...
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Camels and Grumblers: Little Talks to Children.
48p grey cloth, dustjacket, moral advice to children, jacket slightly torn but largely intact, very ...
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A Book of Science Verse: The Poetic Relations of Science and Technology.
xvi 279p red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 'scientific' poems including Blake: "Men and ...
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Manual of Firemanship. Appendix on Metrication.
28p stapled red booklet, cover creased, a little aged
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Industrial England 1776 - 1851.
242p cloth, dustjacket, figures, plates, index, a very good copy from a Cambridge college library, ...
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Hydrostatics: A Text-Book for the use of First Year Students at the Universities and for the Higher Divisions in Schools.
viii 170p orange cloth, figures, examples to each chapter, clean and firm copy of the second edition
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At the Nexus: Science Policy.
xi 245p hardback, essays include Gerlak: "Federal Wetlands Policy"; Tuttle "Science Policy and the ...
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The Master Thinkers: Vignettes in the History of Science, with Portraits.
xiii 238p red cloth, gilt lettering to spine & cover, includes Roger Bacon, Kepler, Galileo, ...
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'The Most Extraordinary District in the World': Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale.
125p hardback with dustjacket, many figures in text, index, clean, from a Cambridge college library
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History of Science: An Annual Review of Literature, Research and Teaching, Vol 6.
v 178p blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, essays, reviews, bibliography, very good: Harriot ...
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Extraordinary Inventions: Bizzare Ideas that never got off the Ground.
48p stapled booklet, outrageous inventions from early 'flying machines' and single-wheeled ...
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Louis Pasteur.
194p hardback, halftone plates, appendix, indices, a clean and fresh copy
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Science, Mind and Method.
viii 115p red hardback, gilt lettering to spine & cover, philosophy of science, cover a little ...
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Everyday Marvels of Science: A Popular Account of the Scientific Inventions in Daily Use.
208p red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, workings of inventions including 'the Baird Televisor', ...
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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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Tables showing Loss of Head due to Friction of Water in Pipes.
vi 171p small format, cloth, tables, folding table, very good indeed
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Das ärztliche Rezept.
50p large cloth A4 format, jacket slightly torn, frontispiece, photographic plates, very good copy
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A Century of Technology, 1851 - 1951.
ix 346p blue cloth fresh, index, tables, photographic plates, rather worn but still very usable ...
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Bibliotheca Therapeutica, or Bibliography of Therapeutics, Vol 2. Chiefly in Reference to Articles of the Materia Medica, with numerous critical, historical, and Therapeutical Annotations, and an Appendix, etc.
vii pp420 - 933 cloth with gilt lettering to cover, spine detached, appendix containing the ...
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The World and the Atom. Foreword by Niels Bohr.
199p cloth (fresh), dustjacket (worn), illustrations, photographic plates, index, very good
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