Books on History of Science
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The Royal Society and Its Dining Clubs.
xv 457p hardback, red boards with transparent jacket, very good condition, minimal wear, edges of ...
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Measurement, Objectivity. and Trust.
40p offprint, grey card cover, includes discussion by various authors and "Rejoinder" by Porter
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Making Things Quantitative.
20p offprint, stapled, as new, together with a related offprint buy the same "Chance Subdued by ...
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Heredity Explored: Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850 - 1930.
viii 470p large format hardback, very fresh dustjacket, no names or stamps, excellent copy, as new
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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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L'Événement Astronomique du Siècle? Histoire Sociale des Passages de Vénus, 1874 - 1882 (Special Issue, Cahiers François Viète, No 11-12, 2006)
190p large paperback, white cover, fresh clean copy, editor note inserted, as new, with ...
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The Vortex Theory of Planetary Motions.
ix 282p hardback, green dustjacket fresh, clean copy, no names or stamps, first edition, very good ...
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Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution.
xi 211p hardback, fresh dustjacket, nice copy, a few faint pencil marks seen in the introduction ...
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The Science of Man in Ancient Greece.
xxviii 224p hardback, fresh dustjacket, excellent condition, with author inscription hidden on ...
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The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell. Volumes 1 - 3 in 5 Parts.
five large paperback volume 4to format, grey card cover, excellent condition, complete set, volume ...
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Cartography in France, 1660 - 1848: Science, Engineering, and Statecraft
xx 194p large format hardback, fresh dustkjacket, with colour plates, excellent copy, no names or ...
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Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America.
xiii 229p hardback, fresh dustjacket, as new, never used, faint name to endpaper
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Why Does History Matter to Philosophy and the Sciences? Selected Essays.
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Science and Ideology: A Comparative History.
xv 267p large paperback, colourful cover, fresh clean copy, as new, never used, square and tight
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Art of the Soluble. Creativity and Originality in Science.
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Companion to Medicine in the Twentieth Century.
xix 756p solid, big and heavy tome, blue illustrated cover, clean copy, no names or stamps, spine ...
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On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550 - 1900.
xxxviii 567p thick hardback, well preserved dustjacket, a nice copy, with faint and neat pencil ...
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Les Sciences de la Vie dans la Pensée Française au XVIIIe Siècle: La Génération des Animaux, de Descartes à l'Encyclopédie.
xxxix 848p thick paperback, black cover, a fresh and tight and square time, hardly used, spine not ...
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Augustine to Galileo: Science in the Middle Ages (5th to 13th Centuries) / Science in the Later Middle Ages and Early Modern Times (13th to 17th Centuries)
289p 373p, two volumes in one, hardback, fresh green dustjacket, excellent clean copy, no traces of ...
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Observation And Explanation. A Guide to Philosophy of Science.
ix 84p neat hardback in dark cloth, turquoise jacket, very good condition, light fading and foxing ...
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The Theater of Nature. Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science.
xiii 382p hardback, white illustrated dustjacket excellent, a new copy without traces of use, tight ...
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Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science.
xxi 495p hardback, fresh dustjacket excellent copy, first edition no traces of use, as new
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Jews in the Origins of Modern Science and Bacon's Scientific Utopia: The Life and Work of Joachim Gaunse, Mining Technologist and first Recorded Jew in English-Speaking North America.
40p tall format booklet, fresh and clean copy, with portrait
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Pour une Histoire des Sciences à Part Entière.
475p blue paperback, fresh and clean copy, collection of essays, very good indeed
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Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800 - 1840. From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics. Volume 1: The Setting.
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Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800 - 1840. From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics. Volume 3: The Data.
paginated 1320 - 1601, large hardback, fresh dustjacket green, in excellent condition, no traces of ...
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Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800 - 1840. From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics. Volume 2: The Turn.
paginated 584 - 1312, large hardback, fresh dustjacket green, a mighty tome in excellent condition, ...
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The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution.
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A Scientist's Voice in American Culture. Simon Newcomb and the Rhetoric of Scientific Method.
xviii 301p hardback, fresh dustjacket, excellent copy, no names or stamps, as new, with plates
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A History of the Theories of Rain and Other Forms of Precipitation.
viii 223p hardback, green dustjacket with white frame present, nice clean copy, no names or stamps, ...
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The Earth in Decay: A History of British Geomorphology, 1578 - 1878.
xv 390p faint green hardback, green dustjacket with white frame well preserved, a clean and tight ...
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Les Saint-Simoniens: Raison, Imaginaire et Utopie.
381p paperback, white cover. tight and clean copy, author note inserted, excellent condition, as new
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The Letters of Georges Cuvier: A Summary Calendar of Manuscript and Printed Materials Preserved in Europe, the United States of America, and Australasia.
102p slim paperback, purple cover, text reproduced from typescript, uncommon title
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La Science Économique à la Recherche de ses Fondements. La Tradition Épistémologique Ricardienne, 1826 - 1891.
277p white paperback, red lettering, compliments card inserted, as new
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Newton on Matter and Activity.
viii 160p green paperback, neat and tight copy, fresh and clean, no names or stamps, excellent
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Practical Matter: Newton's Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687 - 1851.
200p hardback grey cloth, author inscription, no dustjacket
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Books and the Sciences in History.
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The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest.
xiv 339p hardback, illustrated dustjacket, excellent fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, no ...
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Social Epistemology.
xxxi 316p hardback, blue illustrated dustjacket, fresh clean copy, no names or stamps, excellent ...
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The Pasteurization of France.
xii 273p hardback, terracotta cloth, dustjacket a little worn and aged and sunned with well hidden ...
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Das Reich des Zufalls: Wissen zwischen Wahrscheinlichkeiten, Häufigkeiten und Unschärfen.
374p hardback, blue laminated boards, excellent clean copy, no stamps not names, no traces of use,
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Innovation in Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory: Molecular Vortices, Displacement Current, and Light.
x 225p hardback, purple dustjacket, never used, excellent copy
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Science and Public Reason.
xvi 286p hardback, brown laminated cover, excellent clean copy with author inscription
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The Normal and the Pathological. With an Introduction by Michel Foucault.
317p hardback, fresh green dustjacket, excellent copy, as new
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Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry.
xiv 344p hardback, fresh dustjacket, a nice copy, with a lot of faint and neat pencil marking to ...
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Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760 - 1820.
xi 342p hardback fresh black illustrated jacket, a nice clean copy, with illustrations, no traces ...
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The Authority of Experts: Studies in History and Theory.
xxxix 278p hardback, fresh dustjacket, excellent copy, name to endpaper, likely never used
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The Correspondence between A A Markov and A A Chuprov on the Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics.
xvii 181p hardback, brown boards, nice copy, name to endpaper, faint and neat pencil marks to the ...
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In the Eye's Mind: Vision and the Helmholtz-Hering Controversy.
xiv 338p hardback, black dustjacket, as new copy, no names or stamps, excellent, never used, first ...
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Stalinist Science.
xvii 371p large hardback, black jacket with white lettering, a tight and clean copy, no names or ...
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