Books on History of Science
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The Japanese Electronics Challenge.
xii 163p hardback with dustjacket, tables, diagrams, overview of the Japanese technology industry, ...
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North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders: Transactions, Vol 29, twenty-ninth Session, 1912 - 1913.
445p 20p large heavy cloth, cover rather dusty, many photographic plates, folding tables, index, ...
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The Road to Modern Science.
ix 306p hardback, maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine, very good condition, binding intact if ...
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The Principles of Physical Optics: An Historical and Philosophical Treatment. Translated by John Anderson and A F Young.
x 324p period paperback, paper shows light yellowing, binding firm, with many illustrations, no ...
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How to find out in Mathematics: A Guide to Sources of Mathematical Information arranged according to the Dewey Decimal Classification.
x 158p paperback, cover slightly worn, exercises, appendices, index, text clean, very good
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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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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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Das ärztliche Rezept.
50p large cloth A4 format, jacket slightly torn, frontispiece, photographic plates, very good copy
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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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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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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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Fifty Years of Plant Physiology.
xi 308p green cloth with dustjacket, indices, jacket slightly dusty, very good
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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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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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'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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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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At the Nexus: Science Policy.
xi 245p hardback, essays include Gerlak: "Federal Wetlands Policy"; Tuttle "Science Policy and the ...
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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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Manual of Firemanship. Appendix on Metrication.
28p stapled red booklet, cover creased, a little aged
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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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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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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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Education and the Professions.
viii 88p hardback with dustjacket, notes, index, clean copy, light library markings
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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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Science in Hungary.
316p imitation leather, original printed clear plastic dustjacket, essays on physical sciences, ...
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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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Twenty-five Years of Soviet Chemistry: A Collection of Papers.
287p large cloth, various contributors, text in Kyrillic
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The Cambridge Natural History, Volume 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 holding, top edge gilt, gilt lettering to cover and spine, index, ...
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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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Concerning Science.
xii 141p red cloth, index, a well preserved copy from a Cambridge college library, first edition
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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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Thomas Henry Huxley. Second Impression.
xiii 226p small cloth, index, chronology, very good, interesting newspaperclipping included
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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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La logique du vivant: Une histoire de l'hérédité.
354p large paperback, index, very good
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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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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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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America.
392p large paperback, green cover with locomotive, underlining to initial dozen pages, else a fresh ...
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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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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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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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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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Précis d'électricité théorique.
vi 476p large black cloth binding with red spine, mathematical notations, first edition, minor ...
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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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A Radical Voice in the Science of Science.
194p large paperback, index, a fresh and clean copy
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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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Fireside Science.
xii 145p hardback in orange cloth, illustrated grey jacket, very good condition, a bit of wear to ...
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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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Junior Experimental Science. Third Edition.
viii 302p tan cloth, many illustrations, index, a clean and firm copy
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