Books on History of Science
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Pontificia Academia Scientiarum: Annuaire General 1987. 2nd ed.
xxv 375p large paperback, illustrations, tables, bibliography, index: Biographies and ...
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Energy Resources in Science Education.
xvi 214p hardback, graphs, tables, bibliography, index, 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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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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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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Geschichte und Struktur der Kaiser-Wilhelm- / Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
xii 1011p large thick hardback, maroon cloth with glossy pink jacket, like new condition, little to ...
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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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Europe - Japan: Futures in Science, Technology and Democracy.
xiii 172p white hardback, tables, notes, appendices, very good. includes science & democracy, ...
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The Relevance of Science: Creation and Cosmogony.
192p cloth, fresh dustjacket, fresh clean copy, first edition, light library stamp, never used, ...
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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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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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History of the Biochemical Society 1911 - 1986.
vi 181p hardback with yellow laminated boards, many illustrations, tables, short bibliography, ...
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The Electron Microscope. Its Development, Present Performance and Future Possibilities.
104p red paperback, very good condition, top of spine a little worn, illustrations, appendix, ...
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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 Genesis of Quantum Theory (1899 - 1913).
ix 165p cloth bright red dustjacket, fresh clean copy, no names or stamps, chapters on Planck, ...
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Statistical Physics and the Atomic Theory of Matter. From Boyle and Newton to Landau and Onsager.
ix 356p hardback with cloth binding, blue dustjacket with small tears only, many diagrams, index, a ...
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Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century (From the Scholastic Antecedents to Classical Thought)
612p red cloth with bright gilt lettering, foreword by Louis de Broglie, a tight an clean copy, no ...
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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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The Physical World of Late Antiquity.
xii 189p brown cloth fresh, corners sharp, private bookplate, a very fresh and clean copy, no ...
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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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Cosmology, Physics and Philosophy.
xv 522p hardback, dustjacket, large format book with appendices, index, fresh clean copy, very good ...
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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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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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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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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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The Jargon of the Professions.
146p paperback, bibliography, index, very good with light library markings
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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 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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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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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 Origin of Species.
434p small format, brown boards, spine absent, handy edition without the spine backstrip
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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 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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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 Smithsonian: America's Treasure House.
306p black cloth, 64 plates, index, nice copy
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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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Symbols, Signs and Abbreviations Recommended for British Scientific Publications.
20p stapled, 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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Harold Jeffreys. (Rendiconti Lincei Suppl. Serie IX, Vol 2).
[24]p stapled, plates, bibliography, as issued
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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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The Origins of Scientific Sociology.
[x] 600p cloth, dustjacket (wear), index, from a Cambridge college library, a well preserved copy
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