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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Bound collection of offprints on Biomolecular Glycollaldehyde; Absorption Spectra (Benzene, Aliphatic Substances, Substances w/ two Benzene Nuclei), Fluorescence, Electron Theory (2x).
approx 100p, red cloth, some plates, author donation bookplate, library bookplate, some authorial ...
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The Molecular Volumes of Liquid Chemical Compounds from the Point of View of Kopp.
xii 275p cloth boards, bibliography, very good, library bookplate and paper labels to spine
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The Structure of the Atom.
xviii 750p blue cloth fresh, thick volume, name of W A Wooster to endpaper, nice clean and tight ...
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Modern Scientific Ideas, Especially the Idea of Discontinuity.
72p paper cover, slim booklet, bookplate from a Cambridge college library, a firm and clean copy
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Grundgedanken der Erbkunde und Rassenhygiene in Frage und Antwort.
64p paper cover with nice label to front cover, under protective paper cover, illustrations, neat ...
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British Scientists.
48p boards, jacket first edition, many plates, also in colour, with a collection of related ...
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Generations- und Wirtswechsel bei Trypanosoma und Spirochaete. Vorläufige Mitteilung.
52p bound in plain cloth, large format, original paper cover bound in, Nuttall donation bookplate, ...
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The Variational Principles of Mechanics. Fourth Ed.
xxix 418p paperback, green and yellow cover, very good condition, minimal wear to cover edges, ...
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The Mathematical Theory of Relativity. Second Edition.
ix 270p paperback, brown and white cover, very good condition, minimal wear, name on endpaper, ...
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Précis d'Électricité Théorique.
476p original paper cover, large format, spine replaced by old adhesive tape, dog-earing, pages ...
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The National Academy of Sciences. The First Hundred Years, 1863 - 1963.
xv 694p cloth, indices, appendices, illustrations & portraits, a clean and fresh copy
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Penrose to Cripps. A Century of Building in the College of St John the Evangelist, Cambridge.
235p hardback, dustjacket, map, plates, letter from author, very good
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A Catalogue of Manuscripts and Drawings in the General Library of the Natural History Museum, London.
xii1 126p indices, plates, hardback, new
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The Cambridge Philosophical Society. A History, 1819 - 1969.
114p large paperback, many plates, index, fresh clean copy
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Inner Exile. Recollections of a Life with Werner Heisenberg.
xvii 170p fresh hardback with blue dustjacket, many plates, glossary, name to endpaper, fresh copy, ...
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Traité de Mécanique Rationnelle. Vol 1 and Vol 2 (mixed edition).
Vol 1= 5th edition, 619p plain red cloth nice, very good; volume 2 = 4th edition, 575p, original ...
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From the Foundation to Gilbert Scott. A History of the Buildings of St John's College Cambridge, 1511 - 1885.
viii 183p red cloth, white jacket, very good condition, nice clean copy
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The Life of Sir J J Thomson, Sometime Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
x 299p tan cloth, index, plates, fresh clean copy, very light Cambridge library markings only, ...
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Science and Public Affairs. No 1 (1986).
116p card cover, fresh and clean, first issue of this journal
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The Making of Physicists.
viii 200p hardback, dustjacket, index, plates, fresh copy, with review and similar notes, copy was ...
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Dr Bentley. A Study in Academic Scarlet.
303p hardback, dustjacket in excellent condition, illustrated endpapers, a fresh copy, clean paes, ...
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Proceedings of the National Electronics Conference. Chicago 1955, Vol 11.
xiv 1040p xliv original cloth, advesive transparent film, many illustrations, very good copy from a ...
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A Short History of Biology. A General Introduction to the Study of Living Things.
xxxv 572p hardback in green cloth, frontispiece, first edition, good condition with signs of use, ...
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Quantenmechanik der Multipolstrahlung.
60p card cover, stine a bit hurt, Proefschrift, Stellingen, with 3 pages of MS notes inserted
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Atomtheorie des festen Zustandes. (Dynamik der Kristallgitter) Zweite Auflage.
vii pp 527 - 789, half cloth (green cloth spine) title printed directly to front cover, minor ...
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Bright Paradise. Victorian Scientific Travellers.
276p hardback, dustjacket in excellent condition, a new copy, signed by the author
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The Royal Society. Or: Science in the State and in the Schools.
131p large format, red cloth, plates, worn and aged, from a Cambridge college library: What science ...
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Science and Reform. Selected Works. Edited by A Hyman.
vii 356p hardback, large format, fresh dustjacket, name to endpaper, excellent fresh copy of the ...
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Géographie des Textiles.
564p red library cloth, 48 illustrations, 32 plates, notes, index, from a Cambridge college ...
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Recollections of a Technologist.
204p cloth, dustjacket (torn), plates, index, metallurgy & material sciences: Cambridge metallurgy ...
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Memoire sur la Vessie Natatoire au point du vue de la station et de la locomotion du poisson.
Text & illustrations lithographically reproduced from MS, 5p, 4 illustrations (instruments to ...
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Beitrag zur Morphologie des M.omo-hyoides und der ventralen inneren Interbranchialmusculatur in der Reihe der Wirbelthiere. Dissertation (gewidmet Karl Möbius).
105p many plates, folding tables, inscribed by the author, removed from binding
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Produits Chimiques. [Exposition Universelle de 1878 a Paris] Cinquième Groupe, Classe 47.
34p offprint, with two colour samples (silk?) on one page, removed from binding, together with ...
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Address to the Chemical Section of the British Association, Swansea 1880.
28p small print, no imprint, removed from binding, "Swansea 1880" to heading, gives a review of ...
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The Organization of Research Establishments.
275p cloth, dustjacket (short), index, plates, very clean copy from a Cambridge college library, ...
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The Science of Electricity as Applied in Peace and War.
42p review essay of Kelvin's Papers and some work on telegraphs from Quarterly Review 1877, with ...
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Memories and Musings of an Octogenarian Biologist.
248p hardback, dustjacket, as new, signed copy
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Atomic Energy in Cosmic and Human Life. Fifty Years of Radioactivity.
x 161p hardback in red cloth, first edition with original illustrated jacket, good condition, wear ...
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The Mysterious Universe.
viii 142p blue hardback, spine faded, text very fresh, appears unread
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Courtaulds. An Economic and Social History. Vol 1: The Nineteenth Century: Silk & Crèpe; Vol 2: Rayon.
xxii 274p, xxii 521p blue cloth fresh, indices, (folding) tables, plates, comprehensive study, nice ...
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Science and the Nation. Introd P M S Blackett.
249p period paperback, very good copy, nice and clean
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Review of five titles on Warming, Ventilating, Domestic Architecture in Quarterly Review 1854, No 191, Vol 96.
30p offprint disbound, with illustrations, making fireplaces safe in 1850
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The Advancement of Science and its Burdens. The Jefferson Lecture and other Essays.
xi 351p orange paperback, a clean copy, focus on Einstein & 20C physics, small errata slip inserted
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Science, Technology and National Policy.
530p large paperback, index, bibliography, as new
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The Brain Drain. Report of the Working Group on Migration. (Committee on Manpower Resources for Science and Technology)
125p blue paper cover, tables, data, very good, Cmnd 3417
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