Books on History of Science
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Technological Change: The United States and Britain in the 19th Century.
viii 198p hardback fresh dustjacket, a clean copy: Labour Scarcity, Engineering Competition, ...
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Hoppus's Tables for Measuring or Practical Measuring Made Easy by a Set of new Tables. 19th Ed.
xli 226p tall full calf, folding plate, very good but no spine
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Leitfaden der Kolloidchemie für Biologen und Mediziner.
viii 265p grey cloth, index, signed by the author, fresh and clean, zweite Auflage
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The Forms and Properties of Crystals. An Introduction to the Study of Minerals and the Use of the Petrological Microscope.
x 186p burgundy cloth, minimal wear, firm binding, pages clean and neat, many diagrams and graphs, ...
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Penicillin in Perspective.
298 viii hardback, dustjacket, fresh copy of the first edition, a few faint pencil marks to the ...
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Recherches Expérimentales sur l'Action du Sel dans la Végétation, et sur son emploi en Agriculture.
35p booklet, together with: Recueil de Mémoires relatifs a l'Emploi du sel marin en Agriculture ...
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The Sociology of Science.
viii 662p green cloth, from a Cambridge college library but very good condition, a very important ...
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 2nd Edition.
xii 210p pink paperback, attractive copy, but 1970 postscript with annotations in pencil and ink
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Colloid Science.
2 vols xx 837p strong fresh cloth, many illustrations, indices, bibliography, fresh and clean
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A Catalogue of Portraits, Paintings and Sculpture at the Natural History Museum, London.
xii 70p plus 130 plates, hardback, new
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Science Since 1500. A Short History of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology.
357p cloth, indices, frontispiece, plates very good (dj)
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Sailing Ships. Their History and Development as Illustrated by the Collection of Ship Models in the Science Museum. Part 1: Historical Notes.
114p paper cover, plates, index, library stamp
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Essays in Historical Geography and on Kindred Subjects.
51p half cloth (tearing along spine), one of only 200 copies, a copy from a Cambridge college ...
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A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar, 24th Ed. with a new Appendix of Questions without Answers.
vi 488p small format original cloth, inner front hinge soft and some yielding, minor spotting, ...
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International Science and Technology.
xv 201p hardback, dustjacket, as new: 3rd World, Cultural Restraints, Development, Involvement, ...
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Ciência e Libertaçao.
174p card cover, appendix, fresh and clean: Comprar, como em um supermercado, as tecnologias e ...
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Cosmic Rays, Three Lectures.
134p cloth, plates, index, illustrations, spine dull, very good
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Disenchanted Light. The Industrialization of Light in the 19th Century.
277p hardback with fresh dustjacket, many illustratiomns, almost as new: a cultural history of ...
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Manual of Mechanics. (8th ed.)
182p original cloth, illustrations, index, fresh and clean
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Limits of Scientific Inquiry.
xviii 274p large paperback, card cover, index, very good indeed
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Data: Mirrors of Science.
213p cloth, many illustrations, very good copy from a Cambridge college library: An Aid to imagine ...
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To Catch a Sunbeam. Victorian Reality through the Magic Lantern.
144p hardback, dustjacket, illustrated throughout, many in colour, original text, emphasis on ...
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Endless Crusade. Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform.
xv 271p card cover, index, illustrations, fresh and clean: Focus on Breckinridge, Abbott, Davis & ...
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Universities in Politics. Case Studies from the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.
137p cloth, brown dustjacket fresh, a very good and clean copy: Hyde on Bologna, Verger on Paris, ...
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A Case of Child Murder. Law and Science in Nineteenth Century Tuscany.
x 210p hardback with fresh dustjacket, clean and tight copy without names, stamps or signs of use
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Einstein as Myth and Muse.
xiv 224p laminated hardback, index, many illustrations, the literary transformations of a physicist
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Dialektik des 21. Jahrhunderts. Der neue Weg des Denkens von der Atomphysik bis zu den Wissenschaften vom Menschen.
128p cloth, dustjacket, very good
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The True Law of Population, Shewn to be Connected with the Food of the People.
xvi 278p viii cloth as new, reprints 1847 edition
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Social Change and Scientific Organisation. The Royal Institution 1799 - 1844.
xxv 223p hardback, well preserved dustjacket, a fresh copy, clean pages, a very good copy
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Henry Sidgwick: Between Reason and Duty.
15p card cover, portrait to cover, stapled, printed from typescript, fresh copy
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The Discovery of the Nature of the Air, and of its Changes During Breathing.
84p card cover, 8 plates, fresh copy: "Author is headmistress of Northampton School for Girls, and ...
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Zur Geschichte der Astronomie im 17. Jht.
18p large format, paper cover, offprint from academy proceedings
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Congres et Concours organisés a l'occasion de l'Exposition Internationale de Liége 1930.
136p card cover, listing many events and participants
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A Pox on the Provinces. Proceedings of the 1. Annual Congress of the British Society for the History of Medicine.
222p hardback with dustjacket, index, illustrations, very good
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The Earth Generated and Anatomized. An Early Eighteenth Century View of the Earth.
158p brown hardback in new condition, MS of the early 18C theory of the earth discovered in 1973, a ...
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Der Druck des Wissens. Geschichte und Medium der wissenschaftlichen Publikation.
76p large paperback, grey card cover, mint copy
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The Cult of the Fact.
188p hardback with worn and torn dustjacket, index, Professional psychologists and their vision of ...
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UNISIST. Synopsis of the Feasibility Study on a World Science Information System.
92p yellow card cover, very good
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Über die Abhängigkeit der magnetischen Hysteresis, der Magnetisierbarkeit und des elektrischen Leitungsvermögens des Eisens und des Nickels von der Temperatur.
43p plus 3 illustrations, bound in marbled boards, old library stamp
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Code of Practice for the Protection of Persons Exposed to Ionizing Radiation in Univ Labs (1961, with Supplement 1962), 72p.
together with WHO: Medical Supervision in Radiation Work. 2nd Report. Geneva 1960. 31p, together
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Furia Infernalis Linn.
3p offprint, plain green card cover, very good: "parasites fabuleux"
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Jahresbericht über den Fortschritt in der Lehre von den Gärungs-Organismen. Vol 1 (1890) to Vol 5 (1894).
190p 271p 275p 312p 309p indices, half calf binding intact, exquisite endpapers, very good, Molteno ...
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1900: The New Age. A Guide to the Exhibition.
101p spiral bound, fresh copy, many illustrations, uncommon title
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1957 - 1962, Progreso y Destruccion del Instituto Nacional de Microbiologia.
334p large paperback, newspaper clippings inserted, also correspondence about the author inserted, ...
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100 Years of Textiles at MIT.
64p paperback, large slim volume with white and colour cover, very good condition, a few very light ...
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100 Jahre Röntgenstrahlen. Ausstellung aus Anlaß der Entdeckung der Röntgenstrahlen in Würzburg.
large paperback, many illustrations, excellent copy, as new German language
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