Books on History of Science
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Towards the Millennium: The Ray Smallman Symposium: Materials Perspective.
large format hardback with laminated boards, excellent condition, as new
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A History of the College's Nomenclature of Disease: Its Preparation.
18p essay in a single issue of Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London, for sale is ...
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A Few Ideas. Talks from the BBC Third Programme on Six Scientific Concepts.
56p stapled booklet, nice fresh copy, contains "Information" by J M Smith; "Parity" by R ...
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Science from an Easy Chair.
292p olive hardback, index, illustrations, firm copy: Essays in Popular Science
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James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879); Member APS 1875.
44p essay in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, for sale is the entire issue, ...
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Pure Chemistry. A Brief Outline of its History and Development. Part 1: Historical Review. Part 2: Descriptive Catalogue.
75p 75p paper cover, many plates, index, very good set
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Maurice Neville Hill, 1919 - 1966.
12p obiturary with frontispiece, nice fresh copy, includes bibliography
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Arthur Holmes, 1890 - 1965.
20p obiturary with frontispiece, nice copy, includes bibliography
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Owen Thomas Jones, 1878 - 1967.
20p obiturary with frontispiece, nice copy with author note to cover
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Notes and Records of the Royal Society, Vol. 32 (1977) to Vol. 34 (1970)
a run of 6 issues, original paperbacks, very good condition, light library markings only, includes ...
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Greek Science: Its Meaning for Us.
320p well preserved period paperback with illustrated cover
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Fighting Dirt. The World's Greatest Warfare. A Hygiene Reader for Pupils in Upper Standards and in Evening Continuation Schools.
224p small format brown cloth fresh with black lettering and blind-stamped "cleaning brigade" ...
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Picture Control. The Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in American 1940 - 1960.
xii 337p hardback with pink dustjacket, nice clean and fresh copy, almost as new
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Science in its Context. A Symposium with Special Reference to Sixth - Form Studies. With a Forewod by Sir Howard Florey.
372p black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, dustjacket present, clean and unmarked, very good ...
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Nineteenth Century Aether Theories.
ix 278p hardback with white and blue boards, shelfmark removed, nice clean copy, from a Cambridge ...
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The Scientist in Action. A Scientific Study of His Methods.
355p hardback with yellow cloth spine, foxing to front edge, otherwise pages clean, binding firm, ...
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A Dictionary of Science. Preceded by an Essay on the History of the Physical Sciences.
xxviii 580p bright blue cloth with large original leather label to spine, gilt lettering, very ...
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Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1993)
230p large paperback, special issue of Technology and Culture: International Quarterly of the ...
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Soviet Science in the Stalin Period: The Case of V I Vernadskii and his School, 1928 - 1945.
19 page essay in Slavic Review, for sale is the entire issue, includes additional essays on ...
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The American Machinst. A Practical Journal of Machine Construction. Volume 22, for the Year 1899.
xiv (Index) 1142p, folio format, well bound but leather spine missing and boards loose. All pages ...
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British Society for the History of Science. List of Members 2001.
48p stapled booklet, red card cover, very good
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Manuscript Cookery Book with Excerpts of Early Modern Recipies.
This is a blank book (Mikes Laughing Matter on spine) with 51 foliated pages, with handwritten ...
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Achievements of the British Chemical Industry in the Last Twenty-Five Years. Three Lectures Delivered to the Royal Society of Arts on February 13th, 20th and 27th, 1939.
59p nice fresh copy in bright blue cloth with gilt lettering to front, excellent condition
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A Short History of Cardiology. First Edition.
258p red cloth, very well preserved copy, with frontispiece and additional plates, printed on fine ...
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German Politics of Genetic Engineering and its Deconstruction.
this is an essay (43p) in an issue of Social Studies of Science. For sale is the complete issue, ...
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A Hundred Years of Cambridge Physics, 1874 - 1974.
36p stapled pamphlet, A4 format, partly from typescript, with local adverts, nice item
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Les Transmissions Chimique et Électrique de l'Influx Nerveaux: Controverses et Écoles pedant la Première Moité du XXe Siècle. (These de Doctorat en Philosophie, Paris 1)
240p A4 format, green card cover, from typescript, excellent condition, uncommon title
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Sarcoplasmic Reticulum. Supplement to the Journal of Biophysical & Biochemical Cytology.
226p large format paperback, petrol colour card cover, many plates throughout, initial essay ...
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The Carlsberg Foundation: The Early Years.
208p white boards, hardback, nice clean copy, first edition, excellent
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The Woods Hole Cantata.
230p hardback with pink dustjacket, author inscription to endpaper "To Alec & Ros with Love & ...
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Mathematics and the Real World: Proceedings of an International Workshop.
136p large paperback with white/orange card cover, very good clean firm copy
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The Scientific Institutions of Latin America, with Special Reference to their Organization and Information Facilities.
xxi 748p xxxvi burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, bright fresh copy, excellent condition
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Begründer der Experimentellen Physiologie: Founders of Experimental Physiology. (XXV International Congress of Physiological Sciences Munich 1971)
approx 260p hardback with dustjacket, reprints fundamental texts in facsimile from Descartes to ...
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Membrane Transport: People and Ideas.
vi 414p large format hardback, red cloth with gilt lettering, nice fresh and clean copy, excellent ...
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Heat and Life. The Development of the Theory of Animal Heat.
x 208p hardback with dustjacket, excellent copy, fresh and tight, first edition
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Acta Materialia. Golden Jubilee Issue. Selected Topics in Material Science and Engineering: Past, Present and Future.
approx 500p large format hardback with gilt laminated boards, includes an essay by R W Cahn on the ...
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Science in India. 50 Years of the Academy.
large format, hardback with silver dustjacket, nice clean copy, printed on quality paper, many ...
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Ceramic Innovations in the 20th Century.
308p hardback with blue and brown laminated boards, as new, excellent copy, never used
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Walther Nernst und seine Zeit. Aufstieg und Niedergang der deutschen Naturwissenschaften.
253p large format hardback with dustjacket, nice clean copy with pencil markings to many pages, ...
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Reden, gehalten am 50jährigen Stiftungsfest des Freiburger Pathologischen Institutes am 1. und 2. August 1933.
52p white card cover, presentations from international speakers, including poetry, ...
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The Manchester Medical Society and the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester.
12p offprint with grey card cover, frontispiece, printed author compliments, removed from binding ...
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Picturesque Episodes of Manchester Medical History. Presidential Address.
40p with grey card cover, many plates, author inscription, removed from binding hence traces of ...
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Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. Visit of the British Association, Manchester Meeting, September 1913.
slim pamphlet (8p) with frontispiece, describing the premises of the Society in great detail, blue ...
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Institut Pasteur. 25e Anniversaire de sa Fondation. Cérémonie du 15 Novembre 1913.
36p green paper cover, large format, spine raw with traces of glue as removed from binding, ...
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History of the Liverpool Medical Institution in Special Relation to the Question of the Lease.
39p green card cover, with a few plates and architectural plans, appendix, lists, this copy ...
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The History of Ideas: Canon and Variations.
xvii 338p hardback with fresh pink dustjacket, new, never used, fresh and clean, excellent condition
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Edward Salisbury Dana.
16p stapled offprint with grey card cover, photographic frontispiece, very good, nice clean copy of ...
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Second Edition, Enlarged.
xiii 210p blue paperback, nice clean copy, Second Edition, Enlarged
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Scienziati e Tecnologi Contemporanei. 3 Volumes Complete.
3 very large and heavy volumes, excellent condition, with dustjacket, focus on 20th century ...
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