Books on History of Science
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Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology.
xvi 365p hardback, fresh dustjacket, many illustrations, excellent copy, as new, no names or stamps
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Science in the Renaissance. Volume 1: An Introduction to the Study of the Emergence of the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century; Volume 2: An Annotated Bibliography of the 16. Century Books relating to the Science in the Library in the Library of the Univers
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Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science.
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The Origins of Scientific Thought. From Anaximander to Proclus 600 BC to 300 AD.
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Zeichen der Kraft. Wissensformationen 1800 - 1900.
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Roger Joseph Boscovich SJ, FRS, 1711 - 1787: Studies of His Life and Work on the 250th Anniversary of His Birth.
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Kepler's Dream - With the Full Text and Notes of Somnium, Sive Astronomia Lunaris, Joannis Kepleri.
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Robert Boyle's Experiments in Pneumatics.
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Interactions. Some Contacts between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences.
xx 204p brown paperback, as new copy, no trraces of use, no names, new
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Eighteen-Century Chemistry as an Investigative Enterprise.
ii 144p white paperback, a fresh and clean copy, as new
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The Overthrow of the Phlogiston Theory; The Chemical Revolution of 1775 - 1789.
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To Save the Phenomena: An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo.
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Circulation and Respiration: The Evolution of an Idea.
ix 278p paperback with blue illustrated cover, nice clean copy, no names or stamps, uncommon title
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Science in the Middle Ages.
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The Exact Sciences in Antiquity.
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Conceptions of Ether: Studies in the History of Ether Theories, 1740 - 1900.
vii 351p hardback, green dustjacket a little worn but complete and intact, a very well preserved ...
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The Values of Precision.
369p hardback, fresh dustjacket, excellent copy, with essays by Olesko, Schaffer, Porter, Wise, etc
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The Birth of a New Physics.
200p paperback with brown cover, nice clean copy, firm and square: "Science Study Series"
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Moderne - Sprache - Mathematik. Eine Geschichte des Streits um die Grundlagen der Disziplin und des Subjekts formaler Systeme.
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Scientific Knowledge and its Social Problems.
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Max Planck: A Bibliography of his Non-Technical Writings.
69p slim paperback, text from typescript, with frontispiece, gift inscription by "BW"
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Die Viskositätsexperimente von J C Maxwell und O E Meyer - Eine wissenschaftshistorische Studie über die Entstehung, Messung und Verwendung einer physikalischen Grösse.
viii 350p light blue paperback, very fresh copy, as new, never used, with illustrations, graphs and ...
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The Copernican Achievement.
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Nineteenth-Century Spectroscopy: Development of the Understanding of Spectra 1802 - 1897.
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Paul Ehrenfest: Volume 1: The Making of a Theoretical Physicist.
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The Life of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Discoverer of the X Ray.
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Rutherford. Recollections of the Cambridge Days
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The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 4: Eighteenth Century Science.
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The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making.
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The Power of Images in Early Modern Science.
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Mechanics in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Selections from Tartaglia, Benedetti, Guido Ubaldo, and Galileo.
xii 428p large hardback, grey dustjacket with light soiling, a clean and solid copy, never used
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The Age of Economic Measurement.
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Niels Bohr: His Heritage and Legacy. An Anti-Realist View of Quantum Mechanics.
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Medieval Religion and Technology: Collected Essays.
xxiv 360p hardback, red dustjacket with illustrations, small tears, creases, nice clean copy with ...
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Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763 - 1815.
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The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages.
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The Social Process of Scientific Investigation.
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Structural Analysis: A Historical Approach.
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An Exhibition to Illustrate the Development of the Theory of Colour Vision: Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge, August 26th, 1982.
27items, stapled booklet, well preserved, with illustrations
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Second International Congress of Cytology, Amsterdam (?1930): Indications and Program.
24p stapled programme for the Second International Congress of Cytology, Amsterdam, staples rusty, ...
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Hans Spemann and the Organiser.
65p offprint, stapled, fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, substantial piece
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Genetics of Primula Senensis.
34p essay from the Journal of Genetics, original print, removed from binding, solid and original ...
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Segregation. Being the Joseph Leidy Memorial Lecture of the University of Pennsylvania, 1922.
34p essay from the Journal of Genetics, original print, removed from binding, without cover, solid ...
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The Manuscript of al-Malik al-Afdal: A Medieval Arabic Anthology from the Yemen.
27p plus 542 pages of facsimile of Yemeni text, excellent clean copy, as new, no traces of use, no ...
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Scientific Thought.
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Pomp and Pestilence: Infectious Disease, its Origins and Conquest.
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De Opmars van Deskundigen: Souffleurs van de Samenleving.
220p large format paperback, blue illustrated cover, fresh and clean copy, text in Dutch, with a ...
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Enzymes: One Hundred Years. (FEBS Letters, Volume 62, February 1976, Supplement)
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The Development of Microbiology.
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Science and Politics in the Ancient World.
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