Books on History of Science
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The Coming of Evolution: The Story of the Great Revolution in Science.
171p red decorated cloth, small format, frontispiece (Darwin), light library markings, slightly ...
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The Science of Photography.
80p cloth with white dustjacket, from a Cambridge college library with small ink stamps to 2 pages, ...
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![Letter written in March 1782 by Philip Jopson of Bury on behalf of William Norris […] in response to an enquiry from Sir Richard Arkwright about the patents taken out by John Kay. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library vol 48, no.1.](images/books/140464_small_90w_x_126h.jpg "Letter written in March 1782 by Philip Jopson of Bury on behalf of William Norris […] in response to an enquiry from Sir Richard Arkwright about the patents taken out by John Kay. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library vol 48, no.1.")
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Letter written in March 1782 by Philip Jopson of Bury on behalf of William Norris […] in response to an enquiry from Sir Richard Arkwright about the patents taken out by John Kay. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library vol 48, no.1.
pp9-12 offprint, no cover, creased along bottom edge otherwise very good, interesting offprint of ...
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Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences. Vol. 58. No 160 - 161: Memorial Adolf Youschkevitch. (Adolf Yushkevich)
432p double issue of this journal, as new, papers in many languages on the history of mathematics
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The Primrose and Darwinism. First Edition.
xiii 233p including many diagrams, original publisher's green cloth boards with gilt vignette of ...
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The Making of Modern Science.
54p grey pamphlet, from a Cambridge college library with label to front and bookplate, pages ...
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A Conferma del gia Detto. Ancora sulla Paternita delle Carte Nautiche Anonime.
10p offprint, card cover, very good
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Errare Humanum Est, Perservare . . . (Americo Vespucci e un suo amico Brasileno)
24p offprint, grey card cover, very good
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The Cambridge History of Science. Volume 3. Early Modern Science.
xxv 865p large hardback with fresh green dustjacket, condition as new, a lovely copy!
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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 3 (1844 - 1846)
523p original green dustjacket, condition as new, superb copy in excellent shape
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A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821 - 1882.
690p original red cloth, very good, unmarked copy, clean and fresh
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Saponarin, a New Glucoside Coloured Blue with Iodine. (Author's Presentation Copy).
15p essay on the isolation of saponarin by Barger, an important figures in turn-of-the-century ...
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The Future of a Troubled World.
220p hardback with original dustjacket, a very good copy from a Cambridge college library with ...
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Logic and Probability in Physics.
13 page offprint with red card cover: Address delivered at the annual meeting of The British ...
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Recent Investigations in the Chemistry of Gold.
20 page offprint with red card cover: Address delivered at the annual meeting of The British ...
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Development and Evolution.
27 page offprint: Address delivered at the annual meeting of The British Association for the ...
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Oceanography and the Fluctuations in the Abundance of Marine Animals.
35 page offprint: Addresses delivered at the annual meeting of The British Association for the ...
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Correlations and Culture: A Study in Technique.
35 page offprint: Address delivered at the annual meeting of The British Association for the ...
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The Changing Outlook of Engineering Science.
16 page offprint with blue card cover: Address delivered at the annual meeting of The British ...
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The Presidential Address: Part 1: Vision in Nature and Vision aided by Science, Part 2: Science and Warfare.
20 page sewn offprint: Address delivered at the annual meeting of The British Association for the ...
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Leonardo. Costruttore di Macchine e di Veicoli.
194p paperback, cream card covers foxed and lightly bumped otherwise good, many black and white ...
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Vorlesungen über Differentialgeometrie. Autorisierte Deutsche Übersetzung. Zweite, Vermehrte und Verbesserte Auflage.
721p quarter calf with calf corners, spine in terrible condition but title labels still present, ...
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Science and Literature in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance. Illustrated with upwards of Four Hundred Engravings on Wood. Fourth Thousand.
552p heavy volume, binding very tatty, original binding has been covered with an amateur paper ...
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Chemistry at the Centenary (1931) Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
272p black cloth with gilt title on spine and cover, very good copy from a Cambridge college ...
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Neue Geometrie des Raumes Gegründet auf die Betrachtung der Geraden Linie als Raumelement. Mit einem Vorwort von A. Clebsch. (two parts, complete)
IVpp, [1]ff, 226pp, IVpp, [1]ff, 227-378pp, bound in contemporary half black calf with, spine with ...
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The Advancement of Science. Vol 1, No 1-4. The Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
576p orange card cover, set of 4 vols, from a Cambridge college library with labels on spines and ...
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The Social Function of Science.
xvi 482p green cloth fresh and tight, gilt lettering to spine, with index, folding charts, a clean ...
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The Decomposition of the Fixed Alkalies and Alkaline Earth.
51p slim steel blue cloth, illustrated, tables, very light library markings, clean and tight copy
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Experiments on Air.
56p slim steel blue cloth, illustrated, tables, very light library markings, very good indeed
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Medicine with Pathology, 1660 - 1850.
this is a archive box with xerox copies of typescript (approx 250p) making up a book (?) or ...
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La Science Francaise 1915. Exposition Universelle et Internationale de San Francisco. 1915.
2 vols rebound in plain red library cloth, frontispiece, from a Cambridge college library, very ...
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The Mineralogical Society of America, 1919 - 1969. Fiftieth Anniversary.
270p paperback with gold cover, a clean and fresh copy: on cover "Fiftieth Anniversary"
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Science and Nonsense.
166p hardback with blue dustjacket, very good, excellent copy with library bookplate
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La logique du vivant: Une histoire de l'hérédité.
354p large white paperback, index, a very good copy
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Science and Technology in World Development.
vi 216p paperback, from a Cambridge college library, pages bright and unmarked, a firm copy, in ...
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Technologie und Terminologie der Gewerbe und Künste bei Griechen und Römern. Vierter Band.
629p nice half calf binding with minor library labels to spine, top spine compartment missing and ...
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Modifications Phonétiques du Langage Etudiées dans le Patois d'une Famille de Cellefrouin (Charente).
383p bound in half calf with spine poor/boards detaching. Text with many tables and illustrations, ...
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Women in the History of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century.
26p white oblong card cover, stapled, pages unmarked with b&w plates, binding firm, very goodm with ...
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Edited by Simon Wilkin, Volume 2. The Three Last Books of Vulgar Errors, Religio Medici, and the Garden of Cyrus.
iv 563p burgundy cloth with fresh gilt lettering, spine tight. binding firm pages unmarked, binding ...
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Das Molybdänbergwerk Höllental 1907 - 1925. Ringen um einen seltenen Rohstoff.
illustrated boards, many photographic illustrations, index, bibliography, scholarly study about an ...
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Papers by Major Greenwood Jun: The influence of increased barometric pressure on man; Investigation of plague in the Punjab; The outbreak of cerebrospinal fever at Salisbury in 1914 - 15, etc. Bound Collection of Offprints.
approx 400p blue library cloth with gilt lettering and tiny shelf label to spine, custom binding, ...
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Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol 38, No 2.
pp 147 - 299 card cover, with essays by Andrew Huxley, M B Hall (T H Huxley), M Hunter (A College ...
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Darwin and the Iceberg Theory; Gauss and the Royal Society (Papers in: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London)
146p yellow card cover, minor shelfwear, from a Cambridge college library with stamp to front ...
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Samuel Stutchbury (1798-1859), Naturalist and Geologist (Paper in: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London)
12p essays, for sale is the complete issue of the journal, 290p yellow card cover, other papers by ...
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The History and Philosophy of Knowledge of the Brain and its Functions: An Anglo-American Symposium London, July 15th-17th, 1957.
272p blue cloth with gilt lettering, boards stained, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good
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Descriptive Catalogue of the Museum of the Sixth International Otological Congress, held in Aug 8 - 12, 1899. Revised Ed.
xvi 251p plum cloth with gilt lettering and tiny shelf labels to spine, catalogue of exhibits, ...
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Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology. Volume 1: Acute Infective Diseases. Volume 2: Chronic Infective, Toxic, Parasitic, Septic and Constitutional Diseases. Volume 3: Diseases of Organs and Parts.
710p 681p 780p brown cloth with gilt lettering and gilt Sydenham portrait to front board, Set of 3 ...
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Lister Centenary Exhibition at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: Handbook.
216p blue cloth with fresh gilt lettering to front board, a very good copy from a Cambridge college ...
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