Books on History of Science
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Harvey and Galen: The Harveian Oration. Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians October 19, 1896.
51p olive green cloth with gilt lettering, a very good copy from a Cambridge college library with 3 ...
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The History of the Study of Medicine in the British Isles. The Fitz-Patrick Lectures for 1905 - 6 Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians of London.
202p green cloth with gilt lettering, small water stain to front board, a very good copy from a ...
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The Theory of Modern Optical Instruments: A Reference Book for Physicists, Manufacturers of Optical Instruments, and for Officers in the Army and Navy. 2nd Edition. Translated from the German by H Emsley and W Swaine.
xi 365p large green library cloth, small shelf labels and 2 faint ink stains to spine, faint ...
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Elektrophysiologie menschlicher Muskeln. Mit 65 Abbildungen.
iv 163p black library cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine, original card covers bound in, ...
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The Medical Curriculum: An Address delivered on the 1st October 1903, on the occasion of the opening of the winter session of the Medical Department of Yorkshire College.
30p green library cloth with gilt lettering on cover and tiny shelf labels to spine, library stamps ...
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The Human Factor in Industry.
vi 105p light brown cloth, tiny shelf labels to spine, faint library stamp to endpaper, binding ...
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Medicine, General History, Vol 1, Part 1 and 2: Malaria in Ancient Greece and Rome; The Microbe-Craze by a Crazy Man; Efficacy and Modus Operandi of Cupping-Glasses, The Theory of the Microscope; etc: Collection of Offprints.
set of 2 parts, approx 500p large green library cloth with gilt lettering to spine, custom binding, ...
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Medicine, General History, Vol 2: Joseph Lister; Malaria and Mosquitoes Forty Years on; On the Use of the Ophthalmoscope in Diseases of the Nervous System of the Kidneys etc: Collection of Offprints.
approx 200p large green library cloth with gilt lettering to spine, custom binding, collection of ...
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On Faith and Science in Surgery.
xii 109p blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, many b&w illustrations, clean pages, ...
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The Medical Society of London 1773 - 1973.
xviii 141p hardback, blue dustjacket has sunned spine, only a little worn, colour frontspiece, b&w ...
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Die Anaemie, I, 2. Abteilung: Leukaemie, Pseudoleukaemie, Haemoglobinaemie; Die Bleichsucht; Die Krankheiten der Milz und die Haemorrhagischen Diathesen. (= Specielle Pathologie und Therapie, Band VIII, 1.Theil, 3. Heft)
193p original paper covers and spine torn and fragile but holding, handwritten dedication by Nobel ...
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Harvey's Third Circulation: De Circulo Sanguinis in Corde. The Harveian Oration of 1968.
15p red cloth with gilt lettering, slightly sunned, minor shelfwear, pages unmarked, binding firm, ...
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Society and the Advancement of Natural Knowledge.
23p red cloth with gilt lettering, minor shelfwear, pages unmarked, binding firm, nice fresh copy ...
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Medical Science: Master or Servant? The Harveian Oration of 1967.
17p red cloth with gilt lettering, minor shelfwear, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good
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The Medical Professional Unit. The Harveian Oration of 1971.
13p red cloth with gilt lettering, minor shelfwear, pages unmarked, binding firm, fresh and clean
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The Art of the De Motu Cordis. The Harveian Oration of 1973.
18p red cloth with gilt lettering, minor shelfwear, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good
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The Grant Swinger Papers. In Collaboration with Center for the Absorption of Federal Funds.
32p stapled pamphlet, excellent condition: swinging from Grant to Grant. . .
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The History of Medicine in Cambridge. Education, Science, and the Healing Arts.
71p stapled booklet with light blue card covers, photographic plates, a little shelfwear, hardly ...
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George 3: Collector and Patron. An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, Furniture, Clocks, Porcelain, Silver, Scientific Instruments, Books, Miniatures, Gems.
80p mauve card cover, title hand written on spine, name to endpaper, top left edge with ink stain, ...
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Science and Controversy. A Biography of Sir Norman Lockyer.
ix 331p brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, dustjacket shows some shelfwear, frontispiece, ...
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Fifty Years of Penicillin Application. History and Trends.
445p green hardback, b&w illustrations and photographs, 1 colour plate, pages clean and bright, ...
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Partners in Science. Foundations and Natural Scientists 1900 - 1945.
xv 415p black cloth, red dustjacket in very good condition, pages clean and bright, binding firm, ...
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Handbooks of the Science Museum. Time Measurement. Part 1: Historical Review.
54p blue card cover, minor shelfwear, spine slightly sunned and creased, yellowing to edges, index, ...
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Electric Illumination: An Account of the Principles, Applications and Development of Electric Lighting.
39p blue card cover, minor shelfwear, pages unmarked with many b&w plates, binding firm, very good
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The Electron Jubilee Exhibition: held at the Science Museum, London, September 1947 - January 1948: To illustrate the discovery of the electron in 1897. Etc.
48p xii blue card cover, stapled, browned, with frontispiece of J J Thomson, pages unmarked, ...
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English Naturalists from Neckam to Ray. A Study of the Making of the Modern World.
x 379p blue cloth, gilt lettering to slightly sunned spine, from a Cambridge college library firm ...
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More Things in Heaven and Earth. God and the Scientists.
ix 166p blue paperback, from a Cambridge college library with bookplate, stamps and tags, pages ...
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Science Past and Present.
368p blue cloth with gilt lettering, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good condition
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Bibliotheca medico-historica sive catalogus librorum historicorum de re medica et scientia naturali systematicus.
269p grey leather spine with raised bands, marbled boards, spine and edges and corners rubbed, ...
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The Ideals and Organisation of a Medical Society.
51p blue with fresh gilt lettering, spine darkened and with 3 small library labels, head and foot ...
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Science in South Africa: A Handbook and Review. Prepared Under the Auspices of the South African Governments and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science.
x 505p green cloth with gilt lettering, folding frontispiece, many illustrations and plates in the ...
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Some Radium Cases at the Middlesex Hospital: A Photographic Record. With 122 Plates.
vii 154p original paper covered boards, short tear to front cover, first edition, covers a little ...
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Protoplasmic Streaming. With 82 figures.
199p orange card cover, A4 size, small water stain to top corner of cover and first few pages, text ...
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Current Work in the History of Medicine. An International Bibliography. Number 42, April - June 1964.
107-193p stapled blue booklet, very good condition, minimal wear, spine sunned, binding intact, ...
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Klasikine mechanika (vadovelio fragmentai). (Classical Mechanics, for colleges and universities). Test in Russian, Lithuanian, English.
95p blue hardback, hardly used, editor's dedication on title page, chapters either in Russian or ...
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On the Problem of Formation of Physical Quantities. Text in Russian, English, Lithuanian, German.
233p blue hardback, almost as new, chapters in Russian, English, German or French, editor's ...
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The Gibberellins. (= Quarterly Reviews, 1961, Vol 15, No 1).
pp 56 - 70, beige paper cover, paper in issue of journal, includes: Chemistry of Compounds ...
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The Application of Monte Carlo Methods to Physicochemical Problems. (= Quarterly Reviews, 1962, Vol 16, No 3).
pp 241 - 266, beige paper cover, paper in issue of journal, graphs, includes: Halogen Cations; ...
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Fifth Cooley's Anemia Symposium = Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 445.
470p red paperback, very good with inscription
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The Cult of the Fact.
188p paperback, very good: Professional psychologists and their vision of their science
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Is Science Necessary? Essays on Science and Scientists.
288p cloth with blue jacket, very good condition, paper yellowing a bit, first edition
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Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies. Classified Table of Contents Number 1 to 69 (1952-75), 74-77 (1977), 78-91 (1978), 82-85 (1979), 94-97 (1982)
total of 5 items, number 1 to 69 is a white stapled booklet, the other single year table of ...
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L'Évolution Biochimique. 2ième édition.
210p orange cloth, sunned spine, college bookplate and stamp to endpaper, b&w illustrations, pages ...
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Fortschritte der Biochemie 1938 - 1947.
viii 364p grey cloth with sunned spine, faded library stamp to front board, darker patch on spine ...
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Current Work in the History of Medicine: An International Bibliography. January-March 1965. Number 45.
122p stapled green booklet, as issued, additional inserts, very good condition
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Science and Technology in Economic Growth: Conference Proceedings.
464p cloth with pink dustjacket, from a Cambridge college library, pages unmarked, binding firm, ...
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Pasteur, Estudio integral de sus obras: El hombre, el filosofo, el creyente.
151p large format paperback, beige card covers, tiny shelf labels to spine, edges fraying, pages ...
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Electro-Physiology. First Edition. Volume 1 and 2 Complete Set.
522p 500p 2 volumes green cloth, from a Cambridge college library with engraved bookplate, boards ...
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Bernard, creador de la medicina cientifica: Estudio critico de su labor cientifica, seguido de una version castellana de su Introduccion al Estudio de la Medicina Experimental.
xxiv 328p large beige card cover with library stamp to front and small shelf labels on spine, ...
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The Solid Nucleus and Its Gaseous Wrappings: Historical Aspects of Teaching Physiology. An Exhibition.
56p large stapled booklet, A4 format, from a Cambridge college library with large yellow library ...
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