Books on History of Science
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Measurement in Psychology: A Critical History of a Methodological Concept.
xv 246p hardback, black dustjacket, excellent copy, as new, no traces of use, no names or stamps
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Heat and Life. The Development of the Theory of Animal Heat.
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Scottish Philosophy and British Physics, 1750-1880: A Study in the Foundations of the Victorian Scientific Style.
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Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in the Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology.
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Scientific Illustration.
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The Rise of Neo-Kantianism: German Academic Philosophy between Idealism and Positivism.
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The Making of Technological Man: The Social Origins of French Engineering Education.
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Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling.
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From Natural History to the History of Nature: Readings from Buffon and His Critics.
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L'Orbite de la Géographie de Jean Gottmann. (Special issue of La Géographie, January 2007)
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L'Histoire des Sciences de l'Homme: Trajectoire, Enjeux et Questions Vives.
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Of Flies, Mice and Men.
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Savoirs et Savants. Les Études sur la Science en France.
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Gabriel Tarde et la Criminologie au tournant du Siècle. (=Revue d'Histoire des Sciences Humaines, No 3, Nov 2000)
224p large paperback, white cover, fresh copy, essays by M Borlandi, L Mucchielli, C Blanckaert, E ...
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La Découverte du Social: Naissance de la Sociologie en France (1870 - 1914).
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Histoire du Calcul Économique en France.
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Die Disziplin der Neugierde: Zum professionalisierten Habitus in den Erfahrungswissenschaften.
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Citation Culture. Proefschrift.
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Jacob Berzelius: The Emergence of His Chemical System.
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Gestalt Psychology in German Culture, 1890 - 1967: Holism and the Quest for Objectivity.
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Joseph Fourier, 1768 - 1830: A Survey of His Life and Work.
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Autobiography of Dr Karl Ernst von Baer.
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Linguistic Aspects of Science. International Encyclopaedia of Unified Sciences, Vol I, Number 4.
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Great Scientists of Old as Heretics in the Scientific Method.
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Oeconomies in the Age of Newton. (History of Political Economy, Annual Supplement to Volume 35)
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Agricultural Science and the Quest for Legitimacy: Farmers, Agricultural Colleges, and Experiment Stations, 1870 - 1890.
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The Quiet Revolution: Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemistry.
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Constructing a Bridge: An Exploration of Engineering Culture, Design, and Research in Nineteenth-Century France and America.
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Between Bench and Bedside: Science, Healing and Interleukin-2 in a Cancer Ward.
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Endless Novelty. Specialty Production and American Industrialization 1865 - 1925.
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Lavoisier: Mémoires d'une Révolution.
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Robert Boyle on Natural Philosophy. An Essay with Selections of his Writings.
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Francis Bacon's Natural Philosophy: A New Source. A Transcription of Manuscript Hardwick 72A with Translation and Commentary.
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Unassuming Instruments: Tracing the Tachistoscope in Experimental Psychology.
239p large paperback, illustrated cover, author note inserted, fresh and clean copy, Proefschrift
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Transformation and Tradition in the Sciences: Essays in Honour of I Bernard Cohen.
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The Elusive Science: Origins of Experimental Psychical Research.
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Metchnikoff and the Origins of Immunology. From Metaphor to Theory.
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The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg.
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Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire and other papers on the Second Law of Thermodynamics by Clapeyron and Clausius.
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Essay on the Theory of Electricity and Magnetism. Introductory Monograph and Notes by R W Home.
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Patient's Progress. Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England.
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The Sciences in Enlightened Europe.
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La Pluie, le Metro et l'Ingenieur - Contribution a l'Histoire de l'Assainissement et des Transports.
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The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900.
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Holland & Holland: Gun and Rifle Manufacturers. 93 Bond Street, London.
44p stapled booklet, A4 format, illustrated throughout, originally published 1887 / 1890, this is a ...
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Who Do You Say Ignatius Is? Jesuit Fundamentalism and Beyond. (Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, Volume 19, No. 5, November 1987)
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Priesthood Today and the Jesuit Vocation. (Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, Volume 19, No. 3, May 1987)
84p booklet, brown cover with green lettering, a clean copy, uncommon title, very good
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United States Technology and Adult Commitment. (Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, Volume 19, No. 1, January 1987)
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The Responsibility of the Scientist to Science and Society. Offprints, Science and Public Policy, Vol 17, No 2, and Academia Europaea Inaugural Symposium.
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Publications of A S V Burgen, 1947 - 1962.
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