Books on History of Science
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Constraints on the Advance of Medicine. Programme, Symposium of the Royal Society of Medicine 1974.
8p stapled booklet, brown cover, very good condition, minimal wear, slightly bent down the middle, ...
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The Polymerisation of Cyanamide. Offprint, Transactions of the Chemical Society, Vol 105.
16p thread-bound offprint, very good condition, a little light wear to edges, binding intact, pages ...
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The United Kingdom and The Reconstruction of German Science: The Rebirth of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft. Offprint, Technology in Society 23.
10p offprint, stapled booklet in like new condition, a fresh copy, pages clean and neat, a very ...
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Le Scientifique et Le Guerrier.
160p paperback, beige cover with black lettering, like new condition, no noticeable wear, tight ...
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Meeting the Challenges of the Future. A Discussion Between 'The Two Cultures'. Balzan Symposium 2002.
xviii 209p sturdy hardback, blue cloth with gilt lettering, like new condition, no noticeable wear, ...
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Science in Sweden. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1739 - 1989.
vi 291p large hardback, navy cloth with gilt cloth and glossy bright blue jacket, firm binding and ...
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A History of the Physiology of the Secretion of Saliva, to 1975.
ix 300?p large format ring-bound dissertation, canary-yellow cover with a light marks to cover, ...
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Volume 52.
497p large format hardback, smooth navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine, like new condition, no ...
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Society, the Endless Frontier. A European Vision of Research and Innovation Policies for the 21st Century.
202p large format paperback in very good condition, blue and white covers, tight binding, minimal ...
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Scientific Progress. A Philosophical Essay on the Economics of Research in Natural Science.
xiv 278p small neat hardback, blue cloth with glossy purple jacket, very good condition, minimal ...
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Il passato prossimo. La scienza dell'antichità alle origini della cultura moderna.
203p white paperback, scarce title in very good condition
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Scientists and their Responsibility.
xii 348p large hardback, black cloth with shiny grey and red jacket, very good condition, minimal ...
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The Royal Society and the Promotion of Science since 1960.
xxi 333p hardback, black cloth cover with steel-blue jacket, like new condition, minimal wear to ...
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William Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood.
xiii 269p large hardback, very good condition, green cloth with white and red jacket, a little wear ...
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Ceremony to Mark the Nomination of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina to the National Academy of Sciences. Nova Acta Leopoldiana. Volume 98, Number 362. German and English.
76p paperback in like new condition, blue and yellow covers, minimal wear, tight binding, clear and ...
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Yearbook of the Royal Society 2012.
468p paperback, maroon cover with white lettering, minimal wear to cover edges and surfaces, tight ...
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The Idea of Progress.
xi 241p paperback in like new condition, blue cover with white title, little to no wear, binding ...
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Life. The Unfinished Experiment.
168p paperback, canary-yellow cover with white spine, very good condition, a little light wear to ...
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Growing Up with Science. Developing Early Understanding of Science.
295p paperback, glossy white cover with blue and yellow design, like new condition, a fresh copy, ...
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George Francis Fitzgerald.
vii 148p paperback, pale yellow cover with b&w portrait, very good condition, minimal wear to ...
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Highlights of British Science.
viii 240p large format hardback, very good condition, blue cloth cover with minimal wear, gilt ...
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Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. Neugewählte Mitglieder.
56p paperback in shiny purple cover, like new condition, a fresh copy, all pages clean and neat, ...
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Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. Struktur und Mitglieder. Structure and Members.
358p paperback in terracotta cover, like new condition, a fresh copy, all pages clean and bright, a ...
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Wissenschaften im interkulturellen Dialog. Sciences in the Intercultural Dialogue.
239p large hardback in like-new condition, bright blue cloth with blue and yellow jacket, a fresh ...
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The Scientific Revolution. A Historiographical Inquiry.
xviii 662p large paperback in grass-green cover, like new condition, a fresh copy, binding firm and ...
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The John Curtin School of Medical Research. The First Fifty Years 1948 - 1998.
x 565p large sturdy paperback, sky-blue cover with b&w photo, very good condition, minimal wear to ...
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Scientific Research in Finland. A Review of Its Quality and Impact in the Early 2000s.
312p large paperback, blue cover, very good condition, minimal wear, a few very light marks to ...
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Mystification à l'Académie des Sciences.
138p small neat paperback in like-new condition, a fresh copy, tight binding, pages clean and ...
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Antoine Lavoisier. Science, Administration and Revolution.
xvi 351p large paperback, blue and white covers with portrait, very good condition, minimal wear to ...
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The Image of Newton and Locke in the Age of Reason.
116p small format paperback, good condition, spine and covers have detached in one piece but ...
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The Literary Construction of the Universe. Narratives of Truth, Transcendence, and Triumph in Contemporary Anglo-American Popularizations of Physics and Astronomy.
311p large paperback, black illustrated cover, a fresh and clean copy, abstract inserted, as new, ...
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The Foundations of Ethology.
xvii 380p hardback with bright blue dustjacket, very good copy, first translation into English, ...
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The Possible and the Actual.
viii 71p cream paperback with pensive skeleton by Vesalius to front cover, very light signs of use, ...
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The Unheeded Cry. Animal Consciousness, Animal Pain, and Science.
xviii 332p black paperback, first printing of the 2017 revised edition, foreword by Jane Goodall, ...
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The Big T. Yearbook of the California Institute of Technology 1942.
approx 120p A4 format, padded boards a little aged with beaver using a calculating stick, spine ...
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The Big T. Yearbook of the California Institute of Technology 1939.
approx 120p A4 format, padded boards a little aged with Hoover(?) Dam design to front, inner hinges ...
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How to Write & Illustrate a Scientific Paper.
viii 171p neat slim paperback, glossy blue cover, no noticeable wear, all pages neat and bright, a ...
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Historical Notes on the Wet-Processing Industry.
178p large format paperback, A4 format, white cover illustrated, letter inserted, with illustrations
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From Galileo to Newton.
380p paperback with green and white cover, white lettering and yellow sun design, firm binding, ...
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Grammatical Man. Information, Entropy, Language and Life.
319p paperback, white cover with colour illustration, very good condition, minimal wear, spine a ...
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The Quintessence of Irving Langmuir.
viii 369p well preserved paperback, purple cover, clean and tight, edges a little dusty, no traces ...
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A History of the Royal Society, with Memoirs of the Presidents. Two Volumes.
xx 527p viii 611p two large volumes in original cloth, spines are absent, "Nullius in Verba" emblem ...
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Medico-Physical Works: A Translation of the Tractatus Quinque Medico-Physici Printed in 1674.
xxiii 331p original paperback, paper cover with loss along spine, exposing sections, text clean, ...
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Heroes of Science: Chemists.
vii 332p original petrol cloth with gilt and black decor to front and spine, binding tight, names ...
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The Ministry of Technology, 1964 - 1969.
75p blue card cover, fresh and clean copy, press release inserted, uncommon title
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La Capitaine Nemo et la Science.
174p paperback with publisher's advertising band, a fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, no ...
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Faraday Rediscovered: Essays on the Life and Work of Michael Faraday, 1791 - 1867.
xiv 258p large format paperback, light blue cover, with portrait, fresh clean copy, with ...
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Un Homme et les Microbes - Une Vie de Pasteur pour la Jeunesse.
94p very fresh and well preserved paperback, illustrated cover, woodcuts by Robert Gibbings, ...
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Giambattista della Porta. Mago e Scienziato. In Appendice l'Indice della Taumatologia.
222p paperback with prink and orange design, review copy stamp, a few ink marks to initial pages, a ...
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