Books on History of Science
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Extinct Monsters. A Popular Account of Some of the Larger Forms of Ancient Animal Life.
xxii 270p blue paperback, facsimile reprint of the 1893 edition, hardly used, clean and fresh.
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Piltdown. A Scientific Forgery.
xxvi 272p hardback, large format, jacket excellent, as new condition, pages clean and bright, as new
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Storia della Letteratura Italiana del Cav. Abate Girolamo Tiraboschi. Nuova Edizione Tomo 7, Parte 2: Dall'Anno MD (1500) fino all'Anno MDC (1600).
paginated 411 - 787, hardback with cloth spine, well preserved, name stamp (B J Morse) to title ...
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How I Beat Coca-Cola and Other Tales of One-Upmanship.
160p red paperback, as new, bright and clean, related essay inserted
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Cellular Mechanisms in Hearing: En Hommage à Georg von Békésy. Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 63, Alfred Nobel's Björkborn, Karlskoga 2-6 September 1985.
ix 326p large format hardback, white cloth binding firm and fresh, editor inscription, many plates ...
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Ernest Rutherford.
xi 374p hardback, attractive maroon cover with gilt border and crest, binding firm, one or two very ...
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Darwin in Cambridge.
75p large format paperback, colour illustrated throughout, excellent
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Science in the Middle Ages.
xiv 548p paperback, bright orange cover with sunned spine, good condition, binding intact, pages ...
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Science and Life. Essays of a Rationalist.
212p hardback with pink jacket, a fresh and tight copy, very good indeed, gift inscription for ...
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Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) Volume 71 (1952). Part 2: Applications and Industry.
this is a complete volume of this publication, bound in original green cloth very frersh and neat, ...
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Knowledge and Power: Toward a Political Philosophy of Science.
xvi 281p hardback with fresh dustjacket, fresh copy, first edition, but a dozen pages or so with ...
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The Dilemmas of an Upright Man. Max Planck as a Spokesman for German Science.
xiii 238p hardback with fresh jacket, nice clean copy, first edition, without name or stamps, never ...
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The Measure of Reality. Quantification and Western Society, 1250 to 1600.
xii 245p hardback, dark green illustrated dustjacket fresh, binding firm, clean text, review ...
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The Electron Theories of Larmor and Lorentz: A Comparative Study.
72p thick offprint, stapled, very good
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The Urban Scale of Science and the Enlargement of Madrid (1851 - 1936)
40p offprint, blue card cover, author note, excellent
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Conceptual and Experimental Bases of Faraday's Denial of Electrostatic Action at a Distance.
32p offprint, stapled, very good, together with three related offprints by the same (Empiricism in ...
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Producing a Socialist Popular Science in the Weimar Republic.
36p offprint, with illustrations, very well preserved
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The Spread of Precision Measurement in Scandinavia, 1660 - 1800.
44p offprint, with illustrations, author note, very good
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Etiquette, Interdependence and Sociability in Seventeenth-Century Science.
44p offprint, author note in ink, very good
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Philosophy, Technology and the Arts in the Early Modern Era, 1470 - 1700.
xii 194p original grey publisher's cloth, fresh dustjacket, a tight and clean copy, never used, ...
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Galileo and Newton.
24p large format, grey card cover, with illustrations, "with best wishes" from the author, very good
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The Electrodynamic Origins of Relativity Theory.
75p thick offprint, stapled, author inscription, very good
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Oeuvres Completes. Tome Trente-Neuvieme. Volume 39: Philosophie de Newton.
312p original full leather calf with gilt frame ornament to boards, spine with title label, some ...
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Galen on the Natural Faculties: English translation by Arthur John Brock.
lv 339p hardback, green cloth with bright green jacket, good condition, light wear to jacket edges ...
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The First One Hundred Years of American Geology. Facsimile of the Edition of 1924.
xxi 773p hardback, dark green cloth with black jacket, very good condition, binding strong, some ...
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Investigations into Generation, 1651 - 1828.
192p hardback, brown cloth with green jacket, good condition, light wear to jacket edges, binding ...
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The Principles of Physiology Applied to the Preservation of Health, and to the Improvement of Physical and Mental Education. Sixth Edition, Revised and Enlarged.
xvi 438p hardback, brown paper-covered boards, spine defective, rough-cut edges, with woodcut ...
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The Physiology of Common Life. In Two Volumes.
ix 455p viii 485p original "hardback" set, volume 2 in original grey cloth, volume 1 missing both ...
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The Founders of Geology. Second Edition.
xi 486p paperback, yellow and white laminated cover, good condition, light wear commensurate with ...
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The Egg and Sperm Race. The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unravelled the Secrets of Life, Sex and Growth.
xi 333p paperback, light blue cover, very good condition, minimal wear, binding firm, pages clear ...
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The Destinies of Stars.
xvii 256p hardback, navy cloth with gilt lettering, very good condition, minimal wear commensurate ...
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Statesmen of Science.
xiii 391p hardback, red cloth without jacket, very good condition, minimal wear, binding strong, ...
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The Scientific Papers of Sir Charles Wheatstone.
xiii 380p paperback, yellow and blue cover, like new condition, little or no signs of use, spine ...
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Genius. Richard Feynman and Modern Physics.
x 531p paperback, blue and white cover, very good condition, slightly creased spine, otherwise no ...
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Asimov's New Guide to Science.
xvi 940p large thick hardback, black cloth with black jacket, very good condition, binding firm, ...
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Max Perutz and the Secret of Life.
xii 352p hardback, black cloth with jacket, very good condition, some very light wear to jacket ...
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The Great Mathematicians.
vii 128p hardback, turquoise cloth, fair condition, light wear to cover edges and spine, binding ...
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Ciéncia, Cultura e Lingua em Portugal No Século XX.
534p paperback, blue and white cover, like new condition, minimal wear to cover corners, binding ...
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The Strangest Man. The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius.
539p paperback, grey-blue cover with photograph, good condition, light wear to cover edges and ...
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Modern Exploration.
124p hardback, green cloth with plain jacket, good condition, light wear commensurate with age, ...
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History of Botany (1530 - 1860). Second Impression.
xv 568p hardback, dark blue cloth with gilt edging and lettering, good condition, light wear ...
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History and Philosophy of Science.
viii 340p paperback, red and grey cover, good condition, light wear to cover edges and surfaces, ...
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The New Science of Giambattista Vico. Unabridged Translation of the Third Edition (1744) with the Addition of "Practic of the New Science".
xlv 445p large red paperback, good condition, minimal light wear to cover, spine not creased, ...
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Science, Faith, and Man.
vi 337p hardback, green cloth with white jacket, good condition, light wear and discolouration to ...
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East-West Passage. The Travel of Ideas, Arts and Inventions between Asia and the Western World.
xvi 248p hardback, blue cloth in blue jacket, good condition, light wea to jacket edges, pages like ...
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Science Past and Present.
275p blue cloth with tanned jacket, very good condition, binding firm, pages very clean and bright, ...
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Symposium on Genetic Approaches to Somatic Cell Variation. April 2-5, 1958.
410p large paperback report in blue-grey card cover, good condition, general light wear ...
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Symposium on Chromosome Mechanics at the Molecular Level. April 10-13, 1967.
230p large paperback report in blue-grey card cover, good condition, general light wear ...
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Symposium on Hormonal Control of Protein Biosynthesis. April 5-8, 1965.
189p large paperback report in blue-grey card cover, good condition, general light wear ...
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