Books on History of Science
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Brunonianism in Britain and Europe. Medical History Supplement No. 8. 1988.
x 104p slim hardback, terracotta cloth, includes essays by Christopher Lawrence and Guenter Risse, ...
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Selecta e Praescriptis: Selections from Physicians Prescriptions. To which is Added a Key, Containing the Prescriptions in an Unabbreviated Form, with a Literal Translation; For the Use of Medical and Pharmaceutical Students.
vii 352p original cloth worn with loss to spine, bookblock cleanly detached from binding, sewing ...
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The Life and Selections from the Correspondence of William Whewell by Mrs Stair Douglas.
xv 591p green cloth fresh, gilt lettering to front and spine, binding expertly repaired with new ...
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Lessons in Elementary Physics.
x 372p blue cloth with blindstamped lettering to front, binding expertly repaired with new ...
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A Treatise on Chemistry. Volume 1: The Non-Metallic Elements.
931p original burgundy cloth, Dalton frontispiece with tissue-guard, many woodcut illustrations of ...
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The Gyroscope: Its Practical Construction and Application Treating of the Physics and Experimental Mechanics of the Gyroscope, and Explaining the Method of its Application to the Stabilization of Monorailways, Ships, Aeroplanes, Marine Guns, etc.
224p hardback, brown cloth with black titles and ruled border to front board and head and foot of ...
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The Revolution in Science, 1500 to 1750.
viii 373p large format paperback with illustrated cover, pages fresh, a well preserved copy, sixth ...
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Limitations of Science.
192p paperback with gilt illustrated cover, well preserved, period paperback
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The Progress of Science. An Account of Recent Fundamental Researches in Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
vii 319p blue cloth, frontispiece and additional plates, very good, first edition, a few light ...
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The Svedberg, 1884 - 1944.
30p offprint, grey paper cover, plate, bibliography, from the Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of ...
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Physical Chemistry. Development and Research until about 1950.
40p offprint, blue paper cover, with plates, very good
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Report of a Joint Panel of the Biological Sciences, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering and Technology Committees to the University Science and Technology Board.
approx 50p green card cover, stapled, cover letter inserted, mimeographed from typescript, very ...
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The International Union of Crystallograpy: Its Formation and Early Development.
20p offprint, large format, with plates, erratum inserted, very good
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The History of Dentistry. Technique and Demand.
34p spiral bound, oblong format, slightly aged but well preserved, uncommon title
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Wetenschap en Literatuur. (Special Issue of Gewina, Volume 29, No 4)
120p large format paperback, well preserved: Atoombom, Dick Hillenius, Krol & Hermans, ...
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Formation of the American Scientific Community: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848 - 1860.
xii 264p plus appendix, hardback with dustjacket, nice clean copy, reviews inserted, very good ...
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The Newtonian Revolution.
xv 404p hardback with blue/orange dustjacket, fresh clean copy, excellent condition
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The Organization of Research Establishments.
275p black cloth, index, plates, first edition: covers Harwell, NPL, Babraham, Glaxco, Bell, ...
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Michael Foster and the Cambridge School of Physiology: The Scientific Enterprise in Late Victorian Society.
xxi 401p hardback, dustjacket, frontispiece, very good copy, clean and tight, gift inscription in ...
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Science for the Earth: Can Science Make the World a Better Place?
xx 320p hardback with laminateds boards, excellent copy
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New Trends in the History of Science: Conference Proceedings.
293p thick paperback, brown card cover, very good indeed
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Begründer der Experimentellen Physiologie: Founders of Experimental Physiology. (XXV International Congress of Physiological Sciences Munich 1971)
approx 260p hardback with dustjacket, reprints fundamental texts in facsimile from Descartes to ...
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The Biochemical Society: Its History and Activities, 1911-1969.
160p green paperback, fresh clean copy, plates, binding (glue) failing
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Memorial Lectures Delivered before the Chemical Society 1893 - 1900.
pagination varies, approx 460p blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, first ...
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Half a Century of Medical Research. Volume One: Origins and Policy of the Medical Research Council (UK)
308p first edition with very well preserved red dustjacket, as new
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A Discourse on the Studies of the University.
26p vii 108p blue cloth fresh with gilt monogram to front, bright and fresh copy
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One Hundred Years of Congresses of Physiology.
60p stapled booklet, silver cover, excellent copy, very good uncommon title
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Portrait of a Foundation: Brief History of the CIBA Foundation and Its Environment.
115p large format paperback, colour cover, excellent fresh copy, as new, note addressed to Andrew ...
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Andrew Carnegie Sesquincentenary Gathering, Dunfermline, August 1985: Conference, Discussion Groups, Sesquincentenary Dinner.
138p white paperback, plates, very good, as new, ink lettering to spine
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Otto Schmitt. His Life and Contributions to Biomedical Engineering. (Special Issue of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology)
80p magazine type publication, many illustrations, very good, uncommon title
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Synopsis of the History of Japanese Medicine and Physiology.
37p stapled offprint, author inscription, very good, with illustrations
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Through France with Berzelius. Live Scholars and Dead Volcanoes.
viii 199p large hardback, dustjacket, many polates, some in colour, author inscription addressed to ...
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Selections and Reflections: The Legacy of Sir Lawrence Bragg.
308p large hardback with bright blue dustjacket, frontispiece, plates, fresh copy, clean and tight, ...
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Fundamenta Medicinae.
xxvi 142p hardback with green illustrated dustjacket, nice clean copy, facsimile of original title ...
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University Addresses, Being Addresses on Subjects of Academic Study Delivered to the University of Glasgow.
x 383p original blue cloth fresh and tight, gilt lettering to spine, old gift inscription, nice ...
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Apples to Atoms: Portraits of Scientists from Newton to Rutherford.
88p large format paperback, many portraits, very good
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Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek en Algemeen Belang. De Chemie van H R Kruyt (1882 - 1959)
ix 239p large paperback, photographic illustration to pink cover, text clean, dissertation, ...
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Knowledge and Power. Essays on Science and Government.
x 502p burgundy cloth, a fresh and tight copy, text clean, very good indeed
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Edinburgh's Contribution to Medical Microbiology.
312p thick paperback, blue card cover, illustrations throughout, very good
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Materials for a Biography of Dr Thomas Sydenham, 1624 - 1689: A New Survey of Public and Private Archives.
viii 107p hardback, dustjacket, advert inserted, fresh and clean copy
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International Journal on the Unity of the Sciences. Volume 1, Number 2.
150p single issue of journal, essays by Weinberg, Badham, Fishel, Kegley etc
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International Journal on the Unity of the Sciences. Volume 1, Number 1.
150p single issue of journal, essays by Wigner, Jammer, Vollmer, Cappelletti, Rubenstein etc
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Emilio Veratti e la Scoperta del Reticolo Sarcoplasmatico. (Roma, 15 Maggio 2002)
approx 100p, green card cover, large paperback, many illustrations, all essays in English, includes ...
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Science under Control. The French Academy of Sciences, 1795 - 1914.
xx 454p large hardback with dustjacket, excellent copy, as new
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Instrumental Biology, or the Disunity of Science.
ix 193p large paperback, a fresh copy
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About the Granite Problem and some Masters of the Study of Granite.
12p offprint, grey paper cover, "best wishes for Christmas", plates, very good, one old pencil note
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Ziele vulkanologischer Forschung. Eine Begründung des Antrages der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften auf Internationalisierung der vulkanologischen Forschung.
46p large paperback, orange paper cover, excellent fresh copy, clean and tight, folding map, very ...
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A Miscellany Presented to John Macdonald Mackay, LL D, July 1914.
xvi 403p red cloth a little aged but holding well, frontispiece with tissueguard, nice copy, first ...
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Santiago Ramon y Cajal: El Asombro: Principio de Sabiduria.
approx 24p stapled pamphlet, many illustrations, very good
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