History of science
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History of science
hardcover. A case study of the interrelationship between mathematics and physics during the Scientific Revolution. Num Pages: 256 pages, 19 half-tones, 25 line diagrams. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. Cloth covers, no dj as issued, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0036981
- ISBN
- 9780521341400
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. Series: Studies in the History of Modern Science. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 470. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- D. Reidel Publishing Company
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0037015
- ISBN
- 9789027707635
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. Presents an account of the reconstruction of prehuman history of the earth. This title takes readers from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe to the early years of Britain's Victorian age, chronicling the staggering discoveries geologists made during the period. Num Pages: 648 pages, 125 halftones, 40 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; 3JH; PDX; RBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 70 x 100 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1936.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KTS0036563
- ISBN
- 9780226731285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. A life of the eminent Victorian who 'sold' science to the imperial government. Num Pages: 306 pages, 7 colour illus. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 589. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0037376
- ISBN
- 9780521335379
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. Providing a full-length investigations of Pierre de Fermat's life and work, this title provides rare insight into the mathematical genius of a hobbyist who never sought to publish his work, yet who ranked with his contemporaries Pascal and Descartes in shaping the course of modern mathematics. Num Pages: 456 pages, 67 figs. BIC Classification: 3JD; BG; PBX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 657. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0037544
- ISBN
- 9780691036663
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. This text explains the surprisingly simple analytical structure that underlies the determination of the force necessary to maintain ideal planetary motion. It sets the problem in historical and conceptual perspective, showing Newton's debt to the works of Descartes and Galileo. Num Pages: 330 pages, 5 b&w photographs, 113 figures. BIC Classification: PDX; PHD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTS0036651
- ISBN
- 9780520202177
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
The New Political Sociology of Science: Institutions, Networks, and Po...
. Ed(S): Frickel, Scott (Asst. Professor Of S...
paperback. Given the new way in which scientific knowledge is used and produced, this book takes a sociological approach to examine the implications of these changes on aspects of life such as health, politics, and the environment. Editor(s): Frickel, Scott (Asst. Professor of Sociology, Tulane University, USA); Moore, Kelly. Series: Science & Technology in Society. Num Pages: 500 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBT; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 32. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 500
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299213343
- ISBN
- 9780299213343
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.98
€ 56.98
Paperback. A distinguished physician and professor of medicine at Edinburgh University, and a forensic expert for the British Crown, Joseph Bell was well known for his powers of observation and deduction. This biography of Bell is intended for those interested in Victorian medicine, in the history of detective fiction, and in Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Num Pages: 286 pages, 23 b/w photos. BIC Classification: BG; FF; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Popular Press 3
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879721985
- ISBN
- 9780879721985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.50
€ 38.50
paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAM3; HRCC91; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 164 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cowley Publications,U.S.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781561012350
- ISBN
- 9781561012350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.82
€ 14.99
€ 12.82
hardcover. Tracks the growth of geology's prestige in Britain, exploring how a geohistory of Creation was assembled and sold to the wider Biblereading public. In exploring the use of poetry and spectacle in the promotion of popular science, this book attempts to prove that geology's success owed much to the literary techniques of its authors. Num Pages: 448 pages, 8 colour plates, 89 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; PDX; RBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 188 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1176. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAM0001173
- ISBN
- 9780226616681
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. This book examines James Clerk Maxwell, creator of the electromagnetic theory of light and kinetic theory of gases. Num Pages: 248 pages, 10 b/w illus. BIC Classification: PDX; PHK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 545. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0037696
- ISBN
- 9780521561020
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. Series: Studies in the History of Modern Science. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 454. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. Illustrated covers, no dj as issued, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Springer
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0037733
- ISBN
- 9789027716484
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. The human sciences,including psychology, anthropology and social theory, are widely held to have been born during the 18th century. This study of the Enlightenment sciences of humans explores the sources, context and effects of this major intellectual development. Editor(s): Fox, Christopher; Porter, Roy; Wokler, Robert. Num Pages: 357 pages, 5 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 3JF; HBTB; JFCX; JH; JM; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 760. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. Cloth covers, lacking dj, showing a little age and wear, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- California University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0037743
- ISBN
- 9780520200104
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. This tells the story of Douglas Engelbart's revolutionary vision, reaching beyond conventional histories of Silicon Valley to probe the ideology that shaped some of the basic ingredients of contemporary life. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 312 pages, 50 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JH; PDX; UBJ; UKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0037804
- ISBN
- 9780804738712
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. The thirteen original essays in this book examine the status and development of the sciences in the eighteenth century. Editor(s): Rousseau, George Sebastian; Porter, Roy. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; PDX. Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 88. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0037906
- ISBN
- 9780521225991
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Martinus Nijhoff
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0038009
- ISBN
- 9789024725205
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. Provides a description of the major ideas about void space within and beyond the world that were formulated between the fourteenth and early eighteenth centuries. Editor(s): Grant, Edward. Num Pages: 472 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 840. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0038020
- ISBN
- 9780521229838
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. Num Pages: 600 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 182 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1136. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0038044
- ISBN
- 9780226360515
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. Offers a comprehensive introduction to medieval science, presented in the context of an historical narrative. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256. Good clean copy with a little age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0038057
- ISBN
- 9780812210576
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. A case-study of the interaction between philosophical context and observational data in the practice of Science. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: PDX. Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 505. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. DJ price clipped & has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0038243
- ISBN
- 9780521235402
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00