Andrade, E.N. da C.

Newton

Taylor & Francis 1943 17, 4 b/w photos, text figs. . PB. Rear leaf lightly soiled and cockled, some wear to spine. Good.. Reprinted from Proc. of the Physical Society, vol. LV: 129-145. Newton Tercentenary Lecture, delivered in London & Cambridge, Dec. 1942..

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Book number: R33919

Catalogue: History of Science,History of Science

Andrewes, W.J.H.

The Quest for Longitude

Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments 1998 437, col + b/w illus. . HB. Vg in d/w. Some light spotting to top edge.. Proceedings of the Longitude Symposium Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts November 4-6, 1993. 2nd edition.. [9780964432901]

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Book number: S47575

Catalogue: History of Science,History of Science

Appleby, J.

Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination

Norton 2013 [xi], 308, text figs. . HB. Fine in d/w.. . [9780393239515]

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Book number: S53744

Catalogue: History of Science,History of Science

Keywords: History of Science; New World

Ball, P.

Curiosity: How Science became interested in everything

Bodley Head 2012 viii, 465, text figs. . HB. Fine.. . [9781847921727]

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Book number: S53660

Catalogue: History of Science,History of Science

Bremer, T.; Wegener, P.

Alligators and Astrolabes: Treasures of University Collections in Europe

Academic Heritage and Universities: Responsibility and Public Access 2001 62, . . PB. Vg.. This catalogue was first published on the occasion of the first 'European Month of the Academic Heritage', November 2001, by the partner institutions of the European Union Project 'Academic Heritage and Universities: Responsibility and Public Access'. Includes contributions from the Universities of Amsterdam, Humboldt, Bologna, Cambridge, Groningen, Mart-Luther, Leipzig, The Royal College of Surgeons of England, Oxford and Pavia..

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Book number: S49392

Catalogue: History of Science,History of Science

Keywords: Museum collection

Cooper, P.M.

The Bauer Brothers

Natural History Museum 2015 111, col illus. . PB. NEW. . This beautiful collection of artworks from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries celebrates the work of Franz and Ferdinand Bauer, two of the most accomplished natural history artists of all time. The art of Franz and Ferdinand Bauer was praised by the poet and botanist Johann Goethe as the perfect expression of the aims of botanical illustration. This book examines the contrasting lives of Franz (1758-1840), for 50 years the resident artist at Kew Gardens, and Ferdinand (1760-1826) who led a life of travel and adventure as a natural history artist including participating in the historic voyage to Australia of HMS Investigator in the early nineteenth century. It is illustrated with images from the superb archive of Bauer drawings at the Natural History Museum Library, many of which have never been published before. These include beautiful and finely detailed watercolours of flowering plants collected from across the world, pioneering microscopical drawings of plant anatomy and pictures of the newly discovered animals from the coasts of Australia. The book is published to tie-in with a new art exhibition opening at the Natural History Museum in November 2015.. [9780565093594]

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Book number: N30727

Catalogue: History of Science,History of Science

Costa, J.T.

Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace

Princeton University Press 2023 552, 36 col illus, 62 b/w illus, 3 maps. . HB. NEW. . A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selection.Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age. His expeditions to remote Amazonia and southeast Asia were the stuff of legend. A collector of thousands of species new to science, he shared in the discovery of natural selection and founded the discipline of evolutionary biogeography.Radical by Nature tells the story of Wallace's epic life and achievements, from his stellar rise from humble origins to his complicated friendship with Charles Darwin and other leading scientific lights of Britain to his devotion to social causes and movements that threatened to alienate him from scientific society.James Costa draws on letters, notebooks, and journals to provide a multifaceted account of a revolutionary life in science as well as Wallace's family life. He shows how the self-taught Wallace doggedly pursued bold, even radical ideas that caused a seismic shift in the natural sciences, and how he also courted controversy with nonscientific pursuits such as spiritualism and socialism. Costa describes Wallace's courageous social advocacy of women's rights, labor reform, and other important issues. He also sheds light on Wallace's complex relationship with Darwin, describing how Wallace graciously applauded his friend and rival, becoming one of his most ardent defenders.Weaving a revelatory narrative with the latest scholarship, Radical by Nature paints a mesmerizing portrait of a multifaceted thinker driven by a singular passion for science, a commitment to social justice, and a lifelong sense of wonder.. [9780691233796]

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Book number: N51478

Catalogue: History of Science,History of Science

Keywords: Alfred Russell Wallace; Biography

Ford, B.J.

Images of Science: A History of Scientific Illustration

British Library 1992 viii, 208, col frontis, col + b/w illus. 300x230mm. HB. Vg in d/w (spine slightly faded).. 1st edition.. [9780712302678]

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Book number: S53409

Catalogue: History of Science,History of Science

Gingerich, O.

The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus.

William Heinemann 2004 xii, 306, 8 col plates, text figs. . HB. Vg in d/w. Name and ownership stamp to endpaper.. After three decades of investigation, and after traveling hundreds of thousands of miles across the globe-from Melbourne to Moscow, Boston to Beijing - Gingerich has written a book built on his experience and the remarkable insights gleaned from examining some 600 copies of De Revolutionibus. He found the books owned and annotated by Galileo, Kepler and many other lesser-known astronomers whom he brings back to life, which illuminate the long, reluctant process of accepting the Sun-centred cosmos and highlight the historic tensions between science and the Catholic Church. He traced the ownership of individual copies through the hands of saints, heretics, scalawags, and bibliomaniacs. He was called as the expert witness in the theft of one copy, witnessed the dramatic auction of another, and proves conclusively that De Revolutionibus was as inspirational as it was revolutionary. Part biography of a book, part scientific exploration, part bibliographic detective story, The Book Nobody Read recolours the history of cosmology and offers new appreciation of the enduring power of an extraordinary book and its ideas.. [9780434013159]

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Book number: S59038

Catalogue: History of Science,History of Science

Keywords: Astronomy; Nicolaus Copernicus

Gooday, G.J.N.

The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice

Cambridge University Press 2004 xxv, 285, b/w illus. . HB. Vg in d/w (slight fading to front cover).. . [9780521430982]

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Book number: S53387

Catalogue: History of Science,History of Science

Keywords: Electricity; Engineering; Philosophy

Gullers, K.W.; Strandell, B.

Linnaeus

Gullers International 1977 96, col photos. . HB. Vg.. . [9789185228423]

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Book number: S52413

Catalogue: History of Science,History of Science

Keywords: Linnaeus; Sweden; Scandinavia; Northern Europe; Europe

Hall, M.B. (Ed.)

Nature and Nature's Laws: Documents of the Scientific Revolution

MacMillan 1970 xii, 381, 12 text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth., Vg in d/w (slightly soiled), some spotting to top edge.. This volume documents the history of the scientific revolution from early in the sixteenth century to about 1790..

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Book number: S53584

Catalogue: History of Science,History of Science

Halliwell, James Orchard (Ed.)

A Collection of Letters Illustrative of the Progress of Science in England from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to that of Charles the Second

Historical Society of Science 1841 xix, 124, [2], 9, . . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, blind-stamped acanthus scroll frame to boards, with central gilt symbol to front board, corners lightly bumped. Bookplate of Yatton Court, Herefordshire. From the library of K.G.V. Smith (1929-2017), British dipterist at the Natural History Museum, London, and book collector. Enclosed is a post card from Paul Latcham, scholar and collector of bookplates and former editor of the Bookplate Journal. He suggests that the bookplate is probably that of J.G. Rodney Ward (resident at Yatton Court from the late 1860s to 1880s). An attached pencil note to Ken Smith in a different hand states that Latcham was pleased to see a previously unknown County bookplate [Herefordshire].. First edition. Includes 83 letters by, among others, Thomas Digges, Tycho Brache, John Dee, Thomas Lydyat, Charles Cavendish, John Pell. 'The contents of the present volume are so very miscellaneous, that it would be a difficult task to give a satisfactory analysis of them within the limits of a few pages. Perhaps it may be sufficient to state that the Editor has endevoured to form such a collection of early letters on scientific subjects as would be likely to assist any future author of a critical history of English science...' - Preface. The central design to the front board of this book is the 'Monas Hieroglyphica', an esoteric symbol invented and designed by John Dee, the Court Astrologer to Elizabeth I; it is also the title of the 1564 book in which Dee expounds the meaning of his symbol. One of the letters included in this published collection is from John Dee. James Orchard Halliwell (1820-1889) was an antiquarian, literary scholar and collector of English nursery rhymes. He published many books including 'Nursery Rhymes of England' (1842) and the 'Life of Shakespeare' (1848). He was accused of stealing manuscripts from Trinity College Cambridge, and eloped with, and married, the daughter of the the famous bibliomaniac, Sir Thomas Phillipps..

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Book number: A42106

Catalogue: History of Science,History of Science

Keywords: History of Science

Hull, D.L.

Science as a Process:An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science

University of Chicago Press 1988 586, b/w photos and text figs. . HB. Vg in d/w. From the library of Prof. Chris J. Humphries with his signature to title page. Annotation to text.. . [9780226360508]

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Book number: S25582

Catalogue: History of Science,History of Science

Huygens, C.

Treatise on Light In which are explained the causes of that which occurs in Reflexion, & in Refraction. And particularly in the strange refraction of Iceland Crystal

MacMillan & Co. 1912 xii, 128, (2), text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth-backed boards, paper title-label to spine, endpapers browned, pages uncut. Ex-lib. Quekett Microscopical Club: Small ink stamps to endpaper, title and final page only, small circular shelf label to spine. Good.. Rendered into English by Silvanus P. Thompson. First English edition. Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) was a Dutch physicist, mathematician, astronomer and inventor. He had many scientific interests but is especially noted for his wave theory of light, which he first communicated in 1678 to the Paris Académie des Sciences and was published in 1690 in his major work, 'Traité de la lumière' (Treatise on light). Some two hundred years later the first English translation of this highly influential work in the history of optics was made by Silvanus Thompson, who admired Huygens stating ‘none can read his investigation of the phenomena found in Iceland spar without marvelling at his insight and sagacity’..

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Book number: S36675

Catalogue: History of Science,History of Science

Keywords: History of Science; Optics; Physics; PBFA