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Classics in Science: A Course of Selected Reading by Authorities (Essay and general literature index reprint series)

By: Andrade, Edward Neville Da Costa

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Associated Faculty Pr Inc: 1971

Seller ID: 107724

ISBN: 0804613567

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 322 pages.
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Draper Laboratory: 40 Years as an Independant R&D Institution, 80 Years of Outstanding Innovations

By: Babcock, Phil

Price: $81.17

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory: 2013

Seller ID: 116056

ISBN: B01MUFIVL2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! 80 pages. Contents: Introduction. Origins: Charles Stark Draper. Inertial Navigation Becomes a Reality. Guiding U.S. Air Force Ballistic Missiles. The Navy's Guiding Star. From Apollo to the International Space Station. Developing Autonomous Systems. Mems to Vanishingly Small Systems. Technical Education in the National Interest. Looking Ahead.
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Da Galileo Alle Stelle ( From Galileo to the Stars ) Italian / English Edition

By: Bertola, Francesco; Danesin, Francesco

Price: $49.80

Publisher: Cittadella, Italy, Biblos Edizioni: 1992

Seller ID: 86682

ISBN: B005D1PJD4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Essays in English and Italian. 1st Printing. Nice Firm Clean copy ! No handwriting, no markings. 106 pages. A celebration of the achievements of Galileo in essays and full folio page color photos and illustrations. Seven centuries of Astronomy at Padua. The Galileo chronology. Galileo: exploration and discovery of the Heavens. The theory of the tides. The impact of Galileo on the history of scientific thought. The private Galileo.
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Transformation of Knowledge: Early Manuscripts from the Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg

By: Black, Crofton (Editor)

Price: $77.16

Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing: 2011

Seller ID: 112754

ISBN: 1903470501

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! 160 pages.
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Darwin

By: Bradford, Gamaliel

Price: $11.86

Publisher: Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin: 1926

Seller ID: 115107

ISBN: B01N0O6SIE

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 315 pages.
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The History of the Self-Winding Watch, 1770-1931

By: Chapuis, Alfred; Eugene Jaquet; R. Savare Grandvoinet; Donald De Carl

Price: $36.48

Publisher: Neuchatel, France, Editions Du Griffon: 1956

Seller ID: 124456

ISBN: B009ZYVDRQ

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear.
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La Grande Chirurgie de Guy de Chauliac: Chirurgien, Maistre en Medecine de L'Universite de Montpellier Composee en L'an 1363

By: Chauliac, Guy De; E. Nicaise (Editor)

Price: $501.60

Publisher: Paris, France, Ancienne Librairie Germer Bailliere: 1890

Seller ID: 102695

ISBN: B00MDYJ2SC

Binding: Leather Bound

Condition: Very Good

In French. Red leather spine, faux marble (French Curl) boards, faux marble endpapers, gold topstain. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Small dent made in leather spine. CIC + 747 pages. Chauliac's seminal work on surgery, Chirurgia magna, was finished in 1363 in Avignon. In seven volumes, the treatise covers anatomy, bloodletting, cauterization, drugs, anesthetics, wounds, fractures, ulcers, special diseases, and antidotes. Among de Chaulic's treatments he described the use of bandages and he also believed pus from an infection was beneficial to the healing process. He describes surg...
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The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh: Historical Notes from 1505 to 1905.

By: Creswell, Clarendon Hyde

Price: $15.02

Publisher: Oliver and Boyd: 1926

Seller ID: 102170

ISBN: B001NGW1O8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm copy ! Light general wear. Foxing on endpapers. Previous owner gift notation. 315 pages.
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Pasteur: The History of a Mind

By: Duclaux, Emile

Price: $16.29

Publisher: W.B. Saunders company: 1920

Seller ID: 108333

ISBN: B0006AIAEM

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Ex-Library, Usual Markings. Moderate general wear. 363 pages.
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The History of the Boston Medical Library.

By: Farlow, John W.

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Norwood, MA, The Plimpton Press: 1918

Seller ID: 110450

ISBN: B000J2W2F0

Condition: Good+

1st Printing. Moderate general wear. 240 pages.
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Medical Education in the United States and Canada. The Classics of Medicine Library

By: Flexner, Abraham

Price: $32.60

Publisher: The Classics of Medicine Library: 1990

Seller ID: 108519

ISBN: B00HXB3VF0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. 346 pages.
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Chirurgie de Pierre Franco de Turriers en Provence Composee en 1561

By: Franco, Pierre; E. Nicaise (Editor)

Price: $501.60

Publisher: Ancienne Librairie Germer Bailliere: 1895

Seller ID: 102694

ISBN: B00MDXSW8O

Binding: Leather Bound

Condition: Near Fine

In French. Nouvelle edition Avec Une Introduction Historique Une Biographie et L'Histoire du College de Chirurgie. Red leather spine, faux marble (French Curl) boards, faux marble endpapers, gold topstain, green ribbon. Nice Firm Clean copy ! CLXIV + 382 pages. In the 16th century, Pierre Franco (1505û1578) was a pioneer in the suprapubic lithotomy method.
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The Freud/Jung Letters: The Correspondence between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung

By: Freud, Sigmund; McGuire, William (Editor); Manheim, Ralph (Translator); Hull, R. F. C. (Translator)

Price: $11.81

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1988

Seller ID: 93558

ISBN: 0674323300

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. Light general wear. 736 pages.
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Benjamin Silliman 1779-1864. Pathfinder in American Science

By: Fulton, John F. and Elizabeth H. Thomson.

Price: $10.03

Publisher: New York, NY, Henry Schuman: 1947

Seller ID: 112432

ISBN: B000GTG4U0

Condition: Very Good

1st Printing. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 294 pages.
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Science as a Commodity Threats to the Open Community of Scholars

By: Gibbons, M.; Wittrock, B.

Price: $44.65

Publisher: Cartermill International: 1985

Seller ID: 113558

ISBN: 0582902045

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 173 pages.
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Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science [CD] Audiobook

By: Gimbel, Professor Steven

Price: $91.20

Publisher: The Great Courses: 2015

Seller ID: 120593

ISBN: 1629971308

Binding: Audio CD

Condition: Very Good

Disc Quality: Excellent. Includes Course guidebook.
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Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy if the Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 1

By: Grattan-Guiness, I. (Editor)

Price: $38.40

Publisher: Routledge: 1994

Seller ID: 127092

ISBN: 0415092388

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 1806 pages.
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Understanding the Science for Tomorrow: Myth and Reality [DVD]

By: Grossman, Jeffrey C.

Price: $44.69

Publisher: The Great Courses The Teaching Company: 2011

Seller ID: 121700

ISBN: 1598038079

Binding: DVD

Condition: New

Excellent condition. Still in shrinkwrap.
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Perception and Discovery: An Introduction to Scientific Inquiry

By: Hanson, Norwood Russell

Price: $86.59

Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co: 1970

Seller ID: 104190

ISBN: 0877355096

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! 435 pages.
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Studies in the History of Mediaeval Science

By: Haskins, Charles Homer

Price: $45.55

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ. Press: 1924

Seller ID: 122536

ISBN: B0021MC5CQ

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm copy ! Light general wear. Previous owner name. 411 pages.
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Laser Pioneers (Revised Edition)

By: Hecht, Jeff

Price: $25.08

Publisher: Academic Press: 1991

Seller ID: 126276

ISBN: 0123360307

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Revised Edition. 298 pages.
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Michelangelo Draftsman, Michelangelo Architect, A Dictionary of Michelangelo's Watermarks

By: Hirst, Michael; Henry A Millon And Craig Hug

Price: $91.15

Publisher: Olivetti: 1988

Seller ID: 110609

ISBN: B0006ESBK6

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. In slipcase. Michelangelo Draftsman, Michelangelo Architect, A Dictionary of Michelangelo's Watermarks.
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Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 2 (Vol 2) (Routledge reference)

By: I, GRATTAN - GUINNESS

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Routledge: 1994

Seller ID: 127091

ISBN: 0415092396

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 1806 pages.
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Alexander Von Humboldt's Natural History Legacy and Its Relevance for Today (Natural Naturalist, Special Issue Number 1, 2001)

By: Institute, Humboldt Field Research (Editor)

Price: $45.55

Publisher: Boston, MA, Humboldt Field Research Institute: 2001

Seller ID: 113520

ISBN: B00X5XJZFA

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! 182 pages.
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The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud. Three Volumes, Boxed Set

By: Jones, Ernest

Price: $34.51

Publisher: New York, NY, Basic Books: 1962

Seller ID: 115726

ISBN: B0050011JO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Moderate general wear. Slipcase aged. 428 + 512 + 537 pages.
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The New Perspective: An Essay

By: Jordan, Rudolf.

Price: $10.03

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press: 1951

Seller ID: 97407

ISBN: B0006D8OQ8

Condition: Near Fine

1st Printing. Nice Firm copy ! Previous owner name. 316 pages.
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A Dictionary of Pharaonic Medicine

By: Kamal, Hassan

Price: $136.80

Publisher: Cairo, Egypt, National Publication House: 1967

Seller ID: 125504

ISBN: B0006FF46Y

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Jacket has edge wear, short tears, missing chips. Boards bumped. 509 pages. Numerous black + white illustrations. Rare copy.
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The Apologie and Treatise of Ambroise Pare

By: Keynes, Geoffrey (Editor)

Price: $17.90

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: 1952

Seller ID: 102625

ISBN: B003TIF92E

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 227 pages.
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Ausgewahlte Schriften

By: Lomonossow, M.W.; Lomonosov

Price: $36.43

Publisher: Berlin, Germany, Akademie Verlag: 1961

Seller ID: 90949

ISBN: B0089V4URG

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. 317 pages.
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Isaac Newton, Historian

By: Manuel, Frank E.

Price: $22.80

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1963

Seller ID: 110521

ISBN: B0000CLWXO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm copy ! Light general wear. Previous owner return address sticker. Previous owner name. 328 pages.
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The Light of Alexandria: the First 1,000 Years of Science and How It Helped Shape Greece, Rome, and the World

By: Maynard, James

Price: $62.93

Publisher: Lulu: 2005

Seller ID: 119156

ISBN: 1411653351

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Signed by Author on Half-Title page. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 179 pages.
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Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845-1916,

By: Metchnikoff, Olga

Price: $9.94

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin company: 1921

Seller ID: 110464

ISBN: B0006AJ3FC

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1st Printing. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 297 pages.
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Isaac Newton's Papers & Letters on Natural Philosophy

By: Newton, Isaac; I. Bernard Cohen (Editor)

Price: $26.40

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1958

Seller ID: 121568

ISBN: B00BKRPFVQ

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 501 pages.
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Science and the World's Religions [3 volumes] (Brain, Behavior, and Evolution)

By: Ph.D., Mcnamara; Patrick (Editor); Wildman, Wesley J. (Editor)

Price: $67.49

Publisher: Praeger: 2012

Seller ID: 125078

ISBN: 031338732X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Previous owner sticker on front blank page of volume 3. 930 pages.
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New Observations on City, Town and Country Bills of Mortality (Pioneers of Demography)

By: Short, Thomas

Price: $97.81

Publisher: Gregg Publishing: 1973

Seller ID: 92957

ISBN: 0576532843

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! 532 pages. facsimile reprint, originally printed in London in 1750.
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From The Sidelines A Personal History Of The Institute of Molecular Biology At The University Of Oregon

By: Streisinger, Lotte

Price: $27.31

Publisher: University of Oregon Press: 2004

Seller ID: 122403

ISBN: B009NOHSEA

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Signed by Author on Half-Title page. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 126 pages.
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Computational Philosophy of Science (Bradford Books)

By: Thagard, Paul

Price: $19.15

Publisher: A Bradford Book: 1993

Seller ID: 124869

ISBN: 0262700484

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 256 pages.
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Scientific American the Advocate of Industry, and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical, and Other Improvements Volume X 1854 to 1855, 52 Issues

By: The Scientific American

Price: $501.60

Publisher: New York, NY, Munn & Company: 1854

Seller ID: 125413

ISBN: xxxxxxx383

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Text pages in Near Fine condition. Very minor foxing on first 10 pages. 414 pages. Published weekly, Sept. 16 1854 to Sept. 8 1855 in its original size!
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