History of Science
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Reflections on the Astronomy of Glasgow: A story of some 500 years
David ClarkeCurrent price €42.23Original price €47.99How Astronomy contributed to the educational enlightenment of Glasgow, to its society and to its commerce. The words 'Astronomy' and 'Glasgow' seem...
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On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
William HarveyCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99Current price €37.79Original price €41.99Save 10% -
La Fabrique de la Modernité Scientifique: discours et récits du progrès sous l''Ancien régime
Liverpool University PressCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99Après avoir donné prise à des considérations équivoques, lidée du progrès gagne son entière légitimité au XIXe siècle. Comment sest faite la transi...
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The Berlin Academy in the reign of Frederick the Great: Philosophy and science
Liverpool University PressCurrent price €71.88Original price €78.99This collection sheds new light on the nature, role and practice of philosophy and science in the renewed Berlin Academy from the mid-1740s to the ...
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Women''s Bodies and Medical Science: An Inquiry into Cervical Cancer
L. BryderCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99An analysis of a scandal involving a doctor accused of allowing a number of women to develop cervical cancer from carcinoma in situ as part of an e...
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The Business of Electronics: A Concise History
A. Kumar SethiCurrent price €49.27Original price €55.99Electronics is an ever-changing field with an entrepreneurial spirit and a rich history, populated by some of the world's most famous companies and...
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Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99The history of the modern sciences has long overlooked the significance of domesticity as a physical, social, and symbolic force in the shaping of ...
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Handbook of Soviet Space-Science Research
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99Handbook of Soviet Space-Science Research (1968) provides a comprehensive and authoritative English language summary of Soviet space-science resear...
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The Laboratory Revolution and the Creation of the Modern University, 1830-1940
Amsterdam University PressCurrent price €135.89Original price €150.99The modern research university originated in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century, largely due to the creation and expansion of the ...
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Malachy the Irishman, On Poison: A Study and an Edition
Ralph HannaCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99The 'De venenis' attributed to 'Malachias Hibernicus' is a portable discussion of vices and virtues. Probably composed about 1280, originally as an...
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The Story Behind
Emily ProkopCurrent price €36.11Original price €42.99Discover the Surprising History of Ordinary ThingsEmily magically weaves a vibrant history of simple everyday objects we often take for granted. Th...
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Linking Up Los Angeles: How the Telephone Built a City
Emily BillsCurrent price €51.86Original price €56.99Current price €51.86Original price €56.99Save 9% -
The Science Museum Biology 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Key Concepts
Eva AmsenCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Biology: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, satisfying your scientific curiosity and helping you to understand t...
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19241927: Der Frühling der Quantenmechanik
Hans-Hennig von GrünbergCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Seines Heuschnupfens wegen verbrachte Werner Heisenberg im Juni 1925, vor nun bald hundert Jahren, zehn Tage auf der Insel Helgoland, wo er einen A...
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The Dark Side of Isaac Newton: A Modern Biography
Nick Kollerstrom KollerstromCurrent price €18.19Original price €19.99Isaac Newton was accorded a semi-divine status in the 18th and 19th centuries, whereby his image linked together religion and science. The real hum...
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Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880
Craig N. MurphyCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99The first global history of voluntary consensus standard setting.Finalist, Hagley Prize in Business History, The Hagley Museum and Library / The Bu...
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Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe: Between Market and Laboratory
The University of Chicago PressCurrent price €66.42Original price €72.99It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences. But where did these sciences' systematic observati...
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Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science
Columbia University PressCurrent price €117.89Original price €130.99Modern science and ideas of race have long been entangled, sharing notions of order, classification, and hierarchy. Ordering the Human presents cut...
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Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science
Columbia University PressCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Modern science and ideas of race have long been entangled, sharing notions of order, classification, and hierarchy. Ordering the Human presents cut...
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Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America
Beth LinkerCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern Americafrom eugenics and posture pageants to todays promoters...
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Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World
Tim JamesCurrent price €20.01Original price €21.99'Who said science was dry? Certainly not Tim James.' New York Post 'James writes with infectious enthusiasm and optimism' Kirkus Reviews'A science...
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Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World
Tim JamesCurrent price €24.12Original price €26.50'Who said science was dry? Certainly not Tim James' New York Post 'James writes with infectious enthusiasm and optimism' Kirkus Reviews 'A scienc...
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Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography
Siobhan AngusCurrent price €24.95Original price €31.99In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on ...
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On Rheostasis: The Hierarchical Organization of Physiological Stability
Tyler John StevensonCurrent price €59.39Original price €65.99All our inner organs and tissues require a constant environment to work effectively. Warm-blooded animals keep a core body temperature around 98°F ...
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Identifying Future-Proof Science
Peter VickersCurrent price €83.71Original price €91.99Is science getting at the truth? The sceptics - those who spread doubt about science - often employ a simple argument: scientists were 'sure' in th...
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Identifying Future-Proof Science
Peter VickersCurrent price €83.71Original price €91.99Is science getting at the truth? The sceptics - those who spread doubt about science - often employ a simple argument: scientists were 'sure' in th...
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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
Ananyo BhattacharyaCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARAn exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world'A sparkling boo...
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A Bridge to the Sky: The Arts of Science in the Age of ''Abbas Ibn Firnas
Glaire D. AndersonCurrent price €63.50Original price €72.99In times of widespread Islamophobia, there is an understandable motivation for constructing scientific achievement as a counternarrative in popular...
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IFLScience! The Official Science Puzzle Book: Puzzles inspired by the lighter side of science
Dr. Gareth MooreCurrent price €15.54Original price €18.50IFLScience and puzzles unite in the IFLScience! The Official Science Puzzle Book a perfect combination for anyone who wants to be amazed by the fu...
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Alfred Russel Wallace: The Journey of a Lifetime
Denise Carrington-SmithCurrent price €20.01Original price €21.99Current price €20.01Original price €21.99Save 9% -
Lab Hopping: A Journey to Find India''s Women in Science
Aashima DograCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99Embark on a one-of-a-kind journey through India's science laboratories in pursuit of the true story behind the gender gap.
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Honoring Charlotte Moore Sitterly (IAU S371): Astronomical Spectroscopy in the 21st Century
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €109.11Original price €123.99This symposium honors the contributions of Charlotte Moore Sitterly as a pioneer of spectroscopy, and astronomical spectroscopy in particular. The ...
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The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner
Andrea WulfCurrent price €18.19Original price €19.99WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDWINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016'A thrilling adventure story' Bill Bryson'Dazzling' Lite...
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Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939: A Biographical Compendium
Christfried ToegelCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99Sigmund Freud, 18561939 draws on a wide range of primary sources to present all the datable events that took place in Sigmund Freuds life, shining ...
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Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939: A Biographical Compendium
Christfried ToegelCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Sigmund Freud, 18561939 draws on a wide range of primary sources to present all the datable events that took place in Sigmund Freuds life, shining ...
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The Spacelab Story: Science Aboard the Shuttle
Ben EvansCurrent price €31.84Original price €34.99Between 1983 and 1998, Spacelab provided NASA with a vital short-term laboratory in space. Across more than a dozen missions, Spacelabs pressurized...
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The Instrument of Science: Scientific Anti-Realism Revitalised
Darrell P. RowbottomCurrent price €131.03Original price €143.99Roughly, instrumentalism is the view that science is primarily, and should primarily be, an instrument for furthering our practical ends. It has fa...
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Indigenous Science and Technology: Nahuas and the World Around Them
Kelly S. McDonoughCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99Current price €42.29Original price €46.99Save 10% -
Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography
Siobhan AngusCurrent price €86.57Original price €110.99In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on ...
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The Heavens on Earth: Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture
Duke University PressCurrent price €29.91Original price €33.99The Heavens on Earth explores the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science and culture. Astronomy was a core pursuit for observatorie...
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A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World
Alexander JonesCurrent price €62.09Original price €68.99In 1901 divers salvaging antiquities from a Hellenistic shipwreck serendipitously recovered the shattered and corroded remains of an ancient Greek ...
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Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable
Paul J. NahinCurrent price €23.59Original price €26.50An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cableHeat,...
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Swanseas Royal Institution and Waless First Museum
University of Wales PressCurrent price €49.58Original price €56.99The Royal Institution of South Wales is a very special organisation, one of the few such institutions to survive into the twenty-first century. Fou...
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The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99With a focus on science in the ancient societies of Greece and Rome, including glimpses into Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China, The Oxford Handbo...
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Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement
Dr Jim BaggottCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50The definitive account of the great Bohr-Einstein debate and its continuing legacy In 1927, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein began a debate about th...
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Science under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America
Andrew JewettCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Americans have long been suspicious of experts and elites. This new history explains why so many have believed that science has the power to corrup...
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