Category: Science

Bacon's Essays. Sydney Edition, Edited by Sydney Humphries.

By: Bacon, Francis. [Humphries, Sydney; Editor].

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London: Adam & Charles Black, MCMXII.

Seller ID: 00489sc

Royal octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to spine, uncut, decorative initials, xxx, 370 pp. Very Good+, with lightly bumped corners and slight rubbing to edges. ÒThe Essays of Francis Bacon Baron Verulam Viscount St. Albans are here reprinted from an edition dated MDCLXXIII. The Introductory reproduces a depiction to Bishop Andrews accompanying the Advertisement Touching an Holy War, Written in the Year MDCXXII. The Epistle Dedicatory is that of the last Author's Edition published in MDCXXV. The portrait is a photogravure direct from a fine proof impression of an ...
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After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence.

By: Bailey, James.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: BasicBooks, [1996].

Seller ID: 70133s

First Edition. Octavo, cloth & boards (hardcover), viii, 277 pp. Illustrated. Fine in dust jacket.
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Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution.

By: Bailey, Ronald.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, (2005). First Edition.

Seller ID: 51628bd

Octavo, white boards (hardcover), 332 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: The defining political conflict of the twenty-first century will be the battle over life and death. On one side stand the partisans of morality, who counsel humanity to quietly accept our morbid fate and go gently into that good night. On the other is the party of life, who rage against the dying of the light and yearn to extend the enjoyment of healthy life to as amny as possible for as long as possible. This conflict is brewing because rapid progress in biology and biotechnology will utterly transfor...
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Species of the Genus Schwagerina and Their Stratigraphic Significance.

By: Beede, J. W. and Hedwig T. Kniker.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Austin: The University of Texas, 1924. [University of Texas Bulletin, No. 2433: September 1, 1924].

Seller ID: els4654

Octavo, paperbound (printed grey wrappers), 98 pp. Very Good+, with lightly rubbed edges & age darkening. From Introduction: Species of the genus Schwagerina occur in most of the outcropping limestones formed in the open, connected, epicontinental seas existing at the time of the initiation of the Permian fauna and flora. They are highly organized formainifera, of large size, and they occupy a limited thickness of rocks. They thus form valuable horizon markers wherever they occur...It is the purpose of this paper to describe the known specieis of the genus Schwagerina; to discuss their re...
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Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society. Edited & Introduced by Bill Bryson. Contributing Editor Jon Turney.

By: Bryson, Bill; Edited & Introduced By.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: William Morrow, (2010).

Seller ID: 935411gcs

Square octavo, softbound (stiff, full-color illus. wrappers), 506 pp. Near-Fine. From lower cover: Join Bill Bryson on an unforgettable exploration of scientific genius, discovery, and invention. Edited and introduced by Bryson, with original contributions from Òa glittering array of scientific writing talentÓ (Sunday Observer), Seeing Further tells the spectacular story of modern science through the lens of the international Royal Society, founded on a damp November night in London in 1660. Isaac Newton, John Locke, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking -- all have been fellow...
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Burnham's Celestial Handbook: An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System. In Three Volumes. Volume One: Andromeda through Cetus, Revised and Enlarged Edition. Volume Two: Chamaeleon through Orion, Revised and Enlarged Edition. Volume Three: Pavo through Vulpecula. [Three volumes of a three volume set, complete].

By: Burnham, Robert, Jr.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1978.

Seller ID: vas823

Three volume set. Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 652 pp; 655-1347 pp; 1351-2138 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: While there are many books o stars, there is only one Celestial Handbook... This unique and necessary reference is available once again to guide amateur and advanced astronomers in their knowledge and enjoyment of the stars. After an extensive introduction in Volume I, which gives the beginner enough information to follow about 80% of the body of the material, the author gives comprehensive coverage to the thousands of celestial objects outside...
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The Construction of Large Telescopes.

By: Crawford, D. L., ed.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London: Academic Press / Published for the International Council of Scientific Unions with the Financial Assistance of UNESCO, 1966.

Seller ID: m2506

International Astronomical Union Symposium No. 27, Held in Tucson, Arizona, Pasadena and Mount Hamilton, California, U.S.A., 5-12 April 1965. 1st edition. Octavo, blue cloth, xii, 231 pp. Photos, diagrams. Former-owner signature; otherwise Very Good in a chipped dust jacket.
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The Collected Works of Leo Szilard. Foreword by Jacques Monod. Introductory Essays: Carl Eckart, Bernard T. Feld, Maurice Goldhaber, Aaron Novick, Julius Tabin.

By: Feld, Bernard T. and Gertrude Weiss Szilard, eds.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London & Cambridge: The MIT Press, (1972). First edition.

Seller ID: vas729

Thick octavo, silver boards with black spine lettering, xxii, 737 pp. Frontis portrait, photos, facsimiles, graphs. Includes Szilard's papers and experiments in thermodynamics, X-Ray effects in crystals, nuclear physics, documents related to the Manhattan Project, metallurgy, neutron emissions, bacterial mutations, antibody formation, various patent applications and correspondence. Very Good in a chipped dust jacket.
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Einstein and the Generations of Science.

By: Feuer, Lewis S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Basic Books, Inc., (1974).

Seller ID: 71462bd

Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), top edge blue, ix + 374 pp. Near-Fine, with neat former-owner signature; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: No scientific breakthrough really happens by chance. A theory of relativity demands more than an Einstein, says Lewis Feuer. It takes a certain intellectual cimate, a decisive tension within the very fabric of society, to spur one man's potential genius into world-shaking achievement. It is Dr. Feuer's provocative thesis that intergenerational conflict plays a key role in scientific creativity. And in Einste...
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Contact and Frictional Electrification.

By: Harper, W. R.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1967. First Edition.

Seller ID: 9374gcs

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), xii, 369 pp. Plates, diagrams. Near-Fine; former-owner signature, in dust jacket.
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Astronomy for All Ages: Discovering the Universe Through Activites for Children and Adults.

By: Harrington, Philip and Pascuzzi, Edward.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Old Saybrook, Conn.: The Globe Pequot Press, [1994].

Seller ID: 28419

6th printing. Quarto, softbound, xi, 208 pp. Photos, illus.
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New Generation Small Telescopes.

By: Hayes, Donald S., Russell M. Genet and David R. Genet, eds.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Mesa, Ariz.: Fairborn Press, [1987].

Seller ID: m2515

1st edition. Octavo, softbound, v, 441 pp. Photos, illus. Very Good.
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Essays upon Some Controverted Questions.

By: Huxley, Thomas H., F. R. S.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892. First American Edition.

Seller ID: vas834

Octavo, terra cotta illustrated cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 489 pp + [vi] pp. Very Good, with light edgewear. Contents: The Rise and Progress of Palaentology; The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature; Mr. Gladstone and Genesis; The Evolution of Theology: An Anthropological Study; Science and Morals; Scientific and Pseudo-Scientific Realism; Science and Pseduo-Science; An Episcopal Trilogy; Agnosticism; The Value of Witness to the Miraculous; Agnosticism: A Rejoinder; Agnosticism and Christianity; The LIghts of the Church and the Light of Science; The Keepers of the ...
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Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?

By: Iserson, Kenneth V., M.D.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Tucson, AZ: Galen Press, Ltd., (1994).

Seller ID: 335548qms

Octavo, red textured boards (hardcover), xx, 709 pp. Fine in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies? answers the many questions that everyone -- professional and layman alike -- wants to ask. What really does happen to a body after death? What does our culture do with corpses and what have other cultures done? How does a body turn into dust? What happens in embalming, cremation, cryogenic preservation, autopsies, organ donation, anatomical dissection, burials, and funerals? How d...
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Abbreviations of Authors' Names in Malacology.

By: Jachowski, Leo A. and Donald C. Scott.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: No publication info.

Seller ID: 18159scs

Quarto, paperbound, 38 pp. Near-Fine. The abbreviations of authors names in zoology and botany appear to have begun almost with the launching of scientific nomenclature about the middle of the eighteenth century. As the scientific treatment of the fauna and flora has broadened throughout the world and generations of biologists have succeeded generations, the number of abbreviations of the kind has also increased as now to constitute a formidable list, as the present compilation will attest...
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Traditions of Experiment from the Enlightenment to the Present: Essays in Honor of Peter Demetz.

By: Kaiser, Nancy and Wellbery, David E.; Editors.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, [1992].

Seller ID: 70140s

First Edition. Octavo, cloth (hardcover), ix, 386 pp. Frontis. portrait. Fine in dust jacket.
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The History of the Telescope. With a Foreword by Sir Harold Spencer Jones.

By: King, Henry C.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass.: Sky Publishing, [1955].

Seller ID: m2510

1st American edition. Octavo, blue cloth, xvi, 460 pp. Photos, illus. Very Good.
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The Design of Life: Major Themes in the Development of Biological Thought.

By: Mazzeo, Joseph Anthony.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Pantheon Books, [1967].

Seller ID: 70143s

First Edition. Octavo, cloth (hardcover), xxiii, 227 pp. Near-Fine in dust jacket.
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The Laser Experimenter's Handbook.

By: McAleese, Frank G.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Blue Ridge Summit, PA: TAB Books, (1979). First Edition, stated.

Seller ID: vas992

Octavo, hardcover (slick orange boards), gilt letters, 210 pp. Fine. Content Headings: Matter, Energy and Atomic Nature; Electromagnetic Wave Theory; Light Wave Theory; Mirrors and Lenses; Laser and Maser Concepts; Introduction to the Laser; Choosing a Laser; Laser Projects; Phasors; The Laser: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow; Advanced Technical Data; Glossary; Appendices.
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Cloning of Frogs, Mice, and Other Animals.

By: McKinnell, Robert Gilmore.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, [1985]. Revised Edition of Cloning: A Biologist Reports.

Seller ID: 70145s

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), 127 pp. Photos., illus. Fine in dust jacket.
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Category: Science