Scienza e natura

Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Yemen a Bibliographical Survey

KING, DAVID A. · 1983 · Pegasus Books

$41.25 (€36.98 | £30.93 | ¥6,551)

Malibu, CA: Undena Publications, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0890030987. Cover is heavy, textured paper, tan colored, with red lettering on front and spine. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book. Illustrated with 10 b/w plates. Sections are: Introduction; Sur...

Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Maryland and the District of Columbia

ROBBINS, CHANDLER S. , SENIOR ED. · 1996 · Pegasus Books

$25.00 (€22.41 | £18.74 | ¥3,970)

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0822939231. Cover has picture of birds on cover, black lettering on front and spine. End papers show map of Maryland and the District of Columbia. Pages are clean and tight; printed on acid-free paper....

The Secret Language of Life How Animals and Plants Feel and Communicate

FORD, BRIAN J. · 2000 · Pegasus Books

$17.25 (€15.46 | £12.93 | ¥2,739)

New York: Fromm International, 2000. First American Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0880642548. Cover is white boards with black spine, gold lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book. Illustrated with 38 b/w photographs. Originally published in UK in 1999. \"...

The Bride of Science. Romance, Reason and Byron's Daughter

Woolley, Banjamin · 1999 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€5.00 ($5.58 | £4.18 | ¥886)

London, Macmillan, 1999, cloth, dustjacket, 8vo, xi+416 pp., biography of Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and collaborator of Charles Babbage, the creator of the first computer; LIKE NEW condition

The Third Man of the Double Heliz. The Autobiography of Maurice Wilkins

Wilkins, Maurice · 2003 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€10.00 ($11.16 | £8.36 | ¥1,772)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003, cloth, dustjacket, 8vo, xiv+274 pp., 39 ills outside text, Francis Crick and Jim Watson shared the Nobel Prize for their discovery of the Double Helix of DNA with a third man, Maurice Wilkins; very good condition (like new)

Chandra. A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar

Wali, Kameshwar C. · 1991 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€10.00 ($11.16 | £8.36 | ¥1,772)

Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1991, cloth, dustjacket, 8vo, x+341 pp., 31 plates outside text, biography of the famous scientist in the fields of astronomy, physics and mathematics; Nobel Prize laureate; worked at Trinity College in Cambridge; LIKE NEW condition

Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers. A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer

Toole, Betty Alexandra · 1992 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€10.00 ($11.16 | £8.36 | ¥1,772)

Mill Valley (CA), Strawberry Press, 1992, cloth, dustjacket, 8vo, xv+440 pp., ills., Ada Lovelace was the interpreter of Charles Babbage the computer pioneer; she was the first to write programs of instructions for Babbage's Analytical Engines, the famous precursors to the mod...

The Cogwheel Brain. Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer

Swade, Doron · 2000 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€8.00 ($8.92 | £6.69 | ¥1,417)

London, Little Brown and Company, 2000, cloth, small 8vo, dustjacket, x+342 pp., 41 ills outside text, LIKE NEW condition

De ontbrekende schakel. Levensverhaal van Eugène Dubois, de Nederlander die het gelijk van Darwin bewees

Shipman, Pat · 2007 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€15.00 ($16.73 | £12.55 | ¥2,658)

Bodegraven, Uitgeverij Vorroux, 2007, hardbound, dustjacket, small 8vo, 744 pp., 16 platen buiten de tekst, over de vondst van de schedel van de Pithecanthropus erectus op Java; ALS NIEUW conditie

The Story of Mathematics

Mankiewicz, Richard; Steward, Ian · 2000 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€10.00 ($11.16 | £8.36 | ¥1,772)

London, Cassell, 2000, cloth, dustjacket, 4to, 192 pp., ills., lavishly illustrated; Pythagoras, Euclides; algebra, geometry; new geometries; mathematics and motion; LIKE NEW condition

Requiem voor Newton

Landsman, Klaas · 2005 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€10.00 ($11.16 | £8.36 | ¥1,772)

Amsterdam, Uitgeverij Contact, 2005, paperbound, 8vo, 400 pp., over de geschiedenis van de moderne natuurkunde vanaf Newton tot Hawking; zeer goede conditie (zo goed als nieuw)

The Nothing that is. A Natural History of Zero

KAPLAN, ROBERT · 2000 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€8.00 ($8.92 | £6.69 | ¥1,417)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000, cloth, dustjacket, small 8vo, xi+225 pp., historical study of 'zero' as matematical and philosophical entity; very good condition

International Women in Science. A Biographical Dictionary to 1950

Haines, Catharine M.C.; Stevens, Helen M. · 2001 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

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Santa Barbara (CA), ABC-Clio, 2001, hardbound, 4to, xix+383 pp., ills., biographies of nearly 400 women in science outside North-America, who contributed to science from 1600 to 1950; very good condition (unused)

Man of Power. The Life Story of Baron Rutherford of Nelson

Evans, Ivor B.N. · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

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London, The Scientific Book Club, n.d., cloth, dustjacket, 8vo, 288 pp., 11 ills., biography of this famous scientist, Nobel Laureate, father of nuclear physics; good condition (dustjacket with mild wear; interior clean, no annotations)

Memoir of the Life and Labours of the Late Charles Babbage [Volume 13 in the Charles Babbage Institute reprint series for the history of Computing]

Buxton, H.W.; Hyman, Anthony · 1988 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€35.00 ($39.05 | £29.27 | ¥6,201)

Bosten, MIT and Tomash Publishers, 1988, cloth, 8vo, xxi+401 pp., the work of Charles Babbage on the development of a computing machine for complex mathematical operations; very good condition

The Chemical Kinetics of the Bacterial Cell

Hinshelwood, Cyril N. · 1947 · Round Table Books, LLC

$60.00 (€53.78 | £44.98 | ¥9,529)

Very Good No dust jacket as issued Oxford University Press 1st Edition. Second Printing Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering and borders on spine. Illustrated with numerous equations, graphs, and charts. NB: "The Chemical Kinetics of the Bacterial Cell" is a landmark sc...

Common British Fungi A Guide to the More Common Larger Basidiomycetes of the British Isles

Wakefield, E.M.; Dennis, R.W.G. · 1950 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£30.00 (€35.87 | $40.01 | ¥6,355)

Gawthorn London 290, 111 col plates, 6 text figs. . HB. Large 8vo, orig. cloth, slight wear to foot of spine; corner of upper board bumped. Light residual tape marks to endpapers. Gift inscription to endpaper. Vg in slightly edge-worn d/w.. First edition..

Collecting, Preserving and Studying Insects

Oldroyd, H. · 1973 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£15.00 (€17.93 | $20.01 | ¥3,177)

Hutchinson 336, 135 text figs. . PB. Vg. Light residual tape marks to title page and final page.. 2nd revised edition..

Frogs, Flies and Dandelions: Speciation - The Evolution of New Species

Schilthuizen, M. · 2001 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£15.00 (€17.93 | $20.01 | ¥3,177)

Oxford University Press 245, text figs. . HB. Fine in d/w. Short article about the book from BBC Wildlife magazine 2002 tipped in.. . [9780198503934]

Brave Norman

Clements, Andrew · 2002 · The Childrens Bookshop

£1.95 (€2.33 | $2.60 | ¥413)

Beier, Ellen Scholastic Reprint Very Good 32 pages. 'Pets to the Rescue'. True stories of animals that saved people's lives. Covers a little worn. Contents clean and unmarked.