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Discover Gold - The Intriguing Story of the World's Most Valued Resource , Foreword by Algemon Asprey (Découverte de l'or)
Orbis Publishing Limited (Italy) Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1983 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, under black dust-jacket, illustrated by a photography of hands full of gold, gilt edges In-4 1 vol. - 208 pages
numerous illustrations, most of them in colours 1st edition Contents, Chapitres : Foreword - The wonder of gold - Gold itself - The mystique of gold - The working of gold - Treasure - The golden life - The getting of gold - Gold rush - The currency of gold - Wearing gold - Gold today - Golden terms - Further readings - Index and acknowledgments - Vaste panorama de l'histoire et de l'utilisation de l'or, depuis sa découverte dans l'Antiquité jusqu'à aujourd'hui, la ruée vers l'or, la joaillerie, l'utilisation de l'or dans l'art et l'artisanat, le commerce et l'économie de l'or, etc Ouvrage très complet, texte en anglais dust-jacket very lightly dusty, else near fine copy, no markings, a nice copy, fully illustrated
Knowledge and the Known: Historical Perspectives in Epistemology
D. Reidel publishing company 1974 in8. 1974. Cartonné jaquette.
Bon état avec sa jaquette intérieur propre bonne tenue
Sur les fonctions méromorphes et les fonctions algébroides - Extension d'un théorème de M. R. Nevanlinna , dans la série Mémorial des Sciences Mathématiques, fascicule CXXXIX
Gauthier-Villars , Mémorial des Sciences Mathématiques Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1957 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur rose grand In-8 1 vol. - 104 pages
1ere édition Contents, Chapitres : Introduction - Préliminaires, extensions par intervention des dérivées, cas de trois indices de densité - Extensions par intervention des dérivées, cas général - Introduction des fonctions primitives - Extensions aux fonctions algébroïdes - Systèmes de fonctions - Index bibliographique papier à peine jauni sans gravité, sinon tres bon état
Infinite Series , Athena Series, Selected Topics in Mathematics
Holt, Rinehart and Winston , Athena Series, Selected Topics in Mathematics Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1962 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's red and white printed binding, no dust-jacket grand In-8 1 vol. - 183 pages
1st edition, 1962 Contents, Chapitres : Preface, Contents, x, Text, 173 pages - Tests for convergence and divergence - Taylor series - Fourier series - Uniform convergence - Rearrangements, double series, summability - Power series and real analytic functions - Additional topics in Fourier series - Appendix and index binding is clean and unmarked, without dust-jacket, inside is near fine, no markings, adhesive tracks on the end-paper on the fist and last pages
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences - Cartherine Westfall Robert W. Seidel - Mark Bodnarczuk and Lillian Hoddeson - Robert P. Crease - Catherine Westfall
Reference : 100948
(2008)
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences - Volume 38, n° 4 (Fall 2008) , (Surviving the squeeze : National Laboratories in the 1970s and 1980s - From Factory to Farm : Dissemination of Computing in High-Energy Physics - Megascience in Particle Physics : The Birth of an Experiment String at Fermilab - Recombinant Science : The Birth of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) - Retooling for the Future : Launching the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence's Laboratory, 1980-1986)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2008 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's yellow and orange wrappers, title in black grand In-8 1 vol. - 150 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 2008 Contents, Chapitres : Catherine Westfall : Surviving the squeeze : National Laboratories in the 1970s and 1980sRobert W. Seidel : From Factory to Farm : Dissemination of Computing in High-Energy Physics - Mark Bodnarczuk and Lillian Hoddeson : Megascience in Particle Physics : The Birth of an Experiment String at Fermilab - Robert P. Crease : Recombinant Science : The Birth of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) - Catherine Westfall : Retooling for the Future : Launching the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence's Laboratory, 1980-1986 near fine copy, no markings - pages 476 to 625
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences - Joan Lisa Bromberg - Daniela Monaldi - Edward Jones-Imhotep
Reference : 100946
(2008)
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences - Volume 38, n° 3 (Spring 2008) , (New Instruments and the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics - The Indirect Observation of the Decay of Mesotrons : Italian Experiments on Cosmic Radiation, 1937-1943 - Icon and Electronics)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2008 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's yellow and orange wrappers, title in black grand In-8 1 vol. - 148 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 2008 Contents, Chapitres : Joan Lisa Bromberg : New Instruments and the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics - Daniela Monaldi : The Indirect Observation of the Decay of Mesotrons : Italian Experiments on Cosmic Radiation, 1937-1943 - Edward Jones-Imhotep : Icon and Electronics - Book reviews near fine copy, no markings - pages 326 to 473
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Ethan Pollock - Peter Westwick - Finn Aaserud on Niels Bohr - James H. Williams on Fang Lizhi - H. Lyman Miller on Xu Liangying and He Zuoxiu - Cathryn Carson on Heisenberg - David Holloway - Morris Low - Alexei Kojevnikov - Zuoyue Wang - Jessica Wang
Reference : 100932
(1999)
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Volume 30, Part 1 (1999) , (The scientist and the statesman : Niels Bohr's political crusade during World War II - Fang Lizhi's big bang : A physicist and the state in China - Xu Liangying and He Zuoxiu : Divergent responses to physics and politics in the post-Mao period - New models for science in politics : Heisenberg in West Germany - Physics, the state, and civil society in the Soviet Union - Science and civil society in Japan : Physicists as public men and policymakers - Dialogues about knowledge and power in totalitarian political culture - U.S.-China scientific exchange : A case study of state-sponsored scientific internationalism during the Cold War and beyond - Merton's shadow : Perspectives on science and democracy since 1940)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1999 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 306 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1999 Contents, Chapitres : Cathryn Carson, Ethan Pollock, Peter Westwick, James H. Williams : Editors' Foreword - Finn Aaserud : The scientist and the statesman : Niels Bohr's political crusade during World War II - James H. Williams : Fang Lizhi's big bang : A physicist and the state in China - H. Lyman Miller : Xu Liangying and He Zuoxiu : Divergent responses to physics and politics in the post-Mao period - Cathryn Carson : New models for science in politics : Heisenberg in West Germany - David Holloway : Physics, the state, and civil society in the Soviet Union - Morris Low Science and civil society in Japan : Physicists as public men and policymakers - Alexei Kojevnikov : Dialogues about knowledge and power in totalitarian political culture - Zuoyue Wang : U.S.-China scientific exchange : A case study of state-sponsored scientific internationalism during the Cold War and beyond - Jessica Wang : Merton's shadow : Perspectives on science and democracy since 1940 near fine copy, no markings - pages 1 to 306
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Alexi Assmus - Stuart M. Feffer - Jack Morrell - Alexander Rueger - Mark Walker on Werner Heisenberg - Skuli Sigurdsson on Vito Volterra
Reference : 100916
(1992)
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Volume 22, Part 2 (1992) , (The molecular tradition in early quantum theory - Atoms, cancer, and politics : Supporting atomic science at the University of Chicago, 1944-1950 - Research in physics at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford 1919-1939 - Attitudes towards infinities : Responses to anomalies in quantum electrodynamics, 1919-1947 - Physics and propaganda : Werner Heisenberg's foreign lectures under National Socialism - 17,000 reprints later : Description and analysis of the Vito Volterra Reprint Collection)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1992 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 195 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1992 Contents, Chapitres : Alexi Assmus : The molecular tradition in early quantum theory - Stuart M. Feffer : Atoms, cancer, and politics : Supporting atomic science at the University of Chicago, 1944-1950 - Jack Morrell : Research in physics at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford 1919-1939 - Alexander Rueger : Attitudes towards infinities : Responses to anomalies in quantum electrodynamics, 1919-1947 - Mark Walker : Physics and propaganda : Werner Heisenberg's foreign lectures under National Socialism - Skuli Sigurdsson : 17,000 reprints later : Description and analysis of the Vito Volterra Reprint Collection plastified wrappers, transparent, else near fine, no markings - pages 210 to 404
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Angela N.H. Creager and Jean-Paul Gaudillière - Helge Kragh and Stephen J. Weininger - Peter J. Westwick - Teresa Hopper
Reference : 100926
(1996)
"Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Volume 27, Part 1 (1996) , (Meanings in search of experiments and vice-versa : The invention of allosteric regulation in Paris and Berkeley (1959-1968) - Sooner silence than confusion : The tortuous entry of entropy into chemistry - ""Abraded from several corners : "" Medical physics and biophysics at Berkeley - Essay review : Recent books on Nazism and science)"
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1996 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 196 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1996 "Contents, Chapitres : Angela N.H. Creager and Jean-Paul Gaudillière : Meanings in search of experiments and vice-versa : The invention of allosteric regulation in Paris and Berkeley (1959-1968) - Helge Kragh and Stephen J. Weininger : Sooner silence than confusion : The tortuous entry of entropy into chemistry - Peter J. Westwick : ""Abraded from several corners : "" Medical physics and biophysics at Berkeley - Teresa Hopper : Essay review : Recent books on Nazism and science" few small foxings on the wrappers, else near fine copy, no markings - pages 1 to 196
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Barton J. Bernstein - Isobel Falconer on J.J. Thomson - Naomi Oreskes - Pierre Quédec on Weiss - Alexander Rüger on Erwin Schrodinger
Reference : 100907
(1988)
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Volume 18, Part 2 (1988) , (Four physicists and the bomb : The early years - J.J. Thomson's work on positive rays, 1906 - 1914 - The rejection of continental drift - Weiss' magneton : The sin of pride or a venial mistake - Atomism from cosmology : Erwin Schrödinger's work on wave mechanics and space-time structure)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1988 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 183 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1988 Contents, Chapitres : Barton J. Bernstein : Four physicists and the bomb : The early years - Isobel Falconer : J.J. Thomson's work on positive rays, 1906 - 1914 - Naomi Oreskes : The rejection of continental drift - Pierre Quédec : Weiss' magneton : The sin of pride or a venial mistake - Alexander Rüger : Atomism from cosmology : Erwin Shrödinger's work on wave mechanics and space-time structure plastified wrappers, transparent, else near fine, no markings - pages 232 to 414
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - David Cahan on Helmholtz - Shaul Katzir - Suman Seth - Eric Vettel - Roland Wittje - Olivier Darrigol - Seiya Abiko
Reference : 100940
(2004)
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Volume 35, Part 1 (2004) , (Helmholtz and the shaping of the American physics elite in the Gilded Age - The emergence of the principle of symmetry in physics - Quantum theory and the electromagnetic world-view - The protean nature of Stanford University's biological sciences, 1946-1972 - A proton accelerator in Trondheim in the 1930s - On a recent article by Seiya Abiko - Reply to Olivier Darrigol)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2004 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 174 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 2004 Contents, Chapitres : David Cahan : Helmholtz and the shaping of the American physics elite in the Gilded Age - Shaul Katzir : The emergence of the principle of symmetry in physics - Suman Seth : Quantum theory and the electromagnetic world-view - Eric Vettel : The protean nature of Stanford University's biological sciences, 1946-1972 - Roland Wittje : A proton accelerator in Trondheim in the 1930s - Olivier Darrigol : On a recent article by Seiya Abiko - Seiya Abiko : Reply to Olivier Darrigol a dark spot on the top right corner of the wrappers, quite nothing, else near fine copy, no markings - pages 1 to 174
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - David Cassidy - Michael Chayut on Ladislas Karkas - Olivier Darrigol on Larmor and Lorentz - Karl Hufbauer on Bernard Lyot - Mark Walker - Alice Walters
Reference : 100921
(1994)
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Volume 24, Part 2 (1994) , (Controlling German science, I : U.S. and Allied forces in Germany, 1945-1947 - From Berlin to Jerusalem : Ladislaus Farkas and the founding of physical chemistry in Israel - The electron theories of Larmor and Lorentz : A comparative study - Artificial eclipses : Bernard Lyot and the coronagraph, 1929-1939 - Science, National Socialism, and the longue durée - Public science )
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1994 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 217 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1994 Contents, Chapitres : David Cassidy : Controlling German science, I : U.S. and Allied forces in Germany, 1945-1947 - Michael Chayut : From Berlin to Jerusalem : Ladislaus Farkas and the founding of physical chemistry in Israel - Olivier Darrigol : The electron theories of Larmor and Lorentz : A comparative study - Karl Hufbauer : Artificial eclipses : Bernard Lyot and the coronagraph, 1929-1939 - Mark Walker : Science, National Socialism, and the longue durée - Alice Walters : Public science very light spots on the wrappers, else near fine copy, no markings - pages 198 to 414
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - David Devorkin - Lillian Hoddeson - Stuart W. Leslie - Allan A. Needell - Robert W. Seidel - Paul Forman
Reference : 100906
(1987)
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Volume 18, Part 1 (1987) , (Organizing for space research : The V-2 rocket panel - The first large-scale application of superconductivity : The Fermilab energy doubler, 1972 - 1983 - Playing the education game to win : The military and Interdisciplinary research at Stanford - Preparing for the space age : University-based research, 1946-1957 - From glow to flow : A history of military laser research and development - Behind quantum electronics : National security as basis for physical research in the United States, 1940 - 1960)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1987 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 229 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1987 Contents, Chapitres : David Devorkin : Organizing for space research : The V-2 rocket panel - Lillian Hoddeson : The first large-scale application of superconductivity : The Fermilab energy doubler, 1972 - 1983 - Stuart W. Leslie : Playing the education game to win : The military and Interdisciplinary research at Stanford - Allan A. Needell : Preparing for the space age : University-based research, 1946-1957 - Robert W. Seidel : From glow to flow : A history of military laser research and development - Paul Forman : Behind quantum electronics : National security as basis for physical research in the United States, 1940 - 1960 few small foxings on the wrappers, else near fine copy, no markings - pages 1 to 229
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Deborah R. Coen - Olivier Darrigol - Michael D. Gordin - Britta Scheideler - Gilbert Shama and Jonathan Reinarz - Catherine Westfall - Kurt W. Beyer
Reference : 100346
(2002)
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Volume 32, Part 2 (2002) , (Scientific's errors, nature's fluctuations, and the law of radioactive decay, 1899-1926 - Turbulence in 19th-century hydrodynamics - The organic roots of Mendeleev's periodic law - Helmholtz and the liberal unification of science - The scientist as moral authority : Albert Einstein between elitism and democracy, 1914-1933 - Allied intelligence reports on wartime German penicillin research and production - A tale of two more laboratories : Readying for research at Fermilab and Jefferson Laboratory)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2002 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue In-8 1 vol. - 237 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 2002 Contents, Chapitres : Deborah R. Coen : Scientific's errors, nature's fluctuations, and the law of radioactive decay, 1899-1926 - Olivier Darrigol : Turbulence in 19th-century hydrodynamics - Michael D. Gordin : The organic roots of Mendeleev's periodic law - Edward Jurkowitz : Helmholtz and the liberal unification of science - Britta Scheideler : The scientist as moral authority : Albert Einstein between elitism and democracy, 1914-1933 - Gilbert Shama and Jonathan Reinarz : Allied intelligence reports on wartime German penicillin research and production - Catherine Westfall : A tale of two more laboratories : Readying for research at Fermilab and Jefferson Laboratory - Kurt W. Beyer : Selected bibliiography wrappers clean, with minor folding tracks on the corner and few foxings, inside is clean, no markings, the bottom right corners of the last 4 pages is strongly folded, it remains a very good reading copy - paginated 179 to 416
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Finn Aaserud - Carol Gruber - Gyeong Soon Im on Ramsauer - Nathan Reingold - Zuoyue Wang - Angela N. Creager - Henrika Kuklick
Reference : 100923
(1995)
"Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Volume 25, Part 2 (1995) , (Sputnik and the "" Princeton three: "" The national security laboratory that was not to be - The overhead system in government-sponsored academic science : Origins and early development of the Ramsauer effect - Choosing the future : The U.S research community, 1944 - 1946 - The politics of big science in the Cold War : PSAC and the funding of SLAC - In the fly room - Mind over matter ?)"
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1995 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 203 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1995 "Contents, Chapitres : Finn Aaserud : Sputnik and the "" Princeton three: "" The national security laboratory that was not to be - Carol Gruber : The overhead system in government-sponsored academic science : Origins and early development of the Ramsauer effect - Gyeong Soon Im : Choosing the future : The U.S research community, 1944 - 1946 - Nathan Reingold - Zuoyue Wang : The politics of big science in the Cold War : PSAC and the funding of SLAC - Angela N. Creager : In the fly room - Henrika Kuklick : Mind over matter ?" near fine copy, no markings - pages 186 to 388
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Garland E. Allen - Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent - Hasok Chang - Olivier Darrigol on Saint-Venant - Elisabeth Paris
Reference : 100935
(2001)
"Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Volume 31, Part 2 (2001) , (The biological basis of crime : An historical and methodological study - The construction of a discipline : Material science in the United States - Spirit, air and quicksilver : The search for the ""real"" scale of temperatue - God, waterwheels, and molecules : Saint Venant's anticipation of energy conservation - Lords of the ring : The fight to build the first U.S. electron-positron collider)"
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2001 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 204 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 2001 "Contents, Chapitres : Garland E. Allen : The biological basis of crime : An historical and methodological study - Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent : The construction of a discipline : Material science in the United States - Hasok Chang : Spirit, air and quicksilver : The search for the ""real"" scale of temperatue - Olivier Darrigol : God, waterwheels, and molecules : Saint Venant's anticipation of energy conservation - Elisabeth Paris : Lords of the ring : The fight to build the first U.S. electron-positron collider" few small foxings on the wrappers, else near fine copy, no markings - pages 184 to 387
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - J. L. Heilbron, ed.
Reference : 100919
(1993)
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Weighing Imponderables and other Quantitive Science around 1800 - Supplement to Volume 24, Part 1 (1993) , (1. The standard Model : 1.1. The scheme of imponderables (An epoch in physical science in physical science - A world of as-if) - 1.2. Between calculus and chemistry - 2. Some Means to the End : 2.1. New angles on angles (As easy as ? -Completing the circle) - 2.2. Measuring imponderables (The first weightless weighings - Caloric) 3. Laplace's School : 3.1. The spirit of Arcueil (The school tie - The dead hand) - 3.2. Mathematical figleaf (Clairaut and Newton - The Laplace transformation) - 3.3. Sound and fury (Lagrange and Newton - Laplace's approach - Enter ? - Again the figleaf) - 4. Varieties of Mercantilist Mathematics : 4.1. Cartographic control (A french business - Enter the Army - An export business - The cross-channel link - Imperial measures) - 4.2. The shape of science and the Earth (Newton's apple - Elusive ellipticity - Revolutionary geodesy - No ellipsoid of revolution))
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1993 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 337 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1993 Contents, Chapitres : 1. The standard Model : 1.1. The scheme of imponderables (An epoch in physical science in physical science - A world of as-if) - 1.2. Between calculus and chemistry - 2. Some Means to the End : 2.1. New angles on angles (As easy as ? -Completing the circle) - 2.2. Measuring imponderables (The first weightless weighings - Caloric) 3. Laplace's School : 3.1. The spirit of Arcueil (The school tie - The dead hand) - 3.2. Mathematical figleaf (Clairaut and Newton - The Laplace transformation) - 3.3. Sound and fury (Lagrange and Newton - Laplace's approach - Enter ? - Again the figleaf) - 4. Varieties of Mercantilist Mathematics : 4.1. Cartographic control (A french business - Enter the Army - An export business - The cross-channel link - Imperial measures) - 4.2. The shape of science and the Earth (Newton's apple - Elusive ellipticity - Revolutionary geodesy - No ellipsoid of revolution) minor folding tracks on the bottom right corner of the wrappers, few foxings on the borders, else near fine copy, no markings - pages 1 to 337
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - James Rodger Fleming - Christophe Masutti on Frederic Clements - Matthias Heymann - Matthias Dörries - Erik M. Conway - Simone Turchetti
Reference : 100943
(2006)
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Volume 37, Part 1 (2006) , (The pathological history of weather and climate modification : Three cycles of promise and hype - Frederic Clements, climatology, and conservation in the 1930s - Modeling reality. Practice, knowledge, and uncertainty in atmospheric transport simulation - In the public eye : Volcanology and climate change studies in the 20th century - Drowning in data : Satellite oceanography and information overload in the earth sciences - The invisible businessman : Nuclear physics, patenting practices, and trading activities in the 1930s)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2006 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 183 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 2006 Contents, Chapitres : James Rodger Fleming : The pathological history of weather and climate modification : Three cycles of promise and hype - Christophe Masutti : Frederic Clements, climatology, and conservation in the 1930s - Matthias Heymann : Modeling reality. Practice, knowledge, and uncertainty in atmospheric transport simulation - Matthias Dörries : In the public eye : Volcanology and climate change studies in the 20th century - Erik M. Conway : Drowning in data : Satellite oceanography and information overload in the earth sciences - Simone Turchetti : The invisible businessman : Nuclear physics, patenting practices, and trading activities in the 1930s wrappers clean, with minor folding tracks on the corner and few foxings, inside is clean, no markings, the bottom right corners of the last 4 pages is lightly folded, it remains a very good reading copy - pages 1 to 183
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - José M. Sánchez-Ron - Alexis de Greiff - Kenji Ito on Nishina Yoshio - Abha Sur on Meghnad Saha - Dong-Won Kim - David Kaiser - Alexei Kojevnikov on David Bohm
Reference : 100936
(2002)
"Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Volume 33, Part 1 (2002) , (International relations in Spanish physics from 1900 to the Cold War - The tale of two peripheries : The creation of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste - Values of ""pure science"" : Nishina Yoshio's wartime discourse between nationalism and physics, 1940-1945 - Scientism and social justice : Meghnad Saha's critique of the state of science in India - The conflict between the image and role of physics in South Korea - Cold War requisitions, scientific manpower, and the production of American physicists after World War II - David Bohm and collective movement)"
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2002 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 192 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 2002 "Contents, Chapitres : José M. Sánchez-Ron : International relations in Spanish physics from 1900 to the Cold War - Alexis de Greiff : The tale of two peripheries : The creation of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste - Kenji Ito : Values of ""pure science"" : Nishina Yoshio's wartime discourse between nationalism and physics, 1940-1945 - Abha Sur : Scientism and social justice : Meghnad Saha's critique of the state of science in India - Dong-Won Kim : The conflict between the image and role of physics in South Korea - David Kaiser : Cold War requisitions, scientific manpower, and the production of American physicists after World War II - Alexei Kojevnikov : David Bohm and collective movement" near fine copy, no markings - pages 1 to 192
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Kenneth L. Caneva - Alberto G. de Gregorio - R. Steven Turner
Reference : 100941
(2005)
"Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Volume 35, Part 2 (2005) , (""Discovery"" as a site for the collective construction for scientific knowledge - Neutron physics in the early 1930s - After the famine : Plant pathology, Phytophthora infestans, and the late blight of potatoes, 1845-1960)"
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2005 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 206 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 2005 "Contents, Chapitres : Kenneth L. Caneva : ""Discovery"" as a site for the collective construction for scientific knowledge - Alberto G. de Gregorio : Neutron physics in the early 1930s - R. Steven Turner : After the famine : Plant pathology, Phytophthora infestans, and the late blight of potatoes, 1845-1960" near fine copy, no markings - pages 176 to 382
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Kostas Gavroglu on van der Waals - Dan Kevles - Eric L. Mills - Alex Soojung-Kim Pang on Edward Bowles - S.S. Schweber on John Clarke Slater - Lewis Pyenson
Reference : 100911
(1990)
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Volume 20, Part 2 (1990) , (The reaction of the British physicists and chemists to van der Waals' early work and to the law of corresponding states - Cold war and hot physics : Science, security, and the American state, 1945-1956 - Useful in many capacities. An early career in American physical oceanography - Edward Bowles and radio engineering at MIT, 1920-1940 - The young John Clarke Slater and the development of quantum chemistry - Over the bounding main)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1990 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 237 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1990 "Contents, Chapitres : Kostas Gavroglu : The reaction of the British physicists and chemists to van der Waals' early work and to the law of corresponding states - Dan Kevles : Cold war and hot physics : Science, security, and the American state, 1945-1956 - Eric L. Mills : Useful in many capacities. An early career in American physical oceanography - Alex Soojung-Kim Pang : Edward Bowles and radio engineering at MIT, 1920-1940 - S.S. Schweber : The young John Clarke Slater and the development of quantum chemistry; Reviews and bibliographical essays - Lewis Pyenson : Over the bounding main" plastified wrappers, transparent, else near fine, no markings - pages 200 to 436
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Laurie M. Brown and Helmut Rechenburg on Fermi - Loren Butler on Robert S. Mulliken - Kostas Gavroglu and Ana Simoes - Daniel Kevles on Ananda Chakrabarty - Frederik Nebeker - Thomas Soderqvist
Reference : 100922
(1994)
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Volume 25, Part 1 (1994) , (Field theories of nuclear forces in the 1930s : The Fermi-Field theory - Robert S. Mulliken and the politics of science and scientists, 1939-1946 - The Americans, the Germans and the beginnings of quantum chemistry - Ananda Chakrabarty wins a patent : Biotechnology, law, and society, 1972-1980 - Experimental style in high-energy physics : The discovery of the upsilon particle - The architecture of a biographical pathway)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1994 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 183 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1994 Contents, Chapitres : Laurie M. Brown and Helmut Rechenburg : Field theories of nuclear forces in the 1930s : The Fermi-Field theory - Loren Butler : Robert S. Mulliken and the politics of science and scientists, 1939-1946 - Kostas Gavroglu and Ana Simoes : The Americans, the Germans and the beginnings of quantum chemistry - Daniel Kevles : Ananda Chakrabarty wins a patent : Biotechnology, law, and society, 1972-1980 - Frederik Nebeker : Experimental style in high-energy physics : The discovery of the upsilon particle - Thomas Soderqvist : The architecture of a biographical pathway near fine copy, no markings - pages 1 to 183
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Laurie M. Brown and Tian Yu Cao - Olivier Darrigol - Gregory A. Good - Keld Nielsen on T.J. Seebeck
Reference : 100914
(1991)
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Volume 21, Part 2 (1991) , (Spontaneous breakdown of symmetry : Its rediscovery and integration into quantum field theory - Statistics and combinatorics in early quantum theroy, II : Early symptoma of indistinguishability and holism - The Rockefeller Foundation, the Leipzig Geophysical Institute, and National Socialsm in the 1930s - Another king of light : The work T.J. Seebeck and his collaboration with Goethe, Part 2)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1991 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 196 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1991 Contents, Chapitres : Laurie M. Brown and Tian Yu Cao : Spontaneous breakdown of symmetry : Its rediscovery and integration into quantum field theory - Olivier Darrigol : Statistics and combinatorics in early quantum theroy, II : Early symptoma of indistinguishability and holism - Gregory A. Good : The Rockefeller Foundation, the Leipzig Geophysical Institute, and National Socialsm in the 1930s - Keld Nielsen : Another king of light : The work T.J. Seebeck and his collaboration with Goethe, Part 2) near fine copy, no markings - pages 212 to 407
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Laurie M. Brown and Tian Yu Cao - Olivier Darrigol - Gregory A. Good - Keld Nielsen on T.J. Seebeck
Reference : 100913
(1991)
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Volume 21, Part 2 (1991) , (Spontaneous breakdown of symmetry : Its rediscovery and integration into quantum field theory - Statistics and combinatorics in early quantum theroy, II : Early symptoma of indistinguishability and holism - The Rockefeller Foundation, the Leipzig Geophysical Institute, and National Socialsm in the 1930s - Another king of light : The work T.J. Seebeck and his collaboration with Goethe, Part 2)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1991 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 196 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1991 Contents, Chapitres : Laurie M. Brown and Tian Yu Cao : Spontaneous breakdown of symmetry : Its rediscovery and integration into quantum field theory - Olivier Darrigol : Statistics and combinatorics in early quantum theroy, II : Early symptoma of indistinguishability and holism - Gregory A. Good : The Rockefeller Foundation, the Leipzig Geophysical Institute, and National Socialsm in the 1930s - Keld Nielsen : Another king of light : The work T.J. Seebeck and his collaboration with Goethe, Part 2) plastified wrappers, transparent, else near fine, no markings - pages 212 to 407
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - M. De Maria and A. Russo on Compton and Millikan - Peter Galison and Barton Bernstein - Robert Palter - Henry Lowood
Reference : 100909
(1989)
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Volume 19, Part 2 (1989) , (Cosmic ray romancing : The discovery of the latitude effect and the Compton-Millikan controversy - In any light : Scientists and the decision to build the Superbomb, 1952- 1954 - Some impressions of recent work on eighteenth-century science)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1989 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 202 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1989 Contents, Chapitres : M. De Maria and A. Russo : Cosmic ray romancing : The discovery of the latitude effect and the Compton-Millikan controversy - Peter Galison and Barton Bernstein : In any light : Scientists and the decision to build the Superbomb, 1952- 1954 - Robert Palter : Some impressions of recent work on eighteenth-century science - Henry Lowood : Selected bibliography missing of papers on the spine of the volume, plastified wrappers, transparent, else near fine, no markings - pages 212 to 413
