Aspects of the Origin of Life
London: Pergamon Press, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 20 articles selected from the Symposium on the Origin of Life on the Earth held in Moscow.
History of Science
Explore a curated selection of influential works tracing the evolution of scientific thought, key discoveries, and the development of modern knowledge across various scientific disciplines and historical contexts.
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American Iron, 1607–1900 [Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology]
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —The American iron industry was central to the nation's economic and industrial development for nearly three centuries. Gordon's study is widely regarded as one of the most significant modern surveys of the subject, documenting the transition from small colonial furnaces to the.....
A Treatise on Surveying, Containing the Theory and Practice: To Which is Prefixed a Perspicuous System of Plane Trigonometry [Early American Engineering]
Philadelphia: Kimber and Sharpless, 1843. A Very Good Hardcover. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —John Gummere was a self-taught polymath whose contributions to astronomy and mathematics made him a fellow of the American Philosophical Society. His surveying treatise was more than a textbook; it was a manual of expansion, used by land speculators.....
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes.
New York: Bantam Books, [1988]. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988) is a seminal work that explores fundamental questions of the universe's origins, structure, and eventual fate. Merging cosmology, theoretical physics, and astrophysics, it presents complex concepts.....
Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations
O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA:, 2001. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —Issued during a period of renewed public engagement with SETI research, the book captures the optimism surrounding early large-scale distributed computing projects and the growing sophistication of scientific approaches to extraterrestrial communication. It reflects the state of SETI research at the beginning of.....
Achilles in the Quantum Universe: The Definitive History of Infinity
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1997. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Acclaimed science writer Richard Morris guides the reader on a literate and clearly written tour of the efforts to make sense of the mind-bending concept of the infinite. Starting with simple logical puzzles and progressing to the latest cosmological.....
Natural History — Composite Teaching Display Incorporating an Original 1531 Printed Leaf From the Biblical Library of Stanley S. Slotkin - [Europe], 1531.
Stanley S. Slotkin (1905–1997), a Los Angeles businessman and philanthropist, assembled one of the largest private libraries of early Bibles and related texts in the United States. Beginning in the 1960s, he undertook a deliberate program of distributing individual original leaves, mounted with explanatory facsimiles and commentary, to libraries, museums.....
A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Second Printing. A History of the Modern Fact is a significant contribution to the fields of intellectual history and the history of science, offering a critical perspective on the production of knowledge in the social sciences. It appeals to readers interested in the intersections.....
Did Monkeys Invent the Monkey Wrench?: Hardware Stores and Hardware Stories
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. A historical and anecdotal tour of an American institution turns up details about the origins of common tools and gadgets, their past and present uses, and stories connected with them.
Edison in Florida: The Green Laboratory
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. In 1885, America's greatest inventor, the "wizard" of electricity and Yankee industrialization, established a second home in Florida. Unlike the many wealthy turn-of-the century vacationers who descended on Florida's tourist cities to.....
Women Inventors & Their Discoveries
Minneapolis: Oliver Press Inc., 1993. Second Printing. A Fine Hardcover in a "library" binding. Interesting facts about 10 obscure American women who invented famous things fill the pages of this very readable book. +++ Elizabeth Pinckney of the eighteenth century was responsible for the development of the commercial crop of.....
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —Steven Weinberg was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions to the unification of the weak and electromagnetic interactions between elementary particles. In this volume he turns from scientific discovery itself to the history of science, examining how modern methods of inquiry emerged from centuries of.....
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