Hoskin M A (74 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover; ex-library; minor shelfwear w/ bumped corners; o/w in very good condition. ALSO INCLUDES: History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge; Presuppositions of Historians of Science; Action at Distance; Principle of Uniformity; Kepler the Mathematician; Inward Nature versus Objectivity; After the Principia; Science and Poetry; "Popularising Dead Science" two books from Schools.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Theories and Things: A Brief Study in Prescriptive Metaphysics. Book.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: As New. . . . . 8vo, paperback. Near fine condition. No wear inside or out. Crisp, clean, never opened, never used Astronomical, Discovery, Science.

Paperback. Condition: As New. . . . . 8vo, paperback. Near fine condition. No wear inside or out. Crisp, clean, never opened, never used Astronomical, Discovery, Science.

Paperback. Condition: As New. . . . . 8vo, paperback. Near fine condition. No wear inside or out. Crisp, clean, never opened, never used Astronomical, Discovery, Science.

Paperback. Condition: As New. . . . . 8vo, paperback. Near fine condition. No wear inside or out. Crisp, clean, never opened, never used Astronomical, Discovery, Science.

Paperback. Condition: As New. . . . . 8vo, paperback. Near fine condition. No wear inside or out. Crisp, clean, never opened, never used Astronomical, Discovery, Science.

Paperback. Condition: As New. . . . . 8vo, paperback. Near fine condition. No wear inside or out. Crisp, clean, never opened, never used Astronomical, Discovery, Science.

Paperback. Condition: As New. . . . . 8vo, paperback. Near fine condition. No wear inside or out. Crisp, clean, never opened, never used Astronomical, Discovery, Science.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. HARDBACK original blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine pictorial dust-jacket - fine pages: vii 133 [viii] - adverts. 159mm x 235mm (6.25 x 9.25" 0.

First Edition. Good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Physical description; vol. II (only): 177 pages. Subjects; History of Science. Literature of Review. Research of Review. Review of Teaching. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. HARDBACK, blue cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, not price-clipped, as new. please contact me for photographs or further information if required.

Condition: Very Good. 1974. Journal. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1975. Journal. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1972. Journal. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1974. Journal. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1975. Journal. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1972. Journal. Academic Journal offprint. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1973. Journal. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1971. Journal. Academic Journal offprint. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy. . . . .

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Spotting to end papers and page edges. Previous owners signature to ffep. Darkening to D/J.

c.72 pp 8vo. Original wrappers, in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Book Club Edition. B&W Illustrations & Charts; This book is in Very Good+ condition and was possibly issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. A bit of the laminate has started to pull on the front cover by the spine joint. The text pages are clean and bright. "In Vegetable Staticks, Hales studied transpiration the loss of water from the leaves of plants. He estimated the surface area of the leaves of the plant and the length and surface area of the roots. This allowed Hales to compare the calculated influx of water into the plant with the amount of water leaving the plant by transpiration through the leaves. He also measured 'the force of the sap' or root pressure. Hales commented that "plants very probably draw through their leaves some part of their nourishment from the air". In Vegetable Staticks Hales prefigured the cohesion theory of water movement in plants, although his ideas were not understood at the time, so he did not influence the debate on water transport in plants in the 19th century. He also speculated that plants might use light as a source of energy for growth (i. E. Photosynthesis) , based on Isaac Newton's suggestion that "gross bodies and light" might be interconvertible. " (from Wikipedia).…

First Edition. Good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Physical description; vol. II (only): 177 pages. Subjects; History of Science. Literature of Review. Research of Review. Review of Teaching. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Remains of previous owner's bookplate on front free end paper. The dustjacket shows a little wear. Includes the following articles: Theories of Scientific Method from Plato to Mach a Bibliographical Review by Laurens Laudn. Physiology's Struggle for Independence in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century by J Schiller etc etc. C00003742.…

c.160 pp 8vo. Original cloth and dustwrapper, in very good condition.

vi+148pp. 8vo. Original cloth in slightly worn dustwrapper. A very good copy.

vi+178pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A clean copy in very good condition.