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15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. A popular history of astronomy. In the field of astronomy, Agnes Mary Clerke (1842-1907) became a highly regarded author and commentator on contemporary theories and

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The anatomy and philosophy of expression. The anatomy and philosophy of expression : as connected with the fine arts, by Sir Charles Bell. London : George Bell, 1877.

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Early Works. Aristotle's History of Animals can be seen as one of the earliest books on zoology which mentions birds. The book covers all of the animal kingdom, including

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Conversations on chemistry. Conversations on chemistry; in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained and illustrated by experiments. The tenth edition,

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Studies in evolution and biology. Alice Bodington also wrote on evolution, although her work was intended for a general audience of adults. She aimed to bring the story

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Icones oculi humani. Icones oculi humani, Samuelis Thomae Soemmerring. Francofurti ad Moenum : Varrentrapp et Wenner, 1804. STORE 188:31. This book not only demonstrates

15 Jul 2024: Within the confines of our small Library display cases four significant themes were identified in children's literature, popular science, fashion and academia.

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. On the connexion of the physical sciences. On the connexion of the physical sciences, by Mary Somerville. 2. nd. edition. London : J. Murray, 1835. STORE 32:9. Celebrated

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Act I. COSMOGRAPHIA. Petrus Apianus (Peter Apian) and Gemma Frisius, 1584. Cosmologist Frisius’s expanded edition of German humanist Peter Apian’s 1524 work — the

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Act II. EMILIE. | INSTITUTIONS DE PHYSIQUE. Lauren Gunderson, 2009. | Emilie du Châtelet, 1740. Newton’s ideas diffused into 18th-century French culture thanks in

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The postcards. The postcards scattered about the display were produced by the British Museum in the 1920-30’s. The collection we have mainly covers birds but also

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Charles Waterton. Charles Waterton (1782-1865) possibly formed the first nature reserve and bird sanctuary when he built a nine foot wall round the grounds of his house,

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Thomson and Tait's Treatise on natural philosophy. Peter Guthrie Tait (1831-1901), a graduate of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and lecturer and chair of natural philosophy at

15 Jul 2024: In Life and Her Children Buckley aimed to acquaint young people with the structure and habits of other forms of life. ... His stated aim was to 'interest children in the study of natural history, and physical and political geography'.

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The tides and kindred phenomena in the solar system. The tides and kindred phenomena in the solar system : the substance of lectures delivered in 1897 at the Lowell

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Papers by William & James Thomson. Papers by Prof. Sir William & James Thomson. 24 items bound in 1. This volume contains a number of papers by William Thomson and his

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Act III. RADIUM EXPLAINED. William Hampson, 1905. Radium Explained: A Popular Account of the Relations of Radium to the Natural World, to Scientific Thought, and to Human

15 Jul 2024: Microscopes: 19th-century children’s books. The selection of the Whipple Library's books on microscopes that was displayed in the Reserve Gallery focused on nineteenth-century books intended for young

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Georges Cuvier, Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes. Georges Cuvier,. Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes : où l'on rétablit les

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Gideon Mantell, The geology of the south-east of England. Gideon Mantell,. The geology of the south-east of England. 1833. Donated by Martin Rudwick. STORE 222:24. In the