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6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. G C Young and W H Young, The Theory of Sets of Points. Grace Chisholm Young & W. H. Young,. The Theory of Sets of Points. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1906.

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Audubon. John James Audubon (1785-1851) is America’s most famous ornithologist who is specially noted for his wonderful paintings of birds. His major work, The Birds of

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Great artists and great anatomists. Great artists and great anatomists : a biographical and philosophical study / by R. Knox. London : J. Van Voorst, 1852. STORE 122:5.

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Conflicting Chronologies. Conflicting Chronologies. Can we then wonder that they who decipher the monuments of Egypt, or the geologist who interprets the earth’s

6 Jul 2024: During their married life, Grace mainly lived in Switzerland with their children, while William took up various academic posts, in locations ranging from Cambridge to Calcutta.

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Quain's anatomy. Quain's anatomy, edited by William Sharpey, Allen Thomson and John Cleland. London : Walton and Maberly, 1864-1867. STORE 115:17-19. Quain’s Anatomy

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. F H Bradley, Appearance and Reality. F. H. Bradley,. Appearance and reality : a metaphysical essay. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1930. STORE BUCHDAHL 200. This is one of two

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. F H Bradley, Essays on Truth and Reality. F. H. Bradley,. Essays on Truth and Reality. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1914. STORE BUCHDAHL 195. This book, also from the

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The anatomie of the bodie of man. The anatomie of the bodie of man, by Thomas Vicary. London : N. Trübner & Co., 1888. STORE 193:28. This is seen as the first textbook

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The anatomy of the human body abridg'd. The anatomy of the human body abridg'd : or, A short and full view of all the parts of the body : together with their several uses

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The anatomist's vade-mecum. The  anatomist's vade-mecum : containing the anatomy, physiology, morbid appearances of the human body : the art of making anatomical

6 Jul 2024: 19th-Century Pamphlets Project: Foster Pamphlet Collection. was a collaborative project funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP). ... At the Whipple Library, the project focused on the cataloguing of the Foster Pamphlet Collection, which

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Curating the Chemical Elements. Curating the Chemical Elements. The year 2019 marks 150 years from Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev’s discovery of the periodic system of

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Discovering Past Readers. 2022-23 MPhil student Eleanor Brittain looks at markings left by readers in Whipple Collection books. Click here to see this content in

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The elements of the theory of astronomy. The elements of the theory of astronomy, by J. Hymers. Cambridge, Printed at the Pitt Press…, 1840. Second edition, revised and

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. A treatise on solid geometry. A treatise on solid geometry, by the Rev. Percival Frost. and the Rev. Joseph Wolstenholme. Cambridge and London, Macmillan and Co., 1863.

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Anatomical studies of the bones and muscles. Anatomical studies of the bones and muscles : for the use of artists, from drawings by the late John Flaxman; engraved by

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Peter Guthrie Tait. Peter Guthrie Tait was considered one of the best university lecturers of his time, and representative of a Scottish-Cambridge university education

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. An elementary treatise on the lunar theory. An elementary treatise on the lunar theory, with a brief sketch of the history of the problem up to the time of Newton,. by

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. A compendious system of astronomy. Little is known about the life of Margaret Bryan beyond that articulated in her books. An educator, she ran schools for girls and

6 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.

6 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

6 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

6 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,

6 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

6 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

6 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.

6 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

6 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

6 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

6 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

6 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,

6 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

6 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'.

6 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

6 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

6 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

6 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

6 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

6 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

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Rennie and Stoner. James Rennie was born in Scotland and in 1787 he became the first professor of natural history and zoology at King's College, London. He migrated to

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Universal harmony and the Scientific Revolution: Books concerning music in the Whipple collection. Universal harmony and the Scientific Revolution. Relationships between

6 Jul 2024: It also covers various types of specialized nursing including the nursing of children which states that 'The nurse should be bright, cheerful and merry, yet sympathetic and tender, observant, firm but ... kind. Children take to a nurse more quickly as a

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Kelvin: More than just a unit of temperature. Incoming HPS Part II student Heather Rowland explores the life and work of Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907).

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Rev. J.G. Wood. The History of Science and Technology, 1801–1914: a collaborative retrospective conversion and conservation programme (HOST). HOST was a collaborative

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. James Parkinson, Organic remains of a former world. James Parkinson,. Organic remains of a former world : An examination of the mineralized remains of the vegetables and

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. William Buckland, Reliquiæ diluvianæ. William Buckland,. Reliquiæ diluvianæ : or, Observations on the organic remains contained in caves, fissures, and diluvial gravel

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Robert Boyle Collection. amassed a large collection of the works of Robert Boyle (1627–1691), including some extremely rare editions. There are around 140 items,

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. William Henry Hudson. William Henry Hudson (1841-1922) was born in the Buenos Aires province to American parents. In 1874 he moved to England which he called his

6 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Louis Figuier, La terre avant le deluge. Louis Figuier,. La terre avant le deluge. 1872. Donated by Martin Rudwick. STORE 222:23. This is the 6. th. edition of Louis