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15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Click & Collect. Click & Collect services at the Whipple Library. What is Click & Collect? Click & Collect allows you to request books to be retrieved from the Whipple

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Directory of HPS-related special collections in the University of Cambridge: Balfour & Newton Libraries. Balfour & Newton Libraries, Department of Zoology. The MacAndrew

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Staging the History of Science. Staging the History of Science. Staging the History of Science: an exhibit in three acts' is the brainchild of two HPS MPhil students from

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Borrowing and returning books. CONTENTS. Who can borrow from the Whipple library. All current staff, students, visitors and alumni with an active University or University

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Exhibitions and Displays. Exhibitions and Displays. 200 years of Scientific Publishing at the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Advanced Research Fellow Dr Edwin Rose

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Leg Bone's Connected to the Knee Bone. Exploring Anatomy Books. This display shows a selection of books on the subject of anatomy. It mainly features student

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Writing Science: Interpreters, educators, scholars. Writing Science. This display was inspired by our acquisition in March 2016 of Grace Chisholm Young's heavily

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Sphere of Marcus Manilius. The sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English poem with annotations and an astronomical appendix by Sir Edward Sherburne (London : Printed

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Nineteenth-Century Collections. The Whipple Library has an important collection of nineteenth-century material, a total of over 2000 volumes, which has been acquired

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Directory of HPS-related special collections in the University of Cambridge: St John's. St John’s College. Medieval manuscripts include items relating to Medicine (A.19,

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Colour Science. Colour Science. The study of colour lies at the intersection of physics, physiology and psychology. This has resulted in fascinating experiments and

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Personifying Plague. Personifying Plague. For more than a millennium the disease commonly called the plague has terrorized, frightened and fascinated people around the

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Deleuze’s Histoire et description du Muséum Royal d’Histoire Naturelle. Deleuze, J. P. F. (Joseph Philippe François), 1753–1835, Histoire et description du

15 Jul 2024: 7 divisions of Life. Life and her children : glimpses of animal life from  Winners in life's race : or, The great. ... Life and her children covers 6 of Buckley’s ‘7 divisions of life’, moving from amoebas to insects, and ending with the community

15 Jul 2024: Michael Foster, 1836–1907 (Physiology) Whipple Library.

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Stephens’ Catalogue of British Insects. James Francis Stephens (1792–1852), A Systematic Catalogue of British Insects: Being an Attempt to Arrange All the Hitherto

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Books from the Collection of Sir George Howard Darwin. Sir George Howard Darwin. Sir George Howard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin and Emma Wedgwood, was born on 9. th.

15 Jul 2024: cent. microscopy books, large 19th Century Collection (covering biological sciences, chemistry, physics, natural science, medicine and popular science), and the Foster Pamphlet Collection on 19th cent.

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. J Ray, Synopsis Methodica Avium & Piscium. J. Ray,. Synopsis methodica avium & piscium. London : Impensis Gulielmi Innys, 1713. STORE 54: 6. John Ray (1627-1705) was an

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Exploring Deep History. Exploring Deep History. This display stems from a generous donation of books and prints from Professor Martin Rudwick, affiliate of the Department

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Microscopy in Print: Books from the collection of Gerard L'Estrange Turner. Microscopy in Print. This display exhibits material donated to the Whipple Library in

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. R Boyle, Medicinal Experiments. R. Boyle,. Medicinal Experiments. London : Samuel Smith and B Walford, 1696. STORE BOYLE D.15. Robert Boyle (1627-1691) is better known

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. J F Fulton, A Bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle. J. F. Fulton. A Bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1932. STORE

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Francis Willughby, Ornithology. Francis Willughby, Ornithology (London, 1676). The Ornithologiæ libri tres (referred to as the Ornithology) is one of the first truly

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. L Digges, A Geometrical Practical Treatise Named Pantometria. L. Digges,. A geometrical practical treatise named pantometria. London : Abel Jeffes, 1591. STORE 58:15.

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. S Sutton, An Historical Account of a New Method for Extracting the Foul Air Out of Ships. S. Sutton,. An historical account of a new method for extracting the foul air

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Exhibitions Archive. Exhibitions Archive. Reserve Gallery exhibition. These pages show highlights from an exhibition of the Whipple Library's special collections that was

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Three Research Journeys. Three Research Journeys. This exhibition, curated by three former MPhil students in HPS, explores research they conducted over the course of

15 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. T H Huxley, Lessons in Elementary Physiology. T. H. Huxley,. Lessons in Elementary Physiology. London : Macmillan & co, 1871. STORE 224:23. This is part of the

15 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.

15 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

15 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.

15 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

15 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.

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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.

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

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