Search

14 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

14 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

14 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

14 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).

14 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

14 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

14 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

14 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

14 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,

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tides and Waves. ‘Tides and Waves,’ by George Airy. This bound article is signed Jan. 1884, by which time Darwin was Plumian Professor at Cambridge, a position he

14 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

14 Jul 2024: Each of these volumes is from the Whipple Library's Foster Collection of 19th-century pamphlets on physiology.

14 Jul 2024: He suggested that it could be used by parents to select vocations for their children, to aid judges or magistrates in deciding whether someone was guilty or not, and that it

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Satellite evolution. Satellite evolution : the evident scope of tidal friction ; the meaning of Saturn’s rings, by James Nolan. Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. A treatise on optics. Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) had a lengthy and influential career in the field of optics and was also a popular writer. He helped to give optical

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Time. The Whipple Library's special collections include numerous works on the subject of time and time-keeping, illustrating the breadth of its holdings. The collections

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Case Three: Yersinia pestis. The discovery of the plague bacterium, yersinia pestis, is deeply intertwined with the history of the plague as a tropical disease, explored

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Phrenology Collection: Joseph Millott Severn. The Library holds around 350 items on the subject of phrenology – the belief derived from the theories of Franz Josef Gall

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. An elementary manual for students. Arthur Herbert Church (1834-1915) was appointed professor of chemistry at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1879. Also a talented

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Curiosities of light and sight. Click to see enlarged image of these pages. Curiosities of light and sight, by Shelford Bidwell. London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Limited,