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Introduction to Scientific Inference by Robert Hooke 9780837184708
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Robert Hooke's Experimental Philosophy Felicity Henderson 9781789149548
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $18.72Robert Hooke was England's first professional scientist, and a pioneer in the field of science communication. He was also one of the few early scientists to leave a detailed manual describing how... -
What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology by Paul Nurse
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.47The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every reader... -
Micrographia or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies by Robert Hooke 9781602069633
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $43.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602069633Author Robert HookeFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint -
Micrographia or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies by Robert Hooke 9781602066632
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1666: Plague, War and Hellfire by Rebecca Rideal
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.951666 was a watershed year for England. The outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with... -
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1666: Plague, War and Hellfire by Rebecca Rideal 9781473623545 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $3.101666 was a watershed year for England. The outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with... -
Robert Hooke's Contributions to Mechanics: A Study in Seventeenth Century Natural Philosophy by F. F. Centore 9789401186339
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In Our Time: Celebrating Twenty Years of Essential Conversation by Melvyn Bragg 9781471174483
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.81'Melvyn not only makes you think ... he makes it enjoyable too. He's brilliant.' - John Humphrys, the Today Programme. 'In a troubled world where many sneer at experts, In Our Time is always a treat... -
A Short, Illustrated History of... Scientific Discoveries by Clive Gifford
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.13If your kids are fed up with learning the names of kings and queens or dates of battles, then this is the history book for them. This book only contains some of the most brilliant discoveries in... -
Cells: The Illustrated Story of Life by Christian Sardet 9798893030839
RRP: $29.67Booksplease Price: $27.81In the fifteenth century, as astronomers charted the skies and explorers mapped the globe, the nature of life itself remained a mystery. It wasn't until the seventeenth century that Robert Hooke,... -
The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope by Catherine Wilson
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $44.31In the seventeenth century the microscope opened up a new world of observation, and, according to Catherine Wilson, profoundly revised the thinking of scientists and philosophers alike. The interior... -
The Phoenix: St. Paul's Cathedral And The Men Who Made Modern London Leo Hollis 9781474622868
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'A tour de force of biography, history, politics, philosophy and experimental science' ECONOMISTThe remarkable and inspiring story of how London was transformed after the Great Fire of 1666 into the... -
Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable by Paul G. Falkowski 9780691173351
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $19.65For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants,... -
A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy by Joel Mokyr 9780691180960
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $21.93Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that... -
Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery by Jonathan Lamb 9780691147826
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $40.76Scurvy, a disease often associated with long stretches of maritime travel, generated sensations exceeding the standard of what was normal. Eyes dazzled, skin was morbidly sensitive, emotions veered... -
Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life by Steven Shapin 9780691178165
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $21.50Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise... -
Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley by John Gribbin
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.55Shortlisted for the BSHS Hughes Prize What if Isaac Newton had never lived? Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has... -
Rewriting the Mechanic: Text, Technology, and the Body in the Eighteenth Century by Emily M. West 9781684486113
Booksplease Price: $57.04In the eighteenth century, "technology" didn't name a particular device or a process. It referred instead to written accounts of the mechanical arts, a now-obsolete category encompassing the wide... -
Physicians, Plagues and Progress: The History of Western medicine from Antiquity to Antibiotics by Allan Chapman
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.41From earliest times, man has struggled to control his environment and his fate, and a big part of that has always been his health. From the ancients onwards, the study of medicine, including surgery,... -
Bubbles: A Ladybird Expert Book by Helen Czerski
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Bubbles is a clear, surprising and entertaining introduction to the science of bubbles. Bubbles are beautiful, ephemeral, fun, fragile, jolly and slightly... -
Myriad, Microscopic and Marvellous: The World of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek Geertje Dekkers 9781836390978
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.66The pioneering Dutch microbiologist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek uncovered hidden worlds of minuscule life. With his ingenious, self-made microscopes, he observed inconceivably tiny creatures and... -
100 Science Discoveries: That Changed the World by Colin Salter
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.40Arranged in chronological order from the early Greek mathematicians, Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day Nobel Prize winners, 100 Science Discoveries That Changed the World charts the great... -
Comets, Cosmology and the Big Bang: A history of astronomy from Edmond Halley to Edwin Hubble by Allan Chapman
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.13This book will take the story of astronomy on from where Allan Chapman left it in Stargazers, and bring it almost up to date, with the developments and discoveries of the last three centuries. He... -
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski 9780393355475
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.53Storm in a Teacup is Helen Czerski's lively, entertaining, and richly informed introduction to the world of physics. Czerski provides the tools to alter the way we see everything around us by linking... -
Navigation: A Very Short Introduction by Jim Bennett
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97From the Bronze Age mariners of the Mediterranean to contemporary sailors using satellite-based technologies, the history of navigation at sea, the art of finding a position and setting a course, is... -
Physicians, Plagues and Progress: The History of Western medicine from Antiquity to Antibiotics by Allan Chapman 9780745970394
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.13Since the dawn of time, man has sought to improve his health and that of his neighbour. The human race, around the world, has been on a long and complex journey, seeking to find out how our bodies... -
The Power of Voice: A Guide to Making Yourself Heard by Denise Woods
Booksplease Price: $17.11Foreword by Academy Award-winner Mahershala Ali"A comprehensive masterpiece. . . . Throughout the course of my life, I have struggled to be heard. With Denise's insightful tutelage and easy-to-apply... -
Caves, Coprolites and Catastrophes: The Story of Pioneering Geologist and Fossil-Hunter William Buckland by Dr Allan Chapman
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $22.42'An irresistible biography of one of Oxford's most colourful characters.' John Hedley Brooke In 1824, William Buckland stood in front of the Royal Geological Society and told them about the bones... -
The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade by Benjamin Breen 9780812251784
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $84.10Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the...