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Flying Buttresses, Entropy, and O-Rings: The World of an Engineer	Adams, James L.	PAPERBACK	04/01/1993	$32.50
Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea	Adler, Antony	HARDCOVER	11/19/2019	$41.00
Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics	Alexander, Amir	PAPERBACK	10/15/2011	$30.00
Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945	Anker, Peder	HARDCOVER	01/25/2002	$100.00
Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau	Arsić, Branka	HARDCOVER	01/04/2016	$56.00
Engineering—An Endless Frontier	Auyang, Sunny Y.	PAPERBACK	03/15/2006	$31.50
The Measure and Meaning of Time in Mesoamerica and the Andes	Aveni, Anthony F.	HARDCOVER	05/11/2015	$75.00
The Duke and the Stars: Astrology and Politics in Renaissance Milan	Azzolini, Monica	HARDCOVER	01/14/2013	$60.00
The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society	Beniger, James R.	PAPERBACK	03/15/1989	$50.00
A History of Chemistry	Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette Stengers, Isabelle	HARDCOVER	12/01/1996	$87.50
A Palette of Particles	Bernstein, Jeremy	HARDCOVER	03/11/2013	$40.00
A Source Book in Classical Analysis	Birkhoff, Garrett	HARDCOVER	01/01/1973	$169.50
Lives of a Biologist: Adventures in a Century of Extraordinary Science	Bonner, John Tyler	HARDCOVER	05/24/2002	$50.00
Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design	Bowler, Peter J.	PAPERBACK	04/20/2009	$30.00
Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research	Bridger, Sarah	HARDCOVER	04/06/2015	$51.00
The Common Sense of Science	Bronowski, J.	PAPERBACK	09/19/1978	$32.50
Galileo’s Telescope: A European Story	Bucciantini, Massimo Camerota, Michele Giudice, Franco Bolton, Catherine	HARDCOVER	03/23/2015	$35.00
The Spirit of System: Lamarck and Evolutionary Biology	Burkhardt, Richard W.	E-DITION	01/01/1977	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology	Burtt, Edward H. Davis, William E.	HARDCOVER	06/24/2013	$35.00
Animal Electricity: How We Learned That the Body and Brain Are Electric Machines	Campenot, Robert B.	HARDCOVER	02/15/2016	$45.00
American Medicine and Statistical Thinking, 1800–1860	Cassedy, James H.	E-DITION	04/19/1984	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
A Short History of Physics in the American Century	Cassidy, David C.	PAPERBACK	09/02/2013	$30.00
August Weismann: Development, Heredity, and Evolution	Churchill, Frederick B.	HARDCOVER	06/09/2015	$58.00
Benjamin Franklin's Science	Cohen, I. Bernard	PAPERBACK	09/01/1996	$37.50
Introduction to Newton’s “Principia”	Cohen, I. Bernard	E-DITION	01/01/1971	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Isaac Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Volumes 1 and 2: Facsimile of the Third Edition (1726) with Variant Readings	Cohen, I. Bernard	HARDCOVER	01/01/1972	$150.00	Currently unavailable
Revolution in Science	Cohen, I. Bernard	PAPERBACK	03/15/1987	$39.00
A Source Book in Greek Science	Cohen, Morris R. Drabkin, I. E.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1948	$176.00
Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations, and Cultural Changes	Conan, Michel Kress, W. John	PAPERBACK	06/30/2007	$40.00
Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species	Costa, James T.	HARDCOVER	06/16/2014	$48.00
Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes	Cowen, Ron	HARDCOVER	05/06/2019	$26.95
The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey	Cowles, Henry M.	HARDCOVER	04/14/2020	$36.00
The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species	Darwin, Charles	PAPERBACK	04/15/2011	$35.00
On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition	Darwin, Charles	PAPERBACK	01/01/1964	$30.00
Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum	Delbourgo, James	PAPERBACK	03/18/2019	$20.00
A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America	Delbourgo, James	HARDCOVER	10/15/2006	$40.00
Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age	Deringer, William	HARDCOVER	02/19/2018	$49.00
City Hospitals: The Undercare of the Underprivileged	Dowling, Harry F.	E-DITION	09/30/1982	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Fighting Infection: Conquests of the Twentieth Century	Dowling, Harry F.	E-DITION	01/01/1977	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine	Downs, Jim	HARDCOVER	09/07/2021	$29.95
One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal	Dreger, Alice Domurat	PAPERBACK	10/31/2005	$25.00
A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age, New Edition	Eames, Charles Eames, Ray Fleck, Glen	PAPERBACK	09/01/1990	$36.50
A Cultural History of Modern Science in China	Elman, Benjamin A.	PAPERBACK	04/20/2009	$30.00
On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900	Elman, Benjamin A.	HARDCOVER	04/30/2005	$89.00
A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology	Endersby, Jim	PAPERBACK	08/05/2009	$38.00
William Morton Wheeler, Biologist	Evans, Mary Alice Evans, Howard E.	E-DITION	11/30/1970	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter	Fan, Fa-ti	HARDCOVER	02/17/2004	$86.50
Body Messages: The Quest for the Proteins of Cellular Communication	Fantuzzi, Giamila	HARDCOVER	09/26/2016	$42.00
Fresh: A Perishable History	Freidberg, Susanne	PAPERBACK	10/01/2010	$30.00
Kant and the Exact Sciences	Friedman, Michael	PAPERBACK	08/19/1998	$50.00

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