Science / Medicine

Grund, Peter. Misticall Wordes and Names Infinite. An edition and study of Humfrey Locke’s Treatise on Alchemy.

by Grund, Peter.

$ 32.00

 

“Adding to the few edited early English texts on alchemy, this book presents an edition of Humfrey Lock’s (fl. 1560s–1570s) treatise on the philosopher’s stone, the miraculous substance that would turn base metals into silver and gold or cure diseases. The substantial introduction weaves together struggles between competing merchant factions in Russia, the Elizabethan court’s fascination with alchemy, and the origins and evolution of Lock’s alchemical treatise. The book offers new insights into the circulation of alchemical texts in early modern England, the reuse and adaptation of alchemical literature, and the emergence of English as a language of science. “
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Harris, CRS. The Heart and Vascular System in Ancient Greek Medicine from Alcmaeon to Galen.

by Harris, CRS.

$ 32.00

 

“Harris traces the development of the Greeks’ ideas about the physiological function of the heart from the earliest writings 9in 5th century BC) by Alcmaeom of Croton, a pupil of Pythagoras who placed the seat of consciousness in the brain and, in his theory of unbalance of opposite qualities, offered the first rational explanation of disease, to the sphymology of Galen (AD 129-199/216).”

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Garza, Randal. Understanding Plague : Medical Imaginative Texts  Medieval Spain.

by Garza, Randal.

$ 22.00
Garza, Randal. Understanding Plague : Medical Imaginative Texts  Medieval Spain. Peter Lang Pub 2008 Pictorial hardcover. Very Good Unused  Octavo 119 pp

“Such a study concerning Spain has been conspicuously absent until now. The present investigation is among the first to bring together information that documents the pernicious behavior of the disease in Spain and to demonstrate how it changed the societies it afflicted. Studying the medical and imaginative texts of medieval Spain, reveals that the disease did, in fact, help change the perceived role of the medical practitioner, the idea of public health, and the portrayal of death and dying.”

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King. Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Yemen.

by David A. King.

$ 20.00

David A. King. Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Yemen. Undena Publications. 1983. Soft cover/like new. Quarto. 98pp.

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King. A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library.

by David A. King

$ 30.00

David A. King. A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library. Eisenbrauns. 1986. Soft cover/like new. Quarto. 331pp.

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Michaelides, editor. Medicine and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean World.

by Demetrios Michaelides, editor

$ 45.00

Demetrios Michaelides, editor. Medicine and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Oxbow Books. 2014. Hard cover Like new. Blue cover with white writing. Unused Quarto. 354pp.

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Howell. God’s Two Books- Copernican Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation in Early Modern Science

by Kenneth J. Howell.

$ 25.00

Kenneth J. Howell. God’s Two Books- Copernican Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation in Early Modern Science. University of Notre Dame Press. 2002. Hard cover. Like new with dust jacket. Dark green cover with copper lettering. DJ/like new. Octavo. 319pp.

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Mattern. Galen & the Rhetoric of Healing.

by Susan P. Mattern.

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Susan P. Mattern. Galen & the Rhetoric of Healing. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2008. Hard cover. Like new with dust jacket. Dark red cover with gold lettering .DJ/like new. Octavo. 279pp.

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Catalogue of Books and Papers Relating to Electricity, Magnetism, The Electric Telegraph etc including the Ronald’s Library.

by Francis Ronalds.

$ 15.00

Francis Ronalds. Catalogue of Books and Papers Relating to Electricity, Magnetism, The Electric Telegraph etc including the Ronald’s Library. Martino 2003. Blue cloth hardcover with gold lettering. Very good, bump on lower edge of cover. Octavo 564 pp Reprint of 1880 edition

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Weaver. Catalogue of the Wheeler Gift of Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals in the Library of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.

by William Weaver

$ 15.00

William Weaver. Catalogue of the Wheeler Gift of Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals in the Library of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Martino. 2 vols in one. No date @ 1998 Limited to 150 copies. Gray cloth hardcover with green label and gold lettering. Very little wear. Octavo 504 + 475 pp Reprint of 1909 edition

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