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The 200-year search for normal people
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Catalogue
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Collection of notes of lectures on Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, etc.
Clermont-Tonnerre, Aimé Marie Gaspard de, 1779-1865.Date: 1800-1801Reference: MSS.1666-1668Part of: Clermont-Tonnerre, Aimé Marie Gaspard de (1779-1865)- Books
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A catalogue of the library of the Rev. Mr. Christr. Twynihoe, late of Turnworth, near Blandford, Dorset; consisting of A large Collection of the Classics, and many valuable Books in the Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Critical Literature, History, Divinity, &c. &c. Which will be sold by auction, In the Town-Hall, in Blandford, On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the 21st, 22d, and 23d of August; 1775. And on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the 28th, 29th, and 30th of August. By William Sollers. The Sale to begin each Day precisely at 10 O'Clock. The Library may be viewed the Saturday preceding the first Day's Sale. - Catalogues may be had of Wm. Sollers, Bookseller, in Blandford; Mr. Easton, Salisbury; Mr. Goadey, and Mr. Cruttwell, Sherborne; Mr. Woolridge, Shafton; Mr. ..., Wimborn; Mr. Rule, at Poole; and at the Post-Office in Weymouth.
Sollers, William.Date: 1775]- Books
History of mathematical and physical sciences in the U.S.S.R. : historical survey / [editor, Luboš Nový].
Date: 1982- Books
Encyclopedia of the history of Arabic science / edited by Roshdi Rashed ; in collaboration with Régis Morelon.
Date: 1996- Books
Women in the history of science : a sourcebook / edited by Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Farrah Lawrence-Mackey and Rebecca Martin.
Date: 2023