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  • Caves, Coprolites and Catastrophes
    Allan Chapman
    ’An irresistible biography of one of Oxford’s most colourful characters.’ John Hedley BrookeIn 1824, William Buckland stood in front of the Royal Geological Society and told them about the bones he had been studying - the bones of an enormous, lizard-like creature, that he called Megalosaurus.This was the first full account of a dinosaur.During his life, Buckland would also dem...
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    23,64 €

  • England’s Leonardo
    Allan Chapman
    Physicists are familiar with Hooke’s Law of springs, but few know of his work in other areas, such as combustion microscopy, gravitation, and architecture. England’s Leonardo is a biography of Hooke that covers all aspects of his work, from his early life on the Isle of Wight through his time at Oxford University, where he became part of the group that formed the original Fello...
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    120,05 €

  • The Medicine of the People
    Allan Chapman
    So much research in the history of medicine has been devoted to the development of medicine as a progressive science. The Medicine of the People, however, looks at the medical perceptions of lay people over the last four centuries. Lying at the heart of these perceptions is a set of ideas first formulated by Hippocrates, Aristotle and other ancient Greek physicians, which tried...
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    21,22 €

  • Ghosts that Never Haunted Christ Church
    Allan Chapman
    Allan Chapman has had a life-long fascination for ghost stories, withan imagination fired from a childhood spent in a tiny, initially gas-litcottage in Lancashire. This imagination lies at the heart of Ghosts thatNever Haunted Christ Church.With the exception of the story of the revival of Anne Greene, a welldocumentedtrue story from 1650, and the recent ‘Ghosts that might well...
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    14,18 €

  • The Victorian Amateur Astronomer
    Allan Chapman
    This is the first book to look in detail at amateur astronomy in Victorian Britain. It deals with the technical issues that were active in Victorian astronomy, and reviews the problems of finance, patronage and the dissemination of scientific ideas, including the relationship between the amateur and the professional in Britain. It contains a wealth of previously unpublished bio...
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    41,24 €

  • Mary Somerville and the World of Science
    Allan Chapman
    Mary Somerville (1780-1872), after whom Somerville College Oxford was named, was the first woman scientist to win an international reputation entirely in her own right, rather than through association with a scientific brother or father.She was active in astronomy, one of the most demanding areas of science of the day, and flourished in the unique British tradition of Grand Ama...
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    67,16 €

  • Slaying the Dragons
    Allan Chapman
    Are science and faith the common enemies we are led to believe? This important study examines popular misunderstandings about key events in the history of science-faith relations. Lively and often surprising, it covers the major episodes such as Galileo’s trial, the Wilberforce-Huxley debate and the Scopes trial of 1925, but also looks further back through the medieval period t...
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    12,83 €

  • Patrick Moore S Millennium Yearbook
    Allan Chapman / J. Mason / Patrick Moore
    In a characteristically off-beat approach, Patrick Moores Millennium Yearbook celebrateswell, the wrong millennium. Articles on Bodes observations, King Alfreds chronological work, reviews of a new Star Catalogue by Al-Sufi and the latest edition of Ptolemys Almagast complement a review of modern astronomical equipment. This thoroughly entertaining bo...
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    30,24 €