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History and Philosophy of Science

Guide to resources for the history and philosophy of science, especially rare books in the FSU Special Collections & Archives

General Reference

Subject areas of possible interest to those researching within the range of topics found on this page might include Science -- Juvenile literature, Technology, Science, Pediatrics, Reproduction, Women -- Health and hygiene, Gynecology, Childbirth, Science -- History -- Soviet Union, Science museums, and Religion and science.

Collections and Rare Items

... Stars and atoms have no size; poems of science and industry. by Sullivan, A. M. (Aloysius Michael) 1896-1980
Call Number: PS3537.U46 S73 1946
Publication Date: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1946
And they call it science by Sanders, Charles W. (Charles Walton) 1805-1889, edited by Marsh, William John 1918- and Marsh, Charles Leroy 1920-, illustrated by Clarence M. Hansen
Call Number: PZ8.3.S22 An
Publication Date: New Milford, Conn., Marsh Brothers, 1937
History and political science by Florida State University Research Council
Call Number: AS36 .F57 no.4
Publication Date: Tallahassee, Florida State Univ. [©1951]
The human body by Miller, Jonathan 1934-, with three-dimensional, movable illustrations showing the workings of the human body designed by David Pelham
Call Number: PZ10.M55 Hum 1983
Publication Date: New York, N.Y. : Viking Press, 1983
A pop-up book containing tabs, flaps, stand-ups and other movable features which depict the workings of the human body.
Liber de proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomaeus Anglicus active 13th century
Call Number: AE2.B27 1485
Publication Date: Argentine (Strassburg) : [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (George Husner?)], 1485
"A book about the properties of things."
Medieval lore: an epitome of the science, geography, animal and plant folk-lore and myth of the middle age by Bartholomaeus Anglicus active 13th century, edited by Steele, Robert 1860-1944, translated by Trevisa, John d. 1402
Call Number: AE2 .B3 1893
Publication Date: London, E. Stock, 1893
The new science museum : a letter, with additions, addressed to the editor of The times, 16 September 1913 by Cobden Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James) 1840-1922
Call Number: Q105.G72 L682 1914
Publication Date: Hammersmith [i.e. London] : The Doves Press, 1914
The new tokology : Mother and child culture ; the science of sex and life, physiology and hygiene of the sexual organization by Brown, Eli F., Greer, Joseph H. 1851-1928, with colored frontispiece, eight original explanatory plates, and numerous other illustrations by Ruth Blake, M. D.
Call Number: RG101 .B76 1903
Publication Date: Chicago, Laird & Lee, Publishers, c1903
A nursery book of science by Cockiolly Bird 1859-1913
Call Number: QH48 .B57
Publication Date: London : T.C. & E.C. Jack, [between 1885 and 1913]
Observations upon certain passages in Mr. Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, which appear to have a tendency to subvert religion, and establish a false philosophy. by Moore, Clement Clarke 1779-1863
Call Number: F230 .J535
Publication Date: New York, 1804
Opportunities in the physical sciences by Florida State University College of Arts and Sciences
Call Number: LD1771.F9k O66 1952
Publication Date: Tallahassee : College of Arts & Sciences, Florida State University, [1952]
An outline for boys & girls and their parents : science, civilization by Mitchison, Naomi 1897-1999, illustrated by William Kermode & Ista Brouncker
Call Number: AG5 .M58 1932
Publication Date: [London] : V. Gollancz ltd., 1932
Russia's contribution to science by Petrunkevitch, Alexander I. (Alexander Ivanovitch) 1875-1964
Call Number: Q11 .C9 v.23 p. 211-241
Publication Date: New Haven, Conn., Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences [1920]
Science and life by Crowther, J. G. (James Gerald) 1899-
Call Number: Q125 .C72 1938
Publication Date: London, V. Gollancz ltd., 1938
Science and life by Crowther, J. G. (James Gerald) 1899-
Call Number: Q125 .C72 1938
Publication Date: London, V. Gollancz ltd., 1938
Science in story. Sammy Tubbs, the boy doctor, and "Sponsie," the troublesome monkey. by Foote, Edward B. (Edward Bliss) 1829-1906
Call Number: PZ7.F745 Sc
Publication Date: New York, Murray Hill Publishing Co., 1874
Tubbs is a little African-American boy who becomes a doorman to a physician and is given a pet monkey. Through their misadventures and exploits are woven lessons in anatomy and physiology.
The Science record for 1872-76. A compendium of scientific progress and discovery ... by Beach, Alfred E. (Alfred Ely) 1826-1896
Call Number: T1 .S47
Publication Date: New York, Munn, 1872-76
Science versus religion as a guide to life by Barnes, Harry Elmer 1889-1968
Call Number: BL240 .B37 1929
Publication Date: Girard, Kan. : Haldeman-Julius Publications, [1929]
Space : a star-studed journey of discovery! by Bond, Peter 1948-, design and paper engineering by Andy Mansfield; illustrated by Kim Thompson
Call Number: QB983 .B66 2008
Publication Date: New York : Sandy Creek, 2008
Children's pop-up book.
Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts : a book for old and young by Timbs, John 1801-1875
Call Number: T15 .T58 1860
Publication Date: New York : Harper & Brothers, 1860
This item includes stories on topics ranging from gas lighting, to Galileo's invention of the telescope, to the invention of gun-powder and printing.
The vanity of arts and sciences by Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius 1486? 1535
Call Number: B781.A33 I53 1676
Publication Date: London, Printed by J.C. for S. Speed, 1676
Wonders of science by Tappan, Eva March 1854-1930
Call Number: Q163 .T25 1916
Publication Date: : Houghton Mifflin, 1916
Work-days of God; : or, Science and the Bible by Morris, Herbert W. (Herbert William) 1818-1897
Call Number: BS651 .M67 1877
Publication Date: Chicago, Ill.; St. Louis, Mo. ; A.L. Bancroft & Co., 721 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal., [1877]

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