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1841 CE
#7478
Illustrations of cutaneous disease: A series of delineations of the affections of the skin in their more interesting and frequent forms.
Large folio, with 94 hand-colored lithographed plates by Archibald Henning (1805-64).
2009 CE
#7477
The history of oncology.
1935 CE
#7476
Noise: A comprehensive survey from every point of view.
Chapter 1: General considerations: behaviour of the ear. Chapter 10: Physiological and psychological effects of noise.
1986 CE
#7475
Opere scientifiche. Traduzione integrale dai testi originali. Coordinatore Luciano Casella. Revisione e note a cura di Enrico Coturri. 2 vols.
Steno's collected works translated from Latin into Italian. Reproduces Steno's original engraved illustrations, plus others from the time (some in color).
1910 CE
#7474
Opera philosophica. Edited by Vilhelm Maar. 2 vols.
Steno's collected works, presented in the original Latin with an introduction in English. Digital facsimile from biusante.parisdescartes.fr at this link.
1873 CE–1892 CE
#7473
La scienza e la pratica della anatomia patologica.
Divided into six parts, as follows: Book I: Delle alterazioni di prima formazione (on teratology) Book II: Delle ipertrofie Book III: Delle atrofie Book IV: Dell’infiammazione e della mortificazione Book V: Dei …
1737 CE–1738 CE
#7472
Bybel der Natuure door Jan Swammerdam, Amsteldammer...Biblia naturae; sive historia insectorum, in classes certas redacta, nec non exemplis, et anatomico variorum animalculorum examine, aeneisque tabulis illustrata. Insertis numerosis rariorum naturae observationibus. Omnia lingua Batava, auctori vernacula, conscripta. Accedit praefatio, in qu vitam auctoris descripsit Hermannus Boerhaave... Latinam versionem adscriptsit Hieronimus David Gaubius. 2 vols.
Swammerdam's extensive collection of microscopical observations on insects was written in Dutch, and edited for publication 57 years after Swammerdam's death, with an extensive life of the author, by Herman Boerhaave.…
2002 CE
#7471
Historical atlas and dermatology and dermatologists.
1857 CE
#7470
Catalogue raisoneé of the medical library of the Pennsylvania Hospital.
Listing 10,500 items, the library of the Pennsylvania Hospital, founded in 1763, was undoubtedly the largest hospital library in the United States in 1857, and possibly the largest medical library in America. The firs…
1952 CE
#7469
The planets: Their origin and development.
Urey coined the term cosmochemistry. He speculated that the early terrestrial atmosphere was probably composed of ammonia, methane, and hydrogen. One of his graduate students, Stanley Miller, showed in the Miller&ndas…
1961 CE
#7468
Genetic nucleic acid: Key material in the origin of life.
Muller was one of the earliest proponents of a genetics-first theory for the origin of life.
1929 CE
#7467
The origin of life.
Haldane suggested that organic molecules could have been synthesized in an early atmosphere of carbon dioxide.
1967 CE
#7466
The origin of life.
An outstanding illustrated synthesis of the topics as they stood in 1967, including Chapter 2: "Notions of the origins of life in the past," summarizing prior theories. Appendix 1 publishes the English translation of …
2010 CE
#7465
Pulse diagnosis in early Chinese medicine: The telling touch. Wih an annotated translation of the Memoir of Chunyu Yi (Canggong zhuan) in the 105th chapter of The Records of the Historian (Shi ji, ca 86 BCE) by Sima Quian, and an anthropological analysis of the first ten medical case histories.
1979 CE
#7464
The illustrated herbal.
1997 CE
#7463
The eye of the artist.
1737 CE
#7462
Hortus Cliffortianus plantas exhibens quas in hortistam vivis quam siccis, Hartecampi in Hollandia, coluit ...Georgius Clifford.
The largest and most attractive book by Linnaeus, describing and illustrating plants in the garden and herbarium of George Clifford, governor of the Dutch East India Company, at Clifford's summer estate, Harlecamp. Th…
1997 CE
#7461
An Oak Spring flora: Flower illustration from the fifteenth century to the present time. A selection of rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon.
1989 CE
#7460
An Oak Spring sylva: A selection of the rare books on trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library.
1990 CE
#7459
An Oak Spring pomona: A selection of the rare books on fruit in the Oak Spring Garden Library.
1996 CE
#7458
Bright paradise: Victorian scientific travellers.
1997 CE
#7457
Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells.
Cloning of the lamb Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. Her birth established that the nuclei of at least some adult cells can be used to produce sheep or other animals that are genetically identi…
1978 CE
#7456
A gene complex controlling segmentation in Drosophila.
Discovery of the Drosophila Bithorax complex and elucidation of its function. Lewis founded the field of developmental genetics and laid the groundwork for current understanding of the universal, evolutionarily conser…
1980 CE
#7455
Mutations affecting segment number and polarity in Drosophilia.
In 1995 Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward B. Lewis "for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development."
1976 CE
#7454
Single-channel currents recorded from membrane of denervated frog muscle fibres.
In 1991 Neher and Sakmann were awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells." They were also awarded the prize for the invention…
1974 CE
#7453
Restriction of in vitro T cell-mediated cytotoxicity in lymphocytic choriomeningitis within a syngeneic or semiallogeneic system.
Doherty and Zinkernagel discovered how a class of white blood cells known as T cells kill virus-infected cells in the body, and so present the spread of viruses. In 1998 Zinkernagel and Doherty were awarded the Nobel …
1807 CE–1834 CE
#7452
Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent, fait en 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. 34 vols.
In 1799 Humboldt and Bonpland embarked on a six-year tour of research through South America and Mexico, a trip which would afterwards be called, justifiably, "the scientific discovery of America." The two amassed exha…
1852 CE
#7451
Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, commanded by the late Captain Owen Stanley ...during the years 1846-1850, including discoveries and surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, etc. to which is added the account of Mr. E. B. Kennedy's Expedition for the exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. 2 vols.
Macgillivray was naturalist to the expedition. Thomas Huxley served as assistant surgeon on this voyage; Huxley's diary of the voyage was first published posthumously in 1935. See No. 7449. Digital facsimile of MacGil…
1898 CE–1903 CE
#7450
The scientific memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley. Edited by Professor Michael Foster... and by Professor E. Ray Lankester. 5 vols.
Presents virtually all of Huxley's scientific papers arranged in chronological order, as well as reports of his Royal Institution Friday Evening Discourses. The final supplemental volume contains the remainder of Huxl…
1935 CE
#7449
T. H. Huxley's diary of the voyage of H. M. S. Rattlesnake. Edited from the unpublished ms
Huxley served as assistant surgeon and naturalist aboard the Rattlesnake (1845-50) which made cruises from Australia to Louisiade Archipelago, New Guinea and Cape York. His diary is illustrated with his own drawings.
1843 CE–1859 CE
#7448
The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843.
Part 1: Flora of Lord Auckland and Campbell's Islands (1843-45); Part 2: Flora of Fuegia, the Falklands, Karguellen's land, etc. (1845-47); Part 3: Flora of New Zealand. 2 vols. (1851-53); Part 4: Flora of Tasmania. 2…
1854 CE
#7447
Himalayan journals; or, notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1859 CE
#7446
On the flora of Australia, its origin, affinities, and distribution; being an introductory essay to the Flora of Tasmania. Offprint from The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’, Vol. III (Flora Tasmaniae), part I (June, 1859).
The first important botanical work by a supporter of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Hooker, a botanist and plant geographer, had been a close friend of Darwin for many years, and was aware of…
1853 CE
#7445
A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an account of the native tribes and observations on the climate, geology and natural history of the Amazon Valley.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1908 CE
#7444
Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes, being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastas; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the shores of the Pacific during the years 1849-1864. Edited and condensed by Alfred Russel Wallace..., with a biographical introduction, portrait, seventy-one illustrations and seven maps. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1874 CE
#7443
The naturalist in Nicaragua: A narrative of a residence at the gold mines of Chontales; journeys in the savannahs and forests, with observations on animals and plants in reference to the theory of evolution of living forms.
In this book Belt first described "the mutualistic relationship of certain Acacias and the ant we now know as Pseudomyrmex spinicola. These are a species of red myrmecophyte-inhabiting neotropical ants which are found…
1863 CE
#7442
The naturalist on the river Amazons, a record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1905 CE
#7441
My life: A record of events and opinions. 2 vols.
1880 CE
#7440
Island life: Or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates.
"In 1880, Wallace published the book Island Life as a sequel to The Geographical Distribution of Animals. It surveyed the distribution of both animal and plant species on islands. Wallace classified islands into three…
1860 CE
#7439
The Malay archipelago: The land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise. 2 vols.
1839 CE
#7438
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H. M. S. Beagle ....
Darwin’s first published book, now universally known as The Voyage of the Beagle, is the most often read and the most often printed of all his works, after On the origin of species. Its relation to the backgroun…
1840 CE–1843 CE
#7437
The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R. N., during the years 1832 to 1836. Edited by Charles Darwin. 5 pts in 3 vols.
Part 1: Fossil mammalia by Richard Owen; Part 2: Mammalia by George Waterhouse; Part 3: Birds by John Gould; Part 4: Fish by Leonard Jenyns; Part 5: Reptiles by Thomas Bell. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive…
1913 CE
#7436
Our vanishing wild life: Its extermination and reservation.
One of the first books wholly devoted to endangered wild animals. Hornaday revolutionized museum exhibits by displaying wildlife in their natural settings, and is credited with discovering the American crocodile, savi…
2004 CE
#7435
The genome war: How Craig Venter tried to capture the code of life and save the world.
2007 CE
#7434
A life decoded. My genome: My life.
1972 CE
#7433
The palmar fascia.
"There have been many descriptions of the palmar fascia by anatomists and in papers dealing with the surgical treatment of Dupuytren's contracture, but what seems to be lacking is an overall view of the problem, based…
1986 CE
#7432
Caring and curing: Health and medicine in the Western religious tradition. Edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Darrel W. Amundsen.
1982 CE
#7431
A history of the National Library of Medicine: The nation's treasury of medical knowledge.
Digital facsimile from the National Library of Medicine at this link; from the Internet Archive at this link. Chapter XX is "Evolution of Computerized Bibliographies."
1761 CE
#7430
Continuation of the account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, from the first of May 1754, to the fifth of May 1761.
Written in Franklin's absence, this continuation was printed in the same style and format as Franklin's 1761 work. Rhoads was an American architect who served as the 59th mayor of Philadelphia.
1754 CE
#7429
Some account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, from its first rise, to the beginning of the fifth month, called May 1754.
Franklin was a prime mover in establishing the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first permanent hospital built in the future United States. This publication included the text of most of the founding documents of the hospita…