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Science, Medicine & Natural History
Mankind's scientific progress, as it happened, complete with all the dead ends and unrealised theories. Four hundred years of thinking and re-thinking and all the breakthroughs.
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1871 The Descent of ManLondon: 1871The first edition of one of the most important scientific works to ever be published, Charles Darwin's introduction to his theory of evolution.
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1880 The Power of Movement in PlantsLondon: 1880The very scarce second thousand of Charles Darwin's illustrated study of plant movement and response to external stimuli.
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1901 The Descent of ManLondon: 1901A new edition of this important work by Charles Darwin, which applies the evolutionary theory to human evolution. From the library of architectural historian John H. Harvey.
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1901 The Descent of ManLondon: 1901A new edition of this important work by Charles Darwin, which applies the evolutionary theory to human evolution. With illustrations.
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1859 Glaucus; or, the Wonders of the ShoreCambridge: 1859The fourth edition of Charles Kingsley's influential natural history work on the wonders of the shore, illustrated with beautiful colour plates.
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The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to SexLondon: 1871A first edition, first issue set of this famous work regarding evolutionary theory in the context of humans, by eminent Victorian naturalist Charles Darwin.