Method and Results : Essays [Collected Essays. Volume I]
Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895)
From Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
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From Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since June 6, 2002
About this Item
Previous owner's signature. Some foxing. Some fading to spine. Split to gutter at half title page.; Volume One only of a twelve volume edition of the "Life and Works of Thomas Henry Huxley." 1898 reprint of a volume first published in 1893. viii, 430 pages + [2] pages advertisements. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 179 x 119mm. Contents of this volume: Autobiography; On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge; The Progress of Science [1887]; On the Physical Basis of Life; On Descartes' 'Discourse Touching the Method of Using One's Reason Rightly and of Seeking Scientific Truth'; On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata, and Its History; Administrative Nihilism; On the Natural Inequality of Man [1890]; Natural Rights and Political Rights [1890]; Government: Anarchy or Regimentation [1890]. "The fourth of the 'Collected Essays in the volume now publihsed gives an account of the indispensable conditions of scientific assent, as they are defined by the author of the famous 'Discours de la Methode.'" - from the Preface, dated January 1893. Series: The Eversley Series. Seller Inventory # 26228
Bibliographic Details
Title: Method and Results : Essays [Collected ...
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., London
Publication Date: 1898
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good-
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
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