Crombie a C Editor (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Symposium on the history of science, University of Oxford 9-15, 1961. This book is a major contribution to the understanding of scientific achievement. Bringing to bear years of accumulated knowledge and research, seventy distinguished historians of science and equally prominent practicing scientists, medical specialist, philosophers, and economists from many nations here undertake the first exhaustive investigation of the intellectual, technical, and social conditions favoring--or discouraging--original scientific discovery and technical invention from antiquity to 1961. Professional book seller with storefront since 1975. All orders carefully packaged and promptly shipped.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First ten volumes, uninterrupted run. From a private collection. Bindings tight, sturdy, and square; texts very good; shelfwear very minor - exterior looks nice. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Not available for priority/expedited shipping. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 7 volume mixed set (5 Hardcover, 2 Softcover), printed 1964-70. Good bindings and covers. Light edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Contents: Vol. 3, 1964; Vol. 4, 1965; Vol. 5, 1966; Vol. 6, 1967; Vol. 7, 1968; Vol. 8, 1969; Vol. 9, 1970. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Interesting articles in this collection include: Darwin and Darwin Studies, 1959-63 by Bert James Loewenberg; Science and the Renaissance by W.P.D. Wightman; History in Depth: The Early Victorian Period by Walter F. Cannon; Problems and Sources in the History of Geology, 1749-1810 by Rhoda Rappaport; Sources for the History of the Royal Society in the Seventeenth Century by Marie Boas Hall; The Increasing Corruption of Newton's Diagrams by J.A. Lohne; Sources of Confusion in Descartes's Illustrations, with Reference to the History of Contact Lenses by John R. Levene; Quantum Historiography and the Archive for History of Quantum Physics by J.L. Heilbron; The Academic Study of the History of Technology by D.S.L. Cardwell; Aztec Science and Technology by Francisco Guerra; Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia by Robert Biggs; The Physical Sciences and the Romantic Movement by D.M. Knight; and Science and Technology in the Industrial Revolution by Arnold Thackray. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).…