Jon Eklund (7 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Book has a heavy crease across the front cover, small edge tear, general scuffing. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind on age-toned paper. The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile. Contents include: Ups and downs, Don Slow and his eletric girl getter, Lovemaker, Clone sister, Flowering narcissus, Kiddy-lib, etc. Keywords: Ups and downs, Don Slow and his eletric girl getter, Lovemaker, Clone sister, Flowering narcissus, Kiddy-lib, Sex, Erotica, Space, Sci-fi.

Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. 32 pages.Publisher's printed wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: John Bird and the Origin of the Sextant by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. Circular Dividing Engines in the United States before 1900 by ROBERT C. MILLER. Thomas Alva Edison's Gift to Milan High School by THOMAS B. GREENSLADE, Jr. A Constant Deviation Wavelength Spectrometer Made by Adam Hilger, Ltd. by NOAH RINDOS. The Beckman DU Spectrophotometer by JON EKLUND. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication (and a total of 70 issues), the journal covered areas including mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments, chemical, physical and electrical apparatus, sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions, collectors, and dealers in the field of scientific instruments.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Covers have minor wear, rubbing, chipping and short edge tears with small pieces missing. Corners an ends of spine lightly bumped and rounded. Stapled binding tight. No writing. 49 pages. History of 1700 chemistry add some of the people involved in it. Black and white illustrations Size: 8.5 x 11.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1 leaf [title page], 49 pp; 4 text figures; with loose errata slip. Original wrappers, stapled as issued. Corners of wrappers and pages bent, else Very Good. First Edition. Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology Number 33. Here is what Jon Eklund wrote on p. 1: "It would be preferable to be able to call this work 'The Compleat Chymist,' but the existing title reflects an unfortunate reality. The truth is that our knowledge of the aspirations and activities of chemists in the eighteenth century is woefully incomplete. That this is so suggests first that we have an insufficient number of interested historians of chemistry; and if this remains so it may signify something unfortunate about current historiographic trends. Specifically, there has been a tendency of late to treat eighteenth-century chemistry as an almost exclusively cerebral science. This is in part an understandable reaction to an earlier historiographic mode which is perhaps best described as Whig-inductivist. Although there were variations, the chemical variety of the basic Whig-inductivist scheme was to describe the experiment, give its contemporary interpretation, translate the phenomenon into modern terms, give the modern interpretation, and then make a normative judgment on the basis of the closeness of fit between the original and the modern interpretation. Sometimes the judgment was omitted, and the work became primarily a series of descriptions of important reactions. Even here, however, there was an implicit judgment in the selection process--those experiments most relevant to modern textbook schemes were the ones chosen for exegesis. Surely it isn't necessary here to once again beat down the presumed phoenix of Whig-inductivism, as its evils seem well understood and agreed upon. But to be repelled by the narrow normative excesses of an earlier historiography is one thing; to shun all its practices uncritically is quite another. Thus, it seems to me a non sequitur to arrive at the idea that narratives of experiments are necessarily bad or that all translations of the results into modern terms (assuming one can avoid the all-too-obvious pitfalls) are useless. More dangerous still is the tendency for historians to largely ignore the details of practice. Without doing an injustice to the intellectual content of the chemistry of that time, such an oversight seems to me to create a serious historical imbalance. Indeed, for historians to assume that the chemists of the eighteenth century were primarily concerned with theory may be to ignore most of their working hours. Certainly by far the greatest portion of the literature in contemporary journals was not concerned with theories of matter but with specific empirical problems related to the determination of chemical composition. Since they were personal vehicles which allowed greater depth, even treatises which one logically would expect to contain discussions of a more philosophical nature were composed, for the most part, of the details of chemical experiments. Surely we must characterize the chemistry of that period in accordance with the actual record left by the chemists of the time.".

Original-Broschur. 49 Seiten mit einigen s/w Abbildungen. Einband sehr leicht verfärbt, sonst handelt es sich um ein gutes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren. Textsauber und aus einem Nichtraucherhaushalt. // Original paperback. With some b/w illustrations. Cover very slightly discolored, otherwise clean book in good condition. Book from a non smoking environment. Sprache: Englisch.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 1st edition. A Very Good + copy. 4to., ix, 350 pp. Bound in blue cloth. Single-space type-written on one side. Moderate shelf wear. Yale Graduate School information on the front paste down,labeling this: Copy #2.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Number 33. (chemistry, science, history) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.