Phillips Medba (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Second Printing. Gray cloth with red title block and gilt lettering. Rubbing to head and heel of spine and tips of corners. Inked over price and previous owner signature to front endpaper. Wave to text. Unfortunately, there is underlinging throuhgout in yellow highlighter pen. Profusely illustrated with diagrams and charts including a full-color fronti of the types of spectra. "The central theme of this book is the growth of man's ideas concerning the physical world, from the abstract geometrical astronomy of Greece to modern chemisty, nuclear physics, geophysics, and stellar astronomy, focusing on the fundamental concepts of matter and energy. The purpose is to illustrate as clearly as possible what science is, how scientific knowledge is acquired, and how present-day science is related to its historical roots.".