Published by London : Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1952
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Very good paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1952 pages; Physical desc.: 19 p. ; 23 cm. Subject: Technology - History. Series: L.T. Hobhouse Memorial Trust lecture ; no. 21. 3 Kg.
Published by London : Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1952
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. Very good paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1952 pages; Physical desc.: 19 p. ; 23 cm. Subject: Technology - History. Series: L.T. Hobhouse Memorial Trust lecture ; no. 21. 1 Kg.
Seller: masted books, Gilberton, SA, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Covers & Spine: both front and back glossy picture-boards are undamaged with minimal wear along the edges and corners, spine is intact with only slight bumping at ends. Binding: firm throughout, both hinges strong. Pages & Markings: unstained, no markings, clean throughout. No dust jacket as issued. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks.
Published by Rotterdam, Balkema 1990 ill, 1990
Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop Klikspaan, Leiden, Netherlands
First Edition
1st ed. - Cloth with dustjacket.
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
First Edition
US$ 213.71
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Add to basketCondition: New. Series: Science, Technology, and Culture, 1700-1945. BIC Classification: BG; HB; PNV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). . . 2016. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . .
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
First Edition
US$ 585.81
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Add to basketCondition: New. Focuses on developments at the Medical School of the University of Edinburgh and the teaching of one of Scotland's influential Enlightenment naturalists, Dr John Walker, who was the professor of natural history at the medical school from 1779-1803. This book traces his career to find out how he became a naturalist during the Enlightenment. Series Editor(s): Hamm, Dr. Ernst; Brain, Dr. Robert M. Series: Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945. Num Pages: 332 pages, Includes 19 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JF; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 768. . 2008. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . .
Published by The Author, [Bellevue Heights], 1992
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. [Bellevue Heights], The Author, August 1992. Quarto, [x], 92 leaves of processed typescript (printed rectos only) plus a full page of errata mounted on the front pastedown. Blue binder's cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; tiny bump to the top edge of the front cover; a near-fine copy. The 'Statement of Originality' (page [iv]) is signed by Terence Tao. A number of errata have been corrected manually (ink over correction fluid), presumably by the author. Terence Chi-Shen Tao FAA FRS (born on 17 July 1975 to Chinese immigrant parents and raised in Adelaide, South Australia) 'is an Australian-American mathematician, Fields medalist, and professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences. His research includes topics in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, geometric combinatorics, probability theory, compressed sensing and analytic number theory. Tao won the Fields Medal in 2006 and won the Royal Medal and Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2014, and is a 2006 MacArthur Fellow. Tao has been the author or co-author of over three hundred research papers, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest living mathematicians' (Wikipedia). Terence Tao, B.Sc. (Hons) submitted this thesis for his Degree of Master of Science in August 1992, a month after his seventeenth birthday. Signed.