Science, Optics, and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought

Language: English

Published by The Hambledon Press, London, 1990

0907628796 / 9780907628798

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First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xxii, 474pp. Rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in blue cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Gentle rubbing and bumps to corners and edges of boards. Faint toning to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm, square, and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A.C. Crombie is one of the best known writers on the history of Science. Science, Optics and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought brings together a coherent body of essays that complement his books and are of independent value. A.C. Crombie traces general themes in the development of Science: the Aristotelian inheritance and the importance of the search for logical explanation in the middle ages; the ambitions and limitations of experiment and quantification; changing attitudes to scientific progress; the relations between Science and the Arts, and between Mathematics, Music and Medical Science; and the study of the senses. In particular he shows how the mechanistic hypothesis stimulated the experimental and philosophical study of vision.(Publisher).…

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Title
Science, Optics, and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought
Author
Crombie, A.C.
Publisher
The Hambledon Press, London
Publication year
1990
Condition
Very good
Dust jacket
very good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0907628796
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9780907628798
Edition
First Edition.
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Underground Books, ABAA is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop, founded in 2011 as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia, which is now operated by out former store manager as The Underground Bookshop. Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women’s Initiative Mentorship Program. Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.…

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