Merchants and Marvels
Smith, Pamela [Editor]; Findlen, Paula [Editor];
Language: English
Published by Routledge, 2001
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[Inscribed by Pamela Smith to noted scholars Owen and Caroline Hannaway on half title page.] Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. *Autographed by editor.* 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). Caroline Hannaway was a historian of medicine with close ties to the Johns Hopkins Departments of History of Medicine and History of Science and Technology.
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- Title
- Merchants and Marvels
- Author
- Smith, Pamela [Editor]; Findlen, Paula [Editor];
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0415928168
- ISBN 13
- 9780415928168
- Item weight
- 21 ounces
- Dimensions
- 6x1x9
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About the Author
Pamela H. Smith is Associate Professor of History at Pomona College and the Claremont Graduate University. She is the author of The Business of Alchemy: Science andCulture in the Holy Roman Empire, winner of the 1995 Pfizer Prize in the History of Science. Paula Findlen is Professor of History and Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program at Stanford University. She is the author of Possessing Nature: Museums,Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy, winner of the 1995 Marroro Prize in Italian History and 1996 Pfizer Prize in the History of Science.
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