The Space Telescope: A Study of Nasa, Science, Technology, and Politics (Signed)

[Inscribed by Robert W. Smith to noted scholar Owen and Caroline Hannaway on front end page.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xx, 508 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. *Autographed by author.* 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.…