ISBN: 9780435549251 - changing perspectives in the history of science (10 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. 1973. hardcover. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, DW showing minor age and wear, remains very good. . . . .

Condizione: Very Good. 1973. hardcover. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, DW showing minor age and wear, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. xxi 490pp hardback, brown cloth gilt in wrapper, good in a good wrapper.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Slight shelfwear to dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Frontispiece, xxi, 490 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, in dust jacket. Contains 20 essays, and a Bibliography of Needham's writings. The essayists include Cyril Stanley Smith, Drachmann, Lu Gwei-Djen, Allen Debus, Walter Pagel, Charles Webster, Mary Hesse, Rattansi, Buchdahl, Ravetz, Bonelli, I. Bernard Cohen, Derek Price, Roy Porter, Robert Young, Teich, et al. …

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Very good hardback copy. No dustjacket. xxi, 490pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Very good hardback copy in very good dustjacket. xxi, 490pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. A SERIES OF ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF JOSEPH NEEDHAM.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, xxi, 490 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, in worn dust jacket (but the front flap of the dust jacket is not price-clipped). This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. Contains 20 essays, and a Bibliography of Needham's writings. Introduction by Mikulas Teich and Robert Young; The making of an honorary Taoist by Henry Holorenshaw; Bronze technology in the east: a metallurgical study of early Thai bronzes, with some speculations on the cultural transmission of technology by Cyril Stanley Smith; The crank in Graeco-Roman antiquity by A. G. Drachmann; Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century science in India and some problems of comparative studies by A. Rahman; The inner elixir (Nei Tan);Chinese physiological alchemy by Lu Gwei-Djen; The medico-chemical world of the Paracelsians by Allen G. Debus; The spectre of Van Helmont and the idea of continuity in the history of chemistry by Walter Pagel; William Dell and the idea of university by Charles Webster; Reasons and evaluation in the history of science by Mary Hesse; Some evaluations of reason in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century natural philosophy by P.M. Rattansi; Explanation and gravity by Gerd Buchdahl; Tragedy in the history of science by Jerome R. Ravetz; Time and motion: reflections on the non-existence of time by Maria Luisa Righini Bonelli (translated by Thomas B. Settle); A note on Harvey's 'egg' as Pandora's 'box' by I. Bernard Cohen; The [Star of David], [pentacle], and [octogram], and other geometrical and scientific talismans and symbolisms by Derek J. de Solla Price; Botanical nomenclature and its translation by Andre Haudricourt (translated by M.J.S. Rudwick); The role of science in the industrial revolution: a study of Josiah Wedgwood as a scientist and industrial chemist by Neil McKendrick; Industrial revolution and the rise of the science of geology by Roy Porter; The historiographic and ideological contexts of the nineteenth-century debate on man's place in nature by Robert Young; From 'enchyme' to 'cyto-skeleton': the development of ideas on the chemical organization of living matter by Mikulas Teich. ISBN 0435549251.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No signatures. 3/8" chip at head of dust wrapper spine and a few small 3/8" tears to margins of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover.; xxi, [1], 490 pages. Brown cloth boards. Page dimensions: 234 x 155mm. Essays by various contributors. [Seller Ref: TaylorCol]; 8vo. …