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Condición: Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, June 22 (weekend SALE item)* 408 pp., hardcover, ex library but text clean & binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 7 volume mixed set (5 Hardcover, 2 Softcover), printed 1964-70. Good bindings and covers. Light edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Contents: Vol. 3, 1964; Vol. 4, 1965; Vol. 5, 1966; Vol. 6, 1967; Vol. 7, 1968; Vol. 8, 1969; Vol. 9, 1970. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Interesting articles in this collection include: Darwin and Darwin Studies, 1959-63 by Bert James Loewenberg; Science and the Renaissance by W.P.D. Wightman; History in Depth: The Early Victorian Period by Walter F. Cannon; Problems and Sources in the History of Geology, 1749-1810 by Rhoda Rappaport; Sources for the History of the Royal Society in the Seventeenth Century by Marie Boas Hall; The Increasing Corruption of Newton's Diagrams by J.A. Lohne; Sources of Confusion in Descartes's Illustrations, with Reference to the History of Contact Lenses by John R. Levene; Quantum Historiography and the Archive for History of Quantum Physics by J.L. Heilbron; The Academic Study of the History of Technology by D.S.L. Cardwell; Aztec Science and Technology by Francisco Guerra; Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia by Robert Biggs; The Physical Sciences and the Romantic Movement by D.M. Knight; and Science and Technology in the Industrial Revolution by Arnold Thackray. 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).