Forbes E G Ed (16 results)

24 × 16 cm, hardcover, iv, 596 pages, text in English, no dust jacket, tekst on spine faded, slightly browned, although in very good condition, see picture. Published as the official proceedings of the XVth International Congress of the History of Science. Contributions include 'Science and Human Values', 'Internal and External Causation of Scientific Ideas', 'International Co-operation and Diffusion in Science', 'Medicine and Industrialisation in History', 'Physics and Metaphysics in the Scientific Revolution', 'Aspects of the History of Thermodynamics', 'Problems of Source Materials in the History of Science', 'Relations between Theories of Heredity and Evolution (18801920)', 'Classification and Systematisation in the Sciences', and 'Cosmology since Newton'. Editor Eric Gray Forbes (19331984) was a historian of science at the University of Edinburgh. 940g.…

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596pp. 8vo. Original wrappers. Name on ffep. Text in English and French. A very good copy.

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[FORBES (E G.) ed.].Human Implications of Scientific Advance.Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of the History of Science, Edimburgh, 10-15 August 1977.Textes en anglais par M. T. d'Alverny, J. Ben-David, M. P. Crosland, S. Nakayama, J. Needham, M. Whitrow, etc.; en français par P. Casini, P. Costabel, J. Merleau-Ponty, R. Rashed, J.-J. Salomon.Edinburg, 1978, in-8°, br., couv. lég. défr., texte dactylographié. 900 gr. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. xi, 415 pp, 36 figs.; [v], 401 pp, 64 figs.; xiii, 386 pp, 35 figs.; Frontispiece, ix, 401 pp, 17 plates; Frontispiece, xviii, 445 pp, illus.; Frontispiece, xi, 435 pp, illus. Original cloth. Near Fine, in dust jackets. First Edition. "A work that is valuable not only for the detailed information it provides about Van Marum but also for the broader insights it yields into the style of late 18th-century experimental physics. Vol. I includes biographical material and a bibliography of Van Marum's publications; Vol. II publishes his travel diairies from his six journeys to different parts of Europe; Vol. III contains essays on various aspects of his scientific work; Vol. IV gives a descriptive catalogue of his superb collection of scientific instruments and apparatus; Vol. V republishes his four most important works, together with catalogues of his scientific collections; and Vol. VI publishes a selection of his immense scientific correspondence" (Home no. 50).…