Jacob E Poulsen (19 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages. 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. Nicolaus Steno was a geologist and anatomist. Nicholas Steno's work on the formation of rock layers and the fossils they contain was crucial to the development of modern geology. The principles he stated continue to be used today by geologists and paleontologists. 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).…

Wraps. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Light wear to spine ends.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 24.5 x 17.5 cm. Octavo. 224pp. Bound in grey wrappers. Illustrated with plates, some color. 1 of 4000 copies. Fading to spine and edges. Bookplate inside front cover, gift inscription on half-title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 156 Pages Illus., Dust Jacket Minor Edge Wear O/W Fine.

PAPERBACK. Condition: Very Good. Paperback edition. 83pp. Octavo; Tight binding, spine worn, corners creased, wrap clean; b/w photos, graphs and charts throughout, interior clean throughout; Very Good. This paper is also published as supplement No. 578 to Acta Medica Scandinavica.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback; very good in faded and marked card covers.; Illustrated.; 224 pages.

Condition: Very Good. 224 pp; 31 figs. Original wrappers. Very Good. First Edition.

Library Rebound Journal. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1941. Type: Book Type: Book Type: Journal Good Library Rebound Journal. Cover Has Some Wear From Use. Interior Is Good With Edge Wear. Ex-Library With Usual Markings. Fold Out Charts In Back Of Book Intact. Clean, Tight Copy. Size T4o, 120 Pages. Size: 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Poor. First Edition. Illustrated, pp 224, paperback. The middle of the spine is bruised, leading to a slight tear to the cover of the spine. There is a similar result to the inner margin of the first thirty or forty pages. Otherwise a very good copy. A presentation copy from Peter Wagner, one of the contributors, to Professor William Stearn. Also has Stearn's neat initials on the upper cover. [Steno was a Danish scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later years. Steno was trained in the classical texts on science; however, by 1659 he seriously questioned accepted knowledge of the natural world. Importantly he questioned explanations for tear production, the idea that fossils grew in the ground and explanations of rock formation. His investigations and his subsequent conclusions on fossils and rock formation have led scholars to consider him one of the founders of modern stratigraphy and modern geology.].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. VERY GOOD in rubbed dj.

Nordisk Insulinlaboratorium, Copenhagen 1986. 224 pages. Illustrations in b/w. Publisher's soft cover. Near fine. * With a bibliography of Papers on Natural Science by Nicolaus Steno.

Nordisk Insulinlaboratorium, Copenhagen 1986. 224 pages. Illustrations in b/w. Publisher's soft cover. Near fine. * With a bibliography of Papers on Natural Science by Nicolaus Steno. ** Inscribed on subtitlepage by F.J. Billeskov Jansen.

Condition: Aceptable. 8vo. 155 pp. In original cloth binding with dust jacket. Trace of moisture on the fabric that does not reach the pages.

Illustrated. Nordisk Insulinlaboratorium 1986. 224 pages. Softcover. Sun bleached and somewhat damaged spine.[#222013].

Halbleinen. Condition: Gut. 119 S. Physiology Medicine Cover faded at the edges. Guter Zustand/ Good Ex-Library. Für Bibliotheksexpl. sehr gut erhalten. With figures. ha1062300 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 750.

155 p. Bound in the publisher's orange cloth with pictorial dustjacket (Exteriors of the dustjacket slightly rubbed and its spine discoloured, the book itself is in very good condition.).

orig.wrappers Minor rubbing. Inscribed by author on half-title. VG. Textual color photo illus. 23x15cm, 95 pp., Series: Acta Endocrinologica, Supplementum 118. Minor rubbing. Inscribed by author on half-title. VG.

orig. wrappers. Condition: minor rubbing, VG. 24x16cm, 224 pp, Contains 9 papers. Includes: F.J. Billeskov Jansen "Nicolaus Steno's Life and Fame "; Harald Moe "Niels Stensen: Childhood & Student Years"; Ole J. Rafaelsen "Steno's Lecture on the Anatomy of the Brain. A Flash of Light in the Dark"; Peter Henrik Wagner "Steno & Ray: Two Geologists & Men of Faith"; Arne Noe- Nygaard "Nicolaus Steno: Paleontologist, Geologist, Crystallographer"; E. Snorrason " Bibliography of Papers on Natural Science by Nicolaus Steno". textual photo illustrations (illustrator). …

Softcover/Paperback. 224 Seiten Einband gering berieben u. bestaubt NG02 *.* Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 660.