Thackray Arnold Editor (17 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paper covers; exterior is Very Good plus condition with light shelf wear; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; underlining and marginal notes found throughout, heavier at rear of book; 253 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Good hardcover copy. From the personal collection of Rachel Schurman (NOT ex-library), with her markings to text. Binding is strong and sturdy. Some shelfwear to dust jacket. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Featured articles in this issue are Greatrakes the Stroker - the Interpretations of Historians and his Contemporaries, Charles Darwin in London, Wilder D. Bancroft and the Journal of Physical Chemistry, notes and correspondence, news of the profession, essay and book reviews, etc. 177 pages, illustrated. Minor rub marks on cover. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Featured articles in this issue are Linneaus's Nemesis divina and the Concept of Divine Retaliation, Political Arithmetic in the 18th century, Empiricism in Practice - Teleology, Economy and Observation in Faraday's Physics, notes and correspondence, news of the profession, essay and book reviews, etc. 153 pages, illustrated. Minor rub marks on cover. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Light wear to the dust jacket.

HARDCOVER. First edition. 810pp + 206pp of Critical Bibliography octavo cloth. five books rebound as one. slight cover wear otherwise very good.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Periodical. pp493-657+ ads; notes, bw ills. Some minor toning and staining to covers. Contents include The MAgnetic Crusade: Science & Politics in EArly Victorial Britain; The Reception of Chemical Atomism in Germany; Benjamin Pierce's Linear Associative Algebra; Guglielmo Righini 1908-1978; and more. Size: 8vo. …

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Periodical. 156pp+ ads; notes, bw ills. Some minor toning and staining to covers. Contents include Amateurs vs Professionals: The Controversy over Telescope Size in Late Victorian Science; A Sense of Community in Astrophysics: Adopting a System of Spectral Classification; War and Peace in Natural History Publishing: The Naturalist's Library 1833-1843; Translating Copernicus and more. Size: 8vo.…

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Periodical. pp197-342 + ads; notes, bw ills. Some minor toning and staining to covers. Contents include The Riddle of Gaseous Nebulae; The Discovery of Atomic Transmutation: Scientific Styles and Philosophies in France and Britain; Vital Forces: Regulative principles or Constitutive Agents; Designing the Dinosaur: Richard Owen's Response to Robert Edmond grant; Anglo-Saxon Plant remedies and the Anglo-Saxons; and more. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Appears to have hardly been read. Same day dispatch (Mon- Fri) from the UK if ordered by 1pm.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Periodical. 211pp;index. Some minor toning and staining to covers, a few pen marks next to some entries. Critical bibliography of books pertaining to science history published in 1976-77 presented under 4 main classifications. Size: 8vo.

Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Like New. No Jacket. 313+ pp. Flawless book and text. Minor wear to corners of spine. No dj.

Condition: Very Good. 1982. Periodical. Volume 73, Number 267, June 1982 issue only. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1981. Periodical. Volume 72, Number 262, June 1981 issue only. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1981. Periodical. Volume 72, Number 262, June 1981 issue only. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear, remains very good. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1982. Periodical. Volume 73, Number 267, June 1982 issue only. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear, remains very good. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: 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).…