William P D Wightman (46 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Rough w/ Protective Cover. Good condition. There is an ownership mark on the FEP. The d.j is in rough condition. There is a chip on the front cover up to 1 1/2" deep by 3 3/4" long. The d.j also has rubbing and edge wear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Paperback. Reprint edition. Good/Wraps (31652) . Trade paperback, good condition, w. lsmwht rubbed wraps, marks and sm scuffs. Reading crease, sme wear at sp edges. Ltly concave sp, v. lt sp creases. Tanned p. edges, soil/soil foxing. Ltly tanned ins wraps, sme pp. O/w cln, tight, unmarked. 495.

Condition: Very Good. Yale University Press New Haven, CT 1953 red cloth boards. text block crisp. dust jacket rubbed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good William P. D. Wightman's wide-ranging history of the development of scientific thought, tracing several of the dominant ideas that shaped science from antiquity through the modern period. Rather than presenting discovery as a simple procession of dates and famous names, Wightman examines how scientific concepts emerged, interacted, and gradually changed humanity's understanding of the natural world. Illustrated throughout in black and white, including a reproduced title page from Giovanni Alfonso Borelli's seventeenth-century De Motu Animalium. The volume comprises x, 495 pages. Wightman was a historian and philosopher of science whose work became part of the developing academic discipline of the history of science during the mid-twentieth century. The book is described bibliographically as a guide to the development of scientific thought through selected dominant ideas. Condition: Good. Original red cloth boards with black lettering and Yale University Press device to the spine. Cloth shows moderate rubbing, faint mottling and uneven discoloration, with light wear and softening at the corners and spine ends. Top edge is darkened and dust-soiled; remaining text-block edges show general age toning. Interior pages are moderately toned but appear clean and legible in the areas examined. No ownership inscriptions, underlining, or extensive annotations were observed in the photographed pages. Binding remains intact. Lacking the dust jacket. Please review all photographs for the most accurate representation of condition. An accessible mid-century survey of the history and philosophy of science, suitable for readers interested in scientific methodology, intellectual history, ancient and early-modern science, and the evolution of major scientific concepts. This 1953 Yale printing is not particularly scarce, but it remains a substantial and useful reference work. Carefully packed and shipped by KC Midwest Books. Domestic orders generally ship by USPS Media Mail unless another service is requested. International shipping is available; additional postage may be required for overseas orders. Returns accepted in accordance with AbeBooks' return policy. SCI 2b.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Spine has some fading. Corners are beginning to chip.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Yale University Press, 1953. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback in very good condition with very good condition dust jacket. Dust jacket is in mylar sleeve. Name plate on inside of front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Unmarked text. Some wear around the edges. Topics include matter and motion, the telescope, nature and life, electricity, the Darwinian Revolution and more. Bibliography, Chronology, Indices. 495p. Relativity is briefly mentioned in this mid-twentieth century publication, but it appears that quantum theory is omitted. …

1953, History of Science, Yale University, 495 p., very good cloth and good dust jacket.

Condition: Good. 1953 EDITION. DJ IS TATTERED ALONG THE EDGES. RED COVER HAS A LITTLE SHELF WEAR. NAME AND YEAR ON FLY-LEAF. 495 PAGE TEXT HAS LIGHT WEAR. SCIENCE. 6'' X 8.5''. WE USE BUBBLE MAILERS.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 191 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects; Renaissance. Science and civilization. 1 Kg.

hardcover. Condition: very good. Illustrated. 495pp. 8vo, printed boards. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953. Very good.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 191 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects; Renaissance. Science and civilization. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. pp.xii, 494 pages, a very good plus hardback in a very good minus dust-jacket (defective in bottom two inches of its "spine" and a part of its front cover - but now repaired) with frontispiece, 7 plates, and 35 figures in the text.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Good plus loose binding, bumped corners/ends, pg edges lightly browned, name in ink on front end pg.

Hardcover. RC, book has rubbing of spine and edges of cover, separation of hinge on page 113, foxing of pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. wrappers. Book.

vg+/vg, dj rubbed/chipped, o/w tight & clean. index. Illustrated by plates/charts/drawings. 1953st edition. Binding is maroon cloth.

Soft cover. Condition: Good/very Good. reprint from Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London Vol.11(2) 145-158, 4 plates (ex-pagination). Grey card covers unworn and good bar a few minor marks. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down outside this range. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later printing. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Very good with light age-toning to pages, spine ends lightly bumped in very good dustwrapper with some age-toning and foxing on rear panel, small nicks to spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. xii, 495pp, illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later printing. 495pp. Black and white illustrations. Fine in a very good dust jacket with fading on the spine, rubbing, and slight creasing. Signature and stamp of noted American psychologist Henry Guze (a cofounder of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis) on the front free endpaper.…

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Illustrated in black and white. x, 495 pages. 8vo, red cloth (spine a touch sunned). New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953. Very good(+).

220 x 145 mm. 8vo. x, 495 pp. Frontis., 35 figs., indexes. Red cloth, dust-jacket; jacket lightly rubbed, else fine.

cloth, 8vo xi+495 pp. matter and motion; nature and life; 33 essays on a wide range of scientific sunjects; VG condition.

xii+495pp. 8vo. Original cloth, a little rubbed, marked and fraying at edges, internally a good copy. B/w frontispiece and illustrations.

xii+495pp. 8vo. Original cloth, a little spotted, b&w illustrations and plates, endpapers illustrated with maps, faint offsetting to ffep, otherwise a very good copy. First edition.