First Edition. vii, 1 leaf, 565 pp. Original cloth, small 4to (7.5 x 11'). Ex-library: embossed stamp on title page, bookplate on front pastedown, pouch on rear pastedown. Ink number written on p. v. Corners of covers rubbed. Faint ghost of spine label. Else Very Good. In 1957, Dover reprinted the book, retitling it Foundations of Science: The Philosophy of Theory and Experiment. For Campbell, see D.S.B. III: 31-35, Gerd Buchdahl, 'Theory Construction: The Work of Norman Robert Campbell' (Isis, Vol. 55, No. 2, June, 1964, pp. 151-62), and Joseph J. Kockelmans, Ideas for a Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Natural Sciences, 1993, pp. 31-32.

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Title: Physics: The Elements. [Foundations of Science: The Philosophy of Theory and Experiment.]
Publisher: Cambridge: University Press, 1920.
Publication Date: 1920
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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