SOFTBACK "PELICAN A559," SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1962* Publisher: Pelican/Penguin.* Binding and cover condition: Black on grey design. Illustrated stiff card covers showing a tangle spooling into a neat spiral. Black & White titles to spine & face. Light shelf wear to edges, corners & to head & tail of lightly dished spine. No visible marks. VG+.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning or other visible faults to pages. Minimal age to page margins and edges. Seems lightly used. VG.* Illustrations: Several black and white line drawn diagrams within text.* Pages: 230 pp. text. x pp. Postscript, index & blank pages at rear.* Description:- Disraeli used to speak of "the two nations": Sir Charles Snow and others warn us today against the dangers of the two cultures". We know the humanist, with his traditional culture of literature, languages, history, and the arts. But how well do we know the scientist, whose influence over the last twenty years, seems to have rocketed up from a vertical take-off ? How does his mind work? What are his fundamental assumptions? By what process does he arrive at his conclusions? What values are there in his world? And are these enough? * This is a NEAR VG+ copy of the 1st thus. 1st. imp. with minimal age and wear reducing it to VG.*.

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Title: The Simplicity of Science.
Publisher: Pelican Books Ltd., Harmondsworth Uk.
Publication Date: 1962
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: VG/VG+/ND
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Cocksparrow Books are a small on-line second hand book sellers which originated 25 years ago with a high street second-hand Book Shop in Wadhurst, East Sussex.
We specialise in non-fiction, collectible first editions of hardback fiction and first impression issues of un-usual paperbacks. We also carry a range of good condition ex-library books. We tend to avoid bestsellers and airport fiction.
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