Hardcover. San Luis Obispo CA, Springer, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 299 pages. Nanotechnology & Society is a collection of sixteen papers focused on the most urgent issues arising from nanotechnology today and in the near future. Written by leading researchers, policy experts, and nanoethics scholars worldwide, the book is divided into five units: foundational issues; risk and regulation; industry and policy; the human condition; and selected global issues. The essays tackle such contentious issues as environmental impact, health dangers, medical benefits, intellectual property, professional code of ethics, privacy, international governance, and more. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Frederick J. Drake & Co., Revised Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering on front cover, 422 pages plus index. "A book in plain English for the practical man. Theory, practical applications and examples." B&w illustrations throughout. Gilt on spine faded, name on blank prelim page. Otherwise clean and tight.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green pebbled cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 165 pages including index plus 4 pages of publisher's ads. This is the first English translation and first American edition of the classic work originally published in Italy. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co., 4th pr., 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, half leather maroon binding over white boards, ribbed spine with gilt lettering. 368 pages, drawings, diagrams and b&w photographs. The 200-inch Hale Telescope at Mount Palomar was one of the great achievements of the 20th century. Long the largest reflector (eclipsed eventually with new technology and the Hubble). this book chronicle the difficulties of construction and the many discoveries made with the aid of the Hale. No dust jacket. Gift bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth-backed boards with paper spine label. Translated from the Italian and Latin by Henry Crew and Alfonso De Salvio. Introduction by Antonio Favaro. Frontispiece portrait and other illustrations/diagrams throughout. 300 pages. Originally published in 1914. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, b&w photos, 298 pages plus index. A biography of Albert Einstein written by a friend and colleague. Much has been written about Albert Einstein, technical and biographical, but very little remains as valuable as this unique record. Both rich in personal insights and grounded in a deep knowledge of twentieth-century science, Frank's biography anchors the reader with a lucid overview of physics and draws an intimate portrait of the Nobel Prize-winner. No dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. Phildelphia, W.B. Saunders Company, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth binding with spine labeling in black and gilt. Clean text; 804 pages, indexed; with bibliography and appendices. Title page with 1948 and no other printings indicated so assumed first printing. Pioneering study -- influential and highly controversial, followed five years later by the companion "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female." Owner's small embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Phildelphia, W.B. Saunders Company, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth binding with spine labeling in black and gilt. Clean text; 842 pages, indexed; with bibliography and appendices. Title page with 1953 and no other printings indicated so assumed first printing. Based on data collected from 8,000 females, this book covers all aspects of sexuality as it relates to the human female. Owner's small embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, John Van Voorst, 1st, 1857-59, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, matching maroon cloth covers with embossed design, gilt lettering on spine. Vol. I. Comprising the butterflies and stout-bodied moths. 338 pages. Vol. II. Comprising the slender-bodied and small moths. 480 pages. Small b&w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers, signed on title page.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 316 pages including index. First published in 1952. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Bristol/Philadelphia, Institute of Physics Publishing, 1st , 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 330 pages, b&w illustrations. All physicists are familiar with Hooke's law of springs, but few will know of his theory of combustion, that his Micrographia was the first book on microscopy, that his astronomical observations were some of the best seen at the time, that he contributed to the knowledge of respiration, insect flight and the properties of gases, that his work on gravitation preceded that of Newton's, that he invented the universal joint, and that he was an architect of distinction and a surveyor for the City of London after the Great Fire. England's Leonardo is a biography of Hooke covering all aspects of his work, from his early life on the Isle of Wight through his time at Oxford University, where he became part of a group who would form the original Fellowship of the Royal Society. The author adopts a novel approach at this stage, dividing the book by chapter according to the fields of research-Physiology, Engineering, Microscopy, Astronomy, Geology, and Optics-in which Hooke applied himself. The book concludes with a chapter considering the legacy of Hooke and his impact on science.
Softcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 353 pages. Social revolutions--that is critical periods of decisive, qualitative change--are a commonly acknowledged historical fact. But can the idea of revolutionary upheaval be extended to the world of ideas and theoretical debate? The publication of Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962 led to an exciting discussion of revolutions in the natural sciences. A fascinating, but little known, off-shoot of this was a debate which began in the United States in the mid-1970's as to whether the concept of revolution could be applied to mathematics as well as science. Michael Grove declared that revolutions never occur in mathematics, while Joseph Dauben argued that there have been mathematical revolutions and gave some examples. This book is the first comprehensive examination of the question. It reprints the original papers of Grove, Dauben, and Mehrtens, together with additional chapters giving their current views. To this are added new contributions from nine further experts in the history of mathematics, who each discuss an important episode and consider whether it was a revolution. The whole question of mathematical revolutions is thus examined comprehensively and from a variety of perspectives. This thought-provoking volume will interest mathematicians, philosophers, and historians alike. Small bump to bottom corner, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. Leiden/Boston, Brill, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth covers, 610 pages. This book on medieval and early modern corpuscular matter theories presents the research results of nineteen scholars, who show that his modern model of matter has some of its roots in physical, medical, mathematical, alchemical, and theological conceptions developed in the Middle Ages. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London/NY, Springer , 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards, 315 pages. This book is a study of the scientific revolution as a movement of amateur science. It describes the ideology of the amateur scientific societies as the philosophy of the Enlightenment Movement and their social structure and the way they made modern science such a magnificent institution. It also shows what was missing in the scientific organization of science and why it gave way to professional science in stages. In particular the book studies the contributions of Sir Francis Bacon and of the Hon. Robert Boyle to the rise of modern science. The philosophy of induction is notoriously problematic, yet its great asset is that it expressed the view of the Enlightenment Movement about science. This explains the ambivalence that we still exhibit towards Sir Francis Bacon whose radicalism and vision of pure and applied science still a major aspect of the fabric of society. Finally, the book discusses Boyle's philosophy, his agreement with and dissent from Bacon and the way he single-handedly trained a crowd of poorly educated English aristocrats and rendered them into an army of able amateur researchers. Clean, bright.
Hardcover. London, Taylor and Francis, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped with gilt decoration and lettering. 332 pages, b&w illustraions. "Few names in the history of science are better known than that of the Honourable Robert Boyle, F.R.S., (1627-1691). His chemical and physical researches, his association with the early history of the Royal Society, and his influence on the development of scientific thought in the seventeenth century have been the subject of many general and specialized studies. Dr. Maddison's 'Life' is based on a close study of the Boyle papers and includes much new material. Its purpose is essentially to record the facts of Boyle's life and to serve as a guide to the numerous and varied, primary and secondary sources which are available for a study of his many scientific and other activities." Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 223 pages. In Elements, Principles and Particles, Antonio Clericuzio explores the relationships between chemistry and corpuscular philosophy in the age of the Scientific Revolution. Science historians have regarded chemistry and corpuscular philosophy as two distinct traditions. Clericuzio's view is that since the beginning of the 17th century atomism and chemistry were strictly connected. This is attested by Daniel Sennert and by many hitherto little-known French and English natural philosophers. They often combined a corpuscular theory of matter with Paracelsian chemical (and medical) doctrines. Boyle plays a central part in the present book: Clericuzio redefines Boyle's chemical views, by showing that Boyle did not subordinate chemistry to the principles of mechanical philosophy. When Boyle explained chemical phenomena, he had recourse to corpuscles endowed with chemical, not mechanical, properties. The combination of chemistry and corpuscular philosophy was adopted by a number of chemists active in the last decades of the 17th century, both in England and on the Continent. Using a large number of primary sources, the author challenges the standard view of the corpuscular theory of matter as identical with the mechanical philosophy. He points out that different versions of the corpuscular philosophy flourished in the 17th century. Most of them were not based on the mechanical theory, i.e. on the view that matter is inert and has only mechanical properties. Throughout the 17th century, active principles, as well as chemical properties, are attributed to corpuscles. Given its broad coverage, the book is a significant contribution to both history of science and history of philosophy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 325 pages, b&w illustrations. "The Ocean River is that tremendous current, the Gulf Stream, and here for the first time its complete scientific and historical story is told. This beautifully written book fully explains a phenomenon which has had, and is having, an incalculable influence on the history and civilizations of the Atlantic community and therefore on the whole world." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY/London, Babcock & Wilcox, 28th Ed., 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with beveled edges, stamped in gilt. 182 pages, many b&w engravings and fascinating illustrations of their giant boilers and the customers/buildings that house them. The revised 28th Edition of the catalog which was first published in 1879. Covers with light wear, soil. From a private library with a bookplate on inside front cover. Interior clean.
Hardcover. NY, Babcock & Wilcox, 35th Ed., 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in gilt. 335 pages, many b&w engravings and fascinating illustrations of their giant boilers and the customers/buildings that house them. The revised 35h Edition of the catalog which was first published in 1879. Covers with light wear.
Hardcover. Claremont, NH, Vt. State Legislature, 1st, 1861, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two large matching volumes, embossed brown cloth. Vol 1: 289 black & white woodcut illustrations, 558 pages. Light edgewear to covers, 1 x 1" chip to cloth at bottom of spine, internally clean, tight. Vol lI. Page 559-980. 76 woodcuts. Section following index in rear has all called-for maps, charts & views. 2 large color folding maps, color plates & charts (3 fold-out) and 20 lithographic scenic views of Vermont. Volume in excellent condition. This set includes a catalogue of nearly 3000 specimens of rock, 370 specimens of minerals and several hundred specimens of organic remains. These volumes still stand as the most comprehensive examination of Vermont's geology yet published. Lovely views of Vermont. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.
Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, reprint, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 174 pages. Gorman brings his scientific knowledge to bear on a number of eccentric subjects, such as toilet mechanisms, toothpaste pumps, fleas, the sense of humour of cats and dogs and TV evangelists, in 28 essays which aim to combine good scientific sense with a sense of humour. Browning around the edges of the jacket
Softcover. London, World Scientific Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 121 pages. Richard Feynman?s never previously published doctoral thesis formed the heart of much of his brilliant and profound work in theoretical physics. Entitled "The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics," its original motive was to quantize the classical action-at-a-distance electrodynamics. Because that theory adopted an overall space?time viewpoint, the classical Hamiltonian approach used in the conventional formulations of quantum theory could not be used, so Feynman turned to the Lagrangian function and the principle of least action as his points of departure. The result was the path integral approach, which satisfied ? and transcended ? its original motivation, and has enjoyed great success in renormalized quantum field theory, including the derivation of the ubiquitous Feynman diagrams for elementary particles. Path integrals have many other applications, including atomic, molecular, and nuclear scattering, statistical mechanics, quantum liquids and solids, Brownian motion, and noise theory. It also sheds new light on fundamental issues like the interpretation of quantum theory because of its new overall space?time viewpoint. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Springer, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards, 894 pages. INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHORS on front fly leaf. This work is a large, powerfully illustrated interdisciplinary natural sciences volume, the first of its kind to examine the critically important nature of ecological paradox, through an abundance of lenses: the biological sciences, taxonomy, archaeology, geopolitical history, comparative ethics, literature, philosophy, the history of science, human geography, population ecology, epistemology, anthropology, demographics, and futurism. The ecological paradox suggests that the human biologicaland from an insular perspective, successful struggle to exist has come at the price of isolating H. sapiens from life-sustaining ecosystem services, and far too much of the biodiversity with which we find ourselves at crisis-level odds. It is a paradox dating back thousands of years, implicating millennia of human machinations that have been utterly ruinous to biological baselines. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Company, 1st US, 1875, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with black design and gilt lettering, 363 pages plus publisher's ads. A late nineteenth century reference on natural science and philosophy. Papillon's engrossing essays, written at various times and put together in this volume as - after the fashion of the time - an effort to dovetail science, metaphysics and philosophy into a higher understanding of life. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lea Brothers & Co, 3rd Ed., 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in bright red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 301 pages, b&w illustrations. Third and Revised Edition. Exceptionally bright copy with a small stain on fore-edge of text block, not affecting pages.
Hardcover. NY, Plenum Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, orange cloth in a lightly worn dust jacket, 245 pages. From the series MONOGRAPHS ON ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 242 pages, b&w illustrations and diagrams. Light underlining to 3 pages in front, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 339 pages. In this classic, Richard Titmuss compares blood donation in the US and UK, contrasting the British system of reliance on voluntary donors to the American one in which the blood supply is in the hands of for-profit enterprises, concluding that a system based on altruism is safer and more economically efficient.
Hardcover. London, Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1st UK, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth, frontis. portrait, 223 pages. First UK edition of this Einstein biography written by Rudolf Kayser, a German literary historian and husband to Albert Einsteins stepdaughter, writing under the pseudonym Anton Reiser. Foreword by Albert Einstein. First published in the US in 1930. Clean copy.
Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st pbk., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 322 pages, b&w illustrations. In this first modern, critical assessment of the place of mathematics in Berkeley's philosophy and Berkeley's place in the history of mathematics, Douglas M. Jesseph provides a bold reinterpretation of Berkeley's work. Jesseph challenges the prevailing view that Berkeley's mathematical writings are peripheral to his philosophy and argues that mathematics is in fact central to his thought, developing out of his critique of abstraction. Jesseph's argument situates Berkeley's ideas within the larger historical and intellectual context of the Scientific Revolution.
Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 326 pages, b&w illustrations. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 692 pages. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is unquestionably one of the chief landmarks in biology. The Origin (as it is widely known) was literally only an abstract of the manuscript Darwin had originally intended to complete and publish as the formal presentation of his views on evolution. Compared with the Origin, his original long manuscript work on Natural Selection, which is presented here and made available for the first time in printed form, has more abundant examples and illustrations of Darwin's argument, plus an extensive citation of sources. Name on title page otherwise a clean, sharp copy.
Hardcover. NY, Springer, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy yellow boards, 192 pages. John Wallis (1616-1703) was the most influential English mathematician prior to Newton. He published his most famous work, Arithmetica Infinitorum, in Latin in 1656. This book studied the quadrature of curves and systematized the analysis of Descartes and Cavelieri. Upon publication, this text immediately became the standard book on the subject and was frequently referred to by subsequent writers. This will be the first English translation of this text ever to be published. To the modern reader, the Arithmetica Infinitorum reveals much that is of historical and mathematical interest, not least the mid seventeenth-century tension between classical geometry on the one hand, and arithmetic and algebra on the other. Newton was to take up Wallis's work and transform it into mathematics that has become part of the mainstream, but in Wallis's text we see what we think of as modern mathematics still struggling to emerge. It is this sense of watching new and significant ideas force their way slowly and sometimes painfully into existence that makes the Arithmetica Infinitorum such a relevant text even now for students and historians of mathematics alike. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 358 pages. This volume includes Whewell's seminal studies of the logic of induction (with his critique of Mill's theory), arguments for his realist view that science discovers necessary truths about nature, and exercises in the epistemology and ontology of science. The book sets forth a coherent statement of a historically important philosophy of science whose influence has never been greater: every one of Whewell's fundamental ideas about the philosophy of science is presented here. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st thus., 1972, Two hardcover volumes in bright dust jackets. Folio. [4], v-xl, [2], 1-547, [3]; [7], 548-916 pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a facsimile frontispiece portrait of Isaac Newton, taken from the 1726 edition of Newton's Principia. Also illustrated with 67 in-text diagrams, from the original editions. Facsimile half-title, title, and text pages as well, all taken from the first three published editions of Newton's Principia. Assembled and edited by Alexandre Koyre and I. Bernard Cohen with the assistance of Anne Whitman. This edition of Isaac Newton's Principia is the first edition that enables the reader to see at a glance the stages of evolution of the work from the completion of the manuscript draft of the first edition in 1685 to the publication of the third edition, authorized by Newton, in 1726. A series of appendices provides additional material on the development of the Principia; the contributions of Roger Cotes and of Henry Pemberton; drafts of Newton's preface to the third edition; a bibliography of the Principia, describing in detail the three substantive editions and all the known subsequent editions; an index of names mentioned in the third edition; and a complete table of contents of the third edition. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf of both volumes. Otherwise a bright, clean set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 456 pages. The human brain is perhaps the most intricate and fascinating object in the known universe. Through a mysterious process, the activity of billions of neurons within a few pounds of matter generates the unfathomable complexity of the mind. This book is a conversational and accessible introduction to the brain. Beginning from basic elements of neuroscience, the acclaimed scientist Rafael Yuste guides readers through increasingly sophisticated topics, developing a unified framework for how the brain functions. He describes how the brain is organized and how it develops, how neurons operate and form neural circuits, and how these circuits function as neural networks to generate behavior and mental states. Yuste challenges the traditional view that the brain is an input-output machine that reacts reflexively to sensory stimuli. Instead, he argues, the purpose of the brain is to make a predictive model of the world in order to anticipate the future and choose successful courses of action. He gives readers insight into the workings of sensory and motor systems and the neurobiological basis of our perceptions, thoughts, emotions, memories, and consciousness. Peppered with anecdotes and illustrated with elegant drawings and diagrams, this succinct and cohesive book is accessible to readers without previous background in the subject. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Five large folio volumes, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 2475 pages, b/w and colored illus. (including foldouts. Vol.1 is a biography of Malpighi; the remaining 4 volumes provide an extensive account of the development of embryology. In publisher's slipcase. All clean, excellent condition. NOTE: These are five large and heavy volumes. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 562 pages with index. This volume is the first systematic presentation of the work of Albert Einstein, comprising fourteen essays by leading historians and philosophers of science that introduce readers to his work. Following an introduction that places Einstein's work in the context of his life and times, the book opens with essays on the papers of Einstein's 'miracle year', 1905, covering Brownian motion, light quanta, and special relativity, as well as his contributions to early quantum theory and the opposition to his light quantum hypothesis. Further essays relate Einstein's path to the general theory of relativity (1915) and the beginnings of two fields it spawned, relativistic cosmology and gravitational waves. Essays on Einstein's later years examine his unified field theory program and his critique of quantum mechanics. The closing essays explore the relation between Einstein's work and twentieth-century philosophy, as well as his political writings. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 332 pages, b&w illustrations. Einstein and the Quantum reveals for the first time the full significance of Albert Einstein's contributions to quantum theory. Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics, observing that God does not play dice. But, in fact, he thought more about the nature of atoms, molecules, and the emission and absorption of light-the core of what we now know as quantum theory-than he did about relativity. A compelling blend of physics, biography, and the history of science, Einstein and the Quantum shares the untold story of how Einstein-not Max Planck or Niels Bohr-was the driving force behind early quantum theory. It paints a vivid portrait of the iconic physicist as he grappled with the apparently contradictory nature of the atomic world, in which its invisible constituents defy the categories of classical physics, behaving simultaneously as both particle and wave. And it demonstrates how Einstein's later work on the emission and absorption of light, and on atomic gases, led directly to Erwin Schrodinger's breakthrough to the modern form of quantum mechanics. The book sheds light on why Einstein ultimately renounced his own brilliant work on quantum theory, due to his deep belief in science as something objective and eternal. Clean copy.
Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 501 pages, b&w illustrations. "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer-the wrong one-to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and the evolution of species and lineages (phylogeny)? In this, the first major book on the subject in fifty years, Stephen Jay Gould documents the history of the idea of recapitulation from its first appearance among the pre-Socratics to its fall in the early twentieth century. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 286 pages. In Science before Socrates, Daniel Graham argues against the prevalent belief that the Presocratic philosophers did not produce any empirical science and that the first major Greek science, astronomy, did not develop until at least the time of Plato. Instead, Graham proposes that the advances made by Presocratic philosophers in the study of astronomy deserve to be considered as scientific contributions. Whereas philosophers of the sixth century BC treated astronomical phenomena as ephemeral events continuous with weather processes, those of the fifth century treated heavenly bodies as independent stony masses whirled in a cosmic vortex. Two historic events help to date and account for the change: a solar eclipse in 478 BC and a meteoroid that fell to earth around 466. Both events influenced Anaxagoras, who transformed insights from Parmenides into explanations of lunar and solar eclipses, meteors, and rainbows. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 4th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 581 pages. B&W diagrams/illustrations in text. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Folkstone Kent UK, Winterdown Books, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in gilt, 194 pages, 4 b&w plates. Limited to 200 copies. Name and date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton Universirty Press, 1st pbk, 1987, Softcover, 457 pages. With a new bibliographic essay by Wilbur R. Knorr. Translated by C. Dikshoorn. Reviewers praised this "brilliant analytic summary," "An edition and study of Archimedes' known works in which theorems are translated literally while a special notation, avoiding some of the implications of algebraic symbolism, is used to present paraphrases of the proofs." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 700 pages, b&w illustrations. With insight and wit, Robert J. Richards focuses on the development of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior from their first distinct appearance in the eighteenth century to their controversial state today. Particularly important in the nineteenth century were Charles Darwin's ideas about instinct, reason, and morality, which Richards considers against the background of Darwin's personality, training, scientific and cultural concerns, and intellectual community. Many critics have argued that the Darwinian revolution stripped nature of moral purpose and ethically neutered the human animal. Richards contends, however, that Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and their disciples attempted to reanimate moral life, believing that the evolutionary process gave heart to unselfish, altruistic behavior. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, E. & S. Livingstone Ltd, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 104 pages, b&w illustrations. Biography of an 18th century man of medicine and natural science. Small name stamp on front fly leaf, oterwise clean.
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 "Nanotechnology & Society: Current and Emerging Ethical Issues by: Fritz Allhoff, Patrick Lin")
 "They Love and Kill: Sex, Sympathy and Aggression in Courtship and Mating by: Vitus B. Droscher")
 "Practical Applied Electricity by: Moreton, David Penn")
 "Modern Theory of Physical Phenomena: Radio-Activity, Ions, Electrons by: Righi, Augusto/Trowbridge, Augustus (transl.)")
 "The Glass Giant of Palomar by: Woodbury, David O.")
 "Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences by: Galilei, Galileo")
 "Einstein: His Life and Times by: Frank, Philipp with George Rosen (trans) and Shuichi Kusaka (ed)")
 "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by: Kinsey, Alfred C., Wardell B. Pomeroy & Clyde E. Martin")
 "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female by: Kinsey, Alfred C., Wardell B. Pomeroy, Paul Gerhard& Clyde E. Martin")
 "A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths (2 Vols.) by: Stainton, H. T., et al.")
 "Handbook of Solar Eclipses by: Isabel Martin Lewis")
 "The Method of Descartes: A Study of the 'Regulae' by: L. J. Beck")
 "England's Leonardo: Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-Century Scientific Revolution by: Chapman, Allan")
 "Revolutions in Mathematics by: Donald Gillies (Ed.)")
 "Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories by: Christoph Luthy, John E. Murdoch, William R.Newman")
 "The Very Idea of Modern Science: Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle by: Joseph Agassi")
 "The Life of the Honourable Robert Boyle F. R. S. by: Maddison, R.E.W.")
 "Elements, Principles, and Corpuscles: A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century by: Clericuzio, Antonio")
 "The Ocean River: The Story of the Gulf Stream by: Chapin, Henry & Smith, Walton F. G.")
 "Steam Its Generation and Use with Catalogue of the Manufactures of The Babcock & Wilcox Co. New York and Babcock & Wilcox, Limited London by: N/A")
 "Steam Its Generation and Use by: N/A")
 "Report on the Geology of Vermont: Descriptive, Theoretical, Economical, and Scenographical (2 vols) by: Hitchcock, Edward, Albert D. Hager and Others")
 "The Man With No Endorphins: And Other Reflections on Science by: James Gorman")
 "Science in a Renaissance Society by: Wightman, W.P.")
 "Feynman's Thesis: A New Approach to Quantum Theory by: Brown, Laurie M (Editor)")
 "On the Nature of Ecological Paradox by: Tobias, Michael Charles; Morrison, Jane Gray")
 "Nature and Life. Facts and Doctrines Relating to The Constitution of Matter, the New Dynamics, and the Philosophy of Nature by: Papillon, Fernand")
 "Venereal Diseases: A Manual for Students and Practitioners by: Hayden, James R.")
 "Electron Spin Relaxation Phenomena in Solids by: K.J. Standley And R.A. Vaughan")
 "Radio Astronomy Today: Papers Designed to Present Radio Astronomy in All I ts Aspects Given at the Jodrell Bank Summer School by: Palmer, H.P., R.D. Davies, and M.I. L")
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