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Singer, Charles
A Short History of Scientific Ideas to 1900.
Oxford University of Press
New York and London, 1959
No Additional Printings Indicated
Hard Cover
Good to Very Good
8vo. xviii. 525 pgs. Good to Very Good condition hardcover, gilt to spine, clean, sound, unmarked. Faint foxing to edges of texrblock and rear endpapers, shallow waviness to the paper at top edges of rear pages. 188 illustrations. Frontis by Sebastien Le Clerc of Louis XIV and Colbert visiting the Académie des Sciences in 1671. Nine chapters subtitled: Introduction-the Nature of Scientific Ideas; The Foundations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Ionia, Magna Graecia, Athens, to c. 400 B.C.; Unitary System of Thought:Athens, 400-300 B.C.; Divorce of Science and Philosophy: Alexandria 300 B.C.-A.D. 200; Science the Handmaid of Practice: Imperial Rome 50 B.C.-A.D. 400; The Middle Ages: Theology, Queen of the Sciences c. A.D. 400-1400; Rise of Humanism: Attempted Return to Antiquity 1250-1600; Downfall of Aristotle 1600-1700: New Attempts at Synthesis; Enthronement of Determinism 1700-1850; Culmination of the Mechanical View of the World 1850-1900. #1141.
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