Shanghai, North China Daily News & Herald Ltd, 1906 (1st edition), reprinted by Ch'eng-wen Publishing Co, Taipei, 1971. 1 volume in-8, 118 pp., illustrated with many photographic reproductions and one folding map, blue cloth hard covers, very good condition.
McCormmach (Russell), ed. - Kenkichiro Koizumi - Geoffrey Cantor - Barbara Giusti Doran - Salvo d'Agostino on Heinrich Hertz - J.G. McEvoy and J.E. McGuire on Priestley - John Hedley Brooke on Laurent and Gerhardt - Robert E. Kohler, Jr. on Lewis-Langnuit - Roger H. Stuewer on G.N. Lewis - Thaddeus J. Trenn on Rutherford
Reference : 100626
(1975)
Princeton University Press , Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1975 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, under editor's printed dust-jacket clear blue and black grand In-8 1 vol. - 564 pages
1 plate in frontispiece, Japanese, Kanagaki Robun, few black and white illustrations 1st edition, 1975 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Editor's Foreword, xiv, Text, 550 pages, Contributors - Kenkichiro Koizumi : The emergence of Japan's first physicists, 1868-1900 - Geoffrey Cantor : The reception of the Wave Theory of Light in Britain : A case study illustrating the role of methodology in scientific debate - Barbara Giusti Doran : Origins and consolidation of Field Theory in Nineteenth century Britain : From the mechanical to the electromagnetic view of nature - Salvo d'Agostino : Hertz's researches on Electromagnetic Waves - J.G. McEvoy and J.E. McGuire : God and nature : Priestley's way of rational dissent - John Hedley Brooke : Laurent, Gerhardt, and the Philosophy of Chemistry - Robert E. Kohler, Jr. : The Lewis-Langnuit Theory of Valence and the chemical community, 1920-1928 - Roger H. Stuewer : G.N. Lewis on Detailed Balancing, the Symmetry of Time, and the Nature of Light - Thaddeus J. Trenn : Rutherford and Recoil Atoms : The metamorphosis and success of a once Stillborn Theory near fine copy, the dust-jacket is complete and near fine, but with minor wear (folding tracks mainly), the top of the right part is lightly torn on 2 cms, inside is fine, no markings
Journal of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science - Peter K. Machamer - John Hedley Brooke - William McGucken
Reference : 33391
(1973)
Pergamon Press , Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1973 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback grand In-8 1 vol. - 104 pages
Contents, Chapitres : Peter K. Machamer : Feyerabend and Galileo : The interaction of theories and the reinterpretation of experience - John Hedley Brooke : Chlorine substitution and the future of organic chemistry - Methological issues in the Laurent-Berzelius correspondence, 1843-44 - Review : William McGucken : Nineteenth-Century spectroscopy : development of the understanding of spectra 1802-1897 - reviewed by Clifford L. Maier - Books received - Notes on contributors few words handwritten on the front-wrapper, very few annotations at ink, otherwise near fine copy