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A Short History of Scientific Ideas to 1900 by Singer, Charles
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Book description: New York and London: Oxford University of Press, 1959. 8vo. xviii. 525 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover, gilt to spine, clean, sound, unmarked. Faint foxing to edges of texrblock and rear endpapers, shallow waviness to several 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.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Science, Medicine, History, Alchemy, Magic, Plato, Aristotle, Pythagorus, Archimedes, Ptolemy, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Greece, Rome, Galileo, Kepler, Dark Ages, Astronomy, Astrology, Mathematics, History of Science.
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