The Growth of Scientific Ideas
by Wightman, William P. D
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- vg
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. x,495pp. Maroon cloth in original dust jacket. Minor rubbing to bottom corners. Slight rubbing to dj. Frontispiece. "A leading British authority tells how the great scientific discoveries came to be made." Illustrated with b/w reproductions of paintings as well as drawings. Very good condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16198
- Title
- The Growth of Scientific Ideas
- Author
- Wightman, William P. D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- History of Science, Geometry of the Heavens, The Telescope, Mathematics of Moving bodies, the Subtle Fluids, Newton
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...