Benjamin Ginzburg, Adventure of Science, 1st Edition 1930
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"The Adventure of Science" by Benjamin Ginzburg, published by Simon and Schuster, New York. First Edition with "MCMXXX" [1930] imprinted on the bottom of the title page.
Hard boards, original brown cloth with gold lettering on spine and front board [a little wear]; 6.1/2" x 9.1/2"; 447 pages including Index + Note About The Author, slightly bumped page edges, very good condition.
Contents:
Pythagoras: the birth of mathematical science.--Aristotle: his science and his system.--The Alexandrian period: Archimedes and Ptolemy.--Copernicus and the revival of science.--Galileo: the new science clashes with theology.--Harvey and the circulation of the blood.--Isaac Newton: science comes of age.--Lavoisier: the father of scientific chemistry.--Dalton and the atomic theory.--Faraday and Maxwell: The science of electro-magnetism.--Helmholtz and the conservation of energy.--Lamarck and Darwin: the doctrine of evolution.--Pasteur: the germ theory of disease.--Mendel and the science of heredity.--Einstein and the theories of relativity.--The atom and the quantum theory.--Conclusion.
Benjamin Ginzburg (1898-1979), graduated from the Columbia University School of Journalism in 1919; PhD in philosophy at Harvard (1926). He specialized and wrote on philosophical and scientific subjects. In the 1930s, Ginsburg lectured History of Science at New School of Social Research. In the 1950s he served as a research director for the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights. "The Adventure of Science" (1930) is his first book.
US: Priority (c 2-4 days) ----------- $12.50
Canada: Priority (c 2-6 weeks) -- $32.50
World: Priority (c 2-7 weeks) --- $45.50
Hard boards, original brown cloth with gold lettering on spine and front board [a little wear]; 6.1/2" x 9.1/2"; 447 pages including Index + Note About The Author, slightly bumped page edges, very good condition.
Contents:
Pythagoras: the birth of mathematical science.--Aristotle: his science and his system.--The Alexandrian period: Archimedes and Ptolemy.--Copernicus and the revival of science.--Galileo: the new science clashes with theology.--Harvey and the circulation of the blood.--Isaac Newton: science comes of age.--Lavoisier: the father of scientific chemistry.--Dalton and the atomic theory.--Faraday and Maxwell: The science of electro-magnetism.--Helmholtz and the conservation of energy.--Lamarck and Darwin: the doctrine of evolution.--Pasteur: the germ theory of disease.--Mendel and the science of heredity.--Einstein and the theories of relativity.--The atom and the quantum theory.--Conclusion.
Benjamin Ginzburg (1898-1979), graduated from the Columbia University School of Journalism in 1919; PhD in philosophy at Harvard (1926). He specialized and wrote on philosophical and scientific subjects. In the 1930s, Ginsburg lectured History of Science at New School of Social Research. In the 1950s he served as a research director for the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights. "The Adventure of Science" (1930) is his first book.
US: Priority (c 2-4 days) ----------- $12.50
Canada: Priority (c 2-6 weeks) -- $32.50
World: Priority (c 2-7 weeks) --- $45.50
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