A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century , History of Science Library Serie (18th Century)

The Macmillan Company, New York , History of Science Library Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1939 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, full blue printed cloths, no dust-jacket fort et grand In-8 1 vol. - 814 pages

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345 black and white illustrations, 1 frontispiece (Diderot's Encyclopédie, 1751), complete of the 126 plates out of text 1st Edition, 1939 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, List of illustrations, Preface (July 1938), Text, 814 pages - Introduction - Mathematics - Mechanics - Astronomy - Astronomical instruments - Marine instruments - Physics (Sound - Heat - Electricity and Magnetism, I and II) - Meteorology - Meteorological instruments - Chemistry, I and II - Geology - Geography - Botany - Zoology - Medicine - Technology (General, Agriculture, Textiles - Building - Transport - Power plant and Machinery - The Steam-Engine - Mining and Metallurgy - Industrial Chemistry, the Making of Lenses and Specula - Mechanical Calculators - Telegraphy - Miscellaneous) - Psychology - The Social Sciences (National Character - Demography - Economics) - Philosophy, I and II - Index no dust-jacket, else near fine copy of the 1st edition, 1938, the editor's binding is clean and unmarked, inside is fine, no markings, complete of the frontispiece and of the 126 plates out of text, a rather nice copy of this important work