A History of Science (5 Volume set)

Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams

Harper & Brothers, New York, 1904

5 volume set. Bound in red cloth. Gilt decorate spines. Top edges gilt. Marbled end pages. Hardcover. Good bindings and covers. Shelf wear. A couple gutters starting. Volume 1 frontispiece detached but included. Clean, unmarked pages.

Contents: v.1 The beginnings of science; v.2. The beginnings of modern science; v.3 Modern development of the physical sciences; v.4 Modern development of the chemical and biological sciences; v.5 Aspects of recent science. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. 

From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).