A Short History of Chemistry [Four Volume Set]

J R Partington:

London: Macmillan & co, 1970.

4 volume set, printed 1964-1970. Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with some loss.  Dust jackets in protective mylar covers. Good bindings and covers. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Includes handwritten note from noted medical scholar Owen Hannaway to Durward William John Cruickshank. Contents: Vol. 1, Part 1. The Theoretical Background; Vol. 2. Chemistry in India, China and Europe until A.D. 1500; Vol. 3. 1700-1800; Vol. 4. 1800 to the Present Time. 

This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. 

Durward Cruickshank transformed the precision of molecular structure determination in three dimensions by X-ray diffraction with research publications that span 60 years and that directly influence at least some 450000 chemical structures, the number currently held in the Cambridge Structural Database alone. Research on the precision and refinement of proteins dominated his attention throughout his last decade, and the Cruickshank Diffraction Precision Index (DPI), an indicator of the precision of a protein structure, is now generally included regularly both in published protein three-dimensional structures as important information and in depositions at the Protein Data Bank (PDB) files. 

Dr. Owne 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).