Catalog of the Sidney M. Edelstein Collection of the History of Chemistry, Dyeing and Technology

Ron, Moshe (Compiler)

The Jewish National and University Library Press, 1981

Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. 182 pages : illustrations ; 34 cm. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. 

Dr. Sidney M. Edelstein was the founder in 1945 of the Dexter Chemical Corporation in the Borough of the Bronx, New York City. His multi-faceted interests were apparent in his profession and hobbies as a research chemist, inventor, industrialist, historian, and bibliophile. 

From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. Hannaway was the author of a number of books: 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 ofModern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).