Dictionary of Scientific Biography 16 Volume Set

Gillispie, Charles Coulston, Editor

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1980

16 volume set. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good bindings and covers. Shelf wear. Tears to some jackets with loss. Clean, unmarked pages. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. 

"The Dictionary of Scientific Biography makes professional knowledge to the history of science available to general scientists, historians, journalists, teachers, students, and interested laymen alike. While the integration of the scientific legacy into its proper place in world history is perhaps the most valuable function of these volumes, the Dictionary will enrich both the cultivation of science and the study of history."

Contents: v.1. Pierre Abailard - L.S. Berg; v.2. Hans Berger - Christoph Buys Ballot; v.3. Pierre Cabanis - Heinrich von Dechen; v.4. Richard Dedekind - Firmicus Maternus; v.5. Emil Fischer - Gottlieb Haberlandy; v.6. Jean Hachette - Joseph Hyrtl; v.7. Iamblichus - Karl Landsteiner; v.8. Jonathan Homer Lane - Pierre Joseph Macquer; v.9. A.T. Macrobius - K.F. Naumann; v.10. S.G. Navashin - W. Piso; v.11. A. Pitcairn - B. Rush; v.12. Ibn Rushd - Jean-Servais Stas; v.13. Hermann Staudinger - Giuseppe Veronese; v.14. Addison Emery Verrill - Johann Zwelfer; v.15. Supplement I, Roger Adams - Ludwik Zejszner, [and] topical essays; v.16. Index. <br> 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).