La Grande Oeuvre de la Chimie

Jean Gerard

Chimie et industrie, Paris, 1929

Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. French text. Binding slightly splayed. Boards soiled. Sold with all faults. 4 preliminary leaves, 11-249. [1] pages illustrations, 28 cm. 

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).