Le Travail Scientifique; Ecole Pratique

Leopold Fonck

Gabriel Beauchesne, Paris, 1911

Bound in leather over marbled boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Marbled end pages. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Library stamps and markings. Shelf wear. Corners chipped. 

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).