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Foresight and understanding : an enquiry into the aims of science / Stephen Toulmin ; foreword by Jacques Barzun.
LIBRA Q175 .T64 1963
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Toulmin, Stephen, 1922-2009, author.
- Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012, author of foreward.
- Series:
- Harper torchbooks. Science library ; TB 564.
- Harper torchbooks. The Science library TB564
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Genre:
- Advertisements.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (autograph) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- 117 pages, 11 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Row Publishers, 1963, 1961.
- Contents:
- Forecasting and understanding
- Ideals of natural order
- Forms and styles of theory
- The evolution of scientific ideas.
- Notes:
- "First Harper Torchbook edition published 1963"--verso of title page.
- "© by Stephen Toulmin 1961"--verso of title page.
- Advertisements: [11] pages at end.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
- OCLC:
- 45211
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