Masterworks of science : digests of [13 great classics] / edited by John Warren Knedler, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knedler, John Warren, Jr., 1901-1977, editor.

Contributor:

McGraw-Hill Book Company, publisher.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Masterworks series.

Masterworks series

McGraw-Hill paperbacks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First McGraw-Hill paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973, 1947.

Contents:

v. 1 Euclid. The elements. Archimedes. On floating bodies, and other propositions. N. Copernicus. On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres. I. Newton. Principia. A. Einstein. Relativity, the special and general theory.

v. 2. Galileo. Dialogues concerning two new sciences. J. Dalton. The atomic theory. M. Faraday. Experimental researches in electricity. D. Mendeleyev. The periodic law. M. Curie. Radioactivity.

v. 3. C. Lyle. Principles of geology. C. Darwin. The origin of species. G. Mendel. Experiments in plant-hybridization.

Notes:

Reprint of the one-vol. ed. published in 1947 by Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

Kislak Center Adams copy imperfect: volume 3 wanting.

Other Format:

Online version: Knedler, John Warren, 1901- Masterworks of science.

ISBN:

0070408157

9780070408159

OCLC:

2361881