SOME EARLY TOOLS OF AMERICAN SCIENCE: An Account of the Early Scientific Instruments and Mineralogical and Biological Collections in Harvard University.
by Cohen, I. Bernard
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Very near fine in a like dustjacket (light toning to the pages, a bit of rubbing to the dj)/like
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About This Item
Cambridge, MA:: Harvard University Press,, 1950.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (light toning to the pages, a bit of rubbing to the dj). First printing. Discusses scientific instruments at Harvard before and after the Fire of 1764, the beginnings of chemistry at Harvard and more. Foreword by Samuel Eliot Morison. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, several appendices, references and notes, index. xxi, 201 pp.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
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- Title
- SOME EARLY TOOLS OF AMERICAN SCIENCE: An Account of the Early Scientific Instruments and Mineralogical and Biological Collections in Harvard University.
- Author
- Cohen, I. Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket (light toning to the pages, a bit of rubbing to the dj)
- Jacket Condition
- like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press,
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA:
- Date Published
- 1950.
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- Science and Space;
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