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Popular though technical history of the importance of the idea of objectivity in the formation of science from Galileo through Einstein, including the thought of Newton, Lavoisier, Darwin, Maxwell, Diderot, Goethe. Stout hardcover, as pictured; the first edition (first printing) with same date on title & copyright pages, noting no later printings. Light wear to book, spine ends & corners bumped; jacket rubbed & faded with some edgewear, short tears, chips; ink name crossed out, minor pencil marginalia noted & erased; some pages lightly tanned, others not. Text clean; [10], 562 pages; bibliographical essay, index, a few figures & equations. Size: Octavo
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