Search Results: robert grosseteste and the origins of by crombie ac

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 2002. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". xi, 373pp. Rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Slight lean to spine. Gentle bumps to corners and edges of black cloth over boards. A few spots of inked notation to top edge of text block. Inked underlining to some pages. Underlining does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Crombie shows how the particular intellectual and practical interests of Western thinkers, especially from the 12th century, led them to ask particular kinds of questions about the natural world.(Publisher).

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. Reprint. Hardcover. Good. Blue cloth boards, octavo, sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has rubbing to boards and spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but toned throughout, with faint foxing to edges of block, basement odor.

Oxford: Clarendon Press. Good with no dust jacket; some scuffing and surface wear Ex-Library with . Markings, looks like some minor silverfishing on spine and boards, does . not affect integrity of binding. 1961. Hardbound. 370 pages .

Oxford University Press (Clarendon). Used - Very Good. 1953. Cloth, 369 pp., illus. Rear hinge starting; prev. owner's name on front endpaper.. (Subject: JEM, History & Philosophy of Science.)

Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, 1962. 2nd edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (VG), dustwrapper (light wear at edges - otherwise VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xi + 371, illus with b&w plates (previous owner's neat inscription on front paste-down).

Oxford, Clarendon Press. 2004. Original publisher's black paper-covered boards, title spine, pictorial dustjacket, 8vo: frontispiece, x, (ii), 374pp., (ii), illustrated, figs., bibliography, index. Contents: I: Introduction. II: Empiricism and Rationalism in Twelfth-Century Science. III: Grossetste's Writings on Theory of Science. IV: Induction, and Verification and Falsification in Natural Science. V: Mathematical Physics. VI: Metaphysics of Light. VII: Grosseteste and the Oxford School. VIII: Grosseteste, Oxford and European Science. IX: Experimental Method and Theodoric of Freiberg's Explanation of the Rainbow. X: Experimental Method and the Transmission of Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Writings on the Rainbow, Colour and Light to the Seventeenth Century. XI: The Historical Foundations of the Modern Theory of Experimental Service. Very fine copy - as new.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953. 1st ed. . Black Cloth. VG+/Good+. 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. f/ppiece+xii, Errata slip between pp.viii/ix, + 369, 15 further ills, 12 being on plates ex-pagination, 3 being text figures; 1996-dated signature of eminent medieval historian Henry Summerson to top front endpaper, tanning strips alongside gutters of outer sides of endpapers offset from jacket wraparounds (possibly common to most copies), otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked in clean, unworn covers; unclipped jacket generally clean (though a few faint surface marks) but marred by extensive, though minor, edge rubbing/nicking and a few very small chips, major tears down joints now internally repaired with archival tear-repair tape, slightly spine sun-darkened (will add protective sleeve when ordered). Uncommon

1961. Oxford, Clarendon Press, (1961). Orig. full cloth. Frontispiece. XI,372 pp. and 15 plates.