shoulders giants shandean postscript de merton robert (46 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.22.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. The half-title page has some notes in pen and ink in the upper right corner. Seven pages of the text contain underlining in pen and ink. The remaining 313 pages are clean and unmarked. There is an ink spot at the bottom right of the front cover. The plastic coating on the right edge of the front cover is wrinkling. The spine is not creased.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Pages unmarked. ix, 289 p., 21 cm. "A romp, a frolic, a frisk, a ball, an impossible mad excursion into scholarship and round about and out again. I laughed all the way through and often I laughed out loud." - Catherine Drinker Bowen From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).

Paperback. [xii], 90p., illustrated with a frontis facsimile of the Isaac Newton mss, softbound in 8x5.5 inch decorated wraps. A sound clean copy, entirely unmarked in any way. Humorous scholarship, inspired by the wanderings of Lawrence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy". Introduced most enthusiastically by Bowen and endorsed by Jacques Barzun, Lionel Trilling, and E.G. Boring.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Viennial edition. Afterword by Denis Donoghue. Faint foxing on the foredge else fine in attractive but good only dustwrapper heavily clipped at the bottom of the front flap, and with a small repair on the front panel.

Condición: Very Good. 1965. Paperback. Good clean copy with minor age & shelfwear, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condición: Very Good. 1965. Paperback. Good clean copy with minor age & shelfwear, remains very good. . . . .

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. REPRINT: "Vicennial edition B C D E" stated. Near fine plus, if not fine hardback in near fine plus, if not fine dust jacket ($14.95). Book has a black felt-tipped pen line to bottom edge of block at spine. Dust jacket has two head-to-heel creases to front flap. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket: primarily to top edge of block.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. ix, 1 leaf, 290 pp. Original cloth-backed boards. Very Good+, in very good+ dust jacket. 'We should not. . . regard ourselves as callow, and the ancient Greeks as hoary with wisdom that we might learn to emulate but could never surpassthe standard argument that motivated the Renaissance (literally, the rebirth), a movement that did not strive for novelty on a modern scientific model but sought to rediscover the supposedly eclipsed perfection of ancient knowledge. In contrast, the Greeks and Romans lived during the world's youth, whereas we represent the graybeards, enjoying time's benefit and seeing farther by standing on the shoulders of earlier giants (to cite Newton's famous phrase, borrowed from a common aphorism in his day) . . . The great American sociologist of science Robert K. Merton wrote an entire book on pre-Newtonian uses of this image to make the serious point, with a wonderfully light touch, that supposed personal inventions (not claimed by Newton in this case but attributed to him by later commentators) often reflect long and complicated social settings and previous uses. See R. K. Merton, On the Shoulders of GiantsA Shandean Postscript (The Free Press, New York, 1965). See also my appreciation of Merton's book: S. J. Gould, 'Polished pebbles, pretty shells: An Appreciation of OTSOG,' in Robert K. Merton: Consensus and Controversy, J. Clark, C. Modgil, S. Modgil, Eds. (Falmer Press, New York, 1990), pp. 35-47' (Stephen Jay Gould, 'Deconstructing the 'Science Wars' by Reconstructing an Old Mold').

Hardcover. Condición: VG+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG+. 299 numbered pp, hardbound, PC, "Vicennial Edition," 1st printing ("A B C D E"), INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ffep, "for/ . . . . ./from/a grateful patient/&/colleague-at-a-distance,/Robert Merton/8812.07/Columbia Univ/(downtown)," minor wear to one dj tip, otherwise very clean and binding tight, NOT EXLIB. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near fine. Second Edition. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. xx, 299 pp. Very good in original black cloth-backed boards, some foxing to the top and fore-edges and light soiling to the foot of text block, and near fine pictorial dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear to head of spine. This first printing of the Vicennial edition has an afterword by Denis Donoghue and a preface by the author. Nicely inscribed on the front free endpaper to art historian James Thompson by Robert Merton. Laid in are two TLSs to Thompson from Merton relating to the artist Poussin and OTSOG, plus an inscribed clipping, and another related TLS to Richard Swedberg. Merton is considered the founding father of modern Sociology. Very scarce signed.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Quarter bound spine in white cloth over patterned brown paper on boards. Book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of markings or flaws inside and out. Fine or better. Spine has same brown title box with bright gilt lettering. Grass green endpapers, top edge dyed green. Unclipped Dust jacket has green bacground with drawing of two statues, one on top of another. B/W photo of author on rear, spine slightly faded, small amount of scuffing to top and bottom of spine. Foreword by Catherine Drinker Bowen: "A romp, a frolic, a ball - an impossible mad excursion into scholarship and roud about and out again. I laughed all the way through and often I laughed out loud." This First Edition is Quite Scarce.