A short History of Scientific Ideas, to 1900

by Charles Joseph Singer

Book Overview

Softback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a study copy. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198581106
• ISBN13: 9780198581109
• Release Date: January 1959
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 546 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent. In print in the UK.

This old fashioned academic-style book is in fact very readable and extremely interesting. It fills a gap in my understanding that I have long been seeking to fill. It traces the development of ideas about the universe, mechanics, heat, chemistry, medicine, electrictiy, genetics etc through the chronoloical contributions of scientists and philosophers. Very readable and without technical language; pity that it ends in the early 20th century. I would love to find a more up-to-date book on similar lines. Any seen one?