History of Magic and Experimental Science: Seventeenth Century, Volume 8

by Lynn Thorndike

Book Overview

Excerpt from A History of Magic and Experimental Science, During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era, Vol. 2

Hugh's attitude to history is interesting to note in pass ing. In his classification of the sciences he does not assign it a distinct place as he does to economics and politics, but he shows his inchoate sense of the importance of the histpry of science and of thought by attempting a list of the found ers Of the various arts and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231088019
• ISBN13: 9780231088015
• Release Date: October 1958
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 808 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher