ISBN: 9780719014864 - the figural and the literal: problems of language in the history of science and philosophy, 1630-1800 (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: VG+. Hardback in Very Good+ condition with Very Good+ dust jacket. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 236 pages. Clean, unmarked interior. Tight binding, sharp corners, and very little shelf wear. Dust jacket spine is lightly sunned . Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information.…

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st ed. Red cloth cover. vii+229; virtually pristine copy in similar jacket, will add protective sleeve when ordered. 10 papers (8 originally given at a 1984 conference at Leeds University). A collection of quite original essays on such topics as the language used in the writing of early modern science and philosophy, Descartes, Hobbes's 'two theories of meaning', Robert Boyle and 17th cent. chemical discourse, Wilkins, 18th century rhetoric, etc. by some of the leading, mostly younger, generation of British historians of science of the day at their most creative.…