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Verlag: Dodo Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 1406503398ISBN 13: 9781406503395
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Zustand: VeryGood. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
Verlag: Alpha Editions, 2018
ISBN 10: 9353290449ISBN 13: 9789353290443
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Wie neu. Zustand: Wie neu | Seiten: 154.
Verlag: Irish University Press, Shannon, Ireland, 1971
ISBN 10: 0716515784ISBN 13: 9780716515784
Anbieter: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, Vereinigtes Königreich
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hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. An unabridged facsimile of the original 1830 publication. Part of the Development of Industrial Society series. Black cloth in transparent 'tracing paper' wrap, which is a little crumpled. Price pencilled on FEP. The book is in very good clean condition throughout. Used.
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 1108052657ISBN 13: 9781108052658
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Pivotal factors implicated in the parlous state of contemporary science are identified in this seminal 1830 work.
Verlag: London: printed for B. Fellowes, & J. Booth, 1830, 1830
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First octavo edition. In 1830 Babbage was profoundly dissatisfied with the government's failure to sufficiently support the sciences and irritated by what he perceived as the myriad shortcomings of those existing societies, most particularly the Royal Society. In the Decline, by far the most polemical of his works, Babbage portrayed English science as moribund, English scientists as amateur and corrupt, and English scientific culture and reform as lamentably inferior to those of other countries. "To the observer with advantage of hindsight, the charge that science was in decline seems ridiculous: Lyell's Principles of Geology had begun to appear, Darwin was setting off on the Beagle, and Faraday was beginning his revolutionary researches in electricity and magnetism. But [the Decline], with its attacks on the Royal Society and the English universities, and its demand for more honours and sinecures for scientists, caused a sensation" (Knight, p. 144). Though many found the vehemence of Babbage's views objectionable, his sentiments were widely shared, and this "broadside of outrage and insult. gave a decisive boost to the movement to reform organized science" (ODNB). The British Association for the Advancement of Science was founded the next year, a number of reforms within the Royal Society also followed suit, and a university curriculum including both theoretical and applied science was established. The Decline was published simultaneously in an octavo edition of 228 pages (as here) and a quarto edition of 120 pages. According to a note tipped into the Honeyman copy of the quarto edition, only "a few [copies were] printed in quarto, for the use of those gentlemen who may wish to bind up the work with the Philosophical Transactions for the year 1830", a nicely satirical touch in a work that was primarily a diatribe against the Royal Society. Hook & Norman 90; Origins of Cyberspace 38; Van Sinderen 1980, no. 39. David M. Knight, Natural Science Books in English 1600-1900, 1972. Octavo (213 x 128 mm). Near contemporary half calf and ribbed cloth boards, expertly rebacked, red morocco label, red edges. With numerous tables to text. Neatly rebacked, corners lightly rubbed, new endpapers; a very good copy.