A BUDGET OF PARADOXES
Midcentury edition of this wildly amusing survey of mathematical and scientific paradoxes and paradoxers, the uncommon 1954 unabridged reprint of the 1915 second edition, with a new introduction by Ernest Nagel.
Midcentury edition of this wildly amusing survey of mathematical and scientific paradoxes and paradoxers, the uncommon 1954 unabridged reprint of the 1915 second edition, with a new introduction by Ernest Nagel.
Scarce limited French edition of Carroll's mathematical logic primer, illustrated by his great Surrealist admirer.
First edition of this dissertation on the use of ice packs to treat various mental illnesses, defended at the University of Leipzig.
First edition of these collected columns from the Field newspaper, with the author's own vivid illustrations of the Black Redstart, the Tree Sparrow, and the Black Bantam Hen.
First edition of this comprehensive study of chemistry as occupation, profession, and discipline in America over a 100-year period, issued as part of the publisher's "CHEMISTS AND CHEMISTRY" series.
First edition of the first American scientific book illustrated with a photograph, an exploration of fossilized dinosaur tracks (what Warren calls "footsteps of an unknown animal") inscribed to fellow surgeon and Benjamin Franklin's great-grandson, Franklin Bache.