WEBSTER, Charles

From Paracelsus to Newton. Magic and the Making of Modern Science

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Octavo; black papered boards; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper lightly rubbed and with a tiny closed tear to the leading edge.

With the personal bookplate, and the acquisition details, of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018) on the front pastedown. The rise of the mechanistic conception of nature and the decline of magic; one of the Eddington Memorial Lectures.

Item #119821

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