Science and the Modern World: Lowell Lectures, 1925
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929.
First edition, seventh printing. Signed by Alfred North Whitehead on the title page. xii, 304 pp. Bound in publisher's dark navy cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Very Good with a few spots to cloth, sunning to spine with fraying at ends; gilt completely rubbed. Foxing and staining to upper edge of textblock, and scattered foxing throughout. Bookseller ticket to front free endpaper.
Alfred North Whitehead was an English mathematician and philosopher who collaborated with Bertrand Russell on the groundbreaking Principia Mathematica. Whitehead set out to demonstrate the interdependence of science and culture in a course of eight lectures he delivered in Boston in 1925, and they were collected in Science and the Modern World, published that same year. Signed copies are rare.
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