A collection of 10 offprints, etc. of Douglas McKie's publications

Author: 
Douglas McKie.
Publication details: 
1944-1951.
£45.00
SKU: 3116

Historian of Science (see Dictionary of National Biography). 1. "Wohler's 'Synthetic' Urea and the Rejection of Vitalism: A Chemical Legend" (Reprinted from "Nature", 20 May 1944, 8pp.; 2. "The Scientific Periodical from 1665 to 1798" (From the Philosophical Magazine Commemoration Number, , July 1948, pp.122-132); 3. "Scientific Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century" (From the Philosophical Magazine Commemoration Number, July 1948, pp.133-143), one correction presumably by author; "Three Historical Notes" (Reprinted from "Nature", 23 April 1949, 3pp.; "The History and Philosophy of Science" (Unknown source, pp.169-174; "The Eighteenth-Century Revolution in Chemistry" (Reprinted from "Nature", 24 March 1951, 3pp.; "Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, F.R.S. 1743-1794" (Reprinted from Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Dec. 1949, 41pp.; "Newton's Apple", with G.R. de Beer (Reprinted from Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Dec. 1949, pp.46-54; "The Age of Newton" (reprinted from the "Scientific Journal of the Royal College of Science, 1951, 9pp.; "1851-1951. A Century of British Science" (in Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, 9 March 1951, pp.316-324. One has fold marks, all in very good condition. The lot,