signed first edition cloth binding
1929 · London
by Needham, Joseph
London: Chatto and Windus, 1929. First edition.
SIGNED COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY BY PIONEERING EMBRYOLOGIST AND SINOLOGIST JOSEPH NEEDHAM.
7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, faded blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, Inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper, "Robert Chambers with love from Joseph Needham/ 1935", [viii], 288 pp. Tight binding, old dampstains top of covers, light browning to pages, text unmarked, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. CONTENTS: PREFATORY DIALOGUE, THE SCEPTICAL BIOLOGIST, THE LIMITATIONS OF OPTICK GLASSES: OR, SOME OBSERVATIONS ON SCIENCE AND ON RELIGION, ORGANICISM IN BIOLOGY, THE HUNTING OF THE PHOENIX, LUCRETIUS REDIVIVUS OR THE HOPE OF A CHEMICAL PSYCHOLOGY, S. T. COLERIDGE AS A PHILOSOPHIC BIOLOGIST, JULIEN DE LA METTRIE, WILLIAM HARVEY AND THE WITCHES, NAXAGORAS OR SCIENCE AND PURPOSE, MATERIALISM AND RELIGION, BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
JOSEPH NEEDHAM (1900 - 1995) was a British biochemist, historian and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1941, fellow of the British Academy in 1971. and in 1992, Queen Elizabeth II conferred on him the Companionship of Honour. He had intended to study medicine, but came under the influence of Frederick Hopkins, resulting in his switch to biochemistry. After graduation, Needham was elected to a fellowship at Gonville and Caius College and worked in Hopkins' laboratory at the University Department of Biochemistry, specialising in embryology and morphogenesis. His three-volume work Chemical Embryology, published in 1931, includes a history of embryology from Egyptian times up to the early 19th century, including quotations in most European languages. Needham, along with colleague Julian Huxley, was one of the founders of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Developed in 1945 with the help of Allied governments, UNESCO is an international organization that aims to bring education to regions that had been affected by Nazi occupation. (Inventory #: 1563)
SIGNED COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY BY PIONEERING EMBRYOLOGIST AND SINOLOGIST JOSEPH NEEDHAM.
7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, faded blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, Inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper, "Robert Chambers with love from Joseph Needham/ 1935", [viii], 288 pp. Tight binding, old dampstains top of covers, light browning to pages, text unmarked, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. CONTENTS: PREFATORY DIALOGUE, THE SCEPTICAL BIOLOGIST, THE LIMITATIONS OF OPTICK GLASSES: OR, SOME OBSERVATIONS ON SCIENCE AND ON RELIGION, ORGANICISM IN BIOLOGY, THE HUNTING OF THE PHOENIX, LUCRETIUS REDIVIVUS OR THE HOPE OF A CHEMICAL PSYCHOLOGY, S. T. COLERIDGE AS A PHILOSOPHIC BIOLOGIST, JULIEN DE LA METTRIE, WILLIAM HARVEY AND THE WITCHES, NAXAGORAS OR SCIENCE AND PURPOSE, MATERIALISM AND RELIGION, BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
JOSEPH NEEDHAM (1900 - 1995) was a British biochemist, historian and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1941, fellow of the British Academy in 1971. and in 1992, Queen Elizabeth II conferred on him the Companionship of Honour. He had intended to study medicine, but came under the influence of Frederick Hopkins, resulting in his switch to biochemistry. After graduation, Needham was elected to a fellowship at Gonville and Caius College and worked in Hopkins' laboratory at the University Department of Biochemistry, specialising in embryology and morphogenesis. His three-volume work Chemical Embryology, published in 1931, includes a history of embryology from Egyptian times up to the early 19th century, including quotations in most European languages. Needham, along with colleague Julian Huxley, was one of the founders of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Developed in 1945 with the help of Allied governments, UNESCO is an international organization that aims to bring education to regions that had been affected by Nazi occupation. (Inventory #: 1563)
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