Tables; Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of light bumping and rubbing. Blue cloth covered boards have silver gilt lettering to front cover and spine of book. Text pages clean & bright. Thin, plain glassine / paper style dust jacket has some darkening due to sunning and a couple of small edge tears to spine ends. Overall, a very good copy. --This book is intended as a study of key issues in the intellectual history of the American scientific community during the first half of the nineteenth century. It has nothing to do with Andrew Jackson and only indirectly does it haev to do with -Jacksonian Democracy--. Contents include: Pursuit of Science in America 1815-1845, the Scientific Profession, The Reign of Bacon in America, The Philosophy in Action, A Deluge of Facts, The Limits of Baconianism, Finalism, Positivism, and Scientific Explanation, the Inductive Process, Science, Theology and Common Sense and two appendii with notes.

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