Conjectures and Refutations. The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
by POPPER, Karl R
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About This Item
Octavo. 1st edition thus, 1962. A Near Fine book in a near fine dust jacket. 8vo., 412 pp., bound in publishers red cloth with red dust jacket, $10.00. Jacket has some light rubbing along the edges and tips. Spine is very slightly faded. Previous owners name inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Perhaps Popper's most wide-ranging and popular work, gathering together his articles and lectures to chart the growth of scientific understanding, and its influence on history and thought. 'The essays and lectures of which this book composed are variations upon one very simple theme - the thesis that we can learn from our mistakes'(preface). Popper dedicated the work to Friedrich von Hayek. Originally published earlier in the same year in the UK by Routledge
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- Bookseller
- Reginald C. Williams Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 377
- Title
- Conjectures and Refutations. The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
- Author
- POPPER, Karl R
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's Cloth & Dustwrapper
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Basic Books Inc.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1962
- Pages
- 412
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Science, Philosophy
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