OBSESSIONS AND CONVICTIONS OF THE HUMAN INTELLECT
by Westaway, F.W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- V.g./No Jacket
- Seller
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Yaxley, Suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Blackie & Son Limited, 1938. 528pp, text figures. The chapters are:- Charlatanism and chicane.--Alchemy: (ii) The philosophers' stone and the elixir of life.--Alchemy: (ii) The transmutation of metals.--Witchcraft.--Perpetual motion.--Squaring the circle.--The fourth dimension.--Space and time: finite or infinite?--Science: certainty or doubt?--Philosophy: knowledge or speculation?--Religious persecution.--Theism: the creeds of the Christian churches.--The Christian creeds again: immortality.--Belief and truth.--. Binding mottted to lower half of boards otherwise a tight sound copy. 1st edition. green cloth. V.g./No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H548
- Title
- OBSESSIONS AND CONVICTIONS OF THE HUMAN INTELLECT
- Author
- Westaway, F.W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - V.g.
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1938
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
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