Discovery The Spirit at the Service of Science by R.A. Gregory

Publication:1916 Macmillan and Co; London

340 pp. + index, 8 b & w plates, 8vo

The author R.A. Gregory was a professor of astronomy at Queen’s College, London, and wrote numerous text books on astronomy, chemistry, physics, and other scientific subjects. He was elected by the old students of the Royal College of Science to president of the Royal College of Science Association of Imperial College London, and served there from 1919 until 1922. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Science. This particular work includes: Truth and Testimony, The Scientific Mind, Belief and Evidence, Law and Principle, Conquest of Disease, Towards Infinity, Pursuit of Knowledge, Scientific Motive, along with eight illustrations including the frontispiece titled “Wisdom of the Spirit of Science” by Edwin Austin Abbey

Condition: publishers blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine and upper board, blind stamp decorated throughout covers, tanning to title page, all pages clean with no markings, binding firm, overall Near Fine