‎TANNERY, PAUL.‎
‎Mémoires Scientifiques publiés par J.-L. Heiberg & H.-G. Zeuthen. Vol. I-IX. ( I-III, Sciences exactes dans l’antiquité (Toulouse - Paris, 1912-1915) IV, Sciences exactes chez les Byzantins (1920) V, Sciences exactes au Moyen Age (1922) VI, Science...‎

‎Toulouse, Paris,èduard Privat - Gauthier-Villars, 1912-29. 4to. Bound in 9 contemp. uniform hcalf. Spines gilt, titlelabels on spines with gilt lettering. A few scratches to spines. Portrait in Helogravure as frontispiece. Some plates and some textillustrations.Stamps to titlepages. A fine clean copy, printed on good paper.‎

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‎The origibal printing of this classic work on the history of science. Tannery was an engineer and administrator by profession, and he could devote only his leisure hours to scholarship. Despite this limitation, however, he accomplished a vast amount of penetrating and wide-ranging research and became one of the most influential figures in the rapidly developing study of the history of science at the beginning of the twentieth century.‎