‎Nicholas Rescher‎
‎Scientific Explanation‎

‎Kupfer-Bibel in welcher die Physica sacra oder geheiligte Natur-Wissenschaft derer in heil. 4 vols. - [BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION OF BIBLICAL HISTORY]‎

‎Augsburg & Ulm, Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731 - 1735. Folio (390 x 255 mm). Uniformly bound in four contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. All edges gilt. Bindings defective, spines missing or partly detached and boards with scratches. Internally with various defects (see below) but internally overall nice and clean. With 706 engraved plates out of 762.Vol. 1: Spine missing, boards partly detached. Stamp with crown to half-title. 10-line note in contemporary hand to title-page (Stating it was given by Gottlieb Heinrich Kannegiesser to Carl Friedrich Cramer, professor i Kiel). Leaf A and A2 with tear. Internally with occassional light marginal miscoluring but generally nice and clean. Half-title, Title-page, (52), 276 pp. + Portrait, frontispiece and 164 (of 177) engraved plates.Vol. 2: Extremities with wear, boards with numerous scratches. Leather on lower compartment detached and partly missing. Head of spine chipped. Small crowned stamp to lower margin of title-page. First 5 ff. with tear to lower margin. Plate CCXL with tear. First leaves slightly soiled and occassional marginal brownspotting throughout, but generally internally nice and clean. (8), 277-672 pp. + 178 (of 189) engraved plates. Vol. 3: Spine partly missing, hinges loose. Most of title-page missing. Last 10 ff. missing upper half of leaves torn off. Light marginal miscolouring throughout, but otherwise internally nice and clean. (6 - not counting the partly missing title-page), 738 pp. + 200 (of 210) engraved plates. Vol. 4: Small stamp to lower margin of title-page. First 5 ff. chipped at lower outer margin, but a bit off loss to the portrait. A few leaves evenly browned and a few leaves with tears. Last leaves soiled. Occassional light marginal brownspotting but internally generally nice and clean. (8), 739-1426, (78) pp. + portrait and 164 (of 173) engraved plates. ‎

‎First appearance of Scheuchzer’s monumental of lavishly illustrated work attempting to marry the scriptures with the sciences, including paleontology, zoology, biology, astronomy and geology. Scheuchzer's is here attempting a scientific explanation of biblical history and discusses events such as the creation, flood and various miracles in terms of physics, medicine and natural history. Further more it also contains a taxonomy of all the plants and animals mentioned in the Bible. “In Scheuchzer’s gigantic work, Physica Sacra, the Baroque attains, philosophically as well as artistically, its high point and its conclusion. It is the last of those elegant works which do not really contain illustrations to a text but which are, in effect, composed of splendid plates with a text to accompany them. The best engravers of the time took part ... and made the whole splendor of Baroque chalcography appear once more” (Faber du Faur). Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672 – 1733), was a Swiss naturalist and geologist. Scheuchzer extensively studied and mapped the geological layers of Switzerland, collecting numerous fossils of shells, fish, and plants. As a diluvialist, he believed that the rock strata and fossils were remnants of Noah's Great Flood. Notably, Scheuchzer identified what he thought were human remains from the Flood, which he named “Homo diluvii testis” or the ""human witness of the Flood"". “Scheuchzer, however took a giant step beyond his contemporaries. If one can learn about God and the world by studying the Bible and by studying nature, why not combine the two and publish a Bible with a running commentary on natural history, so that each discipline can mutually shed light on the other. The outcome was Scheuchzer's massive Physica Sacra, a four-volume set of thick folios that is often referred to as the ""Copper Bible” (Bibel kupfer), because of its abundant copper-plate engravings. The work starts with Genesis 1:1 and proceeds via 760 engravings to illuminate 760 Biblical verses with the most recent information gathered by natural philosophers and natural historians.The attraction of the Copper Bible format for Scheuchzer is that it gave him a framework within which to place a wealth of scientific knowledge that otherwise would be very difficult to structure. It was an encyclopedia of nature, organized by God and annotated by Scheuchzer. No wonder it was so popular, with editions in Latin, French, and German. It was, almost, the perfect book.” (Dr. William B. Ashworth, Linda Hall Library, Scientist of the Day – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer) A Latin edition was published simultaneously. Nissen ZBI 3659(Brunet V, 198 - The Latin edition).‎

‎Harvey D. Scientific explanation in geography. In Russian /Kharvey D. Nauchnoe ‎

‎Harvey D. Scientific explanation in geography. In Russian /Kharvey D. Nauchnoe obyasnenie v geografii. General Methodology of Science and Metholog.Geography. Translated from English by Varlas V.Ya. et al. M Progress 1974.We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available.SKUalb0ab4a9d135fc2a4d.‎

‎Scientific Explanation. A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science.‎

‎Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1959. 8vo. In the publisher's full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and in the original dust jacket. Minor wear to capitals of dust jacket, price clipped. Fine and clean-. XI,(1), 375, (1) pp.‎

‎Braithwaite's seminal work which addresses issues concerning scientific explanation, inductive justifications and ""to examine the logical features common to all the sciences"" (From the introduction).Richard Braithwaite (1900 - 1990), English philosopher who specialized in the philosophy of science, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. He lectured in moral science at the University of Cambridge from 1934 to 1953, then Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy there from 1953 to 1967. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1946 to 1947, and was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1957.‎

‎[Popper:] Epistemology Without Knowing a Subject & [Hintikka:] The Varieties of Information and Scientific Explanation. - [POPPER'S ""THIRD WORLD"".]‎

‎Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1968. 8vo. Original yellow full cloth with the original dust-jacket. In ""Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Sciences III"". Library stamp to pasted down front free end-paper. Dust-jacket with some wear and minor nicks, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Popper's paper: Pp. 333-373. Hintikka's paper: Pp. 311-331. [Entire volume: XII, (2), 553, (1)].‎

‎First edition of Popper's important work on ""the third world"", a significant part of the ""Popperian Cosmology"". The present work, together with Popper's ""On the Theory of the Objective Mind"", also published in 1968, constitutes an important contribution to what is known as Popperian cosmology, in which Popper divides the world into three parts. ""Epistemology Without a Knowing Subject"" explores the third world.""The main topic of this lecture will be what I often call, for want of a better name, ""the third world"". To explain this expression I will point out that, without taking the word ""world"" or ""universe"" too seriously, we may distinguish the following three worlds or universes" first, the world of physical objects or of physical states secondly, the world of states of consciousness, or of mental states [...]" and thirdly the world of objective contents of thought, especially of scientific and poetic thoughts and of works of art. Thus what I call ""the third world"" has admittedly much in common with Plato's theory of forms or ideas, and therefore also with Hegel's objective spirit, though my theory differs radically, in some decisive respects. It has more in common still with Bolzano's theory of a universe of propositions in themselves and of truth in themselves, though it differs from Bolzano's also. My third world resembles most closely the universe of Frege's objective contents of thought."" (Popper, Karl. Epistemology Without a Knowing Subject, pp. (333)).""In ""Epistemology Without a Knowing Subject"" Popper offers a ""biological"" argument for doubting that minds and bodies exhaust all the entities inhabiting the human world. Not only is man a conscious animal, he is also a being whose communicative capacity has evolved to the point of being able to describe and criticize his encounters with the world"" (Fuller, Steve. Social Epistemology, Indiana University Press, 1988, p. 51).Karl Popper still exercises extensive influence on a variety of different thinkers, scholars and economists. The billionaire investor George Soros claims that his investment strategies are modeled upon Popper's understanding of the advancement of knowledge through the distinctly Hegelian idea of falsification.‎

‎Aspects of scientific explanation and other essays in the philosophy of science‎

‎Free press 1966 in8. 1966. Cartonné jaquette.‎

‎Bon état ex-libris jaquette défraîchie bords frottés intérieur propre‎