Number: The Language Of Science; A Critical Survey Written For The Cultured NON-MATHEMATICIAN Dantzig, Tobias Dupont Circle,Sciences, Math, Medicine, & Natural History

Octavo, viii, 260 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in burgundy cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine. Scuffing and light staining to boards. Tanning to spine, with gilt faded to black. Small chunk of cloth on head of spine missing. Light staining to edges of textblock. Age-toning to interior pages and foxing to title page. Shelved in Science. From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution, serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments. 1378925. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.