SPEAKING OF SCIENCE 1977, EVENING LECTURES FROM THE ROYAL INSTITUTION.

 Taylor & Francis, London 1978.

 8vo, 294 pages, cloth covers.

 Speaking Of Science 1977 is a collection of evening lectures given to the Royal Institution of Great Britain. The lectures are on a variety of popular scientific topics adapted for publication and written for a general audience.

The Contents are;

Synchotron Radiation and its Applications/A.J. Forty, Dynamics and the Advanced Passenger Train/A.H. Wickens, Plants Too, can fight Disease/R.L.Wain, By Their Arts You Shall Know Them/Jacquetta Hawkes, Diseases of Affluence and Diet/Denis P Burkitt, The Position of Science and Scientists in Russia after the Revolution (1917-1929), Lectures and Lecturers in the First 100 Years of the Royal Institution/ Jessie E. Milton, Tissue Types and Disease/W.F.Bodmer, Food <> Fuel/Peter P. King, The Philosophy of Karl Popper/Peter Medawar, Some Facts and Theories Regarding Research on the Brain/David Samuel, Beneath the Surface of Old Pictures/Joyce Plesters, Liquidity/ J.S.Rowlinson, Chemistry, the Past Century and the Next/Linus Pauling.

The spine has faded and  there is slight, almost imperceptible light tint to some page edges. This is almost invisible but we like to be accurate in our descriptions whenever we place a book for sale. The pages are clean and tightly bound and the item is in very good condition.