AA.VV. - Biblioteca scientifica Adelphi 64 volumi - 1985-2021

BIBLIOTECA SCIENTIFICA ADELPHI COLLECTION 1985 - 2021 - 64 VOLUMES

In this lot we present an extraordinary and almost complete block from the Adelphi Scientific Library. With 64 volumes out of 74 published to date, the collection covers almost the entire series, forming an exceptional and highly valuable set for any collector or enthusiast.

Within the sequence from number 1 to 65 there are some specifics: number 27 is missing, while volume number 35 does not formally belong to the scientific series but has been replaced by the same title from the Adelphi series (The Universal Computer by Martin Davis,)

- NUMBER OF VOLUMES: 64

- YEAR: from 1985 to 2021

- DETAILS: from the first to the 65th all books consecutively; 27 missing; 35 is the same title but from another Adelphi series

- CONDITIONS: from good to very good/excellent
I have leafed through and opened many books without finding traces of pencil or writing; pages are in good, solid, and complete condition. Some books have been read, especially the older ones, and may show reading creases on the spine and light signs of use on the exterior or yellowing with time; others appear almost new and still others are in excellent condition.

SHIPPING - please note that the estimated weight of this lot of volumes should be around 30/35 kg and could therefore be split into two packages depending on the logistic availability of carriers - packaging will be secure and the books will be well protected

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ABOUT THE SERIES

The Adelphi Scientific Library is one of the most fascinating, prestigious, and recognizable editorial series in Italy in the field of high-level scientific divulgation.

Born in the mid-1980s (the debut itself dates back to 1985 with historical volumes such as Bateson’s Towards an Ecology of Mind or Hofstadter and Dennett’s The Mind's I), the series has redefine how science is told outside narrow academic circuits.
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This is not just a collection of science books, but an ideal library that maps the great questions humans have asked about the nature of the universe, consciousness, and life.

The selected books are not simple technical manuals, but works that explore the great frontiers of knowledge — from quantum physics to neuroscience, from evolutionary biology to mathematics and the philosophy of mind. The aim is to show how science is an integral part of human culture, capable of dialoguing with philosophy, art, and psychology.

LIST OF TITLES PRESENT

1- Gregory Bateson – Towards an Ecology of Mind

2- Pierre-Paul Grassé – The Evolution of Living Beings

3- J. M. Jauch – On the Reality of Quanta

4- Fritjof Capra – The Tao of Physics

5- Gregory Bateson – Mind and Nature

6- Douglas R. Hofstadter – Gödel, Escher, Bach

7- Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett – The Mind's I

8- Manfred Eigen, Ruthild Winkler – The Game

9- Hilary Putnam – Mind, Language and Reality

10- Marvin Minsky – The Society of Mind

11- Adolf Portmann – The Forms of Living Beings

12- Richard P. Feynman – QED

13- Daniel C. Dennett – Brainstorms

14- John D. Barrow – The World Inside the World

15- Manfred Eigen – Steps Toward Life

16- John D. Barrow – Theories of Everything

17- Gerald M. Edelman – On the Matter of Mind

18- Hilary Putnam – Mathematics, Matter and Method

19- Rudy Rucker – The Fourth Dimension

20- John D. Barrow – The Moon in the Cosmic Well

21- John Harris – Language and Information

22- Antonio Damasio – Descartes' Error

23- Douglas R. Hofstadter – Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies

24- Gregory Bateson – A Sacred Unity

25- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi, Alberto Piazza – History and Geography of Human Genes

26- John Horgan – The End of Science

27 - not present

28- Piergiorgio Zellini – Gnomon

29- David Z. Albert – Quantum Mechanics and Common Sense

30- Antonio Damasio – Emotion and Consciousness

31- Merritt Ruhlen – The Origin of Languages

32- John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler – The Anthropic Principle

33- Richard P. Feynman – The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

34- J. William Schopf – Cradle of Life

35- Martin Davies - The Universal Computer (from the Adelphi series)

36- Antonio Damasio – In Search of Spinoza

37- Martin Rees – Our Cosmic Environment

38- James D. Watson – DNA

39- Matt Ridley – The Agile Gene

40- Wolfgang Pauli – Psyche and Nature

41- Leonard Susskind – The Cosmic Landscape

42- Gregory Chaitin – Exploring Omega

43- Valentino Braitenberg – The Image of the World in the Head

44- Leonard Susskind – The War of Black Holes

45- John S. Bell – The Discernible and the Incorpreivable in Quantum Mechanics

46- Andrea Moro – A Short History of the Verb Being

47- Piergiorgio Zellini – Number and Logos

48- Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson – The Superorganism

49- Sean Carroll – From Eternity to Here

50- Antonio Damasio – The Self Is Brought to Mind

51- Sam Kean – The Disappearing Spoon

52- Jeremy Bernstein – Quantum Leaps

53- Jim Baggott – The Higgs Boson

54- Giorgio Vallortigara, Eleonora Panciera – Brains That Count

55- Jim Baggott – The Higgs Boson

56- Mark Denny, Alan McFadden – The Engineering of Animals

57- Jim Baggott – Origins

58- Sam Kean – The Tale of the Neurochirurge Duel

59- Antonio Damasio – The Strange Order of Things

60- Alexandre Kojève – The Idea of Determinism

61- George Musser – Spooky Action at a Distance

62- Jim Baggott – Mass

63- Trauttner – The Free Prisoner

64- Venki Ramakrishnan – The Gene Machine

65- Erik Asphaug – When the Earth Had Two Moons