Histoire des Sciences Exactes et Naturelles dans l'antiquite Greco-Romaine ; Expose sommaire des Ecoles et des Principes.

Paris :: Librairie Scientifique Albert Blanchard, 1924., 1924. 8vo. VIII, 238, [4] pp. Figures (1 as a large folding table), index. Later dark green cloth, gilt-stamped spine, with original printed wrappers bound in; original wrapper is toned brown, the title lightly browned. Bookplate of George Ellery Hale (d.1938), Mount Wilson Observatory (with their embossed stamps). Very good, though browned. First edition. GEORGE ELLERY HALE'S COPY. Arnold Reymond (1874-1958) was a Swiss theologian, philosopher (logician) and historian of science. Reymond received a doctorate from the University of Geneva in 1908; his thesis on the history of ideas of the infinite, Logique et mathematiques, was reviewed by Bertrand Russell in Mind. Reymond taught at the University of Neuchâtel from 1912 to 1925, where he taught and influenced Jean Piaget. In 1925 he took up a chair at the University of Lausanne. / The book was later translated from the French to English by Ruth Gheury de Bray. David Eugene Smith wrote a critical review of this work as a translation. He criticized the author for numerous inaccuracies and for not citing enough primary sources. He pans the work due to the errors, concluding "On the whole the work has merits as a philosophical dissertation but none as a source of accurate historical information in the field of mathematics." – Smith.