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This Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged, was published in 1944. (First edition was 1929; Second edition 1930.) Hardcover in very good condition. Text block is clean & tight with no writings or markings noted. “A History of Science.” 574 numbered pages.

Sir William Cecil Dampier FRS (born William Cecil Dampier Whetham) ( December 27, 1867 – December 11, 1952 ) was a British scientist, agriculturist, and science historian who developed a method of extracting lactose (milk sugar) from whey. He was born in London, the son of Charles Langley and Mary (née Dampier) Whetham and the grandson of Sir Charles Whetham, a former Lord Mayor of London. In 1886, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge and in 1889 commenced his varied research in the Cavendish Laboratory. In 1891 was elected a Fellow of Trinity.