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Ancient world 460 Burton-Brown, T. The coming of iron to Greece. Top House, Wincle, (Ches.): Burton-Brown, [1955], 5, 329 p. tables, index. Reproduced from a typescript. Blue cloth binding, worn, spine is dull. There is some whitish staining on bottom corner of front panel, some on back cover. Overall, in good condition. Very uncommon book, 1 of 250 copies printed. $30.00

Ancient world 835 Hippocrates. The genuine work of Hippocrates. Translated from the Greek by Francis Adams. With an introduction by Emerson Crosby Kelly. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1939, viii p., 1 l., 384 p, index, plates. English only, no Greek. Good to very good in dust jacket. Nice, clean tight copy. Dust jacket is present but it is missing the top 10 percentage of the dust jacket. Contents: The oath -- On ancient medicine -- On airs, waters, aand places -- The book of prognostics -- On regimen in acute diseases -- Of the epidemics -- Of injuries of the head -- On the surgery -- On fractures -- On the articulations -- Mochlicus -- Aphorisms -- The law -- On ulcers -- On fistulae -- On hemorrhoids -- On the sacred disease -- Explanation of the plates -- Plates. $40.00

France 009 Scott, J. F. The scientific work of René Descartes (1596-1650). With a foreword by H. W. Turnbull. [London: Taylor & Francis], 1952, 211p, index, illus., port. Very good, nice, clean, tight copy. Good book. (Note: The original 1952 edition did not have the place of publication or the publisher on the title page, indicated by the Library of Congress brackets.) $20.00

Art hlsc Heilbron, J. L. The sun in the church: cathedrals as solar observatories. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999, ix, 366 pages., 8 pages of plates: illus. (some col.), bib, index. Very good to fine copy in dust jacket (further protected by a mylar dust jacket). $13.50 Box 4118
Review: "Through much of the Scientific Revolution, between 1650 and 1750, Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Constructed initially to solve the pressing problem of providing an unquestionable date for Easter, the instruments that made the churches' observatories also threw light on the disputed geometry of the solar system." "A tale of politically canny astronomers and cardinals with a taste for mathematics, The Sun in the Church explains the unlikely accomplishments of the Church-sponsored observers. It engagingly describes Galileo's political overreaching, his subsequent trial for heresy, and his slow and steady rehabilitation in the eyes of the Catholic Church. Despite… Leer más

Ancient world 646Frontinus, Sextus Julius.The two books on the water supply of the city of Rome: of Sextus Julius Frontinus, water Commissioner of the City of Rome, A.D. 97. A translation into English, and explanatory chapters, by Clemens Herschel, hydraulic engineer. Introduction by Russell H. Babcock and James J. Matera. Boston: New England Water Works Association, 1973, v, 252 p.: illus., map, plans. Good, clean, tight copy. $35.00