Science/ Technology from First Landing Books & Art

Cambridge University Press, 1994. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very Good Soft Cover. Canto Edition. .

New York: W. H. Freeman & Company, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine hardcover in a Near Fine dustjacket. 188pp including index. One of the great figures in history, Sir Isaac Newton personifies the triumph of scientific reason over ignorance. Yet for all his contributions to the Enlightenment, Newton was a… Saber más sobre este artículo

Wash. DC: Smithsonian Inst Press, 1978. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Very Good softcover. Includes a selected historical bibliography on the Sector. Operations of the Geometric and Military Compass, 1606 translated, with an introduction by Stillman Drake. Published for The Burndy Library by The Dibner Library of the History of Science and… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Dover Publications, 1993. Book. Good. Soft cover. 2nd. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good softcover. a light dampstain top edge not affecting text. 441pp including index. A towering figure in intellectual history and one of the fathers of modern astronomy, the great mathematician Johannes Kepler (15711630) is best known for his discovery of the three laws… Saber más sobre este artículo

London, New York: Cambridge, 1971. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 5th. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good softcover. 128pp including bibgraphil and index. Lightly soiled with a crease on rear cover.This concise introduction to the history of physical science in the Middle Ages begins with a description of the feeble state of early medieval science and its… Saber más sobre este artículo

Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2003. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The fascinating story of a problem that perplexed mathematicians for nearly 400 years In 1611, Johannes Kepler proposed that the best way to pack spheres as densely as possible was to pile them up in the same way that grocers stack oranges or tomatoes.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 2nd. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In the court of the Medicis and the Vatican, Galileo fashioned both his career and his science to the demands of patronage and its complex systems of wealth, power, and prestige. In this fascinating cultural and social history of science, Biagioli… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1981. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Essays on Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Sources of Galileo's Thought. Vol. 62. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. 369pp including bibligraphy, Index of names and index of subjects plus an additional few pages of additional vols. of Boston Studies in… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Abaris Books Inc., 1986. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine hardcover in a Ner Fine dust Jacket. A Janus Library selection. 384pp including sources of illustrations, bibliography and index. During a Visit to the renowned astronomer Tycho Brahe, Nicholas Reimers absconded with his host's still unpublished new system of the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1960. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Translation by Thomas Salusbury and with an Introduction and Notes by Stillman Drake. No. 2 Facsimile Reprints in the History of Science. Large quarto measuring 11 1/14 by 8 3/4 inches. Brown linen spine over grey cloth. The title in gilt on… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is a good copy in Soft cover. First edition. 365pp. with index. Illustrated with line drawings. Light kubbing around edges, small creases on edges. Never before has a historian with Sabra's knowledge, insight, and analytic and linguistic skill tackled 17th-century optics as… Saber más sobre este artículo

Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 175pp with index and The Middle Ages, Edward Peters, General Editor. Near Fine with Near Fine dust jacket. Translated into English for the first time, the writings of the twentieth-century scholar Annelise Maier on late medieval natural philosophy are here made accessible… Saber más sobre este artículo

Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1977. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Translation from the Latin, with Historical and Paleographical Commentary in a Simulated brwon leather cover with title in Gilt on spine and front cover. 321pp including notes and index. This present work aims to fill the void from Galileo's first… Saber más sobre este artículo

Great Britain: Clarendon Press, 1974. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good hardcover in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips and short tears and now in a protective mylar cover. 181 pp including bibliography and index. A contemporary of Kepler and Galileo, Thomas Herriot was the most advanced… Saber más sobre este artículo

New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1978. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. European Philosophy & The Human Sciences Series.Very good hardcover in a good dustjacket. the DJ is worn along the the edges. The book is clean and tight. 275pp including notes, appendix, and an additional name index. The indispensable starting point for the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In 1665, when an epidemic of the plague forced Cambridge University to close, Isaac Newton, then a young, undistinguished scholar, returned to his childhood home in rural England. Away from his colleagues and professors, Newton embarked on one of the greatest intellectual… Saber más sobre este artículo

Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brown hardcover with title in silver letters on spine, in a very good dust jacket now in a mylar cover. 531pp including index. Illustrated with mathamatical line drawings. In these three studies-Copernicus, Kepler, Borelli- which are brought together in this volume,… Saber más sobre este artículo

United States of America: Harper & Brothers, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 234 pages plus index. silver gilted letters on spine. untrimmed edges. explains the history of a.e.c. and deplores our overdrawn association of secrecy with security. science is not secret..

New Mexico: Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1986. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A very limited softcoer reprinted in July of 1986. Details the secretive work that went into the deelopment of the first atomic bomb. The photos are amazing showing the lack of concern for what work the employees were doing. casual.… Saber más sobre este artículo

United States of America: Farleigh Dickenson, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An intensive biological study of the larval stage of caddis flies. Deals specifically with British flies but also includes a section that refers to American literature on the subject. Includes over 100 descriptions of caddis larvae. 2 copies at bonney..