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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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,… Read more about this item

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.… Read more about this item

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Argus Publishing, Inc., 1997. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 317 pages. Gilt writing on cover. Discusses the dangers that milk poses to health.