Elsevier 1971 (43 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Used - Acceptable. Etat de la jaquette : Poor. Dust jacket has major shelf wear and tears. name of previos owner on inside cover.

hardcover. Etat : Good. Arnold, American Elsevier, c.1971, 4th.prtg., 8vo., cloth, 227pp., ex-lib.- spine label, pocket, stamps, G $.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. HARDBACK original cloth with white lettering on spine pictorial dust-jacket - lightly used not price-clipped pages: xiii 226 many text-figs. and tables 146mm x 228mm (5.75 x 9") fine.

Leinen, 474 Seiten, dies ist ein regulär ausgesondertes Bibliotheksexemplar aus einer wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek, keine Markierungen/Anmerkungen, das Buch ist sehr gut erhalten--- Linen 474 pages, Lib. Ex., no marks, the book is in a very good condition. Shipping to abroad insured with tracking number.…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. vii, 171 pp; illus. Original cloth. Near Fine, in dust jacket. This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition.

HC. Etat : Gut. oln, Ou., 4?, 96s., in gutem Zustand, [LSC51,4b] Deu 700g.

SC. Etat : Gut. Obr., 255s., in gutem Zustand, [HSA16,6a] Deu 400g.

Pencil scoring on 2 pp., else VG, unmarked, illus. Hardback; no. DJ. 320 pp.

Hardcover. Pen underlining throughout. Scarce. Out of print. 156pp. ISBN 0-444-00105-0. 11445.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, xxxii, 208 pp; 4 illus. Original cloth. Very Good, in very good dust jacket. Inscribed: 'For Lenny/Danny Gasman'. Signature ('Bushkoff' of former owner (Leonard Bushkoff, 1932-2010) on flyleaf. History of Science Library. US ISBN: 0444196641. B/w (illustrateur). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, xxxii, 208 pp; 4 illus. Original cloth. Very Good, in very good dust jacket. Inscribed: 'For Lenny/Danny Gasman'. Signature ('Bushkoff' of former owner (Leonard Bushkoff, 1932-2010) on flyleaf. History of Science Library. UK ISBN: 0356034119. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, xiii, 269 pp; 8 plates. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped). History of Science Library. ISBN for British issue: 035602699X. Copy of R. J. F. Carnon, with his signature dated July 1971. 'I owe a very deep debt of gratitude to the Librarian and the the [sic] staff of the University Library of Edinburgh, especially to Mr. R. J. F. Carnon' (Acknowledgements, p. v; Carnon crossed out the second 'the' and wrote 'of'). Whitteridge was Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, xiii, 269 pp; 8 plates. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped). History of Science Library. ISBN for American issue: 0444196633. Copy of R. J. F. Carnon, with his signature dated July 1971. 'I owe a very deep debt of gratitude to the Librarian and the the [sic] staff of the University Library of Edinburgh, especially to Mr. R. J. F. Carnon' (Acknowledgements, p. v; Carnon crossed out the second 'the' and wrote 'of'). Whitteridge was Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.…

xii+310pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. B&W plates and figures. Name on half-title.A near fine copy.

1st edition orig. cloth Fine octavo 420pp., figs., diags., tables, bibliog., index, Vol. II C. Neat stamps of ICI Research Library o/w nice copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First Edition, American issue. x, 118 pp; illus. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. ISBN for American Elsevier issue: 0444195807.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. xiv + Reprint [xix, 117, [1] pp; illus.]; pp. 119-41 contain 78 illus. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. History of Science Library: Primary Sources. 'The contents have always been a source of puzzlement and despair for serious-minded scholars. Certainly Hero describes some useful implements - a fire pump and a water organ - but the rest are playthings, puppet shows, or apparatuses for parlor magic. Trick jars that give out wine or water separately or in constant proportions, singing birds and sounding trumpets, puppets that move when a fire is lit on an altar, animals that drink when they are offered water - how can one respect an author who takes all these frivolities in earnest? But Hero's treatment of these childish entertainments is quite matter-of-fact; he is interested in the way they work. . . . Hero was a teacher of physics, of which pneumatics is part. The book is a text for students, and Hero describes instruments students need to know . . . Playthings take up so much of the book because such toys were very much in vogue at the time and the science of pneumatics was used for very little else. . . . There is a slightly different text, found only in four manuscripts, that is generally designated Pseudo-Hero. . . . This text cannot have been written later than A. D. 500 . . . Since Pseudo-Hero has the same figures as Hero, the figures cannot have been changed after A. D. 500; and there is every reason to believe that they were drawn by Hero himself. A complete set of these illustrations has been published in a reprint of Woodcroft's translation of the Pneumatics [offered here]. The Pneumatics was by far the most read of Hero's works during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; more than 100 manuscripts of it have been found' (A. G. Drachmann in D. S. B. VI: 311-12).…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, American issue. x, 118 pp; illus. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. ISBN for British Macmillan issue: 0333127420.

Softcover/Paperback. Etat : Very Good. In zeer goede staat. Paperback. Geen leesvouwen rug. Shelfwear.

Softcover/Paperback. Etat : Good. In goede staat. paperback. Geà llustreerd.

Softcover/Paperback. Etat : Very Good. In zeer goede staat. Ongelezen. Paperback. Rijkelijk geà llustreerd.

Softcover/Paperback. Etat : Good. In prima staat. Paperback.

16 x 23, 333 pp., illustrations en N/B, broché, bon état préface de Miguel Angel Asturia.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. In goede staat. Hardcover met stofomslag. Shelfwear. Met fotokaternen. 336 pp.

10e druk, Geb., hardcover, i.z.g.st., 267 pagina's.

Hard bound, first edition, 313pp includes indexes. Very good/-- (no dust jacket). 665 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Softcover/Paperback. Etat : Good. In goede staat. Paperback.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. In goede staat. Hardcover met stofomslag. Shelfwear. Roestvlekjes snede.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. xxxviii, 172 pp; 31 plates. Original cloth, 4to. Very Good+, in dust jacket. History of Science Library: Primary Sources. Pp. 3-15 = Hoskin's transcription of Wright 1734. Pp. 16-172 = Wright 1750, reprinted in facsimile [viii, 2 leaves, 82 pp; 31 plates], the title page reprinted in its original black and red (a common style in English scientific books of the 17th and 18th centuries, such as Boyle's Sceptical Chemist or Newton's Principia). Wright's first attempt to effect a reconciliation of his religious and scientific views of the universe 'is found in a manuscript dated 1734 that appears to be the text of a lecture-sermon accompanying a vast visual aid, now lost. In this lecture the divine center (the center in the moral order) was also the gravitational center (the center in the physical order) and thus Wright required the sun and the other stars to be moving in orbit about this center in order to avoid gravitational collapse. He found evidence of this circulation among the stars in Halley's 1718 paper on proper motions (Philosophical Transactions, 30, 736-738), the significance of which had escaped more powerful minds than Wright's. In his efforts to bring home to his audience their precarious moral position, Wright in his visual aid portrayed a cross section of creation, one that passed through the divine center and the solar system. With artistic license he represented the visible portion of the universe as it actually appears to us, beginning with the sun and moon and extending to the Milky Way, which he considered to be the effect of innumerable distant stars in the plane of the cross section. It was only sometime after 1742 that Wright realized that his model of the universe would produce suich a milky way in any of the possible cross sections, whereas the visible Milky Way is unique. In 1750 The Original Theory met this difficulty by making the shell of the stars thin, so that the Milky Way is the plane tangent to the shell at the position occupied by the solar system; because the shell is thin, no milky effect is produced when the observer looks either inward or outward. Alternatively (but with the loss of spherical symmetry), Wright would permit the stars to form a flattened ring, like a large-scale Saturn's ring; the Milky Way was then in the plane of the ring. This latter version, in which the stars lie in a plane and orbit their center as the planets orbit the sun, appealed to Immanuel Kant, who, not realizing that the center of Wright's system was supernatural, credited Wright with originating a disk-shaped model of the galaxy' (Hoskin in D.S.B. XIV: 519). American ISBN: 0444196129.…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. xxxviii, 172 pp; 31 plates. Original cloth, 4to. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. History of Science Library: Primary Sources. Pp. 3-15 = Hoskin's transcription of Wright 1734. Pp. 16-172 = Wright 1750, reprinted in facsimile [viii, 2 leaves, 82 pp; 31 plates], the title page reprinted in its original black and red (a common style in English scientific books of the 17th and 18th centuries, such as Boyle's Sceptical Chemist or Newton's Principia). Wright's first attempt to effect a reconciliation of his religious and scientific views of the universe 'is found in a manuscript dated 1734 that appears to be the text of a lecture-sermon accompanying a vast visual aid, now lost. In this lecture the divine center (the center in the moral order) was also the gravitational center (the center in the physical order) and thus Wright required the sun and the other stars to be moving in orbit about this center in order to avoid gravitational collapse. He found evidence of this circulation among the stars in Halley's 1718 paper on proper motions (Philosophical Transactions, 30, 736-738), the significance of which had escaped more powerful minds than Wright's. In his efforts to bring home to his audience their precarious moral position, Wright in his visual aid portrayed a cross section of creation, one that passed through the divine center and the solar system. With artistic license he represented the visible portion of the universe as it actually appears to us, beginning with the sun and moon and extending to the Milky Way, which he considered to be the effect of innumerable distant stars in the plane of the cross section. It was only sometime after 1742 that Wright realized that his model of the universe would produce suich a milky way in any of the possible cross sections, whereas the visible Milky Way is unique. In 1750 The Original Theory met this difficulty by making the shell of the stars thin, so that the Milky Way is the plane tangent to the shell at the position occupied by the solar system; because the shell is thin, no milky effect is produced when the observer looks either inward or outward. Alternatively (but with the loss of spherical symmetry), Wright would permit the stars to form a flattened ring, like a large-scale Saturn's ring; the Milky Way was then in the plane of the ring. This latter version, in which the stars lie in a plane and orbit their center as the planets orbit the sun, appealed to Immanuel Kant, who, not realizing that the center of Wright's system was supernatural, credited Wright with originating a disk-shaped model of the galaxy' (Hoskin in D.S.B. XIV: 519). British ISBN: 0356035158.…