Science: Mathematics from The Owl at the Bridge

First Wing: The Frame of the Renaissance: Exploration and Education. Second Wing: Mathematics and Astronomy. Third Wing: Physics, Chemistry, Technology. Fourth Wing: Natural History. Fifth Wing: Anatomy and Medicine. Sixth Wing: Leonardo da Vinci: Art and Science. Appendix: Leonardo Chronology. xiv, 318 pages, index, illus. & plates; dust jacket poor, torn, chipped, clipped; book Good with bookplate of Samuel… Ler mais sobre este item

Subjects include Asa Gray on NC botany, geology, chemistry, mensuration, geometry, meteorology, fossils, storms, smelting, mathematics; bibliographical notices & miscellanies; vii, 408 pages, 4 plates, illus.; pencil owner name on title-page; bound in blue marbled boards, 3/4 leather; front cover detached, the rest Good. Stock#ofc0369.

Foreword by D. H. Sadler, Superintendent of H.M. Nautical Almanac Office; Narrative: Transitional Years 1714-1730; A Break-Through, 1730-1740; The Mid-Century, 1740-1760; The New Reign, 1760-1780; The Great Instrument-Makers; The Surveyors and their Contemporaries, 1780-1800; Early Years of the New Century, 1800-1820; The Practitioners Disappear, 1820-1840. Biographies are listed in order by decade. xv, 502 pages, indexes, list of… Ler mais sobre este item

Based on an exhibition celebrating the merger of the John Crerar Library and the science collections of the University of Chicago, and reflecting "moments in the constantly changing panorama of man's relationship with nature". Contents: Mixed Mathematics, Natural History, Medicine, Cookery. xi, 77 pages, black&white photos of illustrations throughout; color pictorial dust jacket has slight creasing across top… Ler mais sobre este item

Cambridge for the Institute of Navigation At the University Press 1968. [reprint, Redondo Beach, CA, The Gemmary, 1989].. Hard Cover. xi, 443 p., frontis. (port), folding map, folding table. Originally pub. 1954. 'This book is a chronicle of lesser men-- teachers, text-book writers, technicians, craftsmen-- but for whom the great scientists would always remain sterile in their… Ler mais sobre este item

London, Cambridge U.P. for Institute of Navigation, 1966 / Redondo Beach (Calif.): The Gemmary, 1989. Hard Cover. xv, 503 p., front., 12 plates (incl. portraits); 23 cm. Sheehy (10th ed.) EF 81: "A narrative of the scientific and technical advances of the period is followed by 2,282 biographical sketches, including teachers, philosophers, and makers of mathematical, optical, and nautical… Ler mais sobre este item

N.Y., Abrams [1971]. First edition. Hard Cover. Essays on Maurits Cornelius Escher (1898-1972) by J. L. Locher, C. H. A. Broos (Escher: Science & Fiction) Approaches to Infinity by M. C. Escher; Structural Sensations by G. W. Locher; The Mathematical Implications of Escher's Prints by H. S. M. Coxter. Freitag 2752. 61 p., 1 l., viii… Ler mais sobre este item

Cambridge UP, 1928. Soft Cover. 43 p., plate, mathematical formulæ; 18.5 cm. The 1906 Nobel Prize winner in Physics for his discovery of the Electron, urges research beyond the Electron. Stock#30254. Vg/ original, worn printed green wrappers.

Cambridge, for the Institute of Navigation at the University Press 1970. Hard Cover. xi, 443 p., 14 plates, 2 of which fold. 22 cm.Reprint of the original edition, first published in 1954. Sheehy (10th ed) EF 80: "In three parts: (1) a narrative account of mathematical practice and the work of outstanding mathematicians of the period 1485-1715; (2) biographies… Ler mais sobre este item

Hardcover. Two volumes in one: [20] pages, 656, 676 columns, [2] pages, 212, 200 columns; [18], 294 pages, 106 columns, [17] pages, index. Besterman 3727. Renaissance Italian artists and merchants influenced the mathematics of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance in several ways. In the 15th century a group of Tuscan artists incorporated linear perspective into their practice and teaching,… Ler mais sobre este item