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Copernicus 001. Collection of articles on Copernicus in German from a German journal. Contents: Inedita Coppernicana: aus den Handschriften zu Berlin, Frauenburg, Upsala und Wien / Hrsg. von Maximilian Curtze. - Leipzig: Koch, 1878, 73 pages, index. ------------------------------------------------------------Mitteilungen des Coppernicus-Vereins für Wissenschaft und Kunst zu Thorn. II, Heft. Lambeck Koch, Thorn, Leipzig, 1880, 11 pages, -------------------------------------------------------------- Der Aufendes Coppernicus in Bologna. German translation by Maximilian… Read more about this item

Ancient world al77 Arthur Ludwich Maximi et Ammonis carminum de actionum auspiciis reliquiae. Accedunt Anecdota astrologica. Recensuit Arthurus Ludwich. (Bibliotheca scriptorum graecorum et romanorum Teubneriana). Lipsiae: B.G. Teubneri, (1877), viii, 126p. Green cloth spine with mint green paper over boards, paper label on spine. Maximus and Ammon were astrologers. $15.00 Box 23. This is a reprint, probably… Read more about this item

Science adg1785 Adams, George. Geometrische und graphische Versuche: oder; Beschreibung der mathematischen Instrumente, deren man sich in der Geometrie, der Zivil- und Militär-Vermessung, beim Nivellieren undin der Perspektive bedient. Nach der Deutschen Ausgabe von 1795. Ausgewahit, bearbeitet und erlautert von Peter Damerow und Wolfgang Lefèvre; Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1985, xii, 439p, illus. Name of former classics professor on front free… Read more about this item

Military pjhg Partington, J. R. A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder. With a foreword by Lieut.-Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan. Cambridge Great Britain: Heffer & Sons, 1960, xvi, 381pages, illus, bib, notes, indexes. Very good copy. In good to very good dust jacket. "It analyses the evidence for the earliest knowledge of gunpowder in Europe, dealing with Roger Bacon, Albertus… Read more about this item

Germany lhvz Luedecke, Heinz. Vom Zaubervogel zum Zeppelin. Eine Geschichte der Luftfahrt und des Fluggedankens. Mit 87 Bildern. Berlin: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1936, 302p, notes, index, plates at back of book. At one point the frontispiece plate had started to separate, glued back properly. Good to very good condition. $12.50 Box A 118

Medicine ppam Pomet, Pierre, 1658-1699. Der aufrichtige Materialist und Specerey-Händler. Bandherausgeber, Hans-Joachim Poeckern; mit einem Nachwort von Hannsgeorg Löhr. (Dokumente zur Geschichte von Naturwissenschaft, Medizin und Technik; Bd. 11). Weinheim: VCH Verlagsgesellschaft, 1987, 902, (30), 22p, illus, index, bib. Facsimile-reprint of the German Leipzig 1717 edition published by Johann Ludwig Gleditsch and Moritz Georg Weidmann, 1717. Larger… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Gaelic 197MacCoinnich, Lachlan. "Ros O Sharon". Searmoin. Glasgow: Alexander Maclaren, (1940), 16p, pamphlet. In Scottish Gaelic. Scarce piece of ephemera.Originally published in 1897 by Rev. Lachlan MacKenzie of Lochcarron. … Read more about this item

Philosophy 106gmr Guillaume De Moerbeke. Recueil D'études À L'occasion du 700e Anniversaire de sa Mort (1286). Edite par J. Brams et W. & Vanhamel. (Series: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. De Wulf-Mansion Centre. Series 1, volume 7). Leuven, Belgium: University Press, 1989, x, 413 pages, illus, bib, index. Sixteen essays by European specialists, most in French, some Italian. Fine copy… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Medicine 002 (Regimen Sanitatis Salerni). The School of Salernum, Regimen Sanitatis Salerni. The English Version by Sir John Harrington. Salerno, Italy: Ente Provinciale per il Turismo, 1953, 92p, illus, paperback. The 1607 translation by Harrington of this medieval Physician's Desk Reference. Printed in brown and black, nice illustrations. $3.50

Medicine 001 Lambert, Samuel W. 1859-1942, et al. Three Vesalian Essays to Accompany The Icones Anatomicae Of 1934. By the late Samuel W. Lambert, Willy Wiegand & William M. Ivins, Jr. Foreword by Archibald Malloch. (Series: The History of Medicine Series; no.11). New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952, x, 128 pages, illustrations, appendix. Nice copy in a very good dust… Read more about this item

Ancient world 2214 Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus, fl. 4th to 5th century, AD. Palladii Rutilii Tauri Aemiliani viri inlustris. Opus agriculturae de veterinaria medicina de insitione. Edidit Robert H. Rodgers. (Series: Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana: [Scriptores Romani]). Leipzig: BSB Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft, 1975, xxviii, 336 pages, bib, index. Name of scholar on front free endpaper, good to very… Read more about this item

Ancient world 1494 King, David A. and George Saliba, editors. From Deferent to Equant; A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in the Ancient and Medieval Near East in Honor of E. S. Kennedy. (Series: Annals of theNew York Academy of Sciences, Volume 500). New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1987, xxix, 569 pages, illustrations. … Read more about this item

Ancient world 1101Reymond, Arnold, 1874- History of the sciences in Greco-Roman antiquity. Translated by Ruth Gheury de Bray, with 40 diagrams. London: Methuen & Company, 1927, x, 245p, bib, index, diagrams. This volume has the bookplate of a university classics library, given by the widow. Good tight copy else. $20.00

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… Read more about this item

Ancient world 820 Lamprecht, Heniz-Otto. Opus Caementitium: Bautechnik der Romer. (4, verbesserte und erweiterte Auflage). Dusseldorf: Beton-Verlag, 1993, 264 pages, illus, (colored and black and white). Hardcover, attractive white cover with illustration of Roman workmen constructing a building. A rather detailed and interesting description, with many illustrations, of the use of concrete in Roman constructions. It appears that… Read more about this item

Ancient world 814Landels, John G. Engineering in the ancient world. University Of California Press, 1978, 224p, bib, index, illus. Very good in dust jacket. $10.00

Ancient world 747Forbes, R.J. Studies in Ancient Technology. Volume IV. Second revised edition. Leiden/New York: E. J. Brill, 1987 (1964), 263 pages, 36 figures and 7 tables, bib, notes, illus. Fine in like dust jacket. The first edition was originally published in 1956 and the second revised edition was published in 1964. This is the photomechanical print of the… Read more about this item

Ancient world 728Hippocrates. Die hippokratische Schrift "Über die heilige Krankheit." Hrsg., ubers. und erlautert von Hermann Grensemann. (Series: Ars medica. 2. Abt. Griechisch-lateinische Medizin, Bd. 1) Berlin: de Gruyter, 1968, xiv, 126 pages, bib, indices, pub ads. Very nice tight copy with no marks, the spine is a little sun-faded. Between the title page and the front free endpaper, there… Read more about this item