Search Results: Science: Mathematics from The Owl at the Bridge

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.

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.

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, about a century before the subject was formally treated by mathematicians. By 1380 an algebraic symbolism had been developed in Italy in which letters were used for the unknown, for its square, and for constants. Included as well are all the mathematical works of Galileo. Riccardi's work remains a standard on the subject of Italian mathematical literature from the beginning of printing to the 1800s. It includes 15,000 descriptions of books in alphabetical order with full title, collations, cross references to other standard works and valuable annotations which include rarity and number of editions. This reprint… Read More

NY, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1952. Periodical. 4 p.l., 51 p., illus., 347 lots, 24 cm. Title continues: including Descartes Discours de la Methode, first edition in English, a rare mid-sixteenth century cookbook, Hooke Micrographia, first edition, Wallendarfer Decalogium (1507) with a reference to Vespucci's voyage to the New World, property of a New York private collector." Lots 160-199 are Italian literature. Good+, some pencil bidder's notes / paper covers. Stock#43575.

Chicago, UP, 1996. Soft Cover. xii, 290 p. illus., 23 cm. "investigatesthe nature of the changes that occured during the [early modern] period, focusing attention on evolving notions of experience and how these developed into the experimental work that is at the center of modern science." Stock# 31,857. Fine/ wrappers.

Oxford UP, 1989. Hard Cover. xiii, 466p., 24 cm. Penrose is Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford and a leading mathematical physicist, but this book is aimed at the general reader. Stock# 30,946. Vg/ no dj.

NY, Christie's, 1998. Hard Cover. Volume 2 of three: 478 p., lots 235-883, illus.; 28 cm. Nearly 650 medical, scientific and mathematical books of high quality, with Franklin, Galileo, Jenner and Newton among the highlights. Vg / hardcover. Stock#L424.

Kiev, 1967. 21 articles on Mathematical physics. In Cyrillic Russian with brief English summaries. Soft Cover. 287 pages, 20 cm. Good+/ paper. Stock#40415.

Cambridge University Press/ Redondo Beach, CA, The Gemmery, 1989. Hard Cover. xi, 442 p., map fold., 22cm. Sheehy (10th ed) EF80: In three parts: (1) a narrative of mathematical practice and the work of outstanding mathematicans of the period 1485-1715; (2) biographies of 582 practitioners; and (3) a list of 'Works on mathematical arts and practices." Stock# 32,095x. Fine/ issued without dj.

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 of 582 practitioners; and (3) a list of 'works on mathematical arts and practices, with descriptive notes." Stock# 32,094. Original cloth, dj, fine copy.

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 instruments." Stock#32096. Vg/ dj vg.

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 generation.' There are three sections: Part I, Narrative, Part II, Biographies (582 scientist practitioners), Part III, annotated list of contemporary works (bibliography of 628 printed books from 1400 to 1715, arranged chronologically). A masterly and most useful reference for mathematics, science, technology. The bibliographical section is cherished by librarians. Copy new from the publisher.

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 biographies, 12 plates; bound in scarlet binder's cloth stamped in gold; Very Good+, gift quality. Stock#ofc0342.

London, Cambridge U.P. for Institute of Navigation, 1966 / Redondo Beach (Calif.): The Gemmary, 1989. Hard Cover. xi, 442 pages, 12 plates (incl. portraits), folded map, facism.; 23 cm. Not only important for mathematics, but for science and technology as well, Taylor's 2282 biographies and bibliographical citations make this of value for any historical work on English science between Newton and Darwin. Sheehy (10th ed.) EF81. Stock#32097x. Fine, new from publisher in red cloth; no dj as issued.

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 due to inexact size; VG+, gift quality. Stock#ofc0210.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1979.. Hard Cover. xxi, 478 p. ; index, 23.5 cm. Contents: OverviewThe Matrix of Specialization John Higham 3;.The Order of Learning in the United States: The Ascendancy of the University Edward Shils 19; The Specialization of Science and Scholarship. The Plural Organized Worlds of the Humanities Laurence Veysey 51; The Development of the Social Sciences Dorothy Ross 107. The Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry Communities: A Comparative Analysis Daniel Kevles 139. The Transformation of a Science: T. H. Morgan and the Emergence of a New American Biology Garland Allen 173. The Organization of the Agricultural Sciences Margaret W. Rossiter 211. The Application of Science to Industry John Rae 249. The American Economy and the Reorganization of the Sources of Knowledge Louis Galambos 269. The Institutional Context of LearningUniversity Identity: The Teaching and Research Functions Hugh Hawkins 285. National Science Policy in a Private Foundation: The Carnegie… Read More

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1953. Hard Cover. 2 Volumes (of eventually 4)v. 1. Language: xiv, 328 p.; v. 2. Mythical thought: xviii, 269 p. 24 cm. Translated from: Philosophie der symbolischen Formen. This book articulates the formative factors necessary to the establishment of a complete theory which would consider the worlds of language and myth as well as science. Focusing on the primacy of mathematical and physical law, including the material presented by the phenomenology, psychology, and pathology of perception. From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas of the Brown University Department of Philosophy. Stock# 43,898. Good+, spines faded / no dj.

Cambridge, Joseph Lovering; NY, Putnam, 1856. Periodical. xlvi, 311 p., charts, folding plates, 23.5 cm. Includes Benjamin Peirce on mathematics; Peters, Contributions to Atmospherology of the Sun; Olmsted, Notes on Wilmington Gunpowder Explosion; Brocklesby, Frozen Wells of Owego; Kent, Description of a New Apparatus for separating Gold & other Precious Metals from Foreign Substances; Smith, Re-Examination of American Minerals; Whitney, On Occurrence of Ores of Iron in the Azoic System; Blake, Notes upon the Grove of "Mammoth Trees" in Calaveras County, California; Hilgard, Contributions to the Physiology of Sight; Hunt, On the Use of Salt-marsh Sods for facing Steep Slopes of Parapets, Terraces, etc. Tan printed wraps soiled, spine ends chipped; part unopened; VG. Stock#33526.

Salem [Mass., Salem Press Printing & Pub. Co.] July 1890. Periodical. civ, 496 p., index, 25 cm. Includes list of members; Evolution of Music from Dance to Symphony; Mathematical Theories of the Earth; Review of Theories of Electrical Action; Nature of Amalgams; North American Mesozoic; Some Recent Investigations Relative to Cell-Contents; Israelite & Indian. A Parallel in Planes of Culture. Sewn in printed wraps; unopened; internally clean, VG. Stock#30570.

NY, Norton [c1937]. "First Revised Edition". Hard Cover. Signed. Contents include Smith, The Fine Arts; Stockard, Biological Science; Duckett, The Classics; Tugwell, Economics; Atwood, Geography; Fay, History; Whitney, Modern Languages; Lovett, The Study of Literature; Henderson, Mathematics; Welch, Music; Spaulding, Philosophy; Lemon, Physics; Beard, Politics; Dunlap, Psychology; Odum, Sociology and the Study of the Modern World. viii, 419 p., 22.5 cm.; dj clipped, spine & edges torn; good. With Neilson's ink signature, and also a pencil inscription. 34786 {mrp}.