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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Used, some outer edges have minor scuffs, cover has light scratches, some pages have underlining, content is in very good readable condition.

Zustand: New. In.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Summary:"Cambridge Scientific Minds provides a portrait of some of the most eminent scientists associated with the University over the past 400 years, including accounts of the work of three of the greatest figures in the entire history of science, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and James Clerk Maxwell." "The chronological balance reflects the increasing importance of science in the recent history of the University. The book comprises personal memoirs and historical essays, including contributions by leading Cambridge scientists. Cambridge Scientific Minds will be of interest not only to graduates of the University, science students, and historians of science, but to anyone wishing to gain an insight into some of the greatest scientific minds in history."--Jacket.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 232 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. First Edition. First Edition (Cambridge, 1992). No markings, annotations, or inscriptions. Internally fine. (Slightest impression of a previously pencilled price to front endpaper only.) Unclipped dust jacket. No tears or conspicuous damage, negligible rubbing only, with some uniform fading to the spine (titling unaffected). Green cloth with bright gilt titling to the spine. The boards remain clean, sharp, and fine. Frontis, xvi, 531pp. A rare and collectible hardback first edition. (Please note: a heavy book. International shipping will likely be expensive.).

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. A collection of scholarly essays on Newton and the history of the exact sciences. Editor(s): Harman, P. M.; Shapiro, Alan E. Num Pages: 548 pages, 87 b/w illus. 10 tables. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 191 x 80. Weight in Grams: 948. . 2002. Revised ed. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

1st edtion. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xvi, 531 pages : il ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes index and bibliographical references. Contents: Lunar velocity in the Ptolemaic tradition / Bernard R. Goldstein -- Shadow measurement : the Sciametria from Kepler's Hipparchus : a translation with commentary / N.M. Swerdlow -- Descartes, Pappus' problem, and the Cartesian parabola : a conjecture / Henk J.M. Bos -- Honoré Fabry (1607-1688) als Mathematiker : Eine Reprise / Emil A. Fellmann -- Sotheby's, Keynes and Yahuda : the 1936 sale of Newton's manuscripts / P.E. Spargo -- De scriptoribus chemicis : sources for the establishment of Isaac Newton's (al)chemical library / Karin Figala, John Harrison and Ulrich Petzold -- Beyond the dating game : watermark clusters and the composition of Newton's Opticks / Alan E. Shapiro -- The critical role of curvature in Newton's developing dynamics / J. Bruce Brackenridge -- Newton and the absolutes : sources / A. Rupert Hall. Newton's ontology of the force of inertia / Zev Bechler -- Newton's Mathematical principles of natural philosophy : a treatise on 'mechanics'? / Alan Gabbey -- The review of the first edition of Newton's Principia in the Acta eruditorum, with notes on the other reviews / I. Bernard Cohen -- Newton, Cotes, and [square root square root]2 : a footnote to Newton's theory of the resistance of fluids / D.H. Fowler -- A study of spirals : Cotes and Varignon / Ronald Gowing -- The fragmentation of the European mathematical community / Lenore Feigenbaum -- Euler on action-at-a-distance and fundamental equations in continuum mechanics / Curtis Wilson -- St Peter and the rotation of the earth : the problem of fall around 1800 / Domenico Bertoloni Meli -- Why Stokes never wrote a treatise on optics / Jed Z. Buchwald -- Maxwell and Saturn's rings : problems of stability and calculability / P.M. Harman.Poincaré, topological dynamics, and the stability of the solar system / Jeremy Gray. Subjects: Newton, Isaac 1642-1727; Whiteside, D. T. (Derek Thomas); Newton, Isaac 1642-1727 Addresses, essays, lecturesNewton, Isaac Sir Studies; Science History; Mathematics History; Astronomy History; Physics History; Physics History Addresses, essays, lectures; Newton, Sir Isaac, 1642-1727 Critical studies; Science; 17th Century 18th Century Biography Festschriften Mathematics NEWTON, Isaac WHITESIDE, Derek Thomas. 3 Kg.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - A collection of twenty original essays on the history of science and mathematics. The topics covered embrace the main themes of Whiteside's scholarly work, emphasising Newtonian topics: mathematics and astronomy to Newton; Newton's manuscripts; Newton's Principia; Newton and eighteenth-century mathematics and physics; after Newton: optics and dynamics. The focus of these themes gives the volume considerable coherence. This volume of essays makes available important original work on Newton and the history of the exact sciences. This volume has been published in honour of D. T. Whiteside, famous for his edition of The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 343 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 244 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.55 inches. In Stock.