Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Sky Pub. Corp. ; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Mass., Cambridge [England], 1992
ISBN 10: 0521326885 ISBN 13: 9780521326889
Anbieter: MW Books, New York, NY, USA
Erstausgabe
1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical Description; xii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Summary; A chance conversation and a surprising motto penned into a sixteenth-century astronomy classic prompted Owen Gingerich to begin his Great Copernicus Chase - a search for all existing copies of Copernicus' monumental De Revolutionibus. This adventure is the subject of the title essay in this collection of 36 episodes in the history of astronomy. Subjects; Astronomy. Astronomy - History. Astronomy History. Astrophysics. Astrophysics - History. Astrophysics History. History. 3 Kg.
Verlag: Sky Pub, Mass, 1981
ISBN 10: 0933346263 ISBN 13: 9780933346260
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Later. Very good or better in an about Very good dust jacket. Cleantext with color pictures in cleacn cloth covers with bumped corners, dust jacket is worn on corners and edges, one 1/2" chip on dust jacket front top edge.