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

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, Frederick Unger (1959). Soft Cover. vii, 136, [1] p., illus.; 17.5 cm. "First published, 1929." Thompson on exploration and discovery; Rowley on art; Schevill on Italian society; Sarton on science. Stock#47090. Vg / soft cover.

"Th story of Vitruvian Man is actually two stories: one individual and one collective. The individual story, of course, is Leonardo's own... how [he] came to draw his famous picture... The second story unfolds on a much broader scale. It's the story of how Vitruvian Man first came into being as an idea more than two thousand years ago and then slowly made its way across the centuries toward its fateful encounter with Leonardo. It's a saga of grand proportions..." 275 pages, illustrations including color; 23.5 cm. Very Good in VG pictorial dust jacket. Stock#ofc0648.

Brescia, Clas International [1990]. 'Science, finance, society & industry toward new objectives.' A survey of progess in biotechnology in Italy. Not only chemistry and biology, but finance, industry, and society are treated. Published at L.48,000. Soft Cover. xiii, 240 pages, illus., charts, 24 cm. VG. Stock#31581.

520 p., [1] leaf of plates, illus.; 23.5 cm. Italian contributions to the history of science in the form of 96 letters. Covers a wide range of subjects: Leonardo da Vinci , Volta and other electrical advances, Galileo, medicine, Columbus, Vespucci, geographical discoveries. North American libraries own microfilm, but perhaps only the Burdy has the actual volume. Stock#48051.

"Leonardo called his notebooks 'a collection without order taken from many papers which I have copied here, hoping afterward to arrange them in order, each in its place, according to the subjects treated of.' He died before he could carry out this plan. Now more than 400 years after his death, the contemplated arrangement has been made in a manner which Leonardo would surely have approved. The notebooks thus reveal the philosopher, scientist, painter, sculptor, astronomer, architect, geographer, inventor, musician, 'perhaps the most richly gifted by nature among all the sons of men'." Two volumes: 655, 640 pages, 64 plates; 26 cm. A few rough openings; a very few pencil marks; minor smudges on dust jackets; Very Good in sturdy linen-covered slipcase. Stock#ofc0656.

1 leaf, 389 p.; 25 cm. The University of Rome was founded in 1303 and is the largest and considered the best university not only in Italy but in Southern Europe, having a distinguished history in many fields. This is the story of the teaching of medicine in Rome, particularly at the University. "Bibliografia": p. [353]-373. Stock#48105.

538 p., 25 cm. Dell'origine e de' progressi del metodo sperimentale Italia: discorso preliminare. De' principali strumenti del metodo sperimentale. With sections on Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, the development of glasses, barometers, and numerous instruments to measure phenomena, this is a richly detailed survey. This volume is in its original wrappers, but spine and covers show wear. Stock#48106.

Title continues: "insieme ad altri lavori sulla storia della scienza e della civiltà." Complete articles: Le cognizioni oftalmologiche di Dante; Le Matematiche nel secolo di Dante; Distanze e dimensioni cosmiche secondo Dante; Chemisches und Technologisches bei Dante; La geografia di Dante. xi, 96 pages; 25 cm. Lacks all after page 96; part unopened; stitching loose; paper browned; working copy. Stock#ofc0057.