Search Results: Titles starting with G from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Padova, 1940 4to (27 cm), 86 pp. Printed wrappers (occasional foxing, small tear to the head of the front wrapper). Limited to 1000 copies, this is no. 465.

Yale University Press, 2013 12mo (19.5 cm), XII, 328 pp. Laminated wrappers (minor shelf-wear). "A provocative and penetrating new life of Galileo, placing the man, his achievements, and his failures in the broader history of the Scientific Revolution. Tackling Galileo as astronomer, engineer, and author, David Wootton places him at the center of Renaissance culture. He traces Galileo through his early rebellious years; the beginnings of his scientific career constructing a "new physics"; his move to Florence seeking money, status, and greater freedom to attack intellectual orthodoxies; his trial for heresy and narrow escape from torture; and his house arrest and physical (though not intellectual) decline. Wootton reveals much that is new--from Galileo's premature Copernicanism to a previously unrecognized illegitimate daughter--and, controversially, rejects the long-established orthodoxy which holds that Galileo was a good Catholic." (from the blurb)

Zürich: Hellmut Schumann, 1970 4to (28 cm), 56 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly toned). Hellmut Schumann's catalogue 500. 36 entries, including all major Galileo's lifetime publications from "Le operazioni del compasso geometrico" to "Due nuove scienze", books by Kepler, Mersenne, Campanella and other supporters and opponents. Interesting concise reference.

Oxford University Press, 2003 8vo (24.5 cm), VIII, 380 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Any literate person should be familiar with the central ideas of modern science. In his sparkling new book, Peter Atkins introduces his choice of the ten great ideas of science. With wit, charm, patience, and astonishing insights, he leads the reader through the emergence of the concepts, and then presents them in a strikingly effective manner. At the same time, he works into his engaging narrative an illustration of the scientific method and shows how simple ideas can have enormous consequences." (from the publisher's description)

Kraus Reprint Ltd.: Vaduz, 1963 2 volumes in one, 4to (32.5 x 22.5 cm), XXII, 161; 183; [10], 733, [3] pp. Publisher's red cloth, spine gilt (minor shelf wear). A bibliography of 19th-century editions in Ruthenian, Ukrainian, and Russian published in Galicia and Bukovina (then parts of the Austrian Empire), including publications in these languages printed in Austria and Hungary. This is a facsimile reprint of the very rare first edition, originally printed in 300 copies (L'viv 1888 - 1895).

Edizioni Musei Vaticani, 2011 4to (26.5 cm), 122, [6] pp. Laminated wrappers with flaps. A guide to the Gallery of Maps in the Vatican. "The Gallery of the Geographical Maps is 120 meters long and represents one of the most fascinating areas within the Vatican Museums. In 1581 the then Pontiff, Pope Gregory XIII, commissioned the famous cosmographer, geographer and mathematician of the time, Ignazio Danti, to manage the ambitious project of depicting the entire Italian peninsula along the gallery walls. The friar was joined in the Capital by a well-known group of artists, such as the brothers Matteo and Paolo Bril, Girolamo Muziano and Cesare Nebbia. They decorated the walls with forty maps depicting the Italian regions and islands including perspective views of its most prominent port cities (Genoa, Venice, Civitavecchia and Ancona) as well as two fundamental episodes from the history of Christianity: the Siege of Malta by the Turks, and the Battle of Lepanto with the defeat of the Turkish… Read More

PHI Learning, 2012 8vo (23.5 cm), XVIII, 518 pp. Laminated wrappers. "The most accessible and readable approach to the study of all the vital topics and issues associated with gas dynamic processes. At every stage, the physics governing the process, its applications and limitations are discussed in detail. With a strong emphasis on the basic concepts and problem-solving skills, this text is suitable for a course on Gas Dynamics­/Compressible Flows/High-speed Aerodynamics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering and applied physics. The elegant and concise style of the book along with illustrations and worked-out examples makes it eminently suitable for self-study by students and also for scientists and engineers working in the field of gas dynamics in industries and research laboratories. The computer program to calculate the coordinates of contoured nozzle, with the method of characteristics, has been given in… Read More

Baltimore: The Walters Gallery of Art, 1974 4to (28.5 cm), XVIII, 355 pp. Publisher's cloth. Edited by Ursula E. McCracken, Lilian M. C. Randall; Richard H. Randall, Jr. Included bibliography of Dorothy E. Miner and among others papers "A Pair of Silver Book Covers in the Sion Treasure" by Ernst Kitzinger,"An Illustrated Greek New Testament of the Tenth Century in the Walter Art Gallery" by Kurt Weitzmann, "The Praxapostos of the Walters Art Gallery" by Sirapie der Nersessian, "Further Comments on Mamluk Playing Cards" by Richard Ettinghausen, "Marginal Drawings in an Ottonian Manuscript" by Rosalie Green, "French Bookbinding fro Sir Richard Wingfield and Jean Grolier" by Howard M. Nixon.

New York: The New York Public Library, 1946 4vo (26 cm), 86 pp. Publisher's wrappers. An effort to record in alphabetical order all know places where Hebrew books were printed. Each place is represented at least by the first printed Hebrew book or a book with Hebrew characters. Alphabetical table of Hebrew place names and Chronological table of Hebrew printing in appendixes.

Dallas and Northampton: The Bridwell Library & The Gehenna Press, 1992 4to (28 cm), [4], 237, [2] pp. Printed wrappers. The Gehenna Press was established in 1942 by sculptor and graphic artist Leonard Baskin (1922-2000). The award-winning press went on to publish approximately 200 books in nearly 60 years, finally ceasing operation shortly after Baskin's death in 2000. The book is the catalogue of an exhibition in the Bridwell Library curated by Lisa Unger Baskin, containing an assessment of the work of the press by Colin Frankin, a bibliography of the books of the Gehenna Press by Hosea Baskin, and notes on the books by the printer, Leonard Baskin.

Kodansha International, 1991 12mo (18 cm), VIII, 204 pp. Laminated wrappers.

Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1996 8vo (21.5 cm), XII, 385 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket.

London: [J. W. Norie and Company], 1830 Engraving, 82 x 209 cm, pasted on blue-gray paper, with margins backed with cloth and a cloth tie (slightly creased and toned paper, a few spots and small holes, rubbed and stained back, creased title written in ink near the edge, and a number and stamp of Marsily & Christiansen, a Ship chandler company in Antwerp). This large portolan chart covers the Mediterranean, Adriatic, and Black Sea, featuring insets of ports including Cartagena, Genova, Bonifacio, Marseilles, Livorno, Syracuse, Alexandria, the Gulf of Smyrna, Straits of Messina and Gibraltar, Maltese islands, and the Sea of Azov. John William Norie (1772-1843) was a British hydrographer, chartmaker, and publisher of nautical books, playing a significant role in improving navigational charts during the 19th century. Norie founded J. W. Norie and Company, which published navigational charts and guides known for their accuracy and attention to detail, making them valuable for sailors and ship captains.… Read More

VNTL Publishers, 2007 8vo (21.5 cm), 219 pp. Laminated boards. The present monograph is devoted mostly to general properties of the ball structures, which simultaneously generalize the coarse structures introduced in the large scale geometry by J. Roe as well as the uniform structures. Chapter 1 contains the definition of the ball structures (baleans), provides their different examples and briefly discusses their connections with coarse structures. The topological coarse structures are also considered. The different morphisms of balleans and coarse spaces are defined and some categories of balleans and coarse structures are introduced. Chapter 2 is devoted to relations between the ball structures and metric structures, important morphisms between metric spaces. Chapter 3 concerns the property of cellularity of balleans and contains the notion of asymptotic dimension of balleans in the spirit of Gromov. It turns out that cellularity can be described in terms of asymptotic dimension zero, which makes it… Read More

VNTL, 2000 8vo (21.5 cm), 182 pp. Publisher's laminated wrappers. The monograph presents a systematic study of generalized Verma modules over a semi-simple complex finite-dimensional Lie algebra induced from a simple infinite-dimensional modules over a parabolic subalgebra. The study of generalized Verma modules begins with an analogue of the BGG Theorem which gives a criterion for embeddings of generalized Verma modules in the case of induction from a simple generic Gelfand-Zetlin module. Mathematical Studies: Monograph Series. Volume 8.

Oxford University Press, 2000 8vo (24 cm), VI, 356 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "the author offers us insightful portraits of twelve of our century's most distinguished physicists, all of whom he has known personally. We meet, among others, the famously taciturn Paul Dirac; Max Born, who coined the term 'quantum mechanics'; Wolfgang Pauli, famed for his exclusion principle and known as the conscience of twentieth-century physics; Mitchell Feigenbaum, inventor of chaos theory; and John von Neumann, one of the most influential mathematicians of the century. Other scientists profiled include Res Jost, Isidor Rabi, Viktor Weisskopf, and Eugene Wigner. In addition, because their work is so relevant to the others discussed, Pais has included chapters on Einstein and Bohr, in each case giving the essence of the man's character and scientific achievement." (from the publisher's description)

Fourth Estate, 1999 8vo (24 cm), VIII, 344 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket. "By picking one newly discovered gene from each of the 23 human chromosomes, and telling its story, Matt Ridley recounts the history of our species and its ancestors from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine. He finds genes that we share with bacteria, genes that distinguish us from chimpanzees, genes that can condemn us to cruel diseases, genes that may influence our intelligence, genes that enable us to use grammatical language, genes that guide the development of our bodies and our brains, genes that allow us to remember, genes that exhibit the strange alchemy of nature and nurture, genes that parasitise us for their own selfish ends, genes that battle with each other and genes that record the history of human migrations. From BSE to cancer, he explores the applications of genetics: the search for understanding and therapy, the horrors of eugenics, and the philosophical implications for… Read More

Simon & Schuster, 1990 8vo (24 cm), 352 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth backed boards and dust jacket (stamps of the Royal Institution). This is the story of the search to identify the genes that govern human health, illness and behavior. The book also examines the profound implications of genetic research, including its impact on the abortion controversy. It has been shortlisted for the 1991 Science Book award.

Penguin Books, 1963 12mo (18 cm), 158 pp. Printed wrappers (binding somewhat rubbed, paper slightly toned). In this lighthearted exploration, Professor Pedoe employs a range of practical applications and puzzles to examine contemporary mathematical trends. Across nine chapters, topics include mathematical games, probability, decision-making processes, and other engaging subjects.

Paris: Librairie Tross, 1865 8vo (22 cm), [4], VIII, 417 pp. Cloth, gilt-lettered spine, original wrappers bound in (binding slightly rubbed, wrappers toned, occasional foxing inside, two tears to fore-edge). The second augmented edition of the classical study and bibliography of the great French Renaissance printer is divided into three parts: biography, bibliography, and iconography. It includes documents and additional notes in the appendices and is illustrated with facsimiles of Tory's woodcuts.