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€123.00$159.00
A detailed analysis of the geocentric distances of the sun and moon as found in Ptolemy's Amalgest, in both the manuscript version and the Nuremberg edition of Copernicus' De Revolutionibus, and in a manuscript of Erasmus Reinhold ("Commentarius in opus Revolutionum Copernici") in which he ...
€118.00$153.00
This book provides an introduction to the transmission of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry from the Middle East to the Latin West during the medieval period, and an annotated English translation of Book I of the Commentary of al-Nayrizi on Euclid’s Elements.
€188,410.00$267,710.00
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the publications of such academies held the same place as specialized scholarly and scientific journals do today. Many of the ideas and inventions of the great scholars of those days were first published in the Transactions or Memoirs of an Academy of ...
€71.00$92.00
Following Alexander of Aphrodisias through the Aristotelian tradition from the second to the sixteenth century, this book discovers an almost forgotten leading figure in the fervently disputed development of psychology and natural philosophy in early modern times.
€143.00$185.00
Based on little-read texts, this book explains how Gentile and his scholastic contemporaries were seen as successful doctors in the late middle ages. It relates the technical content of their elaborate treatises to the expectations of pupils and patients and argues that scholasticism helped to ...
€2,780.00$3,940.00
The principal works of Gessner in their first editions (or subsequent ones published during his lifetime). The microfiche collection is based on Hans H. Wellisch, Conrad Gessner: A Bio-bibliography, 2nd revised and enlarged edition (Zug, Switzerland: Inter Documentation Company, 1984).
€129.00$179.00
In Discovering the Ice Ages Tobias Krüger explores the discovery of the Ice Ages over the course of the 19th century, how the idea was received, and what further research it stimulated for the first time from an international perspective.
A peer-reviewed journal for English-language studies dealing with the content and influence of science, medicine and technology from the earliest times through to the end of the eighteenth century. Science is defined in its widest form to include, for example, natural philosophy, optics, ...
€110.00$142.00
Containing sixteen essays and a substantial introduction by noted historians of premodern science, this book provides a fresh look at divergent yet complementary traditions of interpreting the natural world, ranging from Greek mechanics to early modern Chinese theories of dragons.