Search: History - History of Science & Medicine
Keyword search
Current filters
[×]
BIC2
: 1BICPDXCurrent search
[×]
Categories
: History - History of Science & MedicineResults 11 - 17 of 17
Results
€118.00$153.00
This book provides an annotated English translation of Gerard of Cremona’s Latin version of Book I of al-Nayrizi's Commentary on Euclid’s Elements. Lo Bello concludes with a critical analysis of the idiosyncrasies of Gerard’s method of translation.
€107.00$149.00
This is a survey of the numerous astronomical tables compiled in the late Middle Ages, which represent a major intellectual enterprise. Such tables were often the best way available at the time for transmitting precise information to the reader.
€121.00$166.00
Drawing on computistical and astronomical sources from late antiquity to the Renaissance, this book demonstrates how pre-modern Christian attempts to determine the principal dates of the life of Jesus played an essential role in the development of historical chronology.
€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.
€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).
Nuncius is a peer-reviewed, international, biannual journal devoted to the historical role of material and visual culture in science.
Nuncius explores the material sources of scientific endeavor, such as scientific instruments and collections, the specific settings of experimental practice, and ...
€102.00$132.00
Drawing on natural history, theology and philosophy, this book retraces the shifting foundations of the order of things that characterizes the period between Descartes and Kant with respect to three questions: What is an animal? What is a human? What is a machine?