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Berlinski, David NEWTON'S GIFT How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the World
London Duckworth 2001 071563061X / 9780715630617 Hardcover Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
DJ has very light shelfwear. ; Xviii, 217pp. In this witty, engaging, and often moving examination of Newton's life, David Berlinski recovers the man behind the mathematical breakthroughs. The story carries the reader from Newton's unremarkable childhood to his awkward undergraduate days at Cambridge and then to the astonishing year in which, working alone, he laid the foundation for his system of the world. Thereafter, Berlinski describes the creation of Newton's masterpiece, the Principia Mathematica, the monumental feuds that poisoned his soul and that wearied his supporters, and Newton's final re-creation of himself as the master of England's financial system. ; 217 pages
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Dilke, O. A. W. MATHEMATICS AND MEASUREMENT
University of California Press 1987 0520060725 / 9780520060722 Softcover Very Good+
Former owner's name on ffep. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Light shelfwear otherwise. ; Reading the Past, Vol. 2; 63 pages; This fully illustrated book outlines the ancient systems of mathematics and measurement and describes how they were used in mapping, surveying, telling time, trade and commerce, as well as in leisure pursuits such as games and puzzles, and in the occult.
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Wielen, Willem van der DE IDEEGETALLEN VAN PLATO
D. B. Centen 1941 Softcover Very Good
Scholar's stamp to titlepage (M. F. Fresco) with his name to ffep. Spine somewhat sunned. Some foxing on a few pages. Minor creasing and wear to wraps. ; On the concept of ideal numbers in Plato written in Dutch. ; Proefschrift (Diss. ) ; 270 pages
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Yeomans, Donald K. & Tao Kiang THE LONG TERM MOTION OF COMET HALLEY Accepted for the Publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society March 1981.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1981 Stapled wraps Fair
Stapled wraps are water-stained. Former owner's name to front wrap (Masier) and small marginalia in red pen to 2 pages (corrections). Water-staining to edges of some pages. ; The orbital motion of comet Halley is numerically integrated back to 1404 BC. Starting with an orbit based on the 1759, 1682, and 1607 observations of the comet, the integration was run back in time with full planetary perturbations and nongravitational forces taken into account at each 0.5 day time-step. Small empirical corrections were made to the computed perihelion passage time in 837 and to the osculating orbital eccentricity in 800. In nine cases, the perihelion passage times calculated by Kiang (1971) from Chinese observations have been redetermined, and osculating orbital elements are given at each apparition from 1910 back to 1404 BC. ; Cometary Science Team Preprint Series, No. 4; 27 pages; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 197, Nov. 1981, p. 633-646.
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