Minor shelfwear. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; Xi, 445 pp ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; Vol. 1; 445 pages View More...
Minor shelfwear. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; Xcviii, 448 pp ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; Vol. 3; 448 pages View More...
Very light shelfwear. Else fine. Plates at end. ; Text is in German with plates in Arabic. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 68 pages View More...
Minor shelfwear. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; Text is in German with plates in Arabic. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 68 pages View More...
Bumping to top corners with some creasing to upper corners of endpapers. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Former owner's name bleached out from ffep. ; Acta Historica Scientiarum Naturalium Et Medicinalium 12; 422 pages View More...
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. View More...
Minor foxing. ; 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. View More...
Very faint bumping to spine ends. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Dustjacket has a few tears (some repaired with tape) and chipping. DJ spine browned. ; 425 pages View More...
Book has been rebound in light grey boards with original wraps affixed to boards and backstrip. Wear to original wraps (rubbing and flaking in places) but boards are unaffected. Internally fine. ; This book is a critical edition with Greek dictionary of the 1st century Greek philosopher Nicomachus' introduction to arithmetic in Ibn Qurra's translation. ; Recherches Publiées Sous La Direction De L`institut De Lettres Orientales De Beyrouth, Tome IX; 360 pages View More...
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Spine sunned. Minor scuffing to spine. ; Alternate ISBN: 3540908447 ; 9.4 X 6.0 X 1.3 inches; 551 pages View More...
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light soiling to rear board of vol. 2 else books have very minor shelfwear. ; The seventh book of Pappus's Collection, his commentary on the Domain (or Treasury) of Analysis, figures prominently in the history of both ancient and modern mathematics: as our chief source of information concerning several lost works of the Greek geometers Euclid and Apollonius, and as a book that inspired later mathematicians, among them Viete, Newton, and Chasles, to original discoveries in their pursuit of the lost science of antiquity. This presentation of it i... View More...
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 View More...
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 ec... View More...
