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[Paris], Gallimard, 1969. Part of the 'Bibliothèque de la Pléiade' series; the text is in French. More
Mathematics
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Grete Hermann. Between Physics and Philosophy
Cham, Springer, 2016. Number 42 in the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science series. More
Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Cham, Springer, 2017. Number 45 in the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science series. More
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Borelli's 'On the Movement of Animals'. On the Force of Percussion. [Together with] ... On the Natural Motions Resulting from Gravity
Cham, Springer, 2015 (first thus). Numbers 37 and 38 of the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science series. Comprises translations of Borelli's 'De vi percussionis' (1667) and 'De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus liber' (1670), translated from the 1686 Leiden edition. Despite the title of this set, it does..... More
Relativity. The Special and the General Theory
London, The Folio Society, 2004 (first thus). Authorised translation by Robert W. Lawson; introduction by Roger Penrose. This edition follows the enlarged fifteenth edition published by Methuen in 1954, with minor emendations. More
Universal Arithmetick, or, a Treatise of Arithmetical Composition and Resolution. To which is added, Dr. Halley's Method of finding the Roots of Equations arithmetically. Written in Latin by Sir Isaac Newton, and translated by the late Mr. Ralphson, and revised and corrected by Mr. Cunn. The Second Edition, very much corrected
London, Printed for J. Senex, W. and J. Innys, J. Osborne, and T. Longman, 1728 ('Second Edition, very much Corrected')/ 1720 (first edition in English)/ 1707 (first edition, in Latin). The eight plates, normally found with a small folding section, are bound into this copy in an unfolded state by..... More
Examen du Livre des Recreations Mathematiques, et de ses Problemes en Geometrie, Mecanique, Optique et Catoptrique. Où sont aussi discutées & restablies plusieurs experiences Physiques y proposées
Paris, Chez Rolet Boutonné, 1638 [second edition]/ 1630. The second edition of Claude Mydorge's expanded edition and critique of this popular early work of recreational mathematics, first published in 1624 and usually attributed to Jean Leurechon. Each of Leurechon's mathematical problems is reprinted here in roman type, with Mydorge's explanatory..... More
The Theory and Design of Illuminating Engineering Equipment
London, Chapman & Hall, 1930. A profusely-illustrated work on all things to do with artificial lighting: from cinema projectors to signal beacons, shop windows to traffic lights. More
Rationis Defensor. Essays in Honour of Colin Cheyne
Dordrecht, Springer, [2012]. Volume 28 in the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science series. '[This] is a volume of previously unpublished essays celebrating the life of Colin Cheyne ... Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago.' (from the publisher's blurb). More
Wittgenstein
Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1982. Eight studies of different aspects of Wittgenstein and his works (including two on the Tractatus, one on Philosophical Investigations and one on Probability and Certainty) by the co-editor of Wittgenstein's works. More
The Foundations of Mathematics. A Study in the Philosophy of Science
Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1959. With the contemporary ownership signature of (Professor) Brian Medlin, and his very occasional emphases. More
A Beautiful Mind. A Biography
New York, Simon and Schuster, 1998 [first edition]. A biography of John Nash, Nobel Prize-winning mathematician. More
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