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The Three Galileos: The Man, The Spacecraft, The Telescope. Proceedings of the Conference held in Padova, Italy on January 7-10, 1997 by Casare Barbieri and Jurgen H. Rahe and Torrence V. Johnson and Anita M. Sohus Publisher Comments Three diverse observers, all named Galileo, have studied the planet Jupiter and its wonderful moons, its exotic atmosphere, its tremendous magnetic field, and its gossamer rings. This book is a unique combination of history and science, presenting the... (read more) Your price $120.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Charts of the Atmosphere for Aeronauts and Aviators. 1st Edition by A. Lawrence Rotch and Andrew H. Palmer From Powells.com Rotch established the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory just outside of Boston and was Harvard's first professor of meteorology. A friend of the Wright Brothers, he was an early believer in the ultimate success of mechanical flight and was one of the... (read more) Your price $475.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cosmography: A Blueprint for the Science & Culture of the Future by R Buckminste Fuller Book News Annotation Written in layman's terms, his last complete work offers Fuller's (1885-1983) own explanations of his revolutionary theories, transcribed and clarified by Kiyoshi Kuromiya, Fuller's adjuvant in writing and editing from 1979 to 1983. Fuller links his... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, Translated from the 6th French Edition. 1st [English Language] Edition, 1st Thousand by Pierre Simon Laplace Notes New York, John Wiley & Sons., 1902, 1st Eng. Lang. ed. 12mo, iv 196p. + 19p. ads., blindruled brown cloth with gilt spine titles. Rather a philosophical and literary approach to probability and consequently, perhaps, somewhat more readable and... (read more) Your price $95.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Notre Flotte Aerienne by Wilfrid de Fonvielle Notes 8vo, 234p., blindstamped brown flexible cloth with gilt lettering on spine & front cover. Popular account of the early years of (primarily) French lighter-than-air airships, written by a noted science writer of the day and illustrated with about 50... (read more) Your price $145.00 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Rare Book Room on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The Builders: Marvels of Engineering by National Geographic Book News Annotation Engineering wonders of the world are featured in six thematic chapters that focus on overcoming distance (roads, canals, bridges, railroads, pipelines), height and depth (towers, tunnels, skyscrapers), public spaces (sports arenas, exposition halls... (read more) Your price $9.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Theorie Mathematique De La Chaleur by Simeon D Poisson About the Author Poisson (1781-1840) was a student of Lagrange and friend of Monge, Aragon and Laplace. He was appointed astronomer at the Bureau des Longitude, professor of mechanics at the Faculty of Science and later replaced Fourier as titular professor at the... (read more) Your price $1800.00 (Used - Leather) check for new and sale copies add to wish list BuckyWorks :Buckminster Fuller's ideas for today by J Baldwin Book News Annotation A celebration of the designer and inventor's ideas, by a fellow inventor who worked with Fuller for three decades, describing his life-affirming vision of science and technology. Includes some 200 b&w photos and drawings, excerpts from lectures and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list l'Empire de l'Air: Essai d'Ornithologie Appliquee a l'Aviation by L. P. Mouillard Notes Essai d'ornithologie appliquee a l'aviation. 8vo, [4] 284p, library bound in brown buckram retaining original decorative wrappers. 31 illus., many full-page plus several tables. Major early attempt to derive principles of flight from observations of... (read more) Your price $950.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Scientific Papers of John Couch Adams, 2 Volumes. Edited by William Grylls Adams by John Couch Adams Notes Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1896. 4to, liv [4] 502 xxxii 646p. + 6 folding charts & frontis. port. (vol 1). Memoir by J.W.L. Glaisher. Adams (1819-92) was primarily an astronomer, noted for his co-discovery of the planet Neptune and his... (read more) Your price $250.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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