The Barchas Collection: The Making of Modern Science - Hardcover

Stanford University Libraries Dept. Of Special Collections; Lowood, Henry E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0911221034 ISBN 13: 9780911221039

Publisher: Stanford Univ Libraries, 1985

Synopsis

A catalogue for a book exhibition to celebrate the dedication of the Samuel I and Cecile M. Barchas Room in the History of Science at the Cecil Green Library and, with it, the transfer of the Barchas Collection to Stanford University. At the center of the collection are more than one hundred seminal works, including first editions of Galileo's Dialogo, Newton's Principia, and Harmonices mundi, by Kepler. Illustrated. Article about the dedication ceremony from the Stanford University Campus Report loosely inserted. viii , 118, 2 pages. cloth. 8vo..

Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford Univ Libraries
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0911221034
• ISBN 13: 9780911221039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 118