Folkes Editor (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. The History Press, Stroud, 2010. Pictorial soft cover. Book condition : Near fine, appears unread. Superb photographs. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #RO022542.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a fine hardcover first edition copy in slick white-mulberry colored binding, no DJ. From a technical company with their namestamp and spine number.

Paperback. 159p., 8.5x11 inches, preface, recommendations, appendices, illustrated with tables and figures, very good first edition trade paperback in glossy white wraps. Education and Culture Series #6. A collection of papers gathered by the Education Task Force of the Caribbean Research Center at CUNY.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 244 pages. 9.01x5.98x0.55 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. xix, 259 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, maps ; 25 cm. Summary:"This volume provides a critical edition of an exceptional example of the 'Scientific Grand Tour' taken by Martin Folkes. Martin Folkes (1690-1754) was Newton's protégé, antiquary, mathematician, and the only simultaneous president of the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. In 1733-5, he went on Grand Tour as a scientific ambassador for the Royal Society, demonstrating Newtonian optics to Italian virtuosi. He also measured ancient and Renaissance buildings to understand past architectural engineering and design. His 97-page illustrated diary (in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, shelfmark MS Eng. misc.c.444) also challenges the long-standing, mistaken impression among scholars that the Royal Society was in decline in the eighteenth century. Analysing Folkes's activities abroad and creating an edition from this source tracing his Italian route provides a novel reading of Newtonianism and the purpose of the Grand Tour as a vehicle for scientific research and statesmanship".