Marke John (3 results)
Published by TIME-LIFE, AMSTERDAM 1975
- Hardcover
Seller: .G.D., BRAINE LE CHATEAU, BRABA, Belgium.G.D.
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COUV. RIGIDE. Condition: COMME NEUF. 184 PAGES -COUV. ILLUSTREE EN TRES BON ETAT - INT. IMPECCABLE - NOMBREUSES ILLUSTRATIONS EN NOIR ET BLANC ET COULEUR DANS ET HORS TEXTE - DES PHOTOS REMARQUABLES - 23X26 835g. MARKE PAMELA - DOXAT-PRATT CATHY (illustrator).
Miller Popular Standard Dance Hits: WHISPERING
Words and Music by John Schonberger, Richard Coburn and Vincent Rose; scored by Marke Winsten
Published by Miller Music Corp, NY 1948
- Softcover
Seller: Ed Buryn Books, Nevada City, CA, U.S.A.Ed Buryn Books
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Near Fine unmarked. Musical scores for different instruments for the song Whispering: Pianos, Violins, Bass, Trumpets, Trombones, Drums, Saxophones, and Guitar. 7 x 10-3/4, 15 folded sheets in cover wraps. Musical scores in b/w illustrated wraps, unbound.
- Manuscript
Seller: Daniel Crouch Rare Books Ltd, London, , United KingdomDaniel Crouch Rare Books Ltd
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The "Panchronologia" Brass astrolabe, the front of the plate engraved for a universal astrolabe with De Rojas projection, graduated regula and cursor, below the throne a table of 24 stars and a perpetual calendar for Leap Years and Epact, dated 1678; the reverse of the plate with scales for a circular slide rule with scales for…tangents, sines and numbers, two rotating index arms. One of the largest and grandest computational devices made in the seventeenth century. The so styled "Panchronologia" combines one of the most ancient of scientific instruments, the astrolabe, with one of its most modern (for the time) the slide rule. At 26 inches (66 cm) in diameter and weighing 23 lbs (10.4kg) it is not only one of the largest astrolabes ever produced but arguably the largest computational device to have survived from the seventeenth century, and thus a hugely important work in the history of computing. The Astrolabe The astrolabe some times called the slide rule of the heavens, can trace its history back to Hellenistic times. The smart phone of it's day it could perform numerous functions including calculating the time day or night, determine your position, show the movement and identify heavenly bodies, cast horoscopes, help you navigate the oceans, and survey your land. The astrolabe is on a De Rojas or orthographic projection. The De Rojas is a form of universal projection, i.e. one that can be used at any northern latitude, unlike their traditional cousins which were bound to a particular latitude. Such universal astrolabes had been pioneered by Islamic instrument makers in the Twelfth century, but were made popular in the Europe in the Sixteenth century when De Rojas published his 'Commentariorum in astrolabium', in Paris, in 1551. To the upper part below the throne is a list of 24 stars marked a-z: a - Aliot; b -Cin: Andr c - Spica [Virgo] d - Cap [Aries] e - Arctu f - Os: Ceti g - Corona h - Cor [Scorpio] i - Ocul. [Taurus] k - Hircus l - Pes: Ori S. m - Cin Orio. n - Auriga o - Lyra p - Can. ma: q - Can: mi: Aquila r - Aquila s - Corn: VS. t - Cignus u - Cor: hy: w - Cor: [Leo] x - Fomaha y - Caud [Leo] z - Ala peg. Below this a perpetual calendar for Leap Years, and Epact (age of the moon at the beginning of the year), dated 1678. The instrument is bisected by a graduated regula and cursor. The Slide Rule A Brief History The slide rule was central to the practice of mathematics, from its invention at the beginning of the seventeenth century, to its hasty demise at the hands of the pocket calculator some 340 years later. It's invention by William Oughtred (1574-1660), in 1632, would revolutionises the area of computing, allowing the user to perform quickly complex computations; its use was not only mathematical but practical, with rules designed for engineers, brewers, printers, customs officers, shipwrights, and astronomers among many others. They were even used during the cold war to calculate radiation exposure over time, and Buzz Aldrin is said to have used one for last minute calculations before landing on the moon. Though suggestions, that his failed attempts to put it back in his pocket was the reason he was second out of the lander have not been verified. In its purest form, two logarithmic scales are placed next to each other on two rules, enabling calculations to be made when sliding the rules past each other, hence slide rule. The earliest extant example of such an instrument (though not the instrument itself - which is now lost) is housed the in Macclesfield collection at the University of Cambridge Library, where a counter proof print of Elias Allen's (1588-1653) instrument is attached to a letter from Oughtred to Allen, dated 1638. Oughtred laments to Allen that he is yet to have one made. However, the very first slide rules were circular, as here. The earliest extant example of such an instrument was produced by Elias Allen - him again - and although not dated, is believed to have been produced in around 163.
