Stillman Drake Notes (11 results)
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Seller: Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller, New Castle, CO, U.S.A.Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller
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Trade paperback. Condition: Very Good. Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own popularizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernican cosmology, against the Church's strong opposition, his development of a telescope, and his unorthodox opinions as a philosopher…of science were the central concerns of his career and the subjects of four of his most important writings. Drake's introductory essay place them in their biographical and historical context.
Galileo Galilei: A Biography and Inquiry Into His Philosophy of Science
Ludovico Geymonat / Foreword by Giorgio de Santillana / Translation with additional notes and appendix by Stillman Drake
Published by McGraw-Hill, NY, 1958
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- First Edition
Seller: North Country Books, Milton, VT, U.S.A.North Country Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: VG+. First English language edition. Light brown cloth hardcover with minor wear, sunning to spine, but not affecting the black spine text, tightly bound, gift inscription on the ffep, else the book is unmarked with bright and clean pages. No dust jacket. xii, 260 pp. An excellent reading/reference copy.
Language: English
Published by McGraw-Hill, New York, 1965
- Softcover
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pbk, xii, 260 p. ; 22 cm. Covers rather dulled, neat library bookplate and signed by translator. Contents : Galileo's youth -- Paduan period -- The first fortunate astronomical observations -- The ambitious program -- The first discomfiture -- The years of silence -- The Copernican manifes…to -- The collapse of the Galilean program -- The return to pure science -- The serene conclusion of an embattled life -- Appendix A: The Galileo-Bellarmine meeting : a historical speculation / by Stillman Drake -- Appendix B: Reply to Stillman Drake / by Giorgio de Santillana. [Galilei, Galileo 1564-1642 - Science Philosophy History - Scientists Italy Biography - Astronomy - History] p1816 / m15488.
Discourse on Bodies in Water
Galilei, Galileo (Thomas Salusbury, Translation, and Stillman Drake, Introduction and Notes)
Published by University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1960
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- First Edition
Seller: Row By Row Bookshop, Sugar Grove, NC, U.S.A.Row By Row Bookshop
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A Near Fine copy in brown and gray cloth lettered in gold of this tall-format hardcover edition. No dust jacket. Book.
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Published by Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, Los Angeles, 1976
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition of Stillman Drake's English translations of two early seventeenth-century polemical works associated with Galileo: the Dialogue of Cecco di Ronchitti of 1605 and the Considerations of Alimberto Mauri of 1606. Both texts arose from the controversy surrounding the new star, or superno…va, observed in 1604 and challenge contemporary Aristotelian explanations of the heavens. Drake supplies substantial introductions, explanatory notes, and historical context. The volume is particularly interesting for its presentation of Galileo's early engagement with Aristotelian natural philosophy and for the complex, still-discussed question of authorship surrounding the pseudonymous texts. The Dialogue uses humor and rustic dialogue to ridicule defenders of an unchanging Aristotelian cosmos. Condition: Very Good. Original orange-red floral-patterned cloth boards with solid orange cloth spine and gilt spine lettering. Binding is firm and square. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to the board edges and corners, with slight fraying and cloth wear at the head of the spine. Top edge is lightly dusted. Interior pages appear clean and well preserved, with rough-cut edges. Small handwritten ink notation, apparently "Z-UB 6/2/79," appears along the inner margin of a preliminary leaf. No other ownership markings, underlining, or annotations observed in the photographed portions. No dust jacket, as issued. A handsome fine-press production, printed by Grant Dahlstrom in Pasadena in an edition limited to only 500 copies. The first English edition of these two texts has appeal for collectors of Galileo, astronomy, the Scientific Revolution, philosophy of science, and California fine printing. Ships carefully packed in protective materials. USPS Media Mail is the standard domestic shipping method unless another service is requested. Returns accepted in accordance with AbeBooks' 30-day return policy. SCI 2a.
Discourse on Bodies in Water
Galilei, Galileo [Thomas Salusbury] [Introduction and notes by Stillman Drake]
Published by University of Illinois Press Urbana, IL 1960, 1960
- Hardcover
Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg
Contact seller5-star sellerxxviii + 88pp. 4to Black and white illustrations Gray boards and brown cloth back Facsimile edition: No. 2 of Facsimile Reprints in the history of Science. Translated by Thomas Salusbury. Introduction and notes by Stillman Drake Near Fine/no dj.
Language: English
Published by Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, Los Angeles, 1976
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. Xvii, 152 Pp. Red Patterned Cloth, Gilt. One Of 500 Copies. One Of The Publisher's Copies, Unopened (Pages Stall Attached Along Foredges), With A Special Printed Presentation Card From Book Dealer Jeff Weber For The 1988 Zamorano/Roxburghe Meeting.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Original gilt-titled cloth. Hint of rubbing to board edges else fine condition. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall.
Published by University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1960
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. A fine copy, grey cloth with black cloth spine A fasimile edition of the 1663 edition. xxvipp + 89pp. No. 2 of Facsimile Reprints in the history of Science series.
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican
Galileo Galilei; Stillman Drake [Notes; Translation]; Albert Einstein [Foreword]; Dava Sobel [Introduction]
Published by Folio Society, London. UK, 2013
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bound in full green cloth printed and blocked with a black and gold design by Neil Gower. xxxii, 565pp., figures, colour illustrations, notes. Slipcase. Minor creasing to corners of pp. 448-452. Lightly scuffed slipcase.(BH) 3/2026. Neil Gower (illustrator).
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican
Galilei, Galileo; Drake, Stillman (Transl./Notes); Einstein, Albert (Forew.); Sobel, Dava (Intr.)
Published by The Folio Society, London, 2013
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- First Edition
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.Fahrenheit's Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition Thus. First edition thus, slipcased hardcover, the book has a minor lean to the binding, and is overall a solid, tight and clean, Near Fine copy in a Very Good+ slipcase, which has slight wear at the corners, and some rubbing to the panels.
