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Galileo: A Very Short Introduction by Stillman Drake
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.29In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's trial and condemnation by the Inquisition was caused not by his defiance of the Church, but by... -
Galileo: Pioneer Scientist by Stillman Drake 9780802076076
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Since publication of Stillman Drake's landmark volume, Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography, new and exciting information has come to light about this towering figure in the history of Western... -
Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science: v. 1 by Stillman Drake 9780802075857
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £31.28For forty years, beginning with the publication of the first modern English translation of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Stillman Drake was the most original and productive... -
Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science: v. 2 by Stillman Drake 9780802081643
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £31.28For forty years, beginning with the publication of the first modern English translation of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Stillman Drake was the most original and productive... -
Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science: v. 3 by Stillman Drake 9780802081650
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62For forty years, beginning with the publication of the first modern English translation of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Stillman Drake was the most original and productive... -
Telescopes, Tides and Tactics: A Galilean Dialogue About the Starry Messenger and Systems of the World by Stillman Drake 9780226162317
Booksplease Price: £50.81Publication of Galileo's Starry Messenger in 1610, detailing startling observations with the newly invented telescope, sparked immediate furor among the astronomers and philosophers of the day. The... -
The Controversy on the Comets of 1618: Galileo Galilei, Horatio Grassi, Mario Guiducci, Johann Kepler by Stillman Drake 9781512801446
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44The appearance of three comets in the autumn of 1618 touched off a controversy of such proportions that its effects are still inextricably associated with some of the most dramatic events marking the... -
The Revolution in Science 1500 - 1750 by A. Rupert Hall 9780582491335
RRP: £86.99Booksplease Price: £84.65The 'revolution in science' of this book concerns the natural sciences, that is, knowledge of the external world which we now presume to exist independently of man.Reviews'It may be recommended to... -
The Theatre of Howard Barker Charles Lamb 9780415315319
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.40In this second, fully revised edition of his acclaimed study of Barker's work, Charles Lamb sets out to make emotional sense of the characters and their interactions.This is a detailed exploration of... -
The Theatre of Howard Barker by Charles Lamb
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80In this second, fully revised edition of his acclaimed study of Barker's work, Charles Lamb sets out to make emotional sense of the characters and their interactions.This is a detailed exploration of... -
The Renaissance of Mechanics: Ancient Science in the Age of Humanism by Walter Roy Laird 9783031455049
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £96.71This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages, and its recovery and subsequent development in Italy to the...