Mechanics in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Selections from Tartaglia, Benedetti, Guido Ubaldo, & Galileo

by Translated, Annotated by, Stillman Drake, I. E. Drabkin

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First edition

Madison; Milwaukee; London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XII, 428, 2 pp. Original pictorial wrappers over grey cloth with gold lettering on spine. Physical science in the 16th century marked the transition from medieval to modern scientific thought; thus its study is crucial to an understanding of intellectual history. This remarkable anthology of treatises on mechanics

• Binding: Wrappers

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