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Seller's Description:
Fine. Note edited with introduction by Stillman Drake (some sites default list another editor). Not ex-lib. Softcover in stiff, sturdy light olive card wraps with portraint of Galileo to front, 4to. 95pp. Bibliography with introduction; endotes with princiapl work. Figures throughout. Fine: clean, tight, square and unmarked. Second copy available in like condition.
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Very Good in Not Issued jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Very Good softcover. Includes a selected historical bibliography on the Sector. Operations of the Geometric and Military Compass, 1606 translated, with an introduction by Stillman Drake. Published for The Burndy Library by The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology and the Smithsonian Institution Press, Wash DC. Illustrated. 95p.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. (Reference, Manual, Military History, Military Equipment) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Fine. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 95 pages, illustrated. "Mechanical instruments for special purposes in astronomy, surveying, navigation, and architecture were long in use before any general mechanical computing device existed, except for the abacus. In 1598, the sector was introduced in England and Italy. Galileo's model was the most useful and soon spread throughout Europe in various forms." FINE SOFTCOVER.
