The Starry Messenger and the Polar Star: Scientific Relations Between Italy and Sweden from 1500 to 1800: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet - Stockholm

Marco Beretta

Giunti, Prato, 1995

Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Corner bumped. Clean, unmarked pages. 188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. 

From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).