Robert Visser Eds (3 results)

Condition: as new. Amsterdam : KNAW, 2004. Hardcover. 216 pp. 5 ills. (History of science and scholarship in the Netherlands, volume 5). - The papers collected in this volume, given at a Dutch history of science symposium, present a historical survey of Dutch contributions to earth science. It includes a wide variety of subjects: the pioneering stratigraphic studies of the 18th-century naturalist Francq van Berkhey, Dutch contributions to the basalt controversy, geology in the Belgian provinces, the geology lectures (1863) of Staring and his geological map of the Netherlands, the mineral work of Hermann Vogelsang, the Maastricht Cretaceous finds in the emergence of Dutch vertebrate palaeontology, and the founding of groundwater hydrology in the Netherlands (1850-1950). The book also features two hallmark studies by Dutch scholars: a previously unpublished mineralogical treatise by Wiechmann, and a study of the suitability of Hauy's crystal models to identify minerals. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9789069843896. Keywords : HISTORY OF SCIENCE, geology.…

Condition: as new. Amsterdam : Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2007. Hardcover. vi,349 pp. With 12 pp. plates. (History of science and scholarship in the Netherlands, 8). Condition : new. - Carolus Clusius (1526-1609) was one of the most eminent botanists of the European Renaissance, and his influence on tulip breeding and the bulb industry can still be felt today. In Carolus Clusis in a New Context, a distinguished group of contributors probes his role in both the botanical renaissance and the genesis of natural history as a field of study. Written from the perspective of the new cultural history of science, these interdisciplinary essays will fascinate anyone interested in natural history, landscape architecture, and Renaissance culture. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9789069845067. Keywords : HISTORY OF SCIENCE, history of science Clusius, Carolus (1526-1609).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Large 8vo, hb, illustrated, 349 p. In fine condition. K15.