Stillman Drake Notes (11 results)

Trade paperback. Condition: Very Good. Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own popularizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernican cosmology, against the Church's strong opposition, his development of a telescope, and his unorthodox opinions as a philosopher of science were the central concerns of his career and the subjects of four of his most important writings. Drake's introductory essay place them in their biographical and historical context.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Second Edition. B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 524 pages; 1981 University of California Press. Trade size paperback in glossy pictorial covers. 2nd edition. Tight, bright, and fresh. Prior owner name penned neatly inside the front cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Feels and appears unread and generally about as new. NF.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pbk, xii, 260 p. ; 22 cm. Covers rather dulled, neat library bookplate and signed by translator. Contents : Galileo's youth -- Paduan period -- The first fortunate astronomical observations -- The ambitious program -- The first discomfiture -- The years of silence -- The Copernican manifesto -- The collapse of the Galilean program -- The return to pure science -- The serene conclusion of an embattled life -- Appendix A: The Galileo-Bellarmine meeting : a historical speculation / by Stillman Drake -- Appendix B: Reply to Stillman Drake / by Giorgio de Santillana. [Galilei, Galileo 1564-1642 - Science Philosophy History - Scientists Italy Biography - Astronomy - History] p1816 / m15488.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. First English language edition. Light brown cloth hardcover with minor wear, sunning to spine, but not affecting the black spine text, tightly bound, gift inscription on the ffep, else the book is unmarked with bright and clean pages. No dust jacket. xii, 260 pp. An excellent reading/reference copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A Near Fine copy in brown and gray cloth lettered in gold of this tall-format hardcover edition. No dust jacket. Book.

xxviii + 88pp. 4to Black and white illustrations Gray boards and brown cloth back Facsimile edition: No. 2 of Facsimile Reprints in the history of Science. Translated by Thomas Salusbury. Introduction and notes by Stillman Drake Near Fine/no dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. A fine copy, grey cloth with black cloth spine A fasimile edition of the 1663 edition. xxvipp + 89pp. No. 2 of Facsimile Reprints in the history of Science series.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. Xvii, 152 Pp. Red Patterned Cloth, Gilt. One Of 500 Copies. One Of The Publisher's Copies, Unopened (Pages Stall Attached Along Foredges), With A Special Printed Presentation Card From Book Dealer Jeff Weber For The 1988 Zamorano/Roxburghe Meeting.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Original gilt-titled cloth. Hint of rubbing to board edges else fine condition. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Neil Gower (illustrator). Bound in full green cloth printed and blocked with a black and gold design by Neil Gower. xxxii, 565pp., figures, colour illustrations, notes. Slipcase. Minor creasing to corners of pp. 448-452. Lightly scuffed slipcase.(BH) 3/2026.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition Thus. First edition thus, slipcased hardcover, the book has a minor lean to the binding, and is overall a solid, tight and clean, Near Fine copy in a Very Good+ slipcase, which has slight wear at the corners, and some rubbing to the panels.