13 research outputs found
Lawrence M. Principe. The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 1998. Pp. xiv, 339. $45.00. ISBN 0-691-01678-X.
No full textOwen Gingerich. An Annotated Census of Copernicus' De Revolutionibus: (Nuremberg, 1543 and Basel, 1566). (Studia Copernicana Brill's Series, 2.) Boston and Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2002. xxxii + 402 pp. + 63 b/w pls. index. append. illus. bibl. $132. ISBN: 90-04-11466-1.
No full textVenus seen on the sun: the first observation of a transit of Venus
No full textThis text by Jeremiah Horrocks is his accurate prediction and the first observation of a significant astronomical event, and his analysis and comments on the changing nature and pactices of astronomy between Galileo and Newton in the 17th century
