Author: BOYNTON, HOLMES (ED)
Title: The Beginnings of Modern Science: Scientific Writings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries
Description: NY: Walter J. Black, 1948. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full wheat cloth, gilt lettering on red panels with gilt and black Classics Club decoration on spine, red and gilt medallion on cover, top edge red, tan endpapers. Foreword by Harvey Brace Lemon. Introduction by Holmes Boynton. Selections from Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, Isaac Newton, and a host of others. Former owner's small label on fep, very minor foxing on fore-edge only, else fine; unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. Classics Club Edition Series. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxi, 634 pp. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

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