Entire Set of Classics of ScienceSave $594.00
CLASSICS OF SCIENCE LIBRARY - 10 VOLUME LEATHERBOUND SET
Gryphon Editions is offering the entire 12 volume set of its Classics of Science Library
This is a unique opportunity to acquire facsimiles of the original editions of many of the most important and extremely rare books in the history of science. If you purchase all 10 volumes in THE CLASSICS OF SCIENCE LIBRARY at once from our web site, you can save half off the individually purchased book price.
All books in the series are bound in genuine leather. They are hubbed and stamped in the fine European binding tradition. Page edges are gilded and a silk ribbon marker is included. Paper is acid free.
The facsimile editions offered in this set are as follows:
This fully leather-bound classic, a facsimile of Darwin's landmark work announcing the theory of evolution, can become part of your personal library. The book, published in 1859, is the result of Charles R. Darwins' five-year voyage aboard the HMS Beagle studying and formulating an intellectual revolution. Darwin's observations transformed forever transformed forever the study of zoology from the standpoint of evolution and influence scholars to this day.
Here is the entire, original 1859 edition in facsimile, all 14 chapters, all 490 pages, including the Index and the author's introduction.
- William Harvey: DE MOTU CORDIS (1628,1928)
Harvey's work announcing his discovery of the circulation of the blood is arguably the most important book in the history of medicine. Our edition of De Motu Cordis includes an exact facsimile of the celebrated and exceedingly rare first Latin edition of 1628, along with the Keynes English translation of 1928.
- Charles Lyell:PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY, 3vol(1830-33)
Considered a forerunner of Darwin, Lyell established geology as a science with this work. His uniformitarian (steady-state)point of view was influenced by James Hutton who asserted that geological changes are gradual, taking place over vast periods of time.
- ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE WORKS OF ANDREAS VESALIUS
Leatherbound edition of J.B.deC. M. Saunders and Charles D. O'Malley's 1950 work which includes all of the illustrations from Vesalius's original works, plus annotations and translations, a discussion of the plates and their background, and a biographical sketch of Vesalius. Vesalius's encyclopedic masterpiece DE HUMANI CORPOSIS FABRICA (1538) and its companion the EPITOME (1543) revolutionized the science of anatomy and how it was taught.
- Robert Boyle: THE SCEPTICAL CHYMIST (1680)
Exact facsimile of second edition of 1680 of Boyle's groundbreaking work in chemistry. Bound in genuine leather.
- Robert Hooke: MICROGRAPHIA (1665)
Magnificent facsimile of Hooke's groundbreaking work introducing the microscope to the scientific community of 17th century. Compete with plates and illustrations of early observations.
Our edition is an exact facsimile of William Rae Macdonald's 1899 English translation of Naiper's logarithmic discoveries, first published in 1619. Macdonald states that this work is "the most important of all Napier's works,presenting ... in a most clear and simple way the original conception of logarithms." Bound in genuine leather.
Napier, a Scottish mathematician, first presented his logarithmic table in 1614, in response to the need of late sixteenth century science for a less complex method of numerical computation.
- Benjamin Franklin: EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON ELECTRICITY (1749)
This book is an exact facsimile of the first edition published in London in 1749, and bound in genuine leather.
Franklin's explanations on the nature of electricity constitute the lion's share of his contributions to pure science. Franklin's contribution as a scientist go far beyond his practical inventions, such as the lightning rod, as he was first and foremost a theorist. Professor I. Bernard Cohen in our Notes from the Editors states:
"Franklin's place in the history of science rests on ...his extraordinary skill in designing experiments, plus his genius in constructing the first satisfactory unitary theory of electrical action. The principles ... expounded in his book Experiments and Observations of Electricity Made at Philadelphia in America are part of the very fiber of electrical theory today."
All volumes in our Classics of Science Library are:
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