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[No editor stated].
Ptolemy, The Almagest; Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres; Kepler, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, IV-V; Harmonies of the World, V.
Published Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1987 reprint (originally issued 1952).
Series: Great Books of the Western World, vol. 16.
ISBN 0852291639.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound; published without a dustjacket.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 161×240×42mm.
Page count: xiv,1085pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy shows the usual storage wear, some mild scuffs and marks etc., but nothing severe; page edges a bit grubby with some mild wear; looks ok internally, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.00
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[in print as part of 60-Vol. set at $1195.00]
Weight without packaging: 1126g.

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Contents:
[R. Catesby Talieferro, trans.:]
Ptolemy, The Almagest;
[Charles Glenn Wallis, trans.:]
Nicolaus Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres;
Johannes Kepler, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, IV-V.
Johannes Kepler, The Harmonies of the World, V.
Appendices: Ptolemaic dates, Era of Nabonassar, & Christian era; Passage from Ptolemaic to Copernican system & thence to that of Kepler; Plato’s Timaeus.

Illustrations: frequent monochrome text figures
Maps & plans: no

Introduction: 4pp (Ptolemy); 14pp (Copernicus and Kepler)
Notes: occasional, at foot of page
Tables: 98
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: a few references after each intro.
Index: no

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