Kepler. Four Hundred Years. Proceedings of Conferences held in honour of Johannes Kepler.
BEER, Arthur & Peter BEER (eds.):
- Publisher: Oxford, etc.: Pergamon Press, 1975.
- Date published: 1975
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9780080178790
First Edition. [xx], 1,034 pp; illus. Original cloth, large 8vo. Upper corners of covers slightly bumped, else Very Good. Vistas in Astronomy, Volume 18. A scarce and monumental work, whose contributors include Gingerich, I. B. Cohen, Stillman Drake, Eric J. Aiton, Costabel, Robert Westman, Volker Bialas, C. Doris Hellman, Edward Rosen, Dobrzycki, Curtis Wilson, Whiteside, Thoren, Buchdahl, S. Bochner, J. E. Hoffman, Neugebauer, J. A. Lohne, Ronchi, Koestler, et al. Apparently the copy of Kepler historian Walther Gerlach -- another contributor here -- though without any ownership marking. Laid in are letters, etc., from Beer to Gerlach. Gerlach's contribution is "Johannes Kepler -- Life, Man and Work," pp. 73-95.
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