Description: Kepler's Dreamby John Lear with the full text and notes of Somnium, Sive Astronomia Lunaris by Joannis Kepleri translated by Patricia Frueh Kirkwood Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1965 First Edition, First Printing Hardcover. 182 pages. Good in good, price-clipped dust jacket. Bookplate to front pastedown. Foxing to end papers & pastedowns & sporadically throughout to page margins. Otherwise, interior is unmarked. A couple of small spots to edges of page block. Binding firm; slight lean to spine. Covers have mild rubbing along edges, to spine ends & at corners. Dust jacket has chipping & wear at corners; rubbing & wear along edges with several edge tears & creases; rubbing to front panel & along spine edges & flap folds; mild foxing to rear panel. DJ comes protected by new, archival cover. Somnium, Sive Astronomia Lunaris is Kepler's long-neglected masterpiece, in which he uses the principles of sun-centered astronomy as a guide for a theoretical "dream" voyage to the moon. This edition presents the first complete translation, into any language other than the original Latin, of the complete text, footnotes, appendix, and footnotes to the appendix. An attractive copy of the first edition. Ships well-packed in a box.
Price: 70 USD
Location: Harrisonburg, Virginia
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, 1st Printing
Author: John Lear; Joannis Kepleri
Publisher: University of California Press
Topic: Astronomy
Subject: Science & Medicine
