2006, ISBN: 9780397313990

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Paperback / softback. New. From one of the best writers on science, a remarkable portrait of Isaac Newton. The man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith… Mehr…

Paperback / softback. New. From one of the best writers on science, a remarkable portrait of Isaac Newton. The man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith., 6, Cookham: Stanley Spencer Gallery Catalogue and book about the gallery, the artist & chronology of his work stapled in stiff card illus. covers. pp20 + catalogue of the 35 work exhibition current at the time of printing (undated & unpaginated) 5 b/w illus inc. portrait of the artist & col'd 'Last Supper' to front cover. VG. Intro. by Eric Newton & intro. to Tate Gallery exhibition in 1955 by the artist, with a postscript by his brother Gilbert.., Stanley Spencer Gallery, 0, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,subject colour portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing,to both head+foot of spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Bright,clean,publisher's original,plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate pale green endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7- 320pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-3,comprising biography (12 chapters),Badminton (4 chapters including prologue+epilogue) and riding (5 chapters),profuse contemporary b/w photographs throughout the text and the book,b/w diagrams/illus and 16pp contemporary colour photographs also interspersed throughout the book,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and contents list/table. Mark Phillips has been catapulted into the spotlight and become a public figure.It is ironic that the man who admits to being shy and would enjoy living a relatively anonymous life in Gloucestershire has,through his own sporting ability and marriage,found himself in this position.Captain Mark Phillips has rightly earned himself the accolade of being one of the world's leading three-day-event riders with a riding career that spans twenty years from his days with the Beaufort Pony Club to successes at Badminton,Burghley, the Olympic Games and indeed in every major international competition.In this book he talks candidly about the high spots in his life - and the disappointments:the thrill of riding with the Union Jack under his saddle for the first time,the agony of watching the World Championship slip away in 1974 and not being selected for the Montreal Olympics team of 1976,of the horses like Rock On, Great Ovation,Columbus,Persian Holiday and Lincoln.He speaks also of his love for Princess Anne,their children and their home at Gatcombe Park in Gloucestershire of adapting to his role as a member of the most public family in the land and - after the incident in The Mall in 1974 - of living with the ever-present,ever-necessary security that surrounds his wife and family.A large section of the book is devoted to the 1981 Badminton Three-Day Event and follows in detail the programme of training for horses and rider.At the event itself,we are given an insight into the incredibly hard work put in by the grooms,the meticulous planning that goes into all stages of the competition - particularly the formidable cross-country course - and the euphoria in the Phillips' camp when Captian Mark Phillips wins riding Lincoln.A final section on riding techniques is based on Mark Phillips' years of experience and his own schooling with experts. It is clear from the conversations in this book that he is a man with a tremendous sense of humour,a sensitive nature allied to an iron - sometimes stubborn - will,and the quiet determination to succeed at whatever job he tackles. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, UK.NEWTON ABBOT,DEVON.DAVID & CHARLES,1982., 4.5, New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2006. First American Edition. Hardcover. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 176 pages; Description: xi, 176 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-170) and index. Subjects: Newton, Isaac, Sir (1642-1727) --Physicists --Great Britain --Biography. Summary: When Newton was not yet twenty-five years old, he formulated calculus, hit upon the idea of gravity, and discovered that white light was made up of all the colors of the spectrum. By 1678, Newton designed a telescope to study the movement of the planets and published Principia, a milestone in the history of science, which set forth his famous laws of motion and universal gravitation. Newton's long-time research on calculus, finally made public in 1704, triggered a heated controversy as European scientists accused him of plagiarizing the work of the German scientist Gottfried Leibniz. In this third volume in the acclaimed Ackroyd's Brief Lives series, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd provides an engaging portrait of Isaac Newton, illuminating what we think we know about him and describing his seminal contributions to science and mathematics. A man of wide and eclectic interests, Newton blurred the borders between natural philosophy and speculation: he was as passionate about astrology as astronomy and dabbled in alchemy, while his religious faith was never undermined by his determination to interpret a modern universe as a mathematical universe. By brining vividly to life a somewhat puritanical man whose desire to experiment and explore bordered on the obsessive, Peter Ackroyd demonstrates the unique brilliance of Newton's perceptions, which changed our understanding of the world., New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2006, 0, Tuscalloosa, AL: University Alabama Press, 2000. Hard Cover. VG to Fine/VG to Fine. Local History., University Alabama Press, 2000, 3, Harpercollins, 1979-08. Library Binding. Good., Harpercollins, 1979-08, 2.5<

2006, ISBN: 9780397313990

Gebundene Ausgabe

Paperback / softback. New. From one of the best writers on science, a remarkable portrait of Isaac Newton. The man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith… Mehr…

Paperback / softback. New. From one of the best writers on science, a remarkable portrait of Isaac Newton. The man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith., 6, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,subject colour portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing,to both head+foot of spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Bright,clean,publisher's original,plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate pale green endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7- 320pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-3,comprising biography (12 chapters),Badminton (4 chapters including prologue+epilogue) and riding (5 chapters),profuse contemporary b/w photographs throughout the text and the book,b/w diagrams/illus and 16pp contemporary colour photographs also interspersed throughout the book,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and contents list/table. Mark Phillips has been catapulted into the spotlight and become a public figure.It is ironic that the man who admits to being shy and would enjoy living a relatively anonymous life in Gloucestershire has,through his own sporting ability and marriage,found himself in this position.Captain Mark Phillips has rightly earned himself the accolade of being one of the world's leading three-day-event riders with a riding career that spans twenty years from his days with the Beaufort Pony Club to successes at Badminton,Burghley, the Olympic Games and indeed in every major international competition.In this book he talks candidly about the high spots in his life - and the disappointments:the thrill of riding with the Union Jack under his saddle for the first time,the agony of watching the World Championship slip away in 1974 and not being selected for the Montreal Olympics team of 1976,of the horses like Rock On, Great Ovation,Columbus,Persian Holiday and Lincoln.He speaks also of his love for Princess Anne,their children and their home at Gatcombe Park in Gloucestershire of adapting to his role as a member of the most public family in the land and - after the incident in The Mall in 1974 - of living with the ever-present,ever-necessary security that surrounds his wife and family.A large section of the book is devoted to the 1981 Badminton Three-Day Event and follows in detail the programme of training for horses and rider.At the event itself,we are given an insight into the incredibly hard work put in by the grooms,the meticulous planning that goes into all stages of the competition - particularly the formidable cross-country course - and the euphoria in the Phillips' camp when Captian Mark Phillips wins riding Lincoln.A final section on riding techniques is based on Mark Phillips' years of experience and his own schooling with experts. It is clear from the conversations in this book that he is a man with a tremendous sense of humour,a sensitive nature allied to an iron - sometimes stubborn - will,and the quiet determination to succeed at whatever job he tackles. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, UK.NEWTON ABBOT,DEVON.DAVID & CHARLES,1982., 4.5, New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2006. First American Edition. Hardcover. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 176 pages; Description: xi, 176 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-170) and index. Subjects: Newton, Isaac, Sir (1642-1727) --Physicists --Great Britain --Biography. Summary: When Newton was not yet twenty-five years old, he formulated calculus, hit upon the idea of gravity, and discovered that white light was made up of all the colors of the spectrum. By 1678, Newton designed a telescope to study the movement of the planets and published Principia, a milestone in the history of science, which set forth his famous laws of motion and universal gravitation. Newton's long-time research on calculus, finally made public in 1704, triggered a heated controversy as European scientists accused him of plagiarizing the work of the German scientist Gottfried Leibniz. In this third volume in the acclaimed Ackroyd's Brief Lives series, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd provides an engaging portrait of Isaac Newton, illuminating what we think we know about him and describing his seminal contributions to science and mathematics. A man of wide and eclectic interests, Newton blurred the borders between natural philosophy and speculation: he was as passionate about astrology as astronomy and dabbled in alchemy, while his religious faith was never undermined by his determination to interpret a modern universe as a mathematical universe. By brining vividly to life a somewhat puritanical man whose desire to experiment and explore bordered on the obsessive, Peter Ackroyd demonstrates the unique brilliance of Newton's perceptions, which changed our understanding of the world., New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2006, 0, Tuscalloosa, AL: University Alabama Press, 2000. Hard Cover. VG to Fine/VG to Fine. Local History., University Alabama Press, 2000, 3, Harpercollins, 1979-08. Library Binding. Good., Harpercollins, 1979-08, 2.5<

1979, ISBN: 9780397313990

Newton Abbot: Readers Union, 1974. Book Club Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains q… Mehr…

Newton Abbot: Readers Union, 1974. Book Club Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: [9],244p : ill, maps, port ; 23cm. Notes: Original: Gentry Books. Subject: Douglas, David (1799-1834). Douglas, David (1799-1834) - Biography - Portrait. Genre: text., Newton Abbot: Readers Union, 1974, 0, Paperback / softback. New., 6, Harpercollins, 1979-08. Library Binding. Good., Harpercollins, 1979-08, 2.5<

1979, ISBN: 0397313993

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1979, ISBN: 9780397313990

Harpercollins, 1979-08. Library Binding. Good., Harpercollins, 1979-08, 2.5