description: A catalogue for a book exhibition to celebrate the dedication of the Samuel I and Cecile M. Barchas Room in the History of Science at the Cecil Green Library and, with it, the transfer of the Barchas Collection to Stanford University. At the center of the collection are more than one hundred seminal works, including first editions of Galileo's Dialogo, Newton's Principia, and Harmonices mundi, by Kepler. Illustrated. Article about the dedication ceremony from the Stanford University Campus Report loosely inserted. viii , 118, 2 pages. cloth. 8vo..
language: English
title: The Barchas Collection: The Making of Modern Science
titlecomplete: The Barchas Collection: The Making of Modern Science
publisher: Stanford Univ Libraries