The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory of the Universe
New York: Dorothy Simpson / The Baker and Taylor Co., 1917. Softcover. Olive-green buckram wraps with black lettering; yapped edges. 147 pp. with bw frontis and 2 bw facsimile text reproductions. Generally VG, clean and tight but with underlining on 2 pages and margin brackets on another 4 (all in Part I, Chapter II). Cover edges fraying. College ex-lib. copy with usual marks. Item #158902
Original printing of Stimson's doctoral thesis, rare in this edition. 8 total chapters in 2 main parts (An Historical Sketch of the Heliocentric Theory of the Universe; The Reception of the Copernican Theory), with Appendices, Bibliography, and Index.
OCLC: 5894559279
Price: $125.00