The Martyrs of Science; Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler, Sir David Brewster, 1874

Biographies of three of the great Scientists, by Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish scientist, inventor (including the stereoscopic camera and the kaleidoscope, amongst others), writer, and Principal of Edinburgh University.

The Martyrs of Science; Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler. By Sir David Brewster, M.A., D.C.L.

Published by Chatto and Windus, Publishers, London, 1874. A New Edition with Portraits.

A good hardback with leather spine and corners, with raised bands and morocco title label with gilt. Fathered marbled paper over boards. Cover with some bumping and wear, and some losses to leather near head of spine. Ex-library - Stablestone Public Library (Lanarkshire, Scotland). Labels of the Ferguson Bequest Fund to first pastedown and loose Stablestone label, and ink inscription of library name. One ink stamp to title page.

Text is very good throughout - nice and clean with some scattered usage marks. Inner hinge starting to crack near top, but still soundly bound. Loose newspaper clipping insert of David Brewster's meeting with french physicist, Jean Baptiste Biot, on his visit to Scotland.

Text in English.

xii + 248pp (including 3 portraits).

Dimensions:

Approximately 174mm high x 120mm wide x 24mm deep.

Weight approximately 394g unpacked.