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(eng) Please do not combine with engineer Daniel V. De Simone, author of books on engineering and the metric system. These are two different people. Cf. VIAF.

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Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1950-05-14
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA
Educación
Clark University
University of Dayton
Ocupaciones
Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection of The Library of Congress, since January 2000
owner of rare book company in NYC
Organizaciones
Library of Congress
Biografía breve
Daniel De Simone is the curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress. He was formerly the owner of an antiquarian book company and spent twenty-five years in the rare book trade.
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Please do not combine with engineer Daniel V. De Simone, author of books on engineering and the metric system. These are two different people. Cf. VIAF.

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This volume, subtitled “From Doubt to Astonishment,” includes a facsimile copy of Galileo’s Sidereus nuncius from the Library of Congress’s Rare Books and Special Collections. Accompanying the discourse are the proceedings from the Library of Congress’s November 2010 symposium celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of Galileo’s treatise. Also included in this amazing volume is the Albert Van Helden translation of Galileo’s scientific text.

Highly recommended.
 
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jfe16 | 2 reseñas más. | Nov 8, 2018 |
A good quality book, but not a fine or limited edition. It was published to accompany an exhibition in Washington featuring the manuscript at the Library of Congress.
It contains a brief introduction about Galileo, followed by a facsimile of the Astronomicus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) which is printed on modern matt finish paper and runs to about 60 pages. Then there is a translation, and then several rather dry academic papers about the minutae of the manuscipt from the nature of the telescope he used and the paper on which the manuscript was written, to the refutations made by contemporaries of Galileo's findings.
I would happily pay US$40 for such a book, but in Australia it cost me US$155 including postage, which I felt was very excessive.
I have purchased much better books for less.
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wcarter | 2 reseñas más. | Mar 27, 2015 |
A very beautiful book, which displays Galileo's original observations and drawings made through his homemade telescope. Includes both the original Italian and translation, as well as extensive historical discussion about this unique event in history. Printed in rich high grade paper. One can only marvel at this man's intellect, to say nothing of his indomitable courage for upending the superstitions and fanaticism of his day.
 
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Keith_Conners | 2 reseñas más. | Sep 4, 2013 |
Lessing J. Rosenwald and the "magnificent library" of C.W. Dyson Perrins / Paul Needham --
Venetian and Florentine Renaissance woodcuts for Bibles, liturgical books and devotional books / Lilian Armstrong --
The stylistic development of German book illustration, 1460-1511 / Daniela Laube --
Catalogue / Daniel De Simone.
 
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ricamoitalia | Jun 30, 2013 |

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Miembros
54
Popularidad
#299,230
Valoración
½ 4.3
Reseñas
4
ISBNs
3

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