Calisi, Marinella

STORIA E STRUMENTI DEL MUSEO ASTRONOMICO E COPRNICANO DI ROMA: GUIDA ALLE COLLEZIONI [Inscribed]

Rome: Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, 2000. Quarto, 167 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good minus dust jacket. Gray spine with red text. Dust jacket has wrinkling to corners and spine edges and mild shelf wear. Boards have bumping to corners and mild shelf wear. Textblock clean. Inscribed by author to Silvio Bedini on second page. Shelved in Room G.

1378696

Special Collections - Upstairs

Price: $50

NOTES

From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution, serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments.