Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 19:09:28 -0700 (MST)
Mime-Version: 1.0
To: Luther Welsh 
From: Verna Desatoff
Subject: Re: About that book I want

Hey ya Luke:

Here is what I found out.  The book is available for purchase at
just about any bookstore that will do special orders.  My suggestion
is either Borders or Barnes and Noble.  They give 20% discount on all
hard back books!!!!!  The cost is $36.50 and will have to be ordered
from the publisher 
Cornell University Press which means a min of 4
wks but more like 8-12 wks.  8 wks is pretty realistic.  Current books
in print shows it still in print.  The last edition of Books in Print
came out sometime between Sept and Dec.  So this info is very current!!!!

>I got this information from the Library of Congress Web site.  Do
>you know if I can buy a copy?
>
>Thanks--
>--Luke
>
>Author:        Dear, Peter Robert.
>Title:         Mersenne and the learning of the schools / Peter Dear.
>Published:     Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1988.
>Description:   xiii, 264 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
>Series:        Cornell history of science series
>LC Call No.:   BX4705.M53 D43 1988
>Dewey No.:     194 19
>ISBN:          0801418755 (alk. paper)
>Notes:         Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.) -- Princeton
>                  University, 1984.
>               Includes index.
>               Bibliography: p. 239-259.
>Subjects:      Mersenne, Marin, -- 1588-1648.
>               Religion and science -- History -- 17th century.
>Control No.:   87023935