A Classified Catalogue of Manuscripts: Books and Pamphlets on Astronomy, Including the Libraries of Captain W. Noble, E. Crossley, Miss A.M. Clerke, A.A. Common |
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12 plates 2nd edition 3rd edition 4th edition 6d IS 6d anno atlas Barnard E Beobachtungen Bestimmung catalogue celestial cloth coloured Cometen comètes comets diagrams double stars earth engraved title Ephemerides epoch étoiles faites fixed stars folio frontispiece fuer half calf half morocco half vellum Heliometer Herausgegeben Herschel imp8vo IOS 6d Jupiter l'astronomie l'observatoire libri Lick Observatory lunae lunar lune maps Mars mathematica mathematical Mémoire Micrometrical moon morocco motion motu mouvement nebulae nova numbers observationes observationibus observatory opera orbit parallax Parisiis photographic planet planetarum Planeten plates and engravings portrait and plates printer's device quae quibus Recherches reflecting telescope right ascension roy8vo Royal satellites Saturn sive solar eclipse solar spectrum soleil solis spectra spectroscope sphaera stellar Sternen Sternwarte Struve sunspots tables Tabulae telescope theory title and engravings total solar eclipse tractatus Traité transit of Venus translated treatise Untersuchungen ueber Uranometria vellum Venetiis Venus vols
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Page 79 - SCHELLEN'S SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, in its application to Terrestrial Substances and the Physical Constitution of the Heavenly Bodies. Translated by JANE and C. LASSELL; edited, with Notes, by W. HUGGINS, LL.D. FRS With 13 Plates (6 coloured) and 223 Woodcuts. 8vo. price 28s. CELESTIAL OBJECTS for COMMON TELESCOPES.
Page 92 - AN OUTLINE OF THE METHOD OF CONDUCTING A TRIGONOMETRICAL SURVEY. For the Formation of Geographical and Topographical Maps and Plans, Military Reconnaissance, LEVELLING, &c., with Useful Problems, Formulae, and Tables.
Page 60 - Dove ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo Tolemaico e Copernicano, proponendo indeterminatamente le ragioni filosofiche e naturali tanto per l'una, quanto per l'altra parte. Con privilegi, in Fiorenza per Gio. Batista Landini, MDCXXXII. Con licenza de
Page 104 - BAZLEY. —THE STARS IN THEIR COURSES : A Twofold Series of Maps, with a Catalogue, showing how to identify, at any time of the year, all stars down to the 5.6 magnitude, inclusive of Heis, which are clearly visible in English latitudes. By TS Bazley, MA. Author of "Notes on the Epicycloidal Cutting Frame.
Page 28 - WORLDS THAN OURS ; The Plurality of Worlds Studied under the Light of Recent Scientific Researches. With 14 Illustrations, crown 8vo.
Page 83 - A Plain Method of determining the Parallax of Venus by her Transit over the Sun, and from thence, by Analogy, the Parallax and Distance of the Sun, and of all the rest of the Planets.
Page 75 - Spectra from wave length 4,870 to 3,300, together with a discussion of the evolutional order of the stars, and the interpretation of their spectra, preceded by a short history of the Observatory and its work.
Page 16 - The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: A Popular Exposition of the Great Discoveries and Theories of Modern Astronomy.
Page 92 - On the figure requisite to maintain the Equilibrium of a Homogeneous Fluid Mass that revolves upon an Axis, (Ibid.
Page 41 - Directions for making the best composition for the metals of Reflecting Telescopes, together with a description of the process for grinding, polishing, and giving the great speculum the true parabolic form.