Author: Agnes M. Clerke [Agnes Mary Clerke]
Title: Problems in Astrophysics
Description: London, Adam & Charles Black, 1903. First edition. Cloth. This uncommon first edition of an illustrated overview of the problems in astrophysics by the celebrated astronomer Mary Agnes Clerke, full bound in the original publisher' cloth. The first edition, first impression of the work, with no further editions or impressions stated.With thirty-one monochrome plate illustrations including a frontispiece photograph of the η Argûs nebula taken by Sir David Gill in March 1892, in addition to fifty vignette illustrations. Collated complete.Uncommon.Agnes Mary Clarke was an Irish astronomer and writer who, with her brother in 1890, was a founding member of the British Astronomical Association. She was also elected an honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1903, a rank which had previously only been attained by three other women: Caroline Herschel, Mary Somerville, and Anne Sheepshanks. Problems in Astrophysics aimed to stimulate progress within the field of astrophysics and offer an account of its present state at the end of the nineteenth century. It includes specific chapters on the progress of solar physics, the progress of sidereal physics, dark stars, and double nebulae. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally, smart with some minor handling marks and slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Front hinge failed, rear hinge starting. Some offsetting to the free endpapers. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age toned with moderate foxing throughout and some pencil annotations, however are generally clean. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

Keywords: Astronomy Agnes Mary Clerke Royal Astronomical Society Agnes Mary Clerke Not Stated


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