(Fuseli, Henry). Bonnycastle, John.

An Introduction to Astronomy in a Series of Letters from a Preceptor to His Pupil. In Which the Most Useful and Interesting Parts of the Science Are Clearly and Familiarly Explained. Illustrated with Copper-Plates. By John Bonnycastle, of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. The Second Edition, Corrected and Improved.

London: Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1787. 1787. London: Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1787. 1787. Very good. - Octavo, 9 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, rebound in modern dark blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover and on the spine. viii & 437 deckle-edged pages, plus "Directions to the Binder", a page advertising courses of instruction by Mr. Bonnycastle and a one-page catalog of his books. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and 19 fold-out plates including a "Map of the Arc of the Meridian". The date of the author's death is penned in ink under his name on the title page. There are a couple of minor ink stains to the bottom edge of a couple of pages. Else, near fine. Second edition. The frontispiece was engraved by John Keyse Sherwin (1751-1790) after a drawing by Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) portraying Aratus the Poet and Urania the Muse of Astronomy. John Bonnycastle (1751-1821) was Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and was a prolific writer in the fields of mathematics and astronomy. Very good .

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Sonstige Stichworte: ASTRONOMY; SCIENCE; AN INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMY IN A SERIES OF LETTERS FROM A PRECEPTOR TO HIS PUPIL; In which the most useful and interesting Parts of the Science are clearly and familiarly explained. ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPER-PLATES. By John Bonnycastle,

Jeans, H.W.

Navigation and Nautical Astronomy. The Practical Part; Containing Rules for Finding the Latitude and Longitude, and the Variation of the Compass. With Numerous Examples.

London: John Weale, 1853. 1853. FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE SCOTTISH-AMERICAN ASTRONOMER WILLIAM HARKNESS, SIGNED BY HIM - Octavo, 7-3/8 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide. Three-quarter black leather & marbled boards, titled in gilt with raised bands on the spine. The covers are rubbed and the leather is scuffed. The rear cover is detached. 279 pages, illustrated with textual diagrams. There is offsetting to the endpapers and pastedowns with minor chipping to the edges of the endpapers. The edges of the title page are darkened and the pages are toned. A complete copy of the rare first edition well worth rebinding. First edition. A wonderful association copy from the library of the Scottish-born American astronomer William Harkness, with his name and the date "April 26th, 1858" signed in pencil on the front pastedown. 1858 was the year he graduated from the University of Rochester. The Scottish-born American astronomer William Harkness (1837-1903) studied at LaFayette College and the University of Rochester before pursuing further studies in medicine in New York City. A surgeon in the Union armies during the Civil War, he also served as an aid in astronomy at the United States Naval Observatory and subsequently on the USS Monadnock. He discovered the coronal line K1474 while observing the August 1869 solar eclipse. As a member of the Transit of Venus Commission, he was in charge of the group at Hobart, Tasmania in 1879 and subsequently of that in Washington in 1882. Harkness contributed to the construction and improvement of telescopes and invented several astronomical instruments, including the spherometer caliper. He went on to serve as astronomical director of the Naval Observatory from 1894 through 1899 and director of the Nautical Almanac from 1897 through 99 and was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His published works include "The Solar Parallax and its Related Constants" (1891). Fair .

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Sonstige Stichworte: ASTRONOMY; NAVAL & MARITIME; ASTRONOMER; H.W. JEANS; NAVIGATION AND NAUTICAL ASTRONOMY; RULES FOR FINDING THE LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE, AND THE VARIATION OF THE COMPASS; 1ST EDITION; FIRST EDITION; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; WILLIAM HARKNESS; SIG

Lang, Kenneth R

Sun, Earth and Sky

Berlin/New York: Springer-Verlag (1995). (1995). Berlin/New York: Springer-Verlag (1995). (1995). Very good. - Quarto [10-5/8 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed with a light score mark to its rear panel. xv, [i] & 282 pages. Numerous illustrations in color and black & white. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. Very good .

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Sonstige Stichworte: ASTRONOMY; SUN, EARTH AND SKY; KENNETH R. LANG; NUCLEAR FUSION; RADIATION; NEUTRINOS; SOLAR FLARES; MAGNETISM; SOLAR WIND; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GLOBAL WARMING; ILLUSTRATIONS.

(Mitchell, Maria [1818-1889]).

On Jupiter and Its Satellites" by Maria Mitchell, Professor of Astronomy at Vassar College. The First Publication of the Pioneering Female Astronomer's Essay in "the American Journal of Science and Arts. Editors and Proprietors, Professors James D. Dana and B. Silliman. Third Series. Vol. I. - [Whole Number, CI. ] Nos. 1-6. January to June, 1871. [and] Vol. II. - [Whole Number, CII. ] Nos. 7-12. July to December 1871. " [2 Volumes Bound in 1, As Issued].

New Haven: Printed by Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1871. 1871. THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE ESSAY "ON JUPITER AND ITS SATELLITES" BY THE FIRST FEMALE ASTRONOMER IN THE U.S.A. - Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-3/8 inches wide. The contemporary brown calf and marbled boards are detached but present and the spine has perished and is thus lacking. The text block is intact and tight. [978] pages in all with the pagination as follows: Volume I: pages [i]-viii & 1-484; and Volume II: pages [i]-viii & 1-480. Pages 327/328 are skipped in numbering as published, which collates with the copy at the Peter H. Raven Library at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The volume is illustrated with 3 plates, including one folding, as well as several textual illustrations. Although the title page to the second volume indicates the presence of a map intended to illustrate E.W. Hilgard's article "On the Geological History of the Gulf of Mexico" (page 391), the map is not here present, if it ever was included. The endpapers are foxed and there is some light soiling to the title page of the first volume. The edges of the first few leaves are lightly darkened with a tiny spot of dampstaining to the top edge of those leaves. A very good tight copy which would be well worth rebinding. Most noteworthy is the first publication of Maria Mitchell's essay "On Jupiter and its Satellites", illustrated with a plate (volume I, pages 393-395). The first American scientist to discover a comet, Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) was the first female astronomer in the United States. Working as the librarian of the Nantuckett Atheneum, Maria Mitchell read through the day and spent her nights with her father at the observatory he built atop the Pacific Bank. Her discovery in 1847 of the comet which came to be named "Miss Mitchell's Comet" brought her international acclaim. She was awarded a gold medal by King Frederick of Denmark and elected as the first woman to join the American Academy of Arts and Sciences the following year. Mitchell traveled throughout Europe after leaving the Atheneum in 1856, meeting with astronomers the world over. She became involved and active in the anti-slavery movement and the suffrage movement and was subsequently instrumental in the formation of the American Association for the Advancement of Women. After the Civil War, Mitchell was recruited to join the faculty at Vassar College where, with a 12 inch telescope (then the third largest in the US), she specialized in studying the surfaces of Jupiter and Saturn. She made waves by encouraging her female students to come out at night for classes and celestial observations and brought in noted feminists, including Julia Ward Howe, to speak on political issues. Continuously championing the advancement of women, she gave an important speech entitled "The Need for Women in Science" during the 1876 centennial. Mitchell was one of only 3 women to be elected to the Hall of Fame of Great Americans in 1905. She was also inducted into the National Woman's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. A lunar crater on the moon was named in her honor. Also worth noting is Professor L. Respighi's essay "On the Solar Protuberances", illustrated with a folding plate (volume I, pages 283-287). The Italian astronomer Lorenzo Respighi (1824-1889) was appointed appointed professor of mechanics and hydraulics at the University of Bologna. In that context, his first works were mathematical and included a well-known memoir on the principles of differential calculus. Captivated by astronomy, he succeeded Calandrelli as director of the astronomical observatory at the University of Bologna in 1855. After making observations on comets, Respighi became director of the Campidoglio observatory in Rome where he devoted his attention to studying solar phenomena. His studies of the spectra of sunspots were particularly important as he observed the splitting of the absorption lines, later described by Hale as the result of the Zeeman effect. Henry James Clark's essay "The American Spongilla, a Craspedote, Flagellate Infusorian", illustrated with a plate, is here published on pages 426 through 436 of volume II. The American naturalist Henry James Clark (1826-1873) was a pupil of Asa Gray at the Cambridge botanical garden. He became an assistant to Louis Agassiz after graduating from Harvard and was professor of Zoology and of Natural History at numerous colleges and universities. From 1872 until his death in 1873, Clark was Professor of Veterinary Science at the Massachusetts Agricultural College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He contributed to a number of periodicals and authored "Mind in Nature" (1863) and "Mode of Development of Animals" (1865). Good .

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Sonstige Stichworte: SCIENCE; ASTRONOMY; NATURAL HISTORY; MARIA MITCHELL; FIRST EDITION; 1ST APPEARANCE; ON JUPITER AND ITS SATELLITES; THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS; 1ST EDITION; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS; FOLDING PLATE; PLATES; LORENZO RESPIGHI; ON THE SOLAR PRO

Rajawat, Daulat Singh.

Astronomical Observatory of Jaipur.

Jaipur, India: Delta Publications. Jaipur, India: Delta Publications. Fine. - Quarto [10-5/8 inches high by 8-3/8 inches wide], softcover bound in color pictorial wraps. 39 & [1] pages. Profuse color illustrations with a few diagrams in black & white. Near fine. Illustrated history of the astronomical observatory at Jaipur, India, including a brief life of its founder Sawai Jai Singh, eighteenth-century king, soldier and scientist. Fine .

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Sonstige Stichworte: ASTRONOMY; INDIA; HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY; ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAIPUR; DAULAT SINGH RAJAWAT; ILLUSTRATIONS; FOUNDER OF INDIAN OBSERVATORIES; LIFE OF SAWAI JAI SINGH; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY KING; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SCIENTIST; THEORY OF JANTA MANTAR; ASTRO