Category: Astronomy

The radiation of the planet Earth to space.

By: ABBOT, Charles Greeley (b. 1872).

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Washington:, Smithsonian Institution, 1929. : 1929

Seller ID: S5880

At head of title: Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 82, No. 3, November 16, 1929. Hodgkins Fund. 242 x 162 mm. 8vo. [ii], 12 pp. 7 tables, 2 large folding plates (i.e.: printed on both sides). Printed wrappers. Fine. In 1907 Charles Abbot determined the solar constant (the quantity of ray energy crossing one square centimeter of surface set perpendicular to the solar rays outside the earth's atmosphere or one astronomical unit from the sun).
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Institut de France, Academie des sciences, troisieme centenaire, 1666-1966, quelques souvenirs rassembles et decrits.

By: Academie des sciences (France); Juliette Boue Gauja; Marie Therese Delom; Observatoire de Paris.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Paris,, Observatoire de Paris, 1966. : 1966

Seller ID: RH1554

8vo. viii, 66 pp. [With the final supplemental inserted sheet]. Facs., illus. Printed wrappers. Very good.
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Convegno di scienze fisiche matematiche e naturali, 14-19 Settembre 1952. Tema: Problemi della fisica solare.

By: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Fondazione Alessandro Volta.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Rome:, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1953. : 1953

Seller ID: S10221

8vo. 332 pp. Printed wrappers; corners bent. Ink signature of H.A. Bruck on ffep. Very good. Scarce. Provenance: Dr. Hermann A. Bruck (1905-2000), seventh Astronomer Royal for Scotland. Upon graduation from Munich, Bruck followed his friend Albrecht Unsold to the Potsdam Astrophysical Observatory. With growing difficulties under National Socialism, Bruck left Germany in 1936 to take a temporary research assistantship at the Vatican Observatory. In 1937 he moved to the University of Cambridge to join the circle of the modern astrophysicists around Arthur Eddington. In time, Bruck became Assist...
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Ueber das problem des Apollonius von Perga von den Beruhrungen. . ..

By: AHRENS, Johann Thomas (1786-1841).

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Augsburg:, J. C. Wirth, 1832. : 1832

Seller ID: S6262

4to. 18 pp. Table, 1 folding engraved plate. Plain wrappers; extremities chipped. Bound with class schedules for the Protestant Gymnasium of St. Anna, Augsburg. Good. Appolonius of Perga (fl. ca. 200 BCE) is usually associated with the development of the eccentric circle (in which the center of the circle is not the center of the earth) and the deferent-epicycle model (in which a planet is described as moving on a point on a circle, known as an epicycle, whose center is moving on yet another circle, known as a deferent). Johann Thomas Ahrens was professor of mathematics at the Gymnasium and P...
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The Changing Concept of the Universe.

By: Aligarh Muslim University.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York:, Asia Publishing House, (1963). : 1963

Seller ID: S7149

General Education Reading Material Series no. 15. First edition. 8vo. xii, 108 pp. Figs.; minor ink underlining (p. 38 one word). Pictorial boards; spine ends worn, corner rubbed. Bookplate on title. Very good. Scarce. First Edition.
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"The stellar photometer of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory."

By: ARGYLE, P. E.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Offprint from: Publications of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, B.C., Vol. X, No. , Edmond Cloutier, 1957. : 1957

Seller ID: S5890

4to. 305-321 pp. 2 plates, 9 figs., 2 tables. Printed wrappers. Fine.
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The Astronomical Scrapbook; Skywatchers, Pioneers, and Seekers in Astronomy. Edited by Leif J. Robinson. Introduction by Owen Gingerich.

By: ASHBROOK, Joseph.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cambridge:, Cambridge University Press, 1984. : 1984

Seller ID: S12089

ISBN-13: 9780933346246

8vo. xii, 468 pp. Cloth, dust-jacket; jacket with short tear to upper edge. Very good. "This collection of 83 articles on the history of astronomy is the harvest of a quarter of a century spent in seeking out intriguing, unusual and half-forgotten events. Joe Ashbrook wrote a column regularly for the monthly magazine Sky and Telescope. Professor Owen Gingerich, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has helped in the selection of the very best of these timeless vignettes, and he has contributed a foreword to the collection. Each article has been edited, and in some cases modified...
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"A study of the green auroral line by the interference method."

By: BABCOCK, Harold Delos (b. 1882).

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Preprint from:, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. LVII, 1923. Series: Contributions from the Mount Wilson Observatory, No. 259. : 1923

Seller ID: S5895

253 x 171 mm. 8vo. 13 pp. 1 table, 2 plates. Printed wrappers. Fine.
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Standard mean right-ascensions of circumpolar and time stars, prepared for the use of the U.S. Coast Survey.

By: BACHE, Alexander Dallas (1806-1867).

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C.:, Government Printing Office, 1862. : 1862

Seller ID: S6265

4to. 15, [1 blank] pp. Tables. Dis-bound. Ms. notations on title. Very good. "When Bache assumed direction of the Coast Survey, it was a small, insecurely established body with high scientific standards. In less than two decades it became entrenched, the largest employer of physical scientists in the United States, and active in many scientific fields. . .. Bache is clearly one of the founders of the scientific community in the United States. His administration of the Coast Survey established a model for large-scale scientific organization that was followed either implicitly or explicitly by ...
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Souvenirs d'un Astronome (1908-1977).

By: BAILLAUD, Rene (1885-1977).

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Paris:, Carrere, 1980. : 1980

Seller ID: RH1367

Vol. III only. 8vo. 631, (1) pp. Illus., index. Printed wrappers. Fine. "Baillaud is a French astronomer born in Toulouse (1885?1977). He invented the "paraboloïde" a precursor of the radar. This instrument made it possible to establish the position of planes without having to see them, using only the sound they produced. The precision of the instrument was such, that it was used during the first World War by the French military, to repel night attacks from German bombers by pointing searchlights at them. This furthermore represented a rare technological superiority for the French. After this...
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The coming age presaged by an era of profounder research.

By: BAKER, Frederick Augustus.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Maplewood, New Jersey,, 1933. : 1933

Seller ID: S5896

233 x 153 mm. 8vo. 26 pp. Printed wrappers. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on page 26. Very good.
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Introduction to astronomy.

By: BAKER, Robert H.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York:, D. Van Nostrand, 1947. : 1947

Seller ID: S3071

THIRD EDITION. 235 x 160 mm. 8vo. [x], 292 pp. Frontis., figs., tables, index. Blue cloth; lightly rubbed. Bookplate. Very good.
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Les parallaxes dynamiques des etoiles doubles.

By: BARBIER, D.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Paris:, Hermann & Cie, 1936. : 1936

Seller ID: S5899

Series: Actualites Scientifiques et Industrielles, 348, Exposes d'Astronomie Stellaire, Publies sous la Direction de Henri Mineur, VI. 8vo. 31, [5] pp. Tables, figs. Printed wrappers; fore-edge of top cover torn and wrinkled. Publisher's compliments slip laid in. Unopened. Very good.
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The Castor system.

By: BARLOW, D. A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Ottawa:, F. A. Acland, 1929. : 1929

Seller ID: S5900

Series: Publications of the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa, Vol. IX, Astrophysics, No. 6. 4to. [ii], (149)-159 pp. 3 figs., tables. Printed wrappers. Fine.
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"Theoretical interpretation of upper atmosphere emissions."

By: BATES, D. R., editor.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Offprint from: Planetary and Space Science, Vol. 10, 1963. New York, etc.:, Pergamon Press, 1963. At head of title: International Astronomical Union, Symposium No. 18, held in Paris, 25th-29th June 1962, : 1963

Seller ID: S5902

Offprint from: Planetary and Space Science, Vol. 10, 1963. New York, etc.:: Pergamon Press, 1963. At head of title: International Astronomical Union, Symposium No. 18, held in Paris, 25th-29th June 1962, jointly with the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics., 1963. 248 x 187 mm. 8vo. [iv], 264 pp. Figs., tables, plates, indexes. Printed wrappers. Very good.
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"Magnetic results of Halley's expedition, 1698-1700." WITH: AULT, J. P. & W. F. WALLIS. "Halley's observations of the magnetic declination, 1698-1700."

By: BAUER, Louis Agricola (1865-1932).

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Offprint from:, Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity, September, 1913. : 1913

Seller ID: S5903

8vo. 113-126; 126-132 pp. 1 fig., tables; tables. Printed wrappers; text block separating from wrappers, ms. notes on top cover. Good.
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Mechanical Universe: The Astrarium of Giovanni de' Dondi. . . .

By: BEDINI, Silvio A. & Francis R. MADDISON.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia:, The American Philosophical Society, 1966. : 1966

Seller ID: S6042

Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge. 4to. 69 pp. Frontis., 53 figs., chronology, bibliog., index. Boards, dust jacket; jacket edge chipped, spine worn. Good. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to I Bernard Cohen. Dust jacket present.
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The Sky and its Mysteries.

By: BEET, Ernest Agar.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London:, G. Bell, 1957. : 1957

Seller ID: S7169

Reprint. 8vo. 238 pp. 14 plates, figs., folding star chart, index. Boards; minor wear to spine ends. Very good.
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The 1988 Perihelic Apparition of Mars. With: The Journal of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers; the Strolling Astronomer. Vol. 32, nos. 7-8. March 1988.

By: BEISH, J. D.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: San Francisco:, JALPO, 1988. : 1988

Seller ID: S10089

8vo. pp. 141-184. Illus. Printed wrappers. Fine. Beish's article is found on pages 158-168. "This paper presents the seasonal aspects, and observational characteristics and prospects, for the 1988 Martian Perihelic Apparition. It also discusses the predicted behavior of the polar regions, meteorology, and surface changes of Mars, giving several useful graphs and charts and a calendar of predicted Martian events."
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"Bestimmung der jahrlichen Parallaxe der Nova Persei."

By: BERGSTRAND, Osten.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Offprint from: Arkiv for Matematik, Astronomi och Fysik, Band 1. Stockholm:, P. A. Norstedt & Soner; Berlin: R. Friedlander & Sohn; London: William Wesley & Son; Paris: Paul Klincksieck, 1904. : 1904

Seller ID: S5834

8vo. (354)-394 pp. Tables. Printed wrappers; top cover loose, edges of top cover chipped. Ms. notation on top cover. Good.
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Category: Astronomy