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By: ABBOT, Charles Greeley (b. 1872) & H. B. FREEMAN.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Washington:, Smithsonian Institution, 1929.: 1929
Seller ID: S5881
At head of title: Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 82, No. 1, August 31, 1929. 245 x 163 mm. 8vo. [ii], 17 pp. 1 fig., 3 tables, 5 large folding plates (i.e.: 2 plates printed on both sides). Printed wrappers. Fine. View more info
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). View more info
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. View more info
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... View more info
By: ADAMS, Walter S.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Offprint from:, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 59, Nos. 350-51, October-December, 1947.: 1947
Seller ID: Z1781
(230 x 150 mm). 213-231, 285-304 pp. Frontis., plates. Printed wrappers. Fine. View more info
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... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Ann Arbor:, NEO Press, 1969.: 1969
Seller ID: S12082
Sm. 8vo. xvi, 173 pp. Silver-stamped cloth. Ownership rubber-stamp of David E. Laird. Very good. Reprint. View more info
By: AITKEN, Robert Grant (1864-1951) (comp.).
Price: $25.00
Publisher: San Francisco:, Printed for the Society, 1914.: 1914
Seller ID: Z1011
8vo. 127 pp. Stapled self-wraps; original wrappers missing. Fair. Rare. View more info
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. View more info
By: American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York:, Published by the Society, 1899.: 1899
Seller ID: Z1019
8vo. 188 pp. Brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine title; spine ends chipped. Very good. View more info
By: ARAGO, Dominique Francois Jean (1786-1853).
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Boston:, Ticknor and Fields, 1859.: 1859
Seller ID: Z1023
First American Edition. 12 mo. viii, 486, ads. 9 pp. A few figs. Brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine title; spine ends frayed. Very good. Substantial biographical accounts of Carnot, Malus, Fresnel, Young and Watt. First Edition. View more info
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Rome:, Dott. Giovanni Bardi, 1931.: 1931
Seller ID: Z1785
(285 x 200 mm). 4to. 12 pp. Original printed wrappers; covers creased. Small rubber stamp on front cover. Fine. The author, Giuseppe Armellini (1887-1958) was an Italian astronomer. He obtained a degree in engineering (1910) and mathematics (1912), but began his scientific work as an astronomer at the observatories of Paris and Meudon. In 1915 he obtained the post of professor of rational mechanics at the Polytechnic of Turin, then went in 1920 to Pisa (astronomy and celestial mechanics) and thereafter to Rome where he was appointed professor of astronomy and the director of the Observatory o... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Cambridge:, Cambridge University Press, 1984.: 1984
Seller ID: S12089
ISBN: 0933346247
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 modi... View more info
By: Astrophysikalischen Observatoriums zu Postdam.
Price: $16.00
Publisher: (Leipzig):, (Breitkopf & Hartel, n.d.).:
Seller ID: Z1049
(280 x 205 mm). Single sheet printed on both sides. Very good. Lists author, short title and prices for the first eighteen volumes, Nos. 1-53. View more info
Price: $80.00
Publisher: New York:, B Westermann, 1867-1869.: 1867
Seller ID: Z1126
6 bookseller catalogs. 8vo. Multiple paginations. Printed wrappers; wrappers worn and chipped, especially spines (issues disbound or starting). Ownership signatures on front covers. Good. View more info
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. View more info
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... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Denver, Santa Barbara, Oxford:, ABC-CLIO, (1999).: 1999
Seller ID: Z1055
ISBN: 0874369215
Third printing. 8vo. xxxiii, 455 pp. Illustrations (half-tone vignette portraits of selected scientists), index. Pictorial boards. Fine. ISBN: 0874369215 View more info
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 ... View more info
By: BAKER, Frederick Augustus.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Maplewood, New Jersey,, 1933.: 1933
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: S5896
233 x 153 mm. 8vo. 26 pp. Printed wrappers. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on page 26. Very good. View more info
