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St. Petersburg:, Akademiia nauk SSSR, Memoires, 1892. : 1892
Seller ID: S12090
4to. iii, 60 pp. Original printed wrappers; chipped at extremities, but generally very good. Series: 7. ser., v. 38, no. 8; v.41, no. 3; v. 41, no. 7. Backlund was a Swedish-Soviet astronomer specializing in celestial mechanics. He earned the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1909) and the Bruce Medal in 1914. View More...
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Boulder:, University of Colorado-Boulder, 1992. : 1992
Seller ID: S12115
4to. 736 pp. Illus., index. Cloth. Fine. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE; additionally signed by a contributor, Don Yeomans (his copy). "This Atlas is one of the archive products of the International Halley Watch (IHW), and specifically of the IHW's Large-Scale Phenomenon (LSP) Discipline. It presents a comprehensive record of the large-scale structure of Halley's Comet in 1985 and 1986 obtained by a world-wide network of observers. {the Atlas] presents the evolving appearance of the comet throughout the apparition, and shows short-term changes and the effects of different observing techniques.... View More...
8vo. 26; 20; 15 pp. No. 1: 1 folding lithographic plate. No. 3: 1 folding lithographic plate. Dis-bound. Ms. notations on first pages. Ex library rubber stamp. Very good. The study of comets was the major work of Fedor Bredikhin, who developed an important mechanical theory of a comet's form. DSB, II, pp. 432-435. View More...
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Stockholm:, P. A. Norstedt & Soner, 1890. : 1890
Seller ID: S6846
Offprint from: Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, Bandet 23, No. 14. 4to. 28 pp. 5 tables; paper browned. Original plain wrappers; covers off, extremities chipped, dis-bound. Ms. inscription on top cover. Good. View More...
4to. 30 pp. Tables. Printed wrappers; paper browned and extremely brittle with loss at extremities, does affect the text. Ms. notations on top cover. AS IS. View More...
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Philadelphia:, American Philosophical Society, 1976. : 1976
Seller ID: S7839
4to. (Article): 1-6 pp. (Whole volume): iii, 515 pp. Articles, photos, figs. Green boards, gilt spine. Blind stamp of Mount Wilson Observatory. Fine. Whipple was a highly respected American astronomer who, as director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, oversaw numerous projects of note (including the Radio Meteor Project). His particular area of expertise was comets, as evinced by this article. View More...
Third edition. 8vo. LXXVII, 354 pp. Frontispiece, 2 additional plates. Later blue gilt-stamped cloth. Some stains on leaves, but generally very good. First issued in 1872. From 1872 Zollner, astrophysicist and one who studied optical illusions, held the chair of astrophysics at Leipzig University. Zollner's work showed that electrical processes of considerable intensity must take place in comets. "Of far-reaching significance was Zollner's theory of comets, in which he correctly assumed that elements of the nucleus of a comet gradually vaporize as it nears the sun." ? DSB XIV, p. 629. See als... View More...
4to. [iv], 16, [2] pp. Tables. Self-wraps. Ms. notations on top cover. Very good. Asten?s dissertation (how young was he!?). He later wrote, Resultate aus Otto von Struve's Beobachtungen der Uranustrabanten (1872). The present work is dedicated to Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (1799-1875), who became professor of astronomy at the Prussian University of Bonn in 1836. Among Argelander's students and assistants were Eduard Schonfeld, Adalbert Krueger, Leopold Kronecker, and Franz Woepcke. View More...
