Edmond Halley : charting the heavens and the seas / Alan Cook
by Cook, Alan
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0198500319
- ISBN 13
- 9780198500315
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About This Item
Oxford ; New York : Clarendon, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xvi, 540 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. Notes;Includes bibliographical references (pages 500-523) and index. Contents; Machine derived contents note: 1. Halley's world -- 2. Formation of an astronomer -- 3. Skies of the south -- 4. Into Europe -- 5. A wedding and two funerals -- 6. Achilles produced -- 7. Improving natural knowledge -- 8. Celestial architecture -- 9. Uses and practice of the contemplation of nature -- 10. Far seas and new prospects -- 11. Upon the Dalmation shore -- 12. In the Savillian Chair -- 13. The matter of the moon -- 14. Astronomer royal -- 15. The advancement of natural knowledge -- Appendix 1: The eliptic orbit -- Appendix 2: Genealogical notes -- Appendix 3: The personal estate of Halley's father -- Appendix 4: Chronology of Edmond Halley -- Appendix 5: Determinaiton of positions from sextant observations -- Appendix 6: Halley's verses prefixed to Principia -- Appendix 7: Correspondence of Halley not listed by MacPike (1932) -- Appendix 8: Halley's library -- Appendix 9: The manuscript ULC RGO 1/74 and its implications -- Appendix 10: Halley's memorial to the Emperor -- Index. Subjects; Halley, Edmond 1656-1742. Astronomy England History. Astronomers Great Britain ; Biography.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Edmond Halley : charting the heavens and the seas / Alan Cook
- Author
- Cook, Alan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0198500319
- ISBN 13
- 9780198500315
- Publisher
- Oxford ; New York : Clarendon
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1998
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