Sales catalogue 117: Davis & Orioli

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/24
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 117: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AstroNOomMY—continued. and :— Histoire de i’Astronomie Ancienne depuis son origina jusqu’a Vétablissement de _ Vécole d@ Alexandrie. Paris, 1781-1785 £3 3s 4to. 4vols. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt back. A fine and complete set of the best edition of this standard work, of great value still for the large number of original observations on the history of science _which it contains. — ae Has 494 Bailly (Jean Sylvain) Essai sur la Théorie des Satellites de Jupiter suivi des Tables de leurs mouvements, déduits du principle de la Gravitation Universelle . . . avec les tables de Jupiter par M. Jeaurat. Paris, Nyon, 1766 30s 4to. Unbound. liii pp., 1 leaf, 144 pp., 20, 40 pp. 2 folding plates. bss The present book on the satellités of Jupiter is the best work published on the subject before those of Lagrange and La Place. 495 Cassini de Thury (César-Francois) Addi- tion aux Tables Astronomiques de M. Cassini. Paris, Durand, 1756 21s 4to. Unbound. 1 leaf, 98 pp. The author was the grandson of the famous Giovanni Dom. Cassini, and gives here an addition to the astronomical tables of his father. 496 Dreyer (J. L. [.) History of the Planetary Systems from Thales to Kepler. Cambridge University Press, 1906 £2 15s 8vo. Orig. cloth. The famous standard work, now out of print and very scarce. 497 Englefield (Sir Henry) Tables of the apparent places of the comet of 1661 whose return is expected in 1789. London, P. Klmsly, 1788 15s 4to. Unbound. vi, 25 pp. 2 tables, 1 folding, showing the orbit of the comet of 1661. Nova Methodo Pertractata una cum Tabulis Astrenomicis unde ad quodvis tempus Loca Lunae expedite computari possunt. Petro- poli, Typis Academiae [mperialis Scientia- rum, 1772 £3 10s 4to. Half calf. 8 ll., 775 pp., 1 table. ments of the moon taking into account for his investi- gations the problem of the three bodies. It was through the results of his works that Tobias Mayer was able to publish his famous lunar tables in 1760, 499 Huygens (Chr.) The Celestial Worlds Discovered, or Conjectures concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets. 1698 £5 10s 8vo. Old panelled calf. vi, 161 pp. 5 folding plates (one is torn but without loss of surface). First English edition of this interesting book which specu- lates on the possibility of the planets being inhabited. There is a great deal of information about the use of the telescope. that Great Phaenomenon .. . and of the manner of applying a Transit of Venus over the Solar Disk, ete., etc. 1761 4to. Unbound. 48 pp. 2 plates. 501 Whiston (William) Praelectiones Astro- nomice Cantabrigiae in Scholis Habite. Quibus Accedunt Tabule Pluri- me Astronomice Flamstediane 35 rectz, Halleiane, Cassiniane, et Stree- tiane. Cantabrigie, Typis Academicis, VOT 30s 8vo. 459 pp. Calf. Diagrams in text. CHEMISTRY. 502 Berzelius (J. J.) 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