Correspondence and Papers of Edmond Halley. Preceded by an Unpublished Memoir of His Life by One of His Contemporaries and the Éloge by D’Ortous de Mairan

8vo (25 cm), frontispiece portrait, XVI, 390 pp., 10 plates. Publisher's blue-grey cloth, gilt spine lettering (binding somewhat rubbed at extremities; free endpapers browned; ownership inscription on front free endpaper). History of Science Society Publications, New Series II. First edition. A fundamental primary source collection for the study of Edmond Halley and Newtonian-era astronomy. Edited by Eugene Fairfield MacPike, the volume brings together key biographical and documentary materials relating to Halley's life and scientific activity, including an early unpublished memoir by a contemporary (attributed to Martin Folkes), and the Éloge de Halley by D'Ortous de Mairan. It also provides extensive bibliographical and archival apparatus, including chronological lists of Halley's correspondence (both printed and unprinted), selected letters and papers, and a substantial appendix (Halleiana I-XXI) covering topics such as Halley's ancestry, India Office records, extracts from Hooke's diary, correspondence of Newton and Hevelius, Halley's Latin verse, his will, voyages, diplomatic missions to Vienna, and a comprehensive bibliography of his published works.…