Tables For Correcting the Apparent Distance of the Moon and a Star from the Effects of Refraction and Parallax
Published by Published by Order or the Commissioners of Longitude, Cambridge, 1772
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, CanadaAttic Books (ABAC, ILAB)
AbeBooks seller since December 15, 2006
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 150.00
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Unpaginated. Full leather binding with raised bands has chipped spine ends, bumped corners, and scuffing and wear to boards. Stained endpapers have pencil notation and ink signature of former owner in 1784. Second ink signature on title page. Name has been cut out of title page. Some thumbing, foxing, and soiling throughout. Antony Shepherd (1721-1796) was Plumian professor of astronomy at Cambridge. In 1768, he was appointed master of mechanics to George III. Though writer Frances Burney describes Shepherd as "prodigiously tall and stout"' and as "dullness itself," it is said that Captain Cook named an island "after his friend, Dr. Shepherd" (Dictionary of National Biography vol. 52).
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Tables For Correcting the Apparent Distance of the Moon and a Star from the Effects of Refraction and Parallax
- Author
- SHEPHERD, Antony
- Publisher
- Published by Order or the Commissioners of Longitude, Cambridge
- Publication year
- 1772
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Full-Leather
- Seller catalogs
- Astronomy
Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB)
London, ON, Canada
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