Edited Arthur Beer (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Largish octavo hardback. Illustrated throughout. 224 pp. Very Good+ condition. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good EX-LIBRARY. No Jacket. First Edition in English. New York: The Macmillan Company / A Pergamon Press Book, 1965. Very Good EX-LIBRARY. Corners are NOT bumped. WITHDRAWN stamp, and a few other library markings on the endpapers. Text pages are clean, crisp, and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bound in the original bright blue cloth, lettered in silver over a dark blue panel on the spine (some of the spine lettering is rubbed/flaking off). Translated from the Russian by J. B. Sykes. Translation edited by Arthur Beer. Illustrated with figures in the text, and 28 plates (various galaxy photos) on glossy paper. Contains an Introduction and ten major sections, as follows: 1) The Fundamental Concepts of Stellar Statistics; 2) The Kinematics of Stellar Systems; 3) The Elementary Theory of Galactic Rotation; 4) Irregular Forces in Stellar Systems; 5) Statistical Stellar Dynamics Neglecting Encounters; 6) Regular Orbits of Stars; 7) The Problem of Local Dynamics; 8) Dynamics of Centroids; 9) Dynamics of Spherical Stellar Systems; 10) Dynamics of Rotating Stellar Systems. Tables. Graphs. Bibliographical references. Subject Index. Index of Galaxies. . First Edition in English. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/No Jacket. 8vo. xii, 359pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This volume discusses variation of latitude, distribution of stars, galactic orbits of stars, magnetic fields in planetary nebulae, weak Fraunhofer lines, binary stars, and ancient and mediaeval observations of comets and novae. 230 pages. Ex-Library.

Series: Journal of atmospheric and terrestrial physics (special supplement no. 3). 8vo. vii, [1], 208 pp. Figs. (1 folding), tables. Original navy gilt-stamped cloth. Very good. CONTENTS OF VOLUME 7. Introduction by A. BEER â" Megalithic Astronomy: Indications in Standing Stones by Alexander THOM [1894-1985] (Formerly University of Oxford; The Hill, Dunlop. Ayrshire) â" Astrophysical Investigations utilizing Objective Prisms by Charles Bruce STEPHENSON [1929-2001] (Warner and Swasey Observatory, Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio) â" Spectroscopic Studies of Late-Type Stars by Yoshio FUJITA [1908-2013] (Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan) â" Magnetic Stars and Metallic-Line Stars by MARGHERITA HACK [1922-2013] (University Observatory, Trieste, Italy) â" Statistical Population Indices by Wilhemina IWANOWSKA [1905-1999] (Astronomical Observatory, N. Copernicus University, Torun, Poland) â" The Stellar Luminosity-Function by S. W. McCUSKEY (Warner and Swasey Observatory, Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio) â" Some Problems of Star Formation by Vincent Cartledge REDDISH [1926-2015] (Royal Observatory, Edinburgh) â" INDEX. / Arthur Beer was a German astronomer who worked at Cambridge University. / "In the early 1950s Arthur committed himself to a voluminous and thorough survey of current astronomy. Ultimately, 215 scientists, mathematicians and historians contributed to what was to become the multi-volume Vistas of Astronomy, covering both historical and current topics, for which he was a writer and editor-in-chief (1955â"1956) for the first two volumes. The series outlived Beer, Volume 42 appearing in 1998, before its functions were taken over by the New Astronomy Reviews and the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage.".