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Published by LEGARE STREET PR, 2023
ISBN 10: 1021199281ISBN 13: 9781021199287
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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1859 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 254 Language: English.
Published by Franklin Classics, 2018
ISBN 10: 0343297434ISBN 13: 9780343297435
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 523.
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ISBN 10: 1021199281ISBN 13: 9781021199287
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Publication Date: 2023
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1673 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 537 Language: Latin.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 1019415290ISBN 13: 9781019415290
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Published by CHIZINE PUBN, 2017
ISBN 10: 1376210649ISBN 13: 9781376210644
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Published by LIGHTNING SOURCE INC, 2018
ISBN 10: 0343297434ISBN 13: 9780343297435
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Publication Date: 1859
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edn, second issue with variant title page, London, William Macintosh, n.d. [ ca 1859]. Sm 8vo, xvi, 216p, 3 diagrams (one folding). Preface i-xvi, Memoir of Jeremiah Horrox p1-107, The Transit of Venus over the Sun p 109-216. Inscr, with extensive annotation in margins (mainly in the Memoir) in light pencil, 2 mounted newspaper cuttings, but still a nice clean copy. Neatly recased at some time, with neat repairs to head & tail of spine, new eendpapers, in the original blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettered 'Horrox's Memoirs'. DNB: 'When Curate of Hoole, Horrocks predicted and observed the transit of Venus across the sun 24 Nov 1639'. Very scarce astronomy.
Published by W. Godbid for J. Martyn, London, 1672
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First edition. "THE PRIDE AND BOAST OF BRITISH ASTRONOMY" . First edition, very rare, of the principal published source of the short-lived "pride and boast of British astronomy," as he was later described by Sir John Herschel. The works published here posthumously, edited by John Wallis, constitute almost all of Horrocks' writings that survived the vicissitudes of the Civil War and the Great Fire of London. "There is no doubt about the influence of Horrocks on Newton, who pays tribute to [him] in the Principia" (Plummer). "Jeremiah Horrocks was, perhaps, the first man in England to comprehend fully the actual revolution [in astronomy] going on in continental Europe. He was the first Englishman (along with Crabtree and Gascoigne) to recognise the investigative power of the telescope in original research and drew conclusions that went beyond those of Galileo and Kepler. He was the first of his contemporaries to examine independently the Keplerian astronomy, improve upon it, and produce an analysis of the lunar orbit which would provide a working model for the rest of the solar system. But he was possibly the first man in Europe to recognise the methodological faults of post-Tychonian astronomy, discard tabular computation, and stress fundamental observation with specialised mathematical instruments as the only way to answer the dominating questions of the age . The high point of his short though remarkably fruitful scientific career, to both the first and subsequent generations of his admirers, lay in those thirty minutes before sunset on 1639 November 29 when he observed the transit of Venus" (Chapman). "In his extraordinary and short-lived career Horrocks turned his attention to almost every aspect of astronomy. He was an assiduous and careful observer, always anxious to extend the limits of precision and to seek out and eliminate sources of possible observational error. One of his aims was to carry on the work of Tycho, but by utilizing the new opportunities available in the age of the telescope. He re-determined the astronomical constants for several planets, imaginatively investigated the problem of the scale of the solar system, improved the theory of lunar motion, began a detailed study of the tides, and theorized about the forces responsible for the motions of the planets. As a theorist, Horrocks, although he was not in possession of the principle of inertia, represents a transition between the physical astronomy of Kepler and the fertile period 1660-1680 associated with the names of Borelli, Hooke, Halley, and Newton. His writings remained unpublished in his lifetime and the extent of his influence on his successors has yet to be explored" (DSB). The greater part of the book was printed in 1672 and some (incomplete) copies were issued in that year. The title varies between Opera posthuma and Opuscula astronomica according to the bookseller who sold it, but neither of the original publishers did at all well out of it. ABPC/RBH lists only the Macclesfield copy since Honeyman. Horrocks (1618-41) grew up in Toxteth Park, then a small village about three miles from Liverpool. From 1632 to 1635 he attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge, but he left without taking a degree. He taught himself astronomy and familiarized himself with the chief astronomical works of antiquity and of his own time. Shortly after leaving Cambridge he befriended William Crabtree (1610-44), a clothier or merchant of Broughton, near Manchester. Crabtree had studied astronomy for several years and the two young and enthusiastic friends carried on an extensive correspondence on astronomical matters that continued until Horrocks' death. "In 1635 Horrocks began to compute ephemerides from Philip van Lansberge's Tabulae motuum coelestium perpetuae (1632). Comparing the results of his calculations with his own and Crabtree's observations, he concluded that Lansberge's tables were not only inadequate but also based on a false planetary theory. Upon Crabtree's advice he began to use Kepler's Tabulae Rudolphinae (1627) and soon became convinced that the tables were superior to all others and the only ones founded on valid principles. He devoted the next few years to correcting their errors and improving their accuracy. "Having some misgivings about Kepler's physical theories, Horrocks turned to the study of Kepler's works and soon became an ardent disciple. He accepted Kepler's doctrines of elliptical planetary orbits, with the sun situated in the orbital planes, and of the constant inclination of these orbits to the ecliptic. Horrocks affirmed that he had carefully and repeatedly tested Kepler's rule of the proportionality between the squares of the planetary periods and the cubes of their mean distances, and that he had found it to be absolutely true. With Kepler, he held that a planet moves more rapidly at perihelion than at aphelion and he believed planetary velocity to decrease proportionally with increasing distance from the sun. There is no mention in his surviving works of Kepler's law of areas. "Horrocks also accepted Kepler's viewpoint on the unity of celestial and terrestrial physics and his program for the creation of a celestial dynamics. He tentatively put forward a dynamical model of his own, however, which he felt eliminated some of the worst features of his master's. He started with Kepler's hypothesis that the sun moves the planets both by its rotation and by the emission of a quasi-magnetic attractive force, which becomes weaker with distance and attracts the planets as well as acting as a series of lever-arms pushing them along. The specific shape of the planetary orbit is the result of a dynamic equilibrium between a lateral (pushing) and a central force. Horrocks repudiated Kepler's idea that each planet has opposite sides 'friendly' and 'unfriendly' to the sun which cause it to be alternately attracted and repelled in different parts of its orbit and thus to move in an ellipse. "Possibly influenced by his reading of.