Riet Woolley (14 results)
Published by Philosophical Library, New York 1957
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Very Good -. Normal scuffs, soils and edge wear; a decent copy. 144 pages. Book.
Published by Blackie
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Unknown. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Published by Blackie & Son Limited 1957
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Condition: Fair. 1957. Reprint. 144 pages. Blue and yellow jacket over blue cloth. Contains black and white illustrated frontispiece, with black and white photographic plates throughout. Also contains diagrams. Pages and plates remain bright and clear. Mild foxing to endpapers. Binding is firm. Boards and spine have minimal shel…f-wear, with mild corner bumping and crushing to ends. Spine is slightly sunned. Small visible marks overeall. Boards are noticeably bowed. Unclipped jacket. Light tanning and foxing to all surfaces. Panels have light edgewear, with small tears, chips and creases, heavier to spine ends.
Published by Blackie & Son, Limited 1945
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Condition: Good. 1945. Reprint. 143 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Notable scuffing and pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bump…ing. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.
Language: English
Published by Blackie and Son Limited 1957
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 3rd edition. 3rd edition reprinted 1957. Publication of 144 pages. The dust jacket is shelf rubbed and chipped pieces. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Ou…r orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Language: English
Published by Blackie, London 1957
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. EX- LIBRARY. HARDBACK 1957. NO JACKET. 3rd edition. Under 300g. 19x12.5cm. Stamped "Cancelled". Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref M26.
Published by Oxford University Press
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Language: English
Published by Blackie and Son Ltd
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. A key to the stars, by R. Van Der Riet Woolley, director Commonwealth Solar Observatory, Canberra. The book is in good condition.
More imagesPublished by London: Blackie & Son Ltd. 1946
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Woolley, R. van de Riet. A key to the stars. London: Blackie & Son Ltd., 1946 reprint. Hardback, Good, in POOR, unclipped, dustjacket, with hevy shelfwear, loss to the spine, age-discolouration and numerous tears repaired from the inside with brown paper tape. Blue cloth w…ith yellow lettering to front and spine. Binding strong.Ownership name and address to ffep. Frontispiece b/w illustration. vi, 138pp., b/w plates and diagrams. Plate after p. 138 is detached from the block and frayed to edge. A few foxing spots, otherwise contents clean and bright. Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley OBE FRS (24 April 1906 24 December 1986) was an English astronomer who became the eleventh Astronomer Royal. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.
Published by McKay 1935
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. VG minus blue cloth octavo hardcover. 8vo. 143pp. Index. Illustrations. First US edition. Name on ffep with no other markings to text. Light to moderate general wear. Astronomy.
The longest tyranny; an inaugural lecture delivered at Canberra on 28 July 1955. 1955 [LeatherBound]
Language: English
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Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. 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. Pages: 36. A perfect gift…for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1955 edition. 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. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. 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. Language: English Pages: 36.
Published by Astrophysical Journal, Vol. LXXII, 1930., Offprint from: 1930
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8vo. 11 pp. Figs. Printed wrappers. FINE. WITH: RIET WOOLLEY. "A Study of the Widths of the Lines in the B. Band, Due to Atmospheric Oxygen, in the Solar Spectrum." & "Note on the Interpretation of Spectro-Photometric Observations of Weak Fraunhofer Lines." Offprint from: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. LXXIII, 1931. 8vo. 11 pp. Tab…les. Printed wrappers. Early ownership rubber stamp of Solar Physics Observatory Cambridge. WITH: RIET WOOLLEY. "The Contour of Lines at the Extreme Limb of the Sun." Offprint from: Monthly Notices of the R. A. S., vol. 98, no. 1, 1937. 8vo. 20 pp. Figs. Printed wrappers. WITH: RIET WOOLLEY. "Stellar Motions and the Structure of the Universe." Offprint from: Proc. Roy. Instn., 37, no. 168, 1959. 8vo. 412-423 pp. Photos. Self-wraps.
More imagesPublished by Blackie & Son Limited, London 1934
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, Blue cloth boards with Yellow title to cover and spine, b/w frontispiece of the Octagon Room in the Royal Observatory, First Edition, 1934. Book Condition: Very Good, covers rubbed, faded and light soil, corners bumped, spine bumped and faded, top dust dulled, soil to text… block, end papers tanned, light tanning to pages otherwise clean, no marks, no dust jacket, Content: Preface, I. Time and Longitude, II. The Solar System, III. Stellar Distances and Magnitudes, IV. The Temperatures of the Stars, V. The Composition of the Stars, VI. Galaxies: Neblula, VII. Observatories, Index. -- end.
Eclipses of the Sun and Moon.
DYSON, Frank (1868-1939) & R. v. d. R. [Richard van der Riet] WOOLLEY (1906-1986):
Published by Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1937. 1937
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- First Edition
Seller: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.Ted Kottler, Bookseller
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, vii, 160 pp; 11 plates. Original cloth. Ex-library: faint embossed stamp on title page, label on spine, bookplate on front pastedown. Some very light, spotty staining to lower half of front cover. Else Very Good, without dust jacket. 'With regard to solar ast…ronomy, the study of solar activity and of solar-terrestrial relations was at a peak at this period, and Greenwich was a world leader in the field. H.W. Newton (1893-1985) was in charge of the Solar Department; he stimulated Woolley's interest in this study, in both obtaining and interpreting observations. A large part of these came from the use of a Hale spectrohelioscope on loan since 1930 from Mt Wilson. Woolley and Newton constructed ancillary equipment that improved its performance. Woolley was able to interpret the results in terms of his theory of the structure of the solar atmosphere: he showed how the theory could be tested rather rigorously by the way in which the character of lines in the solar spectrum can be observed to vary across the solar disk, especially in the vicinity of the limb. This sort of observation was impossible except for the Sun. A highlight in this phase of Woolley's involvement in solar astronomy was his co-authorship of Eclipses of the Sun and Moon by F.W. Dyson and himself. Sir Frank Dyson (1868-1939), Astromoner Royal 1910-33, was an astronomer of great talent and remarkable versatility. Amongst his manifold astronomical activities, he had been a dedicated, successful and uniquely fortunate observer of total eclipses of the Sun. On his retirement he felt an obligation to write a book to review the scientific outcome of everything of the sort done hitherto. It was a typical inspiration on his part to invite so relatively young a colleague as Woolley to share in the work; he must have done so with the agreement of Spencer Jones as Woolley's Director. So far as I know. Woolley never saw a total solar eclipse, but he was able to provide a background of up-to-date solar physics, and incidentally to make the language of the text flow more smoothly than Dyson's more staccato style would have done. The result was an authentic classic of astronomical literature, though an unpretentious one' (William McCrea, 'Richard van der Riet Woolley 1906-1986', Australian Academy of Science, Biographical Memoirs of Deceased Fellows). 'The 1920s also brought the Astronomer Royal the opportunity to view his fifth eclipse. On June 29, 1927, thousands of people rushed to the North of England to witness the first total eclipse of the sun visible in this country for 200 years. In most areas, the skies were disappointingly overcast. But Sir Frank, who was renowned for his good luck with the weather on such occasions, picked the ideal location in the grounds of Giggleswick School, near Settle, in North Yorkshire. The total eclipse was due to occur just after 6am, and the sun remained hidden behind clouds until almost the last minute. Then, suddenly, the skies cleared to give the perfect view. The astronomer introduced a couple of innovations for recording the event. Not only was colour film used for the first time, but photographs were also taken from an aeroplane. Sir Frank Dyson finally retired as Astronomer Royal in February 1933, aged 65. . . . During his retirement, Sir Frank wrote a book on his favourite topic, in collaboration with fellow astronomer Richard van der Riet Woolley. Published in 1937, Eclipses of the Sun and Moon was considered an authoritative work on the subject' (Vivienne Smith, 'Sir Frank Dyson: Astronomer Royal was no pipsqueak', on You & Yesterday Web site). For Dyson, also see D.S.B. IV: 269-270.
