Contributions To Solar Physics. I. A Popular Account Of Inquiries Into The Physical Constitution Of The Sun, With Special Reference To Recent Spectroscopic Researches. II. Communications To The Royal Society Of London, And The French Academy Of Sciences, With Notes.
Published by London: Macmillan And Co., 1874.
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8vo. pp. xxi, [1]errata, [2], 676. with half-title. 7 colour plates (incl. 3 chromolithographs, 2 folding). numerous wood-engraved text illus. original black & gilt-stamped cloth (extremities & front joint frayed, hinges cracked). First Edition. Lockyer discovered the element Helium in the Sun’s corona along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen in 1868 and was one of the founders of the science journal ‘Nature’ in 1869. He became the director of the Solar Physics Observatory at South Kensington and the first professor of astronomical physics in the Normal School of Science (now the Royal College of Science) in 1887. After his retirement, he obtained support in 1912 for the building of the Hill Observatory, renamed the Norman Lockyer Observatory following his death.
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- Title
- Contributions To Solar Physics. I. A Popular Account Of Inquiries Into The Physical Constitution Of The Sun, With Special Reference To Recent Spectroscopic Researches. II. Communications To The Royal Society Of London, And The French Academy Of Sciences, With Notes.
- Author
- LOCKYER, J[oseph] Norman [1836-1920].
- Publisher
- London: Macmillan And Co., 1874.
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- Soft cover
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- 1st Edition
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