1882 HEROES OF SCIENCE ASTONOMERS FULL LEATHER BINDING

HEROES OF SCIENCE
ASTRONOMERS
BY
E. J. C. MORTON

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMITTEE
OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION APPOINTED BY
THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE

LONDON & NEW YORK

This is the undated 1882 first edition of Morton's introduction to the lives of the chief astronomers together with a basic explanation of their principal discoveries. These are considered by Morton to be Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Lagrange and Laplace and Herschel, and the final chapter contains a discussion on later astronomy including such luminaries as Bessel, Huggins, Wollaston, Adams and Fraunhofer.

348 Pages in total with 35 in text diagrams etc.

Condition
Antique full leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt tooled decorations and gilt lettered title label, marbled endpapers, a good solid binding, slight foxing to a few pages, all complete. Remains of Prize label on front endpaper.
Size is 7¼ by 4¾ inches

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