Experiments for Ascertaining How Far Telescopes Will Enable Us to Determine Very Small Angles, and to Distinguish the Real From the Spurious Diameters of Celestial and Terrestrial Objects: by HERSCHEL, William

Experiments for Ascertaining How Far Telescopes Will Enable Us to Determine Very Small Angles, and to Distinguish the Real From the Spurious Diameters of Celestial and Terrestrial Objects:

with an Application of the Result of these Experiments to a Series of Observations on the Nature and Magnitude of Mr. Harding's lately discovered Star. Read Dec. 6, 1804

HERSCHEL, William

HERSCHEL, William Experiments for Ascertaining How Far Telescopes Will Enable Us to Determine Very Small Angles, and to Distinguish the Real From the Spurious Diameters of Celestial and Terrestrial Objects: with an Application of the Result of these Experiments to a Series of Observations on the Nature and Magnitude of Mr. Harding's lately discovered Star. Read Dec. 6, 1804

Philosophical Transactions, 1805.

4to. Extracted from Philosophical Transactions, 1805, part 1. pp. 31-64. Green cloth over marbled paper covered boards. One engraved plate. A very good copy indeed, light creases to p. 31. Gift and ownership inscriptions and stamp to endpapers.

PROVENANCE: Owned by Caroline Winifred Herschel, great-great-grand-daughter of the author, astronomer Sir William Herschel.

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