Tables For Correcting the Apparent Distance of the Moon and a Star from the Effects of Refraction and Parallax

SHEPHERD, Antony

Published by Published by Order or the Commissioners of Longitude, Cambridge, 1772

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Unpaginated. Full leather binding with raised bands has chipped spine ends, bumped corners, and scuffing and wear to boards. Stained endpapers have pencil notation and ink signature of former owner in 1784. Second ink signature on title page. Name has been cut out of title page. Some thumbing, foxing, and soiling throughout. Antony Shepherd (1721-1796) was Plumian professor of astronomy at Cambridge. In 1768, he was appointed master of mechanics to George III. Though writer Frances Burney describes Shepherd as "prodigiously tall and stout"' and as "dullness itself," it is said that Captain Cook named an island "after his friend, Dr. Shepherd" (Dictionary of National Biography vol. 52). Seller Inventory # 104074

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Title: Tables For Correcting the Apparent Distance ...

Publisher: Published by Order or the Commissioners of Longitude, Cambridge

Publication Date: 1772

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

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