Bradley Presentation Copy (2 results)

London; Richard Taylor, 1835. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Softcover. 8vo. Very good. Stab bound pamphlet that appears to have once been bound into a larger book. Lacks front wrapper.Includes two papers. Author's inscription to the verso of the title page. He has also written in pencil at the top of the second paper "Supplement to a previous paper of which I have no copies Left. E. W. B." Top corner of second paper is torn but it does not affect the text. 10 pages. NAT/081423. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. (RIGAUD, P.R.) (James Bradley) Supplement to Dr. Bradley's Miscellaneous Works with an Account of Harriott's Astronomical Papers". Oxford, the University Press, 1833. 12"x8.5", 70pp, 5 plates. Disbound from a larger work (?) though complete in itself. Presentation copy to (G.B. Airy) "from the author". GOOD copy. "Stephen Peter Rigaud (1774-1839), astronomer, was Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford University, 1810-1839, and also Radcliffe Observer from 1827. He came of a French Protestant family, and was the son of Stephen Rigaud, Observer at Kew. He was educated at Richmond and Exeter College, Oxford (matriculated 15 April 1791, BA 1797, MA 1799, Fellow of the College, 1794-1810). He was especially interested in the historical side of science, and is best known for his editions of Miscellaneous works and correspondence of the Rev. James Bradley (Oxford, 1832) and of Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century, a posthumous work (Oxford, 1841). Further details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.--ArchivesHub online (Rigaud) "James Bradley FRS (1692 1762) was an English astronomer and priest who served as the third Astronomer Royal from 1742. He is best known for two fundamental discoveries in astronomy, the aberration of light (1725 1728), and the nutation of the Earth's axis (1728 1748). These two discoveries were called "the most brilliant and useful of the century" by Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, historian of astronomy, mathematical astronomer and director of the Paris Observatory."--Wikipedia.