Halley Edmund (68 results)

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Condition: New. pp. 15.

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Bildgröße 9x7,5 cm.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Very Good. 10 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 24 cms. Category: Genealogist; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 8 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register; Printed before 1800; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine wood engraving. Mounted and ready to frame, mount size approx 8 x 7 ins, 20 x 18cms. c. 1853.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive, decorative and unusual. c. 1850.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHY. Fine copper engraved portrait with a valuable 500 word biography of the eminent personage. Each plate is 8.5 x 5 ins, 22 x 12 cms. and will be mounted (matted) and ready to frame. The portrait is in an oval with biography underneath. Edmond Halley FRS (8 November 1656 - 14 January 1742) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist. Engraved By Birrell (illustrator).…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine original steel engraving. ca. 1880 Mounted and ready to frame. An excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine original steel portrait. Mounted and ready to frame. Engraved size 4 x 3 ins, 10 x 8 cms. Unusual - decorative and attractive.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine original steel engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. ca 1850. An excellent opportunity to purchase this splendid portrait of this famous personage. From an original picture ascribed to Dahl in the possession of the Royal Society. Engraved By Fry (illustrator).…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. An excellent opportunity to purchase this decorative and attractive portrait. Engraved By Fry (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. vi, 21 pp. Ex-library: original wrappers, housed in a folder. Very Good. A Reprint of Economic Tracts. Edited by G. Heberton Evans, Jr.

Stipple engraving, Published C. Knight, 1834, some spotting on surround.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Steel engraving. Mounted (matted) and ready to frame. Engraved by Fry from the original painting ascribed to Dahl, in the possession of the Royal Society. Engraved By W T Fry (illustrator).

Condition: Sehr gut. Circa 225 pages. Features thirty black and white portraits, with many black and white illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with half-leather and buckram boards. Gilt lettering and blind design on spine with raised bands with gilt ornament. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only minor foxing throughout. Some tissue guards loose. With marbled edges and marbled both endpapers and pastedowns. Name of previous owner written in blue ink on free front endpaper "Richard Allen", also featured within in pencil and dated '1832'. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen Translator Erik Haugaard. Includes for example the following portraits and biographies: Dante / Davy / Kosciusko / Watt / Turenne / Boyle / Newton / Michael Angelo / Moliere / Corneille / Halley / Sully / Pascal / Erasmus / Cromwell / Titian / Lionardo Da Vinci / William III / Napoleon / Goethe / Schiller / Correggio / Raphael etc. This volume of 'Gallery of Portraits' appears to be a compendium of selected biographies taken from other 'Gallery of Portraits with Memoirs' volumes. It was a publication by Arthur Thomas Malkin and the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK). The SDUK was founded in 1826, mainly at the instigation of Lord Brougham, with the object of publishing information to people who were unable to obtain formal teaching, or who preferred self-education. A Whiggish London organisation that published inexpensive texts intended to adapt scientific and similarly high-minded material for the rapidly expanding reading public, it was wound up in 1848. Arthur Thomas Malkin (1803 1888) was an English writer, alpinist and cricketer. (Wikipedia).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 4to. First edition, in Philosophical Transactions number 297, March 1705, pages 1882-1889 pp.1887-90 cancels as usual. Bound in the years 1703-1705, issues numbered 283-288: 289-304; ie the last six numbers of volume XXIII and the complete numbers for volume XXIV (pagination irregular, viz: pp iv, 1521-1604, 1565-1810, 1803-1818, 1827-1948, 1951-2192: (pp.1413-1418 lacking in issue number 285: Volume XXIV, that with the Halley, is collated entire and complete); 26 plates in total: volume XXIV covering 1704 and 1705 title page dated 1706. Later stamped vellum, edges red speckled, label chipped, occasional browning. Armorial bookplate of N Vansittart (Fellow of the Royal Society, elected 1822), booklabel Winnard s bequest Free Public Library Wigan (confirmed deaccessioned circa 2002), unobtrusive blind stamp to first and last leaves of volume (not to Halley article). Contains also sixteen of Leeuwenhoeck s pioneering letters on microscopy, and many other articles by Hauksbee, Cowper, and so on. Bibliographically, the first issue of Halley s Comet is very interesting. The Phil Trans of this period were issued initially in separate bimonthly parts which were sent to the Fellows of the Royal Society. These separate issues were eventually bound up as volumes with supplied title page and index, either by the Fellows, or if remaining undistributed stock had rather a limited sale or were used to gift or to exchange with other scientific luminaries of the times here and overseas. Halley had been working on the mathematics of comet rotations for some time, and eventually published in 1705 three different versions of his argument: the first that which we have here, in Philosophical Transactions dated March 1705; the second also in Latin in June 1705 as a separate slightly shorter pamphlet with Clarendon Press, and the third, in English, translated by Senex. The Norman catalogue mistakenly suggests that the Clarendon Press pamphlet is the earlier in precedence, but this is both contradicted by the date (the Phil Trans version is dated three months earlier, March 1705, than the pamphlet which is dated June 1705), and also by the minute analysis of Rigaud, the early Oxford historian of science, in which he points out that the separate Clarendon pamphlet incorporates authorial changes which were clearly initially rather compressed into the Phil Trans version, as well as marking a softening of Halley s rather confident earlier claim of his correctness in predicting the comet's (now known as Halley s comet) return (see Rigaud, Some Account of Halley s Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis which contains his investigations of the orbits of comets, Oxford 1835). Halley s analysis is regarded as being one of the most important astronomical discoveries, and indeed one of the most important scientific discoveries, of all time. The Clarendon pamphlet sold for $144,500 at the Norman sale in 1998: we can trace no examples of the Phil Trans version on the market.…

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 58.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book is an exploration of spherical trigonometry, a branch of mathematics developed by the Greeks. The author, Menelaus of Alexandria, wrote the book to provide mathematicians with a comprehensive guide to the subject. This book presents a systematic approach to solving problems involving triangles on a sphere, addressing topics such as angle relationships, side lengths, and the calculation of areas. The author's clear explanations and logical proofs make this an invaluable resource for anyone interested in understanding this field of mathematics. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.…

Condition: Near Fine. An engraved portrait of Edmund Halley. Single leaf, trimmed, verso blank. Sheet is 10 1/2 x 7 7/8 inches (268 mm x 201mm). Plate mark is approx 9 3/8 x 7 1/4 inches. On laid paper. Some soft folds to the paper. Engraved text in italics : "Edmundus Halleius R. S. S. | Astronomus Regius et Geometriae Professor Savitianus." The Royal Museums Greenwich has three different engravings of Halley on their website. Only one example (PAD2757), appears to match ours. Greenwich suggests R. Phillips as the maker, and lists the original dimensions as Sheet: 276 x 220 mm. The size suggests to us that it might be a frontispiece for a book rather than a separately issued engraving (especially since there is no engraver or other imprint information on this example). We found a possible match as the frontispiece in Halley's 1752 edition of "Astronomical Tables With Precepts Both in English and Latin for Computing the Places of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and Comets." (London: William Innys). There was also a 1749 edition of this same title which we have not seen. Regardless of the source, it is a strong image and suitable for framing as a gift for the Astronomy enthusiast.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo: lxxviii, [2], 479pp. Cloth backed marbled boards. A collection of 10 mathematical tracts concerning the solutions of polynomial equations. They include Halley's approximation method and Colonel Titus's problem - To see our full mathematics stock click on"Mark Westwood Books PBFA" and see Mathematics in the list of catalogues.…