Macpike Eugene Fairfield Ed (3 results)
Language: English
Published by Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketOriginal-Leinenband. XIV, 300 Seiten mit einem Porträtfrontispiz, einigen s/w Abbildungen und einem ausfaltbaren Brieffaksimile. Die Ecken und die Kapitale sind etwas bestoßen und der Einband lichtrandig, sonst handelt es sich um ein gutes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren. Textsauber und aus einem Nichtraucherhaushalt.…Mit Namenseintrag auf der Titelseite. // Original hardcover. The corners and capitals are slightly bumped and the cover has light edges, otherwise it is a clean book in good condition. Book from a non smoking environment. With name entry on the title page. Sprache: Englisch.
Language: English
Published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1932
- Hardcover
Seller: Leopolis, Kraków, PolandLeopolis
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo (25 cm), frontispiece portrait, XVI, 390 pp., 10 plates. Publisher's blue-grey cloth, gilt spine lettering (binding somewhat rubbed at extremities; free endpapers browned; ownership inscription on front free endpaper). History of Science Society Publications, New Series II. First edition. A f…undamental primary source collection for the study of Edmond Halley and Newtonian-era astronomy. Edited by Eugene Fairfield MacPike, the volume brings together key biographical and documentary materials relating to Halley's life and scientific activity, including an early unpublished memoir by a contemporary (attributed to Martin Folkes), and the Éloge de Halley by D'Ortous de Mairan. It also provides extensive bibliographical and archival apparatus, including chronological lists of Halley's correspondence (both printed and unprinted), selected letters and papers, and a substantial appendix (Halleiana I-XXI) covering topics such as Halley's ancestry, India Office records, extracts from Hooke's diary, correspondence of Newton and Hevelius, Halley's Latin verse, his will, voyages, diplomatic missions to Vienna, and a comprehensive bibliography of his published works.
Published by Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932., 1932
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.Ted Kottler, Bookseller
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. Frontispiece, xiv, 300 pp; 10 illus. (1 folding). Original cloth, large 8vo. Top of spine worn. Ghost of spine label. Spine lettering rubbed. Shadow of label on rear cover. Else Very Good. History of Science Society Publications, New Series II. 'For a comple…te list of Halley's publications, see E. F. MacPike, Correspondence and Papers of Edmond Halley (Oxford, 1932), pp. 272-278 (but note that the second item under the year 1700 should be dated 1710)' (Colin A. Ronan in D.S.B. VI: 72).
