Populäre Vorlesungen über wissenschaftliche Gegenstände.

Name: Populäre Vorlesungen über wissenschaftliche Gegenstände.
Author: Bessel, F. W.

Book Description

First edition. 8vo. pp. [2], v, 636; one folding plate; minor staining to plate and light foxing, inkstamp of the Bibliotheca Collegii Exaeten to title-page and library labels to front pastedown, very good in contemporary quarter calf, somewhat rubbed, scuffed on boards.

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D.S.B. 2: 97-102; Bibliotheca chemico-mathematica, 3rd suppl., no. 945; Houzeau & Lancaster 9069. The German astronomer and mathematician Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846) made the first measurement of a star’s distance by parallax (1838) and calculated the existence of the companion star to Sirius (1844). The present work collects his popular scientific lectures, edited after Bessel’s death by H. C. Schumacher.

Author Bessel, F. W.

Date 1848

Binding Contemporary half calf

Publisher Hamburg: Perthes- Besser & Mauke

Condition See description

Pages [2], v, 636

Price: £350.00

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