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1891-1893 The Story of the Heavens
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Description
Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
Complete in two volumes. New and revised edition. Illustrated with eighteen plates and numerous in-text figures across the two volumes and a large fold-out figure to the pocket at the rear of volume two. Collated complete. Written in a simple style to encourage a wider audience, this work explores important astronomical queries, with chapters on: the astronomical observatory, the sun, the moon, the solar system, gravitation, comets, shooting stars, clusters and nebulae, the tides, and much more. This work is mentioned in the "Ithaca" chapter of Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce. Written by Sir Robert Stawell Ball, an Irish astronomer who was Royal Astronomer of Ireland at Dunsink Observatory, and founded the Screw Theory.
Condition
Bound in half vellum with cloth covered boards. Externally, smart with light wear to the extremities and fading to the spines. Boards cocked, particularly to volume one. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Further spotting to the endpapers with a contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper.
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