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Auction archive: Lot number 58

Methods of Computing the Orbit of a Comet or Planet: Appendix to the Third Volume of the Translation of the Mécanique Céleste. By Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D.

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US$300 - US$500
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Auction archive: Lot number 58

Methods of Computing the Orbit of a Comet or Planet: Appendix to the Third Volume of the Translation of the Mécanique Céleste. By Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D.

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Title: Methods of Computing the Orbit of a Comet or Planet: Appendix to the Third Volume of the Translation of the Mécanique Céleste. By Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D. Author: Bowditch, Nathaniel Place: Boston Publisher: From the Press of Isaac R. Butts Date: 1834 Description: [4], [761]-910, [107] pp. (4to) 28.4x22 cm (11¼x8¾"), later cloth-backed marbled boards, paper spine label. First edition, published as an appendix to Bowditch's celebrated translation of Laplace's Mécanique Céleste, which is often lacking from the set. Bowditch declares in the introduction to this appendix, that he wanted to "point out some fo the important improvements made by Gauss, Olbers, and others, in the calculation of the orbit of a planet or comet, moving in ellipses, parabola or hyperbola. Lot Amendments Condition: Occasional light foxing, date of publication inked below roman numerals on title page; very good. Item number: 287964

Auction archive: Lot number 58
Auction:
Datum:
30 Nov 2017
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Methods of Computing the Orbit of a Comet or Planet: Appendix to the Third Volume of the Translation of the Mécanique Céleste. By Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D. Author: Bowditch, Nathaniel Place: Boston Publisher: From the Press of Isaac R. Butts Date: 1834 Description: [4], [761]-910, [107] pp. (4to) 28.4x22 cm (11¼x8¾"), later cloth-backed marbled boards, paper spine label. First edition, published as an appendix to Bowditch's celebrated translation of Laplace's Mécanique Céleste, which is often lacking from the set. Bowditch declares in the introduction to this appendix, that he wanted to "point out some fo the important improvements made by Gauss, Olbers, and others, in the calculation of the orbit of a planet or comet, moving in ellipses, parabola or hyperbola. Lot Amendments Condition: Occasional light foxing, date of publication inked below roman numerals on title page; very good. Item number: 287964

Auction archive: Lot number 58
Auction:
Datum:
30 Nov 2017
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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