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TitleA Treatise on Astronomy Vol 1
AuthorWoodhouse, Robert AM FRS
Asset Number00552
PublisherDeighton & Sons / Cambridge University
ISBN
Published Date1821
EditionNew Edition
Printing1
Description
White leather hardcover. Boards and bindings tight.
 
A Treatise on Astronomy, theoretical and practical.
 
Contains:
Part 1, Theories of the fixed stars. 1821 (New Edition)
Part 2, Theories of the Sun, planets and Moon. 1823.
 
Inscription reads:
Juveni Meritifsimo
Gulieluco Tullo
Inter provectiores
Lui siv alma Academia Jacobi VI
Edinburgena
Physices Studio incumbebaut
Hoc Precemium adjudicavit
Jacobus D. Forbes
MDCCCXLVIII
 
Woodhouse became the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1820, but the small income caused him to resign the professorship in 1822 and instead accept the better paid post as the Plumian professor in the university. As Plumian Professor he was responsible for installing and adjusting the transit instruments and clocks at the Cambridge Observatory.
 
James David Forbes FRS FRSE FGS (1809-1868) was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology. Forbes was a resident of Edinburgh for most of his life, educated at its University and a professor there from 1833 until he became principal of the United College of St Andrews in 1859. He invented the seismometer in 1842.
 
CategorySpace Science
EpochPre 1840
Date Acquired12/08/2022
Condition(2) Very Good