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| Title | A Treatise on Astronomy Vol 2 |
| Author | Woodhouse, Robert AM FRS |
| Asset Number | 00553 |
| Publisher | Deighton & Sons / Cambridge University |
| ISBN | |
| Published Date | 1818 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Printing | 1 |
| Description | White leather hardcover. Boards and bindings tight.
A Treatise on Astronomy, theoretical and practical.
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.
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| Category | Space Science |
| Epoch | Pre 1840 |
| Date Acquired | 12/08/2022 |
| Condition | (2) Very Good |
