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Richard Proctor Other Worlds Than Ours D.Appleton And Company 1883
Title: Other Worlds Than Ours: The Plurality Of Worlds Studied Under The Light Of Recent Scientific Researches
Author: Richard Proctor
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: D.Appleton And Company 1883
Size: 5Β½" by 8" * 334 Pages + 2 pp. publisher's ads at rear featuring Astronomy related titles.
Synopsis: Original copyright 1870. Richard Proctor (1837-1888) authored many popularizations of astronomy, as well as a noted parody of Charles Dickens' last and unfinished novel. He had abandoned law for science and made his reputation with an 1865 monograph on "Saturn and His System" and his "Handbook of the Stars" in 1866. In 1881 he founded Knowledge, a popular weekly magazine of science (converted into a monthly in 1885), which had a considerable circulation. In it he wrote on a great variety of subjects, including chess and whist.
He was also the author of the articles on astronomy in the American Cyclopaedia and the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and was well known as a popular lecturer on astronomy in England, America and Australia.
Elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1866, he became honorary secretary in 1872, and contributed eighty-three separate papers to its Monthly Notices. Of these the more noteworthy dealt with the distribution of stars, star clusters and nebulae, and the construction of the sidereal universe. He was an expert in all that related to map-drawing, and published two star-atlases. A chart on an isographic projection, exhibiting all the stars contained in the Bonner Durchmusterung, was designed to show the laws according to which the stars down to the 9-10th magnitude are distributed over the northern heavens. His Theoretical Considerations respecting the Corona (Monthly Notices, xxxi. 184, 254) also deserve mention, as well as his discussions of the rotation of Mars, by which be deduced its period with a probable error of 0.005.
He also vigorously criticized the official arrangements for observing the transits of Venus of 1874 and 1882.
He lectured in America after 1873, lived for a while in Florida after 1887 and died in New York of yellow fever. His largest and most ambitious work, Old and New Astronomy, left unfinished at his death, was completed by Arthur Cowper Ranyard and published in 1892.
Here Proctor reviews his cosmogony in the light of contemporary discoveries about the solar system. He advances a thesis that other suns and planets are subsidiary sources of energy each supplying heat and light to its satellites and speculates on the dimensions of men from Jupiter.
Appears to be brown morocco, embossed on cover and titled in gilt with decorations on spine; also decorated (floral) endpapers. Illustrated with drawings, colored plates (with Tissue guards) and with a colored frontispiece view of Jupiter on January 31, 1870.
Overall Condition: A very good copy with slight bumping at the spine ends and light corner and edge wear. The pages are secure but the spine is showing signs of cracking at mid-book. Page edges are darkening and pages show some tanning but they are clean, clear and unmarked. One tissue guard is missing and one is missing a small piece. Ex Library with Glendale Lyceum Library Bookplates, stamps, due date paste in and small paper label on spine.= see picture; more images upon request.
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Title: Other Worlds Than Ours: The Plurality Of Worlds Studied Under The Light Of Recent Scientific Researches
Author: Richard Proctor
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: D.Appleton And Company 1883
Size: 5Β½" by 8" * 334 Pages + 2 pp. publisher's ads at rear featuring Astronomy related titles.
Synopsis: Original copyright 1870. Richard Proctor (1837-1888) authored many popularizations of astronomy, as well as a noted parody of Charles Dickens' last and unfinished novel. He had abandoned law for science and made his reputation with an 1865 monograph on "Saturn and His System" and his "Handbook of the Stars" in 1866. In 1881 he founded Knowledge, a popular weekly magazine of science (converted into a monthly in 1885), which had a considerable circulation. In it he wrote on a great variety of subjects, including chess and whist.
He was also the author of the articles on astronomy in the American Cyclopaedia and the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and was well known as a popular lecturer on astronomy in England, America and Australia.
Elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1866, he became honorary secretary in 1872, and contributed eighty-three separate papers to its Monthly Notices. Of these the more noteworthy dealt with the distribution of stars, star clusters and nebulae, and the construction of the sidereal universe. He was an expert in all that related to map-drawing, and published two star-atlases. A chart on an isographic projection, exhibiting all the stars contained in the Bonner Durchmusterung, was designed to show the laws according to which the stars down to the 9-10th magnitude are distributed over the northern heavens. His Theoretical Considerations respecting the Corona (Monthly Notices, xxxi. 184, 254) also deserve mention, as well as his discussions of the rotation of Mars, by which be deduced its period with a probable error of 0.005.
He also vigorously criticized the official arrangements for observing the transits of Venus of 1874 and 1882.
He lectured in America after 1873, lived for a while in Florida after 1887 and died in New York of yellow fever. His largest and most ambitious work, Old and New Astronomy, left unfinished at his death, was completed by Arthur Cowper Ranyard and published in 1892.
Here Proctor reviews his cosmogony in the light of contemporary discoveries about the solar system. He advances a thesis that other suns and planets are subsidiary sources of energy each supplying heat and light to its satellites and speculates on the dimensions of men from Jupiter.
Appears to be brown morocco, embossed on cover and titled in gilt with decorations on spine; also decorated (floral) endpapers. Illustrated with drawings, colored plates (with Tissue guards) and with a colored frontispiece view of Jupiter on January 31, 1870.
Overall Condition: A very good copy with slight bumping at the spine ends and light corner and edge wear. The pages are secure but the spine is showing signs of cracking at mid-book. Page edges are darkening and pages show some tanning but they are clean, clear and unmarked. One tissue guard is missing and one is missing a small piece. Ex Library with Glendale Lyceum Library Bookplates, stamps, due date paste in and small paper label on spine.= see picture; more images upon request.
Secure shipping bubble-wrapped in a new box.
2026--U.S. shipping for this (Two Pounds Media Mail) is $5.22 with tracking.
Multiple items will be combined for the lowest shipping price.
International Shipping cost is based on the destination so inquire before buying. Mobile users must scroll to the bottom and click on 'use desktop site' to bring up the Ask a Question link which sends me an email.
(PLEASE CONTACT ME BEFORE MAKING ANY PAYMENT FROM OUTSIDE THE U.S.)
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Just about all the books are USED books. Some have been used more gently than others. Some have been in libraries and have typical library extras. Some are so old and/or interesting that they are being offered for the sake of preservation regardless of the condition they are in. If the condition of the book is very important to you, please feel free to click the 'Ask seller a question' link and I will tell you more.
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