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Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condición: Very Good. 19 pages, 2 figures. Some foxing. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 13 x 21 cms. Category: Royal Institution; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. HERSCHEL (William), HERSCHEL (Caroline), GAUSS, BODE, BERNOULI, OLBERS, (GAUSS) "Die Elemente der Bahn der Pallas, aus neue berechnet und mitgetheit unterm 3. Marz 1803." in (Bode, J.E., editor) "Astromomisches Jahrbuch fur das Jahr 1806" AND "Astromomisches Jahrbuch fur das Jahr 1807", two volumes bound in one. Berlin, printed in 1803 (with the 1807 vol published in 1804); C.F.E. Spathen. 269pp, two folding plates; plus 268pp, 1 folding plate. [++] Bound in calf-backed marbled boards. The binding is very tight, and the text crisp and bright. There are three one-inch oval rubber stamps from their former home, the library at Harlem. One stamp is on the title page; the other two are on the top and bottom of the text block, though these are half-faded away. VG copy. [++] The first 75pp or so of each volume dedicated to ephemeris/ephemerides of major celestial bodies, using both modern names of the month as well as their Middle High German equivalent, e.g. "Jenner","Brachmnat", "Heumonat", etc.). [++] Edited by Johann Elert Bode (1747 1826).who was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the Titius Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name." [++] There are several good, interesting, early papers on the discovery of Pallas by Olbers, Harding, and Gauss. [++] Some of the contributors in the 1806 (printed 1803) volume include: [++] HERSCHEL, William, "Uber die Natur der Sonnenatmosphare", pp 113-129; [++] OLBERS, Wilhelm, "Astronomische Nachrichten und die Beobachtungen der Pallas, vom 22, Febr, 1803 an.", pp 175-178; [++] HARDING, Karl (1765-1834), discoverer of Juno and Gauss correspondent), "Beobachtung des Durchganges des Merkurs am 9 November 1802 und die Wiederaussingdung der Pallas im Febr. 1803. [++] GAUSS, "Die Elemente der Bahn der Pallas, aus neue berechnet und mitgetheit unterm 3. Marz 1803", which refers to the early date relating to the discovery of Pallas by Olbers, pp 179-181. [++] BRANDES, "Formeln zur Berechnung der Bahn der Meteoren oder Lufterscheinungen (Sternschuppen, Feuerkugeln, etc.)", pp 211-215. BERNOULI, "Uber dier Schwedische Messung des Meridiangrades in Lappland.", pp 219-223. ALSO: [++] (Bode), "Beobachtungen der Ceres und Pallas, auf der Koniglichen Berliner Sternwarte im Jahr 1803", pp 242-244; HERSCHEL, Caroline. "Verzeichniss von 74 Sternen des Flamsteedschen Sternkatalogs.", pp 245-269. [++] ALSO in volume for 1807: HERSCHEL, "Bemerkungen uber den Bau des Himmels.", pp 113-129. Followed by HERSCHEL, "Verzeichniss von funfhundert neuen Nebelslecken und Sternhausenvom 3. Dec. 1788 bis zum 26. Sept. 1802.", pp 129-142; and many others, including Bittner, Wurm, David, Beitler, and Huth.

(London, John Murray, 1820, 1821, 1822). Wirhout wrappers as ectracted from "The Quarterly Journal of Science and the Arts. (The Royal Institution of Great Britain)", vol. IX, X, XI, XII, XIII. Pp. 149-164, 416-426, 177-182, 137-151 a. 366-385, textillustr. First English translation of Olber's famous work on the orbits of comets."In 1796 Olbers discovered a Comet and calculated its parabolic orbit with a new method, simpler than that used by Laplace. In a letter to F.X. von Zach.Olbers asked whether his treatise on this method shouild be printed, and if so, how this could be done. After reading the tratise and using it with excellent results to compute the orbit of the comet of 1779, which had presented great difficulties to many astronomers, von Zach decided to see it through the press himself. It appeared in Weimar in 1797 under the title "Über die leichteste und bequemste Methode, die Bahn eines Kometen aus einigen Beobachtungen zu berechnen" This work immediately established Olbers among the formost astronomers of his time, and his method was used tyhroughout the nineteenth century."(DSB X, p. 198).