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[ASTRONOMY]. A sammelband containing four pamphlets, comprising:
WITTY, John. A Treatise of the Sphere, shewing how it is deriv'd from that theory which justly asserts the motion of the earth. London: J. Leake for J. Wyat, 1714. One folding figure, small engraved figures inserted.
ROWE, Capt. Jacob. Navigation improved: in two books. Book I containing an exact description of the fluid quadrant for the latitude... Book II. An essay on the discovery of the longitude, by a new invention of an everlasting horometer. London: John Hooke, 1725. 4 folding engraved plates. Adams & Waters 3035; Crone 446; Taylor II:208.
HALLEY, Edmund. An Account of Mr. Dodwell's Book De cyclis. In a letter to Robert Nelson, Esq. London: G. James for R. Smith, 1715. [2], pp.613-638.
WHISTON, William. The longitude discovered by the eclipses, occultations, and conjunctions of Jupiter's planets... humbly recommended to the... Commissioners appointed... for the discovery of the longitude at sea. London: J. Whiston, 1738-[41]. Tables, many folded, at end. (Some headlines cropped.) Adams & Waters 3727; Crone 481.
Together four works in one, 8o (178 x 112 mm). (Some cropping by binder, with some headlines shaved.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle (bookplates; blind stamp on title; sold Sotheby's London, 10 June 2004, lot 230).
A FINE COLLECTION OF ASTRONOMICAL TRACTS RELATING TO NAVIGATION AND LONGITUDE, following closely on the act of 1714 which offered a reward to whomever could solve the centuries-old problem of finding longitude at sea.
WITTY, John. A Treatise of the Sphere, shewing how it is deriv'd from that theory which justly asserts the motion of the earth. London: J. Leake for J. Wyat, 1714. One folding figure, small engraved figures inserted.
ROWE, Capt. Jacob. Navigation improved: in two books. Book I containing an exact description of the fluid quadrant for the latitude... Book II. An essay on the discovery of the longitude, by a new invention of an everlasting horometer. London: John Hooke, 1725. 4 folding engraved plates. Adams & Waters 3035; Crone 446; Taylor II:208.
HALLEY, Edmund. An Account of Mr. Dodwell's Book De cyclis. In a letter to Robert Nelson, Esq. London: G. James for R. Smith, 1715. [2], pp.613-638.
WHISTON, William. The longitude discovered by the eclipses, occultations, and conjunctions of Jupiter's planets... humbly recommended to the... Commissioners appointed... for the discovery of the longitude at sea. London: J. Whiston, 1738-[41]. Tables, many folded, at end. (Some headlines cropped.) Adams & Waters 3727; Crone 481.
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A FINE COLLECTION OF ASTRONOMICAL TRACTS RELATING TO NAVIGATION AND LONGITUDE, following closely on the act of 1714 which offered a reward to whomever could solve the centuries-old problem of finding longitude at sea.