On the Proper Motion of the Solar System (Galloway, pp. 79-109; Read on April 15, 1847; Published 1848) WITH On the Cause of the Discrepancies Observed by Mr. Baily with the Cavendish Apparatus for Determining the Mean Density of the Earth (Hearn & Whitehead, pp. 217-229 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 137, 1848
London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1847. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME, OF THE EARLIEST DEFINITIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PROPER MOTION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM; Thomas Galloway was a Scottish mathematician; this paper was the most important of his career and won him the prestigious Royal Medal. The ‘Proper..... More