London: Taylor and Francis, 1853. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of an important and consequential paper in which John Couch Adams announces new mathematical methods in dealing with the pertubations of the Moon, and in so doing corrects Laplace's famed 1788 memoir. Laplace studied the Moon's mean rate of motion relative..... More
London: Macmillan, 1878. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF GEORGE DARWIN’S FISSION THEORY OF THE FORMATION OF THE MOON. The history of modern lunar origin theory dates to this paper. A reprint of this paper was published in the 1879 Philosophical Transactions; that paper is sometimes misidentified as a first edition..... More
GORGEOUS HAND-COLORED EARLY 18th c. DOUBLE HEMISPHERE MAP OF THE SURFACE OF THE MOON – based upon the models of Johannes Hevelius and Giovanni Riccioli, this map is the first comparative chart of the Moon. Both spheres illustrate the same side of the Moon and each is topographically detailed, offering..... More
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London: Taylor and Francis, 1873. 1st Edition. First edition, complete extract, of an investigation on the radiation of heat from the moon, the law of its absorption by our atmosphere, and its variation in amount with the lunar phases -- subjects that would occupy Lord Rosse’s attention for the greater..... More