Madeira spectroscopic, being a revision of 21 places in the red half of the solar visible spectrum with a Rutherford diffraction grating

by C. Piazzi Smyth

$700 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Edinburgh: W & A. K. Johnston, 1882. 4to, pp. x, 32; frontispiece and 18 plates, 1 in color, vignette title page; original gilt-ruled green cloth, gilt title on upper cover and spine; ex-Boston public, with spine label, bookplate, and deaccession stamp; corners bumped, frontis buffer paper torn, frontis spotted, very good. Smyth was director of the Edinburgh observatory and astronomer royal for Scotland, as well as professor of practical astronomy in the

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