Beitrage Zur Fixsternenkunde 1 Methode Die Scheinbaren Durchmesser Sammtlicher Fixsterne In

by Christian Johann Doppler

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First edition

Prague: Gottlieb Haase & Sons, 1846. First edition, very rare separately-paginated offprint, of this important complement to Doppler’s epoch-making discovery in 1842 of the principle named after him. The three articles comprising this offprint contain extensions of the Doppler principle, as well as the first suggestion to use photographic and photometric methods for the determination of the sizes and distances of

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