Opera Posthuma Opuscula Astronomica Viz Astronomia Kepleriana Defensa Promota Excerpta Ex

by John Wallis John Flamsteed William Crabtree

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First edition

London: W. Godbid for J. Martyn, 1672-73. First edition, very rare, of the principal published source of the short-lived “pride and boast of British astronomy,” as he was later described by Sir John Herschel. The works published here posthumously, edited by John Wallis, constitute almost all of Horrocks’ writings that survived the vicissitudes of the Civil War and the Great Fire of London. “There is no doubt

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