866 matching record(s)
D Astronomical Journal
The Astronomical Journal
No. 612 - no. 636; vol. 26 no. 12, April 25, 1910 - vol. 27 nos. 11-12, June 10, 1912. New York. {?Bound as single vol.} University Observatory Collection
[1968-246]
1910-1912
D Dante Alighieri
"La materia della Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri dichiarata in VI tavole da Michalangelo Caetani"
Florence: {...}, 1895.
[Unknown]
1895
D Eelsalu, H.; Villmann, Ch.
"Ars Astronomica in Tartu: A Bust of J. South identified by G. L'E. Turner"
in Rara Cosmographica in Estonia (Tartu, 1978).
[1979-63]
1978
D Giornale di Astronomia
Giornale di Astronomia
Rivista di Informazione Cultura e Didattica della Societa Astronomica Italiana. Vol. 25 no. 2, June 1999, onwards [26.3 missing?].
[2001-24]
1999
D Giornale di Astronomia
Giornale di Astronomia
Rivista di informazione cultura e didattica della Societa Astonomica Italiana. Vol 23 no 3, 1997. Vol 24 nos 2, 3 and 4, 1998. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2002-2]
1997-1998
D Gussmann, Ernst-August (ed.) ; Scholz, Gerhard ; Dick, Wolfgang R.
Der Grosse Refraktor auf dem Potsdamer Telegrafenberg
Acta Historica Astronomiae Vol. 11. Frankfurt am Main : Verlag Harri Deutsch, 2000. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2014-61]
2000
D Hevelius, J.
Selenographia
Photocopy of a seventeenth-century Russian translation from a manuscript in the Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian S.S.R.
[1965-101]
16--?
D J. A.
"Astrology"
Encyclopaedia article, pp. 738-743
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
D Lunar Nomenclature Committee
Collated List of the Lunar Formations Named or Lettered in the Maps of Neison, Schmidt and Madler
{...}: Neill, 1913. University Observatory Collection
[1968-242]
1913
D Macpherson, Hector (Junior)
A Century's Progress in Astronomy
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906. Presented by G. S. Elton
[Unknown]
1906
D McClean, Frank
Spectra of Stars
Two works bound together under the above title: "Comparative Photographic spectra of stars to the 31/2 magnitude", from Phil. Trans. A, vol. 191, 1898; and Spectra of Southern Stars (London, 1898). University Observatory Collection
[1968-317]
1898
D McClean, Frank
"Comparative Photographic spectra of stars to the 31/2 magnitude"
{?offprint} from Phil. Trans. A, vol. 191, 1898. Bound with McClean's Spectra of Southern Stars (London, 1898) under the title 'Spectra of Stars'. University Observatory Collection
[1968-317]
1898
D Muursepp, P. V.
"Astronom ..."
offprint from Actes du XIe Congres International d'Histoire des Sciences, 1967.
[1969-116]
1967
D Nagel, O.
"Rara Astronomica in the Library of the Tartu University: Books Printed before 1600. Addenda & Corrigenda"
in Rara Cosmographica in Estonia (Tartu, 1978).
[1979-63]
1978
D Observatoire de Nice
Observatoire de Nice
Folder of prints. Paris, 1890.
[Unknown]
1890
D R. A. P.
"Astronomy"
Encyclopaedia article, pp. 744-823. Bound with J. A. "Astrology". Shelved under A.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
D Radcliffe Observatory
Astronomical Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford for the epoch 1860
Under the Superintendence of Rev. Robert Main. Oxford: {...}, 1870.
[1974-85]
1870
D Ravetz, J. R.
"The Origins of the Copernican Revolution"
extract from Scientific American, October 1966.
[Unknown]
1966
D Rigaud, S. P.
Some Account of Halley's Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, which contains his investigation of the Orbits of Comets
Oxford, Printed by S. Collingwood, Printer to the University, for J. H. Parker; and Whittaker & Co., London. 1835. Uncut, unfolded, unbound. 14 + 12 copies + 36 complete {??}.
[Unknown]
1835
D Robert, K.; Eelsalu, H.
"Rara Astronomica in the Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences: A Supplement"
in Rara Cosmographica in Estonia (Tartu, 1978).
[1979-63]
1978
D Ryan, W. F.
"John Russell, R. A., and Early Lunar Mapping"
offprint from The Smithsonian Journal of History, vol. I no. I, 1966, pp.27-48.
[1966-308]
1966
D Schur, Wilhelm
"Beitrage zur Geschichte der Astronomie in Hannover"
offprint from Festschrift zur Feier des hundertfunfzigjahrigen Besteheus der Koniglichen Gesellschaft der Wissen-schaften zu Gottingen (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1901). Presented by Prof. H. H. Turner Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1940- ?]
1901
D Smart, W. M.
Text-Book on Spherical Astronomy
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1947.
[Unknown]
1947
D Tankler, H.; Nagel, O.
"British Astronomers' Letters at the Library of Tartu University: A Supplement"
in Rara Cosmographica in Estonia (Tartu), 1978.
[1979-63]
1978
D Tartu Astronomical Observatory
Rara Cosmographica in Estonia
Tartu 1978 Tapmy. Tartu Astronomical Observatory Teated Nr. 57. Contains: H. Tankler & O. Nagel, "British Astronomers' Letters at the Library of Tartu University: A Supplement"; N. Vorobiova, "Un Autographe de J.-N. Delisle dans la Bibliotheque de l'Universite de Tartu"; H. Eelsalu & Ch. Villmann, "Ars Astronomica in Tartu: A Bust of J. South identified by G. L'E. Turner"; G. L'E. Turner, "A Livonian Sundial made for General-superintendent Fischer"; A. Tering, "Daniel von Berthold (?-1710) and his Sundial"; O. Nagel, "Rara Astronomica in the Library of the Tartu University: Books Printed before 1600. Addenda & Corrigenda"; K. Robert & H. Eelsalu, "Rara Astronomica in the Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences: A Supplement".
[1979-63]
1978
D Tering, A.
"Daniel von Berthold (?-1710) and his Sundial"
in Rara Cosmographica in Estonia (Tartu, 1978).
[1979-63]
1978
D Toomer, G. J. (ed.)
Ptolemy's Almagest
Translated and annotated by G. J. Toomer. London: Duckworth, 1984.
[1984-142]
1984
D Turner, G. L'E.
"A Livonian Sundial made for Generalsuperintendent Fischer"
in Rara Cosmographica in Estonia (Tartu, 1978).
[1979-63]
1978
D Vorobiova, N.
"Un Autographe de J. -N. Delisle dans la Bibliotheque de l'Universite de Tartu"
in Rara Cosmographica in Estonia (Tartu, 1978).
[1979-63]
1978
D Zinner, Ernst
"Die Frankische Sternkunde im 11. bis 16. Jahrhundert"
offprint from XXVII. Bericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bamberg, 1934. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[Unknown]
1934
D Zubov, V. P.
"Le soleil dans l'oeuvre scientifique de Leonard de Vinci"
offprint from Le Soleil a la Renaissance, {...}.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
D Zaba, Zbynek
L'orientation astronomique dans l'ancienne egypte, et la precession de l'axe du monde
Prague, 1953. Nakladatelstvi Ceskoslovenske Akademie ved. ("Supplementa" to the Archiv Orientalni of the Ceskoslovenska Akademie ved).
[1961-113]
1953
D (Open Shelf - oversize)Flamsteed, John
The Preface to John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica or British Catalogue of the Heavens (1725)
Edited and introduced by Allan Chapman; based upon a translation by Alison Dione Johnson. Greenwich, London: Published by the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum, 1982. Maritime Monographs and Reports, no. 52. Presented by the Library, National Maritime Museum
[1985-168]
1982
D (Open Shelf - oversize)Flamsteed, John, 1646-1719
The Preface to John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica or British Catalogue of the Heavens (1725)
Edited and introduced by Allan Chapman; based upon a translation by Alison Dione Johnson. Greenwich, London: Published by the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum, 1982. Maritime Monographs and Reports, No. 52. Presented by the Library, National Maritime Museum
[1985-168]
1982
D (Open Shelf - oversize)Galluzzi, Paolo
Galileo : images of the universe from antiquity to the telescope
/ edited by Paolo Galluzzi. Firenze : Giunti ; 2009. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, Mar. 13-Aug. 30, 2009. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2014-1]
2009
D (Open Shelf - oversize)Glass, I. S.
The Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope : History and Heritage
N.p., Mons Mensa, 2015. Presented by the author.
[2019-16]
2015
D (Open Shelf - oversize)Guericke, Otto von
Experimenta Nova (ut Vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio
Halle an der Saale: Janos Stekovics, 2002. Facsimile of 1672 edition. Presented by Dr Berthold Heinecke on behalf of the Otto von Guericke Society. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2003-57]
2002
D (Open Shelf - oversize)Howse, Derek
Francis Place and the Early History of The Greenwich Observatory
New York: Science History Publications, 1975.
[1976-13]
1975
D (Open Shelf - oversize)King, David A.
In Synchrony with the Heavens: Studies in Astronomical Timekeeping and Instrumentation in Medieval Islamic Civilization
2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 2004-2005.
[2005-111]
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D (Open Shelf - oversize)Miotto, E.; Tagliaferri, G.; Tucci, P.
La Strumentazione nella Storia dell'Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera
Milan: Edizioni Unicopli, December 1989. Istituto di Fisica Generale Applicata | Storia della Fisica; Universita degli Studi di Milano. Presented by Professor Pasquale Tucci, Istituto di Fisica Generale Applicata
[1990-79]
1989
D (Open Shelf - oversize)Otto von Guericke Society
Festschrift
Special issue (9/10) of Monumenta Guerickiana (journal of the Otto von Guericke Society). Presented by Dr Berthold Heinecke on behalf of the Otto von Guericke Society.
[2003-59]
[n.d.]
D (Open Shelf)Allen, Richard Hinckley
Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning
New edition (first, 1899). New York: Dover Publications, 1963. Formerly titled: Star-Names and Their Meanings.
[1965-73]
1963
D (Open Shelf)Alphonse X de Castille (1252-1284); Jean de Saxe
Les Tables Alphonsines avec les canons de Jean de Saxe
Edition, traduction et commentaire par Emmanuel Poulle. Paris: Editions du Centre national de la Recherche scientifique, 1984. Contains the Alphonsine Tables with Latin column headings and explanatory text, French and Latin text of the canons of John of Saxony on opposite pages, and introductory remarks and commentary in French.
[1990-98]
1984
D (Open Shelf)Ansari, S. M. R.
"The Early Development of Western Astronomy in India"
in Arthur & Peter Beer (eds.), Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 20, 1979, p.195. (Part of) Proceedings of the Symposium held at Greenwich, 13-18 July 1975.
[1979-137]
1979
D (Open Shelf)Atkinson, R. d'E.
"Eclipse Work on Astrophysics, and on the Moon's Place"
in Arthur & Peter Beer (eds.), Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 20, 1979, pp. 249-252. (Part of) Proceedings of the Symposium held at Greenwich, 13-18 July 1975.
[1979-137]
1975
D (Open Shelf)Aveni, Anthony F.
"Old and New World Naked-Eye Astronomy"
in Kenneth Brecher & Michael Feirtag (eds.), Astronomy of the Ancients (Cambridge, Mass. & London: The MIT Press, 1981), pp. 61-89.
[1981-151]
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D (Open Shelf)Aveni, Anthony F.
"Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica"
in Edwin C. Krupp (ed.), In Search of Ancient Astronomies (London: Chatto & Windus, 1979), pp. 154-185.
[1981-152]
1979
D (Open Shelf)Bakich, Michael E.
The Cambridge Guide to the Constellations
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
[1997-31]
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D (Open Shelf)Beer, Arthur, 1900- (ed.)
Vistas in Astronomy
Vol. 10, 1968. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1968.
[1968-514]
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D (Open Shelf)Beer, Arthur, 1900- ; Beer, Peter (eds.)
Vistas in Astronomy
Vol. 20, 1979. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1979. Contains "The Origins, Achievement and Influence of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich: 1675-1975 (Proceedings of the Symposium held at Greenwich, 13-18 July 1975)".
[1979-137]
1979
D (Open Shelf)Bennett, J. A.
Church, State and Astronomy in Ireland: 200 Years of Armagh Observatory
Armagh: The Armagh Observatory in association with The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, 1990.
[1990-141]
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D (Open Shelf)Bensaude, Joachim
L'Astronomie nautique au Portugal a l'epoque des grandes decouvertes
Reprint of the Berne 1912/1917 edition. Amsterdam: Israel/Meridian, 1967. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1968-109]
1967
D (Open Shelf)Bergh, G. van den
Eclipses in the Second Millennium B.C. (-1600 to -1207) and How to Compute Them in a Few Minutes
Haarlem: H. D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon N. V., 1954. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1981-65]
1954
D (Open Shelf)Blacker, Carmen; Loewe, Michael (eds.)
Ancient Cosmologies
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1975. Articles by J. M. Plumley, W. G. Lambert, Rabbi Louis Jacobs, Joseph Needham, R. F. Gombrich, Edith Jachimowicz, H. R. Ellis Davidson, G. E. R. Lloyd, Philip Grierson.
[1982-60]
1975
D (Open Shelf)Blunck, Jurgen
Der Rote Planet im Karten Bild: 200 Jahre Marskartographie von Herschel, Beer und Madler bis zur CD
Konzeption und Katalog: Jurgen Blunck unter Mitwirkung von Lothar Zogner. Gotha: Justus Perthes Verlag, 1993. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz | Ausstellungskataloge, Neue Folge 7.
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D (Open Shelf)Boll, Franz
Sternglaube und Sterndeutung
Leipzig: Teubner, 1926.
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1926
D (Open Shelf)Bosler, Jean
L'Evolution des Etoiles
Recueil des Conferences - Rapports de Documentation sur la Physique. Vol. 8, 1re serie - conferences 19, 20. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1923. University Observatory Collection Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1968-245]
1923
D (Open Shelf)Brandt, John C.
"Pictographs and Petroglyphs of the Southwest Indians"
in Kenneth Brecher & Michael Feirtag (eds.), Astronomy of the Ancients (Cambridge, Mass. & London: The MIT Press, 1981), pp. 25-38.
[1981-151]
1981
D (Open Shelf)Brecher, Kenneth
"Sirius Enigmas"
in Kenneth Brecher & Michael Feirtag (eds.), Astronomy of the Ancients (Cambridge, Mass. & London: The MIT Press, 1981), pp. 91-115.
[1981-151]
1981
D (Open Shelf)Brecher, Kenneth; Feirtag, Michael (eds.)
Astronomy of the Ancients
Cambridge, Mass. & London: The MIT. Press, 1981. (Articles first published in Technology Review, December 1977; first edition in book form, 1979; this first paperback edition, 1981). Articles by Philip Morrison, John A. Eddy, John C. Brandt, Sharon Gibbs, Anthony F. Aveni, Kenneth Brecher, Owen Gingerich, Jerome Y. Lettvin, & Harald A. T. Reiche.
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D (Open Shelf)Brody, Judit
The Enigma of Sunspots : A story of discovery and scientific revolution
Edinburgh : Floris Books, 2002.
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D (Open Shelf)Brown, Basil
Astronomical- Atlases, Maps & Charts. An Historical & General Guide
London: Search Publishing Company, 1932.
[1933- ]
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D (Open Shelf)Bruck, H. A.
The Royal Observatory Edinburgh 1822-1972
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, n.d. [1972].
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D (Open Shelf)Campano, da Novara, d. 1296
Campanus of Novara and Medieval Planetary Theory: Theorica Planetarum
Edited with an introd., English translation, and commentary, by Francis S. Benjamin, Jr. and G. J. Toomer. London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971.
[1972-31]
1971
D (Open Shelf)Casulleras, Josep; Samso, Julio (eds.)
From Baghdad to Barcelona: Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences in Honour of Prof. Juan Vernet
Two volumes. Barcelona: Instituto "Millas Vallicrosa" de Historia de la Ciencia Arabe, 1996. Anuari de Filologia (Universitat de Barcelona) XIX (1996) B-2. (Title also in Catalan). Presented by the publisher Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1996-173]
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D (Open Shelf)Centre International de Synthese
Avant, Avec, Apres Copernic: La Representation de l'Univers et ses Consequences Epistemologiques
XXXIe Semaine de Synthese, 1-7 Juin 1973. Paris: Blanchard, 1975. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1976-3]
1975
D (Open Shelf)Chapman, Allan
"Astronomia Practica: The Principal Instruments and their Uses at the Royal Observatory"
in Arthur & Peter Beer (eds.), Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 20, 1979, pp. 141-156. (Part of) Proceedings of the Symposium held at Greenwich, 13-18 July 1975.
[1979-137]
1979
D (Open Shelf)Chauvin, Michael
Hokuloa: the British 1874 Transit of Venus Expedition to Hawai'I
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 2004. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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D (Open Shelf)Clark, David H.; Stephenson, F. Richard
The Historical Supernovae
Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1977.
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D (Open Shelf)Cohen, I. Bernard
"Newtonian Astronomy"
in Arthur & Peter Beer (eds.), Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 20, 1979, pp. 85-98. (Part of) Proceedings of the Symposium held at Greenwich, 13-18 July 1975.
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1979
D (Open Shelf)Comes, Merce; Mielgo, Honorino; Samso, Julio (eds.)
"Ochava Espera" y "Astrofisica": Textos y Estudios sobre las Fuentes Arabes de la Astronomia de Alfonso X
Barcelona: Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion Internacional / Instituto de Cooperacion con el Mundo Arabe [&] Universidad de Barcelona / Instituto "Millas Vallicrosa" de Historia de la Ciencia Arabe, 1990. Presented by the publisher
[1991-99]
1990
D (Open Shelf)Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
Three Copernican Treatises: The Commentariolus of Copernicus, The Letter against Werner, The Narratio prima of Rheticus.
Translated with introd. and notes by Edward Rosen. 2nd ed., rev., with an annotated Copernicus bibliography, 1939-1958. New York: Dover, 1959.
[1964-19]
1959
D (Open Shelf)Cotter, Charles H.
"The Development of Nautical Astronomical Inspection Tables in the Period from 1770 to 1919"
in Arthur & Peter Beer (eds.), Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 20, 1979, pp. 245-247. (Part of) Proceedings of the Symposium held at Greenwich, 13-18 July 1975.
[1979-137]
1975
D (Open Shelf)Cullen, Christopher
Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China: The Zhou bi suan jing
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Needham Research Institute Studies I. Presented by Professor G. L'E. Turner
[1999-3]
1996
D (Open Shelf)Debarbat, S.
"Des Connoysances de Jacques II d'Angleterre en Matiere d'Astronomie"
in Arthur & Peter Beer (eds.), Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 20, 1979, pp. 79-80. (Part of) Proceedings of the Symposium held at Greenwich, 13-18 July 1975.
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1979
D (Open Shelf)Dekker, Elly
Illustrating the Phaenomena : Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013
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D (Open Shelf)Dewhirst, D. W.
"The Greenwich-Cambridge Axis"
in Arthur & Peter Beer (eds.), Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 20, 1979, pp. 109-111. (Part of) Proceedings of the Symposium held at Greenwich, 13-18 July 1975.
[1979-137]
1979
D (Open Shelf)Diaz-Fajardo, Montse
La Teoria de la Trepidacion en un Astronomo Marroqui del Siglo XV
Estudio y edicion critica del Kitab al-adwar fi tasyir al-anwar (parte primera) de Abu 'Abd Allah al-Baqqar. Anuari de Filologia (Universitat de Barcelona) XXIII (2001) B4. Instituto "Millas Vallicrosa" de Historia de la Ciencia Arabe: Barcelona. 2001 Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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D (Open Shelf)Dicks, D. R.
Early Greek Astronomy to Aristotle
London: Thames and Hudson, 1970
[Unknown]
1970
D (Open Shelf)Dix, John
"Zenith Instruments at Greenwich"
in Arthur & Peter Beer (eds.), Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 20, 1979, pp. 171-172. (Part of) Proceedings of the Symposium held at Greenwich, 13-18 July 1975.
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1975
D (Open Shelf)Donnelly, Marian Card
A Short History of Observatories
Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon Books, 1973.
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1973
D (Open Shelf)Drake, Stillman
Copernicus: Philosophy and Science Bruno - Kepler - Galileo
Norwalk, Connecticut: Burndy Library, 1973. Missing, December 2018.
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D (Open Shelf)Dreyer, J. L. E.
A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler
2nd ed., revised with a foreword by W. H. Stahl. New York & London: Dover, 1953. Formerly titled "History of the Planetary Systems from Thales to Kepler".
[1963-150]
1953
D (Open Shelf)Dunn, Richard, 1966-
The telescope : a short history
London : National Maritime Museum, 2009. Published in association with Royal Observatory Greenwich. Presented by National Maritime Museum.
2009
D (Open Shelf)Eddy, John A.
"Medicine Wheels and Plains Indian Astronomy"
in Kenneth Brecher & Michael Feirtag (eds.), Astronomy of the Ancients (Cambridge, Mass. & London: The MIT Press, 1981), pp. 1-24.
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D (Open Shelf)Eddy, John A.
"Archaeo-Astronomy of North America"
in Edwin C. Krupp (ed.), In Search of Ancient Astronomies (London: Chatto & Windus, 1979), pp. 127-153.
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1979
D (Open Shelf)Elia, Pasquale M. d', 1890-
Galileo in China; Relations through the Roman College between Galileo and the Jesuit Scientist-Missionaries (1610-1640)
Translated by Rufus Suter and Matthew Sciascia. Foreword by Donald H. Menzel. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960.
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1960
D (Open Shelf)Evans, James, 1948-
The history & practice of ancient astronomy
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998. Presented by Keith Powell.
1998
D (Open Shelf)Farrell, Sister Maureen
"William Whiston: The Longitude Man"
in Arthur & Peter Beer (eds.), Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 20, 1979, pp. 131-134. (Part of) Proceedings of the Symposium held at Greenwich, 13-18 July 1975.
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D (Open Shelf)Fodera Serio, Giorgia; Chinnici, Ileana
L'Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo: La Storia e gli Strumenti
Palermo: Flaccovio Editore, 1997. Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G. S. Vaiana. Presented by Dr S. Johnston Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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D (Open Shelf)Forbes, Eric G.
"The Origins of the Greenwich Observatory"
in Arthur & Peter Beer (eds.), Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 20, 1979, pp. 39-50. (Part of) Proceedings of the Symposium held at Greenwich, 13-18 July 1975.
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1979
D (Open Shelf)Fox, Philip
Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Museum
An Account of the Optical Planetarium and a Brief Guide to the Museum. September 1933. The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. Chicago. Gunther Loan Collection (*)
[1940-6/ ]
1933
D (Open Shelf)Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems - Ptolemaic & Copernican
Translated by Stillman Drake; foreword by Albert Einstein. Paperback edition (first edition, 1953). Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1962.
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D (Open Shelf)Galileo
Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
Including The Starry Messenger (1610); Letters of Sunspots (1613); Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615); and excerpts from The Assayer (1623). Translated with an introduction and notes by Stillman Drake. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1957.
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1957
D (Open Shelf)Gibbs, Sharon
"The First Scientific Instruments"
in Kenneth Brecher & Michael Feirtag (eds.), Astronomy of the Ancients (Cambridge, Mass. & London: The MIT Press, 1981), pp. 39-59.
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1981
D (Open Shelf)Gingerich, Owen
"The Basic Astronomy of Stonehenge"
in Kenneth Brecher & Michael Feirtag (eds.), Astronomy of the Ancients (Cambridge, Mass. & London: The MIT Press, 1981), pp. 117-132.
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D (Open Shelf)Gingerich, Owen
The Great Copernicus Chase and Other Adventures in Astronomical History
Cambridge, Mass. & Cambridge, England: Sky Publishing Corporation & Cambridge University Press, 1992. (Articles reprinted from various journals, mainly Sky and Telescope).
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1992
D (Open Shelf)Gingerich, Owen
"The Development of Astronomical Theory and Practice from the 17th to the 20th Centuries"
in Arthur & Peter Beer (eds.), Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 20, 1979, pp. 1-9. (Part of) Proceedings of the Symposium held at Greenwich, 13-18 July 1975.
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1979
D (Open Shelf)Goldstein, Bernard R.
"Refraction, Twilight, and the Height of the Atmosphere"
in Arthur & Peter Beer (eds.), Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 20, 1979, pp. 105-107. (Part of) Proceedings of the Symposium held at Greenwich, 13-18 July 1975.
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D (Open Shelf)Golvers, Noel (ed.)
The Astronomia Europaea of Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (Dillingen, 1687): Text, Tranlation, Notes and Commentaries
Monumenta Serica Monograph Series, v. 28. Nettetal: Steyler Verlag, 1993.
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D (Open Shelf)Golvers, Noel, 1950-
Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623-1688) and the Chinese heaven : the composition of the astronomical corpus, its diffusion and reception in the European republic of letters
Leuven : Leuven University Press, c2003.
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2003
D (Open Shelf)Greaney, Susan
Set in stone? How our ancestors saw Stonehenge
London : Scala and English Heritage, 2013. 2 copies. Presented by English Heritage.
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2013
D (Open Shelf)Green, Dr. A.J.
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D (Open Shelf) altBeer, Arthur (ed.)
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D (Open Shelf) altHammer, Franz
"Problems and Difficulties in Editing Kepler's Collected Works"
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D (Open Shelf) altHellman, C. Doris
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"Wilhelm IV, Tycho Brahe, and Eberhard Baldewein -- the Missing Instruments of the Kassel Observatory"
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"On the History of the Aurora Borealis"
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D (Open Shelf) altMcKenna, Susan M. P.
"Astronomy in Ireland from 1780"
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D (Open Shelf) altMichkovitch, Voislav V.
"A Historical Study on the Prismatic Astrolabe"
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D (Open Shelf) altMusto, David F.
"A Survey of the American Observatory Movement, 1800-1850"
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D (Open Shelf) altPedersen, Olaf
"The Life and Work of Peter Nightingale"
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D (Open Shelf) altPetri, Winfried
"Tibetan Astronomy"
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D (Open Shelf) altPrice, Derek J. de Solla
"An International Catalogue of Scientific Instruments made before A.D. 1500. A Preliminary Report"
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D (Open Shelf) altPrzypkowski, Tadeusz
"The Art of Sundials in Poland from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century"
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D (Open Shelf) altRonchi, Vasco
"The General Influence of the Development of Optics in the Seventeenth Century on Science and Technology"
in Arthur Beer (ed.), Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 9, 1967, pp. 123-133. (Part of the Hamburg Symposium, 1964).
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D (Open Shelf) altRybka, Eugeniusz
"The Influence of the Cracow Intellectual Climate at the end of the Fifteenth Century upon the Origin of the Heliocentric System"
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D (Open Shelf) altSticker, Bernhard
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D (Open Shelf) altTumanyan, Benik E.
"On the History of Armenian Astronomy"
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D (Open Shelf) altZinner, Ernst
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D (Stack - oversize)Adams, John Couch
The Scientific Papers
Edited by William Grylls Adams, with a memoir by J. W. L. Glaisher. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1896-1900. Together with cutting from the Cambridge University Reporter, "Report of the proceedings at a meeting for placing a memorial in Westminster Abbey of John Couch Adams", pasted in front of vol. I. University Observatory Collection.
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D (Stack - oversize)Airy, George Biddell
Numerical Lunar Theory
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D (Stack - oversize)Airy, George Biddell
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D (Stack - oversize)Albricus
Albrici philosophi de Deorum imaginibus Liber
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D (Stack - oversize)Anonymous
"Astronomy"
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D (Stack - oversize)Anonymous
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D (Stack - oversize)Aratus
Arati phaInomenon fragmentum, Germanico Caesare interprete. Eiusdem Phaenomena graece, cum interpretatione latina [two works]
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D (Stack - oversize)Aspin, Jehoshaphat
A Familiar Treatise on Astronomy, explaining the General Phenomena of the Celestial Bodies. Written expressly to accompany Urania's Mirror or a View of the Heavens; consisting of thirty-two cards, on which are represented all the Constellations visible in the British Empire. On a plan perfectly original; Designed by a Lady
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D (Stack - oversize)Bailly, Jean Sylvain
Histoire de l'Astronomie Moderne depuis la fondation de l'Ecole d'Alexandrie, jusqu'a l'epoque de M. D. CC. XXX.
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D (Stack - oversize)Bailly, Jean Sylvain
Traite de l'Astronomie Indienne et Orientale, ouvrage qui peut servir de suite a l'Histoire de l'Astronomie ancienne
A Paris, chez Debure l'aine, Libraire de la Bibliotheque du Roi & de l'Academie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres, quai des Augustins, & au mois d'Avril 1787, rue Serpente, hotel Ferrand, 6.
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1787
D (Stack - oversize)Bailly, Jean Sylvain
Astronomie de Bailly
In five volumes: "Histoire de l'Astronomie Moderne" (3 vols.), 1785; "Traite de l'Astronomie Indienne et Orientale", 1787; "Histoire de l'Astronomie Ancienne", 1781. Paris: de Bure, 1781-87. 4to. [See also Voiron for additional volume to 1810/11]. Each volume inscribed "Stephen Freeman 1801. 5 vols popoa bound"
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D (Stack - oversize)Bailly, Jean Sylvain
Histoire de l'Astronomie Ancienne, depuis son origine Jusqu'a l'etablissement de l'Ecole d'Alexandrie;
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D (Stack - oversize)Baily, Francis
"The Catalogues of Ptolemy, Ulugh Beigh, Tycho Brahe, Halley, Hevelius, Deduced from the best Authorities. With various notes and corrections and a Preface to each Catalogue. To which is added The Synonym of each Star, in the Catalogues of Flamsteed or Lacaille, as far as the same can be ascertained"
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D (Stack - oversize)Bauschinger, Julius
Die Bahnbestimmung der Himmelskorper
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D (Stack - oversize)Bayer, J.
Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo deline ata, aereis laminis expressa
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D (Stack - oversize)Bayer, Joannes
Vranometria, Omnivm Asterismorvm Continens Schemata, Nova Methodo Delineata, Aereis Laminis Expressa
Ioannis Bayeri Rhainani I.C.; AM MDCIII. (Colophon at end:) Avgvstae Vindelicorvm Excvdit Christophorvs Mangvs. Tabvlas In Aes Incidit Alexander Mair. Anno Christi M.DCIII. Cum Priuilegio Caes. perpetuo. [Augsburg, 1603]. University Observatory Collection
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D (Stack - oversize)Beer, Wilhelm; Madler, Johann Heinrich
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D (Stack - oversize)Bergh, G. van den
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D (Stack - oversize)Bessel, F. W.
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D (Stack - oversize)Bessel, Fred. Wil.
Fundamenta Astronomiae pro anno MDCCLV deducta ex observationibus viri incomparabilis James Bradley in specula astronomica Grenovicensi per annos 1750-1762 Institutis
Regiomonti in commissis apud Frid. Nicolovium. 1818. F ix (15 Thl). Folio. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (D.105.20)
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D (Stack - oversize)Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm
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D (Stack - oversize)Bohlin, Karl
Sur la Reduction elementaire du probleme des trois corps
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D (Stack - oversize)Bond, G. P.
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D (Stack - oversize)Boss, Lewis
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D (Stack - oversize)Bradley, James
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D (Stack - oversize)Brahe, Tycho
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D (Stack - oversize)Bredikhine, Th.
Etudes sur l'origine des meteores cosmiques et la formation de leurs courants
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D (Stack - oversize)Burberry, Peter (ed.)
"The Sun"
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D (Stack - oversize)Cambridge University Reporter
"Report of the proceedings at a meeting for placing a memorial in Westminster Abbey of John Couch Adams"
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D (Stack - oversize)Copernicus
Copernicus, An International Journal of Astronomy
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D (Stack - oversize)Copernicus, Nicholas
Opera Omnia
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D (Stack - oversize)Copernicus, Nicholas
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D (Stack - oversize)Copernicus, Nicholas
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D (Stack - oversize)Darwin, George Howard
"Periodic orbits"
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D (Stack - oversize)Delambre
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D (Stack - oversize)Draper, Henry
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D (Stack - oversize)Dreyer, I. L. E. (ed.)
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D (Stack - oversize)Fabry, Louis
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D (Stack - oversize)Ferguson, James
Plates illustrative of Ferguson's Astronomy; and of the Twelve Supplementary Chapters, by David Brewster, LL. D.
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D (Stack - oversize)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776 ; Brewster, David
Plates illustrative of Ferguson's Astronomy; and of the twelve supplementary chapters
Edinburgh: : Printed for John Ballantyne and Co., Oliphant and Balfour, and Brown and Crombie, Edinburgh; and for John Murray, and Robert Scholey, London., 1811. Vol. 3 of "Ferguson's astronomy, explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles. : With notes and supplementary chapters." / By David Brewster. Millburn bequest.
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D (Stack - oversize)Franz, Julius
Die Konstanten der physischen Libration des Mondes abgeleitet aus Schluters Konigsberger Heliometer-Beobachtungen
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D (Stack - oversize)Gauss, Carl Freidrich
Theoria Motus Corporum Coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium
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D (Stack - oversize)Goldstein, B. R.
The Arabic Version of Ptolemy's Planetary Hypotheses
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D (Stack - oversize)Gregory, David
Astronomiae Physicae et Geometricae Elementa
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Astronomiae physicae et Geometricae Elementa
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D (Stack - oversize)Guarini, Guarino
Leges Temporum, et Planetarum quibus Civilis, et Astronomici Temporis Lapsus Primi Mobilis, et Errantium Decursus Ordinantur atque in Tabulas Digeruntur ad Longitudinem Taurinensem gr. 30. 46' et Latitudinem gr. 44. 49' ...
Augustae Taurinorum: Ex Typographia Haeredum Caroli Ianelli, 1678. Bound with the same author's Caelestis Mathematicae ..., between the separately paginated Pars Prima and Pars Secunda; Leges Temporum itself has three pagination sequences (6+56+78).
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D (Stack - oversize)Guarini, Guarino
Caelestis Mathematicae pars prima, in qua leges antiquae, et novae temporum, ac planetarum digeruntur, et in tabulas ordinantur, Juxta observationes tum veteres celebriorum Caeli inspectorum
Mediolani: Ex Typographia Ludouici Montiae, 1683. Also bound with it but separately paginated, Caelestis Mathematicae Pars secunda | Geometricas umbrarum continens leges, ...; and bound between the two parts, the same author's Leges Temporum, et Planetarum ... (1678) [see separate entry for latter]. Folio. Formerly the property of the Biblioteca Riccardi
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D (Stack - oversize)Gylden, Hugo
Nouvelles recherches sur les series employees dans les theories des planetes
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D (Stack - oversize)Gylden, Hugo
Traite analytique des orbites absolues des huit planetes principales
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D (Stack - oversize)Hagen, J. G.
La Rotation de la Terre - Ses Preuves Mecaniques Anciennes Et Nouvelle
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D (Stack - oversize)Hagen, J. G.
La Rotation de la Terre - Ses Preuves Mecaniques Anciennes Et Nouvelle
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D (Stack - oversize)Hagen, Johann Georg
Die veranderlichen Sterne
Freiburg: Herdesche, 1913. University Observatory Collection Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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D (Stack - oversize)Harkness, W.
The Solar Parallax and its related constants including the figure and density of the Earth
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D (Stack - oversize)Herschel, Sir William
The Scientific Papers of Sir William Herschel Knt. Guelp., LL.D., F.R.S. including early papers hitherto unpublished
Collected and edited under the direction of a joint committee of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society. With a biographical introduction compiled mainly from unpublished material by J. L. E. Dreyer. Two volumes. London: Published by The Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society and sold by Dulau & Co., 1912.
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D (Stack - oversize)Hevelius, Johann
Selenographia
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D (Stack - oversize)Ho Peng Yoke
The Astronomical Chapters of the Chin Shu, with amendments full translation and annotations
Paris: Mouton & Co., 1966. Published with the collaboration of the University of Malaya Press Kuala Lumpar.
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D (Stack - oversize)Hornsby, Thomas
The Observations of the Reverend Thomas Hornsby, D.D. Savilian Professor of Astronomy and Radcliffe Observer Made with the Transit Instrument and Quadrant at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford in the Years 177 to 1798
London: Oxford University Press, 1932. Reduced by H. Knox-Shaw, J. Jackson and W. H. Robinson
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D (Stack - oversize)Hyginus, C. Julius
C. Julii Hygini Augusti Liberti Fabularum Liber, ad omnium poetarum lectionem mire necessarius, & nunc denuo excusus. Eiusdem poeticon astronomicon Libri quatuor. Quibus accesserunt similis argumenti, ...
Basiliae, per Joannem Heruagium, Anno 1549. Mens Martio. Small folio (8vo page notation). [For added works by Palaephatus, F. Fulgentius Placiades, Phurnutus, Albricus, Aratus, and Proclus see separate entries]. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1549
D (Stack - oversize)Holzl, M. E.
Tractatus de meteoris historico-philosophicus quem cum Parergis ex Universa Philosophia in Alma & Archi-Episcopali Universitate Salisburgensi
Praeside P. Coelestino Romoser, ... Decano. Publice propugnabit Nobilis, Ornatissimus ac Doctissimus Dominus ... Anno 1700 Die 27 Julii. Salisburgi, Typis Joannis Baptistae Mayr, Typographi Aulico - Academici. [1700]. Folio.
[1956-126]
1700
D (Stack - oversize)Jaegermann, R.
Mechanische Untersuchungen uber Cometenformen
St Petersburg, 1903. University Observatory Collection Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1968-301]
1903
D (Stack - oversize)Kennedy, E. S.
"A Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables"
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, new series vol. 46 part 2, May 1956, pp. 123-177. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1956. 2 copies.
[1959-106] & [1976-30]
1956
D (Stack - oversize)Kern, Hermann (ed.)
Kalenderbauten: Fruhe Astronomische Grossgerate aus Indien, Mexico und Peru
Munchen: Die Neue Sammlung, n.d. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017. (Not listed under this number in handwritten Accessions Register.)
[1976-81]
[n.d.]
D (Stack - oversize)Khuwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa, fl. 813-846 ; Neugebauer, O.
The Astronomical Tables of al-Khwarizmi
Translation with Commentaries of the Latin Version edited by H. Suter supplemented by Corpus Christi College MS 283. Copenhagen, 1962 (Historisk-Filosofiske Skrifter Dan. Vid. Selsk. 4, no. 2).
[1968-91]
1962
D (Stack - oversize)Klein, Hermann J.; McClure, Edmund
Star Atlas
London: S.P.C.K., 1893. University Observatory Collection
[1968-217]
1893
D (Stack - oversize)Klinkerfues, W.
Theoretische Astronomie
2nd edition von H. Buchholz. Braunschweig: {...}, 1899. University Observatory Collection
[1968-305]
1899
D (Stack - oversize)Knott, George
Observations of twenty-three variable stars
By the late George Knott. Edited by H. H. Turner. London: Royal Astronomical Society, 1899.
[Unknown]
1899
D (Stack - oversize)Kreamer, Christine Mullen
African Cosmos : Stellar Arts
Washington D.C.; New York : Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Monacelli Press, 2012. Received September 2013.
[2014-154]
2012
D (Stack - oversize)La Lande, Jerome
Astronomie par Jerome le Francais
Third, revised edition. Three volumes. Paris, 1792. University Observatory Collection
[1968-307]
1792
D (Stack - oversize)Langdon, S.; Fotheringham, J. K.
The Venus tablets of Ammizaduga. A solution of Babylonian chronology by means of the Venus observations of the First Dynasty
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1928. University Observatory Collection
[1968-309]
1928
D (Stack - oversize)Langley, S. P.
Researches on solar heat and its absorption by the Earth's atmosphere: A report of the Mount Witney Expedition
Washington: {...}, 1884. University Observatory Collection
[1968-310]
1884
D (Stack - oversize)Laplace, P. S.
Traite de Mecanique celeste
Five volumes. Paris, 1799. University Observatory Collection
[1968-312]
1799
D (Stack - oversize)Lassell, W.
"Description of an Observatory erected at Starfield, near Liverpool"
offprint from Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. XII, 1841, pp. 265-272 and plates V-VI. Read April 7, 1841 (dated at end December 5, 1840).
[1992-75/1]
1841
D (Stack - oversize)Lassell, William
"Observations of the Nebula of Orion, made at Valletta, with a Twenty-foot Equatoreal"
offprint from Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. XXIII, 1854, pp. 53-62 and plates I-III. Read January 13, 1854.
[1992-75/2]
1854
D (Stack - oversize)Liapounov, M.; Struve, O.
Observations de la grande nebuleuse d'Orion, faites a Cazan et a Poulkova
St Petersburg, 1862. University Observatory Collection
[1968-313]
1862
D (Stack - oversize)Long, Roger
Astronomy, in Five Books
By Roger Long, D.D. F.R.S. Master of Pembroke Hall in the University of Cambridge. Two volumes. Cambridge, Printed for the Author, 1742. 1764. 4to. (Volume II issued 1785). Lent by the Hope Department of Entomology, 1936
[1937-45]
1742-1764
D (Stack - oversize)Long, Roger
Astronomy
2 volumes. Cambridge, 1742 and 1744.
[1931-6]
1742-1744
D (Stack - oversize)Lovell, Bernard
Exploring the Universe
Jodrell Bank, Cheshire: University of Manchester Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, 1964. Photocopy of brochure describing the radio telescopes at Jodrell Bank.
[1980-246]
1964
D (Stack - oversize)Malin, Stuart R.; Roy, Archie E.; Beer, Peter (eds.)
Longitude Zero 1884-1984
Proceedings of an International Symposium held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, 9-13 July 1984 to mark the centenary of the adoption of the Greenwich Meridian. Vol. 28 parts 1/2, 1985 (Special Issue, The Longitude Zero Symposium 1984) of Vistas in Astronomy: An International Review Journal. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1985.
[1985-225]
1985
D (Stack - oversize)Marshack, Alexander
The Roots of Civilization
London: Weidenfeld, 1972.
[1972-209]
1972
D (Stack - oversize)McClean, Frank
Spectra of Southern Stars
London: {...}, 1898. Bound with McClean's "Comparative Photographic spectra of stars to the 31/2 magnitude" (Phil. Trans. A, 1898) under the title 'Spectra of Stars'. University Observatory Collection
[1968-317]
1898
D (Stack - oversize)Mount Wilson & Palomar Observatories
Frontiers in Space
Official publication of the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories. Jointly operated by the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the California Institute of Technology. Pasadena: California Institute of Technology, n.d. [c.1960]. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[Unknown]
1960?
D (Stack - oversize)Mukhtar, Ahmad
Riyad al-Mukhtar. Mirat al-miqat wa-l-adwar ma'a majmu'at al-ashkal
[Ghazi] Ahmad Mukhtar [Pasha]. Bulaq, 1303 [A.H. = 1885/6 A.D.]; plates, 1303, and supplement, 1304. Two volumes.
[1968-48]
1885?
D (Stack - oversize)Museum Boerhaave
Groeten uit de Kosmos: Buitenaards gevaar: feit of fictie?
Leiden: Museum Boerhaave, 1998. (Accompanying an exhibition of the same name in the Museum Boerhaave, May 21 to September 27, 1998). Presented by the publisher Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1998-136]
1998
D (Stack - oversize)Neugebauer, O.
Studies in Byzantine Astronomical Terminology
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, new series vol. 50 part 2, January 1960. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1960.
[1960-103]
1960
D (Stack - oversize)Newcomb, Simon
Researches on the Motion of the Moon
Washington: {...}, 1878. University Observatory Collection
[1968-330]
1878
D (Stack - oversize)Newcomb, Simon
Investigation of Inequalities in the Motion of the Moon Produced by the Action of the Planets
Assisted by Frank E. Ross. Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1907. University Observatory Collection
[1968-331]
1907
D (Stack - oversize)Norton, Arthur P.; Inglis, J. Gall
A Star Atlas and Reference Handbook (Epoch 1950) for Students and Amateurs, Covering the whole Star Sphere and showing over 9000 Stars, Nebulae, and Clusters; with Descriptive Lists of Objects mostly suitable for Small Telescopes; Notes on Planets, Star Nomenclature, &c.
14th ed. Edinburgh: Gall and Inglis, 1959.
[Unknown]
1959
D (Stack - oversize)Palaephatus
Palaephati de fabulosis narrationibus, Liber I
Bound (as issued) with C. Julius Hyginus, Fabularum Liber. Basiliae, per Joannem Heruagium, Anno 1549. Mens Martio. [Details taken from Hyginus title page]. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1549
D (Stack - oversize)Pannekoek, A.
Untersuchungen uber den Lichtwechsel Algols
Leiden: L. Van Nifterik, 1902. University Observatory Collection
[1968-347]
1902
D (Stack - oversize)Pearson, W.
Plates belonging to the Second Volume of An Introduction to Practical Astronomy. By the Rev. W. Pearson, LL.D. F.R.S. etc.
Plates captioned as follows: J. Farey. delt. / E. Turrell. sc. / London. Published for the Author. Novr. 1st. 1828. [Vol. II published 1829; see entry for main work].
[Unknown]
1828
D (Stack - oversize)Pearson, W.
An Introduction to Practical Astronomy: Containing tables recently computed for facilitating the reduction of celestial observations
Three volumes. London: Longmans, 1824 and 1829. Vol. III, the Plates volume, is a companion to vol. II (dated 1829), though the individual plates are dated as published November 1, 1828. University Observatory Collection
[1968-348]
1824-1829
D (Stack - oversize)Petau [Petavius], Dionysius (ed.)
Uranologion sive systema variorum authorum, qui de sphaera, ac sideribus, eorumque motibus Graece commentatisunt. Sunt autem horum libri. Gemini [&] Achillis Tatii "Isagoge ad Arati Phaenomena". Hipparchi libri tres, ad Aratum. Ptolemaei "de apparentiis." Theodori Gazae "de Mensibus". Maximi Isaaci Argyri duplex [&] S. Andreae Cretensis "Computi". Omnia vel Graece ac Latine nunc primum edita, vel ante non edita. Cura & studio ... Aurelianensis e Societate Jesu. Quod esse potest luculentissimum Auctarium Operis de Doctrina Temporum. Accesserunt Variarum Dissertationum libri octo, ad authores illos intelligendos imprimis utiles, codem authore
Lutetiae Parisiorum, sumptibus Sebstiani Cramoisy, via Jacobaea, sub Ciconiis. 1630. Folio. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (D.105.19)
[1962-65/ ]
1630
D (Stack - oversize)Phurnutus
Phurnuti De natura deorum, sive poeticarum fabularuro allegoriis, speculatio
Bound (as issued) with C. Julius Hyginus, Fabularum Liber. Basiliae, per Joannem Heruagium, Anno 1549. Mens Martio. [Details taken from Hyginus title page]. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1549
D (Stack - oversize)Pickering, William
"Lunar and Hawaiian physical features compared"
Memoirs of the American Academy, vol. XIII, 1906. University Observatory Collection Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1968-351]
1906
D (Stack - oversize)Pillinger, Colin; Pillinger, Judith
Mars in their Eyes: Exhibition Catalogue
[Swindon]: Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, 2006. Presented by Dr Allan Chapman. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2006-52]
2006
D (Stack - oversize)Pingree, David
Sanskrit Astronomical Tables in the United States
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ..., new series vol. 58 part 3, April 1968. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1968. 2 copies.
[1968-462] & [1972-177]
1968
D (Stack - oversize)Placiades, F. Fulgentius
F. Fulgentii Placiadis episcopi Carthaginensis Mythologiarum Libri III. Eiusdem de uocum antiquarum interpretatione, Liber I [two works]
Bound (as issued) with C. Julius Hyginus, Fabularum Liber. Basiliae, per Joannem Heruagium, Anno 1549. Mens Martio. [Details taken from Hyginus title page]. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1549
D (Stack - oversize)Pritchard, C.
Uranometria Nova Oxoniensis. A photometric determination of the magnitudes of all stars visible to the naked eye from the Pole to ten degrees South of the Equator
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885. University Observatory Collection
[1968-345]
1885
D (Stack - oversize)Pritchard, C.
Astronomical Observations Made at the University Observatory Oxford under the direction of C. Pritchard, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., F.R.A.S. Savilian Professor of Astronomy in Oxford
No. I. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1878.
[Unknown]
1878
D (Stack - oversize)Pritchard, Charles
Researches in Stellar Parallax by the aid of photography from observations made at the Oxford University Observatory
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889. University Observatory Collection
[1968-343]
1889
D (Stack - oversize)Pritchard, Charles
Researches in Stellar Parallex by the aid of photography from observations made at the Oxford University Observatory
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889. Another copy, with manuscript notes by Pritchard. University Observatory Collection
[1968-341]
1889
D (Stack - oversize)Proclus
Procli de sphaera libellus, Graece & Latin
Bound (as issued) with C. Julius Hyginus, Fabularum Liber. Basiliae, per Joannem Heruagium, Anno 1549. Mens Martio. [Details taken from Hyginus title page]. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1549
D (Stack - oversize)Ptolemaeus, Claudius [Claudius Ptolemy]
Claudii Ptolemaei Pelusiensis Alexandrni omnia, quae extant, Opera, Geographia excepta, quam seorsim quoque hac forma impressimus
Almagesti seu Magnae compositionis Mathematicae opus a Georgio Trapezuntio tralatum, Lib. XIII. De judiciis astrologicis, aut, ut vulgo vocant, Quadripartitae constructionis, Lib. IIII. Quoru priores duo a Joachimo Camerario latinitate donati sunt: in reliquis emendauimus multa ad veterum exemplariu veritate, adjectis etiam Graecis, nihil omittentes quo lectio fieret correctior & expeditior. ... Basileae apud Henricum Petrum, Mense Martio, Anno 1541. Also contains works by (or translated by) G. Pontano (Centum sententiae, quod Centiloquium dicunt, a Jouiano Pontano versae), N. Leoniceno (Inerrantium stellarum significationes, per Nicolaum Leonicum traductae), Proclus (Procli Diadochi hypotyposes astronomicarum postionum, que est omnium que in Almagesto demonstrantur, epitome & compendium, quod ad reminiscentiam conducet plurimum, Georgio Valla Placentino interprete), L. Gaurico (Ob qua causem etiam censuimus addendas Luce Gaurici annotationes). Folio. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (D.105.17)
[1962-65/ ]
1541
D (Stack - oversize)Radcliffe Observatory
Astronomical Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford for the epoch 1875
Dritter Radcliffe-Katalog. Unter der Direktion des Rev. Robert Main. Halle 1910 Fur die Akademie in Kommission bei Wilh. Englemann in Leipzig. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1974-87]
1910
D (Stack - oversize)Radcliffe Observatory
Catalogue of 6424 Stars for the Epoch 1890
Formed from Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, during the years 1880-1893. Under the superintendence of Edward James Stone, M.A., F.R.S. ... . Oxford: James Parker & Co., 1894.
[Unknown]
1894
D (Stack - oversize)Radcliffe Observatory
Astronomical Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory Oxford for the epoch 1900
Under the Direction of Arthur A. Rambaut. Oxford: {...}, 1906.
[1974-84]
1906
D (Stack - oversize)Radcliffe Observatory
Astronomical Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford for the epoch 1890
Under the Superintendence of Edward James Stone. Oxford: {...}, 1894.
[1974-86]
1894
D (Stack - oversize)Ritchey, George W.
On the Modern Reflecting Telescope and the Making and Testing of Optical Mirrors
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1904. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, part of vol. XXXIV. Transferred from the Department of Astrophysics (University Observatory Collection). Bound with and shelved under Draper.
[1968-162]
1904
D (Stack - oversize)Rosse, William Parsons, Earl of, 1800-1867
The Scientific Papers of William Parsons, Third Earl of Rosse 1800-1867
Collected and republished by the Hon. Sir Charles Parsons, K.C.B., F.R.S. [London]: [Printed by P. Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd.], 1926.
[Unknown]
1926
D (Stack - oversize)Scheiner, J.
Atlas zu "Die Photographie der Gestirne"
Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1897. Portfolio of plates, with text, accompanying the book Die Photographie der Gestirne. From the library of Franz Fischer, Podoli Observatory, Prague
[1988-78]
1897
D (Stack - oversize)Schmidt, J. F. Julius
Charte der Gebirge des Mondes nach eigenen beobachtungen in den Jahren 1840-1874
Entworfen von Dr. J. F. Julius Schmidt, director der Sternwarte zu Athen. Herausgegeben auf veranlassung und kosten des Koniglich Preussischen Ministeriums der Geistlichen, Unterrichts- und Medicinal-Angelegenheiten. Erlauterungsband. Berlin: In Commission bei Dietrich Reimer, 1878. Portfolio of maps accompanying this book in Prints cabinet (2 copies).
[Unknown]
1878
D (Stack - oversize)Schumacher, H.
Die Gestirne
Collection of 34 plates of star maps, presumably extracted from a work by Schumacher. Altona, 1808. University Observatory Collection
[1968-360]
1808
D (Stack - oversize)Seeger, Hans T.
Feldstecher: Fernglaser im Wandel der Zeit
Hamburg: Edition Bresser Optik, 1989. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1992-65]
1989
D (Stack - oversize)Smyth, C. Piazzi
Madeira Spectroscopic: Being a Revision of 21 Places in the Red Half of the Solar Visible Spectrum With a Rutherfurd Diffraction Grating at Madeira (Lat. 32o 38' N., Long. 1h 8m W.) During the Summer of 1881
Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnston, Geographers, Engravers, and Printers to the Queen, 1882. University Observatory Collection
[1968-350]
1882
D (Stack - oversize)Smyth, W. H.
Aedes Hartwellianae, or Notices of the Manor and Mansion of Hartwell
London: Printed for Private Circulation by John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1851. Inscribed by the author to Robert Bell
[1983-162]
1851
D (Stack - oversize)Smyth, W. H.
Addenda to the Aedes Hartwellianae
London: Printed for Private Circulation by John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, 1864.
[1983-162/2]
1864
D (Stack - oversize)Smyth, W. H.
The Cycle of Celestial Objects continued at the Hartwell Observatory to 1859. With a notice of recent discoveries, including details from the AE des Hartwellianae
London: Printed for Private Circulation by John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, 1860. Formerly the property of A. D. Bache and E. M. Nelson (*)
[1938- ]
1860
D (Stack - oversize)Stein, J.; Hagen, J. G. (?)
La Rotation de la Terre - Ses Preuves Mecaniques Anciennes Et Nouvelle
Roma: Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana 1910. Specola Astronomica Vaticana I. Appendice - Les Preuves De M. Kamerlingh Onnes. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1974-119]
1910
D (Stack - oversize)Thiele, T. N.
Theory of Observations
London: C. & E. Layton, 1903. University Observatory Collection
[1968-373]
1903
D (Stack - oversize)Tisserand, F.
Traite de Mecanique celeste
4 volumes. Paris, 1889-1896. University Observatory Collection
[1968-374]
1889-1896
D (Stack - oversize)Vince, S.
A Complete System of Astronomy
3 volumes. Vols. I and II the second edition, with corrections. London, 1814. Vol. III the first edition. Cambridge, 1808. University Observatory Collection
[1968-378]
1808-1814
D (Stack - oversize)Voiron
Histoire de l'Astronomie, depuis 1781 jusqu'a 1811
Pour servir de suite a l'histoire de l'astronomie de Bailly. A Paris, chez Courcier, Imprimeur-Librair pour les Mathematiques, quai des Augustins, no. 57. 1810.
[Unknown]
1810
D (Stack - oversize)Vrchotka, Jaroslav
Poklady Stareho Hvesdartstvi
Prague: Narodni Muzeum, 1981.
[1981-102]
1981
D (Stack - oversize)Vyver, O. van de
Lunar Maps of the XVIIth Century
Vatican City: Vatican Observatory, 1971. Vatican Observatory Publications vol. 1. no. 2. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1974-127]
1971
D (Stack - oversize)Wattenberg, Diedrich
Peter Apianus und sein Astronomicum Caesareum / Peter Apianus and his Astronomicum Caesareum
Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1967. (Introductory volume to the Leipzig facsimile of Peter Apian, Astronomicum Caesareum (1540)).
[1967-257/2]
1967
D (Stack - oversize)Wegener, Alfred
Die Alfonsinischen Tafeln fur den Gebrauch eines modernen Rechners
Berlin: {...}, 1905. Photocopy from Radcliffe Science Library, 1845 d. 4.
[1968-89]
1905
D (Stack - oversize)Williams, John
Observations of Comets from BC 611 to AD 1640. Extracted from the Chinese annals
London, 1871. University Observatory Collection
[1968-382]
1871
D (Stack - oversize)Wislicenus, Walter F.
Untersuchungen uber den absoluten personlichen Fehler bei Durchsgangsbeobachtungen
Leipzig, 1888. University Observatory Collection
[1968-384]
1888
D (Stack - x oversize)Alfonso X (de Castilla)
Libros del saber de astronomia del rey Alfonso X ...
Copilados, anotados y comentados por Don Manuel Rico y Sinobas. Obra publicada de Real Orden. Four volumes: Tomo I, 1863 (2 copies); Tomo II, 1863 {missing}; Tomo III, 1864 (2 copies {1 copy missing}); Tomo IV, 1866. Madrid: Tipografia de Don Eusebio Aguado, Impresor de Camara de S.M. y de su Real Casa, 1863-66.
[1961-135]=vol.IV
1863-1866
D (Stack - x oversize)Apianus, Petrus [Apian, Peter]
Astronomicum Caesareum: Eine Gruntliche ausslegung des Buchs Astronomici Caesarei, Und seiner instrument, ...
Facsimile reprint forming part of Diedrich Wattenberg, Peter Apianus und sein Astronomicum Caesareum (Leipzig, 1967). Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1967-257/2]
1967
D (Stack - x oversize)Bedini, S. A.; Braun, W. von; Whipple, F. L.
Moon: Man's Greatest Adventure
Edited by Davis Thomas. New York: Abrams, [1970].
[1971-80]
1970
D (Stack - x oversize)Bevis, John
Uranographia Britannica
1745. [No title page. Engraved and probably printed between 1745 and the 1750s, but apparently not issued until 1780, or 1786, and then with a title page giving no details of author, printer or seller and bearing a different title, 'Atlas Celeste', from the standard title above, as given on the later binding of this copy]. University Observatory Collection
[1982-132]
1745
D (Stack - x oversize)Bianchini, Francesco
Hesperi Et Phosphori Nova Phaenomena Sive Observationes Circa Planetam Veneris Unde colligitur
I. Descriptio illius Macularum, seu Celidographia. II. Vertigo circa Axem proprium, vel Perieilesis spatio dierum 24. cum triente. III. Parallelismus Axis in orbita octimestri circa Solem. IV. Et quantitas Parallaxeos methodo Cassiniana explorata. Nunc Primum Editae Sub Auspiciis Sacrae Regiae Majestatis Joannis V. Lusitaniae, Algarbiae, etc. Regis A Francisco Blanchino Veronensi Sanctissimi Domini Nostri Papae Praelato Domestico. Romae Apud Joannem Mariam Salvioni Typographum Vaticanum in Archigymnasio Sapientiae. MDCCXXVIII [1728]. Superiorum Facultate. University Observatory Collection
[1982-130]
1728
D (Stack - x oversize)Cellarius, Andr.
Harmonia Macrocosmica sev Atlas universalis et novus, totius universi creati Cosmographiam generalem, et novam exhibens. In qua omnium totius Mundi Orbium Harmonica Constructio, secundum diversas diversorum Authorum opiniones, ...
Opus novum, antehac nunquam viscum, cujuscunque conditionis Hominibus utilissimum, jucundissimum, maxime necessarium, & adornatum. Studio, et labore ... Palatini, ... . Amstelodami, apud Gerardum Valk & Petrum Schenk. 1708. Folio. Lent by the Hope Department of Entomology, 1936
[1937-45]
1708
D (Stack - x oversize)Cellarius, Andreas
Harmonia Macrocosmica, seu Atlas Universalis Novus totius universi creati ...
Amsterdam, 1661.
[1969-138]
1661
D (Stack - x oversize)Cottam, Arthur
Charts of the Constellations, from the North Pole to between 35 & 40 degrees of south declination
Popular Edition, on a Reduced Scale. London: Edward Stanford, 1891. University Observatory Collection
[Unknown]
1891
D (Stack - x oversize)Hevelius, Jan
Yuldwzlar osmonining atlasi
Edited by V. P. Shcheglov. Tashkent, 1968. Facsimile reprint ... . 2 copies. Presented by Dr G. P. Matvievskaya; & Presented by Dr V. P. Shcheglov
[1968-489] & [1969-155]
1968
D (Stack - x oversize)Manilius, Marcus
The Sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English Poem: With Annotations and an Astronomical Appendix
By Edward Sherburne, Esq. London: Printed for Nathanael Brooke, at the Sign of the Angel in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, MDCLXXV [1675].
[1960-53]
1675
D (Stack - x oversize)Monnier, [Pierre Charles] Le
Description et Usage des Principaux Instruments d'Astronomie, Ou l'on traite de leur Stabilite, de leur Fabrique, et de l'Art de les diviser
Par M. Le Monnier. [Paris: Academie des Sciences], 1774. iv + 60 pages + 14 folding plates; large folio; modern binding. (Half-title (p. i) but no formal title page; fuller title above taken from heading of p. 1).
[1999-17]
1774
D (Stack - x oversize)Peurbach, Georg; Monteregio, Joannes de [Regiomontanus]
Tabulae eclypsium magistri Georgii Peurbachii [with] Tabula primi mobilis Joannis de Monteregio
n.p., n.d. Photocopy.
[1966-40]
[n.d.]
D (Stack - x oversize)Proctor, Richard A.
The Stars, in twelve maps on the Gnomonic Projection, collected, in duplicate, in four plates, as follows:- ...
By Richard A. Proctor, B.A. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1866.
[Unknown]
1866
D (Stack - x oversize)Shaler, N. S.
A Comparison of the Features of the Earth and the Moon
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1903. University Observatory Collection Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1968-364]
1903
D (Stack - x oversize)Snyder, George Sergeant
Maps of the Heavens
London: Andre Deutsch, 1984.
[1985-82]
1984
D (Stack - x oversize)Vengeur-D'Orsan, A. Le
Our Satellite. A Selenography according to the present state of science
First Number. London: A. W. Bennett, 1862. [With real photographic illustrations]. George Knott's copy
[Unknown]
1862
D (Stack - x oversize)Wesley, W. H.; Blagg, Mary A.
Map of the Moon
Based on the fiducial measures of S. A. Saunder and J. Franz. London: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd., 1935. Union Astronomique Internationale (International Astronomical Union). (Cover title: 'Named Lunar Formations by Mary A. Blagg and K. Muller ... vol. II Maps'). University Observatory Collection
[1983-76]
1935
D (Stack - x oversize)Wollaston, Francis
A Portraiture of the Heavens, as they appear to the naked eye: constructed for the use of Students in Astronomy by ...
London: Printed for J. Cary, 181, Strand. Sold also by G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, 57, Paternoster-Row. 1811.
[Unknown]
1811
D (Stack - x oversize)Zinner, Ernst
Verzeichnis der astronomischen Handschriften des deutschen Kulturgebietes
Munchen: C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1925.
[1954- ]
1925
D (Stack)
Tercentenary of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Origins, achievement and influence of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich : 1675-1975
'Vistas in Astronomy', Vo. 20, 1976, Part 1/2. Part of donation from Christopher Daniel, July 2013.
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1976
D (Stack)Aaboe, Asger
"A Computed Cuneiform Text for Mercury from Babylon: B.M. 48147"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 1-8.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Aben Ragel, Aly
El Libro Conplido en los Iudizios de las Estrellas Partes 6 a 8
Estudios Arabes e Islamicos 3. Traduccion hecha en la corte de Alfonso el Sabio; introduccion y edicion de Gerold Hilty con la colaboracion de Luis Miguel Vicente Garcia. Zaragoza: Instituto de Estudios Islamicos y del Oriente Proximo, 2005. Presented by the publisher.
[2006-39]
2005
D (Stack)Academia de Ciencias de Cuba
Galileo IV Centenario
Havana: Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, 1966. Contributors: J. Altshuder, J. J. Fahie. (Edition of the works of Galileo). Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1970-36]
1966
D (Stack)Adams, John Couch
Lectures on the Lunar Theory
Edited by R. A. Sampson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1900. University Observatory Collection
[1968-231]
1900
D (Stack)Ahndoril, Alexandra Coelho
Sterrenburcht
Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2004. Presented by the publisher. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2004-55]
2004
D (Stack)American Museum of Natural History
The Book of the Hayden Planetarium
New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1935 Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2004-66]
1935
D (Stack)Andoyer, H.
L'Oeuvre scientifique de Laplace
Paris: Payot, 1922. University Observatory Collection Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1968-175]
1922
D (Stack)Anonymous
"Copernicus as Economist, Statesman, and Poet"
in Polish Science and Learning, no. 3, June 1943, p. 58. Shelved under Polish.
[Unknown]
1943
D (Stack)Anonymous
London. VIII. Observations on Observatories in London and its Vicinity. Observatories and Astronomical instruments in use at Cambridge and Oxford.
Separate issue or offprint of pp. 629-700 only. London: John Weale, 1852. [{?By Charles Knight}].
[Unknown]
1852
D (Stack)Anonymous
Die Hamburger Sternwarte in Bergedorfe erbaut 1906-1912
Hamburg: Druckerei-Gesellschaft Hartung & Co., July 6, 1912. (Volume of photographs of the Hamburg Observatory).
[Unknown]
1912
D (Stack)Anonymous
Probae Falconiae, vatis Clarissimae A Divo Hieronymo comprobatae Centones, de fidei nostrae mysterijs e Maronis carminibus excerptum Opusculum
Parisiis Apud Franciscum Stephanum. 1543. Bound with Anon., Elementale Cosmographicum ... . University Observatory Collection
[1982-92]
1543
D (Stack)Anonymous
A Companion to the Telescope
London: Printed for Samuel Bagster, in the Strand, by James Moyes, 1811. Formerly the property of [Abram] Robertson; from the Radcliffe Observatory (*)
[Unknown]
1811
D (Stack)Anonymous [?Gassatus, Achilles P.]
Elementale Cosmographicum, quo totius & Astronomiae & Geographiae rudimenta, certissimis breuissimisque docentur apodixibus. Recens castigatum & emendatum, figurisque & annotationibus opportuniss. illustratum. Adiunximus huic libro Cosmographiae introductione. cum quibusdam Geometriae ac Astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis.
Parisiis, Apud Gulielmum Cauellat, in pingui Gallina, ex aduerso collegij Cameracensis. 1551. Cum priuilegio Regis. University Observatory Collection.
[1982-92]
1551
D (Stack)Anonymous [Apian, Peter]
Cosmographiae Introdvctio: cum quibusdam Geometriae ac Astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis
Parisiis Apud Gulielmum Cauellat, in pingui gallina, ex aduerso collegij Cameracensis. 1551. [By Peter Apian.] Bound with Anon., Elementale Cosmographicum ... . University Observatory Collection
[1982-92]
1551
D (Stack)Anonymous [Edwards, John]
Cometomantia. A Discourse Of Comets: Shewing their Original, Substance, Place, Time, Magnitude, Motion, Number, Colour, Figure, Kinds, Names, and, more especially, their Prognosticks, Significations and Presages. Being a brief Resolution of a seasonable Query, viz. Whether the Apparition of Comets be the Sign of approaching Evil? Where also is inserted an Essay of Judiciary Astrology, giving Satisfaction to this grand Question, Whether any certain Judgments and Predictions concerning future Events, can be made from the Observation of the Heavenly Bodies? Both occasioned by the Appearance of the late Comets in England and other Places
London, Printed for Brab. Aylmer, at the Three Pigeons overagainst the Royal Exchange in Cornhill. 1684. University Observatory Collection.
[1982-94]
1684
D (Stack)Anonymous [Pluche, Noel-Antoine]
Histoire Du Ciel Considere selon les idees Des Poetes, Des Philosophes, Et De Moise. Ou l'on fait voir 1o. L'origine du Ciel Poetique. 2o. La meprise des Philosophes sur la fabrique du Ciel & de la Terre. 3o. La conformite de l'experience avec la seule Physique de Moise
Tome Premier. A Paris, Chez la Veuve Estienne, rue Saint Jacques, a la Vertu. 1739. Avec Approbation & Privilege du Roy. University Observatory Collection
[1982-115]
1739
D (Stack)Aratus, Solensis
Syntagma Arateorum: Opus poeticae et astronomiae studiosis utilissimum: quo quae contineantur versa pagella indicabit
Edited by Hugo Grotius. Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Christophorum Raphelengium, Academiae Lugduno-Batauae Typographum. [Leiden.] 1600. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-235]
1600
D (Stack)Archimedes
Archimedis De iis quae vehuntur in aqua libri duo. a Federico Commandino in pristinum nitorem restituti et commentariis illustrati.
Cvm privilegio in annos X. Bononiae, Ex Officina Alexandri Benacii. 1565. Bound with Aristarchus, De Magnitudinibus.
[1962-65]
1565
D (Stack)Arends, A. K. (ed.)
Iz Istorii Epokhi Ulugbeka
[?Tashkent]: Akademiya Nauk UzSSR, 1965.
[1967-189]
1965
D (Stack)Aristarchus of Samos
Aristarchi de Magnitudinibus, et distantiis solis, et lunae, liber cum Pappi Alexandrini explicationibus quibusdam. A Federico Commandino Vbinate in latinum conuersus, ac commentarijs illustratus.
Pisauri, Apud Camillum Francischinum. 1572. [Translated (into Latin) by Federico Commandino, along with the commentary by Pappus of Alexandria.] 4to. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.154; D.5.27).
[1962-65/ ]
1572
D (Stack)Aristarchus of Samos
Aristarchi Samii de magnitudinibus & distantiis solis lunae liber, ed. cum F. Commandini versione Lat., notis(que) illius & editoris. Pappi Alexandrini secundi libri mathematicae collectionis fragmentum, ed., Lat. fecit, notisque illustr. J. Wallis.
Oxoniae, e Theatro Sheldoniano. 1688. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (D.5.56).
[1962-65/ ]
1688
D (Stack)Aristotle
De Coelo. Libri quatuor. Ioanne Argyropilo Byzantio interprete.
Apud Seb. Gryphium, Lugduni, 1545. Small 4to. Gunther Loan Collection.
[1940-6/ ]
1545
D (Stack)Armitage, A. (Angus), 1902-1976
The world of Copernicus = : (original title: Sun, stand thou still)
New York : New American Library, 1963, c1947. Millburn bequest.
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D (Stack)As-Sufi
Suwaru'l-Kawakib or Uranometry
Hyderabad, 1954.
[1966-6]
1954
D (Stack)as-Sufi, Abu'l-Husayn 'Abd ar-Rahman
Suwaru'l-Kawakib or (Uranometry)
(Description of the 48 Constellations) Arabic Text With the 'Urjuza of Ibnu's-Sufi; Edited from the oldest extant Mss. and Based on the Ulugh Beg Royal Codes, (Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Arabe 5036) with Introduction, plates, diagrams etc. Published by the Dairatu'l-Ma'Arif-Il-'Osmania, India, 1954.
[1966-6]
1954
D (Stack)Aspin, Jehoshaphat
A Familiar Treatise on Astronomy, explaining the General Phenomena of the Celestial Bodies; with Numerous Graphic Illustrations. Expressly Written to Accompany Urania's Mirror, or A View of the Heavens; Consisting of Thirty-Two Cards, on which are represented all the Constellations Visible in Great Britain; on A Plan Perfectly Original, Designed by a Lady.
Second Edition, with Considerable Augmentations and Improvements. London: Samuel Leigh, 1825.
[1974-43]
1825
D (Stack)Association of Polish University Professors and Lecturers in Great Britain
Polish Science and Learning
A Series of Booklets edited by the Association of Polish University Professors and Lecturers in Great Britain; no. 3, June 1943 (Copernicus issue, marking the anniversary of the death of Nicholas Copernicus). London: Oxford University Press, 1943. Contributors: St. Kot, Sir H. Spencer Jones, Herbert Dingle, B. Szczesniak, Henryk Kucharzyk, Anon. [see separate entries]. Shelved under Polish.
[Unknown]
1943
D (Stack)Bagdadi, Muhammad
De superficierum diuisionibus liber Machometo Bagdedino ascriptus. Nunc primum Ioannis Dee Londinensis, & Federici Commandini Vrbinatis opera in lucem editus. Federici Commandini de eadem re libellus.
Pisavri 1570. Apud Hieronymum Concordiam Licentia Superiorum. Bound with Aristarchus, De Magnitudinibus.
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1570
D (Stack)Bagdedinus, Machomet
De superficierum divisionibus liber
{...} 1587. [Edited and translated{?} (into Latin) by Federico Commandino]. Bound with Aristarchus, De Magnitudinibus ... (Commandine's edition, 1572). On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.154; D.5.27)
[1962-65/ ]
1587
D (Stack)Baikie, James
Through the Telescope
With 32 full-page illustrations from photographs and 26 smaller figures in the text. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1906. (Presentation copy){?}
[Unknown]
1906
D (Stack)Baillaud, B.
Cours d'Astronomie a l'usage des etudiants des faculties des Sciences
2 vols. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1893-1896. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-236]
1893-1896
D (Stack)Baily, Francis
Astronomical tables and formulae together with a variety of problems explanatory of their use and application to which are prefixed the elements of the solar system
London: [s.n.], 1827. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-237]
1827
D (Stack)Ball, Sir Robert Stawell
The Story of the Heavens
New and revised edition (first, 1886). London, etc.: Cassell and Company, 1900. From the library of T. C. Keeley; Presented by Wadham College
[1989-45]
1900
D (Stack)Balss, Heinrich (ed.)
Antike Astronomie
Aus griechischen und lateinischen Quellen mit Text, Ubersetzung und Erlauterungen geschichtlich dargestellt von Heinrich Balss. Munchen: Bei Ernst Heimeran, 1949. In the series "Tusculum-Bucherei - Zweisprachige antike Taschenausgabe". Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1955- ]
1949
D (Stack)Baum, Richard Myer
The Planets: Some Myths and Realities
Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1973
[2004-75]
1973
D (Stack)Beer, Arthur
"'Vistas in Astronomy' - Vergangenes und Kommendes"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 9-19.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Bell, Steve
The RGO guide to the 1999 total eclipse of the sun
Cambridge : HM Nautical Almanac Office, Royal Greenwich Observatory, 1997. Includes 1 pair of eclipse viewer glasses in acetate pocket attached to rear cover. Millburn bequest.
[2007-287]
1997
D (Stack)Benhamouda, A.
"Les noms Arabes des etoiles: Essai d'identification"
in Annales de l'Institut d'Etudes Orientales, tome IX, annee 1951. pp. 76-210. Faculte des Lettres de l'Universite d'Alger. Editions "La Typo-Litho et Jules Carbonel," Alger.
[1957-116]
1951
D (Stack)Bergh, G. van den
Periodicity and variation of solar (and lunar) eclipses
Revised and corrected translation of the 1951 Dutch edition. Haarlem: {...}, 1955. University Observatory Collection Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1968-376]
1955
D (Stack)Berry, Arthur
A Short History of Astronomy
London: John Murray, 1898. University Observatory Collection
[1968-241]
1898
D (Stack)Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm
Recensionen
Edited by Rudolf Engelmann. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1878. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-253]
1878
D (Stack)Blagg, Mary A.
Collated list of lunar formations named or lettered in the maps of Neison, Schmidt and Madler
Edinburgh: Neill, 1913. University Observatory Collection
[1968-242]
1913
D (Stack)Blake, John F.
Astronomical Myths, based on Flammarion's "History of the Heavens"
London: Macmillan & Co., 1877.
[Unknown]
1877
D (Stack)Bode, J. E.
Vorstellung der Gestirneauf vier und dreyssig Kupfertafeln nebst einer Anweisung zum Gebrauch und einem Verzeichnisse von 5877 Sternen, Nebelflecken und Sternhaufen: Representation des Astres sur trente-quatre planches en taille-douce avec une Instruction sur la maniere de s'en servir et un Catalogue de 5877 etoiles, nebuleuses et amas d'etoiles
German and French facing texts. Berlin et Stralsund: G. A. Lange, 1805. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-204]
1805
D (Stack)Bode, J. E.
Vorstellung der Gestirneauf vier und dreyssig Kupfertafeln nebst einer Anweisung zum Gebrauch und einem Verzeichnisse von 5877 Sternen, Nebelflecken und Sternhaufen: Representation des Astres sur trente-quatre planches en taille-douce avec une Instruction sur la maniere de s'en servir et un Catalogue de 5877 etoiles, nebuleuses et amas d'etoiles
German and French facing texts. Berlin et Stralsund: G. A. Lange, 1805. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-205]
1805
D (Stack)Bok, Bart J.; Bok, Priscilla F.
The Milky Way
Fourth edition. Revised and enlarged. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1974. Inscribed 'To David and Mary Thackeray with warmest good wishes for a happy retirement from Priscilla F. Bok and Bart Bok - Tucson - AZ - Nov. 1 '74'. Insert - letter from author to Thackray; letter containing Bart Bok's travel plans for 1976; letter describing memorial bench for Priscilla Bok. Part of donation from Green Templeton College, March 2013.
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1974
D (Stack)Bolton, L.
An Introduction to the Theory of Relativity
With 38 Diagrams. London: Methuen & Co., 1921. Formerly the property of F. Sherwood Taylor
[Unknown]
1921
D (Stack)Bonelli, M. L. Righini
"Considerazioni su Problemi di Museologia Scientifica"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 339-347.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Bonnycastle, John
An Introduction to Astronomy. In a series of letters, from a Preceptor to his Pupil. In which the most useful and interesting Parts of the Science are clearly and familiarly explained
Illustrated with copper-plates. Third Edition, Corrected and Improved. London, Printed for J. Johnson, no. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard. 1796. 8vo. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1796
D (Stack)Bonnycastle, John
An Introduction to Astronomy. In a series of letters, from a Preceptor to his Pupil. In which the most useful and interesting Parts of the Science are clearly and familiarly explained.
Illustrated with copper-plates. Fourth Edition, Corrected and Improved. London, Printed for J. Johnson, no. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard. 1803. 8vo. Formerly the property of "Keene"; ?Gunther Loan Collection
[?1940-6/ ]
1803
D (Stack)Borde, Andrew
The Pryncyples of Astronamye
(London - A.B. 1542?). Facsimile reprint. Amsterdam & New York: Da Capo Press, 1973. The English Experience, No. 570.
[1976-26]
1973
D (Stack)Borell, Peter
A New Treatise, Proving a Multiplicity of Worlds. That the Planets are Regions Inhabited, and the Earth a Star, and that it is out of the Center of the World in the third Heaven, and turns round before the Sun which is fixed. And other most Rare and Curious Things
London, Printed by John Streater, 1658. 12mo. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.2.16b)
[1962-65/ ]
1658
D (Stack)Brown, Basil, 1888-1977
Astronomical atlases, maps & charts : an historical & general guide
London : Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1968. Millburn bequest.
[2007-154]
1968
D (Stack)Bruin, Frans; Bruin, Margaret
"The Limits of Accuracy of Aperture-Gnomons"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 21-42.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Byrd, Mary E.
A Laboratory Manual in Astronomy
Boston: Athenaeum Press, 1899. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-251]
1899
D (Stack)Campbell, Duncan
Time's Telescope Universal and Perpetual, Fitted for all Countries and Capacities. Containing Perpetual Tables, fitted to the Old and New Stile; ... also the Magnitudes and Distances of the Planets; ... and a Brief Discourse of all kinds of Meteors, and a Short Description of Time, ...
London, Printed, and sold by J. Wilcox, over-against the New Church in the Strand; and others. 1734. 8vo (4to page notation). Formerly the property of S. P. Rigaud; From the Radcliffe Observatory
[Unknown]
1734
D (Stack)Caraci, Giuseppe
"Disavventure londinesi di Cristoforo Colombo"
in L'Universo, anno XLII no. 6, November-December 1962, pp. 1191-1206. Shelved under Maffei.
[1965-259/2]
1962
D (Stack)Carl, Ph.
Repertorium der Cometen-Astronomie
Munich: M. Rieger'sche Universitaets-Buchhandlung, 1864. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-254]
1864
D (Stack)Carlson, John B.
"A Geomantic Model for the Interpretation of Mesoamerican Sites: An Essay in Cross-Cultural Comparison"
offprint from the Dumbarton Oaks Conference on Mesoamerican Sites and World-Views (Washington, D.C.: Trustees for Harvard University, 1976) (offprint dated 1981), pp. 143-215. Presented by the author Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1985-3]
1976
D (Stack)Casulleras, Josep
La astrologia de los matematicos : la matematica aplicada a la astrologia a traves de la obra de Ibm Muad de Jaen
Barcelona : Universitat de Barcelona, 2010. Received in 2013.
[2014-151]
2010
D (Stack)Chambers, George F.
A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy II. Instruments and Practical Astronomy
4th ed. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1890. Gunther Loan Collection.
[1940-6/ ]
1890
D (Stack)Chambers, George F.
The Story of the Comets; Simply told for general readers
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1909. Stapleton Collection
[1948-12]
1909
D (Stack)Chambers, George F.
Astronomy
London : Hutchinson and Co., [1910]. Inscribed 'To dear David from his loving brother St. John, on his (D's) 11th birthday, wishing him many happy returns of the Day!' Part of donation from Green Templeton College, March 2013.
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[1910]
D (Stack)Charlier, C. V. L.
Introduction to stellar statistics
Lund: Scientia Publisher, 1921. University Observatory Collection Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1968-255]
1921
D (Stack)Chauvenet, William
A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy: Embracing the General Problems of Spherical Astronomy, the Special Applications to Nautical Astronomy, and the Theory and Use of Fixed and Portable Astronomical Instruments. With an Appendix on the Method of Least Squares.
2 vols. Philadelphia: Lippincott; London: Trubner, 1863. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-256]
1863
D (Stack)Chenakal, V. L.
Ocherki po istorii russkoi astronomii
Moscow-Leningrad: {...}, 1951. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1962-93]
1951
D (Stack)Cheyne, C. H. H.
An elementary Treatise on the Planetary Theory, with a Collection of Problems
2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 1870. University Observatory Collection
[1968-257]
1870
D (Stack)Chojecka, Ewa
Astronomische und astrologische Darstellungen und Deutungen bei kunsthistorischen Betrachtungen alten wissenschaftlicher Illustrationen des XV. bis XVIII Jahrhunderts
Band 4 of Veroffentlichungen des Staatlichen Mathematisch-Physikalischen Salons - Forschungsstelle - Dresden - Zwinger. Berlin: Veb Deutscher Verlag Der Wissenschaften, 1967.
[1967-135]
1967
D (Stack)Clairaut
Theorie de la figure de la terre, tiree des principes de l'hydrostatique
2nd ed. Paris: Courcier, 1808. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-258]
1808
D (Stack)Clerke, Agnes M.
Modern Cosmogonies
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1905. University Observatory Collection
[1968-260]
1905
D (Stack)Clerke, Agnes M.
A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century
3rd ed. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1893. Gunther Loan Collection (J. O. Borley).
[1940-6/ ]
1893
D (Stack)Clerke, Agnes M.
A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century
3rd ed. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1893. Formerly the property of E. H. Stapleton [H. E. Stapleton].
[1948-12]
1893
D (Stack)Clerke, Agnes M.
The System of the Stars
London: Longmans, 1890. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-261]
1890
D (Stack)Cohen, I. Bernard
"The Copernican Revolution from an Eighteenth-Century Perspective: with notes on Jean-Sylvain Bailly's views on revolutions in science"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 43-54.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Comes, Merce; Puig, Roser; Samso, Julio (eds.)
De Astronomia Alphonsi Regis
Barcelona: Universidad de Barcelona, 1987.
[2006-55]
1987
D (Stack)Commandino, Federico
De centro gravitatis solidorum
{...}. Bound with Aristarchus, De Magnitudinibus ... (Commandine's edition, 1572). On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.154; D.5.27)
[1962-65/ ]
1572
D (Stack)Commandino, Federico
Liber de centro gravitatis solidorvm
Cum privilegio in Annos X. Bononiae, Ex Officina Alexandri Benacii. 1565. Bound with Aristarchus, De Magnitudinibus.
[1962-65]
1565
D (Stack)Contro, Walter S.
"Hat Galilei die Definition der Qualitas Uniformiter Difformiter Difformis von Jacobus de Sancto Martino Ubernommen?"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 55-62.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Coronelli, Vincenzo
Epitome Cosmografica, o Compendiosa Introduttione all' Astronomia, Geografia, & Idrografia, per l'Uso, Dilucidatione, e Fabbrica delle Sfere, Globi, Planisferi, Astrolabi, e Tavole Geografiche, e particolarmente degli stampati, e spiegati nelle Publiche Lettioni
Colonia, 1693. Ad istanza di Andrea Poletti in Venetia. 4to.
[1940- ]
1693
D (Stack)Costard, G.
A further account of the rise and progress of astronomy amongst the ancients, in three letters to Martin Folkes, Esq., President of the Royal Society
Oxford, Printed at the Theatre, for Richard Clements. 1748. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-263]
1748
D (Stack)Coustenis, Athena; Taylor, Fred
Titan: The Earth-like Moon
Series on Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, v. 1. Singapore; London: World Scientific, 1999. Presented by Fred Taylor. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2005-82]
1999
D (Stack)Crombie, A. C.
"Mathematics and Platonism in the Sixteenth-Century Italian Universities and in Jesuit Educational Policy"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 63-94.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Crommelin, A. C. de la C.
The Star World
London & Glasgow: Collins' Clear-Type Press, 1914. In the series "The Nation's Library".
[Unknown]
1914
D (Stack)Crookes, W.
"Description of the Wax-Paper Process employed for the Photo-Meteorographic Registrations at the Radcliffe Observatory"
in Astronomical and Meteorological Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, in the year 1854, vol. XV, 1856, pp. iii-xxiii (appendix at end). Shelved under Johnson.
[Unknown]
1856
D (Stack)Dadaev, Aleksandr Nikolaevich.
Pulkovo Observatory : an essay on its history and scientific activity
Translation of "Pulkovskaya Observatoriya" (Leningrad : Nauka Press, 1972). Typescript, 1978. Translated from the Russian by Kevin Krisciunas. Presented by Roger Hutchins. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2014-20]
1978
D (Stack)Darwin, George Howard
Scientific Papers
5 volumes. Vol. I. Oceanic tides and lunar disturbance of gravity; vol. II. Tidal friction and Cosmogony; vol. III. Figures of equilibrium of rotating liquid and Geophysical investigations; vol. IV. Periodic orbits and Miscellaneous Papers; vol. V. Supplementary Volume containing biographical memoirs, Lectures on Hill's lunar theory, etc., edited by J. M. Stratton and J. Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1911, and 1916. University Observatory Collection
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1907-1916
D (Stack)Davidson, Martin
The stars and the mind : a study of the impact of astronomical development on human thought
London : Scientific Book Club, [1947]. Millburn bequest. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2007-119]
1947
D (Stack)Davoigneau, Jean; Le Guet-Tully, Francoise
Astronomical Observatories in Provence, the Southern Alps and the Cote d'Azur
[Aix-en-Provence]: Association pour le patrimoine de Provence, 1999. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2005-161]
1999
D (Stack)Dechend, Hertha von
"Bemerkungen zum Donnerkeil"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Pristmata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 95-118.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Derham, W.
Astro-Theology or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from a Survey of the Heavens
Illustrated with Copper Plates. The Fifth Edition. London, Printed by William and John Innys, Printers to the Royal Society, at the West End of St. Paul's. 1726. 8vo. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (D.5.50)
[1962-65/ ]
1726
D (Stack)Derham, W.
Astro-Theology, or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from a Survey of the Heavens
Illustrated with Copper Plates. The Fifth Edition. London, Printed by William and John Innys, Printers to the Royal Society, at the West End of St. Paul's. 1726. 8vo.
[Unknown]
1726
D (Stack)Derham, W. (William), 1657-1735
Astro-theology : or, a demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from a survey of the heavens
The sixth edition. London : printed for W. Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's, 1731. Millburn bequest.
[2007-323]
1731
D (Stack)Deslandres, H.
Histoire des idees et des recherches sur le Soleil, revelation recente de l'atmosphere entiere de l'astre
Paris: {...}, 1906. University Observatory Collection
[1968-270]
1906
D (Stack)Dingle, Herbert
"Copernicus's Work: A Landmark in Scientific History"
in Polish Science and Learning, no. 3, June 1943, pp. 24-39. Shelved under Polish.
[Unknown]
1943
D (Stack)Dizer, Muammer. (ed.)
International Symposium on the Observatories in Islam 19-23 September, 1977
Istanbul: Milli Egitim Basimevi, 1980.
[1980-191]
1980
D (Stack)Dodonaeus, Rembertus
Cosmographica in Astronomiam et Geographiam Isagoge
(Antwerp, 1548). Facsimile reprint. Nieuwkoop, 1963.
[1966-219]
1963
D (Stack)Dorce, Carlos
El Tay al-azyay de Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi
Anuari de filologia (Universiat de Barcelona) 24-25 B5. Barcelona: Instituto "Millas Vallicrosa" de Historia de la Ciencia Arabe, [2003?]. Presented by the publisher. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2005-90]
2003?
D (Stack)Downing, A. M. W. et al.
"Report of the Expedition for the Observation of the Total Solar Eclipse of August 9, 1896"
in Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association, Vol. VI, part 1, 1896, pp. 1-36
[Unknown]
1896
D (Stack)Drachmann, A. G.
"Biton, and the Development of the Catapult"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 119-131.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Duhem, Pierre
Le systeme du monde. Histoire des doctrines cosmologiques de Platon a Copernic
6 vols. (of 10). I-V, Nouveau tirage; VI, Publie avec le concours du C.N.R.S. Paris: Librarie Scientifique Hermann et Cie., 1954.
[Unknown]
1954
D (Stack)Duncan, John Charles
Astronomy : a text book
New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, 1926. Presented by A.V. Simcock.
[2014-39]
1926
D (Stack)Dyson, Sir Frank; Woolley, R. v. d. R.
Eclipses of the Sun and Moon
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1937. University Observatory Collection
[1968-271]
1937
D (Stack)Dziobek, Otto
Die mathematischen Theorien der Planeten-Bewegungen
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1888. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-272]
1888
D (Stack)Dziobek, Otto
Mathematical Theories of Planetary Motions
Translated by Mark W. Harrington and William J. Hussey. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Register, 1892. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-273]
1892
D (Stack)Eddington, A. S.
The Internal Constitution of the Stars
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1926.
[1958-58]
1926
D (Stack)Eddington, Arthur S.
Space, Time and Gravitation. An outline of the General Theory of Relativity Theory
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1920. University Observatory Collection
[1968-122]
1920
D (Stack)Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944
The expanding universe
Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1940 [1941 printing]. Millburn bequest.
[2007-327]
1941
D (Stack)Eelsalu, H.; Silvet, H.
"Rara Astronomica in the Library of the Tartu Astronomical Observatory"
in Rara Astronomica in Estonia (Tartu, 1977).
[1979-62]
1977
D (Stack)Einstein, Albert
The Meaning of Relativity
Four lectures delivered at Princeton University, May, 1921. Translated by Edwin Plimpton Adams. London: Methuen, 1922. University Observatory Collection
[1968-124]
1922
D (Stack)el-Azzawi, Abbas
History of Astronomy in Iraq and its relations with Islamic and Arab Countries in the post-Abbassid Periods
Baghdad: Iraq Academy Press, 1959. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1965-161]
1959
D (Stack)Elia, Pasquale M. d', 1890-
Galileo in Cina: Relazioni attraverso il Collegio Romano tra Galileo e i gesuiti scienziati missionari in Cina (1610-1640)
Romae: Apud Aedes Universitatis Gregorianae, 1947. Analecta Gregoriana ..., vol. XXXVII, Series Facultatis Missiologicae, Sectio A (N. 1). From the library of Dr A. C. Crombie
[1996-100]
1947
D (Stack)Engberts, E.
Descriptive Catalogue of Telescopes in the Rijksmuseum voor de Gesch. der Nat., Leiden
Leiden: [s.n.], 1970. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1971-46]
1970
D (Stack)Faye, H.
Sur l'Origine du Monde: Theories Cosmogoniques des Anciens et des Modernes
Seconde edition. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1885. Science and Mathematics Prize presented to E. H. Stapleton by Bradford Grammar School, 1894. Stapleton Bequest.
[1962-64]
1885
D (Stack)Federation internationale des instituts et societes pour l'etude de la Renaissance
Le Soleil a la Renaissance, sciences et mythes: colloque international tenu en avril 1963 sous les auspices de la Federation internationale des instituts et societes pour l'etude de la Renaissance, et du Ministere de l'education nationale et de la Culture de Belgique
Brussels & Paris: Presses universitaires de Bruxelles, 1965.
[1966-5]
1965
D (Stack)Ferguson, James
Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, and made easy to those who have not studied Mathematics. To which are added, a Plain Method of finding the Distances of all the Planets from the Sun, by the Transit of Venus over the Sun's Disc, in the Year 1761. An Account of Mr. Horrox's Observation of the Transit of Venus in the Year 1639: and, of the Distances of all the Planets from the Sun, as deduced from Observations of the Transit in the Year 1761
The Tenth Edition (1799) with some additional notes. London: Printed for J. Johnson, G. G. and J. Robinson, and others. 1799. 8vo. Formerly the property of C. P. Taphouse
[Unknown]
1799
D (Stack)Ferguson, James
Ferguson's Astronomy, explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles. With Notes and Supplementary Chapters. By David Brewster, LL.D.
In two volumes. With a Quarto volume of plates [see separate entry]. Edinburgh: Printed for John Ballantyne & Co., and others, and John Murray, and Robert Scholey, London. 1811. Formerly the property of W. P. Adam.
[Unknown]
1811
D (Stack)Ferguson, James ; Brewster, David, Sir, 1781-1868
An easy introduction to astronomy, for young gentlemen and ladies
A new edition, illustrated with copperplates. Edinburgh : printed for Stirling & Slade, Edinburgh; and G. & W.B. Whittaker, London., 1823. Millburn bequest.
[2007-173]
1823
D (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
An easy introduction to astronomy for young gentlemen and ladies
First American from the seventh London edition. Philadelphia : printed for Bernard Dornin, New-York; by William F. M'Laughlin, 1805. Millburn bequest.
[2007-340]
1805
D (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
An easy introduction to astronomy, for young gentlemen and ladies
Philadelphia : published by Benjamin Warner, no. 181, Market-Street, 1819. Millburn bequest.
[2007-355]
1819
D (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
The young gentleman and lady's astronomy, familiarly explained in ten dialogues between Neander and Eudosia
Dublin : printed by Boulter Grierson, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1768. Millburn bequest.
[2007-356]
1768
D (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics
The second American, from the last London edition; / revised, corrected, and improved by Robert Patterson. Philadelphia : printed for and published by Mathew Carey. For sale by C. and A. Conrad & Co. Bradford & Inskeep, Hopkins & Earle, Johnson & Warner, and Kimber, Conrad & Co, 1809. Millburn bequest.
[2007-357]
1809
D (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
An easy introduction to astronomy, for young gentlemen and ladies
Third Philadelphia, from the seventh London edition. [Philadelphia] : Published by Benjamin Warner, no. 147, Highstreet, Philadelphia. Wm. Dickson, Lancaster, printer, 1817. Millburn bequest.
[2007-358]
1817
D (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics
The ninth edition. London : printed for T. Longman, B. Law, J. Johnson, G.G. J. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell, H. Murray, R. Baldwin, T. Vernor, W. Goldsmith, F. & C. Rivington, W. Lowndes, Scatcherd & Whitaker, W. Bent, and J. Evans, 1794. Millburn bequest.
[2007-359]
1794
D (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics
The fourth edition, corrected. London : printed for W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, J. Hinton, T. Longman, T. Lowndes, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, S. Crowder, B. Law, Robinson and Robers, and T. Cadell, 1770. Millburn bequest.
[2007-360]
1770
D (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics
The twelfth edition / improved and corrected by Andrew Mackay. London : printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, for J. Johnson, R. Baldwin, F. C. & J. Rivington, W. Lowndes, Wilkie and Robinson, Scatcherd & Letterman, J. Walker, R. Lea, G. Robinson, Vernor, Hood, & Sharp, Cuthell & Martin, Lackington, Allen, & Co., Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, Cadell & Davies, John Richardson, James Richardson, B. Crosby, J. Mawman, and P. & W. Wynne, 1809. Millburn bequest.
[2007-361]
1809
D (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
An easy introduction to astronomy, for young gentlemen and ladies
The third edition. London : printed for T. Cadell in the Strand, 1772. Millburn bequest.
[2007-363]
1772
D (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
An easy introduction to astronomy, for young gentlemen and ladies
The second edition. London : printed for T. Cadell, successor to Mr. Millar, in the Strand, 1769. Millburn bequest.
[2007-364]
1769
D (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics
A new edition, corrected. London : printed for W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, J. Hinton, T. Longman, T. Lowndes, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, S. Crowder, B. Law, G Robinson, and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1673 [i.e. 1773]. Millburn bequest.
[2007-409]
1773
D (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics...
The third edition. London : printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, 1764. Millburn bequest.
[2007-410]
1764
D (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles : and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics
The second edition. London : printed for, and sold by the author, at the Globe, opposite Cecil-Street in the Strand, 1757. Millburn bequest.
[2007-411]
1757
D (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776 ; Brewster, David, Sir, 1781-1868
Ferguson's astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles
With notes, and supplementary chapters / By David Brewster. Philadelphia : printed by and for Abraham Small, 1817. 3 vols. ; Vol. [3] is an atlas of plates. Millburn bequest.
[2007-371]
1817
D (Stack)Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.
Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, : and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics
London, : Printed for, and sold by the author, at the Globe, opposite Cecil-street in the Strand., MDCCLVI. 4to. Millburn bequest
[2007-17]
1756
D (Stack)Fischer, Karl A. F.
"Die Astronomie und die Naturwissenschaften in Mahren"
offprint from Bohemia, band 24 heft 1, 1983, pp. 19-103. Presented by the author
[1984-124]
1983
D (Stack)Fontenelle, Bernard de
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
Glasgow, W. Falconer, 1817. Given by J. D. Lawson in 2004. N.B. Front cover loose.
[2014-120]
1817
D (Stack)Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de
Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes. Digression sur les Anciens et les Modernes
Edited by Robert Shackleton. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955.
[1955- ]
1955
D (Stack)Froidmont, Libert, 1587-1653
Liberti Fromondi S.Th.L. Collegij Falconis in Academia Louanensi philosophiae professoris primarij Meteorologicorum libri sex
Antuerpiae, ex officina plantiniana, apud Balthasarem Moretum, & Viduam Ioannis Moreti, & Io. Meursium. 1627. 4to. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.12.15).
[1962-65/ ]
1627
D (Stack)Froidmont, Libert, 1587-1653
Liberti Fromondi S.Th.L. Collegij Falconis in Academia Louanensi philosophiae professoris primarij Meteorologicorum libri sex
Antuerpiae, ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Balthasarem Moretum, & Viduam Joannis Moreti, & Jo. Meursium. 1627. 4to.
[Unknown]
1627
D (Stack)Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
Sidereus nuncius, Magna Longeque Admirabilia Spectacula pandens, suspiciendaque proponens unicuique, praesertim vero Philosophis atque Astronomis, quae a Galileo Galileo, Patritio Florentino, Patavini Gymnasii Publico Mathematico, Perspicilli. Nuper a se reperti beneficio, sunt observata in Lunae Facie, Fixis Innumeris, Lacteo Circulo, Stellis nebulosis, apprime vero in Quatuor Planetis circa Jovis Stellam disparibus intervallis atque Periodis celeritate mirabili circumvolutis; quos, nemini in hanc usque diem cognitos, novissime Autor deprehendit primus, atque Medicea Sidera nuncupandos decrevit.
Londini, typis Jacobi Flesher: Prostat apud Cornelium Bee, in vic. Vulg. voc. Little-Britain. 1653. 8vo. Bound with and shelved under Gassendi, Institutio Astronomica. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.8.6).
[1962-65/ ]
1653
D (Stack)Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
Sidereus Nuncius Magna Longeque Admirabilia Spectacula pandens, suspiciendaque proponens unicuique, praesertim vero Philosophis atque Astronomis, quae a Galileo Galileo, Patritio Florentino, Patavini Gymnasii Publico Mathematico, Perspicilli; Nuper a se reperti beneficio, sunt observata in Lunae Facie, Fixis Innumeris, Lacteo Circulo, Stellis Nebulosis, Apprime vero in Quatuor Planetis Circa Jovis Stellam disparibus intervallis atque Periodis celeritate mirabili circumvolutis; quos, nemini in hanc usque diem cognitos, novissime Autor deprehendit primus, atque Medicea Sidera Nuncupandos decrevit.
Typis mandata 1682. [London: Henry Dickinson, 1683]. Bound with and shelved under Petrus Gassendi, Institutio Astronomica ... . University Observatory Collection.
[1982-97]
1683
D (Stack)Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
Dialogi tam eos quos edidit de systemate mundi quam quos de motu locali
Leiden: apud Fredericum Haaring et Davidem Severinum, 1700.
[1968-276]
1700
D (Stack)Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
Sidereus Nuncius Magna Longeque Admirabilia Spectacula pandens, suspiciendaque proponens unicuique, praesertim vero Philosophis atque Astronomis quae a Galileo Galileo, Patritio Florentino, Patavini Gymnasii Publico Mathematico, Perspicilli; Nuper a se reperti beneficio, sunt observata in Lunae Facie, Fixis Innumeris, Lacteo Circulo, Stellis Nebulosis, Apprime vero in Quatuor Planetis Circa Jovis Stellam disparibus intervallis atque Periodis celeritate mirabili circumvolutis; quos, nemini in hanc usque diem cognitos, novissime Autor deprehendit primus; atque Medicea Sidera Nuncupandos decrevit
Londini, Typis Jacobi Flesher. Prostant Cornelium Bee, in vic. Vulg. Voc. Little Britain. 1653. Bound with Kepler, Dioptrice. Radcliffe Library duplicate.
[Unknown]
1653
D (Stack)Galle, J. G.
Verzeichniss der Elemente der bisher berechneten Cometenbahnen nebst Anmerkungen und Literatur-Nachweisen neu bearbeitet, erganzt und fortgesetzt bis zum Jahre 1894
Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1894.
[1968-277]
1894
D (Stack)Garrett, A. ff.
The Jaipur Observatory and its Builder
Assisted by Pundit Chandradhar Guleri. Allahabad, 1902. Transferred from the Department of Astrophysics Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1968-161]
1902
D (Stack)Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655
Institutio Astronomica, Juxta Hypotheses tam Veterum quam Copernici et Tychonis, dictata a Petro Gassendo Regio Matheseos Professore. Ejusdem Oratio Inauguralis iterato edita
Londini, typis Jacobi Flesher. 1653. 8vo. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.8.6).
[1962-65/ ]
1653
D (Stack)Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655
Institutio Astronomica, juxta Hypotheses tam Veterum, quam Copernici & Tychonis
Sexta Editio prioribus Correctior. Cantabrigiae, ex Officina Joann. Hayes, Celeberrimae Academiae Typographi. 1702. Impensis Samuelis Sympson Bibliopolae Cantabr. 8vo. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.152; D.5.19)
[1962-65/ ]
1702
D (Stack)Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655
Institutio Astronomica, Juxta Hypotheseis Tam Veterum Quam Copernici Et Tychonis. Dictata a Petro Gassendo Regio Matheseos Professore. Ejusdem Oratio Inauguralis iterato edita.
Typis mandata 1682. [London: Henry Dickinson, 1683]. ("Oratio Inauguralis Habita In Regio Collegio Die Novembris XXIII" (1645) occurs on pp. 179-199). University Observatory Collection.
[1982-97]
1682
D (Stack)Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655; Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642; Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630
Institutio Astronomica, Juxta Hypotheseis Tam Veterum quam Recentiorum. Cui accesserunt Galilei Galilei Nuncius Sidereus, Et Johannis Kepleri Dioptrice.
Tertia Editio prioribus Correctior. Londini, Impensis Hen. Dickinson, Bibliop. Cantab. M.DC.LXXXIII [1683]. (Three works bound together as issued, with two sequences of pagination; individual title pages dated 1682.) University Observatory Collection.
[1982-97]
1683
D (Stack)Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655; Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642; Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630
Institutio Astronomica, Juxta Hypotheseis Tam Veterum quam Recentiorum. Cui accesserunt Galilei Galilei Nuncius Sidereus, Et Johannis Kepleri Dioptrice.
Secunda Editio priori correctior. Londini, Typis Jacobi Flesher. Prostant apud Gulielmum Morden, Bibliopolam Cantabrigiensem. 1653. (Three works bound together as issued, with two sequences of pagination.) On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.8.6).
[1962-65/ ]
1653
D (Stack)Gerlach, Walter; Fraunberger, Fritz
"Marginalien zur Fru- und Vorgeschichte der Spektralanalyse"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 133-150.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Gingerich, Owen; Welther, Barbara
"The Accuracy of the Toledan Tables"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 151-163.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Godfray, Hugh
An Elementary Treatise on the Lunar Theory, with a brief sketch of the history of the problem before Newton
3rd ed., rev. London: Macmillan, 1871. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-279]
1871
D (Stack)Godfray, Hugh
A Treatise on Astronomy for the Use of Colleges and Schools
3rd edition. London: Macmillan, 1880. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-280]
1880
D (Stack)Godfray, Hugh
A Treatise on Astronomy, for the Use of Colleges and Schools
2nd ed.. London: Macmillan & Co., 1874. From the Examination Schools, Oxford.
[Unknown]
1874
D (Stack)Godfray, Hugh
A Treatise on Astronomy, for the Use of Colleges and Schools
3rd ed. London: Macmillan & Co., 1880. Gunther Loan Collection.
[1940-6/ ]
1880
D (Stack)Goldstein, Bernard R.
"Remarks on Ptolemy's Equant Model in Islamic Astronomy"
followed by Frederick W. Sawyer, "Appendix: On Ptolemy's Determination of the Apsidal Line for Venus"; in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 165-181.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Goldstein, Bernard R.
Ibn al-Muthanna's Commentary on the Astronomical Tables of al-Khwarizmi
Two Hebrew versions, edited and translated, with an astronomical commentary. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1967.
[1968-92]
1967
D (Stack)Goveanus, Antonius
Antonii Goueani pro Aristotele resposio, aduersus Petri Rami calunias, ad Iacobum Spifamium Gymnasij Parisien. Cancellarium
Parisiis Apud Simonem Colinaeum. 1543. Bound with Anon., Elementale Cosmographicum ... . University Observatory Collection
[1982-92]
1543
D (Stack)Graham-Smith, Francis, Sir, 1923-
Radio astronomy
Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, [1960]. Millburn bequest.
[2007-163]
1960
D (Stack)Grant, Robert
History of Physical Astronomy, from the earliest ages to the middle of the Nineteenth Century. Comprehending a Detailed Account of the Establishment of the Theory of Gravitation by Newton, and its Development by his Successors; with an Exposition of the Progress of Research on all the other Subjects of Celestial Physics
London: Robert Baldwin, 1852. Presented by Commander Walker.
[1935- ]
1852
D (Stack)Gregory, David
The Elements of Astronomy, Physical and Geometrical. Done into English, with Additions and Corrections. To which is annex'd, Dr Halley's Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets.
In Two Volumes. Vol. I [only]. London: Printed for J. Nicholson at the King's-Arms in Little-Britain, and sold by J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall. MDCCXV [1715]. University Observatory Collection.
[1982-99]
1715
D (Stack)Gregory, Richard A.
The Vault of Heaven. An elementary text-book of Modern Physical Astronomy
University Extension Series. London: Methuen & Co., 1893.
[Unknown]
1893
D (Stack)Guericke, Otto von, 1602-1686
Neue (sogenannte) Magdeburger Versuche Uber den leeren Raum
Ubersetzt und herausgegeben von Hans Schimank; unter Mitarbeit von Hans Gossen, Gregor Maurach und Fritz Krafft. Dusseldorf: VDI-Verlag, 1968. Presented by Professor Gerard Turner. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2005-148]
1968
D (Stack)Guillemin, Amedee
The Heavens: An Illustrated Handbook of Popular Astronomy
Edited by J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.A.S. Second Edition. London, Richard Bentley, 1867. Inscribed 'For Michael 25/9/02.' Also includes school prize label, and has name/logo of Merchant Taylor's School, Crosby stamped in gilt on front cover. Part of donation from Green Templeton College, March 2013.
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1867
D (Stack)Gundel, Wilhelm
Sterne und Sternbilder im Glauben des Altertums und der Neuzeit
Bonn: Schroeder, 1922.
[1968-447]
1922
D (Stack)Gylden, Hugo
Die Grundlehren der Astronomie nach ihrer geschichtlichen Entwickelung dargestellt
Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1877. University Observatory Collection
[1968-284]
1877
D (Stack)Gunther, Siegmund
Vergeichende Mond- und Erdkunde
Die Wissenschaft, heft 37, 1911. Braunschweig, 1911. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1968-283]
1911
D (Stack)Hale, George Ellery
Beyond the Milky Way
London : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Insert : Menu from RAS dinner (953rd), 1947. Notes on back. Part of donation from Green Templeton College, March 2013.
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1926
D (Stack)Halley, Edmund
"An Extract of an account given by Mr. Flamstead of his own and Mr. Edmund Halleys Observations concerning the Spots in the Sun, appearing in July and August 1676"
In a volume of various papers, extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1676 onwards. Spine title: "Halley's Astronom Tracts". Formerly the property of the Radcliffe Observatory.
[Unknown]
1676
D (Stack)Halley, Edmund
"A Discourse of the Rule of the decrease of the hight of the Mercury in the Barometer, according as places are Elevated above the Surface of the Earth, with an attempt to discover the true reason of the Rising and Falling of the Mercury, upon change of Weather"
In a volume of various papers, extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1676 onwards. Spine title: "Halley's Astronom Tracts". Formerly the property of the Radcliffe Observatory.
[Unknown]
1676
D (Stack)Halley, Edmund
"An Extract of the Journal des Scavans. of April 22 st. N. 1686. Giving an account of the two new Satellites of Saturn, discovered lately by Mr. Cassini at the Royal Observatory in Paris."
In a volume of various papers, extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1676 onwards. Spine title: "Halley's Astronom Tracts". Formerly the property of the Radcliffe Observatory.
[Unknown]
1676
D (Stack)Halley, Edmund
"An Historical Account of the Trade Winds, and Monsoons, observable in the Seas between and near the Tropicks, with an attempt to assign the Phisical cause of the said Winds"
In a volume of various papers, extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1676 onwards. Spine title: "Halley's Astronom Tracts". Formerly the property of the Radcliffe Observatory.
[Unknown]
1676
D (Stack)Halley, Edmund
"A Letter of Monsieur Cassini to the Publisher, giving his corrections to the Theory of the five Satellites of Saturn; With Tables of the Motions of those Satellites; adapted to the Meridian of London, and the Julian Account"
In a volume of various papers, extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1676 onwards. Spine title: "Halley's Astronom Tracts". Formerly the property of the Radcliffe Observatory.
[Unknown]
1676
D (Stack)Halley, Edmund
"Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Autore Is. Newton Trin. Coll. Cantab. Soc. Matheseos Professore Lucasiano, & Societatis Regalis Sodali. 4to. Londini. Prostat apud plures Bibliopolas."
In a volume of various papers, extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1676 onwards. Spine title: "Halley's Astronom Tracts". Formerly the property of the Radcliffe Observatory.
[Unknown]
1676
D (Stack)Halley, Edmund
De Constructione Problematum Solidorum, sive Aequationum tertiae vel quartae Potestatis, unica data Parabola ac Circulo efficienda; dissertatiuncula Authore Edm. Halley."
In a volume of various papers, extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1676 onwards. Spine title: "Halley's Astronom Tracts". Formerly the property of the Radcliffe Observatory.
[Unknown]
1676
D (Stack)Halley, Edmund
An Estimate of the Quantity of Vapour raised out of the Sea by the warmth of the Sun; derived from an Experiment shown before the Royal Society, at one of their late Meetings"
In a volume of various papers, extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1676 onwards. Spine title: "Halley's Astronom Tracts". Formerly the property of the Radcliffe Observatory.
[Unknown]
1676
D (Stack)Halley, Edmund
"De Numero Radicum in Aequationibus Solidis ac Biquadraticis, sive tertiae ac quartae potestatis, earumq; limitibus, tractatulus Authore E. Halley"
In a volume of various papers, extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1676 onwards. Spine title: "Halley's Astronom Tracts". Formerly the property of the Radcliffe Observatory.
[Unknown]
1676
D (Stack)Halley, Edmund
"An Account of some Observations lately made at Nurenburg by Mr. P. Wurtzelbaur, shewing that the latitude of that Place has continued without sensible alteration for 200 Years last past; as likewise the Obliquity of the Ecliptick; by comparing them with what was observed by Bernard Walther in the Year 1487 being a Discourse read before the Royal Society in one of late Meetings."
In a volume of various papers, extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1676 onwards. Spine title: "Halley's Astronom Tracts". Formerly the property of the Radcliffe Observatory.
[Unknown]
1676
D (Stack)Halley, Edmund
"De Visibili Conjunctione Inferiorum Planetarum cum Sole, Dissertatio Astronomica, Authore E. Halley."
In a volume of various papers, extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1676 onwards. Spine title: "Halley's Astronom Tracts". Formerly the property of the Radcliffe Observatory.
[Unknown]
1676
D (Stack)Halley, Edmund
"A Discourse concerning a Method of Discovering the true Moment of the Sun's Ingress into the Tropical Signs"
In a volume of various papers, extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1676 onwards. Spine title: "Halley's Astronom Tracts". Formerly the property of the Radcliffe Observatory.
[Unknown]
1676
D (Stack)Halley, Edmund
"A most compendious and facile Method for Constructing the Logarithms, exemplified and demonstrated from the Nature of Numbers, without any regard to the Hyperbola, with a speedy Method for finding the Number from the Logarithm given"
In a volume of various papers, extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1676 onwards. Spine title: "Halley's Astronom Tracts". Formerly the property of the Radcliffe Observatory.
[Unknown]
1676
D (Stack)Halley, Edmund
"An Easie Demonstration of the Analogy of the Logarithmick Tangents to the Meridian Line or sum of Secants: with various Methods for computing the same to the utmost Exactness"
In a volume of various papers, extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1676 onwards. Spine title: "Halley's Astronom Tracts". Formerly the property of the Radcliffe Observatory.
[Unknown]
1676
D (Stack)Hallo, Rudolf
Die Sternwarten Kassels in hessischer Zeit
Kassel: Im Barenreiter-Verlag zu Kassel, 1929. (Cover title differs). Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1963-80]
1929
D (Stack)Harris, John, 1667?-1719
Astronomical dialogues between a gentleman and a lady
The fourth edition. / Corrected by George Gordon. London : printed for L. Hawes, W. Clarke, and R. Collins, at the Red-Lion, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1766. Millburn bequest.
[2007-354]
1766
D (Stack)Heath, Thomas L.
Greek Astronomy
In the series "The Library of Greek Thought". London & Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1932. Gunther Loan Collection.
[1940-6/ ]
1932
D (Stack)Heck, Andre (ed.)
Organizations, People and Strategies in Astronomy
Volume 1. Duttlenheim, France : Venngeist, 2012. Sent by Venngeist in 2014. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2014-156]
2012
D (Stack)Hell, Maximilian
Drey neue Sternbilder, die als ewige Denkmaler, am gestirneten Himmel errichtet werden sollten. Das Eine, Seiner Majestat dem Konige von England, Georg III. Die zwey Undern, dem beruhmten Herrn Friederich Willhelm Herschel, von Maximilian Hell ...
Mit 4 Kupfertafeln. Wien: gedruckt bey Johann Thomas Edlen v. Trattnern, [s.d.].
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
D (Stack)Henderson, Ebenezer, 1809-1879
A treatise on astronomy : displaying the arithmetical architecture of the solar system [...]
3rd ed. London : N.H. Cotes ; Edinburgh : W. Whyte ; Dublin : J. Cumming, 1848. Millburn bequest.
[2008-7]
1848
D (Stack)Herbst, Klaus-Dieter
Die Entwicklung des Meridiankreises 1700-1850: Genesis eines astronomischen Hauptinstrumentes unter Berucksichtigung des Wechselverhaltnisses zwischen Astronomie, Astro-Technik und Technik
Bassum, Stuttgart: Verlag fur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 1996. Presented by Professor G. L'E. Turner
[1997-128]
1996
D (Stack)Herschel, John F. W.
Outlines of Astronomy
4th ed. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851.
[Unknown]
1851
D (Stack)Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), Sir , 1792-1871
Astronomy
Cabinet cyclopaedia. Natural philosophy ; [43] London : Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman and John Taylor, 1833. Variant title : A treatise on Astronomy Millburn bequest.
[2007-91]
1833
D (Stack)Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), Sir , 1792-1871
A treatise on astronomy
Cabinet cyclopaedia. Natural philosophy ; [43] London : Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman and John Taylor, 1833. Variant title: Astronomy (see separate entry) Millburn bequest
[2007-91]
1833
D (Stack)Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), Sir, 1792-1871
Outlines of astronomy
5th ed. London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858. Millburn bequest.
[2007-305]
1858
D (Stack)Herschel, Sir John
A Treatise on Astronomy
New ed. London: Longman, 1833. University Observatory Collection
[1968-295]
1833
D (Stack)Herschel, Sir John F. W.
Outlines of Astronomy
10th ed. London: Longmans, 1869. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-290]
1869
D (Stack)Herschel, Sir John F. W.
Outlines of Astronomy
3rd ed. London: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850. Presented by R. K. V. Torode Esq.
[1995-75]
1850
D (Stack)Herz, Norbert
Geschichte der Bahnbestimmung von Planeten und Kometen. II Their: Die empirischen Methoden
Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1894. University Observatory Collection
[1968-292]
1894
D (Stack)Hevelius, [Johannes]
The illustrated account given by Hevelius in his 'Machina Celestis' of the method of mounting his telescopes and errecting an observatory
Reprinted from an original copy with some remarks by C. Leeson Prince. Crowborough: privately printed, 1882. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-293]
1882
D (Stack)Hinks, Arthur R. (Arthur Robert), 1873-1945
"Experimental Reduction of Some Photographs of Eros Made at the Cambridge Observatory for the Determination of the Solar Parallax"
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 62(1), 1901, pp. 22-41. In a bound volume of his papers with the spine title Solar Parallax Papers.
[1968-296]
1901
D (Stack)Hinks, Arthur R. (Arthur Robert), 1873-1945
"Experimental Reduction of Some Photographs of Eros for the Determination of the Solar Parallax. Second Paper: Combination of Results from Mount Hamilton, Minneapolis and Cambridge"
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 62(8), 1902, pp. 551-561. In a bound volume of his papers with the spine title Solar Parallax Papers.
[1968-296]
1902
D (Stack)Hinks, Arthur R. (Arthur Robert), 1873-1945
"Reduction of 295 Photographs of Eros Made at Nine Observatories During the Period 1900 November 7-15, with a Determination of the Solar Parallax"
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 64(8), 1904, pp. 701-727. In a bound volume of his papers with the spine title Solar Parallax Papers.
[1968-296]
1904
D (Stack)Hinks, Arthur R. (Arthur Robert), 1873-1945
"Solar Parallax Papers. No. 4. The Magnitude Equation in Right Ascension of the Etoiles de Repere"
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 66(8), 1906, pp. 481-491. In a bound volume of his papers with the spine title Solar Parallax Papers.
[1968-296]
1906
D (Stack)Hinks, Arthur R. (Arthur Robert), 1873-1945
"Solar Parallax Papers. No. 5. Examination of the Photographic Places of Sars published in the Paris Eros Circulars"
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 67(1), 1906, pp. 70-85. In a bound volume of his papers with the spine title Solar Parallax Papers.
[1968-296]
1906
D (Stack)Hinks, Arthur R. (Arthur Robert), 1873-1945
"Solar Parallax Papers. No. 6. Construction of a Standard Catalogue of Photographic Star Places"
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 68(2), 1907, pp. 82-97. In a bound volume of his papers with the spine title Solar Parallax Papers.
[1968-296]
1907
D (Stack)Hinks, Arthur R. (Arthur Robert), 1873-1945
"Solar Parallax Papers. No. 7. The General Solution from the Photographic Right Ascensions of Eros, at the Opposition of 1900"
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 69(7), 1909, pp. 544-567. In a bound volume of his papers with the spine title Solar Parallax Papers.
[1968-296]
1909
D (Stack)Hinks, Arthur R. (Arthur Robert), 1873-1945
"Solar Parallax Papers. No. 8. The Mass of the Moon, Derived from the Photographic Observations of Eros Made in 1900-01"
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 70(1), 1909, pp. 64-75. In a bound volume of his papers with the spine title Solar Parallax Papers.
[1968-296]
1909
D (Stack)Hinks, Arthur R. (Arthur Robert), 1873-1945
"Solar Parallax Papers No. 9. The General Solution from the Micrometric Right Ascensions of Eros, at the Opposition of 1900"
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 70(8), 1910, pp. 588-603. In a bound volume of his papers with the spine title Solar Parallax Papers.
[1968-296]
1910
D (Stack)Hinks, Arthur R. (Arthur Robert), 1873-1945
"New Measurements of the Distance of the Sun"
in The Observatory, nos. 361/362, September/October 1905, pp. 1-14.
[1968-296]
1905
D (Stack)Hitchman, William
The Young Astronomer's Assistant, and Countryman's Daily Companion; containing the following Particulars: I. An Account of the Common Notes ... II. Astronomy ... III. A New Kalendar for Seven Years, beginning with 1755 ... IV. Mensuration ... The Whole interspersed with Rules for finding every Article, and adapted to the meanest Capacity
Cirencester: Printed for A. Wright, at Holyrood-Ampney; and Sold by Booksellers ... 1755. 8vo (4to page notation). Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1755
D (Stack)Hooke, Robert
Lectures and collections made by Robert Hooke, secretary of the Royal Society. Cometa. Containing observations of the comet in April, 1677. Fragments of several lectures about those of 1664. and 1665. Sir Chr. Wren's hypothesis and geometrical problem about those comets, A discourse concerning the comet of 1677. Mr. Boyle's observation made on two new phosphori of Mr. Baldwin, and Mr. Craft. Mr. Gallet's letter to Mr. Cassini, together with his observation of [Mercury] sub [Sun]. Mr. Cassini' reflections upon those of Gassendus, and Hevelius, and upon this. Mr. Hally's letter and observation of the same made at St. Hellena. Mr. Cassini's observation of the diurnal motion of [Jupiter], and other changes happening in it. Microscopium. Containing Mr. Leeuwenhoeck's two letters concerning some late microscopical discoveries. The author's discourse and description of microscopes, improved for discerning the nature and texture of bodies. P. Cherubine's accusations answered. Mr. Young's letter containing several anatomical observations.
London: Printed for J. Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in St. Paul's Church-yard. 1678. Gunther Loan Collection (bound).
[1940-6/ ]
1678
D (Stack)Hooke, Robert
An Attempt to prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations made by Robert Hooke F.R.S.
London, Printed by T. R. for John Martyn Printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1674. 4to. Inscribed 'R. T. Gunther d.d. grato animo J. F. Fulton 23 x 30'; Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1674
D (Stack)Hooke, Robert
Lectures and collections made by Robert Hooke, secretary of the Royal Society. Cometa. Containing observations of the comet in April, 1677. Fragments of several lectures about those of 1664. and 1665. Sir Chr. Wren's hypothesis and geometrical problem about those comets, A discourse concerning the comet of 1677. Mr. Boyle's observation made on two new phosphori of Mr. Baldwin, and Mr. Craft. Mr. Gallet's letter to Mr. Cassini, together with his observation of [Mercury] sub [Sun]. Mr. Cassini' reflections upon those of Gassendus, and Hevelius, and upon this. Mr. Hally's letter and observation of the same made at St. Hellena. Mr. Cassini's observation of the diurnal motion of [Jupiter], and other changes happening in it. Microscopium. Containing Mr. Leeuwenhoeck's two letters concerning some late microscopical discoveries. The author's discourse and description of microscopes, improved for discerning the nature and texture of bodies. P. Cherubine's accusations answered. Mr. Young's letter containing several anatomical observations.
London: Printed for J. Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in St. Paul's Church-yard. 1678. Disbound. With folding plates not in the Gunther Loan Collection copy.
[Unknown]
1678
D (Stack)Hopton, Arthur
Hoptons concordancy enlarged. Containing a briefe and more perfect account of the yeares of our Lord God, than any other heretofore published, agreeing with the yeares of all the reignes of the kings of England since the conquest.
Exactly computed by Iohn Penkethman. London: printed by Anne Griffin for Andrew Hebb, 1635.
[Unknown]
1635
D (Stack)Horrocks, Jeremiah
The Transit of Venus across the Sun
A translation of the celebrated discourse thereupon, by the Rev. Jeremiah Horrox, Curate of Hoole, (1639,) near Preston; to which is prefixed a Memoir of his life and labours, by the Rev. Arundell Blount Whatton. London: William Macintosh, 1859 or ?1873.
[Unknown]
18--?
D (Stack)Horrox, Jeremiah
The Transit of Venus across the Sun: A Translation of the celebrated Discourse thereupon by the Rev. Jeremiah Horrox, Curate of Hoole, (1639,) near Preston; to which is prefixed a Memoir of his Life and Labours by the Rev. Arundel Blount Whatton, B.A., LL.B.
London: William Macintosh, [1859]. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-380]
1859
D (Stack)Horrox, Jeremiah
The Transit of Venus across the Sun: A Translation of the celebrated Discourse thereupon by the Rev. Jeremiah Horrox, Curate of Hoole, (1639,) near Preston; to which is prefixed a Memoir of his Life and Labours by the Rev. Arundel Blount Whatton, B.A., LL.B.
London: William Macintosh, [1859]
[Unknown]
1859
D (Stack)Hoskin, Michael
Stellar Astronomy: Historical Studies
Chalfont St Giles: Science History Publications, 1982.
[2005-173]
1982
D (Stack)Housden, C. E.
The Riddle of Mars the Planet
London: Longmans, Green, 1914. University Observatory Collection
[1968-297]
1914
D (Stack)Hoyle, Fred
The Nature of the Universe
Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1950. Given by Prof. Muir Parry.
[2014-110]
1950
D (Stack)Huggins, William
On the results of Spectrum Analysis applied to the Heavenly Bodies: A Discourse delivered at Nottingham, before the British Association, August 24, 1866
London: W. Ladd, [1886]. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-299]
1886
D (Stack)Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695
The celestial worlds discover'd
Cass library of science classics ; no. 10 London : Frank Cass, 1968. Facsimile reprint of 1st English ed., London, Timothy Childe, 1698. English translation of Kosmotheoros sive De terris coelestibus earumque ornatu conjecturae. Millburn bequest.
[2007-128]
1968
D (Stack)Huygens, Christianus
The Celestial Worlds Discover'd: or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets. Written in Latin by Christianus Huygens, and inscrib'd to his Brother Constantine Huygens Late Secretary to his Majesty King William.
The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. London: Printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard. MDCCXXII [1722].
[1964-112]
1722
D (Stack)Huygens, Christianus
The Celestial Worlds Discover'd: Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions Of The Worlds in the Planets. Written in Latin by Christianus Huygens, And inscrib'd to his Brother Constantine Huygens, Late Secretary to his Majesty K. William.
London, Printed for Timothy Childe at the White Hart at the West-end of St. Paul's Church-yard. MDCXCVIII [1698]. University Observatory Collection.
[1982-106]
1698
D (Stack)Ibn 'Iraq, Abu Nasr Mansur, d. 1036
Rasa'il Abi Nasr Mansur b. Iraq ila al-Biruni
Hyderabad: Osmania, 1948. Added t.p. in English. Fifteen epistles in one volume. With another unidentified volume (?second part of same volume).
[1975-6/1&2)
1948
D (Stack)Inman, James; Hall, William
Nautical Tables Designed for the Use of British Seamen
London: Potter, 1906.
[1971-26]
1906
D (Stack)Israel-Holtzwart, Karl
Elemente der theorerischen Astronomie fur Studierende bearbeitet
Wiesbaden: J. F. Bergman, 1882. University Observatory Collection
[1968-300]
1882
D (Stack)Jeans, James Hopwood, Sir, 1877-1946
The stars in their courses
Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1939, 1941 printing. Millburn bequest. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2007-162]
1941
D (Stack)Jeans, Sir James
The Universe Around Us
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1929. Prize awarded to Raymond T. P. Whipple for Science by Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, July 1929; Whipple Collection
[1979-77]
1929
D (Stack)Jeans, Sir James H.
Eos or the Wider Aspects of Cosmogony
London: Kegan Paul, 1928. University Observatory Collection
[1968-303]
1928
D (Stack)Johnson, Manuel John
The Radcliffe Catalogue of 6317 Stars, chiefly circumpolar, reduced to the Epoch 1845.0; formed from the Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory under the superintendence of Manuel John Johnson, M.A. late Radcliffe Observer
With introduction by the Rev. Robert Main, M.A. Radcliffe Observer. Published by order of the Radcliffe Trustees. Oxford: J. H. and Jas. Parker, 1860.
[1974-83]
1860
D (Stack)Johnson, Manuel John
Astronomical Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, in the year 1840
Published by order of the Trustees. Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1842.
[Unknown]
1842
D (Stack)Johnson, Manuel John
The Radcliffe Catalogue of 6317 Stars, chiefly circumpolar, reduced to the Epoch 1845.0; formed from the Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory under the superintendence of Manuel John Johnson, M.A. late Radcliffe Observer
With introduction by the Rev. Robert Main, M.A. Radcliffe Observer. Published by order of the Radcliffe Trustees. Oxford: J. H. and Jas. Parker, 1860.
[Unknown]
1860
D (Stack)Johnson, Manuel John
Astronomical Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, in the year 1850: Vol. XI (with an Engraving of the Heliometer.)
Published by order Radcliffe Trustees. Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1852.
[Unknown]
1852
D (Stack)Johnson, Manuel John
Astronomical and Meteorological Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, in the year 1854: Vol. XV
Published by order of the Radcliffe Trustees. Oxford: J. H. and J. Parker, 1856.
[Unknown]
1856
D (Stack)Johnson, Manuel John
Astronomical and Meteorological Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, in the year 1856: Vol. XVII.
Published by order of the Radcliffe Trustees. Oxford: J. H. and J. Parker, 1858.
[Unknown]
1858
D (Stack)Johnson, S. J.
Eclipses, Past and Future; with general hints for observing the heavens
Oxford: Parker, 1874. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-302]
1874
D (Stack)Jones, Harold Spencer
General Astronomy
London : Edward Arnold & Co., [1934]. (Printed 1943). Inscribed: 'Mary Thackeray from Kenneth Harrison 4th September 1944'. Inserted: Letter from Kenneth Harrison to Mary Thackeray. Part of donation from Green Templeton College, March 2013.
[2014-139/18]
[1934]
D (Stack)Jones, Sir H. Spencer
"Copernicus and the 'De Revolutionibus'"
in Polish Science and Learning, no. 3, June 1943, pp. 11-24. Shelved under Polish.
[Unknown]
1943
D (Stack)Jurdak, Mansur Hanna
Astronomical Dictionary: The Zodiac and the Constellations: Arabic Star-Names, their Meaning, Transliteration and Pronounciation [sic]
Beirut, Lebanon: American Mission Press, 1950.
[1961-85]
1950
D (Stack)Kary-Niyazov, T. N.
Astronomicheskaya shkola Ulugbeka
Tashkent: Akademiya Nauk Uzbeksoi SSR, 1967. Izbrannye trudy, vol. VI. (Re. Ulugh Beg and his observatory). Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1968-512]
1967
D (Stack)Keill, J.
An Examination Of Dr Burnet's Theory of the Earth: With Some Remarks On Mr. Whiston's New Theory of the Earth. Also An Examination of the Reflections on the Theory of the Earth; And A Defence of the Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New Theory. To the whole is annexed a Dissertation On The Different Figures of the Coelestial Bodies, etc. With a Summary Exposition of the Cartesian and Newtonian Systems. By Mons. de Maupertuis, Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Royal Academy in Paris.
The Second Edition Corrected, and all the Figures (25 in Number) Engraved on Copper Plates. Printed for and Sold by H. Clements, near the Theatre in Oxford; and S. Harding, on the Pavement in St. Martin's Lane, London. MDCCXXXIV [1734]. University Observatory Collection.
[1982-108]
1734
D (Stack)Keill, J.
An Examination of Dr Burnet's Theory of the Earth. Together with some Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New Theory of the Earth
Oxford, Printed at the Theater 1698. Bound with 'An Examination of the Reflections on the Theory of the Earth' and 'A Vindication of the New Theory of the Earth from the Exceptions of Mr. Keill and Others', the former by Keill, the latter anonymous. 8vo. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.8.14)
[1962-65/ ]
1698
D (Stack)Keill, J.
An Examination of the Reflections on The Theory of the Earth. Together with a Defence of the Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New Theory
Oxford, Printed at the Theater for Henry Clemens Bookseller. 1699. Bound with Keill, An Examination of Dr Burnet's Theory of the Earth. 8vo. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.8.14)
[1962-65/ ]
1699
D (Stack)Keill, J.
An Examination of Dr Burnet's Theory of the Earth: with some Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New Theory of the Earth. Also an Examination of the Reflections on the Theory of the Earth; and a Defence of the Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New Theory
To which is annexed a Dissertation On The Different Figures of the Coelestial Bodies, etc. With a Summary Exposition of the Cartesian and Newtonian Systems. By Mons. de Maupertuis, Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Royal Academy in Paris. Printed and Sold by H. Clements, near the Theatre in Oxford: and S. Harding, on the Pavement in St. Martin's Lane, London. 1734. 8vo. Inscribed "S. Rigaud Ex Coll: Ox May 16, 1801"
[Unknown]
1734
D (Stack)Keill, John
An Introduction to the True Astronomy: or, Astronomical Lectures, read in the Astronomical School of the University of Oxford
London: Printed for Barnard Lintot, at the Cross-Keys, between the Temple-Gates in Fleet-street. 1721. 8vo. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (D.5.26).
[1962-65/ ]
1721
D (Stack)Keill, John
An Introduction to the true Astronomy: or, Astronomical Lectures, read in the Astronomical School of the University of Oxford
The Second Edition. London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, at the Cross-Keys, between the Temple-Gates in Fleet-street. 1730. 8vo. Formerly the property of Sir Archibald Grant of Monymoske, Bart.; & Presented by Professor Gunn
[1968-128]
1730
D (Stack)Keill, John
An Introduction To The True Astronomy: Or, Astronomical Lectures, Read in the Astronomical School Of The University of Oxford
The Fifth Edition, Corrected. London: Printed for J. Buckland, J. Beecroft, John Rivington, J. Ware, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Keith, J. Richardson, P. Davey and B. Law, S. Crowder, & Co. MDCCLX [1760]. University Observatory Collection.
[1982-109]
1760
D (Stack)Keill, John
An Introduction To The True Astronomy: Or, Astronomical Lectures, Read in the Astronomical School Of The University of Oxford
The Sixth Edition, Corrected. London: Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, J. Buckland, G. Keith, S. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, J. and T. Bowles, G. Robinson, R. Baldwin, T. Beecroft, and J. Wallis. MDCCLXXVIII [1778]. University Observatory Collection.
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D (Stack)Keill, John
An Introduction to the true Astronomy: or, Astronomical Lectures, read in the Astronomical School of the University of Oxford
The Second Edition. London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, at the Cross-Keys, between the Temple-Gates in Fleet-street. 1730. 8vo.
[Unknown]
1730
D (Stack)Kennedy, E. S.
"The Solar Equation in the Zij of Yahya B. Abi Mansur"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 183-186.
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D (Stack)Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630
Dioptrice: seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visilibus propter Conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt. Praemissae Epistolae Galilaei de iis quae post editionem Nuncii Siderei, ope Perspicilli, nova & admiranda in coe lo deprehensa sunt. Item examen Praefationis Joannis Penae Galli in Optica Euclidis, de usu Optices in Philosophia.
Londini, typis Jacobi Flesher. 1653. 8vo. Bound with and shelved under Galileo's (sic) Sidereus Nuncius. From the Radcliffe Observatory.
[Unknown]
1653
D (Stack)Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630
Dioptrice: Seu Demonstratio eorum quae visui & visilibus propter Conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt. Praemissae Epistolae Galilaei de iis quae post editionem Nuncii Siderei, ope Perspicilli, nova & admiranda in Coelo deprehensa sunt. Item Examen Praefationis Joannis Penae Galli in Optica Euclidis, de usu Optices in Philosophia.
Typis mandata 1682. [London: Henry Dickinson, 1683]. Bound with and shelved under Petrus Gassendi, Institutio Astronomica ... . University Observatory Collection.
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D (Stack)Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630
Dioptrice: Seu Demonstratio eorum quae visui & visilibus propter Conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt. Praemissae Epistolae Galilaei de iis quae post editionem Nuncii Siderei, ope Perspicilli, nova & admiranda in Coelo deprehensa sunt. Item Examen Praefationis Joannis Penae Galli in Optica Euclidis, de usu Optices in Philosophia.
Londini, Typis Jacobi Flesher. 1653. Bound with and shelved under Petrus Gassendi, Institutio Astronomica ... . On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.8.6).
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D (Stack)Keppler, Joh. [Johannes Kepler]
Joh. Keppleri Mathematici olim Imperatorii Somnium, sev Opus Posthumum de Astronomia Lunari. Divulgatum a M. Ludovico Kepplero Filio, Medicinae Candidato.
Impressum partim Sagani Silesiorum, absolutum Francofurti, sumptibus haerdum authoris. Anno 1634. 4to. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (D.5.28)
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1634
D (Stack)Khuwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa, fl. 813-846
Die astronomischen Tafeln des Muhammed ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi in der Bearbeitung des Maslama ibn Ahmed al-Madjriti und der latein: uebersetzung des Athelhard von Bath
Copenhagen: Host, 1914.
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D (Stack)Kilburn, Kevin J. (ed.)
The History of the Manchester Astronomical Societies (The First Hundred Years)
Manchester: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, January 1992. (Cover title: 'The Manchester Astronomical Society: A History'). Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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1992
D (Stack)King, David A.
"A Fourteenth Century Tunisian Sundial for Regulating the Times of Muslim Prayer"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 187-202.
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D (Stack)King, Henry C.
The history of the telescope
London : Charles Griffin & Co. Ltd, 1955. Millburn bequest.
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D (Stack)Kirkwood, Daniel
The Asteroids or Minor Planets between Mars and Jupiter
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1888. University Observatory Collection.
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1888
D (Stack)Kitchiner, William
The Economy of the Eyes. - Part II. Telescopes; Being The Result of Thirty Years' Experiments with Fifty-One Telescopes, of from One to Nine Inches in Diameter. To which are added An Abstract of the Practical Parts of the Writings of Sir Wm. Herschel on Telescopes and Double Stars, etc.; some Observations thereon, and Original Letters from Eminent Opticians
London: Geo. B. Whittaker, 1825. Royal Microscopical Society Collection.
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1825
D (Stack)Kitchiner, William
The Economy of the Eyes. - Part I. Of Spectacles, Opera-Glasses, and Theatres: Plain Rules, which will enable all to judge exactly when and what Spectacles are best calculated for their eyes, and Precepts for the preservation and improvement of the sight
2nd ed. London: Geo. B. Whittaker, 1826. Royal Microscopical Society Collection (purchase).
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1826
D (Stack)Kitchiner, William
Practical Observations on Telescopes, Opera-Glasses and Spectacles
3rd ed. London: Printed for S. Bagster, 1818. Gunther Loan Collection.
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1818
D (Stack)Kitchiner, William
Of Telescopes; being the result of thirty years' experiments with fifty-one telescopes, of from one to nine inches in diameter, in the possession of ..., M.D.
To which are added, an Abstract from the Practical Parts of Sir. Wm. Herschel's Writings on Telescopes and Double Stars, etc.; some Observations thereon, and Original Letters from Eminent Opticians. In the series "The Economy of the Eyes" - Part II. Printed for Geo. B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria Lane. 1825. From the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford
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1825
D (Stack)Kitchiner, William
The Economy of the Eyes - Part II: Of Telescopes; being the Result of Thirty Years' Experiments with Fifty-One Telescopes of from one to nine inches in Diameter in the possession of William Kitchiner, M.D. To which are added An Abstract of the Practical Parts of Sir Wm. Herschel's Writings on Telescopes and Double Stars, &c.; some Observations thereon, and Original Letters from Eminent Opticians
London: printed for Geo. B. Whittaker, 1825. Radcliffe Observatory Collection.
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D (Stack)Kitchiner, William
Practical Observations on Telescopes, Opera-Glasses and Spectacles
3rd ed. London: Printed for S. Bagster, 1818. Radcliffe Observatory Collection.
[Unknown]
1818
D (Stack)Kitchiner, William
Practical Observations on Telescopes, Opera-Glasses and Spectacles
3rd ed. London: Printed for S. Bagstaff, 1818. Inscribed "To Dr. Evans. A token of esteem from the author."
[Unknown]
1818
D (Stack)Kleczek, Josip
Astronomical Dictionary in Six Languages
In English, Russian, German, French, Italian, and Czech. Praha: Nakladatelstvi Ceskoslovenske akademie ved, 1961.
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D (Stack)Knecht, Pierre
I Libri astronomici di Alfonso X in una versione fiorentina del trecento
Saragossa: Libreria General, 1965.
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D (Stack)Kot, St.
"The Cultural Background of Copernicus"
in Polish Science and Learning, no. 3, June 1943, pp. 5-11. Shelved under Polish.
[Unknown]
1943
D (Stack)Koval', I. K.
The world of the planets
{...}, Ukraine: {...}, 1966. (In Ukrainian). University Observatory Collection
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D (Stack)Kreiner, Jerzy Marek
Obserwatorium astronomiczne Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego
[Krakow : Panstwowe Wydawn. Naukowe, Oddz. w Krakowie, 1972]
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D (Stack)Kucharzyk, Henryk
"The First Disciples of Copernicus in England: (Early English Coperniciana)"
in Polish Science and Learning, no. 3, June 1943, pp. 47-57. Shelved under Polish.
[Unknown]
1943
D (Stack)Kulikovskii, P.G. (ed.)
Istoriko-Astronomicheskie Issledovaniia
10 vols. Moscow, 1955-1969. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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D (Stack)Kunitzsch, P.
"Uber Einige Spuren der Syrischen Almagestubersetzung"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 203-210.
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D (Stack)Kunitzsch, Paul
Arabische Sternnamen in Europa
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1959.
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D (Stack)Kunitzsch, Paul
Untersuchungen zur Sternnomenklatur der Araber
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1961.
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D (Stack)Kunitzsch, Paul
Typen von Sternverzeichnissen in astronomischen Handschriften des zehnten bis vierzehnten Jahrhunderts
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1966.
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D (Stack)Kunitzsch, Paul
Der Almagest. Die Syntaxis Mathematica des Claudius Ptolemaus in Aribsch-Lateinischer Uberlieferung
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1974.
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1974
D (Stack)La Caille, L'Abbe de
Lecons elementaires d'astromonie geometrique et physique
Nouvelle Edition, revue, corrigee & augmentee. Paris: chez H. L. Guerin & L. F. Delatour, 1761.
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1761
D (Stack)Ladd, William
"A List of Spectroscopes and Apparatus, manufactured and sold by William Ladd, 11 and 12, Beak Street, Regent Street, London, W. Microscope and Philosophical Instrument Manufacturer, by appointment to The Royal Institution of Great Britain, etc., etc., etc."
1 page (with book advertisement on reverse) at end of William Huggins, On the Results of Spectrum Analysis ..., which was published by Ladd, 1866.
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D (Stack)Laplace, P. S.
Exposition du Systeme du Monde
5th ed. 2 vols. Paris: Bachelier, 1824. University Observatory Collection.
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1824
D (Stack)Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859 ; Dunkin, Edwin, 1821-1898.
Handbook of astronomy
3rd ed. / rev. and edited by Edwin Dunkin London : James Walton, 1867. Presented by John Wilson.
1867
D (Stack)Le Boeuffle, Andre
Les noms latins d'astres et de constellations
Paris: Societe d'Edition "Les Belles Lettres", 1977.
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D (Stack)Le Boeuffle, Andre
Le Vocabulaire Latin d'Astronomie
These presentee devant la Faculte des Letters et Sciences Humaines de Paris, le 11 Decembre 1970. 3 vols. Paris: Service de Reproduction des Theses, Universite de Lille III, 1973. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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D (Stack)Leppik, Lea
Tartu Tatetorn : Tartu Old Observatory
Estonia : Aasta Raamut OV, 2011.
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D (Stack)Lerner, Michel-Pierre
Tre Saggi sulla Cosmologia alla Fine del Cinquecento
Napoli: Bibliopolis, 1992. Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Lezioni della Scuola di Studi Superiori in Napoli 14. From the library of Dr A. C. Crombie
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D (Stack)Leupold of Austria
Compilatio Leupoldi ducatus Austriae filii de Astrorum scientia Decem continentis tractatus
[Venice]: M[elchior] S[essa], [?1520]. 4to. Modern binding. [First published by E. Ratdolt in 1489; this edition is later.] Gunther Loan Collection.
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D (Stack)Lewis, George Cornewall
An Historical Survey of the Astronomy of the Ancients
London: Parker, 1862.
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D (Stack)Licetus, Fortunius
De Cometae An. MDCLII. MDCLIII. Observationibvs Astronomicis, Evropa fere tota peractis, & omnia fideris accidentia detegentibus: Loco Elementari Physice, Mathematiceque demonstrato: Generatione Ex halitu terrestri sursum elato, & vi motuum caelestium ignito: Praesagiis Tam Naturali, quam Altiori Virtute fultis: Effectibvs Semper Magnis, & noxijs humano generi, speciatimque Viris Excelsis: Collatione Ad alios Cometas in multis admirandis proprietatibus: Responsvm Fortvnii Liceti Genvensis Ex L. Com. In Pat. Lyceo Med. Theorici Supremae Cathedrae. Cum triplici Indice, Capitum, Autorum, & rerum notabilium.
Ad Illustrissimum & Amplissimum Virum Marchionem Fabivm Colloretvm. Vtini, Ex Typographia Nicolai Schiratti. MDCLIII [1653]. Svperiorvm Permissv. University Observatory Collection.
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D (Stack)Lockyer, J. Norman
The meteoritic hypothesis: A statement of the results of a spectroscopic inquiry into the origin of cosmical systems
London: Macmillan, 1890. University Observatory Collection.
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D (Stack)London Planetarium
The London Planetarium
[London: Madame Tussaud's, 1958].
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D (Stack)Lovell, Bernard, Sir, 1913- ; Clegg, J. A. (John Atherton)
Radio astronomy
London : Chapman & Hall ltd, 1952. Frontiers of science series. Millburn bequest.
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D (Stack)Mackey, Sampson Arnold
The Mythological Astronomy of the Ancients; part the second: or the Key of Urania, the Wards of which will unlock all the Mysteries of Antiquity
Norwich: Printed by R. Walker, near the Duke's Palace. 1823. (Bound with vol. I.)
[Unknown]
1823
D (Stack)Mackey, Sampson Arnold
The Mythological Astronomy of the Ancients Demonstrated by restoring to their Fables & Symbols their original meanings
Norwich: Printed by R. Walker, near the Duke's Palace. [?1822/3]. (Two volumes, bound together [see separate entry for vol. II]).
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D (Stack)Macpherson, Hector
A Century's Progress in Astronomy
Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1906. University Observatory Collection
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D (Stack)Macpherson, Hector
Modern Astronomy: Its Rise and Progress
London: Oxford University Press, 1926. University Observatory Collection
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D (Stack)Macpherson, Hector
Modern Cosmologies: A Historical Sketch of Researches and Theories Concerning the Structure of the Universe
London: Oxford University Press, 1929. University Observatory Collection
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D (Stack)Maeyama, Y.
"The Oldest Star Catalogue of China, Shih Shen's Hsing Ching"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 211-245.
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D (Stack)Maeyama, Y.; Saltzer, W. G. (eds.)
Prismata: Naturwissenschaftsgeschichtliche Studien. Festschrift fur Willy Hartner
Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977. Articles by Schramm, Aaboe, Beer, Bruin & Bruin, Cohen, Contro, Crombie, Dechend, Drachmann, Gerlach & Fraunberger, Gingerich & Welther, Goldstein & Sawyer, Kennedy, King, Kunitzsch, Maeyama, Needham, North, Petri, Pingree, Reiche, Righini, Righini Bonelli, Rosenthal, Sticker, Szabo, Toth, Vernet, Viebrock, Vogel, Waerden, Weil, Yabuuti. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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D (Stack)Maffei, Paolo
"Carte lunari di ieri e di oggi"
in L'Universo, anno XLII no. 5, September-October 1962, and no. 6, November-December 1962, pp. 919-952 and 1043-1066.
[1965-259]
1962
D (Stack)Main, Robert
Second Radcliffe Catalogue, containing 2386 Stars; deduced from Observations extending from 1854 to 1861, at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford; and reduced to the Epoch 1860
Published by order of the Radcliffe Trustees. Oxford: Parker, 1870.
[1974-85]
1870
D (Stack)Manilius, Marcus
M. Manilii Astronomicon
Liber Primus. Recensuit et enarravit A. E. Housman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937.
[1977-26]
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D (Stack)Manilius, Marcus
Astronomica
With an English Translation by G. P. Goold, University College, London. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1977. Loeb Classical Library.
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D (Stack)Manilius, Marcus
M. Manili astronomicon a Iosepho Scaligero ex vetusto codice Gemblacensi infinitis mendis repurgatum. Eiusdem Iosephi Scaligeri Notae, quibus auctoris prisca astrologia explicatur, castigationum caussae redduntur, portentosae transpositiones in eo auctore antiquitus commissae indicantur.
Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Christophorum Raphelengium, Academiae Lugduno-Batauae Typographum. 1599. 4to. Taylor Loan Collection.
[1940- ]
1599
D (Stack)Maunder, E. W.
Sir William Huggins and Spectroscopic Astronomy
London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1913. (No. 24 in the first 84 volumes of "The People's Books"). 2 copies. University Observatory Collection (1)
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D (Stack)Maunder, E. W.
The Astronomy of the Bible: an Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture
London: Sealey Clark, 1908.
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D (Stack)Maunder, E. Walter
The Royal Observatory Greenwich: A Glance at its History and Work
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1900. University Observatory Collection
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D (Stack)Maunder, E. Walter
The Royal Observatory Greenwich : A Glance at its History and Work
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1900. Gunther Loan Collection
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1900
D (Stack)Maunder, E. Walter
The Royal Observatory Greenwich : A glance at its history and work
London : Religious Tract Society, 1900. Inscribed 'David Thackeray / with love from M. G. E.(?) / Christmas 1923'. Part of donation from Green Templeton College, March 2013.
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D (Stack)Maunder, E. Walter (ed.)
The Indian Eclipse 1898: report of the expeditions organized by the British Astronomical Association to observe the total solar eclipse of 1898, January 22
British Astronomical Association. London, Hazell, Watson, and Viney Ld., 1899. Inscribed 'David from J. E. and M. A. E.' Part of donation from Green Templeton College, March 2013.
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D (Stack)Maupertuis de; et al
The figure of the Earth, determined from observations made by order of the French King at the Polar Circle
Translated from the French of M. de Maupertuis. London: Printed for T. Cox, at the Royal Exchange; C. Davis, in Pater-noster-Row; And A. Millar in the Strand, 1738. University Observatory Collection.
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1738
D (Stack)Maupertuis, Mons. [P. L. M.] de
A Dissertation On The Different Figures of the Coelestial Bodies; And From Thence Some Conjectures concerning the Stars which seem to alter their Magnitude; and concerning Saturn's Ring. With a Summary Exposition of the Cartesian and Newtonian Systems
By Mons. de Maupertuis, Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Royal Academy in Paris. Bound with J. Keill, An Examination Of Dr Burnet's Theory of the Earth ... (1734) (mentioned on its title page, but separately paginated).
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D (Stack)Maupertuis, [P. L. M.] de
A Dissertation on the Different Figures of the Coelestial Bodies ... With a Summary Exposition of the Cartesian and Newtonian Systems
{...}. Bound with J. Keill, An Examination of Dr Burnet's Theory of the Earth.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
D (Stack)Maxia, Carlo
"Impressioni di un antropologo sulle culture e civilta precolombiane"
in L'Universo, anno XLII no. 5, September-October 1962, pp. 953-986. Shelved under Maffei.
[1965-259/1]
1962
D (Stack)McCrea, William Hunter
Royal Greenwich Observatory : An historical review issued on the occasion of its tercentenary
London : HMSO, 1975. Compliments slip from Observatory Director inserted. Part of donation from Green Templeton College, March 2013.
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D (Stack)Mcvittie, G. C.
Cosmological Theory
London: Methuen & Co., 1937. Whipple Collection.
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D (Stack)Menon, C. P. S.
Early Astronomy and Cosmology: A reconstruction of the earliest Cosmic System
With a foreword by Prof. L. N. G. Filon. History of Science Library series. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1932. Stapleton Bequest.
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D (Stack)Mercator, Nicolaus, 1620-1687
Institutionum Astronomicarum Libri duo, de motu Astrorum communi & Proprio, secundum Hypotheses Vaterum & Recentiorum praecipuas: deque Hyptheseon ex observatis constructione: cum Tabulis Tychonianis Solaribus, Lunaribus, Lunae-Solaribus, et Rudolphinis Solis, Fixarum, et Quinque Errantium; Earumque Use praeceptis & Exemplis commonstrato. Quibus accedit Appendix De iis, quae Novissimis temporibus Coelitus innotuerunt.
Londini, typis Gulielmi Godbid, sumtibus Samuelis Simpson Bibliopolae Cantabrigiensis, 1676. 8vo. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.8.11)
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1676
D (Stack)Millas Vallicrosa, J. M.
El libro de los fundamentos de las tablas astronomicas de R. Abrahem IBN 'Ezra
Madrid & Barcelona: Consejo superior de investigationes cientificas, Instituto Arias Montano, 1947.
[1965-100]
1947
D (Stack)Millas Vallicrosa, Jose Ma.
Las tablas astronomicas del rey Don Pedro el Ceremonioso
Edicion critica de los textos hebraico, catalan y latino, con estudio y notas. Madrid & Barcelona: Consejo superior de investigaciones cientificas instituto "Arias Montano" y Asociacion para la Historia de la Ciencia Espanola, 1962.
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D (Stack)Millas Vallicrosa, Jose Ma. (ed.)
La Obra Sefer Hesbon Mahlekot Ha-Kokabim (Libro del Calculo de los Movimientos de los Astros) de R. Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Bargeloni
Edicion critica, con traduccion, introduccion y notas. Barcelona: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Instituto Arias Montano, 1959. Catedra "Ciudad de Barcelona", Patrocinada por el Excmo. Ayuntamiento de la Ciudad, Universidad de Barcelona, Biblioteca de Autores Barceloneses.
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D (Stack)Millas Vallicrosa, Jose Ma. (ed.)
La Obra Forma de la Tierra de R. Abraham bar Hiyya ha-Bargeloni
Traduccion del Hebreo, con prologo y notas. Madrid & Barcelona: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Instituto Arias Montano, 1956. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Instituto Arias Montano, serie D num. 5.
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D (Stack)Millas Vallicrosa, Jose Ma.; Romano, David (eds.)
Cosmografia de un Judio Romano del Siglo XVII
Edicion facsimil, introduccion y traduccion anotada. Madrid & Barcelona: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Instituto Arias Montano, 1954. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Instituto Arias Montano, serie D num. 4.
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1954
D (Stack)Millas Vendrell, Eduardo
El comentario de Ibn al-Mutanna a las Tablas astronomicas de al-Jwarizmi: estudio y edicion critica del texto latino en la version de Hugo Sanctallensis
Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Asociacion para la Historia de la Ciencia Espanola, 1963.
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D (Stack)Monaco, Giuseppe
L'astronomia a Roma: dalle origini al Novecento
Rome: Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, 2000. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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D (Stack)Moore, Patrick
The Amateur Astronomer's Glossary
London: Lutterworth Press, 1967.
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D (Stack)Moore, Patrick
The Astronomy of Birr Castle
Reprint of second edition (2nd, 1981; 1st, 1971). York: Quacks Books, 1992. Presented by the Earl of Rosse Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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1992
D (Stack)Motz, Hans
"A Personal Appreciation of Professor Alexander Thom"
in C. L. N. Ruggles (ed.), Records in Stone (Cambridge, 1988), pp. 14-20.
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D (Stack)Mouchez, E.
La photographie astronomique a l'observatoire de Paris et la carte du ciel
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1887.
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D (Stack)Moulton, F. R.
An introduction to Celestial Mechanics
New York: Macmillan, 1902. University Observatory Collection
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D (Stack)Mulder, M. E.
The "Green Ray" or "Green Flash" (rayon vert) at rising and setting of the Sun
London{?}: T. Fisher Unwin, 1922. University Observatory Collection
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D (Stack)Naiden, James R.
The Sphera of George Buchanan
n.p. [published in U.S.A.], 1952.
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D (Stack)Needham, Joseph
"Contributions of China, India and the Hellenistic-Syrian World to Arabic Alchemy"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 247-267.
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D (Stack)Neison, Edmund
The Moon and the Conditions and Configurations of its Surface
London: Longmans Green, 1876. University Observatory Collection.
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1876
D (Stack)Newcomb, Simon
The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
Boston & New York: Mifflin, 1903. University Observatory Collection Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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D (Stack)Newcomb, Simon
The Elements of the Four Inner Planets and the Fundamental Constants of Astronomy
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1895. University Observatory Collection.
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D (Stack)Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727
A treatise of the system of the world
2nd ed. reprinted with an introduction by I. Bernard Cohen. Facsimile reprint of 2nd ed., London, Printed for F. Fayram, 1731. Translation of De mundi systemate. London : Dawsons, 1969. Millburn bequest.
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D (Stack)North, J. D.
"Kalenderes Enlumyned Ben They: Some Astronomical Themes in Chaucer"
[complete]; offprints from The Review of English Studies, New Series, vol. XX nos. 78, 79, and 80, 1969, pp. 129-154, 257-283, and 418-444. (Three offprints bound together as) Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Selected Offprints, no. 9.
[Unknown]
1969
D (Stack)North, J. D.
"The Alfonsine Tables in England"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 269-301.
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D (Stack)North, J. D.
The Measure of the Universe : A history of modern cosmology
Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1965. Review copy sent to A. D. Thackeray by Scientific South Africa. Draft (apparent) inserted, along with Thackeray's notes on the book. Also a later bookmark with quote and biographical information on David Thackeray inserted. Part of donation from Green Templeton College, March 2013.
[2014-139/13]
1965
D (Stack)North, John
Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmos
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996. Presented by the author
[1998-68]
1996
D (Stack)North, John David
The Norton history of astronomy and cosmology
New York ; London : Norton, 1994. Originally published in England under the title The Fontana history of astronomy and cosmology. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2008-22]
1994
D (Stack)Northrop, David K.
A selection of astronomical observatories owned by amateur astronomers from the end of the 18th century to the present day : watercolour paintings and pen and ink sketches
[England?] : Published and printed by David K. Northrop at Iredale Press, 1997. Presented by R. Hutchins. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2007-238]
1997
D (Stack)O'Connell, D. J. K. (ed.)
Stellar Populations : Proceedings of the conference sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Science and the Vatican Observatory May 20-28, 1957
Amsterdam : North Holland Publishing Company, 1958. Vol. 5, Ricerche Astronomische, Specola Vaticana. Inscribed 'Thackeray' on front cover. Loose errata page. Part of donation from Green Templeton College, March 2013.
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1958
D (Stack)Olbers, Wilhelm
Dr. Wilhelm Olbers' Abhandlung uber die leichteste und bequemste Methode die Bahn eines Cometen zu berechnen
Mit Berichtigung und Erweiterung der Tafeln im Jahre 1847 von neuem herausgegeben von J. F. Encke. Dritte Ausgabe vermehrt mit einem Anhange, die Fortsetzung und Erganzung des Cometen-Verzeichnisses bis zum Jahre 1864 enthaltend. Von Dr. J. G. Galle. Leipzig: Voigt & Gunther, 1864. University Observatory Collection.
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D (Stack)Olivier, Charles P.
Meteors
Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1925. Whipple Collection Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1979-81]
1925
D (Stack)Olson, Roberta J. M. ; Pasachoff, Jay M.
Fire in the sky : comets and meteors, the decisive centuries, in British art and science
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998. Millburn bequest.
[2007-147]
1998
D (Stack)Peck, William, Sir, 1862-1925 ; Inglis, J. Gall (James Gall), 1864-1939
The northern hemisphere constellations and how to find them during each month of any year : a popular guide to the starry heavens with notes for small telescopes ; 16 maps
New and enl. ed. Edinburgh ; London : Gall and Inglis, 1934. Millburn bequest.
[2007-158]
1934
D (Stack)Peck, William, Sir, 1862-1925 ; Inglis, J. Gall (James Gall), 1864-1939
The southern hemisphere constellations and how to find them during each month of any year : a popular and simple guide to a knowledge of the starry heavens ; 16 maps
New and enl. ed. London : Gall and Inglis, 1926. Millburn bequest.
[2007-159]
1926
D (Stack)Petri, Winfried
"Mekka und Meridian - Ein Missverstandnis bei al-Biruni"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 303-304.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir, 1767-1840
The wonders of the heavens displayed, in twenty lectures
London : Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1821. Millburn bequest.
[2007-347]
1821
D (Stack)Pickering, William
Reports on Mars, nos. 1-40
Reprinted from Popular Astronomy, 1915-1927. University Observatory Collection
[1968-352]
1915-1927
D (Stack)Pingree, David
"The Horoscope of Constantinaople"
in Y. Maeyama & W. C. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 305-315.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Plutarch
Plutarch on the face which appears on the orb of the Moon
Translation and notes, with appendix by A.O. Prickard. Winchester: Warren; London: Simpkin, 1911. University Observatory Collection
[1968-353]
1911
D (Stack)Poincare, Henri
Les methodes nouvelles de la mecanique celeste
3 vol. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1892-1899. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-335]
1892-1899
D (Stack)Poincare, Henri
Dernieres Pensees
Paris: Flammarion, 1913. University Observatory Collection
[1968-333]
1913
D (Stack)Poincare, Henri
Lecons sur les hypotheses cosmogoniques professees a la Sorbonne
Paris: Hermann, 1911. University Observatory Collection
[1968-334]
1911
D (Stack)Pratt, John H.
A Treatise on Attractions, Laplace's Functions, and the Figure of the Earth
3rd ed. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1868. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-340]
1868
D (Stack)Proctor, Richard A.
Myths and Marvels of Astronomy
New ed. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1896. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1896
D (Stack)Proctor, Richard A.
Half-Hours with the Telescope; being a Popular Guide to the use of the Telescope as a means of Amusement and Instruction
London: Robert Hardwicke, [1868].
[1964-215]
1868
D (Stack)Ptolemaeus, Claudius [Claudius Ptolemy]
???O?S?EOS ?E??A????OS sunta?I?, pro? Surou adelphou. ?O? A??O? KA?GOS pro? tou autou Surou. Pelusiensis libri quatuor, compositi Syro fratri. Euisdem Fructus Librorum suorum, sive Centum dicta, ad eundem Syrum
Innumeris quibus Hucusque scatebant mendis, purgati. Basileae, per Joannem Oporinum. [1535]. 8vo. Bound with Ptolemy's De Preadictionibus Astronomicis. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.4.14)
[1962-65/ ]
1535?
D (Stack)Ptolemaeus, Claudius [Claudius Ptolemy]
De Praedictionibus Astronomicis, cui titulum fecerunt Quadripartitu, Grece & Latine, Libri IIII
Philippo Melanthone interprete. Euisdem Fructus liborum suorum, sive Centum dicta, ex conuersione Jouiani Pontani. Basileae, per Joannem Oporinum. [1553]. 8vo. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.4.14).
[1962-65/ ]
1553?
D (Stack)Ptolemy
Ptolemy: Tetrabiblos
Edited and translated by F. E. Robbins. Loeb Classical Library. London: Heinemann, 1940. (Contained in same volume: Manetho, ed. and trans. by W. Waddel).
[1968-487]
1940
D (Stack)Ptolemy, Claudius
The Quadripartite; or, four books concerning the Influences of the Stars. First written in Greek, by Claudius Ptolemy, and now more faithfully rendered into English, from the best Greek Copies, and Latin Translations, than any hitherto published. To which are added, Variety of Notes and Illustrations, Explaining the most difficult and obscure Passages throughout the Whole. By John Whalley, Professor of Physic and Astrology; and Others
The Second Edition, revised, corrected, and improved. London: Printed for the Editors, and Sold by M. Sibly, No. 35, Goswell-Street, and E. Sibly, No. 29, Brick-Lane. 1786. 8vo.
[Unknown]
1786
D (Stack)Ptolomaeus, Claudius
Handbuch Der Astronomie
Deutsche Ubersetzung Und Erlauternde Anmerkungen von K. Manitius; Vorwort Und Berichtigungen von O. Neugebauer. 2 vols. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft, 1963.
[1967-174/1]
1963
D (Stack)Pulido Rubio, Jose
El piloto mayor de la casa de la contratacion de Sevilla. Pilotos mayores, catedraticos de cosmografia y cosmografos
(Publicaciones de la Escuela de estudios Hispano-Americanos de Sevilla, LVI (N.o general) Serie 2.a: N.o 19). Sevilla, 1950.
[1960-135]
1950
D (Stack)Radcliffe Observatory
Astronomical Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, in the year 1840
By Manuel J. Johnson, M.A. Radcliffe Observer. Vol. I. Published by order of the Radcliffe Trustees. Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1842. Shelved under Johnson.
[Unknown]
1842
D (Stack)Radcliffe Observatory
Determinations of Stellar Parallaxes from photographs taken with the 24-inch refractor of the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford
Under the direction of Arthur A. Rambaut, M.A.. (Dubl. et Oxon.), D.Sc., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., M.R.I.A., Radcliffe Observer. Vol. LIII of "Radcliffe Observations". Oxford: Humphrey Milford, 1923. Presented to R. T. Gunther by the Radcliffe Trustees and Dr Rambaut
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1923
D (Stack)Radcliffe Observatory
Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, in the years 1888-89
Under the superintendence of Edward James Stone, M.A. (Cantab. et Oxon.), Radcliffe Observer. Vol. XLVI of "Radcliffe Observations". Published by order of the Radcliffe Trustees. Oxford: James Parker & Co., 1896. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1896
D (Stack)Radcliffe Observatory
Astronomical and Meteorological Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, in the Year 1854
Under the superintendence of Manuel J. Johnson, M.A. Radcliffe Observer. Vol. XV. Published by order of the Radcliffe Trustees. Oxford: J. H. and J. Parker, 1856. Formerly the property of [Bartholomew] Price, Pembroke, and H. H. Turner. Shelved under Johnson.
[Unknown]
1856
D (Stack)Radcliffe Observatory
Astronomical and Meteorological Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, in the year 1856
Under the superintendence of Manuel J. Johnson, M.A. Radcliffe Observer. Vol. XVII. Published by order of the Radcliffe Trustees. Oxford: J. H. and J. Parker, 1858. Shelved under Johnson.
[Unknown]
1858
D (Stack)Radcliffe Observatory
The Radcliffe Catalogue of 6317 stars, chiefly circumpolar, reduced to the Epoch 1845.0; formed from the observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory
Under the superintendence of Manuel John Johnson. With an introduction by the Rev. Robert Main. Published by order of the Radcliffe Trustees. Oxford: J. H. and Jas. Parker, 1860.
[1974-83]
1860
D (Stack)Radcliffe Observatory
Astronomical Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford for the epoch 1845
Under the superintendence of Manuel John Johnson. Oxford, 1860. Shelved under Johnson. Presented to the Rev. George Ticsher by the Radcliffe Trustees
[Unknown]
1860
D (Stack)Radcliffe Observatory
Astronomical Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, in the year 1850
Vol. XI. By Manuel J. Johnson, M.A., Radcliffe Observer. Published by order of the Radcliffe Trustees. Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1852. Shelved under Johnson.
[Unknown]
1852
D (Stack)Rambaut, Arthur A.
Astronomical Papers by A. A. Rambaut
Rambaut's own bound copy of his published papers as Royal Astronomer of Ireland and then Radcliffe Observer at Oxford, 1885-1900. Also: a copy of Rambaud's printed application for the post of Radcliffe Observer, June 24, 1897. Presented by Mrs. A. Whitaker, Dr Rambaut's grand-daughter, May 6, 1981
[1981-90]
1885-1900
D (Stack)Ravetz, J. R.
Astronomy and Cosmology in the Achievements of Nicolaus Copernicus
Wroclaw-Warsaw-Cracow: Zaklad Narodowy Imiena Ossolinskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1965. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1966-28]
1965
D (Stack)Reichardt, Hans; Niekisch, E. A.
Kunstliche Erdsatelliten
Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1959. University Observatory Collection Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1968-355]
1959
D (Stack)Reiche, Harald A. T.
"Gallehus Horns, Lunar Declination Cycle, and Ragnarok"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 317-328.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Riekher, Rolf
Fernrohre und ihre Meister: Eine Entwicklungsgeschichte der Fernrohrtechnik
Berlin: VEB Verlag Technik, 1957. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1962-119]
1957
D (Stack)Righini, Guglielmo
"Galileo e la Stella Nova"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 329-337.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Robert, K.; Eelsalu, H.
"Rara Astronomica in the Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences: A Preliminary Report"
in Rara Astronomica in Estonia (Tartu, 1977).
[1979-62]
1977
D (Stack)Ronan, Colin A.
Their majesties' astronomers : a survey of astronomy in Britain between the two Elizabeths
London : Bodley Head, 1967. Millburn bequest.
[2007-239]
1967
D (Stack)Rosenthal, Erwin I. J.
"Yohanan Alemanno and Occult Science"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 349-361.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Rosseland, S.
Theoretical Astrophysics: Atomic Theory and the Analysis of Stellar Atmospheres and Envelopes
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936. Whipple Collection
[1979-89]
1936
D (Stack)Royal Society (Great Britain). Southern telescope committee.
Correspondence concerning the great Melbourne telescope, 1852-1870
London: Royal Society for private circulation, 1871. University Observatory Collection
[1968-323]
1871
D (Stack)Rufus, W. Carl
"Astronomy in Korea"
photocopy from Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. XXVI, 1936, pp. 1-52 and plates 1-17. Bound with his "The Celestial Planisphere of King Yi Tai-jo" [see separate entry].
[1963-1]
1936
D (Stack)Rufus, W. Carl
"The Celestial Planisphere of King Yi Tai-jo"
photocopy from Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. IV, 1913, pp. 23-72. (Original in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society, London). Together with his "Astronomy in Korea" [see separate entry].
[1963-1]
1913
D (Stack)Ruggles, C. L. N. (ed.)
Records in Stone: Papers in Memory of Alexander Thom
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Papers by Thom, Motz, Ferguson, Jennings, Burl, MacKie, Ruggles, Patrick & Freeman, Norris, Myatt, Giot, Fraser, Ritchie, Curtis, Cowan, Davis, Ponting, Aveni, Krupp.
[1990-111]
1988
D (Stack)Rybka, Przemyslaw
Instrumentarium Astronomiczne Heweliusza (Geneza i Rozwoj Konstrukcji)
Wroclaw, etc.: Zaklad Narodowy Imienia Ossolinskich, Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1987. Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Historii Nauki, Oswiaty i Techniki.
[1994-80]
1987
D (Stack)Rosch, Jean
Cent ans d'astronomie au Pic-du-Midi
[Paris?]: Societe Astronomique de France, [1980?]. Presented by Professor Gerard Turner. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2005-169]
1980?
D (Stack)Samaha, Abdel Hamid Mahmoud
The Arabic Names of the Stars
Meddelande Fran Lunds Astronomiska Observatorium, Ser. II Nr. 89. Historical Notes and Papers, no. 11. Lund, Sweden: the Observatory, 1937.
[1976-76]
1937
D (Stack)Saussure, Leopold de
Les origines de l'Astronomie chinoise
A new edition with the Book Review by Alexander Pogo (Isis, 1932, 17: 267-271) and the List of Writings by Paul Pelloit (T'oung Pao, 1926, 24: 298-230). Taipei, Taiwan: Ch'eng-Wen Publishing Company, 1967. (Reprint of 1930 edition). Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1968-459]
1967
D (Stack)Sawyer, Frederick W.
"Appendix: On Ptolemy's Determination of the Apsidal Line for Venus"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. {??} (appendix to paper by Bernard R. Goldstein, pp. 165-181).
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Sayili, Aydin
The observatory in Islam and its place in the general history of the observatory.
Publications of the Turkish Historical Society, Series VII, No. 38. Ankara: TURK TARIH KURUMU BASIMEVI, 1960.
[1960-67]
1960
D (Stack)Scheiner, J.
Die Photographie der Gestirne
Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1897. Accompanied by Atlas zu "Die Photographie der Gestirne", a separate portfolio of plates [see separate entry]. From the library of Franz Fischer, Podoli Observatory, Prague
[1988-78]
1897
D (Stack)Scheiner, J.
Die Spectralanalyse der Gestirne
Mit einem Vorworte von Professor H. C. Vogel. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1890. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-346]
1890
D (Stack)Schlegel, Gustave
Uranographie Chinoise ...
2 volumes. Taipei, Taiwan: Ch'eng-Wen Publishing Company, 1967. (Reprint of the 1875 Leyden edition).
[1968-460]
1967
D (Stack)Schroeder, W. (Wolfgang), 1923 or 4-
Practical astronomy : a new approach to an old science
[New ed.]. London : Laurie, [1961]. Millburn bequest. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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1961
D (Stack)Seleshnikov, S. I.
Astronomy and Cosmonautics
{...}, U.S.S.R.: {...}, 1967. (In Russian). University Observatory Collection Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1968-361]
1967
D (Stack)Sharma, Virendra Nath
Sawai Jai Singh and His Astronomy
Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1995.
[1997-125]
1995
D (Stack)Shukla, Kripa Shankar (ed.)
The Surya-Siddhanta, with the commentary of Paramesvara
Hindu Astronomical & Mathematical Text Series no. 1; Publ. Department of Mathematics and Astronomy Lucknow University, First edn 1957.
[1963-155]
1957
D (Stack)Silberstein, Ludwik
The Size of the Universe: Attempts at a determination of the curvature radius of spacetime
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930. University Observatory Collection
[1968-363]
1930
D (Stack)Simms, William
The Achromatic Telescope, and its Various Mountings, Especially The Equatorial. To which are added Some Hints on Private Observatories
London: Troughton and Simms, 1852.
[1974-16]
1852
D (Stack)Smyth, C. Piazzi
Teneriffe, An Astronomer's Experiment: or, Specialities of a Residence Above the Clouds
Illustrated with Photo-Stereographs. London: Lovell Reeve, 1858. Signed "Law". Purchased with Grant in Aid
[1983-77]
1858
D (Stack)Smyth, W. H.
Sidereal Chromatics: Being a Re-print, with Additions, from the "Bedford Cycle of Celestial Objects", and its "Hartwell Continuation", on the Colours of Multiple Stars
London: printed for private circulation by Bowyer Nichols, 1864. University Observatory Collection
[1968-365]
1864
D (Stack)Smyth, W. H.
A Cycle of Celestial Objects
2nd ed. revised and enlarged by George F. Chambers. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1881. University Observatory Collection
[1968-368]
1881
D (Stack)Smyth, William Henry
A Cycle of Celestial Objects, for the use of Naval, Military and Private Astronomers
2 vols. London: Parker, 1844. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-366]
1844
D (Stack)Souchon, Abel
Traite d'Astronomie practique, comprenant l'Exposition du Calcul des Ephemerides astronomiques et nautiques, d'apres les methodes en usage dans la Composition de la Connaissance des Temps et du Nautical Almanac, avec une Introduction historique et de nombreuses notes
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1883. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-369]
1883
D (Stack)Souchon, Abel
Traite d'Astronomie theorique contenant l'Exposition du Calcul des Perturbations planetaires et lunaires et son Application A l'Explication et A la Formations des Tables Astronomiques avec une Introduction historique et de nombreux exemples numeriques
Paris: Georges Carre, 1891. University Observatory Collection.
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1891
D (Stack)Sparrow, Giles
Saturn.
Exploring the Solar System series. Chicago: Heinemann, 2001. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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2001
D (Stack)Spencer, Herbert
The Nebular Hypothesis
Reprint of article published in the Westminster Review in 1858, with additions. N.d. [c.1888]. University Observatory Collection
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1888?
D (Stack)Spilker, Linda J. (ed.)
Passage to a Ringed World: The Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan
Washington, D.C.: NASA, [1997]. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
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1997
D (Stack)Squire, Thomas, fl. 1818
A popular grammar of the elements of astronomy : adapted to the use of students and public schools
London : printed for J. Souter, no. 73, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1818. Millburn bequest.
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D (Stack)Staples, H. A.
Cosmic machinery in an electro-magnetic universe
London : Clowes, 1939. Millburn bequest.
[2007-176]
1939
D (Stack)Sticker, Bernhard
"Uber Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Als Astronom"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 363-371.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Stroobant, P.
Les progres de la photographie astronomique
Brussels: Hayez, 1907. Bound with and shelved under E. Mouchez, La photographie astronomique a l'observatoire de Paris (1887). University Observatory Collection.
[1968-324]
1907
D (Stack)Szabo, Arpad
"Zum Problem der Sog. Geometrischen Algebra in Euklids Elementen"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 373-393.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Szczesniak, B.
"Notes on the Development of Astronomy in the Far East"
in Polish Science and Learning, no. 3, June 1943, pp. 39-47. Shelved under Polish.
[Unknown]
1943
D (Stack)Tancock, E. O.
The Elements of Descriptive Astronomy
Second Edition, revised, with additional matter on practical work for beginners with small instruments. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924. Gunther Loan Collection (* letter)
[1940-6/ ]
1924
D (Stack)Tankler, H.; Muursepp, P.
"British Astronomers' Letters in the Library of Tartu University"
in Rara Astronomica in Estonia (Tartu), 1977.
[1979-62]
1977
D (Stack)Tartu Astronomical Observatory
Rara Astronomica in Estonia
Tartu 1977 Tapmy. Tartu Astronoomia Observatoorium Teated Nr. 55. Contains: H. Eelsalu & H. Silvet, "Rara Astronomica in the Library of the Tartu Astronomical Observatory"; K. Robert & H. Eelsalu, "Rara Astronomica in the Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences: A Preliminary Report"; H. Tankler & P. Muursepp, "British Astronomers' Letters in the Library of Tartu University"; O. Nagel, "Rara Astronomica in the Library of the Tartu University: Books Printed before 1600".
[1979-62]
1977
D (Stack)Taylor, Lucy
Astronomers and Their Observations
With a Preface by W. Thynne Lynn, B.A., F.R.A.S. London: S. W. Partridge & Co., [1895]. Gunther Loan Collection.
[1940-6/ ]
1895?
D (Stack)Teeple, J. E.
"Maya Astronomy"
photocopy from Contributions to American Archaeology, vol. I no. 2, {...}.
[1966-178]
[n.d.]
D (Stack)Thabit b. Qurra
The Astronomical Works of Thabit b. Qurra
[edited] by Francis J. Carmody. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles. 1960.
[1961-106]
1960
D (Stack)Thackeray, A. D.
Astronomical Spectroscopy
Part of 'A Survey of Astronomy', ed. Colin A. Ronan. London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1961. Inscribed C(?) Thackeray. Part of donation from Green Templeton College, March 2013.
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1961
D (Stack)Thibaud, G.
"Astronomie, Astrologie und Mathematik"
{...} from Grundriss der Indo-Arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde, vol. 3 fasc. 4, n.d.
[1966-281]
[n.d.]
D (Stack)Thom, Alexander; Thom, Archie
"The Metrology and Geometry of Megalithic Man"
in C. L. N. Ruggles (ed.), Records in Stone (Cambridge, 1988), pp. 132-151.
[1990-111]
1988
D (Stack)Thom, Archie
"A Personal Note about my Late Father, Alexander Thom" and "The Career and Publications of Alexander Thom"
in C. L. N. Ruggles (ed.), Records in Stone (Cambridge, 1988), pp. 3-13 and 21-30.
[1990-111]
1988
D (Stack)Thomson, David, d. 1834
Lunar and Horary Tables: for New and Concise Methods of Performing the Calculations Necessary for Ascertaining the Longitude by Lunar Observations or Chronometers; with Directions for Acquiring a Knowledge of the Principal Fixed Stars, and Finding the Latitude by Them
70th ed. London: W.H. Allen, 1891. Presented by Christopher Taylor, Esq.
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1891
D (Stack)Tibbon, Don Profeit
Tractat de l'Assafea d'Azarquiel
Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, 1933. Gunther Loan Collection. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1940-6/ ]
1933
D (Stack)Todd, Thomas
Perpetuum Kalendarium Astronomicum
Photocopy. Edinburgh, 1738.
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1738
D (Stack)Toomer, G. J.
"A Survey of the Toledan Tables"
in Osiris, vol. XV, 1969, pp. 5-174.
[1971-71]
1969
D (Stack)Toth, Imre
"Geometria More Ethico / Die Alternative: Euklidische oder Nichteuklidische Geometrie bei Aristoteles und die Axiomatische Grundlegung der Euklidischen Geometrie"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 395-415.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Turner, H. H.
A Voyage in Space: A Course of Six Lectures "Adapted to a Juvenile Auditory" Delivered at the Royal Institution at Xmas 1913
Second edition, with an addendum on recent discoveries. London: The Sheldon Press, 1925 (1st edition, 1915).
[1984-105]
1925
D (Stack)Turner, H. H.
Halley's Comet: an evening discourse to the British Association, at their meeting at Dublin, on Friday, September 4, 1908
2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-375]
1910
D (Stack)Vernet, J.
"La Maldicion de Perfecto"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 417-418.
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1977
D (Stack)Vernet, Juan (ed.)
Textos y Estudios sobre Astronomia Espanola en el Siglo XIII
Barcelona: Facultad de Filosofia Letras, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, 1981. Instituto de Filologia, Institucion "Mila y Fontanals", Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas. Contributors: Jose Martinez Gazquez, Julio Samso, Merce Viladrich, Ramon Marti, Ana Labarta, Leonor Martinez Martin, Rafael Munoz, Jordi Gaya, Lola Badia.
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1981
D (Stack)Viebrock, Helmut
"Der Poetische Ather Naturwissenschaftliche Basis Einer Keats' schen Metapher"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 419-422.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Vogel, Kurt
"Bericht uber Neuere, in Westlichen Sprachen Erschienene Arbeiten zur Mathematik der Chinesen"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 423-430.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Waerden, B. L. van der
"The 'Babylonians' and the 'Persians'"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 431-440.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Waland, Robert L.
Optics of the Cassegrain Telescope
New York: A Hearthstone Book / Carlton Press, 1990. Presented by Dr John Ismay. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1999-12]
1990
D (Stack)Ward, Seth
Astronomia Geometrica: ubi Methodus proponitur qua Primariorum Planetarum Astronomia sive Elliptica Circularis possit Geometrice absolvi. Opus, astronomis hactenus desideratum
Londini, typis Jacobi Flesher, 1656. 8vo. Formerly the property of S. P. Rigaud.
[Unknown]
1656
D (Stack)Watson, James C.
Theoretical astronomy relating to the motions of the Heavenly Bodies revolving around the sun in Accordance with the Law of Universal Gravitation
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1868. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-379]
1868
D (Stack)Watts, I.
The Knowledge of the Heavens and the Earth made easy: Or, The First Principles Of Astronomy And Geography Explain'd by the Use of Globes and Maps: With A Solution of the common Problems by a plain Scale and Compasses as well as by the Globe. Written several Years since for the Use of Learners
The Second Edition corrected. London: Printed for J. Clark and R. Hett at the Bible and Crown in the Poultry near Cheapside; E. Matthews at the Bible in Pater-noster Row, and R. Ford at the Angel in the Poultry near Stocks-Market. M, DCC, XXVIII [1728]. University Observatory Collection.
[1982-122]
1728
D (Stack)Webb, E. J.
The Names of the Stars
Edited with an Introduction by Ivor BULMER-THOMAS and with a [biographical] Memoir by Clement C. J. WEBB. London: Nisbet & Co., Ltd., 1952.
[1961-117]
1952
D (Stack)Webb, T. W.
Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes
London: Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, 1859. University Observatory Collection.
[1983-35]
1859
D (Stack)Webb, T. W.
Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859. Gunther Loan Collection.
[1940-6/ ]
1859
D (Stack)Webb, T. W.
Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes
2nd ed. rev. and enl. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1868. From the libraries of H. Hilton, & Lancing College; University Observatory Collection.
[1983-36]
1868
D (Stack)Webb, T. W.
Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes
6th ed., thoroughly revised by T. E. Espin. 2 vols. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1917. Presented by T. E. Espin to H. H. Turner; University Observatory Collection.
[1983-37]
1917
D (Stack)Weil, Andre
"Fermat et l'equation de Pell"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 441-448.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Weimer, Theo
Breve Histoire de la Carte de Ciel en France
[Paris]: Observatoire de Paris, 1987. Presented by Professor Gerard Turner. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2005-160]
1987
D (Stack)Whiston, William
Astronomical Lectures, Read in the Publick Schools At Cambridge. By William Whiston, M.A. Mr. Lucas's Professor of the Mathematicks in that University. Whereunto is added a Collection Of Astronomical Tables; Being those of Mr. Flamsteed, Corrected; Dr Halley; Monsieur Cassini; and Mr. Street. For the Use of young Students in the University.
The Second Edition Corrected. London: Printed for J. Senex, in Fleet-street, W. and J. Innys, near S. Paul's, J. Osborne and T. Longman in Pater-noster-row. M.DCC.XXVIII [1728]. University Observatory Collection
[1982-123]
1728
D (Stack)Whiston, William, 1667-1752
Astronomical principles of religion, natural and reveal'd (1717)
Hildesheim : Olms, 1983. Facsimile copy of original (published London, J. Senex and W. Taylor, 1717) with introduction by James E. Force. Millburn bequest. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[2007-153]
1983
D (Stack)Whittaker, E. T.
A treatise on the analytical dynamics of particles and rigid bodies; with an introduction to the problem of three bodies
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1904. University Observatory Collection
[1968-381]
1904
D (Stack)Wilde, Henry
Celestial Ejectamenta
The first Halley Lecture delivered before the University on Tuesday, May 10, 1910. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1910.
[Unknown]
1910
D (Stack)Wilde, Henry
Celestial Ejectamenta
The first Halley Lecture delivered before the University on Tuesday, May 10, 1910. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1910. Presented by the author to H. H. Turner; University Observatory Collection
[1983-41]
1910
D (Stack)Wilkins, John
A Discovery Of A New World, Or, A Discourse Tending to prove, that 'tis Probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon. With a Discourse Concerning the Probability of a Passage thither. Unto which is Added, A Discourse Concerning a New Planet, Tending to prove, That 'tis Probable Our Earth is one of the Planets
In Two Parts. The Fourth Edition Corrected and Amended. London, Printed by T.M. & J.A. for John Gillibrand at the Golden-Ball in St. Pauls Church-Yard. MDCLXXXIV [1684]. Bound with and shelved under Christianus Huygens, The Celestial Worlds Discover'd .
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1684
D (Stack)Wilkins, John
A Discovery of a New World, or, a Discourse Tending to prove, that 'tis Probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon. With a Discourse Concerning the Probability of a Passage thither. Unto which is Added, A Discourse Concerning a New Planet, Tending to prove, That 'tis Probable Our Earth is one of the Planets
In Two Parts. The Fourth Edition Corrected and Amended. London, Printed by T.M & J.A. for John Gillibrand at the Golden-Ball in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1684. 8vo. Formerly the property of J. and Sholto Hare
[Unknown]
1684
D (Stack)Wislicenus, Walter F.
Astronomische Chronologie: Ein hulfsbuch fur historiker, archaologen und astronomen.
Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von B. G. Teubner, 1895. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-383]
1895
D (Stack)Wolf, C.
Histoire de l'Observatoire de Paris de sa fondation a 1793
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1902. University Observatory Collection
[1968-385]
1902
D (Stack)Wolf, Max
Die Milchstrasse
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1908. University Observatory Collection Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1968-386]
1908
D (Stack)Yabuuti, Kiyosi
"The Main Current of Chinese Science in the 17th and 18th Centuries"
in Y. Maeyama & W. G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata ... (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977), pp. 449-456.
[1978-688]
1977
D (Stack)Young, Charles A.
A Text-book of General Astronomy for Colleges and Scientific Schools
Rev. ed. Boston: Ginn, 1898. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-387]
1898
D (Stack)Zeipel, H. von
Recherches sur le mouvement des petites planetes
Uppsala: Almquist & Wiksell, 1921. Arkiv for Matematik, Astronomi och Fysik 1915. University Observatory Collection
[1968-388]
1921
D (Stack)Zinner, E.
Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Sternkunde
Bamberg, 1932. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[Unknown]
1932
D (Stack)Zinner, Ernst
Entstehung und Ausbreitung der Coppernicanischen Lehre
Erlangen: Max Mencke, 1943. University Observatory Collection. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1968-389]
1943
D - oversizeHerschel, Sir John F. W.
Results of astronomical observations made during the years 1834-8 at the Cape of Good Hope, being the completion of a telescopic survey of the whole surface of the visible heavens, commenced in 1825
London: Smith, Elder, 1847. University Observatory Collection
[1968-291]
1847
D - oversize (Apian)[North, J. D.]
"Apian's Astronomicum"
extract from The Times Literary Supplement, September 7, 1967. (Review of the Leipzig facsimile edition of Peter Apian, Astronomicum Caesareum (1540)). Enclosed in the introductory volume to the Apian facsimile, Diedrich Wattenberg, Peter Apianus und sein Astronomicum Caesareum.
[Unknown]
1967