GREGORY, David. Astronomiae Physicae & Geometricae Elementa. Secunda editio revisa & correcta. Tomus Primus [- Secundus]. Génève, Marc-Michel Bousquet & C., 1726.
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2 vols. 4to, mm. 250x200; inding of the XIX century in half calf and shagreen cloth, gilded titles on the spine, sprayed edges; engraved Frontispiece, pp. 20 nn., incl. Tit., XCVI, 2 bl, 427, 1 b., 26 plates, excluding the first the left ones are numbered I-XIV, number XIX repeated in two plates; Front, pp. 429-751, [1], 17 copper plates numbered XXV-XLI; pp. 74, [2], 1 foldd tables, 5 numbered plates I-V. Pictorial Frontispiece by J.G. Seiller, two titlepages in red and black with Vignette, Head piece with the device of Louis d’Orléans, dis. da Jean Dassier engraved by J.G. Seiller, 48 copper plates. Stamp of extinct library at the Titlepage.
RARE SECOND ÉDITION , corrected and increased. It is the first treaty of astronomy made up according to the principles of Newton. In this edition is reprinted for the first time the 'important Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, where Edmund Halley has exposed his scheme for calculating the motion of comets and has foretold the return of what became known as' Halley's Comet'.
DNB: “It is the first text book composed on gravitational principles and remodelling astronomy in conformity with physical theory. Newton thougth highly of it, and communicated for insertion in it his Lunar theory, long the guide of practical astronomers in determining the moon’s motions. The discussion in the preface, in which the doctrine of gravitation was brought into credit on the score of its antiquity, likewise emanated from Newton.”
Sotheran: “"This finely printed edition is specially valuable for containing the first reprint of the now very rare Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis by Edmund Halley”.
Honeyman, n. 1552; Houzeau & Lancaster, n. 9240; Horblit, II, n. 482; Sotheran I, 1653; Babson 72; Wallis 87.1.
nice specimen
RARE SECOND ÉDITION , corrected and increased. It is the first treaty of astronomy made up according to the principles of Newton. In this edition is reprinted for the first time the 'important Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, where Edmund Halley has exposed his scheme for calculating the motion of comets and has foretold the return of what became known as' Halley's Comet'.
DNB: “It is the first text book composed on gravitational principles and remodelling astronomy in conformity with physical theory. Newton thougth highly of it, and communicated for insertion in it his Lunar theory, long the guide of practical astronomers in determining the moon’s motions. The discussion in the preface, in which the doctrine of gravitation was brought into credit on the score of its antiquity, likewise emanated from Newton.”
Sotheran: “"This finely printed edition is specially valuable for containing the first reprint of the now very rare Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis by Edmund Halley”.
Honeyman, n. 1552; Houzeau & Lancaster, n. 9240; Horblit, II, n. 482; Sotheran I, 1653; Babson 72; Wallis 87.1.
nice specimen
