lockyer winifred (3 Ergebnisse)

15 x 23 cm Leinen. Zustand: Gut. 474 Seiten rotbrauner Leinenband im Groß-Oktavformat; Deckel minimal berieben, Name i. Vorsatz, sonst sehr gutes Exemplar mit einigen Bildtafeln - Erstausgabe Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st 1928. Very good condition with no wrapper. Biography of Sir Norman Lockyer (Joseph Norman Lockyer), best known for his work in astronomy and physics. Plus essays by various contributors including Herber Dingle. Red cloth, gilt titles. B/w plates and illustrations. xii and 474 pages including index plus 1 page publisher list to rear. Spine lightly faded and slightly bumped. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to text block and some scattered foxing to contents. A decent copy. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

8vo. xii, 474, [2] pp. 17 plates, index. Original full gray-green gilt-stamped cloth. Embossed stamp of the Carnegie Institution, Mount Wilson Observatory. Tipped-in the Lady Lockyer's card, Sidmouth, inscribed by her to Dr. George Hale, with . . . kind regards". Fine. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO GEORGE ELLERY HALE. With contributions by Dr. Charles E. St. John (1857-1935), Prof. Megh Nad Saha, F.R.S. (1893-1956), Sir Napier Shaw, F.R.S. (1854-1945), [and others], etc. / Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer was an English scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen, he is credited with discovering the gas helium. Lockyer also is remembered for being the founder and first editor of the influential journal Nature. / Thomazine Mary Lockyer was a British astronomer, suffragist, and Unitarian. She was elected a member of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1923. Winifred was the Lockyer's daughter. / See: Steele, B. H. "Norman Lockyer and the Controversial Beginnings of Archaeoastronomy." Journal of Astronomy in Culture. 2024; Wilkins, G.A. 'The Lockyer Ladies'. Antiquarian Astronomer, 2006, Issue 3, p. 101-106.