Main robert 1808 1878 (2 Ergebnisse)

One page, cr.8vo, fold marks, aged, text clear and complete as follows: Dear Sir | I had much pleasure in accompanying your friend, who appears to be a very intelligent person, round the Ob[servator]y. Mr Airy wished me just to mention that as a matter of form he would wish any application in behalf of scientific foreigners, to whom he ias always willing to show the OBy, to be addressed to himself. I have had a deightful tour in the West since I had the pleasure of seeing you, and have returned quite invigorated to my duties." Note: "The lunar crater Main is named after Robert Main, and there is also a crater on Mars named after him." [Wikipedia].…

Zusammen 7½ SS. auf 14 Bll. An den Astronomen Wilhelm Förster: "In the 'Astronomische Nachrichten' No. 1157 is an ephemeris of Nysa computed by you, which unfortunately does not give the distances of the planet from the earth. As it is probable that you have these distances in your manuscript, the Astronomer Royal would be much obliged by your having the goodness to furnish him with them from 1858, Sept. 13 to October 2, for the purpose of computing the parallaxes in the reduction of some observations made at Greenwich [.]" (7. VI. 1859).…