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STRUVE, Otto Wilhelm von.

Beobachtung des Procyon als Doppelstern. Offprint from Mélanges mathématiques et astronomiques tirés du Bulletin de l’Académie impériale des sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg (dated 27 March/8 April 1873).

[St. Petersburg: 1874]. First edition, extremely rare offprint, of Struve’s ‘discovery’ of the faint companion to the star Procyon, which together form a binary system. This offprint is accompanied by two signed autograph letters from Struve to the Scottish amateur astronomer Robert Stirling Newall (1812-89), who at the time owned..... More
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TSIOLKOVSKY, Konstantin Eduardovich.

Izsledovanie mirovykh postrantsv’ reaktivnymi priborami (dopolnenie k I i II chasti truda togo-zhe nazvaniya). [Investigation of cosmic space using reactive devices. (Supplement to Parts I and II of the Works of the same Title)].

Kaluga: by the author, 1914. First edition, very rare, published by the author at his own expense, of the first separately-printed scientific work on space rockets, preceding by five years the first publication on rockets by Robert Goddard. Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) began research into rocket propulsion and the theoretical and practical..... More
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URSINUS, Benjamin.

Cursus Mathematici Practici Volumen Primum [all published]: continens Illustr. & Generosi Dn. Dn. Johannis Neperi Baronis Merchistonii &c. Scoti. Trigonometriam Logarithmicam.

Cölln an der Spree: Martin Guthius, 1618. First edition, exceptionally rare, of the book that introduced logarithms to Continental Europe; in particular, it was through this work that Johannes Kepler, in ‘a happy calamity,’ as he called it, became aware of Napier’s epoch-making work, a discovery that enabled him to..... More
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WERNER, Johannes.

In hoc opere haec co[n]tinentur: Noua translatio primi libri Geographiæ Cl. Ptolomæi Geographia quæ quidem translatio verbum habet e verbo fideliter expressum Præceptio super plana terraru[m] orbis descriptione Libellus de quatuor terrarum orbis in plano figurationibus Epistola ad Bessarionem de compositione et usu cuiusd. meteoroscopii Libellus Ioannis Verneri Nurenbergen[si] de quatuor aliis planis terrarum orbis descriptionibus propositio ... De his quæ geographiæ debent adesse Georgii Amirucii oposculum In Georgii Amirucii Constantinopolitani opusculum: Ioannis Verneri Nurenbergen[si] appendices Ad Bessarionem Cardinalem Nicenum ac patriarcham Co[n]stantinopolitanum: de compositione Metheoroscopii.

Nürnberg: Stuchs, 1514. First edition of Werner’s most important book, an extremely rare and highly influential work on cartography and navigation, containing the first published direct translation of any part of Ptolemy’s Geography from the original Greek. It includes the first publication of the Werner map projection, which was widely..... More
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