Leiden: George Abrahamsz van Maarssen for Jodocus Colster, 1617. First edition of Snel’s most important work. This was “the foundation of modern geodesy” (Galileo Project) and of great significance in the history of navigation. “With the development of their oceanic commerce, the Dutch became very interested in the most accurate..... More
Item #4229
[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
Item #4324
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
Item #4700
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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
Item #3080