THE RUTHERFURD PHOTOGRAPHIC MEASURES OF THE GROUP OF THE PLEIADES
New York: 1892. Octavo, 239-330; VG; bound in 3/4 dark green calf, marbled boards, spine sun-faded, paneled with black morocco label and gilt titling; mild wear and rubbing, primarily to extremities and hinges; patterned endpapers; Authors own copy, with 'Harold Jacoby, Columbia College' bookplate to front pastedown; shelved case 10.
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(Contributions from the observatory of Columbia College, New York, 3). Repr. from the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. VI;
"Among professional astronomers, Professor Jacoby's name is associated principally with the early determination of accurate star positions from the measurement of photographic plates. The great collection of photographic plates taken by Lewis Moris Rutherford had been given to Columbia University, and the measurement and reduction of many of them was done by Professor Jacoby or under his direction...He was also one of the founders of the Mathematical Society of New York which later became the American Mathematical Society." [Eckert, W. J.: Popular Astronomy, Vol. 40, p.611]