A GENERAL THEORY FOR THE MENSURATION OF THE ANGLE SUBTENDED BY TWO OBJECTS, OF WHICH ONE IS OBSERVED BY RAYS AFTER TWO REFLECTIONS FROM PLANE SURFACES, AND THE OTHER BY RAYS COMING DIRECTLY TO THE SPECTATOR'S EYE
The Royal Society, 1781. Octavo, pages 395-436 with 4 folding plates. In Good plus condition. Disbound from original binding. Remnants of leather binding on spine, partial separation along spine. Textblock has light age toning. Horology Binder, Room A Ephemera.
1380008
Special Collections - Upstairs
Price: $250
NOTES
From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution, serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments.