AN ACCOUNT OF AN APPARATUS APPLIED TO THE EQUATORIAL INSTRUMENT FOR CORRECTING THE ERROERS ARISING FROM THE REFRACTION IN ALTITUDE
The Royal Society, 1779. Octavo, pages 331-336. In Good plus condition. Disbound from original binding. Tearing to spine from disbanding. Pages have rust staining from paper clip, bending to page edges, and worming to pages near tail edge. Horology Binder, Room A Ephemera.
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Special Collections - Upstairs
Price: $65
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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.