ACCOUNT OF AN OBSERVATION OF THE RIGHT ASCENSION AND DECLINATION OF MERCURY OUT OF THE MERIDIAN, NEAR HIS GREATEST ELONGATION, SEPT. 1786, MADE BY MR. JOHN SMEATON, F. R. S. WITH AN EQUATORIAL MICROMETER, OF HIS OWN INVENTION AND WORKMANSHIP; ACCOMPANIED WITH AN INVESTIGATION OF A METHOD OF ALLOWING FOR REFRACTION IN SUCH KIND OF OBSERVATIONS; COMMUNICATED TO THE REV. NEVIL MASKELYNE, D. D. F. R. S. AND ASTRONOMER ROYAL , AND BY HIM TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY
The Royal Society, 1787. Octavo, pages 317-341. In Good plus condition. Disbound from original text. Spine has remnants of leather binding. Textblock has brown staining on page 317 and mild foxing to pages. Horology Binder, Room A Ephemera.
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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.