Item #002667 On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System. William HERSCHEL.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.
On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.

On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System.

London: Lockyer Davis, and Peter Elmsly, 1783.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002667

In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 73 (1783), part II, pp. 247-283, 3 engraved folding plates by James Basire. London: Lockyer Davis and Peter Elmsly, 1783. 4to (275 x 214 mm). Entire volume, two parts, vii [1], 1-246, vii [1]; iv, 247-310, *303-*370, 311-501, [3] pp. and 10 plates. Title pages to both parts, the first with engraved vignette, errata bound at end. Later half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spine with gilt-lettered red morocco label, additional lettering and some ruling in gilt (little wear to extremities, light rubbing, upper joint cracked at top). Text and plates little browned in margins and with scattered light foxing (stronger to general title), 4 plates (not belonging to Herschel's paper) cropped at bottom. Provenance: (ownership inscription to front flyleaf). ----

PMM 227; Norman 1059. FIRST EDITION. In this celebrated paper, one of his earliest contributions to the Royal Society, Herschel demonstrated his discovery of the movement of the sun and of the entire solar system with it. "Herschel analyzed the individual motions of a small number of stars, showing that most of their observed motions were actually the result of the movement of our solar system through space." (Norman).

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