Wheelwright Heavens Life Work by Millburn John (5 results)

8vo Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 328p. Text is unmarked on bright pages with some b/w illustrations. Binding is tight, hinges are secure. Red cloth boards are pointed with gilt lettering with heavy water damage and soiling. Endpages are also soiled with a large puncture on ffep. Still, a solid reading copy.

Condition: Good. Picture Shown is For Illustration Purposes Only, Please See Below For Further DetailsCONDITION ? GOOD ? HARDBACK - price clipped, light grub/wear/small tear/discolouration and scuff marks to jacket, light foxing/spotting/grub to fore edges, pages in nice condition, shipped from the UK.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Frontispiece, xi, 328 pp; 59 figs. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket.

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, xii,328pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper; not price-clipped. ISBN: 0946836450.

8vo. xi, [1], 328 pp. Frontispiece, 59 figures, index. Maroon gilt-stamped cloth, dust-jacket; some mild wear to the jacket. Ink notation (referencing dialing) written by Dr. King âÂÂ" on the rear free flyleaf; INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE CO-AUTHOR, "For Dr. Henry C. King, With best wishes âÂÂ" John R. Millburn âÂÂ" October 1988". Four British postage stamps commemorating James Ferguson tipped-in. Very good. Accompanied by a typed letter signed from T. Cuyler Young, Jr., Director of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, noting the gift of a copy of this book. Also laid in is a copy of Gerard L'E. Turner's book review of this title. Turner compliments thus," [This book] is remarkable in the extent of material gleaned over years of research that not only give in detail the life and work of a remarkable Scot, but also present a picture of part of the intellectual life of London and provincial cities, which found excitement in the explanations for the phenomena of astronomy and physics." / "JAMES FERGUSON (1710-1776) is known to antiquarian horologists for his clocks with astronomical and tidal dials; to historians of astronomy for his books, lectures, and mechanical models of the solar system ('orreries'); to geographers for his terrestrial globes; to art collectors for his miniature portraits drawn in Indian ink (his major source of income for many years); and to book collectors for his writings on astronomy, mechanics, horology, drawing, and electricity, all of which passed through many editions both in his lifetime and on into the Victorian era." / "James Ferguson's life was the subject of a detailed investigation in the mid-19th century by Ebenezer Henderson, whose Life of James Ferguson, FRS (1867) was the principal source for the lengthy entry on Ferguson in the DNB. However, much more has since been discovered about certain aspects of Ferguson's activities, and as Henderson's book is now itself a scarce and expensive collector's item', a new study of the subject has become increasingly desirable in recent years. This well researched new biography will supply this need, both for general readers and (through numerous footnotes and appendices) academic students of the history of science." âÂÂ" jacket. / John R. Millburn "originally trained as an engineer, reading for a degree in Mathematics and Physics at King's College London, before becoming involved in astronautics and orbiting communications satellites in the 1960s. This focus on satellites and their orbits fired his interest in orreries âÂÂ" mechanical solar-system models âÂÂ" and led him to produce a range of innovative geocentric orreries dealing with satellite orbit. In turn, this inspired his interest in the history of scientific instruments." / "Millburn went on to become a well-respected and devoted amateur historian with a long-standing focus on the life and times of Benjamin Martin, an entrepreneurial 18th-century instrument maker, author, publisher and public lecturer on experimental science. Millburn's various works on Martin still add up to one of the most detailed studies of such a creative tradesman." âÂÂ" History of Science Museum, University of Oxford. / Henry C. King (1915-2005) âÂÂ" he signed the book in 1940 likely the date he acquired the book. In the 1950s he was Senior Lecturer in Ophthalmic Optics at Northampton College of Advanced Technology, (now City, University of London). In 1956, he became the first Scientific Director of the London Planetarium. Ten years later, he became Director of the McLaughlin Planetarium, Toronto. He was President of the British Astronomical Association from 1958-60. He is famous for his expertise in the history of astronomy and of the telescope. He was the author of numerous books and papers in the history of astronomy, these include: The History of the Telescope (1955), The World of the Moon (1966, 1967). He co-authored, with John R. Millburn, Wheelwright of the Heavens: The Life and Work of James Ferguson, FRS, (1988), Geared to the Stars: the evolution of planetariums, orreries, and astronomical clocks (1978). See: King, David A, "Henry C. King (1915 - 2005) ", Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 38, Part 4, No. 133, p. 526 - 527 (2007).