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Duncan Bradford |
The Wonders of the Heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, and stars, with descriptions of the planets, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy, or Milky-Way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis, or northern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, &c. : Illustrated by numerous maps and engravings.. Boston 1837
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Duncan Bradford
The Wonders of the Heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, and stars, with descriptions of the planets, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy, or Milky-Way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis, or northern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, &c. : Illustrated by numerous maps and engravings.. Boston 1837
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Propongo la lettura dell’ampio saggio didattico su tutti i temi astronomici di Duncan Bradford ampiamente corredato da immagini e dalle sei tavole celesti, 34 per 28 cm, che rappresentano il complesso del cielo stellato e che anticipano quelle delle numerose edizioni degli anni successivi di
SDUK e William Rutter Dawes (1799-1868)
The Stars, in six maps, on the gnomonic projection, revised by the Rev. W.R. Dawes. Under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. London 1844, 1865, 1883:
http://www.atlascoelestis.com/SDUK%201844%20e%201865base.htm
http://www.atlascoelestis.com/Dawes%20W%20Pagina%20base.htm
alle quali rimando per una dettagliata descrizione delle tavole.
Il saggio:
https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/wonders-heavens-being-popular-view-astronomy/30364466676/bd
Copia priva delle tavole celesti:
Copia con le sei tavole ripiegate
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.086606274&seq=11
Edizione del 1845 senza tavole
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009260857
Edizione completa delle tavole
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.wondersofheavens00brad/?sp=2&st=gallery
https://archive.org/details/wondersofheavens00brad/page/37/mode/thumb
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Tavole del cielo stellato
Alcune tavole in bianco e nero
di FELICE STOPPA
MARZO 2024
