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Rigaud (Stephen Peter)

A Defence of Halley against the Charge of Religious Infidelity.

Oxford: The Ashmolean Society, 1844.,

43,76 €

Forest Books William Laywood

(Grantham, Royaume-Uni)

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Auteur
Rigaud (Stephen Peter)
Éditeurs
Oxford: The Ashmolean Society, 1844.
Thème
ASTRONOMY

Description

First edition, vignette on title, 32pp., disbound. The following anecdote is often quoted: when the astronomer Edmond Halley (1656-1742), of comet fame, once spoke depreciatively on the subject of astrology, Newton is said to have berated him with the remark: ìSir Halley, I have studied the matter, you have not!î Brewster attributes the anecdote to the astronomer Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1811), from 1765 director of the Greenwich Observatory, who passed it on to the Oxford professor in astronomy, Stephen Peter Rigaud (1774-1839).
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