Berlin, D¥mmler's Verlags, 1866, 3 volumes in 8 reliés en demi-chagrin vert, dos orné de fers dorés (reliures de l'époque)
---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "Encke was professor and director of the Seeberg observatory. He demonstrated that the comet discovered by Pons, which was later called Encke's comet, had a period of scarcely four years and that it had been observed repeatedly. Prior to this only a few comets with elliptical orbits and much longer periods had been known... Encke's lectures were nevertheless influential, since a whole generation of astronomers, including Galle, F.F.E. Br¥nnow, B.A. Gould, K.N.A. Kruseger, W.J. Förster, F. Tietjen and K.C. Bruhns were among his disciples... Many of his writings were brought together as Astronomische Abhandlungen, 3 vols". (DSB IV pp. 369/370)**1971/L3
Berlin, Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften etc., 1828-1928. 8vo a. Lex8vo. 1830-90 uniform hcalf, gilt spines (a few with wear), 1891-1928 in uniform hcloth, spines with gilt lettering (a few with wear and one with a lose spine). A stamp to titlepages.
Johann Franz Encke was editor of the ""Jahrbuch"" from 1830 to 1866. The ""Jahrbuch"" contains importent papers on the problems of the calculating astronomy. With e.g. Gauss ""Über die Methode der kleinsten Quadrate"", ""Über Interpolation"", Olbers ""Über die zweckmässigste Art bei der Berechnung einer Cometenbahn die versuche anzustellen"" many by Encke etc. etc.
Berlin, Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften etc., 1828-41. 8vo. Bound in 7 contemp. hcalf. One volume with loose spine, otherwise with weak hinges, a few broken. Small stamps on title-pages. Each year around 300 pp. 2 engraved plates. Some leaves at beginnings with browning and brownspots. On inside on frontcovers in all 7 bound volumes the engraved bookplate of John Couch Adams (Ex Libris Johannis Couch Adams and is portrait).
This copy of the first 14 volumes of the ""Jahrbuch"" was probably one of the ""tools"" by which Adams discovered the planet Neptune (1845) and finally confirmed Newton's theory of gravitation.Johann Franz Encke was editor of the ""Jahrbuch"" from 1830 to 1866. The ""Jahrbuch"" contains importent papers on the problems of the calculating astronomy. With e.g. Gauss ""Über die Methode der kleinsten Quadrate"", ""Über Interpolation"", Olbers ""Über die zweckmässigste Art bei der Berechnung einer Cometenbahn die versuche anzustellen"" many by Encke etc. etc.
Berlin, Druckerei der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1842, in-8vo, VIII, 520 S., Hlwd.
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ENCKE (Fritz), BUCHHEIM (Günther), SEYBOLD (Siegmund)
Reference : PF209
(1993)
ISBN : 3-8001-5063-8