Research Catalog

Title

The moon : her motions, aspect, scenery, and physical condition / by Richard A. Proctor, author of "The sun," "Saturn and its system," "The orbs around us," "Essays on astronomy," "Other worlds than ours," etc. ; with two lunar photographs by Rutherfurd and many illustrations.

Author

Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888

Publication

• London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1878.
• London : Spottiswoode and Co.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris, 1816-1892

Description

x, 314 pages, VI leaves of plates (1 folded), 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map; 21 cm

Alternative Title

Moon, her motions, aspect, scenery, and physical condition

Subject

• Celestial mechanics
• Lunar geography
• Lunar photography
• Moon
• Moon > Surface

Genre/Form

• Photomechanical prints – Great Britain – 19th century.
• Collotypes – Great Britain – 19th century.
• Halftone photomechanical prints – Great Britain – 19th century.

Note

• Also published in New York (D. Appleton and Company).
• Original edition published in 1873. This edition is condensed to omit portions considered "too difficult for the general reader." See Preface to the second edition, page v.
• With 2 collotype reproductions of photographs of the moon by Lewis M. Rutherfurd, dated Feb. 27, 1871 and Sept. 16, 1870, and 1 half-tone reproduction of a photograph of a plaster model by James Nasmyth showing the moon's surface. Collotypes possibly executed by the Autotype Fine Art Company; see catalog of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, page 59 (1878:4). Halftone (plate III), signed H. Alard sc., was "taken from a photograph of the original model furnished to Sir J. Herschel by Mr. Nasmyth" (see page 174).
• Map of the moon on folded leaf.
• Includes "Index to the map of the moon" (pages 305-314).

Source (note)

• Astor Library copy.

Contents

The moon's distance, size, and mass -- The moon's motions -- The moon's changes of aspect, rotation, libration, etc. -- Study of the moon's surface -- Lunar celestial phenomena -- Condition of the moon's surface.

Call Number

3-OSI (Proctor, R. A. Moon. 1878)

OCLC

8205243

Author

Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888, author.

Title

The moon : her motions, aspect, scenery, and physical condition / by Richard A. Proctor, author of "The sun," "Saturn and its system," "The orbs around us," "Essays on astronomy," "Other worlds than ours," etc. ; with two lunar photographs by Rutherfurd and many illustrations.

Publisher

London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1878.

Manufacturer

London : Spottiswoode and Co.

Edition

Second edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Nelson.

Source

Astor Library copy.

Added Author

Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris, 1816-1892, photographer.

Research Call Number

3-OSI (Proctor, R. A. Moon. 1878)