[Rarebooks] fa: HOROLOGY - GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY on Wheels, Pendulums, Escapements, and the Going-Fusee - 1825

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with other antiquarian science & mathematics, auction ending Sunday, September 29. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.


George Biddell Airy: On the Forms of the Teeth of Wheels. 1825. [BOUND WITH:] On the Disturbances of Pendulums and Balances, and on the Theory of Escapements. 1826. [BOUND WITH:] On a Correction requisite to be applied to the Length of a Pendulum consisting of a Ball suspended by a fine Wire. 1829. [BOUND WITH:] On a New Construction of the Going-Fusee. 1840. [Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1827, 1830, 1842.] Four separate papers, extracted from broken volumes of the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and bound in olive-green french wraps; 4to (28 x 22 cm); p. 277-286; 105-128; 355-360; 217-225 (49 pp. total), plus three leaves of plates.

Four papers on the mechanics of clocks, etc., by the polymathic George Biddell Airy (1801- 1892), mathematician, Astronomer Royal, and de facto scientific adviser to the British government for decades. It was Airy who established Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian. Some spotting to two of the plates, one with a small damp-stain in the margin; mild toning to the leaves with a few small occasional spots; a couple of light, tidy (erasable) penciled corrections to the second paper; otherwise clean and sound and firmly bound in fresh modern wraps.