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Published 1904: Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. 371 very clean and bright slightly age-toned pages, neat text underling on a few pages, speckled foxing on the end papers and edges. Boards are rubbed and faded with time and bumped on the corners and frayed along the spine tips consistent with age but remain firm and intact. Scarce! (HQ793)

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Sir Robert Stawell Ball was an Irish astronomer. He worked for Lord Rosse from 1865 to 1867. In 1867 he became Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Royal College of Science in Dublin. In 1874 Ball was appointed Royal Astronomer of Ireland and Andrews Professor of Astronomy in the University of Dublin at Dunsink Observatory.[1] In 1892 he was appointed Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at Cambridge University. His lectures, articles and books (eg. Starland and The Story of the Heavens) were mostly popular and simple in style. However, he also published books on mathematical astronomy such as A Treatise on Spherical Astronomy. His main interest was mathematics and he devoted much of his spare time to his "Screw theory". He served for a time as President of the Quaternion Society. His work The Story of the Heavens is mentioned in the "Ithaca" chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses.

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