Item #140940131 The Reminiscences of an Astronomer. Simon Newcomb.
The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
The Reminiscences of an Astronomer

The Reminiscences of an Astronomer

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1903.

First edition. (First printing with date on title page, which publisher used in lieu of a first edition statement.) xii, 424 pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering, gilt topstain. A Very Good copy with wear at extremities, slight wave to pages, p. 11 bottom corner chipped with bump to nearby pages at corners. Newcomb is best-known as an astronomer; he was a self-taught prodigy who made various contributions to the fields of statistics, mathematics, economics, and science fiction. Item #140940131

Price: $150.00

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