the lunar distances from the effects of parallax and refraction. With additions and corrections by J. G.
New Brunswick, New Jersey: printed by
Abraham Blauvelt,
1801. (Copy right secured.)
VK555 .C61
4to. 24 leaves of text preceded by a folded leaf, signed by John Garnett, containing
A Plain and concise projection for clearing the lunar distances from the effects of Parallax and Refraction . . . with an engraved diagram, and followed by 17 leaves of tables and problems, some folded, and a folded engraved plate of diagrams.
Not in Sabin.
Not in Lalande.
Henry Clarke, 1743-1818, English mathematician and schoolmaster, was a friend of Joseph Priestley. The first edition of this book was
printed in 1800.
John Garnett of New Brunswick was the editor of the
Nautical Almanack
, q.v., and in a letter to Jefferson concerning that publication, dated from New Brunswick, December 17, 1814, mentioned the kind attention he had
received from Jefferson when introduced to him in Washington.
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Connoissance de tems pour 1777. 78. 81. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 1800. 1801. 1802. 1803. 1804. 1805. 1806.
1807. 1808.
1815 Catalogue, page 115, no. 15, Connaissance des Temps pour 1777, 78, 81, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 1800,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 23 v 8vo.
Connoissance des Temps; ou, Des Mouvements celestes à l’usage des astronomes et des navigations . . . pour l’an 1777 [78,
81, 84-94, 1800-8.] Publiée par ordre de
l’Académie.
Paris:
1774-1805.
Together 23 vol. 8vo. No copy was seen for collation.
Houzeau, p. 927, no. 3168.
Lalande enters various numbers of the
Connoissance des Temps in their chronological place, with a summary of the contents, and occasionally an account of the editor. Lalande’s last entry,
under date 1803, is the
Connoissance des temps pour l’an XIII [1805], with the summary of the contents, and the note:
Je suis entré dans ce détail sur les derniers volumes de la Connaissance des temps, pour faire voir aux amateurs de la bibliographie
combien j’ai laissé de choses en arrière en annonçant les autres volumes. Il en est de même des Éphémérides de Berlin, de
Vienne et de Milan, qui sont aussi d’excellens dépôts de la nouvelle astronomie.
The
Connoissance des Temps from 1777 to 1790 is entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
32.0.
Jefferson began acquiring the
Connoissance des Temps after his arrival in Paris in 1784, and copies appear on his bills from
Froullé throughout his residence in Paris. In 1792, three years after his return to the United States, he still ordered the separate
numbers from Froullé. In 1805 he was buying the
Connoissance des Temps from
J. P. Reibelt of Baltimore, and in 1806 and 7 from
Roche Frères of Philadelphia. In 1806 the volumes for 1801, 5, 6, and 7, bound, appear on the bill from
Dufour of Amsterdam, for books bought for Jefferson by T. H. Backer. Volumes of the
Connoissance des Temps were bound for Jefferson in various years by John March and Joseph Milligan.
Jefferson, while in France, sent copies of this work to his friends in the United States. In a letter to Ezra Stiles, dated
from Paris, July 17, 1785, he wrote that he was sending a copy of the
Bibliothèque Physico-œconomique
, and “
. . . I accompany it with the volumes of the Connoissance des tems for the years 1781. 1784. 1785. 1786. 1787. but why, you
will ask, do I send you old almanacks, which are proverbially useless? because in these publications have appeared from time
to time some of the most precious things in astronomy. I have searched out those particular volumes which might be valuable
to you on this account. that of 1781. contains de la Caille’s catalogue of fixed stars reduced to the commencement of that
year, and a table of the Aberrations & Nutations of the principal stars. 1784 contains the same catalogue with the Nebuleuses
of Messier. 1785 contains the famous catalogue of Flamsteed with the positions of the stars reduced to the beginning of the
year 1784. and which supersedes the use of that immense book. 1786 gives you Euler’s Lunar tables corrected; and 1787 the
tables for the planet Herschel. the two last needed not an apology, as not being within the description of old almanacks.
it is fixed on grounds
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