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A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of The Milky Way by BARNARD Edward Emerson - 1927

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A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of The Milky Way by BARNARD Edward Emerson - 1927

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of The Milky Way

by BARNARD Edward Emerson

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Washington, D.C.: The Carnegie Institute, 1927. original brown cloth lettered in gilt. Covers with some silverfishing, lower spines faded where apparently labels have been removed, else fine. Oblong quarto, volume II 3/4 inch taller. Two volumes (complete). Part I: Photographs and Descriptions; Part II: Charts and Tables Illustrated with original photographs approx. 9-3/4 x 9-3/4 inches in size, attached to linen backing Each volume with the bookplate of Gordon Blanding, Belvedere, California. Blanding was a prominent San Francisco attorney and book collector "My principal aim in presenting these photographs has been to give pictures of some of the most interesting portions of the Milky Way in such form that they may be studied for a better understanding of its general structure. They are not intended as star charts. Such photographic charts have already been made ... These photographs may, therefore, be considered as supplementary to the regular charts in that they show the details of the clouds, nebulosities, etc." - from the foreword. Edward Emerson Barnard (1857-1923) was one of the greatest astronomers of the 19th century. His last legacy was the Photographic Atlas of Selected regions of the Milky Way edited by Edwin B. Frost (1866-1935)1 and Mary R. Calvert (1884-1974)2 in 1927 after his death. Only 700 copies of this Atlas were printed making the original edition a collector's item. Each one the 35,700 plates of the Atlas was inspected by Barnard himself. Hundreds or even thousands of plates were rejected until Barnard was satisfied with the results. In the beginning of the twentieth century astronomical photographs were extremely difficult to reproduce satisfactorily. "The publication of this Atlas, in accordance with the desires of Professor Barnard, was assured by a grant made by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1907. The long delay in its appearance calls for an explanation. Mr. Barnard was in the throes of preparing for publication a volume of his pioneer celestial photographs made at the Lick Observatory in the years 1889–1895. He had difficulty in satisfying himself that any mode of reproduction could adequately depict the qualities of the original photographs. That handsome work, which forms Volume XI of the Publications of the Lick Observatory, was not printed until 1913. ... The attempts made with the photogravure and other processes did not give the assurance of uniformity that was desired, and finally the author was persuaded that actual photographic prints would be more satisfactory and hardly more expensive than any other available method of reproduction. ... Professor Barnard began the task of making the reproducing negatives, and then took upon himself the heavy duty of personally inspecting every print of the 35,700 needed in the issue of an edition of 700 copies. ... The printed descriptions were written by him after a most careful study of the prints as well as of the original negatives. Professor Barnard's well–known eagerness to observe the heavens whenever the sky was clear left him little time for the remainder of the preparations of the work for publication. ... Unfortunately, the form of publication of the whole of the Atlas had not been settled up to the time of Mr. Barnard's death, although we had had many discussions upon the subject. It had been decided that, in addition to the photographs, there should be given pen–and–ink sketches of the fields, with a system of co–ordinates by which the positions of all distinctive markings and other objects of interest could be readily noted. ... The plan of issuing the work in two parts, so that the student of the Atlas can simultaneously have before him the photographs, its description, the key charts, and the tabular data of the objects designated, has been adopted after Mr. Barnard's death, but I believe that it would have had his approval." -from the introduction.
  • Bookseller Randall House Rare Books US (US)
  • Format/Binding Original brown cloth lettered in gilt
  • Book Condition Used - Covers with some silverfishing, lower spines faded where apparently labels have been removed, else fine
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher The Carnegie Institute
  • Place of Publication Washington, D.C.
  • Date Published 1927
  • Keywords Astonomy, universe, milky way, science
  • Size Oblong quarto, volume II 3/4 inch taller

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A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way Part II: Charts and Tables

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way Part II: Charts and Tables

by Barnard, Edward Emerson; Frost, Edwin and Calvert, Mary (ed.)

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Gyan Books, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Oversized book. Modern facsimile reprint of 1927 book. Volume 2 only. Leather binding, dents on the cover; tight book; very good shape overall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science & Nature; Inventory No: 211484. .
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