The Borderland of Science A Series of Familiar Dissertations on Stars, Planets, and Meteors: Sun and Moon; Earthquakes: Flying-Machines; Coal; Gambling; Coincidences; Ghosts, Etc.

Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lipincott & Co.. Very Good-. 1874. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers have bumping, rubbing, and fraying. Both top and bottom edges of of the spine have chips torn off. The text pages are generally clean, though there are spots of foxing throughout. There is a previous owner's inked name and address on the first free page. "Proctor was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1866. He became honorary secretary in 1872, and contributed eighty-three separate papers to its Monthly Notices. Of these the more noteworthy dealt with the distribution of stars, star clusters and nebulae, and the construction of the sidereal universe. He was an expert in all that related to map-drawing, and published two star-atlases. A chart on an isographic projection, exhibiting all the stars contained in the Bonner Durchmusterung, was designed to show the laws according to which the stars down to the 9–10th magnitude are distributed over the northern heavens. His Theoretical Considerations respecting the Corona (Monthly Notices, xxxi. 184, 254) also deserve mention, as well as his discussions of the rotation of Mars, by which be deduced its period with a probable error of 0.005. He also vigorously criticised the official arrangements for observing the transits of Venus of 1874 and 1882. He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1874." (from Wikipedia) .