A Critical Inquiry into the Motion of the Sun and Stability of the Earth
by MCCALMAN Godfrey
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Charlottesville , Virginia, United States
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About This Item
London: G, G. J. & J. Robinson, [also published in Edinburgh (John Bell) & Glasgow (J. W. Shaw), 1786. . 8vo, disbound; signatures A and B are separated from the remainder of the text block. Four holdings in OCLC.McCalman was a surgeon in Greenock, Scotland and was the author of one other work: "A natural, commercial and medicinal treatise on tea." This work on tea included a history of the East India Company and a method of distilling salt water to attain water for tea.His views on the relative motions of the planets is in direct contradiction to those of Newton and this, therefore might be described as an Anti-Newton work which had little circulation. It has not appeared at auction in the past 42 years and we have failed to find it in any relevant bibliographyl
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- Bookseller
- Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2745
- Title
- A Critical Inquiry into the Motion of the Sun and Stability of the Earth
- Author
- MCCALMAN Godfrey
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- London: G, G. J. & J. Robinson, [also published in Edinburgh (John Bell) & Glasgow (J. W. Shaw), 1786.
- Pages
- Not illustrated; 212 pp. Lacking the half-title
- Keywords
- ASTRONOMY
- Bookseller catalogs
- SCIENCE;
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