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The astronomer John Lee (1783 66) inherited Hartwell House in
Buckinghamshire in 1827. During its colourful history, the mansion
had notably been occupied between 1809 and 1814 by the exiled court
of Louis XVIII. Lee turned the house into something of a museum for
his antiquarian and scientific interests, constructing an
observatory to the design of the his close friend William Henry
Smyth (1788 1865), after whom Lee named a lunar sea. A naval
officer, Smyth had helped to found the Royal Geographical Society
in 1830. His Sidereal Chromatics (1864) and The Sailor's Word-Book
(1867) are also reissued in this series. This charming history and
description of Hartwell, its grounds, buildings and contents,
appeared in two volumes between 1851 and 1864, illuminating
especially the practice of contemporary astronomy. Illustrated
throughout, the first volume (1851) includes coverage relating to
the locality, the lords of the manor, the collected antiquities and
the observatory."
The astronomer John Lee (1783 66) inherited Hartwell House in
Buckinghamshire in 1827. During its colourful history, the mansion
had notably been occupied between 1809 and 1814 by the exiled court
of Louis XVIII. Lee turned the house into something of a museum for
his antiquarian and scientific interests, constructing an
observatory to the design of the his close friend William Henry
Smyth (1788 1865), after whom Lee named a lunar sea. A naval
officer, Smyth had helped to found the Royal Geographical Society
in 1830. His Sidereal Chromatics (1864) and The Sailor's Word-Book
(1867) are also reissued in this series. This charming history and
description of Hartwell, its grounds, buildings and contents,
appeared in two volumes between 1851 and 1864, illuminating
especially the practice of contemporary astronomy. Illustrated
throughout, the second volume (1864) serves as a supplement,
recording Smyth's researches in the years since the first volume
went to press."
Admiral William Henry Smyth (1780 1865) went to sea at an early
age, becoming a sailor and surveyor with the East India Company,
and later moving to Mediterranean waters. A founding member of the
Royal Geographical Society in 1830, he spent much of his free time
engaged in scientific pursuits. One of his final projects was this
'word-book' of nautical terminology, which he had been compiling
throughout his career, and whose publication was eagerly
anticipated by his fellow naval officers. Although Smyth died
before it was published in 1867, his notes were edited by his
family and revised by Sir Edward Belcher (1799 1877). Ranging from
technical terminology to sailors' slang, Smyth's glossary contains
more than 700 pages of definitions, arranged alphabetically, making
it an indispensable source on nineteenth-century nautical
vocabulary for both maritime historians and sailing aficionados.
Admiral William Henry Smyth's Sidereal Chromatics (1864) represents
a landmark achievement in nineteenth-century astronomy, offering
the most precise observations of the colours of double stars yet
recorded. An expansion upon his well-known Bedford Cycle of
Celestial Objects, which garnered a gold medal from the Royal
Astronomical Society, Sidereal Chromatics provides both a theory
concerning the source of double-star colours and a method for
determining their most exact description. Detailed charts compare
Smyth's measurements of more than one hundred double stars with his
own previously published observations and those of his fellow
astronomer, Father Benedetto Sestini. This edition also includes
Smyth's famous colour chart, an attempt to standardise the process
of identifying double-star colours. Sidereal Chromatics ends with
Smyth's plea to amateur astronomers to continue the effort of
charting the heavens, aided by improved telescopes and works such
as his, 'trustworthy treatises available to all men'.
Title: des Hartwellian, or notices of the Mansion of Hartwell.
(Addenda, etc.) With plates.]Publisher: British Library, Historical
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mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was
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Smyth, William Henry; 1851-64. 2 vol.; 4 . 1261.c.6,7.
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