Publication complète des nouvelles découvertes de Sir John Herschel dans le ciel austral et dans la lune
By: traduit de l'anglais
Series: Harvard Widener Library astronomy preservation microfilm project -- 00576
Publisher: Masson et Duprey
Published: 1836
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Translated from: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Fiction; Miscellanea; Astronomy
Other titles: Nouvelles découvertes de Sir John Herschel dans le ciel austral et dans la lune
Work titles: Great astronomical discoveries
Notes: Translation of a series of articles by Richard Adams Locke originally published in the Sun, Aug. 1835, under title "Great astronomical discoveries," which purported to be an account of the discoveries of Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope, and which pretended to be reprinted from a supplement to the Edinburgh journal of science (then defunct). Has been asribed on insufficient evidence to Joseph Nicolas Nicollet. Cf. Dict. Amer. biog.; F.M. O'Brien, The story of the Sun, 1918, p. 64-102.