• First edition of Planetary and Stellar Studies by John Ellard Gore, 1888, owned and signed by Sir J. Norman Lockyer, discoverer of helium. This landmark astronomy work explores cosmic architecture, the nature of light, and ether boundaries, bridging 19th-century speculation and modern science. A rare scientific classic, essential for collectors of early astronomy, signed scientific works, and pioneering studies in planetary and stellar theory.
  • First edition of Planetary and Stellar Studies by John Ellard Gore, 1888, owned and signed by Sir J. Norman Lockyer, discoverer of helium. This landmark astronomy work explores cosmic architecture, the nature of light, and ether boundaries, bridging 19th-century speculation and modern science. A rare scientific classic, essential for collectors of early astronomy, signed scientific works, and pioneering studies in planetary and stellar theory.
  • First edition of Planetary and Stellar Studies by John Ellard Gore, 1888, owned and signed by Sir J. Norman Lockyer, discoverer of helium. This landmark astronomy work explores cosmic architecture, the nature of light, and ether boundaries, bridging 19th-century speculation and modern science. A rare scientific classic, essential for collectors of early astronomy, signed scientific works, and pioneering studies in planetary and stellar theory.
  • First edition of Planetary and Stellar Studies by John Ellard Gore, 1888, owned and signed by Sir J. Norman Lockyer, discoverer of helium. This landmark astronomy work explores cosmic architecture, the nature of light, and ether boundaries, bridging 19th-century speculation and modern science. A rare scientific classic, essential for collectors of early astronomy, signed scientific works, and pioneering studies in planetary and stellar theory.
  • First edition of Planetary and Stellar Studies by John Ellard Gore, 1888, owned and signed by Sir J. Norman Lockyer, discoverer of helium. This landmark astronomy work explores cosmic architecture, the nature of light, and ether boundaries, bridging 19th-century speculation and modern science. A rare scientific classic, essential for collectors of early astronomy, signed scientific works, and pioneering studies in planetary and stellar theory.
  • First edition of Planetary and Stellar Studies by John Ellard Gore, 1888, owned and signed by Sir J. Norman Lockyer, discoverer of helium. This landmark astronomy work explores cosmic architecture, the nature of light, and ether boundaries, bridging 19th-century speculation and modern science. A rare scientific classic, essential for collectors of early astronomy, signed scientific works, and pioneering studies in planetary and stellar theory.
  • First edition of Planetary and Stellar Studies by John Ellard Gore, 1888, owned and signed by Sir J. Norman Lockyer, discoverer of helium. This landmark astronomy work explores cosmic architecture, the nature of light, and ether boundaries, bridging 19th-century speculation and modern science. A rare scientific classic, essential for collectors of early astronomy, signed scientific works, and pioneering studies in planetary and stellar theory.
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John Ellard Gore - Planetary and Stellar Studies - 1888 (Provenance: Sir J. Norman Lockyer)

John Ellard Gore - Planetary and Stellar Studies - 1888 (Provenance: Sir J. Norman Lockyer)

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Title

Planetary and Stellar Studies

Author

John Ellard Gore

Year

1888

Publisher

Roper and Drowley, London

Description

First Edition. This book owned and signed by Sir J. Norman Lockyer, the pioneering astronomer who discovered helium. This is among John Ellard Gore’s most intriguing works, written at a moment when astronomy stood at the threshold between speculation and modern science. In this work, Gore explores the vast architecture of the universe, proposing that a thinning of the ether at the cosmic boundaries might obscure light from external universes, a bold hypothesis made just as the Michelson–Morley experiment was beginning to dismantle the very notion of the luminiferous ether itself.

264 pp., [2]

Condition

Handwritten inscriptions identifying stars visible to the boards. Pages show some scattered foxing.
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