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LOCKYER, J. Norman. The Dawn of Astronomy. A Study of the Temple Worship and Mythology of the Ancient Egyptians. London: Cassell and Company, 1894. First edition. With the bookplate of Stillman Drake. Tall 8vo., orig. light brown buckram, xvi,432, (2)pp. ads, (16)pp.ads dated "9.93." Illustrated. Newspaper article by Lockyer tipped to front free e/paper, spine darkened to dark brown, perimeter of covers darkened, small piece (1/2") out at the top of the spine, o/w a very good copy. Joseph Norman Lockyer [1836-1920] astronomer. Lockyer began his career with a clerkship in the War Office. However, he "had already acquired,probably from his father, ....a taste for science, especially astronomy." His first scientific paper was submitted to the Royal |
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Astronomical Society in 1863 and gives an a very accurate study of Mars. Lockyer made many pioneering discoveries; among them his work on sun-spots, the "chromosome" (the envelope surrounding the sun), and the name of the element helium detected by Lockyer in the sun's spectrum. He was the astronomical lecturer at the Normal School and later the Rede lecturer at Cambridge. He was the chief of the English Government Eclipse expedition to Sicily in 1870 and to India in 1871. Lockyer was also appointed secretary to the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the advancement of Science. In 1890 he was appointed director of the new Solar Physics Observatory and professor of astronomical physics, a post he held until 1913. Lockyer's visit to Egypt led him to suggest the possibility of dating Egyptian temples by their orientation considered in relation to the heavens of the past; a theory outlined in the above work. "Lockyer's influence on the course of scientific investigation extended beyond his immediate circle or time.....he also anticipated the modern views of the course of stellar evolution....." |
