HALLEY, Edmond, (Edited by Norman J.W. Thrower)

The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore, 1698 1701. (Second Series. No. 156).

London. The Hakluyt Society. 1981. Hardcover. 8VO, 21.5cm, 392p., with 15 illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index, light blue cloth, gilt spine titles & cover logos, a fine copy. (Tr). Commanding HMS Paramore, Edmund Halley undertook what are considered the first sea journeys for purely scientific purposes; the first two voyages were to test his geomagnetical theories, the third to investigate tidal phenomena. Item #37244

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