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St. Gellert\'s Hill Observatory\'s Chronicle: The Correspondence of Johann Pasquich, Paul Tittel
IMPORTANT: Preface, introduction and biographies are in English but the letters that comprise the bulk of the book are untranslated from the Hungarian. Includes facsimiles of sections of the original 18th and 19th Century texts.Never published prior to this volume, these letters between astronomers Johann Pasquitch and Paul Tittel offer valuable information about the development of astronomy in Hungary. Both directors of the former University Observatory located at the top of St. Gellert’s Hill in Budapest, they received help from the likes of Carl Friedrich Gauss and Christian Schumacher, as their letters attest.St. Gellert’s Hill Observatory’s Chronicle: The Correspondence of Johann Pasquich and of Paul Tittel. Published by Konkoly Observatory 1996. 231pp. Paperback. Book condition: Good – last few pages slightly creased but otherwise a nice, bright copy in a clean binding. Tightly bound and internally clean, no former owner inscriptions.

£19.99

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