Introductio Ad Veram Astronomiam seu Lectiones Astronomicae

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Book in good condition, two folding engraved plates of lunar landscapes, mathematical diagrams within the text. Complete contemporary vellum boards with twentieth-century vellum spine. Internally clean and sharp. John Keill (1671-1721), Scottish mathematician and astronomer. A student of David Gregory in Edinburgh and a leading champion of Newtonian mechanics, Keill stubbornly argued that Leibniz had plagiarised Newton's discovery of calculus. This collection of lectures was delivered at Oxford during his years as Savilian Professor of Astronomy.