Aedes Hartwellianae: Volume 2: Addenda to the Aedes Hartwellianae

by William Henry Smyth

The astronomer John Lee (1783-66) inherited Hartwell House in Buckinghamshire in 1827. During its colourful history, the mansion had notably been occupied between 1809 and 1814 by the exiled court of Louis XVIII. Lee turned the house into something of a museum for his antiquarian and scientific interests, constructing an observatory to the design of the his close friend William Henry Smyth (1788-1865), after whom Lee named a lunar sea. A naval officer,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108066739
• ISBN13: 9781108066730
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 11.7"