#Smith chart art full#
#Smith chart art series#

Google Patents US8056034B1 - Use of smith chart to compensate for missing data on network performance at lower frequency Few with repaired short marginal tears.US8056034B1 - Use of smith chart to compensate for missing data on network performance at lower frequency Margins irregularly sized on some, as issued.

#Smith chart art full#

Solar System and Telescopic View of the Full Moon.Ĭondition: Each generally very good with light toning, wear, handling. Mercury & Venus Jupiter Herschel or Uranus, & Leverrier or Neptune Greatest Number of Eclipses in One Year Aerolites, Meteors, &c. Titles of prints shown above: Saturn The Seasons Tides Signs of the Zodiac Eclipses of the Sun and Moon (2 different prints) Definitions Mars, Asteroids & Jupiter Phases of the Moon Orbits of the Planets Terrestrial & Celestial Globes Refraction, Parallax, Light & Heat Moons Nodes, Eclipses, &c. Some with minor edge chipping, short marginal tears, marginal stains, etc.

#Smith chart art series#

Daniel, Burgess & Co., was publisher of Tower’s Series of School Books for elementary school books.Condition: Each generally good with the usual overall toning and wear.

They produced textbooks, children’s literature and other books. Newcomb, of the Astronomical department at Cambridge, Mass.”Ĭhase & Nichols was a Boston publishing firm active from about the late 1840s through the mid 1860s, sometimes publishing as Chase, Nichols & Hill. According to the title page of the 1866 edition, Smith’s Illustrated Astronomy was “revised and improved from notes and manuscripts of the new discoveries, which have been made to the present date, furnished by Prof. 18 assisted in revising text and correcting proofs. 12, City of New York.” According to the original Preface, James H. By Asa Smith, Former Principal of Public School No. Illustrated with Numerous Original Diagrams. The full title is: “Smith’s Illustrated Astronomy, Designed for the Use of the Public or Common Schools in the United States. on wood, ready for the tool of the engraver which was done by the Author himself.” In other words, Smith created and drew each print on a woodblock, and then a specialist wood engraver engraved the images into the wood for printing. 12, located at 17th Street and Eighth Avenue in New York City, explained that the purpose of this series was “to present all distinguishing principles in physical Astronomy with as few words as possible but with such ocular demonstrations, by way of diagrams and maps, as shall make the subject easily understood.” He also noted that “he Diagrams, which are larger and more full than those of any other work adapted to common schools, are many of them original in their design.” Smith further stated that the creation of the series “occupied the whole of his spare time for nearly three years the most laborious part of it being the drawing of the diagrams, &c. In his Preface, Smith, the Principal of Public School No. Originally copyrighted in 1848, numerous editions followed up to 1866.

The visual elements in Smith’s astronomical prints are characterized by simple graphic images against a black background, as well as repeating geometric forms and linear elements, typically circles and ovals. Also included is a picture of the use of an orrery in an elementary classroom. It contined numerous diagrams demonstrating or showing principles of planetary motion and features, other astronomical phenomena, the moon, and the constellations. Smith’s Illustrated Astronomy was the most popular American pictorial astronomy guide of the 19th century. (printers)ĭaniel Burgess & Co., 60 John Street, New York: 1852