Fotheringham, John. Ancient Chronology AND OTHER PAPERS. Various publishers, Fotheringham, J(ohn) K(night) (b.1874).
Several papers, including: Ancient Chronology. Offprint: Oxford Magazine, 1930, original printed wrappers.
Recorded Date of the Chinese Eclipse of -719. Offprint, Royal Astronomical Society, vol XC, #9, 2pp.
Herbert Hall Turner, 1861-1930. Offprint, Oxford Magazine, 1930, 4pp,
Seeing, Eyesight and Weather in Ancient Babylonia. Offprint, British Astronomical Association, volume 40, 1930;
Notes on Galactic Rotation, Offprint, Monthly Notices RAS, 1930.
All are very good, in original wrappers, and *signed by the author*. Five offprints: $250
Fotheringham (Lecturer at Kings College and by 1909 a Fellow of Magdalen; reader at U London, assistant at the Observatory at Oxford and reader of ancient astronomy and chronology at Oxford) was a distingusied researcher, lecturer and author in the classics and in ancient astronomy. The large majority of his 100+ papers (published in The Chaldean, Classical Quarterly, Journal Hellenic Studies, J. Philology) deal with ancient observations, including 29 papers to Monthly Notices RAS, 9 to Observatory, and 18 to Nature.
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