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London: Samuel Harding, 1744. Mixed edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf. Very good. 2 vols. 29 x 13 xm. Two volumes in four parts with six title pages as follows: Preface (1743), Part I (1744), Part II (1737), Part III (1743), Part IV (1742-1743). With the continuation leaf for Part III of the second section, errata, and an Index for the Whole after Part IV. Text covers Mechanics, Hydrostatics and Pneumatics, Optics, and Astronomy. A total of 41 copper-engraved fold-out plates -- Vol. I (9), Vol. II (4), Vol. III (15), Vol. IV (13). Rowning, Rector of Anderby, Lincolnshire, and a Fellow of Magdelene College, Cambridge, developed the first mechanical device for solving polynomial equations. Although the machine works for any degree in theory, it was only practical for quadratics. ALLIBONE, Vol.II, p.1885. Raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt, spine labels lacking, minimal text toning, back cover joints cracked -- at middle of Vol. I and foot, Vol. II -- but firm. Spine labels…
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A Compendious System Of Natural Philosophy With Notes Containing the Mathematical Demonstrations, And some Occasional Remarks
by Rowning, John
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The Economy Of Nature Explained And Illustrated On The Principles Of Modern Philosophy
by Gregory, George
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London: J. Johnson, 1804. Third edition. leather_bound. Contemporary half brown calf and marbled boards. Very good. 3 vols. 567, 528 & 534 pages. 26 page index., errata for each volume. 21 1/2 x 14 cm. First published 1796. Forty-seven engraved copper-plates in total -- 22 (Vol, I), 10 (Vol.II), 15 (Vol.III). A divine and man of letters, the author studied at the university of Edinburgh. "Gregory was for the most part self-educated, and acquired a very credible amount of erudition." [see: DNB p.836]. Overall a clean firm copy; scattered, intermittent age-toning; moderate extremity rubbing; Vol. I lacks leather spine label; chipping to remaining spine labels. Bookplates.
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An Essay On The First Principles Of Natural Philosophy:; Wherein The Use of Natural Means, Or Second Causes, in the Oeconomy of the material World, is demonstrated from Reason, Experiments of various Kinds, and the Testimony of Antiquity
by Jones, William
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Oxford: S. Parker and D. Prince et al., 1762. First edition. leather_bound. Early reback in contemporary full brown calf. Very good. 281 pages. 26 1/2 x 22 cm. Three copper-engraved plates, two are fold-outs. "Jones of Nayland" was one of the prominent churchmen of his day. He represented the school more numerous than is commonly supposed, which formed the link between the non-juror and the later Oxford School (see: DNB). His Nayland Vicarage became the center of that circle which came to be known as the "High Church Party". This book attacked determinism and the natural philosophy principles of Newton. Modest text toning, wide text margins, wear to lower extremities, backstrip mildly abraded with loss to most of spine label, bookplate.
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Hydrostatical And Pneumatical Lectures; Published With Notes By his Successor Robert Smith LL.D.
by Cotes, Roger
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London: S. Austin printed for the Editor, 1738. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf, double gilt border panels, rebacked, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Near fine. 243 pages, Preface (12), Index (6), and four pages of publisher adverts [A8-Q8, R7]. 20 x 13 cm. Five copper engraved fold-out plates, plate four in photocopy. Errata list. Cotes, an English mathematician who edited the second edition of Newton's PRINCIPIA, made advances in the theory of logarithms, the integral calculus and in numerical methods, particularly interpolation. His quadrature formulas known as Newton-Cotes formulas and first introduced what is known today as Euler's formula. He was the first Plumian Professor and Cambridge University from 1707 until his death at the age of thirty-three. This work was held in great estimation. Cotes genius earned encomiums from his contemporaries and successors; Sir Isaac Newton said, "If Mr. Cotes had lived, we should have known something." Two inked…
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A Manual Of Natural Philosophy Compiled From Various Sources, And Designed For Use As A Text-Book In High Schools And Academies
by Johnston, John
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Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1856. New and Revised Edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown roan. Very good. 379 pages. 18 x 11 cm. Illustrated with 320 engravings. First edition published 1851. Nice, tight copy, modest age-toning, backstrip chipped at head, binder stamp, lacks spine label.
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A Mathematical And Philosophical Dictionary: Containing An Explanation Of The Terms, And An Account Of The Several Subjects, Comprized Under The Heads Mathematics, Astronomy, And Philosophy Both Natural And Experimental:; With An Historical Account Of The Rise, Progress And Present State Of These Sciences: Also Memoirs Of The Lives And Writings Of The Most Eminent Authors, Both Ancient And Modern, etc.
by Hutton, Charles
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London: J. Johnson, 1796. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. marbled boards rebacked, brown calf with black leather spine labels lettered in gilt. 2 vols. Very good/Near fine. 650, 756 pages. 27 x 23 cm. Thirty-seven copper engraved plates, and a host of diagrams and tables in the text. Volume I, 1796 probably a later issue -- copies noting 1795 and 1796 on title page are found. In 1773 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolich, and in the following year he was elected fellow of the royal Society of London and reported on Nevil Makelyne's determination of the mean density and mass of the earth from measurements taken in 1774-1776 at Schiehallion in Pertshire. "A most useful work for biographical information and for showing the state of science about 1800 is Charles Huttons's "Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary." [see: KNIGHT p.76]. This work is considered a valuable contribution to scientific biography. GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, March 1823 noted, "It has…
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