Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:: 20th century

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$279 284 285 286 \ 288 290 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 15 BARLOW (William) New THEORIES of MATTER and FORCE, il., 8vo. cl , 5s (p. 12s) 1885 The author’s observations are based ona new theory of the ether, ‘according to which the transmission of wave motions depeuds on the mutual repulsions of similarly electrified particles.’ BARROW (Isaac, D.D., Master of Trinity) MATHEMATICAL WORKS, ed. by WILLIAM WHEWELL, D.D., with 27 folding maps, and diagrams, thick 8vo. cl., 6s 6d Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1860 ‘The only collected edition of Barrow’s scientific works, with an interesting preface by the editor. _____ GEOMETRICAL LECTURES: explaining the Generation, Nature and Properties of Curve Lines, trans. from the Latin Edition revised, corrected and amended by SIR IsAAC NEWTON, by EDMUND STONE, F.R.S., with 11 folding plates, 8vo. old calf (back slightly damaged, and portrait wanting), 5s 1735 — LECTIONES [LUCASIAN&] in SCHOLIS PUBLICIS ACADEMIA CANTABRIGIENSIS, A.D. 1664, 12mo. old calf, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, 7s 6d Londini, 1683 LECTIONES XVILI, in quibus OPTICORUM PHENOMENON genuine Rationes investigantur, ac exponuntur: LECTIONES GEOMETRIC# : in quibus (praesertim) generalia Curvarum Linearum Symptomata declarantur—2 vols. er. 4to. in 1, with copperplates ; old calf, with bookplate of Philip Qnd Karl Stanhope (RARE), £1. 10s , ibid., 1669-70 First Eprrrons of the author’s two chief mathematical works. ‘In the Optical Lectures many problems connected with the reflexion and refraction of light are treated with ingenuity. The geometrical focus of a point seen by reflexion or refraction is defined ; and it is explained that the image of an object is the locus of the geometrical foci of every point on it. Barrow also worked out a few of the easier properties of thin lenses; and considerably simplified the Cartesian explanation of therainbow. The geometrical lectures contain some new ways of determining the areas and tangents of curves. The most celebrated of these is the method given for the determination of tangents to curves’,—IWV, W. R. Ball. According to the preface Newron revised and corrected the work and added matter of his own. : ——_— The UsEeFuLNEsS of MATHEMATICAL LEARNING explained and demonstrated: Lucasian Lectures; with his Oratorical Preface, at Cambridge, trans. by JOHN KIRKBY, pr., with fine engraved portrait, 8vo. old panelled calf, 8s 6d 1734 ‘As a mathematician he was considered by his contemporaries as second only to Newton ’.—Canon Overton, ‘The principal part which Barrow plays in mathematical history is as one of the immediate precursors of Newton and Leibnitz in the invention of the differential calculus’.—Dr. Whevwell. ——— v. ARCHIMEDES, ante, et EUCLIDES, post. BARTHOLINUS (Caspar Thomesen) SPECIMEN PAILOSOPHIA NATURALIS, preecipua Physices Capita exponens; accedit, de FONTIUM FLUVIORUMQUE ORIGINE ex Plaviis Dissertatio physica, 18mo. old sheep (back damaged), 8s Sd Oxonie, 1703 BARTHOLOMEUS Anglicanus—v. GLANVILLE, post. BARTJENS (Willem) VERNIEUWDE CYFFERINGE, waeruyt men meest alle de Gront-regulen van de Reecken-konst leeren kan, vermeerdert, enz. door JAN VAN DAM ; portrait on title, 16mo. old calf (text of engraved title defective and mounted) ; rare, 12s 6d Amst., 1683 : ee sis of a decidedly commercial character, and with good force of examples,’—Prof. de Morgan, who only knew the edition of 1673. BASILIUS VALENTINUS, 0.8.3. [recte THOLDE (Johann)] CHYMISCHE SCHRIFTEN alle | so viel derer verhanden | anitzo zum Dritten mahl zusammen gedruckt | aus vielen so wol geschriebenen als gedruckten Exemplaren vermehret und verbessert; with engraved portrait, and curious woodcuts, 2 vols. large 12mo. in 1, old leather (binding damaged) ; RARE, £1. 5s Hamburg, 1700 The third German edition of the author’s complete works. ‘He regarded salt, sulphur, and mercury, as the three bodies contained in the metals, and inferred that the philosopher’s stone must be a sort of combination—a compound, namely, of salt, sulphur, and mercury ; so pure that its projection on the baser metals should be able to work them up into greater and greater purity, bringing them at last to the state of silver and gold. His practical knowledge was great ; he knew how to precipitate iron from solution by potash, and was acquainted with many similar processes, so that he is ranked as the founder of analytical chemistry.’ aye ____ TRIUMPH-WAGEN ANTIMONH, allen | so den Grund der Uhralten Medicin suchen | auch za der Hermetischen Philosophie Beliebnis tragen | zu gut publiciret | und samt noch SIEBEN ANDERN gleichmiissig héchstnutzlichen TRACTATLEIN an den Tag gegeben durch JOHANN THOLDEN ; with emblematic front., large 12mo. old vellum (RARE), 17s 6d Nurnberg, 1676 ‘ He shows how to prepare antimony itself from the native sulphide . . . He gives distinct recipes for the preparation of antimony trichloride, of powder of algaroth (basic chloride of antimony), of antimony trioxide, and of potassic antimoniate, and there can hardly be a doubt that he recommended and applied those preparations for internal use.’— Prof. E. v. Meyer. ; The seven supplementary tracts include: Vom Oleo Stibii ; Yom Stein der Weisen ; Opus Saturni Isaaci; De Occulta Philosophia Chemicorum ; etc. é B[ATE] (J(ohn]) The MysTERYES of NATURE and ART: conteined in foure severall Tretises, the first of WATER WORKES, the second of FyER WorkKEsS, the third of Drawina, Colouring, Painting, and Engraving, the fourth of DIVERS EXPERIMENTS, as wel serviceable as delightful : partly collected, and partly of the Authors Peculiar Practice, and Invention, first edition, with finely engraved title in compartments, and very numerous curious and well-executed woodcuts (some * full-page), sm. 4to. contemporary calf (some Ul. stained, a few headlines shorn, and the divisional title to Book III apparently missing ; otherwise a sound copy in the original binding), £5. 5s Ralph Mab, 1634 The first edition of this curious work is EXCESSIVELY RARE, no copy having happened for sale for the last 20 years. Some of the experiments described and depicted are very curious, including instructions how to make Weather-glasses ; Water-clocks, ete , Experiments of ‘ drawing water by the Crane, and by Engins, of forcing water by ayre compressed and by Engins, of producing sounds by ayre and water, by evaporarion of water by fire, and by Engins, of motions by evaporating water, and by rarifying ayre,’ ete. ete. ete. Bearing in mind the early date of publication, its descriptions of engines driven by steam are of considerable interest. There is no copy of this edition in the British Museum, nor is the author noticed in D. N. B. : Page 155 describes how to make a FREEZING MIXTURE, Which is of special interest, RopertT BoyLe having been credited with making the first experiments in 1667—thirty-three years after the publication of the above work, — THIRD [LAST] EDITION, with many Additions, with engraved title, and very numerous woodcuts (some in contemporary colouring), sm. 4to. LARGE AND FINE COPY in old calf, £1. 15s A. Crook, 1654$

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