Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:
20th century
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WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/112
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Credit: Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    347 [BERKELEY (George, Bp. of Cloyne)] The ANALYST; ora DISCOURSE addressed to an INFIDEL MATHEMATICIAN, wherein it is examined whether the Object, Principles, and Inferences of the modern Analysis are more distinctly conceived or more evidently deduced than Religious Mysteries and Points of Faith, by the AUTHOR of the MINUTE PHILOSOPHER, first edition, with diagrams, Svo. sewn (RARE), 12s 6d 1734 ‘In the Analyst his theological philosophy was further unfolded, in an argument meant to show that the higher mathematics involve assumptions which as truly exclude definite or exhaustive conception as do any of the mysteries of religion. —Prof. Campbell Fraser. : j 343 [———] A Derence of FREE-THINKING in MATHEMATICS, in Answer to a Pamphlet of Phila- lethes Cantabrigiensis, intituled, ‘Geometry no Friend to Infidelity’; also APPENDIX concerning Mr. Walton’s Vindication of the Principles of Fluxions, by the AUTHOR of the MINUTE PHILOSOPHER, first edition, 8vo. sewn (rare), 10s 1735 ‘In England the principles of fluxions were boldly attacked by Bp. Berkeley, who argued with great acuteness, contending, among a ee things, that the fundamental idea of supposing a finite ratio to exist betweer terms absolutely evanescent was absurd and unintelligible. The reply made by Jurin {q. v. post] failed to remove all the objections. Berkeley was the first to point out what was again shown later by Lazare Carnot, that correct answers were reached by a compensation of errors.’—Prof. Cujori. See JuRIN and Wanton, post. : SIRIS: a CHAIN of PHILOSOPHICAL REFLEXIONS and INQUIRIES concerning the VIRTUES of TAR WATER, and divers other Subjects connected together and arising one from another, 2ND [AND BEST] EDITION, improved and corrected, 8vo. sewn (VERY LARGE AND CLEAN COPY); RARE, + 2 mal KS 1744. ‘The most permanent result of his enthusiasm was the work published in 1744, ‘Siris’. . . The title ‘Siris’ was added in the 2nd edition ; this appeared in 1744, others in 1746 and 1748 . . . The popularity was doubtless due to the medical rather than to the metaphysical theories which were strongly blended together ; at the time it was the most popular of Berkeley’s writings.’— Sir Leslie Stephen. See Hass, post, for other curious works on this subject. is A ; 390 BERNOULLI (Daniel) HypropyNAmiIca, sive de Viribus et Motibus Fluidorum Commentarii ; with plates, 4to. boards, 8s 6d Argentorati, 1738 The author in this work first develops a theory of hydraulic pressure, expanded later by Coriolis, Navier, and Weisbach. ‘His chief work .. . It resembles Lagrange’s Mécanique analytique in being arranged so that all the results are consequences of a single principle, namely, in this case, the conservation of energy.’ --W. W. R. Ball. 391 BERNOULLI (Jacques) OPERA; with 48 plates, 2 thick vols. 4to. old hf. parchment (VERY RARE), £2. 12s 6d Genevee, 1744 ‘Among his triumphs are to be recorded his solution of Leibnitz’s problem of the isochronous curve, and his deter- mination of the catenary.’ He also is celebrated as the founder, with Leibnitz, of the integral calculus and the rule of 349 probabilities. 45: 2 : 302 ——— ARS CONJECTANDI, accedit Tractatus de Seriebus Infinitis, editio princeps; with plate, sm. 4to. old parchment (stamp on title, but a nice tall copy) ; rare, 12s 6d Basilew, 1713 ‘A development of the calculus of probabilities, and containing the investigation now called Bernoulli’s theorem and the so-called numbers of Bernoulli, which are in fact (though not so considered by him) the coefficients coe in the expansion of (ex—1)-! ’.—Prof. Cajort. ely See MASERES, post, for an English Translation. : : ; : : 353 BERNOULLI (Jean) OPERA OMNIA, tam antea sparsim edita, quam hactenus inedita ; with fine portrait of King Frederick ITI. of Prussia, and numerous folding diagrams, 4 vols. 4to., sound copy in contemporary mottled calf extra, £1. 1s Lausanne, 1742 354 ——— ANOTHER Copy, 4 vols. 4to. old calf (wanting the portrait), 15s * His chief discoveries were the exponential calculus, the treatment of trigonometry as a branch of analysis, the con- ditions for a geodesic, the determination of orthogonal trajectories, the solution of the brachistrochone, the statement that a ray of light traversed such a path that Suds was a minimuin, and the enunciation of the principle, of virtual work, [ believe that he was the first to denote the accelerating effect of gravity by an algebraical sign g, and he thus arrived at the formula v? = 2 gh’.—W. W. R. Bail. : y 355 BERNTHSEN (A.) KuRzEs LEHRBUCH der ORGANISCHEN CHEMIE, 5. Auflage, bearbeitet unter Mitwirkung v. EDUARD BUCHNER, large post 8vo. hf. morocco neat, 3s (p. M.10. sewn) Braunschweig, 1895 356 BERTHELOT (Pierre Eugéne Marcellin, de ?Institut) LEGON sur ’ISOMERIE, 8vo. sewn, with author's inser. to Prof. Williamson, 3s [1863] 357 ——— LEGONS sur les METHODES GENERALES de SYNTHESE en CHIMIE ORGANIQUE, 8vo. sewn, with author's inser., 4s (p. F.8.) - 1864. 358 ——— LA SYNTHESE CHIMIQUE, 8¢ édition, 8vo. cl., 3s 6d 1897 359 ——— TRAITE ELEMENTAIRE de CHIMIE ORGANIQUE, 8vo. sewn, 2s 1872 360 BERTHOLLET (Claude Louis, Comte) ELiments de ART de la TEINTURE, premiére édition, 2 vols. 8vo. contemporary calf gilt (RARE), £1. 1s 1791 ‘A work that first systematized and chemically explained the principles of the art.’—Encey. Brit. ‘Il y offre une théorie générale des principes de cet art. La doctrine des matiéres colorantes et de toutes les modifica- tions, qu’on peut leur faire subir, celle des mordants nécessaires pour les fixer, y sont exposées en detail, et on y trouve les idées qui peuvent conduire 4 découvrir des pratiques plus simples ou plus efficaces,’—Biogr. Gén. = 361 ——— ELEMENTS of the ART of DYEING, trans. by WILLIAM HAMILTON, M.D., with copperplate, 17OL 2 vols. 8vo. sewn, uncut (name on titles), RARE, £1. 5s THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION of this classic work, including a Vocabulary and Index. Berthollet first used a chlorine gas (‘dephlogisticated marine acid’) for bleaching purposes, which opened its great future to the herbage- devastating manufacture of bleaching-powder. 362 ——— ELEMENTS of the ArT of DYING [sic], containing the Theory of Dying in General, as far as it respects the Properties of Colouring Substances, 8vo. cl., 5s Hdin., 1792 This is only one-fourth of the above work—although complete in itself—and in quite a different translation, 363 ——— ELEMENTS of the ART of DYEING and BLEACHING, trans. , with Notes [pp. 102], by ANDREW URE, F.R.S. ; new Ed., revised and corrected by an EXPERIENCED PRACTICAL DYER and CALICO PRINTER, 6 plates, 8vo. cl., uncut, 10s6d 1841 364 ——— EssaAlI de STATIQUE CHIMIQUE, 2 vols. 8vo. old calf (VERY SCARCE), £2. 5s 1803 bo
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