Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/112
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    697 CARNOT (Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, de l'Institut; ‘ the Organiser of Victory’; grand- father of President Carnot) GEOMETRIE de POSITION, édition originale; with 15 folding plates, d4to. hf. calf (RARE), £1. 5s 1803 Containing his theory of correlation. 698 ——— Snr la RELATION qui existe entre les DISTANCES RESPECTIVES de CINQ POINTS quelconques pris dans ? EsPACg, avec Kssai sur la THEORIE des TRANSVERSALES ; édition originale; with 3 folding plates, 4to. hf. calf (uniform with the above), 7s 6d 1S06 : ete is important as having created a new system of co-ordinates, which, instead of forming an angle, lie in a straight line. 699 - BoTH THE ABOVE WORKS, bound in one vol. 4to. Af. russia, £1. 10suty 1803-6 700 —-—— REFLEXIONS sur la METAPHYSIQUE du CALCUL INFINITESIMAL, 3e Ed. ; with plate, 8vo. seun, 6s 1839 ‘Ty prend partie contre la réforme qu’avait tentée Lagrange par sa méthode des variations. Jl souhaite qu’on sen tienne A la marche si simple, Si lumineuse de Leibniz, qui se préte d'aillenrs mieux aux applications. Les mathématiciens ont suivi ses conseils, sans gotter toutefois ses raisonnements.’—J. Boyer. “01 CARNOT (Nicolas Léonard Sadi) REFLEXIONS sur la PUISSANCE MotTrRIceE du Feu et sur les Machines propres & développer cette Puissance, édition originale ; with plate, sm. 8vo. boards (VERY RARE), £2. 2s 1824 This celebrated work first contains the author’s theorem so well known as ‘Carnor’s Cyc.e', and laid the foundation of the science of thermodynamics. ‘ Carnot is now recognised as one of the greatest scientitic men of the century ; and had he survived, there is no doubt that the theory of heat would have been established nearly 30 years earlier than it was. Carnot’s methods, as given in his book, were not appreciated till Lord Kelvin in 1848 drew attention to them, The novel feature of his method was the invention of the cycle of operations, and especially the reversible cycle, ete. ete.’— Prof. Knott. P ; “02 CARPENTER (William) WATER, NOT ConvEX: the EARTH NoT a GLOBE!, diagrams, 8vo. (pp. 32), sewn, 2s 187 A scientific squabble with Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, whom the author, an incorrigible Flatearther, affirms to have demonstrated his theory by experiments on the Old Bedford Canal. 703 CARPENTER (William Benjamin, M.-D., F.R.S.) MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY, Horooay, and 1857 ASTRONOMY, new Ed., 181 id/ustrations, post Svo. el., 2s (p. 5s) La . *s . e . 704 CARRE (Louis) METHODE pour la MESURE des SURFACES, la Dimension des Solides, leurs Centres de Pesanteur, de Percussion, et d’Oscillation par PAPPLICATION du CALCUL INTEGRAL}; with 4 plates, 4to. old calf gilt, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope (see below), 17s 6d 1700 The first complete work on the integral calculus. The above copy is specially interesting from having belonged to PHILIP onp Bart STANHOPE, according to Lalande the best English mathematician of his day, who added 6 pp. of Propositions in MS., besides numerous additions to the text. “05 CARRICK (Alick) The SECRET of the CrrcLE, its Area ascertained [with Intro. (pp. 15) by F. B. PLAYFAIR, M.B.C.S.], diagrams, 8vo. sewn, 2s 6d (p. 5s) 1876 706 CARRINGTON (Richard Christopher, F.R.S.) OBSERVATIONS on the Spots on the SUN from Nov. 9, 1853, to March 24, 1861, made at Redhill, with 166 plates, roy. 4to. el. (SCARCE), SLAs 1863 The most important work on the subject. ‘From a series of 5,290 observations and a great number of accurate draw- ings, Carrington derived conclusions of great importance on the law of the sun's rotation. the existence and direction of systematic currents, and the distribution of spots on the solar surface.’ —Miss A. M. Clerke. — RESULTS of ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS at Durham University Observatory, Oct., 1849 to April, 1852, under the General Direction of the Rev. Temple Chevallier, impl. 8vo. c/., 5s Durham, 1855 ‘The Rey. Chas. Pritchard with the Author’s Compits.’—Inser. on flyleay. “08 —-— ANOTHER Copy, with inser. * J.C. ApAms Esq. [F.R.S., discoverer of Coll: Cambridge’ on flyleaf, 5s “09 CASATI (Paolo, S.J.) FABRICA, et Uso del Compasso di PROPORTIONE, dove insegna i gli Arte- fici il modo di fare in esso le necessarie divisioni, e con varij PROBLEMI usuali mostra PUTILITA di questo STROMENTO; with folding plates, and numerous woodcuts and diagrams, cr. 4to, hf. calf, or, boards, uncut, 15s Bologna, 1664 OnicINAL Epition of this rare work. 710 CASEY (John, F.R.S.) TREATISE on PLANE TRIGONOMETRY, containing an Account of Hyperbolic Functions, diagrams, post 8vo. cl. (out of print), 4s. (p. 78 6d) Dublin, 1888 ‘Containing much that has hitherto appeared only in mathematical periodicals.’—Preface. “11 CASSELL’S CycLoppIA of MECHANICS: Receipts, Processes, and Memoranda for Workshop Use, based on Personal Experience and Expert Knowledge, ed. by PauL N. HASLUCK, FIRST SERIES, numerous illustrations, impl. 8vo. cl., 3s 6d (p. 7s 6d) 1900 “12 CASSINI (Giovanni Domenico): RECUEIL d’OBSERVATIONS faites en plusieurs Voyages pour PERFECTIONNER l’ASTRONOMIE et la GEOGRAPHIE, avec divers TRAITEZ ASTRONOMIQUES, par MM. de l’Académie Royale des Sciences ; with maps and vignettes, large folio, LARGE PAPER; old calf gilt (FINE COPY) ; with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S. (RARE), £3. 3s. Imprimerie Royale, 1698 Containing the following treatises by Giov. Domenico CassINT, the first and best known of the four generations of Cassinis :—De l’origine et du progres de )Astronomie : Observations Astronomiques : Les Eléinens d’Astronomie verifiez : Déconverte de la lumiere celeste qui paroist dans le zodiaque: Regles de )’Astronomie Indienne: Les Hypotheses et les Tables des Satellites de Jupiter [containing the celebrated Tables of the motions of Jupiter’s Satellites—first observed by him, ‘which far exceeded in accuracy any previous efforts of the kind.’—Prof. Grant]; and 2 treatises by Richer, Picart and de la Hire. CASSINI (Jacques Dominique, Comite de Thury), Pierre Frangois MECHAIN, et Adrien Marie LEGENDRE: Exposk des OPERATIONS faites en FRANCE in 1787, pour la JONCTION des OBSERVATOIRES de PARIS et de GREENWICH : DESCRIPTION et USAGE d’un NOUVEL INSTRUMENT, propre & donner la MESURE des ANGLES, i la PRECISION d’une SECONDE; with 5 copperplates, sh 4to. fine copy in contemporary tree-calf gilt (rare), 15s [1792] he instrument above described is the ‘ circle A deux lunettes,’ in vented by JEAN CHARLES DE BorDA, which did valuable service during the last French meridian-measurement, ‘ Neptune’) Pembroke ~1 — ew) -
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