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![Str Isaac Newron—continued. and : New Observations concerning the Colours of thin transparent bodies, shewing those phaenomena to be inflections of Light, and that the Newtonian Fits of easy transmission and reflection derived from them have no existence. 1800 £6 6s 8vo. Old half calf, hinges cracked. 3 works bound together. Half-titles. “The most important cf these interesting papers is probably the second dealing with the subject of Interference, published only three years before the publication of Thos. Young’s famous papers. It is of considerable rarity, not recorded by Halkett and Laing, and there is no copy in the British Museum. Nothing can be found about the author. 652 Newton.—Morgan (Augustus de) Essays on the Life and Work of Newton, edited, with notes, by Ph. Jourdain. Chicago & London, 1914 15s 8vo. Cloth. 198 pp. Portrait. ' PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS. 653 Bernouilli (Jean) Discours sur les Lois de la Communication du Mouvement, qui a merité les Eloges de l Academie Royale des Sciences aux années 1724 & 1726... Paris, 1727 £228 4to. Paper wrappers. 108 pp., errata leaf. 5 plates. 654 Craig (Johannes) Theologiae Christianae Principia Mathematica. London, 1699 £310s 4to. Unbound. 36 pp. A most curious work and surely a unique document in the history of mathe- matics. Craig, who was a friend of Newton, at- tempted to prove in this work by the theory of pro- babilities that the credibility of the Gospels de- creases with the square of time and that it will be zero in 3144. The ‘‘ second coming’ should not take place later than this epoch and it was doubtful if any faith would be left on earth at that period. He also investigated the ratio of happiness in the next world compared with this and found that the former was infinite. 655 Fulke (William) MHTPOMAXIA sive ludus geometricus. London, Th. Vau- trollier [1578] £5 5s Small 4to. Half calf. Printer’s device on title, and cuts of pieces to be used in this game. 5l pp. This undated issue is unrecorded by the STC, it is pro- bably the first, preceding STC 11444. There should be a large folding plate at the end, which is as usual missing in this copy. The book is dedicated to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. It is very rare. 656 Marat (Jean Paul) Recherches Physiques ' surle Feu. Paris, Jombert, 1780 £3035 Syvo! ‘Half calf. 2) 11.,°202 pp: } leat: 7 folding plates. The author gives here his theery of a fluide igné, a mechanical explanation of the phenomena of heat. Marat believes, as Boyle did, that a body is heavier when heated than when cold. It is curious to read the privilege of the King to his ** bien aimé, le sieur Marat”? in the light of subse- quent events, when Marat was one of the most violent supporters of the King’s murder. 657 Monte (Guido Ubaldi de’ Marchesi del) Mechanicorum Liber. Concordia, 1577 Bound with: In duos Archimedis libros Paraphrasis. Ibidem, 1588 £7 10s Sm. folio. Boards. 2volsinl. 81l., 131 ff. (badly numbered 130), 2 Il., 2 Il., 202 pp., 1 leaf. Numerous diagrams. The author is known to have been a pupil of Com- Acqueponderantium 45 mandino and to have furthered Galileo. In 1588 he was inspector of the fortresses in Toscana. This is the first edition of his important book on mechanics. In the preface he gives a history of mechanics. According to Lagrange he was the first to discover the principle of virtual velocities in the lever and the pulley. ‘* C’est le premier ouvrage ou !’on ait tenté de deduire rigoureusement des principes de la géometrie, la statique et la détermination de |’effet des machines.”’ (Libri). The book is also a very fine piece of printing and—apart from the title-page being lightly smudged and some watet-stains in the inner corners through the first part of the book—in fine state. Riccardi II 178/9 (* Raro. Bella edizione.’’). 658 Rossetti (Donato) Antignome Fisico- matematiche con il Nuovo Orbe e sistema a terrestre. Livorno, Gio. Vine. Bonsigli, 1667 30s 4to. Vellum. 12, 180 pp. With many woodcuts and diagrams in text. This book forms part of the long controversy with Montanari on his theory of capillary attraction and throws an interesting light on theories of physics held in the 17th century. Riccardi IT 394. 659 Singer (Ignatius) and Berens (L. H.) Some Unrecognized Laws of Nature, an Inquiry into the causes of physical phenomena, with special reference to gravitation. London, 1897 15s 8vo. Cloth. 483 pp. 660 [Whiston] Dutton (Humphry) The New Law of Fluids: or a discourse concerning the ascent of liquors, in exact geometrical figures between two nearly contiguous surfaces to which is added the true state of the case about Matter’s Thinking. London, J. Roberts, 1714 £2 28 8vo. “Old calf, rebacked. 8 ll., 64, 73 pp., 4 Il. Second part under separate title dated 1713. At the end the book contains ‘‘ Advertisement concerning the Longitude.”’ H. Ditton (1675-1715), a mathematician, became master of a new Mathematical School in Christ’s Hospital on Newtown’s recommendation. In 1713 he proposed together with Whiston a new method of determining the longitude. A shell timed to explode at a certain time should be fired from a ship, the time between flash and sound measured and so give the distance to any ship within range. This curious suggestion mentioned in the ‘* Advertisement ”’ became the subject of a controversy. Newton and Halley occupied themselves with it, Swift and Arbuthnot ridiculed it and a committee of the House of Commons studied the question. POPULAR SCIENCE. 661 The Newest, Best and Very-much Es- teemed Book of Knowledge . . . Shewing the Effects of the Planets . . . Together with the Husbandmans Practice . . . Also a Brief Discourse of the Natural Causes of Meteors ... And Observations on the Weather . . . with a Particular Account of the Earth and Sea. London, For A. Wilde, 1764 £2728 12mo. Old linen covered boards. Woodcut frontis- piece, many astrological and other cuts in text. A very rare chapbook of popular scientific belief. The woodcuts and text are obviously derived from much earlier editions. ADOLPHE QUETELET. 662 Quetelet (Ad.) Anthropométrie ou Mesure des differentes Facultés de lHomme. Brussels, 1871 £4 15s 8vo. Orig. wrappers. Original edition of an im-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33155999_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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