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349 LAPLACE (Pierre Simon Marquis de; F.R.S.) EUVRES COMPLETES, publiées sous les Auspices de l'ACADÉMIE des SCIENCES, par MM. les SECRÉTAIRES PERPÉTUELS, Tomes I à VII (Mécanique Céleste, Système du Monde; Théorie analytique des Probabilités); handsomely printed in large type, with fine portrait (on India paper), 7 vols. 4to. in 4, buckram, uncut, t. e. g. (FINE SET), £5. 5s (p. F. 170 nett sewn) 1878-86

The standard edition. 'Cette nouvelle édition, publiée par les soins de sa famille, sous les auspices de l'Académie des Sciences, réunit pour la première fois, aux divers ouvrages compris dans les éditions précédentes, la collection des mémoires de l'illustre astronome, rangée par ordre chronologique. Elle permettra de comparer la forme définitive de la pensée de l'auteur aux études par lesquelles il s'était préparé pendant de longues années à élever le monument qui a rendu son nom inséparable de celui de Newton.'-Avertissement. 350 LEIBNIZ (Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr v.; F.R.S.) OPERA OMNIA, nunc primum collecta, in Classes distributa, Præfationibus et Indicibus exornata, Studio LUDOVICI DUTENS; with fine portrait by P. Savart, and illustrations, 6 thick vols. 4to. sound copy in contemporary calf (RARE), £5. 3s Geneva, 1768 'Collection très-recherchée.'-Brunet. It contains the 'éloge' by Fontenelle, and a life by Jacob Brucker. 351 [LEURECHON (Jean, S.J.; HENRI VAN ETTEN')] RECREATIONS MATHEMATIQUES, composées de plusieurs Problemes plaisans et facetieux d'Arithmetique, Geometrie, Astrologie, Optique, Perspective, Mechanique, Chymie, et d'autres rares et curieux Secrets; plusieurs desquels n'ont iamais esté imprimez. La troisiesme Partie, contient un Recueil de plusieurs gentilles et recreatives INUENTIONS de FEUX d'ARTIFICE: La maniere de faire toutes Sortes de Fuzées, simples et composées; with numerous curious woodcuts, 12mo. old limp vellum (some ll. water-stained, otherwise a sound copy); RARE, £1. 5s Rouen, Charles Osmont, 1630, or '34

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'The earliest edition in the British Museum is dated 1661 and appears under the name of Henrion.'-MS. note on flyle f. [NOUVELLE ÉDITION]; with the numerous woodcuts RE-ENGRAVED, 12mo. old calf (foxed, bottom of title torn off and back of binding damaged), 15s Lyon, J. B. de Ville [1656]

Neither of the above editions was known to Brunet or Graesse, who mention however others of Rouen, 1629, and Lyon, 1680. A copy of the former was in M. Libri's Collection, who mentions in his Sale Catalogue: 'This work contains very curious problems, viz., Comment on peut charger un canon sans poudre' (by steam or heated air), and several arithmetical questions.'

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- MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS, or a Collection of many Problemes, extracted out of the Ancient and Modern Philosophers, as Secrets, and Experiments in Arithmetick, Geometry, Cosmographie, Horologiographie, Astronomie, Navigation, Musick, Opticks, Architecture, Statick, Mechanicks, Chemistrie, Water-works, Fireworks, etc. Not vulgarly manifest till now. Written first in Greek and Latin, lately compil'd in French, by HENRY VAN ETTEN, and now in English, with the Examinations and Augmentations of divers Modern Mathematicians. Whereunto is added the DESCRIPTION and USE of the GENERALL HOROLOGICALL RING: and the DOUBLE HORIZONTALL DIALL, invented and written by WILLIAM OUGHTRED, with curiously engraved title, and numerous engravings on copper, 2 vols. 12mo. in 1, old sheep (printed title missing); RARE, £1. 10s William Leake, 1653-2 NEW EDITION, with sharp impressions of the engraved title and the numerous copperengravings, 2 vols. 12mo. in 1, sound copy in contemporary calf (VERY RARE), £1. 15s

apud eundem, 1674 ANOTHER COPY, 2 vols. in 1, old calf, rebacked (last 1. defective, otherwise a sound copy), The third and last English edition, and the rarest of all, being unknown to Lowndes, Watt, and Allibone. The impressions of the engravings (of which the plates were either retouched or reengraved) are unusually clear.

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The work is a highly interesting storehouse (once of great popularity, and now rare in all its editions) of a multitude of mathematical, astronomical, and physical problems. It was based on the work of BACHET DE MEZIRIAC, and includes, besides numerous original problems by the author, some taken from Cardan; and in its turn formed the foundation of the works of Mydorge, Ozanam, Montucla, and Hutton.

Among the more interesting problems are, besides the one mentioned above by M. Libri: 'How to make an instrument that helpes to heare' (the speaking tube, the invention of which is ascribed to Sir Samuel Morland in 1671), 'a lampe which goeth not out, though one carries it in one's pocket', several magnetical problems, including 'a secrecie in the Magnes, for discovering things farre remote', 'of the Thermometer', 'how to weigh the lightnesse of the ayre', 'of longitude and latitude', 'how to make a clocke with one wheele', 'how to make a perpetuall motion', etc. etc. etc.

Father Leurechon was a Lorrainer and Rector of the Jesuit College at Bar, and confessor to Charles IV. Duke of Lorraine. He died in 1670 aged eighty at Pont à Mousson, now at the mercy of the savages. LUCRETIUS-v. MASSON (John), post.

356 MAGELLAN [sive MAGALHAENS] (João Hyazinthe; F.R.S.) COLLECTION de DIFférens TRAITÉS sur des INSTRUMENS d'ASTRONOMIE, PHYSIQUE, etc.; I. Nouveaux Instrumens Circulaires à Reflection. II. Quadrans Astronomiques Mobiles. III. NOUVEAUX BAROMÈTRES Portables et ceux à grande Echelle, etc. IV. Essai sur le Feu Elémentaire, et sur la Chaleur des Corps, avec la Description des NOUVEAUX THERMOMÈTRES. V. Instrumens ordonnés par la Cour d'Espagne. VI. Nouveau Remède de MR. MUDGE pour la Toux; with 3 folding plates, 4to. sound copy in contemporary tree-calf (RARE), £1. Is Londres, W. Richardson, 1780

He devoted his last years to perfecting the construction of scientific instruments for scientific observation, such as thermometers and barometers, etc.'-D. N. B. Mr. Mudge's cough-mixture is unexpected in this galère. 357 MARIE (Maximilien) HISTOIRE des SCIENCES MATHÉMATIQUES et PHYSIQUES, de Thalès à Abel; with diagrams, 12 vols. sq. 8vo. sewn, £1. 15s (p. F. 79 nett sewn) 1883-8 358 MYDORGE (Claude) EXAMEN du LIVRE des RECREATIONS MATHÉMATIQUES: et de ses PROBLÈMES en Géométrie, Méchanique, Optique, et Catoptrique; où sont aussi discutées et restablies plusieurs Experiences Physiques proposées, première édition; with numerous woodcuts and diagrams, large 12mo. fine copy in contemporary limp vellum, 12s 1630

This was a reconstruction, with great improvements, of the Récréation mathématique of Jean Leurechon, s.J. (v. No. 351, supra.)

II. GENERAL AND COLLECTED WORKS, continued :360 MASSON (John) The ATOMIC THEORY of LUCRETIUS, contrasted with MODERN DOCTRINES of ATOMS and EVOLUTION, 8vo. cl., with author's inscr., 4s 6d (p. 98) 1884

361 MATHEMATICI VETERES: ATHENÆI, APOLLODORI, PHILONIS, BITONIS, HERONIS, et aliorum OPERA, Græce et Latine, pleraque NUNC PRIMUM EDITA ex MSS. Codicibus Bibliothecæ Regiæ [a MELCH. THEVENOT, Jo. BOIVIN et PH. DE LA HIRE]; beautifully printed, with numerous fine engravings on copper of Physical and Chemical Apparatus and Instruments, etc., roy. folio, old calf (VERY RARE), £4. 4s Parisiis, ex Typogr. Regia, 1693

Recueil recherché - Brunet. This beautifully executed work contains:- ATHENÆUS [MECHANICUS] de Machinis Bellicis; APOLLODORI [ARCHITECTI] Poliorcetica excerpta [on War Engines]; PHILO [BYZANTINUS] de Telorum Constructione; BITO de Constructione Bellicarum Machinarum et Catapultarum; HERONIS [CTESIBII] Opera Mathematica; HERONIS [ALEXANDRINI] Spiritualia [i.e. Pneumatica, containing a description of Hero's Fountain,' etc. etc.] :—de Automatorum Fabrica; JULII AFRICANI KEσToi [Greek Text only]; etc. etc.

362 MEMOIRS on MATHEMATICS and MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, An EXTENSIVE COLLECTION of, from the Philosophical Transactions, the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Comptes-rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg [Petrograd], Liouville's Journal, etc. etc., with numerous plates and other illustrations, 111 parts in 9 vols. 4to. cl., with notes and MS. Lists of Contents by Lord Justice Stirling, F.R.S., £8. 8s 1832-98

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List of Contents [the figures within brackets show the number of contributions]: AIRY (Sir G. B., F.R.S. [2]: ÅNGSTRÖM (A. J.) [1]: BIENAYMÉ (I. J.) [1]: BOOLE (George, F.R.S.) [10]: BORCHARDT (C. W.) [1]: BOUR (Edmond) [1]: BRISSE (Charles) [3]: CAYLEY (Arthur, F.R.S.) [3]: CHRYSTAL (George) [2]: CORNAGLIA (P. A.) [1]: CROFTON (Morgan W.) [2]: CULVERWELL (E. P.) [1]: DONKIN (W. F., F.R.S.) [4]: DUHAMEL (J. M. C.) [1]: EARNSHAW (Samuel, pr.) [1]: FITZGERALD (G. F., F.R.S.) [2]: FORSYTH (A. R., F.R.S.) [2]: GLAISHER (J. W. L., F.R.S.) [2]: GWYTHER (R. F.) [1]: HAMILTON (Sir William Rowan) [2]: HARGREAVE (C. J., Q.C., F.R.S.) [3]: HAYWARD (R. B., F.R.S.) [1]: HERMITE (Charles) [1]: HILL (M. J. M., F.R.S.) [1]: HIRN (G. A.) [1]: HOBSON (E. W., F.R.S.) [1]: HOPKINS (William) [2]: JACOBI (K. G. J.) [1]: KELVIN (Lord, F.R.S.) [2: Theory of Elasticity, '56, and Dynamical Problems, '63]: MALET (J. E.) [5]: MAXWELL (J. Clerk, F.R.S.) [2: Internal Friction of Air, '66, and Dynamical Theory of Gases, '67]: MORGAN (Augustus de) [7]: OSTROGRADSKY (M. A.) [4]: PLUCKER (Julius) [2]: POINSOT (Louis) [3]: RANKINE (W. J. Macquorn, F.R.S.) [5]: RAYLEIGH (Lord, F.R.S.) [1: Theory of Resonance, '71]: ROCHE (Edouard) [1]: RowE (W. C.) [1]: STONEY (G. Johnstone, F.R.S) [1]: STURM (J. C. F.) [1] SYLVESTER (J. J., F.R.S.) [5]: TAIT (P. G.) [7]: TALBOT (W. H. Fox, F.R.S., M.P.) [2]: TAYLOR (H. M.) [1]: TODHUNTER (Isaac, F.R.S.) [1]: TSCHEBYCHEFF (P. L.) [3]: VILLASCEAU (Yvon) [1]: WHITTAKER (E. T., F.R.S.) [1]. 363 MORGAN (Augustus de, F.R.A.S.; Prof. Mathematics, Univ. Coll., London) A BUDGET of PARADOXES, reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenæum [edited by his Wife SOPHIA], first edition, thick 8vo. cl., uncut, £1. 5s 1872

One of the most interesting and witty books ever written, and invaluable for its history and bibliography of many scientific fallacies, e.g., 'circle-squaring'. It contains besides a large number of anecdotes, etc. on mathematical and scientific subjects. He had a love of puns, and all ingenious puzzles and paradoxes, which makes his 'Budget of Paradoxes' as amusing as it is learned.'-Sir Leslie Stephen.

'It is by far the most individual book of the age-individual, not merely in its own singularity as a book, but as presenting with a marked degree of clearness and exactness the personality of one who was never quite a man among other men To sum up, this is a book that should be read by those who care about circle squarers and all manner of jokes, mathematical and other; by those who care to make the acquaintance of Augustus de Morgan, which it is well worth while to do; but above all by those who care to be led into right thinking and warned from wrong.'-Professor Clifford. 364 NATORP (Paul); Prof. Philosophy, Marburg) Die LOGISCHEN GRUNDLAGEN der EXAKTEN WISSENSCHAFTEN, post 8vo. cl., 4s (p. M. 6.60)

Leipzig, 1910 365 NEUMAYER (George v.; Director, Flagstaff Observatory, Melbourne) ANLEITUNG zu WISSENSCHAFTLICHEN BEOBACHTUNGEN auf REISEN, 3. völlig umgearbeitete Auflage; with numerous woodcuts, plates, and maps, 2 vols. 8vo. in parts as issued, £1. ls (p. M. 49) Hanover, 1905-6 INHALT:-I. Geographische Ortsbestimmung: Gelände-Aufnahme: Geologie: Erdbeben: Erdmagnetismus: Meteorologie: Meeresforschung und Gezeitenkunde: Astronomie. II. Landeskunde: Statistik: Heilkunde: Landwirtschaft: Pflanzengeographie: Linguistic: Zoologie: Ethnographie: Das Mikroskop und der photographische Apparat. 366 NEWTON (Sir Isaac, P.R.S.) OPUSCULA MATHEMATICA PHILOSOPHICA et PHILOGICA, collegit partimque Latinè vertit ac recensuit JOH. CASTILLIONEUS, Jurisconsultus [accessit Commentariolus de Vita Auctoris]; with vignette portrait by Duflos after Delamonce, 64 plates, and 2 folding tables, 3 vols. 4to. hf. vellum, or, hf. calf, 18s 6d Lausanna, 1744

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ANOTHER COPY, contemporary pressed white vellum (fine copy), £1. ls The above work contains: Analysis per Equationes. Methodus Fluxionum. Tractatus de Quadratura Curvarum. Enumeratio Linearum Tertii Ordinis. Methodus Differentialis. Excerpta ex Commercio Epistolari. De Mundi Systemate. Lectiones Optica. De Natura Acidarum, etc. etc. etc. 368 NICHOL (John Pringle, F. R.A.S), and others: CYCLOPAEDIA of the PHYSICAL SCIENCES; 2nd Edition, enlarged, with 5 plates, 4 maps, and numerous woodcuts, thick 8vo. (pp. 903), hf. roan (slightly damaged), g. e., 5s

1860 'Nichol was a prolific and successful writer. His books were eloquent, enthusiastic, and learned. George Eliot' described herself in 1841 as 'revelling' in them, and they were most effective in the popularisation of science. His astronomical observations were directed chiefly to the physical features of the moon, and to the nebulæ,' etc.-Miss Agnes M. Clerke.

369 PEARSON (Karl; Galton Prof. Eugenics, Univ. London; biographer of Sir Francis Galton; F.R.S.) The GRAMMAR of SCIENCE, with 25 illustrations, cr. 8vo. cl. (scarce), 5s 1892 Comprising: Facts of Science; Scientific Law; Cause and Effect; Probability; Space and Time; Geometry of Motion; Matter; Laws of Motion; Life; and Classification of Sciences. 370 PENNETHORNE (John), and John ROBINSON: The GEOMETRY and OPTICS of ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE, illustrated by Examples from THEBES, ATHENS, and ROME, with 56 large and fine plates (some beautifully COLOURED), besides numerous engravings in text, atlas folio, kƒ. morocco gilt, t. e. g. (scarce), £2. 10s (p. £7. 78) 1878

The final work attempted by the author to prove his theory of 'optical corrections', showing that the Greek architects changed the first figure in their design into one which should produce to the eye an apparent symmetry and accuracy of outline, or, in the words of Plato,' the artists bidding farewell to truth, change the real symmetry, and accommodate to images such commensurations as are only apparently beautiful' [In the above work] Pennethorne sets forth in minute detail his theory of the manner in which the actual proportions of the original design were adapted to the optical conditions of correct perspective.'-D. N. B.

II. GENERAL AND COLLECTED WORKS, continued:—

372 OZANAM (Jacques, de l'Académie des Sciences) RECREATIONS MATHEMATIQUES et PHYSIQUES, qui contiennent plusieurs Problêmes d'Arithmétique, de Géométrie, de Musique, d'Optique, de Gnomonique, de Cosmographie, de Mécanique, de Pyrotechnie, et de Physique, avec un TRAITÉ des HORLOGES ELEMENTAIRES; nouvelle Edition, augmentée [par M. GRANDIN]; with over 100 copperplates, 4 vols. 8vo. contemporary calf, 12s 6d 1725, or '50 'Cet ouvrage curieux contient la solution d'une foule de problèmes. On y trouve encore un traité des horloges élémentaires, une dissertation sur les lampes perpetuelles, enfin un ample recueil de tours de gobelets et d'escamotage'.Quérard. 'Best edition of an interesting work. Half the first volume is devoted to the theory of numbers, of which Ozanam was a perfect master.'-Libri Catalogue. It is the final edition in the original form of this well-known work, which was afterwards almost entirely rewritten by Montucla. 373

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RECREATIONS MATHEMATICAL and PHYSICAL; laying down and solving many Profitable and Delightful Problems, of Arithmetick, Geometry, Opticks, Gnomonicks, Cosmography, Mechanicks, Physics, and Pyrotechny, done into English, with 28 copperplates, and numerous woodcuts, 8vo. old calf gilt (one joint cracked, but a sound copy); rare, 10s 6d 1708 374 PLAYFAIR (John, F.R.S.) WORKS, with Memoir [by the EDITOR and LORD JEFFREY; edited by JAMES G. PLAYFAIR], 4 thick vols. 8vo. old calf, neatly rebacked (SCARCE), £1. 10s Edin., 1822 Containing all the author's works and papers, save Elements of Geometry' and 'Outlines of Natural Philosophy', and including his celebrated 'IIlus:rations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth', 'a model of purity of diction, simplicity of style, and clearness of explanation, which not only gave popularity to Hutton's theory, but helped to create the modern science of geology' (D. N. B.), and the valuable 'Progress of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences.' 375 POINCARÉ (Jules Henri, de l'Institut; F.R.S., cousin of the President of the French Republic) La SCIENCE et l'HYPOTHÈSE: SCIENCE et MÉTHODE, 2 vols. post 8vo. sewn, 38 6d (p. F. 7 nett) 1912-9 SCIENCE and METHOD, translated by FRANCIS MAITLAND, with Preface by the HON. BERTRAND RUSSELL, F.R.S., cr. 8vo. cl., 4s (p. 6s nett) [1914] 377 POIRÉ (Paul), Rémy et Edmond PERRIER, et Alexandre JOANNIS: NOUVEAU DICTIONNAIRE des SCIENCES et de leurs APPLICATIONS; with 5402 illustrations, 2 thick vols. roy. 8vo. (pp. 3362), handsomely bound in hf. pigskin (backs worn), £1. 1s (p. F. 45 nett, sewn) s. d. 378 PORTA (Giovanni Battista della, Napoletano) MAGIE NATURALIS LIBRI XX, ab ipso Authore expurgati, et superaucti, in quibus Scientiarum Naturalium Diuitiæ et Delitia demonstrantur. I. De mirabilium Rerum Causis. II. De variis Animalibus gignendis. III. De novis Plantis producendis. IIII. De augenda Supellectili. V. De Metallorum Transmutatione. VI. De Gemmarum Adulteriis. VII, De Miraculis Magnetis. VIII. De portentosis Medelis. IX. De Mulierum Cosmetice. X. De extrahendis Rerum Essentiis. XI. De Myropoeia. XII. De incendiariis Ignibus. XIII. De raris Ferri Temperaturis. XIIII. De Miro Conuiuiorum Apparatu. XV. De capiendis Manu Feris. XVI. De inuisibilibus Literarum Notis. XVII. De Catoptricis Imaginibus. XVIII. De staticis Experimentis. XIX. De Pneumaticis. XX. Chaos; editio princeps, with title within woodcut border, portrait æt. 50, and numerous other woodcuts and diagrams, folio, old white vellum gilt (some ll. slightly water-stained, and others browned, otherwise a sound and UNUSUALLY TALL COPY), very rare, £3. 3s ibidem, apud Horatium Salvianum, D.D.LXXXVIIII [recte 1589] ANOTHER COPY, old vellum (last 1. missing and some ll. browned, otherwise a sound copy), First edition of the complete work in 20 books, and now of great rarity. Numerous reprints were published, and it was translated into many foreign languages.

It would be interesting to hear M. Poincaré's cousin on Mr. Bertrand Russell's disgusting sneer at the allies.

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Porta's Magia Naturalis in Twenty Books is quite a different work from that in Four Books, first published in 1558, and is one of the most important works on natural science published during the XVIth Century. Many of the superstitious and even puerile passages of the latter were left out in this work, and sixteen new books were added. It is a great storehouse of fact and fiction, brought together from every available source and from private conversations, during the author's extensive travels in Italy, France, and Spain. Some of the books were afterwards published in an enlarged and separate form.

Of great interest is book VI, which shows that the production of artificial gems must have been far advanced in Porta's time. The seventh contains some important observations on the magnet. The most important, however, is the seventeenth, which contains Porta's invention of the camera obscura with the lens, and the laterna magica, afterwards improved by Father Kircher. A passage of the tenth chapter has also been quoted to ascribe to him (mistakenly) the invention of the telescope.

NATURAL MAGICK in Twenty Books, wherein are set forth all the Riches and Delights of the Natural Sciences, with engraved title (including portrait) by R. Gaywood, and numerous woodcuts and diagrams, folio, old hf. calf (wanting printed and engraved titles, Table (3 ll.), and pp. 353-4 and 359-60); a cheap copy, £1. 1s Thomas Young and Samuel Speed, 1658

This English edition, the only one ever published, has now become very rare, presumably from the constant use so favourite a book had to undergo.

The Natural Magick was the last great storehouse of science with its myriads of facts' without any experimental proof or confirmation. It is interesting as having-perhaps the most typical of its kind-been published on the eve of the beginnings of experimental physics, started by William Gilbert and Sir Francis Bacon.

381 [POWELL (Thomas)] HUMANE INDUSTRY: or a HISTORY of most MANUAL ARTS, deducing the Original, Progress, and Improvement of them: furnished with Variety of Instances and Examples, shewing forth the Excellency of Human Wit, 12mo. very sound copy in old mottled calf (RARE), £1. Is H. Herringman, 1661

Containing many other interesting subjects: The Invention of Dials, Clocks, Watches, etc. (pp. 1-13): Of some curious Spheres and Representations of the World (pp. 14-23): Of sundry Machines and Artificial Motions, by Water and Air (pp. 24-45): Of the Art of Spinning and Weaving (pp. 84-101): Of the Invention of Glass (pp. 133-43): Of the Invention of Shipping and Sayling: also of the Mariner's Compass (pp. 144-63).

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383 POWER (Henry, M.D., F.R.S.) EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: containing NEW EXPERIMENTS, MICROSCOPICAL, MERCURIAL, and MAGNETICAL, with some Deductions and Probable Hypotheses, raised from them, in Avouchment and Illustration of the now famous ATOMICAL HYPOTHESIS, with folding copperplate (mounted on canvas), and 2 woodcuts, sm. 4to. old calf gilt (newly and neatly rebacked); RARE, £1. ls T. Roycroft, 1664

The author's only published work.

"The following observations seem to make out, that the Minute particles of most (if not all) Bodies are constantly in some kind of motion, and that motion may be both invisibly and unintelligibly slow, as well as swift, and probably is as unseparable an attribute to Bodies, as well as Extension is.'-Preface.

The second and third books have a separate title, which is dated 1663. At end is: Subterraneous Experiments: or, Observations about Coal-Mines. There is an interesting' Conclusion', containing reflexions on contemporary learning. 384 RANKINE (William John Macquorn, F.R.S.) MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC PAPERS, from the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal and other Scientific or Philosophical Societies, and the Scientific Journals, with MEMOIR by PETER GUTHRIE TAIT, edited by W. J. MILLAR, with fine Napieresque portrait on steel by Adlard, plates, and numerous diagrams, thick roy. 8vo. cl. (o. p.), £1. 5s 1881

The work is divided into 8 parts: Temperature, Elasticity, and Expansion of Vapours, Liquids, and Solids; Energy and its Transformations, Thermodynamics, Mechanical Action of Heat in the Steam Engine, etc.; Wave Forms, Propulsion of Vessels, Stability of Structures, etc.; and contains his application (simultaneously with Lord Kelvin and Clausius) of the doctrine that heat and work are convertible, to the discovery of new relations among the properties of bodies; as well as all his important papers on molecular physics.

v. THERMODYNAMICS (PHYSICS), post.

385 RAYLEIGH (John William Strutt, 3rd Lord, F.R.S.; Chancellor of Cambridge University ; Prof. Nat. Philos., Royal Inst.) SCIENTIFIC PAPERS, 1869-1910, with fine portrait on India paper, plates, and numerous text-illustrations, vols. impl. 8vo. cl., uncut, with a few notes and cuttings by Lord Justice Stirling, F.R.S., £2. 17s 6d (p. £3. 15s nett) Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1899-1912 386 RECUEIL des PIÈCES qui ont remporté les PRIX de l'ACADÉMIE ROYALE des SCIENCES depuis leur Fondation en 1720 jusqu'à 1772; with numerous copperplates, 9 vols. 4to. calf gilt, newly rebacked (FINE SET); RARE, £5. 5s

1752-77

A most valuable collection of prize essays on mathematical and physical subjects, many of which have never been published in any other form. It includes contributions by J. P. de Crousaz, Colin Maclaurin, F.R.S., J. S. Mazières, Daniel and Jean Bernoulli, Pierre Bouguer, C. E. L. Camus, Charles Bossut, s.J., Giovanni Poleni, Euler, Voltaire, J. L. Lagrange, and many others. 387 REISCH (Gregor; confessor of the Emperor Maximilian I.) MARGARITA PHILOSOPHICA NOUA, cui insunt sequentia. Epigrammata in Commendationem Operis. Institutio Grammaticæ Latinę. Rudimenta linguæ Hebreæ. Literarum Graecarum Annotatio. Pręcepta Logices. Rhetorica Informatio. Ars Memorandi Rauennatis. Beroaldi Modus côponendi Epistolas. ARITHMETICA. MUSICA PLANA. GEOMETRICE PRINCIPIA. Introductio Architecturæ et Perspectivæ. ASTRONOMIA, cum quibusdam de Astrologia. PHILOSOPHIA NATURALIS. Moralis Philosophia cum Figuris; finely printed in gothic letter, with large and fine woodcut titles, and numerous very fine and large woodcuts ascribed to SEBASTIAN BRANDT, also plainsong and folding table of diapason, 4to. old oaken boards, covered with contemporary pressed pigskin, with clasps (one joint cracked, one clasp missing, and last l. torn and mounted, otherwise A REMARKABLY SOUND, CLEAN AND TALL COPY); very rare, £12. 12s

[col. :] ex Argentoraco, Anno octavo supra mille quingentos [1508] The fourth edition of this celebrated work, valuable as an encyclopædia of all that was known of science at the end of the XVth Century, and regarded as the earliest work containing anatomical illustrations.

'If the number were sufficient of those who wish to take their notions of liberal education in Europe at the time immediately preceding the Reformation from original sources, and not from the reports of others, a reprint of the Margarita Philosophica would be made. The diversity of the matters which it treats, and the largeness of its circulation, stamp it as the best book for such a purpose. The Arithmetic has a frontispiece representing Boethius at one table

with Arabic numerals before him; and Pythagoras at another with counters. Pythagoras among the Greeks, Apuleius and Boethius among the Romans, were often made the inventors of arithmetic. The arithmetic is divided into speculative and practical. The former is a summary of Boethius, often in the words of John de Muris. The latter is a short treatise on Algorithm, as it was called, or the rules of computation by the Arabic numerals. There is also computation by counters, fractions, common and sexagesimal, and the rule of three. Many works of fifty years later do no more difficult questions,' etc. etc. etc. - Professor de Morgan, who gives an interesting account of the work in his Arithmetical Books, Ten editions of this work are known; those of 1496, 1503, 1504, 1508, 1512, 1515, 1517, 1535, 1583, and 1599. 388 RICCATI (Vincenzo Conte, S.J.) OPUSCULA ad RES PHYSICAS et MATHEMATICAS pertinentia; with vignettes, 16 folding plates, and 3 folding tables, 2 vols. 4to. calf (joints weak); RARE, £1. 1s Bononiæ, 1757-62

pp. 4-9.

'Opera rara e pregiata.'-Riccardi. 'On y trouve d'intéressantes recherches sur le calcul intégral.'-Biogr. Gén. 'Ouvrage qui contient une foule de choses propres à justifier la réputation dont il jouissoit parmi les géomètres italiens.'-Montucla. 389 ROYAL SOCIETY of LONDON, The PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS of the, from their Beginning in 1665 to 1800, abridged, with Notes and biographic Illustrations, by CHARLES HUTTON, GEORGE SHAW, M.D., FF.R.S., and RICHARD PEARSON, M.D., F.S.A., with numerous plates, 18 thick vols. roy. 4to. boards, uncut (A SOUND SET), £3. 10s 1809

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ANOTHER SET, 18 vols. handsomely bound in hf. green morocco, cl. sides (a fine set), 'The most important communications are reprinted entire, the less important papers are given in an abridged state, so however as to retain whatever is especially curious or useful in them. The papers in foreign languages are here translated.'-Preface. Thus the student will probably find all he is searching for at the thirtieth part of the cost of the complete series.

The work is moreover of additional interest for the nnmerous interesting notes and biographies which it contains.

II. GENERAL AND COLLECTED WORKS, continued:

392 SCIENTIA: EXPOSÉ et DÉVELOPPEMENT des QUESTIONS SCIENTIFIQUES à l'ORDRE du JOUR : Recueil publié sous la Direction de MM. APPELL, CORNU, D'ARSONVALLE, FRIEDEL, LIPPMANN, MOISSAN, POINCARE, POTIER; Série Physico-Mathématique; with numerous illustrations, a set to date, Nos. 1-34, post 8vo. original boards (wanting No. 21), partly o. p., £2. 2s [1899-1914] An admirable collection of monographs on scientific questions of the day, including contributions by H. ANDOYER, PAUL APPELL, A. COTTON, H. LAURENT (L'Elimination), H. POINCARÉ (Théorie de Maxwell), etc. etc. etc.

DR. W. B. CARPENTER'S COPY:

393 SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS, selected from the TRANSACTIONS of FOREIGN ACADEMIES of SCIENCE, and Learned Societies, and from FOREIGN JOURNALS, edited by RICHARD TAYLOR, F.S.A., with 59 plates (mostly folding and some coloured), besides woodcuts, 5 thick vols. 8vo. hf. calf gilt, with DR. W. B. CARPENTER'S BOOKLABEL (nice copy); VERY SCARCE, £3. 3s 1837-52

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A DESIRABLE SET OF THIS IMPORTANT PUBLICATION, containing translations (in many cases the only ones) of a number of rare and important memoirs, some of which are now practically unprocurable in the originals. They include, among others, the following authors: Arago, E. Becquerel, J. J. Berzelius, F. W. Bessel, J. B. Biot, R. W. Bunsen, A. L. Cauchy, R. J. E. Clausius, H. W. Dove, J. F. Encke, A. J. Fresnel, K. F. Gauss, P. A. Hansen, H. L. F. v. Helmholtz, Joseph Henry, M. H. Jacobi, J. Lamont, M. Melloni, O. F. Mossotti, Johannes Müller, F. E. Neumann, J. A. F. Plateau, H. V. Regnault, A. Seebeck, and Wilhelm Weber.

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PAMPHLETS, etc., A COLLECTION of NEARLY THREE HUNDRED, as made by DAVIES GILBERT, M.P., P.R.S., F.S. A., nearly all on the EXACT SCIENCES, but a few on Geology, Medicine, etc.; most of the copies having presentation inscriptions by the authors, and some MS. notes by the Collector; the whole bound up in 20 vols. (11 4to. and 9 8vo.), hf. calf, all lettered Presents from Authors', and some having the large armorial bookplate of the Collector, £21. 1795-1838

An unusually interesting collection of presentation copies to the early patron of SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, and the promoter of science and art in Parliament.

Many of the pamphlets are privately printed and rare. The following is a list of the more important authors represented in this collection. The numbers within brackets denote the number of contributions:

:

AIRY (Sir George Biddell, P.R.S., Astronomer Royal) [7]: ALLEN (William, F.R.S.) [1]: BAILY (Francis, F.R.S.) [13]: BARLOW (Peter, F.R.S.) [3]: BREWSTER (Sir David, F.R.S.) [3]: BRINKLEY (John, F.R.S., Bp. of Cloyne) [8]: BROWN (Robert, F.R.S.) Brief Account of Microscopical Observations, 1829 [containing the discovery of the Brownian Movement]: BRUNEL (Sir Marc Isambard, C.E., F.R.S.) New Plan of tunnelling a Roadway under the Thames, with plates, n.d.: BUCK. LAND (William, F.R.S., Dean of Westminster) [2]: CAUCHY (Augustin Louis) [2]: CHEVALLIER (Jean Baptiste Alphonse) [3]: CHRISTIE (Samuel Hunter, F.R.S.) [2]: DANIELL (John Frederic, F.R.S.) New Registration Pyrometer, '30: Voltaic Combinations with Further Observations, 2 parts [containing the invention of the Daniell Cell], '36-7: DAVIES (Thomas Stephens, F.R.S.) [2, with auto. letter]: DAVY (Sir Humphry, P.R.S.) Account of some Galvanic Combinations, '01: Constituent Part of certain Astringent Vegetables, '03: Analysis of Soils, '05: Analytical Experiments of Mineral Production from Devonshire, '05: Combination of Oxymuriatic and Oxygene Gas, '11 (all having the author's inscr.): DOLLOND (John, F.R.S., inventor of the Achromatic Telescope) [1]: DRUMMOND (Thomas, inventor of the Drummond Lime-Light) [1]: DULONG (Pierre Louis) [1]: DUPIN (Baron Charles) [1] EVEREST (Lt.-Col. Sir George, F.R.A.S.) [1]: FARADAY (Michael, F.R.S.) New Compound of Carbon and Hydrogen, '25 [the discovery of Benzol]: Existence of a Limit to Vaporization, '26: Natural Action of Sulphuric Acid and Naphthalene,'26: Manufacture of Glass for Optical Purposes, '30: Peculiar Class of Acoustic Figures [the investigation of Crispations], '31: Experimental Researches in Electricity, I, '32 (five having the author's inscr.): FORBES (James David, F.R.S. [1] FOSTER (Capt. Henry, R N., F.R.S.) [1]: FOURIER (Jean Baptiste Joseph, Baron de) [2] FRESNEL (Augustin Jean) Considérations théoriques sur la Polarisation de la Lumière, '24: GILBERT (Davies, M.P., P.R.S.) [1]: GRAVES (John Thomas, F.R.S.) [1]: GREEN (Joseph Henry, F.R.S., P.R.C.S.) [1, with letter]: GREGORY (Olinthus Gilbert, LL.D.) [2]: HACHETTE (Jean Nicolas Pierre) [1]: HADLEY (John, V.-P. R.S., inventor of the Quadrant), Biographical Account of, by his Brothers GEORGE and HENRY, with portrait and fs. (scarce), n.d.: HALFORD (Sir Henry, M.D., F.R.C.P.) [2]: HALL (Sir James, F.R.S.) Experiments showing the Effects of Compression, '05, and 2 others: HANSEN (Peter Andreas, F.R.S.) [1]: HARRIS (Sir William Snow, F.R.S.) Experimental Inquiries on Electrical Accumulation, Plymouth, '28: Utility of fixing Lightning Conductors in Ships, ibidem, '30 (2 copies), and 8 others: HATCHETT (Charles, F.R.S.) [2]: HERAPATH (John) [1]: HERSCHEL (Sir John Frederick William, F.R.S.) [4]: HORNER (William George) New Method of solving Numerical Equations, '19, and one other: KATER (Capt. Henry, F.R.S.) [4]: LUBBOCK (Sir John William, F.R.S.) [13]: MURCHISON (Sir Roderick Impey, F. R.S.) [2]: NICOLLET (Joseph Nicolas; originator of the Moon Hoax) [3] PARIS (John Ayrton, M.D., F.R.C.P.) [2]: PASLEY (Gen. Sir Charles William, R.E., F.R.S.) Propriety and Practicability of simplifying the Weights, Measures, and Money, lithographed on 87 pp., with auto. letter from the author, and copy of answer by Davies Gilbert, M.P., P.R.S. PERKINS (Jacob, the American Inventor') Explosion of Steam Boilers, ca. 1838 (scarce): POISSON (Siméon Denis) Distribution de la Chaleur dans les Corps solides, '21: POWELL (Baden, pr., F.R.S.) [10]: PROUT (William, M.D., F.R.S.) [2]: QUETELET (Lambert Adolphe Jacques) [2]: RAPER (Lt. Henry, R. N.) [1]: RENNIE (George, C.E., F.R.S.) [1]: RIDDLE (Edward, F.R.A.S.) [2]: RIGAUD (Stephen Peter, F.R.S.) [5]: ROBERTSON (Abram, pr., F. R.S.) [1]: ROBINSON (Thomas Romney, pr., F.R.S.) [1]: SABINE (Gen. Sir Edward, P.R.S.) [4]: SEDGWICK (Adam, pr., F.R.s.) [3]: SEPPINGS (Sir Robert, F.R.S.) New Principle of constructing Ships of War, '14 [containing his invention of the system of diagonally bracing and trussing frame timbers]: Great Strength given to Ships of War by Diagonal Braces, '18: SHEEPSHANKS (Richard, F.R.s.) [1]: SMITHSON (James, F.R.S., founder of the Smithsonian Institution) [1]: SOMERVILLE (Mary) [1] SOUTH (Sir James, F.R.S.) [10]: TAYLOR (Thomas, Platonist), Brief Notice of, '31 (unknown to D. N. B.): TENNANT (Smithson, F.R.S.) Two Metals remaining after the Solution of Platina, '04 [containing the discovery of osmium and iridium]: URE (Andrew, M.D., F.R.S.) [2]: WHEWELL (William, D.D, F.R.S., Master of Trinity) [7]: WOLLASTON (William Hyde, M.D., F.R.S.) [2]: WOOLHOUSE (Wesley S. B., F.R.A.S.) [2]: [YOUNG (Thomas, M.D., F.R.S.)] Practical Application of the Doctrine of Chances, with the author's notes.

THESES: a COLLECTION of NINE, as under, with plates, 9 parts in one vol. 4to. cl., with MS. Index by Lord Justice Stirling, F.R.S., £1.5s 1830-82

CONTENTS:-SEEBECK (Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm August; Univ. Leipzig) Observationes de Corporum Lucem simpliciter refringentium Angulis Polarisationis, '30: CLEBSCH (Rudolf Friedrich Alfred; Univ. Giessen) De Motu in Fluido incom. pressibili Viribus quibuslibet impulsi, '54: DARBOUX (Gaston, de l'Institut) Sur les Surfaces orthogonales, '66; and others by RUDOLF MERBAUER, MAURICE LÉVY, J. V. BOUSSINESQ, L. LECORNU, Le COMTE DE SPARRE, and J. NICOLAS. 396 STOKES (Sir George Gabriel, P.R.S., Lucasian Prof. Mathematics, Cantab., M.P.) MATHEMATICAL and PHYSICAL PAPERS, reprinted from the original Journals and Transactions, with additional Notes by the Author [and (vv. IV-V) SIR JOSEPH LARMOR, F.R.S., M.P.], with 2 fine portraits and numerous illustrations, 5 vols. 8vo. cl., with references by Lord Justice Stirling, F.R.S., £2. 12s 6d (p. £3. 15s nett) Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1880-1905

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VOLUMES I AND II ONLY, with illustrations, 2 vols. 8vo. cl., 18s 6d (p. £1. 10s nett)
apud eandem, ibidem, 1880-3

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