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Lycophron; Joseph Juste Scaliger; Isaac Tzetzes; Willem Canter; John Potter.ABAA

17025654Oxford: E Theatro Shedoniano 1702. Second edition. Buckram. Very Good/The Greek poets of the Hellenistic period following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE and lasting three hundred years until the establishment of the Roman Empire have a reputation for indulging in an ornate and sometimes opaque style that we would later associate with Mannerist poets like Gongora or Marino. Lycophron's Alexandra or Cassandra may be the epitome of that style. Even Alexandrian scholars of the time referred to it as "the obscure poem." Wikipedia quotes a modern critic who says the Alexandra "may be the most illegible piece of classical literature one which nobody can read without a proper commentary and which even then makes very difficult reading." That must be why in the opening line the poet says "I will spell out everything clearly whatever you ask from the very beginning." The Wiki article continues "The poem is evidently intended to display the writer's knowledge of obscure names and uncommon myths; it is full of unusual words of doubtful meaning gathered from the older poets and long-winded compounds coined by the author. . It was very popular and was read and commented on very frequently. Two explanatory paraphrases of the poem survive and the collection of scholia by Isaac and John Tzetzes is very valuable." The Oxford edition by John Potter later Archbishop of Canterbury offered here includes the Tzetzes scholia as well as an exuberant Latin version of the poem by Joseph Scaliger first published in 1566 when Scaliger was 25 years old and notes by Scaliger's friend Willem Canter. Potter first published the text in 1697 but only this second edition bears his dedicatory epistle to the German classical scholar who taught at Utrecht Johann Georg Graevius. Folio 32 cm; 16 183 1 28 6 174 18 pages and full-page engraved frontispiece by Michael Burghers of a laurel-crowned Cassandra standing before the walls of Troy in flames. Greek and Latin in parallel columns. Collation includes title page in Greek with engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre and a second title page in Latin with vignette of Oxford University's crest. Advertisement leaf at end. Bound in modern library buckram. Pages somewhat toned at edges but text block is sturdy and without significant blemish. References: ESTC T107442; E Theatro Shedoniano hardcover books

Ralph James; D'Israeli IsaacABAA

The Case of Authors by Profession or Trade Stated Bound with.

1758641161758. An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary. An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary. Indirect Influences on the Development of Copyright Law Ralph James d. 1762. The Case of Authors by Profession or Trade Stated. With Regard to Booksellers The Stage And the Public. No Matter by Whom. London: Printed for R. Griffiths 1758. iv 68 i.e.76 pp. Bound with D'Israeli Isaac 1766-1848. An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary Character. London: Printed for T. Cadell 1795. xxiii 1 226 pp. Octavo 7-3/4" x 4-3/4". Contemporary calf gilt rules to boards rebacked and recornered gilt titles to spine marbled edges. Moderate rubbing to extremities minor gatoring to boards hinges starting later owner bookplate of George P. Philes to front pastedown pocket with nine leaves of bibliographical and critical notes by Philes to rear pastedown. A few cracks to text block moderate toning to text light foxing in places annotations and check marks in Philes's hand to some leaves other owner signatures J. Mitford and Chas. Wright dated November 1853 to front endleaf "By the ingenious Mr. Ralph" in early hand to title page of The Case. Ex-library. Shelf label to spine small inkstamp to verso of title page of The Case. Two scarce titles with an interesting association. $1500. First editions. Born in New Jersey Ralph was a versatile writer of literary works histories and political criticism. He began his career in Philadelphia where he associated with Benjamin Franklin. He traveled with Franklin to London in 1725 and remained there for the rest of his life. An author of some stature he worked closely with Henry Fielding and was one of the writers satirized in Pope's Dunciad. The Case of Authors is one of his most important and enduring works. It argues that the decline of aristocratic patronage has placed the writer at the mercy of the marketplace with negative financial artistic and intellectual consequences. Although it sold poorly it went on to influence literary criticism and the development of copyright law. It was reissued in 1762. Cited in works by Oliver Goldsmith and Thomas Babington Macaulay it also influenced the Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary Character. It was a popular book that reached its fourth edition in 1828. Its author the father of the Prime Minister was a notable literary scholar and essayi. unknown books

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NEWTON Isaac 1643 1727 'sGRAVESANDE Willem Jacob 1688 1742.ABAA

Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy Confirm'd by Experiments: Or an Introduction to Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy. Written in Latin by the late W. James s'Gravesande. Translated into English by J. T. Desaguliers. The Sixth Edition greatly improved by the author.

1747RW1580London:: Printed by W. Innys T. Longman and T. Shewell C. Hitch and M. Senex 1747. 1747. 2 volumes. 4to. 4 lxxv 1 475 1; ii 389 33 pp. Original full calf raised bands calf gilt-stamped red & brown spine labels; joints cracked. Small rubberstamp on title. Very good. NICE CLEAN COPY. Sixth edition "greatly improved by the author" of 'sGravedande's extensive experimentation and instruction in Newtonian physics. The experiments range from basic physics to hydraulics optics electricity and astronomy. The entire work is profusely illustrated with folding engraved plates detailing among many other experiments and apparatuses a steam-powered Hero's Engine plate 78 a static electricity generator plate 79 the first magic lantern slide projector plate 109 the prismatic effect of a rainbow plate 120 and the known solar system plate 122. 'sGravesande "is the author of Elements de physique demonstres mathematiquement. . . ou introduction a la philosophie Newtonienne which was translated from the Latin and published at Leyden in 1746. In the second volume he gives a description of an electrical machine constructed on the plan of that of Hauksbee. It consisted merely of a crystal globe which was mounted upon a copper stand and against which was pressed the hand of the operator while it was made to revolve rapidly by means of a large wheel." Mottelay. / Willem Jacob 'sGravesande was a Dutch philosopher and mathematician. Born in 's-Hertogenbosch he studied law in Leiden and wrote a thesis on suicide. In 1715 he visited London and King George I. He became a member of the Royal Society. In 1717 he became professor in physics and astronomy in Leiden and introduced the works of his friend Newton in the Netherlands. He was ardently opposed to fatalists like Hobbes and Spinoza. In 1724 Peter the Great offered him a job in Saint Petersburg but 'sGravesande did not accept. His best remembered work is Physices elementa mathematica experimentis confirmata sive introductio ad philosophiam Newtonianam or Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy Confirm'd by Experiments Leiden 1720 in which he laid the foundations for teaching Newtonian physics. / 'sGravesande's chief original contribution to physics involved an experiment in which brass balls are dropped with varying velocity onto a soft clay surface. This demonstrated that a ball with twice the velocity of another would leave an indentation four times as deep that three times the velocity yielded nine times the depth and so on. He shared these results with Emilie du ChÃ¢telet who subsequently corrected Newton's formula E = mv to E = mv2. / 'sGravesande was also the owner of the oldest known magic lantern which was built around 1720 by Jan van Musschenbroek and is currently housed at the Museum Booerhave in Leiden. / "From the outset of his teaching both physics and astronomy 'sGravesande modeled his lectures on the example of Newton in the Principia and Opticks although in later years they incorporated other influences especially that of Boerhaave. Moreover he adopted from Keill and Desaguliers the notion of demonstrating to his classes the experimental proof of scientific principles accumulating an ever larger collection of apparatus as may be seen from successive editions of his Physics elementa mathematica experimentis confirmata. Sive introductio ad philosophiam Newtonianam Leiden 1720 1721. The scientific reputation of 'sGravesande is enshrined in this book which he constantly corrected and amplified in later editions. An 'official' English translation prepared by Desaguliers to whom copies of the Latin original were sent in haste was also issued in 1720 and 1721 and it passed through six editions. The booksellers Mears and Woodward printed a rival version under the name of John Keill. French translations appeared only in 1746 and 1747 but a critical review by L. B. Castel was published in the Memoires de Trevoux in May and October 1721. The book was at once welcomed by British and a number of German scholars." â€“ DSB V p. 510. References: Babson 70; Mottelay p. 181. Printed by W. Innys, T. Longman and T. Shewell, C. Hitch, and M. Senex, 1747. hardcover books

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NEWTON Isaac 1643 1727.ABAA

Optice: sive de Reflexionibus Refractionibus Inflexionibus et Coloribus Lucis libri tres. Latine reddidit Samuel Clarke . . . Editio novissima.

1740S13116Lausannae & Geneva: Marci-Michaelis Bousquet & Sociorum 1740. 1740. 4to. iv xxxii 363 1 pp. Half-title engraved frontispiece portrait of Newton engr. Jean-Louis Daudet after Vanderbank 12 engraved folding plates title vignette of 4 cherubs and a female figure each using an optical instrument representing learning optics/perspective drawn by Delamoncein and engraved by Daudet head & tail pieces and woodcut initial letters drawn by Papillon index; first 11 leaves browned. Contemporary full vellum green leather gilt-stamped spine label edges with decorative red freckling as designed by the binder; foot of spine with faint ink marking "11-". Paper unevenly browned. Verso of title with small ink annotation "=1135="; rear pastedown with another notation "Ã¡ 20.Luglio 1801." Very good. Third Latin edition edited by Bousquet with a dedication to Joannes Bernoulli. This edition contains the full array of 31 querries. / "Newton's contributions to the science of optics :: his discovery of the unequal refractions of rays of different color his theory of color and his investigations of 'Newton's rings' to mention only a few of the most noteworthy :: place him among the premier contributors to that science. . . . Today we recognize that his work on optics offers unique rewards in its exciting innovative conjunction of physical theory experimental investigation and mathematics and in the revealing glimpse that it provides of a crucial period in the evolution of experimental science." :: Alan E. Shapiro The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton: Volume 1 1984 p. xi. / Jean-Louis Daudet 1695-1756 who made the frontispiece and title vignette was an engraver and print publisher active in Lyon inherited business from his father Etienne Joseph Daudet. He flourished from 1722 till his death in 1756. Thereafter the business continued by his widow in association with his son-in-law Louis Martin Roch Joubert until 1773. / "Newton famously declared that it is not the business of science to make hypotheses. However it's well to remember that this position was formulated in the midst of a bitter dispute with Robert Hooke who had criticized Newton's writings on optics when they were first communicated to the Royal Society in the early 1670's. The essence of Newton's thesis was that white light is composed of a mixture of light of different elementary colors ranging across the visible spectrum which he had demonstrated by decomposing white light into its separate colors and then reassembling those components to produce white light again. However in his description of the phenomena of color Newton originally included some remarks about his corpuscular conception of light perhaps akin to the cogs and flywheels in terms of which James Maxwell was later to conceive of the phenomena of electromagnetism. Hooke interpreted the whole of Newton's optical work as an attempt to legitimize this corpuscular hypothesis and countered with various objections." / "Newton quickly realized his mistake in attaching his theory of colors to any particular hypothesis on the fundamental nature of light and immediately back-tracked arguing that his intent had been only to describe the observable phenomena without regard to any hypotheses as to the cause of the phenomena. Hooke and others continued to criticize Newton's theory of colors by arguing against the corpuscular hypothesis causing Newton to respond more and more angrily that he was making no hypothesis he was describing the way things are and not claiming to explain why they are. This was a bitter lesson for Newton and in addition to initiating a life-long feud with Hooke went a long way toward shaping Newton's rhetoric about what science should be. . ." / "The first edition of The Opticks 1704 contained only 16 queries but when the Latin edition was published in 1706 Newton was emboldened to add seven more which ultimately became Queries 25 through 31 when in the second English edition he added Queries 17 through 24. Of all these one of the most intriguing is Query 28 which begins with the rhetorical question "Are not all Hypotheses erroneous in which Light is supposed to consist of Pression or Motion propagated through a fluid medium" In this query Newton rejects the Cartesian idea of a material substance filling in and comprising the space between particles. Newton preferred an atomistic view believing that all substances were comprised of hard impenetrable particles moving and interacting via innate forces in an empty space as described further in Query 31." :: Newton's Cosmological Queries :: MathPages. / Grace K. Babson Sir Isaac Newton 1950 141; George J. Gray A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton 182; Wallis 182. See: Printing and the Mind of Man 172. Marci-Michaelis Bousquet & Sociorum, 1740. hardcover books

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