Mathématiques

1767 · 55792 — London: Printed for J. Nourse and J. Wilcox in the Strand 1767. 12mo. xvi 353 pp. plus 3 pp. publisher’s ads. With 3 folding copper-engraved plates numerous tables equations. Contemporary speckled calf gilt decorated ruling on covers black & gilt morocco spine label neatly & expertly rebacked minor wear to corners light toning to endpapers still a very nice copy from library of Thomas Arldes Carrick and another former owner’s markings blacked out on verso of title. Third edition of this excellent 18th-century mathematics text divided into sections on basic mathematics geometry and determining volumes of spheres and other shapes. Designed for use by architects artists builders surveyors and farmers as well as mathematics students the text proved very popular during the 18th Century and contributed to his appointment as a Royal Mathematical School master in 1748 working with James Hodgson with one of his most notable pupils being Benjamin Raffles who prepared a 740 page manuscript on navigation cyphering. Robertson 1716-1776 is perhaps best remembered for his Elements of Navigation considered one of the finest English-language navigation education manuals of the 18th century and used extensively by the Royal Navy. Worldcat locates 2 copies Univ. College London Columbia; See: Ellerton & Clements Samuel Pepys Isaac Newton James Hodgson and the Beginnings of Secondary School Mathematics: A History of the Royal Mathematical School within Christ’s Hospital London 1673-1868 2017 pp. 50-52 110 146 218. Printed for J. Nourse and J. Wilcox, in the Strand, unknown