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171495840A la Haye The Hague: Chez T. Johnson 1714. 1714. - Octavo 6-1/8 inches high by 4 inches wide. Bound in vintage tan calf. The front cover is detached. The covers are heavily rubbed scuffed and stained with wear to the edges and corners and the spine has perished and is thus mostly lacking. iv 456 & 12 pages illustrated with 2 folding plates including a large plate for an article on the Apotheosis of Homer depicting a marble relief by Archelaus of Priene. There is some occasional light minor soiling and staining throughout. The top edge of the last of the index is creased and there is a short tear to the inner edge at the fold of the large folding plate. The frontispiece is lacking else the book collates as complete. <p>First edition.<p>The "Journal Literaire" was published by Thomas Johnson an Englishman who was living in The Hague. It was edited by Prosper Marchand 1678-1756. among others.<p>Of note is the inclusion of the first publication of Bernard Nieuwentyt's "Nouvel Usage des Tables des Sinus: ou moyen de s'en servir sans qu'il soit necessaire de multiplier ou de diviser" illustrated with a folding plate illustrating the trigonometric aspects of sine & cosine functions. The article is signed "B.N."<p>The Dutch philosopher mathematician and physician Bernard Nieuwentyt 1654-1718 was also a theologian and a magistrate who held office as mayor of Purmerend. A follower of Descartes he opposed Spinoza and was involved in controversy with Liebniz regarding the foundations of infinitesimal calculus.<p>Also noteworthy is the inclusion of John Keill's article "Demonstration de deux Theoremes qui peuvent servir a lever un grand nombre de difficultez dans la Phisique".<p>Here identified as a professor of astronomy the Scottish mathematician natural philosopher and cryptographer John Keill 1671-1721 was a significant defender of Isaac Newton. Appointed a lecturer of experimental philosophy at Hart Hall Keill lectured on Newton's laws of motion the principles of hydrostatics and optics and on light and colors. As an astronomer he published an "Examination of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth" taking to task Burnet Descartes Spinoza Hobbes and Malebranche. Taking on the role of Newton's chief defender he later became embroiled in the controversy regarding Leibniz's alleged plagiarisation of Newton's calculus. A la Haye [The Hague]: Chez T. Johnson, 1714. unknown
1787List2432Maryland 1787. One Volume. “Arithmetic Book.†Brewer Joseph Newton. Maryland: June 17 1786 - April 211789 or after. Folio half calf bdg contemporary or old boards; scuffed and chipped and bumped later rebacking. 80 folio sheets of which 15 blank with seated Brittania watermarks. 135 pages mss text in brown ink original manuscript pagination recto-verso sgd and dated on front pastedown; internally toned some closed tears. Near Fine. This manuscript journal comprises an 18th-century American student’s mathematics course from 1786 - 1789. The author Joseph Brewer signs and dates the journal on the front pastedown but he never mentions his hometown or his parentage. It is only in the last exercises of 1789 that he reveals himself more fully as “Joseph Newton Brewer†and further firmer internal evidence regarding this identity is wanting. However inasmuch as he was ostensibly a student in his mid-teens at the time of composition and makes frequent reference to Maryland in numerous exercises in his book it is likely that he was Joseph Nathaniel Newton Brewer January 10 1771 - January 8 1841 of Edgewater Anne Arundel MD. Marriage and birth certificates found among online genealogical corpora do corroborate this.<br /> <br /> Joseph Brewer’s “Arithmetic Book†is noteworthy among other extant 18th-century curricular manuscripts because it showcases a variety of word problems all of which relate explicitly to period themes. There are expected school subjects such as fractions and decimals and practice tables but most of Brewer’s assignments are more practical in scope. They treat topics of an especially economic even mercantile nature including problems of currency conversion; partnership exchange and barter; loss and gain; legacies and wills; land and surveying. <br /> <br /> The commodities Brewer emphasizes his math exercises are also of interest as they<br /> emphasize in most instances prestige goods and other expensive imports e.g. beer rum<br /> chocolate gold dust coffee and tobacco. He writes in one example “Three merchants A. B. & C. freight a ship with 248 tons of wine†before extreme weather causes them to throw much of it overboard necessitating calculations. In another three men spend a guinea at a tavern each consuming varied amounts. The persons described in the word problems are also worthy of further study as in one case where various farm personnel are featured: “one man three women and one boy made a crop of 1700 pounds of tobacco.†p14. Brewer’s journal also contains several practice exercises in letter-writing as to foreign traders p93. The author of the “Arithmetic Book†seems to have enjoyed this work and there are many whimsical flourishes in his handwriting and a few occasional doodles. Most surprising however is Brewer’s decision to conclude his journal with a composite psalmic coda:<br /> <br /> “Oh God who didst command the light to shine out of darkness / speak but the word and light shall dart into my soul at once / when thou my lips and my mouth shall show forth my / praise shall burst out into a chearful sic song†<br /> <br /> Overall an interesting relic of education during the years following the Revolution which should be of interest to scholars of early American education due to its detail and thematic content. unknown
176631081(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1766). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres"", tome XX, pp. 91-164 (91-116"117-143"144-164). 1 engraved plate ( belonging to ""Microscope..."")
177042912Le Pouget, , 1770. In-folio manuscrit (29 x 42 cm) de (38) ff., vélin (reliure de l’époque).
179744600Paris, , 1797. 2 parties en un vol. in-12 manuscrit, [Récréations] (2)-45 pp., [Alphabets] (57) pp., [Suite des Récréations] pp. 46-54, [Alphabet] (1) p. [Addition abrégée] (5) ff. dont 1 replié, veau marbré, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre manuscrite à l'encre noire, triple filet doré d'encadrement sur les plats, fleurons dans les angles, tranches dorées (reliure de l'époque).
172442595Leipzig, Gross & Fritsch, 1724. 4to. Entire volume present. Nice contemporary full vellum. Small yellow paper label pasted to top of spine and library-label to inside of front board. Two smaller library stamps to title-page. Internally some browning and brownspotting, due to the paper quality. Overall a nice and tight copy. [Riccati-paper:] pp. 66-73. [Bernouilli-paper:] pp. 73-75. [Entire volume: (2), 532, (34) pp.].
17925711aaLondon: G G J & J Robinson; R Baldwin. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed. Hinges cracked. 1792. 9th edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 170mm x 110mm 7" x 4". iv 236pp. . G G J & J Robinson; R Baldwin hardcover
176755792London: 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
17971778Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 1797. Second edition. Leather_bound. Fair. Full leather binding with red title band. A fair copy with heavy wear scuffing and fading at the spine column. Darkening to the leather and wear and cracking at the front joint and the front edges of the boards. The leather has worn away at the spine extremities. The pages have expanded in their age leaving the book wider at the mouth than the spine. Faded pencilling to the front endpapers - light enough to be illegible. Chipping to the front edges of the introductory pages and two loose pages at the preface. Overall foxing darkening and age toning to the pages - pages still legible. 516 pp. figures and charts. <br/><br/>Liz's Books Isaiah Thomas hardcover
17892519New York: C Nourse. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and marked. Hinges cracked. Some foxing. 1789. 5th Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 170mm x 110mm 7" x 4". viii 280pp. . C Nourse hardcover
173156169London, William Innys, 1731. Contemp. full calf. 5 raised bands. Richly gilt compartments. Titlelabel with lettering. Gilt borders on covers with gilt cornerpieces. Edges of covers gilt. Wear to upper joint, joint starting. Small stamp on title-page. (4),XLIII,94 pp., 2 pp. of publisher's announcement. Textdiagrams, 1 folded engraved plate. Internally clean and fine, printed on good, thick paper.
1796056276Philadelphia Pa: William Young 1796. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Fair. Viii 13-396 Pp. Full Sheep. Second Edition Stated Apparently Expanded. Worn Leather Discolored And Frayed; Lacking Front Free Endpapers; Rear Board Detached But Present. No Pages Between Viii And 13 But Nothing Appears Missing And According To Table Of Contents Book Begins With That P. 13. Extensive Writing And Ownership Signatures On Endpapers Pastedowns And Title None Clear To Me. Per Wikipedia John Gough 1757 -1825 Was A Blind English Natural And Experimental Philosopher Who Is Known For His Own Investigations As Well As The Influence He Had On Both John Dalton And William Whewell. His Family Belonged To The Society Of Friends. Before He Was Three Years Old Gough Was Attacked By Smallpox And Lost His Sight. In 1778 At The Age Of Twenty-One Gough Became A Resident Pupil Of John Slee A Mathematical Master At Mungrisdale Cumberland. From Around 1782 To 1790 He Enjoyed The Acquaintance Of John Dalton A Cousin Of George Bewley And Also A Lakeland Quaker Who Had Come To Kendal To Take Up A Position In Bewley's School. Dalton Assisted Gough By Reading Writing And Making Calculations And Diagrams On His Behalf. In Return Dalton Who Later Became One Of The Most Eminent Figures In Nineteenth-Century Science Was Tutored By Gough In Latin And Greek. Dalton Later Referred To Gough As A "Prodigy In Scientific Attainments." He Began To Act As A Private Tutor Of Mathematics To A Select Group Of Pupils From Northern England Whom He Prepared For University. The Subsequent Fame Of His Students Superseded His Own Celebrity. A Number Of Them Went On To Achieve High Distinction In The Mathematical Tripos And Subsequently In The Hierarchies Of University And Church. One Of Gough's First Students Was William Whewell Who Was With Him In 1812 And Later Described Gough As "A Very Extraordinary Person." Gough Had Wide-Ranging Scientific Interests. He Published Papers In Natural History Mechanics Mathematics Chemistry And Experimental Physics. One Of His Most Interesting Pieces Of Work Was An Investigation Into The Properties Of Natural Rubber Or Caoutchouc. He Was The First To Describe The Heat Released When A Rubber Band Is Quickly Stretched The Heat Being Detected By The Lips To Which The Band Is Pressed. When Stretched Rubber Is Heated It Contracts A Reversal Of The Normal Behaviour Of Materials When Heated. Gough Published These Results And Others In A Letter To The Manchester Literary And Philosophical Society In 1804. King Has Written That Through Dalton Gough Exerted An Indirect Influence Years Later On James Joule Who Undertook His Own Investigations Into Rubber Elasticity And Energy Changes And Specifically Referred To Gough's Earlier Studies.5 The Effect Eventually Became Known As The Gough-Joule Effect. Gough's Most Substantive Enquiry Was "An Investigation Of The Method Whereby Men Judge By The Ear Of The Position Of Sonorous Bodies Relative To Their Own Persons" Which Appeared In 1802 During An Ongoing Controversy With Another Former Quaker The Noted Natural Philosopher Thomas Young Over The Nature Of Compound Sounds. Among His Works In The Natural Sciences He Carried Out Experiments With Plants. He Had Developed The Skill Of Using His Upper Lip To Identify Plants By Touch And Reported The Hydrosere Succession As Freshwater Lakes Dry Out And Become Land. He Also Described Seed Banks In Soils. <br/> <br/> William Young hardcover
1796e7154Edinburgh: Elphingston Balfour. G : in Good condition. Cover rubbed and scuffed. 1796. Eleventh Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 200mm x 130mm 8" x 5". 143pp plates. 5 b/w folding plates. With heraldic bookplate of Robert Findlay. . Elphingston Balfour hardcover
17823766786C. Nourse 1782. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library With usual stamps and markings In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item650grams ISBN: C. Nourse hardcover
177151159Carlsruhe, Michael Mackler, 1771. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. (32),520,(2) pp. (Inhalt pp. 1-24 bound at end) and 11 folded engraved plates. A few brownspots.
17596442Venezia, Pietro Bassaglia, 1759. In-8 (189 x 122 mm), 216 pp. dont portrait gravé en frontispice et page de titre. Reliure cartonnée d'attente d'époque, manques angulaires de papier d'origine au f. de frontispice, f. pp. 67/68, quelques ff. 170 x 115 mm, tache de rousseurs dans la marge de quelques ff., gardes au format 80 x 185 mm, traces d'usage et minimes manques de papier.
177351176Leipzig, Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius, 1773. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. Engraved titlevignette. (10),198 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates.
174630830A Paris, chez Saillant, Delmormel, Desaint, Panckoucke, 1746. 1 vol. in-12 plein veau de l'époque (17 x 10 cm) 428 pages. - 300g.- Intérieur frais, Traces d'usure en bas du dos, coins. Bon état général de ce tome VII.
1765W94737Paris, chez Jean Dessaint & Charles Saillant 1765 xiii + [2] + 293 + [3] pp. + 10 planches dépliantes hors-texte, 6e édition revue et augmentée par l'auteur, 20cm., reliure plein-cuir d'époque (coins usées et peu abimés, charnières et coiffe abimées en haut du dos, petit manque de papier à la page de titre (sans perte de texte), texte et intérieur frais avec peu de rousseurs, W94737
175790861Paris, Jean Dessaint & Charles Saillant 1757 2 tomes en 1 volume. In-8. Reliure plein veau havane, dos à nerfs encadrés de fers dorés, XV-254-5-293 pp., 10 planches repliées. Reliure légèrement frottée, coiffe de pied usée, intérieur frais.
173446343Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1734. 4to. Contemp. full vellum. Faint handwritten title on spine. A small stamp to title page and pasted library label to pasted down front free end-paper. In: ""Actorum Eruditorum Anno MDCCXXXIV"". The entire volume offered.(4), 560, (27) pp. + 1 plate
173146345Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1731. 4to. In: ""Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCCXXXI"". The entire volume offered in contemporary full vellum. Front boards with some miscolouring. Hand written title on spine. A yellow label pasted on to top of spine. A small stamp to title-page and free front end-paper. Library label to pasted down front free end-paper. As usual with various browning to leaves and plates. (4), 560, (38) pp. + 1 plate.
1752199051Leipzig, Langenheim, (1752). XII S. RBr. Gebräunt. Sign. a. Tit.
177045924(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1770). 4to. Clean and fine without wrappers as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", Tome XXIV, pp. 111-180. With titlepage to ""Classe de Mathematique"".
179093864Frankfurt a. M. Joh. Georg Fleischer, 1790. XXIV, [1] S., Num. 1- 239; [13, 8, 8] Bll. (= Lagen X-Z5 u. Aa-Aa5). Kl.-8vo (18 cm). Pp. d. Zeit mit goldgepr. Rückenschild. - Es fehlen die Bögen Q - V.
