The posthumous works of Robert Hooke, M.D. S.R.S.... containing his Cutlerian lectures, and other discourses, read at the meetings of the illustrious Royal Society. In which I. The present deficiency of natural philosophy is discoursed of ... II. The nature, motion and effects of light are treated of ... III. A hypothetical explication of memory ... IV. An hypothesis ... of the cause of gravity ... V. Discourses of earthquakes ... VI. Lectures for improving navigation and astronomy ... Illustrated with sculptures. To these discourses is prefixt the author's life ... Publish'd by Richard Waller
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Type of record: Book
Title: The posthumous works of Robert Hooke, M.D. S.R.S.... containing his Cutlerian lectures, and other discourses, read at the meetings of the illustrious Royal Society. In which I. The present deficiency of natural philosophy is discoursed of ... II. The nature, motion and effects of light are treated of ... III. A hypothetical explication of memory ... IV. An hypothesis ... of the cause of gravity ... V. Discourses of earthquakes ... VI. Lectures for improving navigation and astronomy ... Illustrated with sculptures. To these discourses is prefixt the author's life ... Publish'd by Richard Waller
Classmark: BC Sc q/HOO
Creator(s): Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)
Additional creator(s): Waller, Richard (Other)
Related people: Waller, Richard
Publisher: printed by Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1705
Language: English
Size and medium: [8], xxviii, 209, [i.e.210], [2], 279-572, [12] p.; 15 plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/286375
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002258629705181
Description
With a half-title and 12 final pages of index and advertisements. Page 210 is misnumbered 209. The interuption in pagination is explained in a note at the foot of p.210, "two presses being employed in printing these tracts, has caused a chasme in the pages." The text is complete despite this.
Indexed in: ESTC t071737.
Additional description
Plates 1-3 misbound at end of text
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