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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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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

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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

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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.

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Plates 1-3 misbound at end of text

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