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| People and organisations | Count |
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| Whiston, William (1667-1752) | 7 |
| Keill, John (1671-1721) | 5 |
| Watson, Sir William (1715-1787) | 4 |
| Hale, Matthew (1609-1676) | 3 |
| Houghton, Thomas (1695-) | 3 |
| Newton, Isaac (1642-1727) | 3 |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) | 3 |
| Whiston, William, 1667-1752 | 3 |
| Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715 | 2 |
| Charleton, Walter (1619-1707) | 2 |
Dr. Gregory's Elements of catoptrics and dioptrics : To which is added, I. A method for finding the foci of all specula... II. A solution of those problems which are left undemonstrated. III. A particular account of microscopes and telescopes, from Mr. Huygens. With an introduction shewing the discoveries made by catoptrics and dioptrics. By W. Browne
Gregory, David (1659-1708); Browne, William (1692-1774); Huygens, Christiaan (1629-1695)
1715
First edition in English. Pp. 73-101 of the second Arabic numeraion misnumbered 65-93.
Guilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis... De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure : physiologia noua, plurimis & argumentis, & experimentis demonstrata
Gilbert, William (1540-1603)
1600
First edition. Title vignette; coat of arms of William Gilbert on verso of t.p.; decorated borders and initials throughout text.
The Lives of the French, Italian and German philosophers : late members of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris. Together with abstracts of some of the choicest pieces, communicated by them to that illustrious society
Chamberlayne, John (1666-1723); Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757); Académie des Sciences
1717
Dedication signed by the translator: John Chamberlayne. Book-lists of William Innys (4 pp.) and John Darby (16 pp.) at end.
The discourse made before the Royal Society : concerning the use of duplicate proportion... together with a new hypothesis of springing or elastique motions
Petty, Sir William (1623-1687)
1674
Imprimatur dated "Thursday Decem. 10. 1674" and signed "Brounckek [sic], P.R.S." [i.e. William Brouncker, 2nd viscount Brouncker], on A1 verso.
Opticks: or, A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colours of light
Newton, Isaac (1642-1727)
1730
"Printed from the third edition as it was corrected by the author's own hand, and left before his death with the bookseller"--Advertisement to 4th edition. "Books printed for William Innys" (2 pp. u...
Introductio ad veram astronomiam, seu, Lectiones astronomicae : habitae in Schola Astronomica Academiae Oxoniensis
Keill, John (1671-1721)
an. Dom. 1718
Signatures: a⁴ b⁸ A-2H⁸. Errata on p. [496]. Savilian lectures.
Arithmetica universalis, sive, De compositione et resolutione arithmetica liber : cui accessit, Halleiana Aequationum radices arithmetice inveniendi methodus. In usum juventutis academicae
Newton, Isaac (1642-1727); Whiston, William (1667-1752); Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)
1707
First edition. Editor's preface signed: G.W. [i.e. William Whiston]. With half title. Page 329 misnumbered 339. Signatures: a⁴, A-X⁸, Y⁴. Anonymous. By Sir Isaac Newton.
A philosophical discourse of earth : relating to the culture and improvement of it for vegetation, and the propagation of plants, &c. as it was presented to the Royal Society, April 29, 1675
Evelyn, John (1620-1706)
1676
Error in paging: 108 numbered 118. Imprimatur of the first President of the Royal Society, William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, facing title.
An essay on the usefulness of mathematical learning
Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Strong, Martin; Keill, John (1671-1721)
1701
First edition. Also attributed to Martin Strong and John Keill. Signatures: A-C⁸ D⁶. Title vignette.
An essay to shew the cause of electricity; and why some things are non-electricable : In which is also consider'd its influence in the blasts on human bodies, in the blights on trees, in the damps in mines... in a letter to Mr. William Watson, F.R.S
Freke, John (1688-1756)
1746
The appendix is a reply to the preface of Benjamin Martin's "An essay on electricity... 1746".
A complete history of drugs
Pomet, Pierre (1658-1699); Pomet, Pierre (1658-1699); Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de (1656-1708); Lémery, Nicolas (1645-1715)
1748
Title in red and black; plates engraved throughout. "Pomet's general history of drugs": 202 p. at end. Preface signed John Hill.
The ancient laws, customs and orders of the miners in the Kings Forrest of Mendipp in the county of Somerset
Houghton, Thomas (fl. 1688-1695)
1687
Anon.; edited by Thomas Houghton?. Reissued by William Cooper in 1688 with Thomas Houghton's 'Rara avis in terris' and the anonymous 'The laws and customs of the miners in the Forest of Dean' as 'Th...