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Science (Brotherton Collection)
Works from the period 1600 to 1750, covering a wide variety of early scientific subjects, including zoology, astronomy, medicine, religion and science, physics, mathematics, chemistry and natural hist...
Academia scientiarum, or, The academy of sciences : being a short and easie introduction to the knowledge of the liberal arts and sciences, with the names of those famous authors that have written on every particular science. In English and Latine
Abercromby, David
1687
English and Latin on opposite pages. B1 recto, p. [1], is blank; text begins on p. 2. First ed. Cf. Wing.
The tvvoo bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of learning, divine and humane. To the King
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Tomes, Henrie (1598-1607)
1605
First edition.
The two bookes of Sr Francis Bacon : of the proficience and advancement of learning, divine and humane
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Lichfield, John (1605-1635); Huggins, Thomas (1609-1636); Fisher, Benjamin; Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
1633
Title page vignette. At foot of t.p.: "With permission of B. Fisher." Benjamin Fisher was a London bookseller. Signatures: A-2T⁴. Numerous errors in pagination; notably p. 167-168 omitted in n...
Experimental philosophy asserted and defended, against some late attempts to undermine it
Bate, Julius (1711-1771)
1740
Attributed to Julian Bate in a contemporary letter at Cambridge; other works by Bate were issued by Bettenham and Cooper. Entered under Bate in NUC.
Certain physiological essays and other tracts : written at distant times, and on several occasions
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1669
"Two essays concerning the unsuccessfulness of experiments" and "Some specimens of an attempt to mae chymical experiments useful to illustrate the notions of corpuscular philosophy" have separate titl...
Experiments, notes, &c. about the mechanical origine or production of divers particular qualities : among which is inserted a discourse of the imperfection of the chymist's doctrine of qualities; together with some reflections upon the hypothesis of alcali and acidum
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1676
Eleven tracts, with a general introdution. Each tract is individually signed and paginated, and has a separate divisional t.p. With the exception of the 10th tract ("Magnetism"), which has the imprint...
Pseudodoxia epidemica : or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths, together with the Religio medici
Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682); Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682); Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603-1665)
1672
The second section of the book, consisting of the Religio medici with Digby's Observations, has separate pagination and signatures, and a separate title-page reading: Religio medici. The seventh editi...
Two treatises : in the one of which, the nature of bodies; in the other, the nature of mans soule, is looked into: in way of discovery of the immortality of reasonable soules
Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603-1665)
1645
The author signs the dedication. First edition printed in England. Running title, first part: A treatise of bodies; second part: A treatise of mans soule. The second part has separate title-page...
Antonii le Grand Historia naturae, variis experimentis & ratiociniis elucidata : Secundum principia stabilita in institutione philosophiae edita ab eodem authore
Le Grand, Antoine (1699)
1673
First edition. Added engraved half-title-page [A1]. Includes index.
The philosophical history and memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris : or, An abridgment of all the papers relating to natural philosophy, which have been publish'd by the members of that illustrious society from the year 1699 to 1720. With many curious observations relating to the natural history and anatomy of animals, &c. Illustrated with copper-plates (v.1)
Martyn, John (1699-1768); Chambers, Ephraim (1680-1740); Académie des Sciences
1742
Vol. 1 has both general and special t.-p.; v. 2-5 have special t.-p. only; the general title-page to vol. 1 varies between issues.
The philosophical history and memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris : or, An abridgment of all the papers relating to natural philosophy, which have been publish'd by the members of that illustrious society from the year 1699 to 1720. With many curious observations relating to the natural history and anatomy of animals, &c. Illustrated with copper-plates (v.2)
Martyn, John (1699-1768); Chambers, Ephraim (1680-1740); Académie des Sciences
1742
Vol. 1 has both general and special t.-p.; v. 2-5 have special t.-p. only; the general title-page to vol. 1 varies between issues.