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The calculation of solar eclipses without parallaxes : With a specimen of the same in the total eclipse of the sun, May 11. 1724. Now first made publick. To which is added, a proposal how, with the latitude given, the geographical longitude of all the parts of the earth may be settled by the bare knowledge of the duration of solar eclipses, and especially of total darkness. With an account of some late observations made with dipping needles, in order to discover the longitude and latitude at sea
Whiston, William (1667-1752)
1724
With a half-title; errata on p.[95] (N4 recto).
Ten practical discourses concerning earth and water, fire and air : as they relate to the growth of plants. With a collection of new discoveries for the improvement of land, either in the farm or garden
Bradley, Richard (1688-1732)
1727
Signatures: A⁴ B-N⁸ O⁴. Advertisements: 5 p. at end.
An essay towards a new theory of vision
Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
1709
Errata: p. [10]. First edition.
An account of some new microscopical discoveries : founded on an examination of the calamary... also observations on the Farina faecundans of plants ... . Dedicated to the Royal Society
Needham, John Turberville (1713-1781)
1745
Edition statement from DNB v. xiv, p. 158. Dedication signed T.N [sic; Turbeville Needham]. The B.M. catalogue lists "another copy with a new titlepage bearing the author's name", also dated 1745 ...
Philosophical transactions (1665-1678)
Royal Society (Great Britain)
Numb.1 (Munday, March 6. 1664); numb.34 (Monday, April 13. 1668)
Rara avis in terris: or The compleat miner; in two books. The first containing, the liberties, laws and customs of the lead-mines, within the Wapentake of Wirksworth in Derbyshire; in fifty-nine articles, being all that was ever made. The second teacheth the art of dialling and levelling grooves; a thing greatly desired by all miners; being a subject never written on before by any. With an explanation of the miners terms of art used in this book
Houghton, Thomas (fl. 1688-1695)
printed in the year 1738
List of books published by Olive Payne (2 pp.) at end.
Elementa opticæ : nova, facili, & compendiosâ methodo explicata : cum schematibus aliquot (ad pleniorem elucidationem) in calce annexis
Powell, Thomas (1608-1660); Vaughan, Henry (1621-1695); Vaughan, Thomas (1622-1666); Vaughan, Robert engraver
1651
Added illustrated t.p. engraved by Robert Vaughan. Powell's initials occur at the end of the preface, which is dated 1649, and elsewhere in the preliminaries. Includes commendatory verses by Thoma...
The grand essay: or, A vindication of reason, and religion, against impostures of philosophy : proving according to those ideas and conceptions of things human uuderstanding [sic] is capable of forming to it self. 1. That the existence of any immaterial substance is a philosophic imposture, and impossible to be conceived. 2. That all matter has originally created in it, a principle of internal, or self-motion. 3. That matter and motion must be the foundation of thought in men and brutes. To which is added, a brief answer to Mr. Broughton's Psycholo &c
Coward, William (1657?-1725)
1704
By William Coward. Publisher's advertisement: leaf O4 (1st sequence). Signatures: A⁴ B-N⁸ O⁴, N-Q⁸ R⁴. Title within double line border. Running title: Immaterial substance, a philoso...
Some considerations about the reconcileableness of reason and religion
T. E; Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1675
The second work is separately signed and paginated and has a separate divisional t.p.: Some physico-theological considerations about the possibility of the resurrection. / By the Honourable Robert Boy...
The elements of that mathematical art commonly called algebra : expounded in two books
Kersey, John (1616-1690?); Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)
1717
At end of Book II: The end of the first volume. No more published?. First published in four books, two volumes, folio, London, 1673-74. Caption-titles: Book I, A treatise of the elements of the al...
Telluris theoria sacra : orbis nostri originem & mutationes generales, quas aut jam subiit, aut olim subiturus est, complectens
Burnet, Thomas (1635?-1715)
1681
Dedication signed: T. Burnetius. Liber secundus (p. [139]-306) has special t.-p. Catalogus librorum... G. Kettilby: p. [307]. First leaf blank.
Harmonics, or the philosophy of musical sounds
Smith, Robert (1689-1768)
1749
First edition. Of the 28 plates, all but three are folding, numbered I to XXV. With advertisement of Smith's "Complete system of optics", 1738, Cotes's "Harmonia mensurarum", 1722, and "Hydrostati...