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| Darwin, Charles (1809-1882) | 26 |
| Boyle, Robert (1627-1691) | 25 |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) | 18 |
| Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte De (1707-1788) | 17 |
| Newton, Isaac (1642-1727) | 17 |
| Smellie, William | 17 |
| Smellie, William (1740-1795) | 17 |
| Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1847-1909) | 16 |
| Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 | 15 |
| Baddam, Benjamin | 10 |
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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...
The usefulness of mathematical learning explained and demonstrated : being mathematical lectures read in the publick schools at the University of Cambridge
Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677); Kirkby, John (1705-1754)
1734
First edition.
The first book of the art of mettals : in which is declared the manner of their generation and the concomitants of them
Barba, Alvaro Alonso (1569-); Sandwich, Edward Montagu Earl of (1625-1672)
1670
Part 2 has separate title-page and pagination: The second book of the art of mettals, wherein is taught the common way of refining quicksilver, with some new rules for the better performance of the sa...
Meteorological essays : concerning the origin of springs, generation of rain, and production of wind. With a rational and historical account of the causes and course of the tide: its propagation thro' the great ocean; and its reception into the narrow seas, and channels : more especially near the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. Explicating all along its various appearances and seeming irregularities. In two treatises
Barlow, E (1639-1719)
1715
By Edward Barlow. First edition.
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.
A new year's gift for Doctor Witty, or, The dissector anatomised : which is a reply to the discourse intituled An answer to all that Doctor Tonstall has writ or shall hereafter write against Scarbrough spaw
Tonstall, George (1616-)
1672
Author's name appears at foot of dedication and final address. In answer to Robert Witty's Scarbroughs spagyrical anatomizer dissected.
The elements of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy
Voltaire (1694-1778)
1967
Pages xiv-xv and 128 incorrectly numbered 360-361 and 182 respectively. Advertisements: [3] p. at end.
The origine of formes and qualities : (according to the corpuscular philosophy,) illustrated by considerations and experiments, (written formerly by way of notes upon an essay about nitre)
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1666
First edition. Errata: p. [434].
The natural history of Mount Vesuvius : with the explanation of the various phenomena that usually attend the eruptions of this celebrated volcano
Serao, Francesco (1702-1783); Reale Accademia delle Scienze (Naples, Italy)
1743
Publisher's advertisment, 8 p. at end. Anon., by Francesco Serao.
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...
Experimental philosophy, in three books : containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical : with some deductions, and probable hypotheses, raised from them, in avouchment and illustration of the now famous atomical hypothesis
Power, Henry (1623-1668)
1664
Books [2]-3 have special t.p., dated 1663. "Subterraneous experiments, or, Observations about cole-mines" has half-title. The pagination jumps from 184 to 187. Errata: p. [2] at end. Marginal ...