CATALOGUE. PHILOSOPHY AND ARTS, HISTORY OF MECHANICS. 217 



Hooke Lect. Cutl. on Helioscopes. 



Claims the invention of the balance spring. 



Huygens on tlie invention of watches. A. P. 



X. 381. 

 Bagford on the invention of printing. Ph. tr. 



1707. XXV. 2397. 

 Pancirollus's history of memorable things. 3 



V. 12. 1715. R. I. 

 Lahire on the invention of clocks. A. P. 



1717.78. 

 Derham's artificial clockmaker. 

 Leup.Th. Arithm. 



Says, that proportional compasses were invented by Justus 

 Byrgius in 1600. Perhaps reinvented after Vinci. 



Regnault Origine ancienne de la physique 



nouvelle. 3 v. Amst. 1735. 

 Mairan on Des Piles's balance of painters. 



A. P. 17.55. l.H. 79. 

 Maitaire, Marchand, Borcyer, Ames, and Le- 



moine's works on the history of printing. 



R.I. 

 Borvyer and Nichols's origin of printing. 8. 



R. S. 

 Rolliti's history of the arts and sciences of 



the ancients. 3 v. 8. 1768. R. I. 

 Luckombe's history of printing. 8. 1771. R.I. 

 Luckombe s tablet of memoiy. 12. London. 

 Waring's prefaces to his mathematical works. 

 De Loys Abrege chronologique. 

 Degoguet's origin of laws, arts, and sciences. 



3 V. 8. 1775. R.I. 

 '*Pti€stky's chart of biography. R. I. 

 Dictionnaire des origines des inventions 



utiles. 6 V. 12. Par. 1777. R. I. 

 *Astle's origin and progress of writing. 

 Brugraans on the mechanics of the antients. 



Commentat. Gott. 1784. VII. M. 75. 

 Lord Charlemont on the antiquity of the 



woollen manufacture in Ireland. Ir. tr. 



1787. 1. Ant. 17. 

 Burja on the mathematical knowledge of 



Aristotle. A. Berl. 1790. 257. 



VOL. II. 



*Cooper on the art of painting among the 

 ancients. Manch. M. III. 510. 



Shows that it was highly improved. 



Mongezon ancient coining. Roz. XL. 426. 

 Dutefis on the origin of discoveries. 4. R. I. 

 Beckmmins history of inventions. 3 v. 8. 



Lond. 1797. R. I. 

 Camus Histoire du polytypage et de la stereo- 

 typic. 1801. 

 Foppe Geschichte der uhrmacherkunst. 8. 



1801. 

 *Montucla et Lalande Histoire "des mathe- 



matiques. 4 v. 4. Par. R. I. 

 Fischer sur les monumens typographiques de 



Gutenberg. 4. Mentz, 1802. R. S. 

 Account of Newton. Tumor's collections for 



the history of Grantham. 4. Lond. 1806. 



B. B. 



Contains the original papers sent by Mr. Conduit to Fon- 

 tenelle, and some other documents. 



Particular Dates, chiefly from Luckombe's 

 Tablet of Memory. 



Scipio Nasica's clepsydra. B. C. 159 



Scissors invented in Africa. 

 Diophantus employed some algebraic 



symbols. Montucla. 

 Pens made from quills. A. D. 635 



Glass introduced into England 674 



Silk worked in Greece about 700 



Paper of linen introduced about 1100 



Glass commonly used in England 1 180 

 Some Greek weavers settled at Venice 1207 

 Linen first made in England 1253 



A clock at Westminster Hall about 1288 • 

 A clock at Canterbury 1292 



Faenza's earthern ware invented 1299 

 Two weavers from Brabant settled at 



York 1331 



Wire invented at Nuremberg 1351 



Engraving on metal and rolling press 



printing invented 1423 



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