LIST OF PLATES. 



Facing paqe 



I. Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton by Vertue Title 



II. Accum's Treatises on Gas Light (1815-9) : 2 illustrations of gasworks . . 2 



III. Bate's Mysteries of Nature and Art (1634) : engraved title .... 15 



IV. Boyle's New Experiments Physico-Meclianical (1660) : plate showing his air- 



pump . . . , 28 



V. BRAycA^sJjE'M.ACHiiiK {l()'29): woodcut of his steam-engine .... 29 

 VI. Caus (I. de). New and Rare Inventions of Water- Works (1659): plate 



shovnng a perpetuum mobile 33 



VII. Caudano's de Subtilitate (1554) : title 35 



VIII. Caus (S. de). Raisons des Forces mouvantes (1615) : engraved title . . 37 

 IX. Copernicus. De Revolutionibus Orbium cojlestium (1543) : title ... 44 

 X. CoRONELLi's Navi 6 Vascelli (1687) : 2 illustrations of ships . . . . 46 

 XI. Daguerre's Proc<5d6s du Daguerreotype (1839) : 4 illustrations of his photo- 

 graphic apparatus 48 



XII. Digqes's Stratioticos (1579) : title with icoodcut 52 



XIII. Pantometria (1591) : specimen of text and illustration . , . . 54 



XIV. EucLiDis Elementa (1482) : specimen of text with woodcut border and geo- 



metrical figures 61 



XV. Faujas de St.-Fond. Description et Experiences de la Machine A^rostatique 



(1783) : plate showing the first balloon ascent &d 



XVI. Galileo's Dialogo (1632) : title and engraved frontispiece. 



II Saggiatore (1623): engraved title. 



Discorsi e Dimostrazioni matematiche (1638) : specimen of text . . 73 



XVII. Gilbert's de Magnete (1600) : title 78 



XVIII. Guericke's Experimenta Magdeburgica (1672) : engraved title, showing his air- 

 pump and the Magdeburg hemispheres 83 



XIX. Hauksbee's Physico-Mechanical Experiments (1709) : his electrical machine. 



Hevelius. Selenographia (1647) : his map of the moon 88 



XX. Hero Alexandrinus. Spiritalia (1575) : specimen of text, toith looodcut of 



his double force-pump 94 



XXI. HuYGENH. Horologium Oscillatorium (1673) : illustration shoioing his pen- 

 dulum clock 99 



XXII. Traite de la Lumiere (1690): title and specimen of text. 



De Circuli Magnitudine (1654) : title. 



Systema Satumium (1659) : plate showing the phases of Saturn . 



XXIII. Portrait of Huygens by Ottens , . 



XXIV. Kepler's Harmonice Mundi (1619) : title 



XXV. Dioptrice (1611) : title and 3 specimens of text with illustrations . 



XXVI. Astronomia Nova (1609) : title 



XXVII. Kircher's Musurgia Universalis (1650) : «j9<?amenj9/a^e . 



XXVIII. Lana's Prodromo (1670): specimen plate showing his suggested balloon 



XXIX. Lavoisier's Traits el^mentaire de Chimie (1789) : title of the rare first edition 



XXX. ISlKTUEVi.A.'rici V Ts.TKB.Y.'A {\QQ2f) : specimen page toith illustration 



XXXI. Portrait of John Napier of Mbrchiston by Lizars .... 



XXXII. Napier's Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (1614) : woodcut title 



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