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568 BRANNT (William J.) Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils, 

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569 BRAUNGART (Richard) Der Hopfen aller hopfenbauenden Lander der Erde als Brauma- 

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The most important and extensive work on the hop in any language, especially as used in brewing, 



570 BRAVAIS (Augiiste) Memoire sur les Halos, et les Phenomenes optiques qui les accompag- 

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Containing the author's important investigations on the aurora borealis. 



571 BREES (S. C, c.e.) Railway Practice: Working Plans and Practical Details of Construction 

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572 BRENNECKE (— ) Memoire relatif a la Theorie des Nombres. Loi Reciproque. 4to. 

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573 BRESSON (C.) Traite Elementaire de Mecanique appliquee aux Sciences physiques et aux 

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574 BREWSTER (Sir David, f.r.s.) Treatise on the Kaleidoscope, ivith 1 plates, post 8vo. old 

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The first printed account of the kaleidoscope, the author's own invention. It was duly patented by him, but owing to 

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575 Treatise on New Philosophical Instruments for various purposes in the Arts and 



Sciences, with Experiments on Light and Colours, 12plates, 8vo. hf. calf (1 p. mended), 5s ib., 1813 



576 Treatise on Optics, first edition, with vignette by Finden, and 176 woodcuts, fcap. 8vo. 



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577 New Edition, with vignette and 176 woodcuts, fcap. 8vo. hj. calf neat ; or, cl., Hs 6d 1835 



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578 Memoirs on Optical Subjects, contributed to various Learned Societies, with plates 



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Contents :— On tlie Distribution of Colouiing Matter, '22 : Thermometrical Ob.servat.ions at Leith Fort, 1824-5, '26 : On 

 a Remarkable Property of the Diamond, '41 : On the Phenomena of Thin Plates of Solid and Fluid Substances exposed to 

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 of Crystals with diflerent Primitive Forms and Physical Properties in the Cavities of Minerals, '45. 



'The most lasting monument to his fame will certainly be his beautitul investigations into the jjhenomena of 

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579 [ ] The Diamond : its History, Properties, and Origin (from Etlin. Journal of Science), 8vo. 



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580 BRIDGE (Bewick, b.d., f.r.s.) Compendious Treatise on the Elements of Plane Trigono- 

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581 Six Lectures on the Elements of Plane Trigonometry, diagrams, 8vo. boards, 2s Gd 



Broxbourn, 1810 



582 Treatise on the Elements of Algebra, 9th Ed., 8vo. boards, 2s 1838 



583 BRIDGES (William, Schoolmaster in Botterdam) E.ssAY to facilitate Vulgar Fractions ; 

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Unknown to Lowndes and Allibone. 



584 BRIDGEWATER TREATISES, on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as Mani- 

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 £1. \s Pickering, 1833-7 



Contents :— Chalmers on the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man, 2 v. : 

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 Buckland's Geology and Mineralogy, 2 v. : Kirbv's History, Habits and Instincts of Animals, 2 v. : Pboitts Chemistry, 

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 with reference to Natural Theology. 



585 BRIGGS (Henry, SavilianProf, Oxon.): Arithmetique Logaritmetique de tous les 

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 seconde compos^e jjar Adriaen Vlacq; with diagrams, folio, sotmd copy in old hf calf {rare), 

 £2.11s6d ' Goude,lQ28 



Containing the logarithms of 30,000 natural numbers to 14 places and the index. 



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 and other calculations was mainly the work of Briggs, who undertook the tedious work of calculating and preparing tables 

 of logarithms.'— IF. W. R. Ball. 



' It is plain that Briggs was the inventor of the present scale of logarithms, in which 1 is the logarithm of the ratio 

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