HENRY SOTHEllAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 143 



2871 MASCART (i:ieuthere ; dc Vlnstitiit)^ et J. JOXJBERT: Lecons sur I'Electricite et le 



Magnetisme ; with 264 ilhtstrattons, 2 thick vols. 8vo. sewn, Is 6d (p. F. 48.) 1882-6 



2872 Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, trans, by Edmund Atkinson, icith 



264 illustrations, 2 vols. 8vo. cL, \2s Qd (p. £2. 2*) 1883-8 



2873 MASCHERONI (Lorenzo) Geometrie du Compas, traduit par Antoine Michel Carette ; 



ivith \^ fold 'mg plates, 8vo. sewn, Qs 1798 



This curious work attempts to work problems for which Euclid, as is v.-ell known, presupposes the use of a ruler and 



a pair of con. passes, by the latter instrument only. 'A curious tour-de-force.' — W, W. R. Ikdl. 



2S74 MA SERES (Francia, f.r.s., Ctirsitnr- Baron of the Exchequer) Dissertation on the Use o! 

 the Negative Sign in Algebra : containing a Demonstration of the Rnles usually <^iveii 

 concernin<^ it ; and shewing how Quadratic and Cubic Eijuations may be explained, without the 

 Consideration of Negative Roots ; with Mr. Machin's Quadrature of the Circle, diagrams, 

 4to. hf. bound (rare), £1. 10* printed for Samuel Richardson, 1758 



The author's first published work, and especially interesting as having been printed by Samuel Richardson, the 

 novelist. 



' He rejected negative quantities and made war of extermination on all that distinguishes algebra from arithmetic '. 



2875 The Doctrine of Permutations and Combinations, as delivered bv James Bernoulli, 



in his *Ars Conjectandi ', and John Wallis, in his Treatise on Algebra, the former containing 

 Sir Isaac Newton's Binomial Theorem ; with other useful Mathematical Tracts, roy. 8vo. 

 fine coptj in old calf gilt, newly rebacked, £1. Is 1795 



Containing a translation of the 3 first Chapters of Book II of JeAn Bernoulli's ' Ars Conjectandi'; Thomas Simpson'h 

 ' New and General Method of iinding the Sum of any Series of Powers ' (1740) ; John Wallis'* * Discourse of Combinations, 

 Alternations, and Aliquot Parts ' (U;S5) ; Thomas Brancker's 'Table of Odd Numbers ' (1608) ; dk Laonev's 'Method of 

 Approximation,' translateil ; Raphson's 3tethod of resolving Equations by Approximation ; Cbarlei Hutton's ' Table of 

 Square Roots, etc., from 1-1000', etc. etc. 



2876 The Principles of the Doctrine of Life- Annuities; explained in a Familiar Manner, 



so as to be intelligible to Persons not acquainted with the Doctrine of Chances ; with a Variety of 

 Tables at different Rates of Interest, both for Single and Joint Lives, accurately computed from 

 Observations, thick 4to. boards, uncut, \Qs Qd 1783 



* A voluminous work, useful at the epoch of its publication. The author gives a good deal of information respecting 

 the efforts that had been made to provide annuities for the poor.'— AfcCwZioc/i, It is now rare, a number of copies having 

 been destroyed (see Prof, de Morgan's ' Budget of Paradoxes '). 



2877 [ ] ScRiPTORES LoGARiTHMici ; or Collection of several Curious Tracts on the Nature 



and Construction of Logarithms, with some Tracts on the Binomial Theorem and other 

 Subjects connected with the Doctrine of Logarithms, with portrait of John Ward, F.R.S. , plate, 

 and diagrams, 6 thick vols. 4to. new hf. buckram (very scarce), £6. 15* 1791-1807 



a reprint of rare publications on the subject, with copious introductions by the rtlit-or. ' A set of valuable reprints.' — 

 Vrof. de Morgan. 



2878 Tracts on the Resolution of Affected Algebraick Equations by Dr. Halley's, 



Mr. Raphson's, and Sir Isaac Newton's Methods of Approximation, 8vo. old calf, Is Qd 1800 



2879 Tracts on the Resolution of Cubick and Biquadratick Equations, thick 8vo. calf, 



or, c/., 6s [1S03] 

 ' The works of Maseres in mathematics are original and excellent.'— Dr. I'imthy, 

 V. Frend, ante. 



2880 MASKELYNE (Nevil; »r., f.r.s., Astronomer-Royal) Account of Observations made on the 

 Mountain Schehallien for finding its Attraction : Proposal for Measuring the Attract* 

 ion of some Hill in the Kingdom by Astronomical Observations— 2 vols. 4to. in 1 (pp. 45 and 

 7), sewn, with author's inscr. {see below) ; rare, 15* 1776 



As a result of his observations for determining the attraction of mountains by deviations of the plumb-line, the author 

 found 11".6 as the sum of contrary deflexions east and west of the hill. From this James Hutton (7. v. ante) deduced the 

 mean density of the earth as 4.5 (but actually, according to the latest researches, 5.53). For these investigations Maskelyno 

 was awarded the Copley medal. He also was the inventor of the prismatic micrometer. 



' A M. Jeurat de I'Academie Royale des Sciences a I'Observatoire Royal a Paris du incl imrt de son tres humble Sorvitcur 

 L'Auteur.' — Inscr. on cover. 



2881 Proposal for Measuring the Attraction of some Hill in this Kingdom by Astro- 

 nomical Observation, 4to. (pp. 7), sewn, %s 1776 



The proposal which resulted in the measurement for its attraction of Schiehallion in Perthshire. 



2882 Astronomical Observations made at Barbados; at Willoughby Fort; and at tho 



Observatory on Constitution Hill : made at St. Helena, plate— 2 parts 4J:o. 



(pp. 6 and 42), sewn, 4s 1765 



2883 Concise Rules for Computing the Effects of Refraction and Parallax in Varying 



the Apparent Distance of the Moon from the Sun or a Star, also an easy Rule of Approximation 

 for computing the Distance of the Moon from a Star, etc. etc., plate, 4to. (pp. 16), sewn, Zs 1765 



2884 Tables for Computing the Apparent Places of the Fixt Stars, and reducing Observ- 

 ations of the Planets, folio, old hf. calf. Is %d 1774 



2885 MASON (Monck) Aeronautica; or Sketches illustrative of the Theory and Practice of 

 Aerostation : comprising an Enlarged Account of the late Aerial Expedition to Germany 

 [with Charles Green and Robert Holland, m.p.], with 5 striking plates on stone, 8vo. hf. red 

 calf gilt {front, wanting) ; VERY SCARCE, £1. 1* 1838 



' The introduction of coal-gas, instead of hydrogen, by Mr. Green, is the most important advance in aerostation since the 

 earliest days of the art. His largo coal-gas Italloon, in 1836, bore Messrs. Green, Holland, and Mason from London to 

 Weilbur<r in Nassau, distant 500 miles, in is hours '. 



2886 MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS and EXAMPLES, arranged according to Subjects, from 

 the [Cambhidgk] Senate-Hou.se Examination Papers, 1821-36, with Appendix of S.-H. Ques- 

 tions for 1S37, 8vo. hoards, As Cambridge, 1837 



2887 dUESTIONS and SOLUTIONS, from the ♦ Educational Times ', with many Addi- 

 tional Papers and Solutions, ed. by W. J. C. Miller, diagrams, Vol. XLIX, 8vo. boards, 3* 

 (p. %s Qd nett) 1888 



