HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, and 37, PICCADILLY, W. 145 



2910 MAXJPERTTJIS (Pierre Louis Moreau de) La Figure de la Terrk, determinee par lea 

 Observations de MM. de Maupertuis, Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier, et de I'Abbd Outhier, 

 aecoinpagnes de M. Celsus, faites au Cercle Polaire, premiere edition, with 9 folding plates, 

 and fine map^ 8vo. nice copy in contemporary calf gilt (RARE), 15* Imprimeric lioyale, 1738 



2911 NouvELLE Edition, dans laqiielle on a mis les figures aux pages oii elles se rapportent ; 



with diagrams, and map, Svo. hf. bound {browned but sourid copy), 9s 1739 



2912 The Figure of the Earth, determined from Observations at the Polar Circle, trans., 



with 9 folding plates, and map, Svo. old calf, newly and neatly rebached (rare), 17* Qd 1738 



' Maupertuis adopted and explained Newton's propositions on attraction and on the fiRiiro uf the earth ; and he 

 conducted an expedition to Lapland, for the nieasureinent of an arc of tlie meridian, the result of which was fatal to the 

 Cassiiiian hypothesis.' — Frof. Tmlhunttr. 



8ee \o. 7!''.» ante. 



2913 MAURICE (Antoine) Theses Astronomico-PhysicvE de Actione Solis et LuN.f: in Aerem 

 et Ac^uas, 4to. (pp. 24), seivn, 2s Gd Geneva), J 732 



2914 MAimo (Marco, Theosebo, Fhonasco, e Philopanareto) Annotationi sovra la Lettione della 

 Speka de ISacro Bosco, dove si diehiarano tutti e principii Mathematici e Naturali, che in quella 

 si possan' desiderare ; con alcunc quistioni Notabili . . . erarisegreti . . . una NUOVA Tradut- 

 TIONE di detta Spera ; una Spera Theologica Divina, e Christiana ; una Spera Platonica, con 

 alcune eceitationi mathematiehe, ecc. ; una Nuova Inventione, et Astronomico Instrumento, 

 per SUBITAMENTE FADKICARE le dodici Case Celesti della Figura Astronomica, senza altri 

 Canoni, o Calculo; with numerous ivoodcuts and diagrams, Svo. sound and. clean copy in old 

 vellum (VERY RARE), £1. 10* [colophon:] Firenzc, 1550 



Unknown to I'oggendorfr. Tl»e above copy contains pp. 20l-l'.», which are often wanting. 



2915 MAUBOLTCUS (Franciscus, Abbas Messanensis) Opuscula Mathematica, nunc priminu 

 in Lucem edita, cum Rerum onmium notatu dignarum INDICE locupletissimo ; with numerous 

 diagrams, 2 vols. 4to. in 1, old hf. vellum {back slightly damaged), g. e. (RARE), £1. 10* Venetiis, 1575 



'ile is doubtless the greatest geometer of the XVI. century. From the notes of Pappus, he attempted to restore the 

 missing Hflh book of Apollonius on vuirima and mininui. His chief work is liis masterly and original treatment of the 

 conic sections, Mhercin he discusses tangents and asymptotes more fully than Apollonius had done, and applies tluiu to 

 various physical ami astrouuinical problems.' — I'l-of. Cajoii. 



2916 MATJBY (Matthew Fontaine, U.S.N. , National Observatory, Washington) Investigations of 

 the Winds and Currents of the Sea : On the Probable Relation between Magnetism and 

 the Circulation of the Atmosphere— 2 tracts in 1 vol. 4to. hf. calf, 6s 6d Washington, 1851 



2917 The Physical Geography of the Sea, first edition, with 3 woodcuts, and 10 maps and 



charts, roy. Svo. cL, 7s 6rf 1856 



The author's most important work, which laid the foundation of oceanography. It also contains his invaluable wind 

 and current charts, the tirst of their kind, which rendered such conspicuous service to navigation and meteorology. 



291S Second Edition [much enlarged], with numerous folding charts and diagrams, Svo. cl., 



45 6rf 18G1 



2919 New Edition, with 13 charts and diagrams, Svo. cl., Zs 1881 



2920 MAUVILLON (Jakob) EssAi sur I'Influence de la Poudre a Canon dans I'Art de la 

 Guerre Moderne ; with 7 plates, Svo. (pp. 518), old calf, 5s Leipsic, 1788 



2921 MAW (William Henry ; p.r. as.), and James DREDGE; editorsof Engineering': Modern 

 Examples of Road and Railway Bridges ; illustrating the most recent Practice of leading 

 Engineers in EUROPE and AMERICA, with 94 large plates, and numerous woodcuts, folio, hf. 

 morocco, \0s (p. £2.) 1872 



2922 MAXWELL (James Clerk, f.r.s.) Elementary Treatise on Electricity, edited by 

 William Garnett, with 6 plates and 53 woodcuts, Svo. cl., 4* (p. 7s 6d) 



Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1881 

 2923 On a Method of making a Direct Comparison of Electrostatic with Electro- 

 magnetic Force ; with Note on the ELECTROMAGNETIC Theory of Light, woodcut, roy. 4to. 

 (pj). 15), sewn, with author's inscr., 46* 1868 



' Describing another important series of experiments, those on the velocity of propagation of electro-magnetic waves ', 

 —li. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S. 



2924 Theory of Heat, with diagrams, 12mo. cl, \s 6d 1871 or 1872 



2925 Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, first edition, with 20 plates and 105 dia- 

 grams, 2 vols. Svo. cl.. Is 6d (p. £1. Us 6d) Clarendon Press, Oxfoi'd, 1873 



2926 Second Edition [partly rewritten by the Author ; edited, with Additions, by Sir W. D. 



Niven, f.r.s.], with 20 plates and 105 diagrams, 2 vols. Svo. c/., 12* 6rf (p. £1. Us 6d) 



a. e., ibidem, 1881 

 The last edition revised by the Author. 'The first 9 chapters were in some cases wholly rewritten, much new matter 

 being added, and the former cmtents rearranged and simplified.'— fre/uce. 



2927 Third [last] Edition [revised and enlarged by J. J. Thomson, f.r.s.], with 20 plates 



and 107 diagrams, 2 vols. Svo. cL, £1. Is (p. £1. 12^) «• e., ib., 1892 



' The great modern classic on the subject '.—Pruf. Knott. This edition contains Maxwell's metlio<l of determining the 

 self-induction of a coil, reprinted from his paper on the ' Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field.' 



2928 , Life of, with select Correspondence and Occasional Writings, and his Contribu- 

 tions to science, by Lewis Campbell, pr., and William Garnett, Library Edition, with 

 3 fine steel portraits by Stodart, 5 coloured plates, 1 fs. pp.^ and numerous woodcuts, thick 8vo. 

 cl., uncut, 10s ' 1882 



An adequate record of a great scientist and very memorable man. 



2929 : Glazebrook (Richard Tetley, f.r.s.) James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics, 



with portrait, cr. Svo. cl.. Is 6d ^^'- 

 V. Jenkin (H. C. Fleeming), ante. 



