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NEWTONIANA : 



3278 BALL (Walter William Rouse, Trin. Coll. Cantab.) Essay on Newton's 'Principia', 

 diafframs, post 8vo. cL, is (p. 6s nett) 1893 



3279 BREWSTER (Sir David, f.r.s.) Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir 

 Isaac Newton, with 2 steel portraits, and woodcuts, 2 vols, large 8vo. cl., uncut (scarce), 17;? 6d 



Edin., 1855 

 The chief aiithority on Newton's life. 



3280 CASTEL (Louis Bertrand, s. J. ; f.r.s.) Le Vrai Systeme de Physique G^nerale de M. 

 Isaac Newton, expose efc analyse en parallMe avec celui de Descartes ; with '^ folding plates, 

 4to. old calf {somewhat foxed), 5s 1743 



3281 CLARKE (John, Dean of Sarum) Demonstration of some of the Principal Sections of Sir 

 Isaac Newton's Principles of Natural Philosophy, with 11 plates, 8vo. old calf , with auto, 

 of Prof A. W. Williamson, F.R.S., Is Qd 1730 



' He was distinguished as a mathematician.' — D. N. B. 



3282 COMMERCIUM EPISTOLICUM D. Johannis Collins at alioruni de Analysi promota : 

 jusi?u Soeietatis Regiae in lucem editum [cura JOANNIS Keill, s.r.s.] ; editio princeps ; with 

 diagrams, 4to. sewn {library stamp on title, and some neat ink marks) ; very rare, £1. 15* 



Londini, 1712 



This is the celebrated report drawn up by order of the Royal Society, and consisting of a selection from the corre- 

 spondence of John Collins, f.r.s,, with some of the most celebrated mathematicians of the time, which substantiated 

 Keill's charge against Leibniz of having derived the fundamental ideas of his calculus from papers by Newton, said to have 

 been communicated to him through Collins and Oldenburg. 



Although greatly biassed in Newton's favour, the work is nevertheless a ' a repertory of the utmost value to the history 

 of science' {I). N. B.). and excessively rare. A second edition was published in 1725. 



3283 DOMCKIUS (Greorgius Petrus) Philosophia Mathematica Newtoniana Illustrata ; 

 with \Q plates, 8vo. old calf, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S., 5s 6d Londini, 1730 



The book was licensed by William Whiston, who characterizes the above commentary as ' satis et feliciter '. Nothing is 

 known of the author s life ; he figures in Allihone as ' Domekins '. 



3284 EDLESTON (J., Trinity Coll. Cantab.) CORRESPONDENCE of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor 

 [Roger] Cotes, including Letters of other eminent Men, now first published, with Appendix of 

 Unpublished Letters and Papers by Newton, with Notes ; Synoptical View of his Life, etc. 

 etc., with fine steel portrait, 8vo. cl. {scarce), 10s 6d 1850 



' By far the most valuable collection of facts relating to him is the Synoptical View of Newton's Lifp, edited by Edleston 

 in 1S50.' -/>. N. 11. Tlie preface contains an interesting historical account of tlie lirst two editions of the ' Principia '. 



EMERSON (William) Short Commentary on Sir I. Newtons Principia— v. No. 1171, ante. 



3285 GORDON (George) Remarks upon the Newtonian Philosophy, wherein the Fallacies of 

 the pretended Mathematical Demonstrations are clearly laid open, and the Philosophy 

 itself fully proved to be false and absurd, by Mathematical and Physical Demonstration, 

 diagratns, 12mo. old calf {joints cracked) ; rare, 5s 1719 



3286 — Second Edition, with Preface (pp. 51) shewing how a Set of Men, whose Characters 



and Interests depend upon the Reputation of that J^hilosophy, endeavour to support it in 

 the Eyes of the World against these Remarks, by indirect Management ; for Want of Reason 

 and Argument, diagrams, 12nio. old calf, lOs 6d n.d. 



Tliis curious paradox appears to have missed Prof, de Morgan's ken. The preface is of special interest. 



3287 [JORDAN (G. W.)] The Observations of Newton concerning the Inflections of Light, 

 with other Observations differing from his, and appearing to lead to a Change of his Theory of 

 Light and Colours, 'd plates, 8vo. boards, uncut (very scarce), £1. 5^ 1799 



Tliis work is unknown to bibliographers, nor can anything be traced concerning its author. Yet the work is of con- 

 siderable interest, and even importance, as it treats wholly on the interesting subject of Interference, and shows the 

 weakness of Newton's emission theory of light, and the objection to his ' easy tits of transmission and reflexion ' in con- 

 nexion with it. The author made many original experiments on the subject, which are all the more important as they were 

 made only 3 years l)eforo the discovery of the principle of interference by Thomas Younc. 



3288 MACLAURIN (Colin, f.r.s.) Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Dis- 

 coveries, published from the Author's MSS. [with Life (pp. 20)] by Patrick Murdoch, f.r.s., 

 tirst edition, with Q folding plates, 4to. hf black morocco gilt {slightly stained), \0s 6d 1748 



3289 Another Copy, old calf, 9* 



3290 A Large Paper Copy, on fine thick paper, large 4to. old hf. calf gilt {back slightly 



damaged), with bookplate of Viscount Porchester {3rd Earl of Carnarvon), V2s 6d 



The life prefixed is still the chief authority on Maclaurin. The work was i)ublished by subscription for the benefit of 

 the author's children, and contains a long list of subscribers. The last chapter treats ' Of tlie Supreme Author and 

 Governor of the Universe, the true and living God ', and ends with an argument in favour of a future life, dictated but a 

 few moments before his death. 



3291 Third Edition, 8vo. old hf binding, 5s 1775 



3292 Another Copy, old calf, 6* 6c? 



3293 MARTIN (Benjamin) Plain and Familiar Introduction to the Newtonian Philosophy, 



with 6 folding plates on copper, 8vo. nice copy in old calf gilt, 5s 1754 



3294 PARKES (W.) Newton Refuted : a Geographical, Nautical, Mechanical, and Mathematical 

 View of the Universe, plate, 8vo. (pp. 79), sewn, 4s Qd 1804 



An extraordinary exposition of ignorance, in wliich the author upholds the Ptolemaic system, and essays to prove ' on 

 mathematical, mechanical, geographical, and nautical principles the error of the Newtonian or Copernican system.' 



3295 [PEMBERTON (Henry, m.d., f.r.s.)] View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy, with fine 

 vignettes by J. Pine, and numerous folding plates, 4to. hf. black morocco gilt {some plates slightly 

 soiled), 95 1728 



3296 A Large Paper Copy, on fine thick paper, with brilliant impressions of the vignettes, roy. 



4to. old calf 12s Qd 



3297 Another Copy, newly and neatly rebacked, \5s 



' Interesting as being the account of a near friend.'— D. N. B. The preface contains the author's recollections of Newton. 

 There is also a Poem on Sir Isaac by R. Glovkr, and the celebrated ' Eloge ' by Fontknklle, with an English translation. 



