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6138 BERGMAN (Torbern Olof, Upsala ; F.R.s.) Essay on the Usefulness of Chemistry, and its 



Application to the various Occasions of Life, trans, from the Original, 8vo. (pp. 168), sewn {rare), 



\2s Qd 1783 



6139 Outlines of Mineralogy, translated by William Withering, m.d., f.r.s., 8vo. sewn 



{rare), \2.s Birmingham, 1783 



6140 Physical and Chemical Essays, trans, from the Latin, with Notes and Illustrations, by 



Edmund Cullen, m.d., Dublin, with ^ folding plates on copper, 3 vols. 8vo. contemporary mottled 

 calf extra, green edges {v. Ill not quite uniform, but A VERY FINE COPY) ; very rare ; sold 



\1M—Edin., 1791 



Excessively rare if containing the third volume, which is almost unprocurable. The above choice copy belonged to 



RtCHARD Watson, absentee Bp. of LlandafT, k.k s., 1737-1816 («). note to No. 5245), and bears his Calgarth Park booklabel. 



•Bergman's chief services to chemistry were in the domain of analysis, which he treated systematically and enricheil 



by valuable methods. He knew well how to make his chemical experiences useful for the detinition and classittcation of 



minerals, and thereby laid the foundation of mineralogical chemistry and chemical geology.'— Prof. E. v. Meyer. 



6141 : Allgemeinnutzlicheschemisch-physikallschesMancherlei; with a plates, 2 voU. 



post 8vo. sewn {rare), I2s 6d Berlin, 1781-2 



Containing .'> contributions by Bkroman, and others by C. W. Scheklr, W. H. 8. Bucholz, C. G. Hagen, C. F, Wenqkl, 



.1. C. WiK'iLm, and others. 



6142 BEKGSMA (Cornelis Adriaan) Responsio ad Quaestionem e Chemia Applicata ab Ordine 

 Disciplinarum Mathematicarum et Physicarum proposita.m ; 4to. (pp. 52), sewn, 2s6d Groningae, 1821 



6143 BEBINGEB (Cornelius and John Jacob, f.i.c.) Text-Book of Assaying, for those con- 

 nected with Mines ; revised by J. J. Beringer, 5th Ed., with 82 diagrams, or. 8vo. cl., 4s 6d 

 (p. 10.S 6d) 1898 



6144 [BEBKELET (George, Bp. of Cloyne)] The Analyst ; or a Discourse addressed to an 

 Infidel Mathematician, wherein it is examined whether the Object, Principles, and Inferences 

 of the modern Analysis are more distinctly conceived, or more evidently deduced, than Keli«;ious 

 Mysteries and Points of Faith ; by the AUTHOR of the MiNUTE PHILOSOPHER, first edition, 

 with diagrams, 8vo. sewn (rare), 12s 6d 1734 



6145 [ ] Second Edition, with diagrams, 8vo. sevm, Is 1754 



'In the Auaiyst his theological philosophy was further unfolded, in an argument meant to show that the higher 

 mathematics involve assumptions which as truly exclude definite or exhaustive conceptions as do any of the mysteries of 

 religion." — Prof. Campbell Fraser. 



' Bp. Berkeley argued with great acuteness, contending, among other things, that the fundamental idea of supposing a 

 finite ratio to exist between terms absolutely evanescent was absurd and unintelligible. He was the first to point out wliat 

 was again shown later by Lazare Carnot, that correct answers were reached by a ' compensation of errors '. Berkeley's 

 attack was not devoid of goofl results, for it was the immediate cause of the work on fluxions by Maclaurin ' (r. Nos. 27CI-3, 

 ante). — Prof. Cajori. 



6146 SiRis : a Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries concerning the Virtues 



of Tar Water, and divers other Subjects connected together and arising one from another, 

 Second [best] Edition, improved and corrected, 8vo. sewn (rare), 12* 6d 1744 



' The most permanent result of his entluisiasm was the work published in 1744, ' Siris "... The title ' Siris ' was adde<l 

 in the 2nd edition ; this appeared in 1744, others in 174tJ and 1748 . . . The popularity wa.s doubtless due to the medical 

 rather than to the metaphysical theories which were strongly blended together ; at the time it was the most popular of 

 Berkeley's writings.'— Sir Leslie Stephen. 



6147 Two Letters, the one to Thomas Prior, concerning the Usefulness of Tar- Water in 



the Plague, wherein is considered, wliether Tar- Water, prepared with the distilled Acid of Tar, 

 should be preferred to that made in the common Way, by mixing Tar with Water, and stirring 

 them togethru- ; the other to the Rev. Dr. Hales, on the Benefit of Tar- WATER in Fevers, for 

 Cattle as well as the Human Species, 8vo. (pp. 36), sewn, 6s 6d 1747 



6148 BERNARD, Comte de Treves, Allemand: Traict6 de la Nature de I'Oeuf des Philo- 

 sophks, 12mo. boards (very rare), £2. 2* J. et C. Perier^ 1624 



' Les ouvrages de Bernard le Trevisan, ont etc pendant longtemps fort recherch^s par les alchimistes.'— TJfojyr. Gin. Tlie 

 above edition was quite unknown to Mr. A. E. Waite and to Poggendorff, who only mention that of Pari*, 1659. 



6149 BERNOULLI (Jacques) Ars Conjectandi, accedit Tractatus de Seriebus Infinitis, et 

 Epistola, Gallice scripta, de LuDO PIL.E Reticularis, editio princeps ; with plate, sm. 4to. 

 sound copy in boards {rare), 12s 6d Basilece, 1713 



6150 Another Copy, contemporary calf, newly rebacked, with auto, and numerous neat MS. 



notes bi/ C. F. Degen (1766-1825), 15*' 



' a development of the calculus of probabilities, and containing the investigation now called Bernoulli' sthtoremKiA the 

 so-called numbers of liernoulli, which are in fact (though not so considered by him) the coefflclenta ofiE^ in the expansion 

 of (Ct— 1)-> '.—Prof. Cajori. 



6151 BERNOULLI (Jean [I.] ; F.R.S.) Opera Omnia, tarn antea sparsini edita, quara hactenas 

 inedita; with numerous folding diagrams, 4 vols. 4to. original boards {wanting portraits), 16* 6d 



LausanncB, 1742 



6152 Another Copy, with beautiful portraits of the author and King Frederick III. of Prussia 



by G. F. Schmidt, 4 vols, hf calf, £1. 5s 



' His chief discoveries were the exponential calculus, the treatment of trigonometry as a branch of analysis, the con- 

 ditions for a geodesic, the determination of orthogonal trajectories, the solution of the brachistochrone, the statement that 

 a ray of light tmversed such a path that ifjuLi was a minimum, and the enunciation of the principle of virtual work. I 

 believe that he was the first to denote the accelerating effect of gravity by an algebraical sign g, and he thus arrived at the 

 formula v» = 2 gh'.— H'. IV. R. Boll. 



6153 E.ssAid'une Nouvelle Th^orie de la Manoeuvre des Vaisseaux; unth 4 plates, 4to. 



sewn, ZsQd ib., 1742 



6154 Sexcentenary Table, exhibiting, at Sight, the Result of any Proportion, where the 



Terms do not exceed 600 Seconds or 10 Minutes ; mth Precepts and Examples, roy. 4to./ne copy 



in cotitemporary hf vellum, uncut {rare), I5s 1779 



This table, whicn is not included in the above edition of the author's complete works, was published by order of the 



Commissioners of Longitude. See also No. 4770, ante, for Michael Taylor's Sexagesimal Table (1780). 



