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HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 333 

 G186 BRIDGE (Bewick, d.d., f.r.s. ; Haileybury Coll.) Treatise on the Construction, Properties, 

 and Analogies of the Three Conic Sections, with numerous diagrams, 8vo. sewn, 2s 



Broxboum, 1811 



6487 Second Edition, with Alterations and Corrections, diagrams, 8vo. boards, 2s 6d 1817 



6488 Treatise on the Elements of Algebra, 7th or 8th Ed., 8vo. boards, 2s 1831 or '6 



6t89 [BRIDGES (Henry)] Succinct Description of that Elaborate Pile of Art called Micro- 

 cosm, with short Account of the Solar System, 3rd Ed., with Additions, 8vo. (pp. 32), sewn (title 

 soiled and blank top torn oj^), As Qd Coventry, 1763 



6490 [ ] Twelfth Edition, with Additions, and interspersed with Poetical Sentiments on 



the Planets, 12ino. (pp. 32), sewn, 4« 6rf 1773 



6491 BRIGGS (Henry, Savilian Prof., Oxon.) : Arithmetica Logarithmica, sive Logarith- 

 moruni Chiliades XXX, pro. Numeris Naturali Serie crescrentibus ab Unitate ad 20,000 : et a 



90.000 ad 100,000. Quorum ope multa perficiuntur Arithmetica Problemata et Geonietrica. 

 Ho8 primus invenit Johannes Neperus Baro Merchistonij : eos autem ex eiu.sdem Sententia 

 mutavit, eorumque Ortum et I'sum illustravit Henricus Briggius, editio princeps; with 

 numero2is diagrams, folio, hf. calf {pp. 41-8 of introduction xoanting, and title and one I. soiled 

 and mended) ; very rare, £1. 17* 6f/ Londini, Gulielmus Jones, 1624 



Of historical iinportunce a.s tlie first great logarithmic table published. It contains the logarithms of the natural 

 numl>er8 from 1 t(» -JO.OOO and lK),00<i to 100,000 calculated to 14 place.s, with an explanatory intnxluction. 



6492 Editio Secunda, aucta per Adrianum VlaC(/ Goudanum; Logarithmorum Chiliades C, 



una cum CANONETRiANUULORUM.seu Tabula Artificialium Sinuum, Tangentium et Secantium,ad 

 Radium 10,00000,00000, et ad singula Scrupula Prima Quadrantis ; with diagrams, thick folio, 

 hf white vellum {slightly foxed, otherwise a FINE AND LARGE copy) ; RARE, £3. 3s 



Goud(e, Petrus liammasenius, 1628 

 This, the linal edition, contains the numbers of tlie first edition, but reduced to 10 places, while the logarithms of 



20.001 to 80,999, calculated by Adriaan Vlauq, also to 10 numbers, are here first added, as well as a table of logarithms of 

 the trigonometric.ll functions. There were also French and Dutch translations of this edition. .See No. JS5, aiUe, for 

 the former. 



' The idea of tables of logarithms having 10 for their base, as well as the actual calculation of the first tables of thla 

 kind, is due t<j Briggs.' — D. N. B. 



' The almost immediate adoption throughout Eiirope of logarithms for astronomical and other calculations wa.s mainly 

 the work of Briggs, who undertook the tedious work of calculating and preparing tables of logarithms.'— ir. W. 11. liall. 



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

 10 to 1, and 2 that of IW) to 1 etc., and that the share which Napier had in them was only advising Briggs to begin at thfl 

 lowest number 1, and to make the logarithms to increase with the natural numbers, instead of lUcrettsing. —Hutton. 



6493 BRIGHT (Charles, f.r.s.e.) Submarine Telegraphs: their History, Construction, and 

 Working, with numerous plates {many folding), woodcuts, and maps, thick impl. 8vo. cl., £1. 5* 

 (p. £3. 3s nett) ' 1898 



' The Engli.sh classic on submarine telegraphy.'— .B«<7i?i««r. 



The author is the youngest son of Sir Charles Tilston Bright, who laid the first Atlantic cable in 18.VS at the age of 2\). 



6494 BRIGHT (Sir Charles Tilston, c.e., f.r.s.e,). The Life Story of, with the Story of tlie 

 Atlantic Cable, and the First Telegraph to India and the Colonies, by Charles JJkight ; 

 revised and abridged Ed., loith portrait and numerous ilhistrations, thick 8vo. cl., t. e.g., Is Qd 

 (p. 12.5 6d nett) 1908 



6495 BRIGHTMORE (Arthur William, m.lc.e.) Structural Engineering, with 145 diagrams, 

 8vo. cL, Is {]). 10s 6d nett) * 1908 



649G BEILLOiriN (Marcel) Memoires Origin aux sur la Circulation gen6ralk de TAt-MO- 

 sphere : Halley, Hadley, Maury, Ferrel, W. Siemens, Moller, Oberbeck, v. Helmoltz [sic], annotds 

 et commentcs; ivith 20 diagrams, 8vo. cl., 3s 6d (p. F. 6 nett) 1900 



A UNIQUE manuscript: 

 0497 BRINDLEY (James), The Original Diaries of, from Dec, 1759 to March, 1760, Sept., 1761 

 to Dec, 1762, and Oct., 1763 to Nov., 1763, the Origrinal Manuscript on about 100 pa^es, with 

 fs. letter, and 2-p. fs. from his Diary, and plan of the Bridgewater Canal : ix the 3 original 

 note- BOOKS, 18mo. boards, £8. Ss 1759-63 



a highly interesting relic of one of the earliest English engineers, containing memoranda in connexion witli his pioneer 

 work in navigable canals, and his invention of an improved Newconien engine. 



' The great reputation of Brindley was gaine<l in civil engineering. Having been called in by the Duke of Hridgewater in 

 1750toadvige ujton the project for forming a canal by which the pro<luce of the Wontley coal-mines could l*e cheaply 

 transported to Manchester, he produce<l a phin of striking originality, including the construction of an aqu»Mj»ict by which 

 tht; canal was to be carried over the river Irwell. This canal was the first of any importance in England, and formc<l the 

 commencement of the system «>f inlan«l navigation in this country. Brindley's next work was the Hridgewatei Canal con- 

 necting Manche.ster and Liverpool, and this was soon followetl by numerous others.' 



' He remained to th** last illiterate, hardly able to write and quite unable to spell. He did most of his work in his head, 

 without written calculations or drawings, and when he had a puzzling bit of work he would go to be«l and think 

 it out '.—/). .V. I'.. 



6i98 BRINKLEY (John, Bp. of Cloyne ; F.B.s.) Elements of Plane Astronomy, edited by 



Thomas I.unv, d.d., with 6 folding plates, 8vo. ///. calf gilt, 3s Qd Dublin, 1836 



6499 Sixth Edition, with 6 folding plates, 8vo. cl., Ss 6rf (p. 12*) ib., 1845 



6500 New Edition, partly re-written, with a<lditional Chapters, by John William Stubbs, 



d.d., and Francis Brunnow, with Examination Questions, 43 looodcuts, (cap. 8vo. cl., 2s ib., 1871 



6501 Second Revised [last] Edition, with 48 woodcuts, post 8vo. cl., 3s (p 6*) 1874 



(i502 BRINKMAN (C. H.) De Bepaling van den Druk met een (iESLOTEN Luchtmanometer, 



roy. 8vo. (pp. 8), sewn, Is 6d Amsterdam, 1904 



G503 Isothermbepalingen voor Menosels van Chloormethyl en Koolzuur ; illustrated, 



8vo. (pp. 77), seum, 2s 6d ibidem [1904] 



G.)04 BRIOSCHI (Francesco) Th^orie des Determinants ; leure principales Applications ; traduite 



par Edouari) Combescure, 8vo. hf. calf {out of print), 4* 1856 



The first scientific and complete exposition of the theory of determinants. 



