HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., and 43, PICCADILLY, W. 415 



8157 FRESNEL (Augustin Jean; f.r.s.) (Euvres Completes, publiees, par les Soins du Ministre 

 de rinstruction puUique, par Henri de Senarmont, Emile Verdet, et Leonor FRESXEL[avec 

 Introductions par E. \ erdet (pp. 90), et L. Fresnel (pp. 75)] ; with mrtrait on India paper, 18 

 plates {some folding or coloured), woodcut^, and folding map, 3 thick vols. 4to. hf. calf gilt, cl. 

 sides {nice copy) ; SCARCE, £4. is Imprimerie Imp^riale, 1866-70 



Following in the steps of Thomas Young (Nos. 5570-77 ante), Fresnel for the first time established the undulatory 

 theory of light on a ttnn basis, and his investigations in this connexion on the interference, polarisation, diffraction 

 aberration, and double refraction of light are of the first importance. He also invented the compound lighthouse lenses 

 known by his name. 



' His transcendent mathematical abilities enabled him to give the [undulatory] theory a generality unattained by 

 Young. He grasped the theory in its entirety ; followed the ether into the hearts of crystals of the most complicated 

 structure, and into bodies subjected to strain and pressure. He showed that the facts discovered by Malus, Arago, 

 Brewster, and Biot were so many ganglia, so to speak, of its theoretic organism, deriving from it sustenance and explana- 

 tion . . . Fresnel died, leaving behind him a name immortal in the annals of science.' — Prof. Tymlall. 



8158 FBEXJND (Ida, Newnham Coll., Cantab.) The Study of Chemical Composition : an 

 Account of its Method and Historical Development, with illustrative Quotations, 100 diagrams, 

 8vo. cl., 125 (p. 18* nett) Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1904 



8159 FBICK (Joseph) Physical Technics ; or Practical Instructions for making Experiments in 

 Physics, and the Construction of Physical Apparatus with the most limited Means, translated by 

 John D. Easter, vnth 797 woodcuts, 8vo. d. {o. p.), Is 6d (p. 15*) Philadelphia, 1878 



8160 FMSI (Paolo ; Barnabita, F.R.S.) INSTITUZIONI di Meccanica, d'iDROSTATICA, d'iDROMETRIA, 

 de deir Architettura Statica, ed Idraulica ; vnth 7 folding plates, 4to. contemporary calf 

 gilt, 5s Milano, 1777 



' Bella edizione '.—Ricxardi. 



8161 FRITZSOHE (Carl Julius) Ueber Verbindunoen von Kohlenwasserstoffen mit 

 Pikrinsaure; with diagram, 8vo. (pp. 11), sewn, 3s 6rf [St. Petersburg], 1857 



An important memoir on the combinations of picric acid. 



8162 Ueber die Produkte der EiNWiRKUNG der Saltpetersaure auf die Phensaure ; with 



tvoodcut,8vo. (pp. 12), sewn, 2s 6d [ibidem], 1857 



8163 tJber ein Doppelsalz aus kohlensaurem Kalk und Chlorcalcium, 8vo. (pp. 12), sewn, 



with inscr. to Sir E. Frankland, F.R.S. , 2s [ib.], 1860 



8164 UberdasRETEN,8vo, {\i^. '^\), sewn, with inscr. to Sir E. Frankland, F.R.S., 2s Qd [t6.],1860 



8165 FROME (Lt.-Gen. Edward, R.E., f.r.a.s.) Outline of the Method of Conducting a 

 Trigonometrical Survey, with Problems in Geodesy and Practical Astronomy, and Chapter 

 on Colonial Surveying, 2nd Edition, with 9 plates and 113 woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 3s Qd 1850 



8166 Third Edition, much improved, with 9 plates and 113 woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 4s 6c? 1862 



8167 FROST (Andrew Hollingworth., pr.-, c.M.s.) The Mathematical Questions of the 

 Senate-House Examination Papers, 1838-49, arranged according to Subjects, with diagrams, 

 8vo. boards, 4s Cambridge, 1849 



8168 FKOST (Percival, pr. ; f.r.s.) Elementary Treatise on Curve Tracing, with \1 folding 

 plates, 8vo. cl., 6s (p. 12s) 1872 



8169 , and Joseph WOLSTENHOLME, pr.: Treatise on Solid Geometry, with numerous 



diagrams, 8vo. cl., 4s 6rf (p. 18s) 1863 



8170 : Solid Geometry: a revised and enlarged Edition of the Treatise by Frost and 



Wolstenholme, Vol. I (all pub.), with numerous diagrams, 8vo. cl., 6s (p. 16s) 1875 



8171 Third [latest] Edition [enlarged], with Solutions, numerous diagrams, 2 vols. 8vo. 



c/., 13s(p. £1. 4s6rf) 1886-7 



8172 FROTJDE (William, f.r.s.) On a New Dynamometer for measuring the Power delivered to 

 the Screws of Large Ships, with 5 plates, 8vo. (pp. 39), sewn, with inscr., 2s 1877 



William Froude was the brother of Richard Hurrell and James Anthony, and studied at Oriel College under the 

 former. His experimental work, which actually had the support of the Admiralty, was of original and extensive 

 import ance. 



8173 [FRYER (Michael)] Introduction to the Geometrical Analysis of the Ancients; con- 

 taining a Dissertation on it, its Application, etc. etc., with brief Account of the Lost Analytical 

 Works of the Ancient Geometers, and the several Attempts of the Moderns to restore them, 3 

 plates, 8vo. (pp. 68), sewn, 7s 6c? 1811 



8174 FRYER Jr. (William J.) Architectural Iron Work; showing the Organization and 

 Mechanical and Financial Management of a Foundry and Shops for tne Manufacture of Iron 

 Work for Building, with Specifications, Tables, etc., woodcuts, roy. 8vo. cl. {o. p.) 5s (p. 18s) 



New York, 1876 



8175 FUCHS (Georg Friedrich Christian) Geschichte des Braunsteins, seine Verhiiltnisse 

 gegen andere Kiirper und Anwendung in Kiinsten, post 8vo. sewn, 3s 6d Jena, 1791 



8176 FUCHS (Johann Nepoxnuk v.) La St^r^ochromie : Peinture Monumentale, traduite, avec 

 Notes sur la Silieatisation appliquee a la Conservation des Monuments, par L60N Dalemagne ; 

 with portrait, 8vo. sewn {scarce). Is Qd 1861 



An account of the invention of soluble or water-glass, and its application to the surface of fresco-painting for fixing 

 the colours, which was tried by William Dvce in .several of the large wall-paintings at the Houses of Parliament, and ia 

 the great storiwl altarpiece of All Saints', Margaret Street, now covered over with a facsimile on panel. 



8177 FULHAME (Mrs.) Essay on Combustion, with a View to a New Art of Dying Isic] and 

 Painting, wherein the Phlogistic and Antiphlogistic Hypotheses are proved Erroneous, 8vo. 

 boards (RARE), 12s 1794 



8178 Another Copy, boards, uncut, with inscr. ^ For Dr. Watson Lord Bishoji of Llandaff' 



[absentee ; F.R.S. ; sometime professor of chemistry, Cantab.], and his Calgarth Park booklabel, 15s 



The authoress claims to have invented ' making cloths of gold, silver, and other metals, by chymical processes '. Her 

 theory of combustion is based on the assumption that 'water is the only source of the oxygen, which oxygenates 

 combustible bodies.' 



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