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13375 PITOT (Henri; de V Academic des Sciences, F.R.s.) The Theory of the Working of Ships, 

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13376 [PLACE (Le Captaine de)] L'Artillerie Actuelle en France et ii I'Etr anger : Canons, 

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13377 PLANA (Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Barone; Univ. Turin: f.r.s.) Equation de la 

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The author's first publication. 



13378 Memoire sur I'ExpRESSiON Analytique de la Surface Totale de I'Ellipsoide dont 



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13379 Memoire sur lea Formules propres a determiner la Parallaxe Annuelle des Etoiles 



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13380 Memoire sur les Integrales Definies, 4to. (pp. 48), sewn, 2s 6rf [1818] 



1.3381 Memoire sur le Mouvement Conique, h. Double Courbure, d'un Pendule Simple, dans 



le Vide, Abstraction faite de la Rotation Diurne de la Terre, roy. 4to. (pp. 36), sewn, 2s [1859] 



13382 Memoire sur dill'erens Procedes d'iNTEGRATiON, par lesquels on obtient I'Attraction 



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13383 Memoire sur Trois Integrales Definies, 4to. (pp. 23), sewn, 2s 6d [Brvxelles, s.d.) 



13384 Note oii Ton explique une Remarquable Objection faite par Euler en 1751, centre 



une Regle donnee par Newton, dans son Arithmetique Universelle, pour extraire la Racine d'un 

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13385 Note sur le Proces de Galilee, 4to. (pp. 12), sewn, with author's inscr. as below, 4s 



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13386 Observations Astronomiques faites en 1822-5 a I'Observatoire Royal de Turin, 



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13387 Theorie du Mouvement de la Lune, 3 thick vols. ; avec le Supplement— together 



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13388 PLANTb (Gaston, de VInstitut) Recherches sur I'Electricite, avec Tome II, Fascicule 

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13389 Reimpression, avec la VI^ Partie (Analogies entre les Phenomcnes Electriques et les 



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13390 Another Copy, cl., 6s 6c? 



A collection of the results of the author's important researches on electricity made between 1S59 and 1870, and 

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13391 FLARB (Gustave) On the Establishment of the Elementary Principles of Quaternions 

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13392 PLAT (Sir Hugh,, of Lincoln's Inn) The Jewel House of Art and Nature : containinj^ 

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Containins important recipes and notes on manures, brewing, mnemonics, moulding and casting of metals, distilling 

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13394 PLATT (Franklin) The Causes, Kinds and Amount of Waste in Mining Anthracite : 

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13395 PLENCK (Joseph Jacob v., Pro/. Chemistry, Vienna) Elementa Chymiae, Editio altera, 

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13396 The Hygrolooy, or Chemico-Physiological Doctrine of the FLUIDS of the Human 



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