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1388« RAMUS (Petrus, Gallicc Pierre de la Ramee) Arithmetic.*: Libri II : Geometri.e 



XXVII, a Lazaro Schonero reco<,'niti et ancti; with numerous voodcuts and diagrams, and 



printer's device on title and blank I. at end, 4to. seirn (a fee II. slightly water-stained, otherwise a 



VERY SOUND AND TALL COPY) ; RARE, £1.1* Francofurtt, apu'd Andrew Wecheli heredes, 1599 



This edition also inckides the authors Algebras Libri II, and 2 treatises by the editor : 'De Niinioris Figuratis ', and 

 ' De Logistica Sexagenaria'. 



In the same way as Ramus first demolished the belief in Aristotelian infallibility (for which lie was expelled from the 

 University of Paris and banished from Francf), so he first showed in his Giomdrla the shortcomings of the Euclidean 

 geometry. He was one of the victims of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. 



The above edition was unknown to Prof, de Morgan, who only mentions that of 15'.>_'. 



13887 Via Regia ad Geometriam. The Way to Geometry, being necessary and usefull, 



for Astronomers, Geographers, Land-nieaters, Sea-men, Engineres. Architecks, Carpenters, 

 Paynters, Carvers, etc., now translated and enlarged by William Bedwell, with numerous 

 woodcuts and diagrams, sm. 4to. old sheep {back damaqed; also a few II. missing at end atid iwo other 

 defective, otherwise a sound copy) ; VERY RARE, £1. 1* Printed by Thomas Cotes, 1636 



Tlie translator was rector of St. Ethelburga'H, Bishoi)sgate Street (which seems to have had some remarkable incumbents 

 since the Reformation), one of the translators of the Authorised Version, and ' the father of Arabic studies in England.' 



' His enlarged version of Ramus's ' Way to Geometry ' was posthumously published in IrtStJ. From this book it 

 appears that he was a personal friend of John Greaves and Henry Briggs.' — /). N. li. 



i:W88 RANKIN (DanielJ.) Prospecting for Gold: a Handbook of Practical Information, and 

 Hints for l*rospectors, base<l on Personal Experience, with front., 32 woodcuts, and linen-mounted 

 table, ISmo. roan, g. c, 4* (p. 7* 6f/ nett) 1901 



13889 BANKINE (David) Popular Exposition of the Effect of Forces applied to Draught, 

 with Illustrations of the Principles of Action, and Tables for the Performance of Horses and of 

 Locomotive Engrines on Railways, and Appendix of Results of some Experiments on Friction, 

 with plate, 8vo. (pp. 70), sewn (SCARCE), \0s 6rf Glasgow, 1828 



The author was the father of Prof. W. J. Macquorn Rankine, k.r s., who helped him when superintendent of the 

 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway. The work contains the following chapters (pp. 18-o:.) on Railways: Of the 

 Mechanical Advantage of a Railway ; Operation of Horses on Railways (with Tables) ; Of Locomotive Engines ; Table 

 of Performance of Locomotive Engines ; and Speed of Locomotive Engines. 



' We hear that experiments are being made relative to the emjjloyment of steam carriages on common roads. If thefs 

 should prove successful, as I have no <loubt they will, we shall tind animal give place to Rteam power even on common 

 roads '.— y. tiS. But the ordinary roadbed of the ])eriod shook the pioneer highway locomotive all to bits, and the roads 

 remained safe and pleasant to walk on for nearly eighty years. 



13890 BANKINE (William John Macquorn, f.r.s.) Miscellaneous Scientific Papers, from 

 the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal and other Scientific or Philosophical Societies, and 

 the Scientific Journals, with Memoir by Peter Guthrie Tait, edited by W. J. Millar, with 

 fine Napieresque portrait on steel by Adlard, 4 plates, and numerous diagrams, thick roy. 8vo. cl., 

 ■l6«6t/(p. £1. ll«6rf) 1881 



The work is divided into 3 parts: Temperature, Elasticity, and Expansion of Vapours, Liquids, and Solids; Energy 

 and its Transformations, Thermodynamics, Mechanical Action of Heat in the Steam Engine, etc. ; Wave Fornis, Propul- 

 sion of Vessels, Stability of Structures, etc. ; and contains his application (simultaneously with Lord Kelvin and 

 Clausius) of the doctrine that heat and work are convertible, to the discovery of new relations among the properties of 

 bodies ; as well as all his important papers on molecular physics. 



13891 Abstract of a Paper on the Hypothesis of Molecular Vortices, and its Applica- 

 tion to the Mechanical Theory of Heat, 8vo. (pp. 14), unbound, with inscr. to Allen Thomson^ 

 F.B.S.,3s6d [1850] 



'Showing how the laws of the phenomena of elasticity and expansion, as connected with heat, may be reduced to 

 mechanical principles by the hypothesis of molecular vortices.'— P. 1. 



1389*2 On the DECOMPOSITION of FORCES externally applied to an Elastic Solid, -Ito. (pp. 13), 



sewn, 2s Edin., 1872 



13893 On the EXACT FORM of WAVES near the Surface of Deep Water, with 2 diagrams, 



4to. (pp. 12), stwn, 3* 6rf ( 18«3] 



18894 On the Expansive Energy of Heated Water, 8vo. (pp. 82), unbound, 2s 6d [1863] 



13895 Introductory Lecture on the Harmony of Theory and Practice in Mechanics, 



Svo. (pp. 22), unbound, with author's inscr., 2s 1856 



13896 Manual of Applied Mechanics, 7th Edition, thoroughly revised by Edward Fishek 



Hamber, with 265 illustrations, thicker. 8vo. cl., lis (p. \2s 6rf) 1873 



13897 Thirteenth Edition, thoroughly revised by W. J. Millar, unth numerous diagrams, 



thick large cr. 8vo. cl., 6s (p. 12* Hd) 1891 



1381*8 Manual of Civil Engineering, 9th Edition, thoroughly revised by E. F. Bamber. 



C.E., with 299 diagrams, thick cr. Svo. cL, 3* Qd (p. 16*) 1873 



13899 Manual of Machinery and Millwork, 2nd Edition, thoroughly revised by E. F. 



IJ amber, C.E., with 287 diagrams, thick cr. 8vo. cl., Ss (p. 12* 6d) 1873 



I31X*0 Manual of the Steam Engine, and other Prime Movers, 7th Edition, revised by 



E. F. Bamber, c.e., with folding chart, and 184 woodcuts and diagrams, thick cr. 8vo. cl., is 

 (p. 125 6d) 1874 



The first treatise on the steam-engine which was based on the mechanical theory of heat, and still one of the best text- 

 books on the subject. 



13901 On Plane Water-Lines in Two Dimensions, with 2 plates, 4to. (pp. 23), sewn, 



:is6d [1864] 



13902 On the Reconcentration of the Mechanical Energy of the Universe, 8vo. (pp. 3), 



sewn, with inscr. to Allen Thomson, F.B.S., 2s 1852 



Containing suggestions in connexion with Lord Kelvin's theory of the Dissipation of Energy. 



^8903 On the Thermodynamic Theory of Waves of Finite Longitudinal Disturbance, 



4to. (pp. 12), sewn, Zs [1870] 



'Determining the relations which must exist between the laws of the elasticity of any substance, whether gaseous, 

 liquid, or solid, and those of the wave-like propagatio-a of a finite longitudinal disturbance in that substance. —P. 1. 



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