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18960 BEADE (Joseph, m.d.) Experimental Outlines for a New Theory of Colours, Light 

 and Vision : with Critical Remarks on Sir Isaac Newton's Opinions, and some New Experi- 

 ments on Radiant Caloric, ii-ith coloured prismatic front. , and diagrams, 8vo. c/., uncut (rare)^ 

 12s Qd 1818 



The author tries to prove that the analysis of light and heat by the glass prism is a delusion. The following are soma 

 of his axionvi : ' Blackness is compounded of blue, red and yellow rays, and there is as strong a reflection from black as 

 from any other coloured substance ' (p. 1): 'Atoms change colour with every change of condensation' (p. 1(>4) : 'The 

 colours in Newton's experiment were occasioned by the Mack light, reflected from the inner margin of the hole in the 

 (luire of paper ' (p. 258). There are nevertheless some sound remarks in this i)ainstaking paradox. 



13961 BECKEN (W. A.) Das Geheimniss, Gusseisen . . . zu verstahlen : Die Kunst, alle 

 Sorten Stahl . . . auf eine sehr schnelle und sichere ^Veise zu schneiden — 2 pamphlets, 12mo.. 

 unbotuid, 35 6rf Quedlinburg, 1839* 



13962 [BECOBDE (Bobert, m.d.) The Castle of Knowledge [on reverse of title:] containing the- 

 Explication of the Sphere, bothe celestiall and niateriall, and diners other Thinges incident therto.- 

 With sundry pleasaunt Proofes and certaine newe Demonstrations not written before in ajjy vulgare- 

 Woorkes], first edition, with numerous good woodcuts and diagrams, 4to. hf. bound {binding* 

 damaged, title, dedication to Q. Mary (1 I.), and I. of Errata icanting, also some II. stained) ; very* 

 rare, £3. 3* [colophon:] Eeginalde Wolfe, 155(> 



This book contains a dedication in English to Queen Mary, and another in Latin to Cardinal Pole. D. N. h. errone- 

 ously mentions i;)'>l as the date of the first edition, a statement palpably wrong, as Queen Mary's acces.sion did no takes 

 place until 1.553, and Cardinal Pole was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury (the work being dedicated to him as such) 

 only after Abp. Cranmer's execution in 155ti. 



• He was probably the firs'-, certainly one of the first, in England to adopt the Coperniran system, which was only pnt 

 forward as an hypothesis in 1543 ; though he seems to have thought the world not quite lipe for such a doctrine, and wa.s- 

 perhaps afraid to avow it very distinctly. He advises his reader not to rely too much on Ptolemy ; but it appears that he 

 had not quite abandoned asr.iology. . . . In his prefaces, introductions, and conclusions he frequently indulges in very 

 passable poetry (a beautiful and dignified hymn from The (Jostle ^f A'/f^wicf/gr'' is quoted in Collier's Bibliographical 

 Account).'—/). .V. B. 



13963 The Ground of Arts teaching the perfect Worke and Practise of Arithmeticke, botb 



in Whole Numbers and Fractions, after a more easie and exact Sort, than hitherto hath bene- 

 set forth. And now lately diligently corrected and beautified with sundry new Rules andt 

 necessarie Additions [by John Dee] : And further endowed with a third Part of Rules of Practise,, 

 abridged into a briefer Method than hitherto hath bene published : with diuerse such necessarie- 

 Rules as are incident to the trade of Merchandise. Whereunto are also added diuer.se Tables- 

 and Instructions that will bring great Proht and Delight vnto Marchants, etc. etc., by John 

 Mellis, btack (ctter, 12mo. old calf rebacked, £4. 10s John Harison, 1605 



This edition is not mentioned in a list of 27 different ones in D. X. B., nor is there a copy in tho British Museum. 



13964 New Edition, with a Compendium of Interest, and Table of Board and Timber 



Measure, calculated by R[obert] N[0RT0N] , and now diligently perused, corrected, illustrated 

 and inlarged ; with Appendix of P'igurate Numbers, and the Extraction of their Rootes, by 

 Robert Hartwell, Philomathematicus, pautly black If tter, thick 16mo. old vellum, £3. lOs 



printed by I. B.for Roger Jackson, 1618 

 The flrst edition with Robert Norton's additions. There is no copy in the' British Museum Catahmte of English 

 Bo'>ks in i(.;40. 



13965 New Edition, now the second Time diligently perused, corrected, illustrated, and 



inlarged ; with Appendix of Figurate Numbers, and the Extraction of their Rootes, according to 

 the Method of Christan [sic] Vrstitius ; by Robert Hartwell, and New Tables of 

 Interest vpon Interest, after 10£ for 100£ ; with the true Value of Annuities to be bought or 

 sold, present. Respited, or in Reversion: By R. C, partly black letter; 12mo. old calf gilt orna- 

 ments on sides (back rubbed and joints cracked, also stamp on title ; otherwise a large and SOUND 

 COPY), £2. 15s printed by John Bealefor Roger Jackson, 1623 



The first edition enlarged by 'R.C 



139(')6 New Edition, with new Tables of Interest upon Interest, after 10 and 8 per 100; with 



the true Value of Annuities to be bought or sold present. Respited, or in Reversion : the tirst 

 calculated by R. C. but corrected, and the latter diligently calculated by Robert Hartwell, 

 Philomathemat. , partly black letter; 12mo. contemporary sheep (4 II. in MS. and title slightly 

 mended), £1. 5* printed by Tho: Harper, for John Harison, 1632 



a rare edition, not mentioned in D. N. B., nor is there a copy in Brit. Mus. C. E. B. to 1640. 



13967 : Records Arithmetic: or the Ground of Arts: with New Tables of Interest after 



10. 8. and 6. per 100; with the True Value of Annuities, to be bought or sold present, Respited, 

 or in Reversion : the first calculated by R. C. but corrected, and the latter diligently calculated 

 by K. Hartwell, partly black letter ; thick 12mo. old calf (rebacked and joint cracked, otherwise 

 a very sound copy), with auto, of Prof . W. H. Lloyd 2'anner, F.R.S., £1. 12* 6c? 



printed by James Flesher, and are to be sold by Joseph Cr an ford, 1658 

 The first edition edited by Thomas Willsford, who added tables and an addre.ss ' To every young Arithmetician '. 



13968 Reprint, partly black letter ; thick 12mo. contemporary sheep (a very sound and clean 



copy), £1. 10* printed by James Flesher, and are to be sold by Robert Boulter, 1668 



13969 Another Copy, hf bound (title mounted and slightly defective), with auto, of Samuel 



Roberts, F.R.S.,£\. \s 



' Records was practic^iUy the founder of an English School of mathematical writers. He was the first writer in Engli.sb 

 on arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy, and the first to introduce algebra into England. ... He also uses fractions and 

 Arabic numerals with greater freedom than was usual in his time. . . . Recorde's mathematical works continued to be 

 standard authorities till the end of the Sixteenth Century, and his Grounde of Arfci was still popular at the end of the- 

 Seventeenth '.— Z). X B., where 27 difl'erent editions of the work are quoted. 



'He published an arithmetic, termed the Grounde of Artcs, in which he employed the signs + to indicate excess and 

 - to indicate deficiency. ... In this book .the equality of two ratios is indicated by two equal and jiarallel lines, whose 

 opposite ends are joined diagonally, )\g. by Z-'— H'. W. R. Bf'U. 



V. Hatton, nos. 1808 and 9011 ante. 



