738 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, and 48, PICCADILLY, W. 



14746 SCHOTT (Kaspar, s j., Univ. Wurzburg) Pantometrum Kircherianum, h. e., Instru- 

 raentuni Geometricum Novum, ab Athanasio Kirchero inventum, nunc universam paene 

 Practicam Geometriam coraplectentibus explicatum, perspicuisque Demonstrationibus illustratum ; 

 ivith 32 copperplates, 4to. old vellum {browned) ; rare, 12* Qd Herbipoli, 1660 



The 'instrument' was for surveying purposes, and consisted in the main of a square wooden frame and a ruler. 



14747 Technica Curiosa : varia Experimenta, Technasmata Pneumatica, Hydraulica, Hydro- 



technica, Mechanica, Graphica, Cyclometrica, Chronometrica, Autoiuatica, Cabalistica, aliaque 

 Artis Arcana ac Miracula, rara curiosa, ingeniosa, magnamque Partem nova et antehac inaudita, 

 editio princeps ; with engraved title, and QOJine copperplates {many folding), thick 4to. old calf 

 gilt, or, old vellum (rare), £1. 10* ib., 1664 



14748 Another Copy, hf. bound {a large and clean copy), £1. 7* 6d 



14749 Editio Nova ; with engraved title, and numerous plates, thick 4to. boards, £1. 5* ib., 1687 



Including full accounts of the aerostatic experiments of Robert Boyle and Otto v. Guericke. In this work the 



author supports the claim of Valerianus Magnus to be the original inventor of the Torricellian tube. There is also an 

 account of the earliest use of the diving bell, whioh is stated to have taken place at Toledo before the Emperor Charles V. 

 in 1533, and numerous rare examples of perpetual motion machines. 



' Ses excellents ouvrages, qni ont heaucoup contribue aux progres des sciences physiques, contiennentdes faits curieux, 

 des observations precieuses, des experiences dignes d'attention et pouvaut n^ettre sur la voie de plusieurs decouvertes'.— 

 Merclcr de St.-Lvger. 



14750 SCH5TTEL (Joseph) Anatomia Circuli; with engraving of the 'arithmetical pyramid', and 

 folding plates, Viennce [1756] : Arithmetische Neben-Stunden von drey Theilen ; so seynd : 

 I. Gnomon Arithmeticus Circuli. II. Fluxus naturalis Logarithmorum. III. Arithmetische 

 Mercantil-Tabellen ; with plates, Wienn, 1754—2 vols. 4to. in 1, original paper cover, %s Qd 1756-4 



Unknown to Professor de Morgan. 



14751 SCHRIFTEN (Die) der romischen Feldmesser, herausgegeben und erlautertvon F. Blume, 

 K. Lachmann und A. Rudorff [Indices von E. Bursian] ; with 40 plates, 2 vols. 8vo. buckram, 

 with bookplate of Dr. Emil Reich {scarce), IBs Berlin, 1848-52 



14752 SCHRODER (Heinrich Georg Friedrich) Die Molecularvolume der chemischen Ver- 

 BINDUNGEN im festen und liiissigen Zustande, roy. 8vo. seivn {scarce). Is Qd Mannheim, 1843 



'Among the numerous researches which have been made with the object of discovering a connexion between the 

 volumes oi solid compounds and their atomic composition, those of Schroder aie especially worthy of note. He assumes 

 volume units of chemically analogous elements, and believes that he has therewith found the key to the solution of the 

 above problem.'— Pro/. E. v. Meyer. 



14753 Die Siedhitzk der chemischen Verbindungen als das wesentlichsteKennzeichen zur 



Ermittlung ihrer Componenten ; nebst vollstiindigen Beweisen fiir die Theorie der Molecular- 

 volume der Fliissigkeiten, I. Theil {soweit erschienen) : die Kohlenwasserstoffe und Kohlen- 

 wasserstoffoxyde, roy. 8vo. sewn, Qs ibidem, 1844 



' Ich glaube in vorliegender Schrift den Beweis zu bringen, dass sich liber die Molecularconstitution der fluchtigen 

 organischen Verbindungen sehr bestimmte, und bis jetzt auf keinem auderen, als dem von inir eingeschlagenen Wege zu 

 erlangende Begriffe entwickeln lassen. '—Forre(/e. 



14754 SCHUERE MEENENAER (Jacob vander) Arithmetica oft Reken-Konst, en een kort 

 Onderricht van't Italiaens BoeckhoudE, bij den Autheur oversien, verbeetert en vermeerdert ; 

 black letter, with engraved title containing fine portrait aet. 67, and folding table, thick 16mo. old 

 vellum {partly water-stained, and engraved title and several corners slightly damaged); RARE, 

 £1. Is Amsterdam, D. v. d. Schuere, 164S 



The above edition of this rare work was unknown to Mr. R. Brown in his ' History of Accounting ', and he only mentions 

 that of 1634. The Account of Book-keeping has a separate title-page and pagination. 



14755 SCHUMACHER (Heinrich Christian) Jahrbuch fiir 1843, rait Beitragen von Bessel, 

 Hansteen, Lehmann, Madler und Olbers ; with frontispiece, fcap. 8vo. hf. cl., uncut, 6s M 



Stuttgart, 1843 

 Including :— tJber den Magnetismus der Erde von F. W. Bessel ; tjber Berichtigung der Thermometer von Hansteen ; 

 tjber den Gang der Temperatur in Laufe des Jahres von Madler, u. s. w. 



14756 SCHUSTER (Arthur, Univ. ilfa^icAes^eri, and Charles Herbert LEES, ff.r.s. : Advanced 

 Exercises in Practical Physics, with 130 illustrations, 8vo. cl., with auto, of F. J. Jervis- 

 Smith,pr., F.E.S., 4s (p. Ss) Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1901 



14757 Second [latest] Edition, revised, with 128 illustrations, 8vo. cl., 4s Qd (p. 8s) 



apud eandem, ibidem, 190 > 



1475'? SCHUYLER (James Dix) Reservoirs for Irrigation, Water-Power, and Domestic 

 Water-Supply, with the various Types of Dams and the Methods and Plans of their Construction ; 

 with Discussion of the available Water-Supply for Irrigation in various Sections of Arid America, 

 the Distribution, Application, and Use of Water, the Rainfall and Run-ofF, the Evaporation from 

 Reservoirs, the Effect of Silt on Reservoirs, etc., with 208 illustrations {including many plates and 

 foldina plans), rov. 8vo. cl., 10s (p. £1. Is nett) ' New York, 1905 



14759 SCHWAMB (Peter, Mass. Inst. Technbloqy), and AUyne Litchfield MERRILL: Elements 

 of Mechanism, with 341 woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 6s Qd (p. 12s Qd nett) New York, 1904 



14760 SCHWARZ (Hermann) Elemente der Zahlen-Theorie, allgemein fasslich dargestellt, 8vo. 

 cl. cover, uncut, with MS. note by Samuel Roberts, F.R.S., 4s Halle, 1855 



14761 Versuch einer Philosophie der Mathematik, mit einer Kritik der Aufstellungen 



Hegel's iiber den Zweck und die Natur der hoheren Analysis, 8vo. sewn, 3s ibidem, 1853 



' Soweit Arithmetik, Geometrie und Trigonometrie sich nieht durch ihre Beziehungen zu der Analysis des Unendlichen 

 als deren Bedingung oder Unterlage herausstellen, sind sie fiir das Gesetz der Wissenschaft uiwesentlich. '—Forrerfe, 



14762 SCHWARZ (Tjard), und Ernst v. HALLE : Schiffbauindustrie m Deutschland und 



im AUSLANDE, unter Benutzung amtlichen Materials herausgegeben ; with \1 folding plans of 



dockyards and 6 folding tables, 2 vols. sq. roy. 8vo. cl., 12s Qd (p. M. 22.25 nett) Berlin, 1902 



The above copy is an interesting memorial of German Naval murders, as it contains a printed presentation form to Dr. 



Francis Elgar, p.i. n.a., f.r.s., from Grand Admiral von Tirpitz. 



