HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C, AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 743 



14829 SETTELE (Giuseppe, Canonico ; Univ. Rome) Breve Esposizione della Teoria del Sig. 

 Hauy sulla Struttura dei Cristalli ; with folding plate, 4to. (pp. 37), sewn, 3s 6d Roma, 1805 



Unknown to Poggendorff. 



14830 Elementi di Ottica e di Astronomia ; with 20 folding plates, 2 vols. Bvo. hf. parch- 

 ment gilt {scarce), \2s ibidem, 1818-19 



This work is of importance in connexion with the attitude of the Roman Catholic Church towards the Copernican 

 System. It was the first orthodox work based on it, and therefore immediately objected to by the Papal Censor, who 

 expected the author to treat the system as an hypothesis devoid of proof. The author refused and appealed to Pope 

 Pius IX., who finally decreed that the Copernican system might thenceforward be taught without hindrance. 



14831 Memoria sopra la Forma delle Linee Orarie, indicanti le Ore inequali degli Antichi 



sopra gli Orologj Solari ; with frontispiece, folding plate, and vignette, 8vo. (pp. 44), sewn, 

 55 ib., 1816 



14832 SEW ALL (Charles Henry) Wireless Telegraphy : its Origin, Development, Inventions, 

 and Apparatus, with 5 plates, and 77 illustrations, 8vo. cl. (o. p)., 4s Qd (p. 105 bd nett) 1903 



14833 SFOKTUNATI (Giovanni, da Siena) Nvovo Lume. Libro di Arithmetica. Intitulato: 

 Nuovo Lume imp[er]oche molte p[ro]positioniche per altri autori sonofalsametecOcluse: inquesto 

 si emedano : «.*v: castigano : con chiare : lucide : & aperte dimostrationi : molto bene discusse, & 

 ventillate. CO vno breve trattato di Geometria : per quato a vno pratico Agrimensore si 

 conuego, con TAUOLE da comporre le corde : da misurare la tenuta da ciaschuna botte & etiam li 

 stag^iuoli da mi.snrare gli scemi di quelle. Composto per lo acutissimo perscrutatore delle Archi- 

 mediane & Euclidiane dottrine, prima edizione ; with title loithin woodcut border, woodcut- 

 initial with portrait (? of the author), vignette at end, and woodcuts and diagrams on margins, 

 sm. 4to. contemporary limp vellum (a very fine and unusual' y tall copy) ; very rare, 

 £2. 10* icol. .] Vinegia per Nicolo di Aristotile detto Zoppino, 1534 



Consi.sting of 129 numbered 11., signatures a— p in fours, and q in 5, the last being blank. At end is a 4-page Italian 

 Arithmetical MS. 



All editions of this work are very rare, especially the first. Prof, de Morgan, who owned an imperfect copy of an 

 edition which he was on this account unable to describe, states : ' I can find no mention of Sfortunati in catalogues,' 



' Questa prima edizione e rarissima . . . Le Sfortunati, il cui nome flgura nella famosa quistione fra Cardano e 

 Tarta^^lia, viene meritamente noverato tra i migliori autori aritmetici del principio del secolo XVI.' — Riccardi. 



14834 SHAFFNER (Col. Taliaferro P., Secretary, American Telegraph Confederation, New York) 

 Telegraph Companion, devoted to the Science and Art of the Morse American Telegraph, 

 Vols. 1-2 (all pub. ; January 1854 — October 1855), with steel portraits of Morse and the editor, and 

 numerous woodcuts, 2 vols. 8vo. in 1, cl. gilt, g. e., with editor's inscr. (scarce), £1. \s 



New York, 1854-5 

 Very interesting for the accouut of patent litigation in the United States in the infancy of electric telegraphy. There 

 is an interesting chapter (Vol. II pp. 6-9*3) : The Electro-Magnetic Telegraph : a Defence against the Injurious Deductions 

 drawn from the Deposition of Pi of. Joseph Henry, with Critical Review, and Examination of Prof. Henry's Alleged 

 Discoverie.s, bearing on the Electro-Magnetic Telegraph, by Samuel F. B. Morse ; with Prof. Henry's Deposition, 

 (pp. 97-112). 



148.35 S[HARPJ ( A [braham] , pAz'/oma^^ ; assistant to i^7ams<eerf) Geometry Improv'd : 1. By a 

 Large and Accurate Table of Segments of Circles, its Construction and various Uses in the 

 Solution of several difficult Problems, with Compendious Tables for finding a True Proportional 

 Part, and their Use in these or any other Tables, etc. etc. 2. A Concise Treatise of Polyedra, 

 or Solid Bodies of many Bases, both the Regular and others: To which are added Twelve New 

 nes, with various Methods of forming them, etc. etc., icith ^folding copperplates by the Author, 

 4to. hf calf {rare), 15* 1717 



' Remarkable for the great number of its calculations, among other things the [Briggian] logarithms of the numbers 

 from 1 to 100 and of all the primes up to 1100, each calculated to 61 figures of decimals; and for the plates of solid 

 figures cut by his own hand, which are very clear,' — D. N. B. 



14836 , Life and Correspondence of, with Memorials of his Family and associated 



Families, by William Cudworth, with portraits, plates, fss. of title-pages and handwriting, 

 woodcuts, and pedigrees, 4to. hf. parchment, uncut, t. e. g.. Is hd (p. £1. 6s) 1889- 



14837 SHAW (Peter, m.d. ; F.R.S. ; editor of Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle), and Francis 

 HAUKSBEE [the Younger] : Essay for introducing a Portable Laboratory : By Means 

 whereof all the Chemical Operations are commodiously performed, for the Purposes of Philosophy, 

 Medicine, Metallurgy, and a Family, with 8 folding copperplates, 8vo. (pp. 83), sewn {rare), 

 10* 6r/ 173P 



Dedicated to Sir Hans Sloane, p.e.s., and interesting for giving full details of chemical apparatus and hints on manipu- 

 lating. It includes Schemes for various Courses of Chemistry. 



14838 SHIPWRiaHT'S Vade-Mecum (The): a Clear and Familiar Introduction to the Principles. 

 and Practice of Ship-Building : including the more complex Rules of Arithmetic made Use of 

 in that Art; with so much of the Principles of Practical Geometry and Mensuration as are required 

 in the Practice thereof ; also a Description of the Sliding Rule ; Rules for the Admeasurement 

 of Timber, etc., first edition, with frontispiece and numerous woodcuts, large 8vo. boards {scarce), 

 125 Qd 1805 



14839 Another Copy, sewn {wanting front, and pp. LVIII), bs 



There is no copy of this work in the Library of the Institution of Naval Architects, while the Scott Library only 

 contained the edition of 1822. 



14840 SHIRTCLIFFE (Robert) The Theory and Practice of Gauging, demonstrated in a short 

 and easy Method, containing also the Method of Computing Decimally ; extracting the Square 

 Root, with the Construction and Use of the Sliding Rule explained at large, the Elementary 

 Properties of the Conic Sections, and the Manner of describing them in Piano, etc. etc., with 

 Q folding plates, 8vo. old calf gilt {one plate missing), 5s 1740 



14841 SIX (James ; f.r.s.) Experiments on Local Heat, 4to. (pp. 18), sewn, Ss 1788 



The author was the inventor of the maximum and minimum thermometer known by his name, which is still in general use. 



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