x LIST OF PLATES. 



FACING PAGE 

 XCVIII. LOHNEYSS'S Bericht voin Bergwerck (1619): specimen plate .... r>:!2 



XCIX. LONDON'S Catalogue of Books in England (1658) : title and 3 specimens of text 0:33 

 C. MASTERSON'S Arithmeticke (1592) : title and specimen plate .... 580 



CI. MEIBOM'S Antiquae Musicae Auctores (1652) : title and specimen of text with 



musical notation . . . . . . . , . t ,581 



Oil. MELANCHTHON'S Doctrinae Physicas Elementa (1550) : title and specimen of 



text 596 



GUI. Portrait of SIR SAMUEL MORLAND 597 



CIV. MURDOCH'S Letter to a Member of Parliament (1809): title and specimen of text. 



Account of the Application of Gas (1808) : first page. 



Remarks upon the Bill . . . (1809) : title 614 



CV. NAPIER'S Rabdologia (1617) : title and 2 specimens of plates .... 615 

 CVI. NEWTON'S Principia (1687): title of the first issue of the first edition . . 626 



CVII. Opticks (1717) : page 382, with additions in Newton's handwriting . 627 



CVIII. Commercium Epistolicum (1712) : title and address to the reader . 628 



CIX. NORTON'S Gunner (1628): woodcut title and table of contents . . . 629 

 CX. PAPIN'S Maniere d'amolir les Os (1682) : plate showing his digester . . 644 



CXI. Nouvelles Machines et Inventions extraordinaires (1698) : 2 plates 



showing his steam-engine and centrifugal pump . . . . . . 645 



CXII. PASCAL'S Triangle Arithmetique (1665) : text and plate of the arithmetical 



triangle 660 



CXIII. PASI'S Tariffa de Pesi e Mesure (1503) : title with large woodcut and specimen 



of text 661 



CXIV. PATHWAY TO KNOWLEDGE (1596) : title 676 



CXV. PORTA'S Magiaa Naturalis Libri IV. (1558) : title. 



- Libri XX. (1589) : ivoodcut title .... 677 



CXVI. RAIL- WAY, Observations on a General Iron (1823): frontispiece showing 



steam-coaches, etc., with engines 692 



CXVII. REISCH'S Margarita Philosophica (1512) : woodcut title and specimen woodcut 693 

 CXVIII. RIESE'S Rechnung auff der Linien und Federn (1605) : title with portrait, 



and specimen of text 708 



CXIX. ROWE'S All Sorts of Wheel-Carriages improved (1734) : specimen plate, and 



illustration of a ' rolling cart ' 709 



CXX. STEPHENSON'S Safety Lamp (1817) : 4 specimens of plates .... 758 



CXXI. STOFFLER'S Calendarium Romanum Magnum (1518) : specimen of text with 



woodcuts ............. 759 



CXXII. SUTHERLAND'S Britain's Glory (1729) : portrait of George I., surrounded by 



the 257 ships of the Royal Navy 770 



CXXI II. TAISNIER'S De Natura Magnetis (1562) : title, portrait, and 2 specimens of 



text with illustrations 771 



CXXIV. TRIEWALD'S Eld- och Luf t-Machin (1734) : plate showing the first steam- 

 engine in Sweden 774 



CXXV. VERANZIO'S Machinse Novae (c. 1595): plate giving the first illustration of a 



parachute ............. 776 



CXXVI. BAYER'S Uranometria (1603) : specimen plate of the first star-atlas with 



Greek lettering 786 



CXXVII. BRUNSWYG'S Buch zu Distillieren (1519) : specimen plate with icoodcut . . 787 



