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1352 FLAUTI (V.) GEOMETRIA di SITO sul Piano, e nello Spazio, 3 a ed. riveduta ; with, folding 

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1353 FLEMING (John Ambrose, F.R.S.) The ALTERNATE CURRENT TRANSFORMER in Theory and 

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1354 Vol. I : The INDUCTION of ELECTRIC CURRENTS, ivoodcuts, 8vo. cl., 3s Qd (p. 12s Qd) 1890 



1355 The PRINCIPLES of ELECTRIC WAVE TELEGRAPHY, with 7 plates, and numerous other 



illustrations, thick 8vo. cl., 18s (sells 1. 4s nett) 1906 



1356 FOCK (Andreas) INTRODUCTION to CHEMICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, trans, and ed. by WILLIAM 

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Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1895 



1357 FONTAINE (Hippolyte) ELECTROLYSE: Renseignements pratiques; with 34 woodcuts, roy. 

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1358 FONTAINE des CHUTES (Pierre) TRAITE COMPLET sur FABERRATION des ETOILES FIXES, 

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1359 FONTANA (Francesco) : NovvE COELESTIUM, TERRESTRIUMQUE RERUM OBSERVATIONES. et 

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Chiefly interesting for the author's claim to have invented the astronomical telescope in 1608 (invented one year later 

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1360 [FONTENELLE (Bernard le Bovier de)] ELEMENTS de la GEOMETRIE de I'!NFINI ; with 

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Imprimerie Roy ale, 1727 

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1363 [ ] THEORIE des TOURBILLONS CARTESIENS ; avec des Reflexions sur 1'Attraction, 12mo. 



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One of the last forlorn-hope attacks on Newton's theory of gravitation, and a defence of Descartes's theory of vortices, 

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1364 FONVIELLE (Wilfrid de) Les GRANDES ASCENSIONS MARITIMES : La TRAVERSES de la 

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1365 FORBES (George, F.R.S.) LECTURES ON ELECTRICITY, illustrated, post 8vo. cl. (out of print), 

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1366 FORBES (James David, F.R.S., Principal of the United College., St. Andrews ; geologist), LIFE 

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With chapter on Forbes's scientific work. 



1367 FORBES (John, D.D.) THEORY of the DIFFERENTIAL and INTEGRAL CALCULUS, derived 

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Attempting to establish the calculus on geometrical principles. 



v. DIFFERENTIAL and INTEGRAL CALCULUS, ante. 



1368 FORBES (Ugo) MEMORIA sopra un Nuovo FORTINO e due Nuovi Sistemi per Recinti in 

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1369 FORD (William) PRACTICAL TREATISE on MALTING and BREWING, with Historical Account 

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1370 ORFAIT (Pierre Alexandre Laurent) TRAITE ELEMENTAIRE de la MATURE des VAISSEAUX ; 

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1371 FORSTER (Thomas Ignatius Maria, M.D., F.R.A.S.) ANNALS of some remarkable AERIAL 

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Including an account ol the author's ascent, with Green, in 1831, specially undertaken to study the atmospheric origin 

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1372 - - RESEARCHES about ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA, 3rd [last] Ed., enlarged, with the 

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1373 FORSTER (Westgarth) TREATISE on a SECTION of the STRATA from NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE to 

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T-.XTI One of the earliest works on lead mining. 



1374 FORSTER (Wilhelm) SAMMLUNG von HULFSTAFELN der BERLINER STERNWARTE, roy. 4to. 

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1375 FORT (O.), und O. SCHLOMILCH : LEHRBUCH der ANALYTISCHEN GEOMETRIE; with 

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