HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 145 



2910 MAUPEBTUIS (Pierre Louis Moreau de) La FIGURE de la TERRE, determinee par les 

 Observations de MM. de Maupertuis, Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier, et de 1'Abbe Outhier, 

 accompagne's de M. Celsus, faites au Cercle Polaire, premiere edition, with 9 folding plates, 

 and fine map, 8vo. nice copy ir contemporary calf gilt (RARE), 15s Imprimerie lloyale, 1738 



2911 - NOUVELLE EDITION, dans laquelle on a mis les figures aux pages oil elles se rapportent ; 

 with diagrams, and map, 8vo. hf. bound (browned but sound copy], 9s 1739 



2912 - -The FIGURE of the EARTH, determined from Observations at the Polar Circle, trans., 

 with 9 folding plates, and map, 8vo. old calf, newly and neatly rebacked (RARE), 17s Qd 1738 



' Maupertuis adopted and explained Newton's propositions on attraction and on the figure of the earth ; and he 

 conducted an expedition to Lapland, for the measurement of an arc of the meridian, the result of which was fatal to the 

 Cassinian hypothesis.' Prof. Todhunter. 



See No. 799 ante. 



2913 MAURICE (Antoine) THESES ASTRONOMICO-PHYSIOE de ACTIONE SOLIS et LUNJS in AEREM 

 et AQUAS, 4to. (pp. 24), sewn, 2s Qd Geneva;, J732 



2914 MAURO (Marco, Theosebo, Phonasco, e Philopanareto] ANNOTATIONI sopra la LETTIONE della 

 SPERA de SACRO Bosco, dove si dichiarano tutti e principii Mathematici e Natural!, che in quella 

 si possan' desiderare ; con alcunc quistioni Notabili . . . erarisegreti . . . una NUOVA TRADUT- 

 TIONE di detta SPERA ; una Spera Theologica Divina, e Christiana ; una Spera Platonica, con 

 alcune eccitationi mathematiche, ecc. ; una NUOVA INVENTIONE, et Astronomico Instrumento, 

 per SUBITAMENTE FABRICARE le dodici CASE CELESTI della FlGURA ASTRONOMIC A, senza altri 

 Canoni, o Calculo; with numerous woodcuts and diagrams, 8vo. sound and clean copy in old 

 vellum (VERY RARE), 1. 10^ [colophon :] Firenze, 1550 



Unknown to Poggeudorff. The above copy contains pp. 201-19, wliich are often wanting. 



2915 MATJROLYCUS (Franciscus, Abbas Messanensis) OPUSCULA MATHEMATICA, uunc primiim 

 in Luceni edita, cum Rerum omnium notatu dignarum INDICE locupletissimo ; with numerous 

 diagrams, 2 vols. 4to. in 1, old hf, vellum (back slightly damaged), g. e. (RARE), 1. 105 Venetiis, 1575 



'He is doubtless the greatest geometer of the XVI. century. From the notes of Pappus, he attempted to restore the 

 missing fifth book of Apollonius on maxima and minima. His chief work is his masterly and original treatment of the 

 conic sections, wherein he discusses tangents and asymptotes more fully ohan Apollonius had done, and applies them to 

 various physical and astronomical problems.' Prof. Cajori. 



2916 MAURY (Matthew Fontaine, U.S.N., National Observatory, Washington] INVESTIGATIONS of 

 the WINDS and CURRENTS of the SEA : On the PROBABLE RELATION between MAGNETISM and 

 the CIRCULATION of the ATMOSPHERE 2 tracts in 1 vol. 4to. hf. calf, 6s Qd Washington, 1851 



2917 - The PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY of the SEA, first edition, with 3 woodcuts, and 10 maps and 

 charts, roy. 8vo. cl., Is Qd 1856 



The author's most important work, which laid the foundation of oceanography. It also contains his invaluable wind 

 and current charts, the first of their kind, which rendered such conspicuous service to navigation and meteorology. 



2918 SECOND EDITION [much enlarged], with numerous folding charts and diagrams, 8vo. cl., 



4s Qd 1861 



2919 - - NEW EDITION, with 13 charts and diagrams, 8vo. cl., 3s 1881 



2920 MAUVILLON (Jakob) ESSAI sur I'!NFLUENCE de la POUDRE A CANON dans I 1 Art de la 

 GUERRE MODERNE ; with 1 plates, 8vo. (pp. 518), old calf, 5s Leipsic, 1788 



2921 MAW (William Henry ; p. R. A. s.), and James DREDGE; editors of ' Engineering': MODERN 

 EXAMPLES of ROAD and RAILWAY BRIDGES ; illustrating the most recent Practice of leading 

 Engineers in EUROPE and AMERICA, with 94 large plates, and numerous woodcuts, folio, hf. 

 morocco, 10s (p. 2.) 1872 



2922 MAXWELL (James Clerk, F.R.S.) ELEMENTARY TREATISE on ELECTRICITY, edited by 

 WILLIAM GARNETT, u-ith Q plates and 53 woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 4s (p. 7s Qd) 



Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1881 



2923 - - On a METHOD of making a DIRECT COMPARISON of ELECTROSTATIC with ELECTRO- 

 MAGNETIC FORCE ; with Note on the ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY of LIGHT, woodcut, roy. 4to. 

 (pp. 15), sewn, with author's inscr., 4s 1868 



1 Describing another important series of experiments, those on the velocity of propagation of electro-magnetic waves'. 

 R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S. 



2924 - - THEORY of HEAT, with diagrams, 12mo. cl., \s Qd 1871 or 1872 

 2925 TREATISE on ELECTRICITY and MAGNETISM, first edition, with 20 plates and 105 dia- 

 grams, 2 vols. 8vo. cl, Is Qd (p. 1. 11s Qd) Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1873 



2926 - SECOND EDITION [partly rewritten by the Authoi ; edited, with Additions, by SIR W. D. 

 NIVEN, F.R.S.], with 20 plates and 105 diagrams, 2 vols. 3vo. cl., 12s Qd (p. 1. 11s Qd) 



a. e., ibidem, 1881 



The last edition revised by the Author. 'The first 9 chapters were in some cases wholly rewritten, much new matter 

 being added, and the former contents rearranged and simplified.' Preface. 



2927 THIRD [LAST] EDITION [revised and enlarged by J. J. THOMSON, F.R.S.], with 20 plates 



and 107 diagrams, 2 vols. 8vo. cl., 1. Is (p. 1. 12s) a. e., ib., 1892 



' The great modern classic on the subject '.Prof. Knott. This edition contains Maxwell's method of determining the 

 self-induction of a coil, reprinted from his paper on the ' Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field.' 



2928 - , LIFE of, with select CORRESPONDENCE and OCCASIONAL WRITINGS, and his CONTRIBU- 

 TIONS to SCIENCE, by LEWIS CAMPBELL, pr., and WILLIAM GARNETT, LIBRARY EDITION, with 

 3 fine steel portraits by Stodart, 5 coloured plates, 7/s. pp., and numerous woodcuts, thick 8vo. 

 cl., uncut, 10s 1882 



An adequate record of a great scientist and very memorable man. 



2929 - : GLAZEBROOK (Richard Tetley, F.R.S.) JAMES CLERK MAXWELL and MODERN PHYSICS, 

 with portrait, cr. 8vo. cl., Is Qd 1901 



v. JENKIN (H. C. Fleeming), ante. 



