210 HENRY SOTttERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 



RUTHERFORD (WiUiam, F.R.A.S.) v. MATHEMATICIAN (No. 2889), and MATHEMATICS 



(No. 2891-2), ante. 



4151 BY AN (Matthew, of Tipper ary) The CELEBRATED THEORY of PARALLELS: Demonstration of 

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4152 BYFF (Peter; Univ. Basel) QU^STIONES GEOMETRKLE in Euclidis et P. Rami ZroixtiWti/, 

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4153 EDITIO ALTERA, cui accessit COMMENTATIO OPTICA, sive brevis Tractatio de PERSPECTIVA 



COMMUNI ; with plates, woodcuts, and diagrams, 12mo. old calf, neatly rebacked, with bookplate of 

 Philip '2nd Earl Stanhope, F.R.S., Is 6d Oxonian, 1665 



The above is the only edition containing the author's treatise on perspective. 



4154 BYLAND (John [Collett, Baptist minister], Northampton), [and James FERGUSON, 

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 by various Modes of Recreation, 12 folding plates, 12mo. contemporary calf, 10s Qd 



E. and C. Dilly, 1768 



' It is his [Ryland's] chief merit to have done more perhaps than any man of his time to promote polite learning among 

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4155 BZIHA (Eduard) Die THEORIE der MINEN basirt auf die Wellenbewegung in concentrischen 

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als MS. gedruckt, Lembcrg, 1866 



4156 BZIHA (Franz v.) LEHRBUCII der GESAMMTEN TUNNELBAUKUNST ; with hundreds of wood- 

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Important as the first German systematic treatise on tunnelling. 



4157 SABINE (General Sir Edward, R.A., P.R.S.) ACCOUNT of EXPERIMENTS to DETERMINE 

 the FIGURE of the EARTH, by means of the Pendulum vibrating Seconds in Different Latitudes ; 

 as well as on various other Subjects of Philosophical Inquiry, 4to. hf. calf, with AUTHOR'S INSCR. 

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printed at the expense of the Board of Longitude, 1825 

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Inscr. on title. 



'An enduring monument of his indefatigable industry, his spirit of inquiry, and wide range of observation. The work 



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 The facts contained in the work enabled GAUSS to lay down his theory of terrestrial magnetism. 



4158 A COMPARISON of BAROMETRICAL MEASUREMENT, with the TRIGONOMETRICAL DETER- 

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4159 OBSERVATIONS at the MAGNETICAL and METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY at the CAPE of 



GOOD HOPE : Vol. I : MAGNETICAL OBSERVATIONS, 1841-6, with Abstracts of the Observations, 

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4160 at HOBARTON, in VAN DIEMEN ISLAND, and by the ANTARCTIC NAVAL EXPEDI- 

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4161 at ST. HELENA, Vol. 1 : 1840-3, with Abstracts of the Observations, 1840-5, folding 



charts, impl. 4to. cl., uncut, 9s (p. 2. 2s) 1847 



The detachment of R. A. engaged were lodged in Lougwood House. 

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4164 OBSERVATIONS on DAYS of UNUSUAL MAGNETIC DISTURBANCE, made at the British 



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4165 PART I ONLY: 1840-1, impl. 4to. cl., 5s 1843 



4166 ANOTHER COPY, hf. calf, with Sandhurst College bookplate, 5s 



' It is to this distinguished observer that we are chiefly indebted for the organization of the vast system of observatories 

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The observations at Toronto and Hobart are especially valuable as having borne out John Lamont's discovery of the 



periodicity of magnetic variation. 



The following is a complete list ol the observations puonsneu unaer sir j^awara saDine's supenr 

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lowing is a complete list of the observations published under Sir Edward Sabine's superintendence (and contain- 



4167 SACCHERI (Girolamo, s.J.) QU.ESITA GEOMETRICA, a Comite Rugerio de Vigintimiliis omnibus 

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The author anticipated Lobatchewsky's doctrine of the parallel angle. 



4168 ST.-JULIEN (Antoine de; Chevalier de Malte] La FORGE de VULCAIN, ou 1'APPAREIL des 

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4169 ST.-ROBERT (Paul de) PRINCIPES de THERMODYNAMIQUE ; with diagrams, roy. 8vo. hf. calf 

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Largely mathematical, and based on the researches of Lord Kelvin, Rankine, and Clausius. It contains an important 

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