HENRY SOTHERAN & CO,, 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 245 



4791 TELESIO (Bernardino, Cosentino) De RERUM NATURA juxta propria Principia Liber I. et II. 

 denuo editi : DK HIS, qusv in AKRE; et de TERILE-MOTIBIJS,; Liber Unicus, editio' princeps : De 

 COLORUM GENERATIONS Opuscnlam, editio princeps: De MARI Liber Unicus, editio princeps 

 4 vols. 4 to. in 1, with vignette on titles, and woodcut initials; large and fine copies in calf (VERY 

 RARE), 2. 12* Qd Neapoli, 1570 



The first is the author's most important woik, and historically of great interest as being the first revolt against the 

 Aristotelian basis of physics (for which reason it was promptly placed on the Index). The author only recognises 

 three principles : heat and cold, which are immaterial and active, and matter, the leading principle. The first two are the 

 active principles which have formed the universe and the earth out of matter, which latter is supposed to possess no 

 active forces in itself. 



In astronomy he declares for a geocentric system. Hearing is caused by the movement of air, while sound is the result 

 of the mutual and violent concussion of bodies. 



The Telesian system gained many followers, and exerted a great influence on the philosophical views of his contemp- 



r Francis Bacon, Giordano Bruno, and Campanella praise him as the first successful opponent of the peripatetic 



school, and his claim to fame still lies in the fact that he was the first to lead natural science into new and more rational 



4792 TENNENT (Sir James Emerson, F.R.S. ; author of ' Ceylon') The STORY of the GUNS, with 

 4 plates, and numerous woodcuts, post 8vo. cl. (out of print), 3s Qd (p. 7s Qd) 1864 



A plea for the Whitworth Gun, and against the Armstrong 



SSL A (Nikola), The INVENTIONS, RESEARCHES, and WRITINGS of; with special Reference to 

 !? Work in POLYPHA SE CURRENTS and HIGH POTENTIAL LIGHTING, by THOMAS COMMERFORD 

 MARTIN, 2nd Ed., with portrait and over 300 illustrations, 8vo. cl. (scarce), 12s Qd New York 1894 

 Including a short Memoir of this remarkable son of a Serb parish priest, and giving the only account of his inventions 

 viz., telegraphy through the earth without wires, electric lighting by means of vacuum tubes, polyphase alternate 

 current motor, enabling transference of electric energy at long distances from the source of origin, etc. etc. 



4794 [TESTA (Abate Domenico)] Delia CONTEMPORANEA PROPAGAZIONE de' SUONI DIVERSI 4to 

 (pp. 43), sewn (no title); rare, Qs Qd \Milano, 17871 



Mairan avait deja teite de resoudre une partie du probleme difficile centenu dans ce sujet; mais il 1'avait traite en 

 pnysicien ; labbe Testa etablit dans son mfi'moire qu'il en faut chercher 1'explication non dans la phvsiaue mais dans la. 

 psychologie, et il developpe cette opinion avec beaucoup de talent.' Fetis. 



and Diophantine Problems ; Solutions to the Questions in the Gentleman's and Ladies Diary for 

 3743, diagrams, '43: TREATISE containing an Entire New Method of solving- Adfected 

 Quadratic, an d Cubic Equations, with their Application to the Solution of Biquadratic Ones 

 and New Tables for finding the Roots of Cubics, invented by the late ingenious A THACKER' 

 calculated and exemplified by W. BROWN, 2nd Ed., '48: BROWN (W., Cleobun/ Free School] 

 PROBLEMS in PRACTICAL GEOMETRY, containing Theorems never before made publick, diagrams 

 -3 vols. 8vo. m 1, contemporary calf (RARE), 155 Birmingham, 1743-8 



Ihese three works are quite unknown to Lowndes, Watt, Allibone, Poggendorff, etc., nor is anvthine known nf th 

 inventor of the new method of solving quadratic and cubic equations. 



4796 THELU ( ) NOTICE sur les ETAIS de MINES en FRANCE ; with plates of pit-props etc 4to 

 sewn (scarce), 5s Qd %>.. frJi^ ^ 



4797 THENABD (Baron Louis Jacques) TRAITE de CHIMIE Eldmentaire, The"orique, et Pratique 

 5 Ed., augmented ; with plates, 5 vols. 8vo. hf. calf, 5s I8 



4798 P TT [^IMPRESSION de la SIXIEME et DERNIERE EDITION], avec Essai sur la Philosophic 

 lumique, et Precis sur 1'Analyse, 2 vols. roy. 8vo. hf. calf (binding ofv. II damaged), 5s 



'Malgre les recentes decouvertes, cet ouvrage jouit encore aujourd'hui d'ungrandeautorite.' Biogr (The autho 

 No. C H98? antl ^ ^ ' ^ *" 18U ' in COI1 J unction with Gay-Lussac, the elementary analyst in chemistry? See 



4799 THEODOSII Tripolitae SPHAERICORUM LIBRI (1612) v. CLAVIUS, ante. 



4800 THEONIS Smyrnaei, eorum, quse in MATHEMATICIS ad PLATONIS LECTIONEM utilia sunt 

 EXPOSITIO, Graece, mine primum edita, LATINA VERSIONS ac Notis illustrata ab ISMAELF 

 BULLIALDO ed.Ltio princeps, 4to. large and sound copy in contemporary limp vellum, with book- 

 ^rarl) WsQd P Stanhope, F.M.S., and MS. note in Latin by him concerning the author 



4801 - -EADEM, Graece ; BULLIALDI Interpretationera Latinam, Lectionis Dive 

 Annotationem addidit J. J. DE GELDER, 8vo., VELLUM PAPER EDITION ; sewn, uncut, 4s Qd 



4302 - - EADEM Graece : Exposition des Connaissances MathSmatiques ntiles pour^a ' Lectured 

 PLATON, traduite pour la premiere Fois du Grec en Franpais par J. DUPUIS ; avec Epilogue Le 

 NOMBRE de PLATON (Memoire delinitif) ; with woodcuts, roy. 8vo. sewn 4.9 isq2 



- LIBER de ASTRONOMIA, cum SERENI FRAGMENTO: Textum primus edidit, Latinevertit 

 Descriptionibus Geometncis, Dissertatione et Notis illustravit TH. H. MARTIN ; accedunt mine 

 primum edita GEORGII PACHYMERK e Libro Astronomico delecta Fragmenta, et CHALCIDII Locus 

 ex ADRASTOvelTHEONEexpressus; with Splates and 2 folding fss., 8vo. hf. roan gM (scarce) 



The only edition of the worlcever published, produced at the J^^^^^&^^^ 184 

 -- v. r^TOLF^M/EUS, No. 3848, ante. 



H?Tm BMOSIP l H ^, PR 1 ATI l QU n I d ? rART de CflAUFFE R ?' **, OU CALORiFERE a EAU 



HAUDE ; avec les Ettets de la Chaleur, les Causes du Mouvement de 1'Eau, les differtnts 

 Appareils apphcables au Chauffage des Serres et des Habitations, leur Influence sur la 



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