HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 333 

 0186 BRIDGE (Bewick, B.D., F.R.S. ; Haileybury Coll.) TREATISE on the Construction, Properties, 

 and Analogies of the THREE CONIC SECTIONS, with numerous diagrams, 8vo. sewn, 2s 



Broxbourn, 1811 



6487 SECOND EDITION, with Alterations and Corrections, diagrams, 8vo. boards, 2s Qd 1817 



6488 TREATISE on the ELEMENTS of ALGEBRA, 7th or 8th Ed., 8vo. boards, 2s 1831 or '6 



64S9 [BRIDGES (Henry)] SUCCINCT DESCRIPTION of that Elaborate Pile of Art called MICRO- 

 COSM, with short Account of the Solar System, 3rd Ed., with Additions, 8vo. (pp. 32), sewn (title 

 soiled and blank top torn o/), 4s Qd Coventry, 1763 



6490 [_ ] TWELFTH EDITION, with Additions, and interspersed with POETICAL SENTIMENTS on 

 the PLANETS, 12mo. (pp. 32), sewn, 4s Qd 1773 



6491 BRIGGS (Henry, Savilian Prof., Oxon.) : ARITHMETICA LOGARITHMICA, sive Logarith- 

 morum Chiliades XXX, pro. Numeris Natural! Serie crescrentibus ab Unitate ad 20,000 : et a 



90.000 ad 100,000. Quorum ope multa perticiuntur Arithmetic* Problemata et Geometrica. 

 Hos primus invenit JOHANNES NEPERUS Baro Merchistonij : eos autem ex eiusdem Sententia 

 mutavit, eorumque Ortum et Usum illustravit HENRICUS BRIGGIUS, editio princeps; ivith 

 numerous diagrams, folio, hf. calf (pp. 41-8 of introduction wanting, and title and one I. soiled 

 and mended) ; very rare, 1. 17s Qd Londini, Gulielmus Jones, 1624 



Of historical importance as the first great logarithmic table published. It contains the logarithms of the natural 

 numbers from 1 to 20,000 and 1)0,000 to 100,000 calculated to 14 places, with an explanatory introduction. 



6492 - EDITIO SECUNDA, aucta per ADRIANUM VLACQ Goudanum; Logarithniorum Chiliades C, 

 una cum CANONETRlANGULORUM, sen Tabula Artificialium Sinuum, Tangentium et Secantium, ad 

 Radium 10,00000,00000, et ad singula Scrupula Prima Quadrantis ; with diagrams, thick folio, 

 hf. white vellum (slightly foxed, otherwise a FINE AND LARGE COPY) ; RARE, 3. 3s 



Goudw, Petrus Rammasenius, 1628 

 This, the final edition, contains the numbers of the lirst edition, but reduced to 10 places, while the logarithms of 



20.001 to 8'.', ( .99, calculated by ADKIAAN VLACQ, also to 10 numbers, are here h'rst added, as well as a table of logarithms of 

 the trigonometrical functions. There were also French and Dutch translations of this edition. See No. 585, ante, for 

 the former. 



' The idea of tables of logarithms having 10 for their base, as well as the actual calculation of the first tables of this 

 kind, is due to Briggs.' D. N. B. 



' The almost immediate adoption throughout Europe of logarithms for astronomical and other calculations was mainly 

 the work of Briggs, who undertook the tedious work of calculating and preparing tables of logarithms.' W. W. R. Ball. 



' It is plain that Briggs was the inventor of the present scale of logarithms, in which 1 is the logarithm of the ratio 

 10 to 1, and 2 that of 100 to 1 etc., and that the share which Napier had in them was only advising Briggs to begin at the 

 lowest number 1, and to make the logarithms to increase with the natural numbers, instead of iJecreci.sing.'Hiitton. 



6493 BRIGHT (Charles, F.R.S.E.) SUBMARINE TELEGRAPHS: their History, Construction, and 

 Working, with numerous plates (many folding), woodcut, 1 }, and maps, thicK impl. 8vo. cl., 1. 5s 

 (p. 3. 3s nett) 1898 



'The English classic on submarine telegraphy.' Engineer. 



The author is the youngest son of Sir Charles Tilston Bright, who laid the first Atlantic cable in 1858 at the age of 2*3. 



6494 BRIGHT (Sir Charles Tilston, C.E., F.R.S.E.), The LIFE STORY of, with the STORY of the 

 ATLANTIC CABLE, and the FIRST TELEGRAPH to INDIA and the COLONIES, by CHARLES BRIGHT ; 

 revised and abridged Ed., with portrait and numerous illustrations, thick 8vo. cl., t. e. g., 7s Qd 

 (p. 12s Qd nett) 1908 



6495 BRIGHTMORE (Arthur William, M.I.C.E.) STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING, with 145 diagrams, 

 8vo. cl., 7s (p. 10s Qd nett) 1908 



6496 BRILLOTJIN (Marcel) MEMOIRES ORIGIN AUX sur la CIRCULATION GENERALE de F ATMO- 

 SPHERE : Halley, Hadley, Maury, Ferrel, W. Siemens, Moller, Oberbeck, v. Helmoltz [sic] , annotes 

 et commentes; with 20 diagrams, 8vo. cl., 3s Qd (p. F. 6 nett) 1900 



A UNIQUE MANUSCRIPT: 



6497 BRINDLEY (James), The ORIGINAL DIARIES of, from Dec., 1759 to March, 1760, Sept., 1761 

 to Dec., 1762, and Oct., 1763 to Nov., 1763, the Original Manuscript on about 100 pages, with 



fs. letter, and 2-p. fs. from his Diary, and plan of the Bridgewater Canal : IN THE 3 ORIGINAL 

 NOTE-BOOKS, 18mo. boards, 8. 8s 1759-63 



A highly interesting relic of one of the earliest English engineers, containing memoranda in connexion with his pioneer 

 work in navigable canals, and his invention of an improved Newcomen engine. 



' The great reputation of Brindley was gained in civil engineering. Having been called in by the Duke of Bridgewater in 

 1759 to advise upon the project for forming a canal by which the produce of the Worsley coal-mines could be cheaply 

 transported to Manchester, lie produced a plan of striking originality, including the construction of an aqueduct by which 

 the canal was to be carried over the river Irwell. This canal was the first of any importance in England, and formed the 

 commencement of the system of inland navigation in this country. Brindley's next work was the Bridgewater Canal con- 

 necting Manchester and Liverpool, and this was soon followed by numerous others.' 



' He remained to the last illiterate, hardly able to write and quite unable to spell. He did most of his work in his head, 

 without written calculations or drawings, and when he had a puzzling bit of work he would go to bed and think 

 it ont'.D.N.li. 



6498 BRINKLEY (John, Bp. of Cloyne ; F.R.S.) ELEMENTS of PLANE ASTRONOMY, edited by 

 THOMAS LUBY, D.D., with 6 folding 'plates, 8vo. hf. calf gilt, 3s Qd Dublin, 1836 



6499 - SIXTH EDITION, with 6 folding plates, 8vo. cl., 3s Qd (p. 12s) ib., 1845 



6500 - - NEW EDITION, partly re-written, with additional Chapters, by JOHN WILLIAM STUBBS, 

 D.D., and FRANCIS BRUNNOW, with Examination Questions, 43 woodcuts, fcap. 8vo. cl., 2s ib., 1871 



0501 - - SECOND REVISED [LAST] EDITION, with 48 woodcuts, post 8vo. cl., 3s (p. 6s) 1874 



(J502 BRINKMAN (C. H.) De BEPALING van den DRUK met een GESLOTEN LUCHTMANOMETER, 



roy. 8vo. (pp. 8), sewn, Is Qd Amsterdam, 1904 



6503 ISOTHERMBEPALINGEN voor MENGSELS van CHLOORMETHYL en KOOLZUUR ; illustrated, 



8vo. (pp. 77), sewn, 2s Qd ibidem [1904] 



(1504 BRIOSCHI (Francesco) THEORIE des DETERMINANTS ; leurs principals Applications ; traduite 



par EDOUARD COMBESCURE, 8vo. hf. calf (out of print), 4s 1856 



The first scientific and complete exposition of the theory of determinants, 



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