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



7275 DIBBITS (Hendrik Cornells, Univ. Utrecht) Eenige SCHEIKUNDIGE WERKINGEN als 

 BEWEGINGS-VERSCHIJNSELEN opgevat, 8vo. (pp. 44), sewn, 2s Amsterdam, 1876 



7276 De SPECTRAAL-ANALYSE, Akademisch Proefschrift ; with'2 spectrum plates (one coloured), 



8vo. (pp. 232), sewn, 2s 6d Rotterdam, 1863 



7277 Ueber die LOSLICHKEIT des SCHWEFELSAUREN BLEIOXYDES in Losungen von essigsaurem 



Natron, 8vo. (pp. 10), sewn, Is 6d [Wiesbaden, 1874] 



7278 , (en J. E.) De WETvanBERTHOLLET, getoetst aan de DRAAIING van het POLARISATIEVLAK 



bij CIXCHONINE-ZOUTEN, roy. 8vo. (pp. 74), sewn, 2s Qd Haarlem, 1873 



7279 DIBDIN (William Joseph, F.I.C.) PRACTICAL PHOTOMETRY : a Guide to the Study of the 

 Measurement of Light, with 2 plates (linen-mounted), and 30 woodcuts, cr. 4to. hf. calf neat (title 

 stamped), 4s Qd 1889 



7280 PUBLIC LIGHTING by GAS and ELECTRICITY, with 216 plates and other illustrations, and 



5 folding tables, thick 8vo. cl., 12s (p. 1. Is nett) 1902 



7281 DICK (Thomas; F.R.A.S.) CELESTIAL SCENERY: or the Wonders of the Planetary System 

 displayed, with 105 woodcuts, large post 8vo. cl., 3s 1838 



7282 The CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER ; or the Connexion of Science and Philosophy with 

 Religion, 8th Ed., greatly enlarged, with portrait of Newton, thick post 8vo. cl., 3s Glasgow, 1842 



7283 The SIDEREAL HEAVENS, and other Subjects connected with Astronomy, with steel portrait, 



5 plates, and numerous woodcuts, thick post 8vo. cL, 3s Qd [c. 1845] 



'Presenting arguments for the plurality of worlds.' D.N.B. 



7284 The SOLAR SYSTEM, with woodcuts, 16mo. cl., 2s [1852] 



7285 DICTIONABIUM POLYGRAPHICUM : or the Whole Body of Arts regularly digested, 

 with 55 copperplates, 2 vols. 8vo. old calf, newly rebacked, 15s 1735 



Including engraving, etching, mezzotint, staining of glass and marble, enamelling, imitation of precious stones, dyeing 

 and bleaching, tapestry-weaving, and ink-making, and valuable for describing many processes now forgotten. 



7286 DIGGES (Leonard): A GEOMETRICAL PRACTISE, named PANTOMETRIA, diuided into three 

 Bookes, Longimetra, Planimetra, and Stereometria, containing Rules manifolde for mensuration 

 of all lines, Superficies, and Solides : with sundry straunge conclusions both by instrument and 

 without, and also by Perspective glasses, to set forth the true description or exact plat of an 

 whole Region: framed by LEONARD DIGGES, lately finished by THOMAS DIGGES his sonne. 

 Who hathe also thereunto adioyned a MATHEMATICALL TREATISE of the FIUE REGULARK 

 PLATONICALL BODIES, and their METAMORPHOSIS or transformation into fiue other equilater 

 vnifoorme solides Geometrical! , of his owne inuention, hitherto not mentioned by any Geo- 

 metricians, first edition, with numerous ingenious woodcuts, diagrams, and arm.s and printers' 

 device on rev. of title and last I., sm. 4to. partly in fclarfc letter ; old sheep (title slightly defective, 

 also bottom corners stained and worn away without injuring text] ; VERY RARE (cheap), 4. 10s 



Henrie Bynneman, 1571 



This first edition, dedicated to Sir Nicolas Bacon, is excessively rare. ' In this book i find the earliest printed mention 

 I ever met with of the theodolite' Prof, de Morgan. 



7287 SECOND EDITION : A GEOMETRICAL PRACTICAL TREATIZE named PANTOMETRIA . . . 



lately reviewed by the AUTHOR himselfe, and AUGMENTED with sundrie Additions, Diffinitions, 

 Problemes and rare Theoremes, to open the passage, and prepare away to the vnderstanding 

 of his Treatize of Martiall Pyrotechnic and great Artillerie, hereafter to be published, with 

 numerous woodcuts and diagrams, and shield of arms, pott folio, partly in fclarft letter ; hf. morocco 

 gilt (title soiled and slightly defective, and the work more or less stained throughout), RARE ; cheap, 

 4. 4s Abell Je/es, 1591 



1 The 21st chapter of the first book [in both editions] includes a remarkable description of ' the marvellous conclu- 

 sions that may be performed by glasses concave and convex, of circular and parabolic forms.' He practised, we are 

 there informed, the 'multiplication of beams' both by refraction and reflexion; knew that the paraboloidal shape 

 most perfectly doth unite beams, and most vehemently burneth of all other reflecting glasses ', and had obtained 

 with great success magnifying effects from a combination of lenses . . . The assertion that [Leonard] Digges antici- 

 pated the invention of the telescope is fully justified '.Miss Agnes M. Clarice. 



7288 ANOTHER COPY ; also : Rathborne (Aaron) The SURVEYOR, in Foure bookes ; with finely 

 engraved title with celestial and terrestrial globes (the latter showing AMERICA) and surveyors with 

 instruments, and numerous diagrams (portraits wanting] 2 vols. folio in 1, VERY FINE COPIES in 

 old calf gilt, 8. 10s A. Je/es, 1591 W. Stansby, 16 K 5 



The above copy of the first work bears a second title (unknown to bibliographers), with imprint: London. Printed lit 

 V. S. /or John Barnes, 1003. 



The second work, according to Donaldson, was ' the most valuable of the kind that was possessed by those times. 

 Nothing seems to be known of the author (who is ignored by D. N. B.). The various books comprise : I. The Elements of 

 Geometrie, with Theorems ; II. The Use and Operation of the former Theorems ; If I. The Exact Operation of Instrumental 1 

 Dimensions by divers meanes ; IV. The Legall Part of Survey. In the 3rd book the author describes 'the use of an 

 Instrument of mine owne, which I call the 1'eractor, and of a Chayne, which I call the DccinuiU Clunjne, with the divisions 

 and parts thereof: which rightly vnderstood and practised is farre more vsefull and absolute for speed and exactnesse, then 

 any yet euer vsed.' 



7289 DIGGES (Thomas ; M.P. for Wallingford) AL,E seu SCAL^: MATHEMATICS, quibis Visibilium 

 remotissima Coelorum Theatra conscendi, et Planetarum omnium Itinera novis et inauditin 

 Methodis explorari ; turn huius portentosi Syderis in Mundi Boreali plaga insolito fulgore 

 coruscantis, Distantia et Magnitude immensa, Situsque protiniis tremendus indagari, Deique 

 stupendum ostentum, Terricolis expositum, cognosci liquidissime possit ; with astronomical figure 

 on rev. of title, woodcut arms of the author arid Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley, and numerous 

 diagrams, sm. 4to. boards (VERY FINE COPY) ; VERY RARE, 2. 15s Londini [col. : Thomas Marsh], 1573 



Tins is largely an account of the new star which increased to great splendour in November, 1572, and caused much 

 exciterrent in England. It is dedicated to Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley, ' by whose orders he wrote the treatise ' (D.N.B.). 



'Thomas Digges ranks among the first mathematicians of the XVI. Century. Although he made no great addition to 

 science, yet his writings tended more to its cultivation than perhaps all those of other writers on the same subjects put 

 together.' J. 0. HaUin-ell-Phillipps. 



