630 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 



NEWTONIANA, continued. 



12629 WRIGHT (John Martin Frederick, Trin. Coll., Cantab.) COMMENTARY on NEWTON'S 

 PRINCIPIA; with a SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME, diagrams, 2 vols. roy. 8vo. boards (backs torn off), 

 4sjod 1833 



12630 ANOTHER COPY, 2 vols. prize calf (joints cracked), with inscr. signed by John Fleming, 



D.D., Aberdeen, 5s 



12631 NEWTON (John; D.D., Canon of Hereford) ASTRONOMIA BRITANNICA, exhibiting the 

 Doctrine of the Sphere, and Theory of the Planets DECIMALLY by TRIGONOMETRY, and by 

 Tables, fitted for the MERIDIAN of LONDON, according to the COPERNICAN SYSTEME, as it is 

 illustrated by BULLIALDUS, and the easie Way of Calculation, lately published by DR. WARD, 

 with numerous diagrams, 4to. old calf (title and some II. soiled, and back of binding damaged) ; 

 RARE, 10* Qd R. and W. Leyboum, 1(557 



The second book contains 'The Theory of the Planets . . . exhibiting their first Inequalities at' one Operation 

 Trigonometrical, their other Inequalities, and Eclipses of the Sun and Moon with much Ease ' ; and the third ' Tables for 

 the converting of Sexagenary Numbers into Decimal and the contrary, for Astronomical Chronologie with the 

 Ecclesiastical Computation, and the Calculation of the Planets, Eclipses ', etc. etc. Both have separate titles dated 165ti. 



' His writings are a proof of bis great application to study, and a sufficient monument cf his genius and skill in the 

 mathematical sciences.' Dr. Mutton. 



12632 NEWTON (Thomas, pr.) SHORT TREATISE on the CONIC SECTIONS; in which the Three 

 Curves are derived from a general Description on a Plane, and the most useful Properties of each 

 are deduced from a Common Principle, with II folding plates, 8vo. boards, 5s Cambridge, 1794 



Intended as an introduction to the fluxional calculus. 



12633 NIAUDET (Alfred) TRAITE ELEMENTAIRE de la PILE ELECTRIQUE, premiere edition ; irith 

 56 woodcuts, 8vo. cl. (scarce). 6s 1878 



The first full account of the Voltaic pile or electric battery, including many forms long since forgotten. 



12634 - ELEMENTARY TREATISE on ELECTRIC BATTEKIES, translated by L. M. FISHBACK, with 

 55 woodcuts, cr. 8vo. hf. calf (title stamped), 4s Qd (p. }2s Qd) New York, 1880 



12635 NICHOL (John Pring-le, F.R.A.S.) The PHENOMENA and ORDER of the SOLAR SYSTEM, with 

 21 lithographs, many after old prints, and woodcuts, post 8vo. cl., 3s Edin., 1838 



12f.36 The PLANET NEPTUNE: an Exposition and History, with Opiates, and diagrams, 8vo. 



cl., 2s ib., 1848 



]2637 THOUGHTS on some IMPORTANT POINTS relating to the SYSTEM of the WORLD, with 



14 plates (3 folding], besides woodcuts, 8vo. cl., or, hf. calf, 3s ib., 1846 

 12638 VIEWS of the ARCHITECTURE of the HEAVENS, with 23 plates, and diagrams, 8vo. cl., 



3s ib., 1837 



Nichol was a prolific and successful writer. His books were eloquent, enthusiastic, and learned. ' George Eliot ' 

 described herself in 1841 as ' revelling ' in them, and they were most effective in the popularisation of science. . . . His as- 

 tronomical observations were directed chiefly to the physical features of the moon, and to the nebulae.'etc. Agnes M. Clerke. 



12639 NICHOLS (Edward Leamington, Cornell Univ.). and William Suddards FRANKLIN : 

 The ELEMENTS of PHYSICS, Vol. L: MECHANICS and HEAT, with 143 illustrations, 8vo. cl., 3s Qd 

 (p. 6* nett) New York, 1890 



12640 NICHOLS (William Ripley) WATER SUPPLY ; considered mainly from a Chemical and 

 Sanitary Standpoint, 3rd Edition, with 54 woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 3s Qd (p. 10s Qd) New York, 1888 



12641 NICHOLSON (John, C.E.) The MILLWRIGHT'S GUIDE: a Practical Treatise on the Con- 

 struction of all kinds of Mill Work, and the Application of the Power of Wind and Water, with 



15 plates, and vignette on title, 8vo. hf. cl., 2s 6d 1830 

 12642 The OPERATIVE MECHANIC, and BRITISH MACHINIST : a Practical Display of the 



Manufactories and Mechanical Arts of the United Kingdom, with folding Jront. and 95 plates, 

 thick 8vo. hf. calf, with auto, of George Rennie. F.R.S., 5s 1825 



Including a chapter on horology, with illustrations of the various escapements, and a very copious account of mills, 

 afterwards published in a separate form (supra). 



J12643 NICHOLSON (Peter) The BUILDER'S and WORKMAN'S NEW DIRECTOR, with the Elements 

 and Practice of Geometry in its Application to the Building Art ; new Edition, much enlarged, 

 with portrait by Armstrong after T. Heaphy, 136 plates, and numerous diagrams, 2 vols. 4to. hf. 

 *alf, Ss 6d 1845 



4 He was the first author who treated of the methods of forming the joints, and the hingeing and the hanging of door.s 

 and shutters, and was also the first to notice that Grecian mouldings were conic sections, and that the volutes of Ionic 

 capitals ought to be composed of logarithmic spirals . . . His invention of the centrolinead for use in drawing perspective 

 views procured him 20 guineas from the Society of Arts.' D. N. B. 



12644 - MECHANICAL EXERCISES ; or, the Elements and Practice of Carpentry, Joinery, Brick- 

 laying, Masonry, Slating. Plastering, Painting, Smithing, and Turning, with a full Description of 

 the TOOLS, and copious Directions for their Use, an Explanation of the Terms, and an Intro- 

 duction to Practical Geometry, with 39 fine copperplates, 8vo. hf. calf (sound copy), Is Qd 1812 



12645 PRACTICAL TREATISE on MENSURATION, wherein the MEASUREMENT of CURVED 



SURFACES in particular is clearly explained, by Means of their Plans, Sections, and Elevations, 

 accompanied with a Scale, with Pecksniff-jawed portrait in mezzotint (foxed) and 25 plates, 4to. 

 hf. cl., 6s Qd [1827J 



' His great ability as a mathematician enabled him to simplify and generalise many old methods, besides inventing new 

 ones. He formulated rules for finding sections of prisms, cylinders, or cylindroids, which enabled workmen to execute 

 handrails with greater facility and from less material than previously . . . and was the inventor of the application of 

 orthographical projection to solids in general.' D. N. B. 



12646 The PRINCIPLES of ARCHITECTURE, with the TRUE METHOD of drawing the ICHNO- 



GRAPHY and ORTHOGRAPHY of Objects; Geometrical Rules for Shadows; also the Five Orders 

 of Architecture, etc., etc., 5th Ed., with Additions, with 216 finely engraved plates by W. Lowry, 

 F.R.S., Cosmo Armstrong, etc., from drawings by the author, 3 vols. 8vo. cl, 10* Qd 1841 



The last edition edited by the author himself. 



