HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 695 



13880 RAMUS (Petrus, Gallice PIERRE DE LA RAMEE) ARITHMETICS Libri II : GEOMETRIC 



XXVII, a LAZARO SCHONERO recogniti et aucti ; with numerous woodcuts and diagrams, and 



printer's device on title and blank I. at end, 4to. sewn (a few II. slightly water-stained, otherwise a 



VERY SOUND AND TALL COPY) ; RARE, 1.1* Francofurti, apud Andrece Wecheli heredes, 1599 



This edition also includes the author's Algebras Libri II, and 2 treatises by the editor: 'De Numeris Fignratis ', and 

 ' De Logistica Sexagenaria'. 



In the same way as Ramus first demolished the belief in Aristotelian infallibility (for which lie was expelled from the 

 University of Paris and banished from Francf), so he first showed in his Gcomcti ia the shortcomings of the Euclidean 

 geometry. He was one of the victims of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. 



The above edition was unknown to Prof, de Morgan, who only mentions that of 1502. 



13887 VIA REGIA ad GEOMETRIAM. The WAY to GEOMETRY, being necessary and usefull, 



for Astronomers, Geographers, Land-meaters, Sea-men, Engineres, Architecks', Carpenters, 

 Paynters, Carvers, etc., now translated and enlarged by WILLIAM BEDWELL, with numerous 

 woodcuts and diagrams, sm. 4to. old sheep (back damaged; also a few II. missing at end and i wo other 

 defective, otherwise a sound copy] ; VERY RARE, 1. 1* Printed by Thomas Cotes, 1636 



The translator was rector of St. Ethelburg-a's, Bishopsgate Street (which seems to have had some remarkable incumbents 

 since the Reformation), one of the translators of the Authorised Version, and ' the father of Arabic studies in England.' 



'His enlarged version of Ram us' s 'Way to Geometry' was posthumously published in 1636. From this book it 

 appears that he was a personal friend of John Greaves and Henry Briggs.' D. N. B. 



13888 BANKIN (DanielJ.) PROSPECTING for GOLD: a Handbook of Practical Information, and 

 Hints for Prospectors, based on Personal Experience, with front., 32 woodcuts, and linen-mounted 

 table, 18mo. roan, g. e., 4s (p. 7* Qd nett) 1901 



13889 KANKINE (David) POPULAR EXPOSITION of the EFFECT of FORCES applied to DRAUGHT, 

 Avith Illustrations of the Principles of Action, and Tables for the Performance of Horses and of 

 Locomotive Engines on Railways, and Appendix of Results of some Experiments on Friction, 



with plate, 8vo. (pp. 76), sewn (SCABCE), 10s 6d Glasgow, 1828 



The author was the father of Prof. W. J. Macquorn Raiikine, F.R s., who helped him when superintendent of the 

 Edinburgh and Dalbeith Railway. The work contains the following chapters (pp. 18-66) on RAILWAYS: Of the 



father of Prof. W. J. Macquorn Raiikine, F.R s., who helped him when superintendent of the 

 th Railway. The work contains the following chapters (pp. 18-6, r >) on RAILWAYS: Of the 



Mechanical Advantage of a Railway ; Operation of Horses on Railways (with 6 Tables) ; Of Locomotive Engines ; Table 

 of Performance of Locomotive Engines ; aud Speed of Locomotive Ergines. 



' We hear that experiments are being made relative to the employment of steam carriages on common roads. If these 

 should prove successful, as I have no doubt they will, we shall find animal give place to steam power even on common 

 roads '.p. 65. But the ordinary roadbed of the period shook the pioneer highway locomotive all to bits, and the roads 

 remained safe and pleasant to walk on for nearly eighty years. 



13890 RANKINE (William John Macquorn, F.R.S.) MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC PAPERS, from 

 the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal and other Scientific or Philosophical Societies, and 

 the Scientific Journals, with MEMOIR by PETER GUTHRIE TAIT, edited by W. J. MILLAR, with 

 fine K apieresque portrait on steel by Adlard, 4 plates, and numerous diagrams, thick roy. Svo. cl. , 

 'I6s6d(p. 1. llsQd) 1881 



The work is divided into 3 parts : Temperature, Elasticity, and Expansion of Vapours, Liquids, and Solids ; Energy 

 and its Transformations, Thermodynamics, Mechanical Action of Heat in the Steam Engine, etc. ; Wave Forms, Propul- 

 sion of Vessels, Stability of Structures, etc. ; and contains his application (simultaneously with Lord Kelvin and 

 Clausius) of the doctrine that heat and work are convertible, to the discovery of new relations among the properties of 

 bodies ; as well as all his important papers on molecular physics. 



13891 ABSTRACT of a PAPER on the HYPOTHESIS of MOLECULAR VORTICES, and its Applica- 

 tion to the Mechanical Theory of Heat, Svo. (pp. 14), unbound, with inscr. to Allen Thomson, 

 F.fi.S.,3sQd [1850] 



'Showing how the laws of the phenomena of elasticity and expansion, as connected with heat, may be reduced to 

 mechanical principles by the hypothesis of molecular vortices.' P. 1. 



13892 : On the DECOMPOSITION of FORCES externally applied to an ELASTIC SOLID, 4to. (pp. 13), 



sewn, 2s Edin., 1872 



13893 On the EXACT FORM of WAVES near the SURFACE of DEEP WATER, with 2 diagrams, 



4to. (pp. 12), sewn, 3s Qd [1863] 



13894 On the EXPANSIVE ENERGY of HEATED WATER, Svo. (pp. 32), unbound, 2s Qd [1863] 



13895 INTRODUCTORY LECTURE on the HARMONY of THEORY and PRACTICE in MECHANICS, 



Svo. (pp. 22), unbound, with author's inscr., 2s 1856 



13896 MANUAL of APPLIED MECHANICS, 7th Edition, thoroughly revised by EDWARD FISHER 



B AMBER, with 265 illustrations, thick cr. Svo. cl., 3s (p. 12s 6d) 1873 



13897 THIRTEENTH EDITION, thoroughly revised by W. J. MILLAR, with numerous diagrams, 



thick large cr. Svo. cl., 6s (p. 12s 6d) 1891 



13898 MANUAL of CIVIL ENGINEERING, 9th Edition, thoroughly revised by E. F. BAMBER, 



C.E., with 299 diagrams, thick cr. Svo. cl., 3s Qd (p. 16s) 1873 



13899 MANUAL of MACHINERY and MILLWORK, 2nd Edition, thoroughly revised by E. F. 



BAMBER, C.3., with 287 diagrams, thick cr. Svo. cl., 3s (p. 12s Qd) 1873 



13900 MANUAL of the STEAM ENGINE, and other PRIME MOVERS, 7th Edition, revised by 



E. F. BAMBER, C.E., with folding chart, and 184 woodcuts and diagrams, thick cr. Svo. cl., 3s 

 (p. 12s 6rf) 1874 



The first treatise on the steam-engine which was based on the mechanical theory of heat, and still one of the best text- 

 books on the subject. 



13901 On PLANE WATER-LINES in Two DIMENSIONS, with 2 plates, 4to. (pp. 23), sewn, 



3s Qd [1864] 



13902 On the RECONCENTRATION of the MECHANICAL ENERGY of the UNIVERSE, 8vo. (pp. 3), 



sewn, with inscr. to Allen Thomson, F.R.S., 2s 1852 



Containing suggestions in connexion with Lord Kelvin's theory of the Dissipation of Energy. * 



13903 On the THERMODYNAMIC THEORY of WAVES of FINITE LONGITUDINAL DISTURBANCE, 



4to. (pp. 12), sewn, 3s [1870] 



'Determining the, relations which must exist between the laws of the elasticity of any substance, whether gaseous, 

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