HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 699 



13960 BEADE (Joseph, M.D.) EXPERIMENTAL OUTLINES for a NEW THEORY of COLOURS, LIGHT 

 and VISION : with Critical Remarks on SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S OPINIONS, and some NEW EXPERI- 

 MENTS on RADIANT CALORIC, with coloured prismatic front., and diagrams, 8vo. cl., uncut (rare), 

 12s 6d 18 1 8 



The author tries to prove that the analysis of light and heat by the glass prism is a delusion. The following are some 

 of his axioms : ' Blackness is compounded of blue, red and yellow rays, and there is as strong a reflection from black as 

 from any other coloured substance ' (p. 1) : ' Atoms change colour with every change of condensation ' (p. 164) : ' The- 

 colours in Newton's experiment were occasioned by the black light, reflected from the inner margin of the hole in the- 

 quire of paper ' (p. 258). There are nevertheless some sound remarks in this painstaking paradox. 



13961 BECKEN (W. A.) Das GEHEIMNISS, GUSSEISEN . . . zu VERSTAHLEN : Die KUNST, alle 

 Sorten STAHL . . . auf eine sehr schnelle und sichere Weise zu SCHNEIDEN 2 pamphlets, 12mo. 

 unbound, 3s Qd Quedlinburg, 1839* 



13962 [RECORDE (Robert, M.D.) The CASTLE of KNOWLEDGE [on reverse of title:} containing the 

 Explication of the Sphere, bothe celestiall and materiall, and diuers other Thinges incident therto.. 

 With sundry pleasaunt Proofes and certaiue newe Demonstrations not written before in any vulgare 

 Woorkes], first edition, with numerous good woodcuts and diagrams, 4to. hf. bound (binding 

 damaged, title, dedication to Q. Mary (1 /.), and 1. of Errata wanting, also some II. stained) ; VERY 

 RARE, 3. 3* [colophon:] Reginalde Wolfe, 1556 



This book contains a dedication in English to Queen Mary, and another in Latin to Cardinal Pole. D. N. B. errone- 

 ously mentions 1551 as the date of the first edition, a statement palpably wrong, as Queen Mary's accession did no take 

 place until 1553, and Cardinal Pole was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury (the work being dedicated to him as such) 

 only after Abp. Cranmer's execution in 1556. 



He was probably the first, certainly one of the first, in England to adopt the Copernican system, which was only put 

 forward as an hypothesis in 1543 ; though he seems to have thought the world not quite ripe for such a doctrine, and was 

 perhaps afraid to avow it very distinctly. He advises his reader not to rely too much on Ptolemy ; but it appears that he 

 had not quite abandoned astrology. . . . In his prefaces, introductions, and conclusions he frequently indulges in very 

 passable poetry (a beautiful and dignified hymn from The Castle of Knowledge is quoted in Collier's Bibliogiaphical 

 Account).'!). N. B. 



13963 The GROUND of ARTS teaching the perfect Worke and Practise of ARITHMETICKE, both 



in WHOLE NUMBERS and FRACTIONS, after a more easie and exact Sort, than hitherto hath bene 

 set forth. And now lately diligently corrected and beautified with sundry new Rules and 

 necessarie Additions [by JOHN DEE] : And further endowed with a third Part of Rules of Practise, 

 abridged into a briefer Method than hitherto hath bene published : with diuerse such necessarie 

 Rules as are incident to the trade of MERCHANDISE. Whereunto are also added diuerse Tables 

 and Instructions that will bring great Profit and Delight vnto Marchants, etc. etc., by JOHN 

 MELLIS, Mack fetter, I2mo. old calf, rebacked, 4. 10s John Harison, 1605 



This edition is not mentioned in a list of 27 different ones in D. N. B., nor is there a copy in the British Museum. 



13964 NEW EDITION, with a COMPENDIUM of INTEREST, and Table of Board and Timber 



Measure, calculated by R[OBERT] N[ORTON] , and now diligently perused, corrected, illustrated 

 and inlarged ; with Appendix of FIGURATE NUMBERS, and the Extraction of their ROOTES, by 

 ROBERT HARTWELL, Philomathematicus, partly black letter, thick 16mo. old vellum, 3. 10s 



printed by I. B.for Roger Jackson, 1618 



The first edition with Robert Norton's additions. There is no copy in the British Museum Catalogue of English 

 Books to 1640. 



13965 NEW EDITION, now the second Time diligently perused, corrected, illustrated, and 



inlarged ; with Appendix of Figurate Numbers, and the Extraction of their Rootes, according to 

 the Method of CHRISTAN [sic] VRSTITIUS; by ROBERT HARTWELL, and NEW TABLES of 

 INTEREST vpon Interest, after 10 for 100 ; with the true Value of ANNUITIES to be bought or 

 sold, present, Respited, or in Reversion: By R. C., partly black letter ; 12mo. old calf, gilt wna- 

 ments on sides (back rubbed and joints cracked, also stamp on title ; otherwise a LARGE AND SOUND 

 COPY), 2. 15s printed by John Bealefor Roger Jackson, 1623 



The first edition enlarged by 'R.C.' 



13966 NEW EDITION, with new Tables of Interest upon Interest, after 10 and 8 per 100; with 



the true Value of Annuities to be bought or sold present, Respited, or in Reversion : the first 

 calculated by R. C. but corrected, and the latter diligently calculated by ROBERT HARTWELL, 

 Philomath em at. , partly black letter; 12mo. contemporary sheep (4 II. in MS. and title slightly 

 mended), 1. 5s printed by Tho: Harper, for John Harison, 1632 



A rare edition, not mentioned in D. N. B., nor is there a copy in Brit. Mus. C. E. B. to 1640. 



13967 : RECORDS ARITHMETIC: or the Ground of Arts: with New Tables of Interest after 



10. 8. and 6. per 100 ; with the True Value of Annuities, to be bought or sold present, Respited, 

 or in Reversion : the first calculated by R. C. but corrected, and the latter diligently calculated 

 by K. HARTWELL, partly black letter; thick 12mo. old calf (rebacked and joint cracked, otherwise 

 a very sound copy), with auto, of Prof. W. H. Lloyd Tanner, F.R.S., 1. 12s 6d 



printed by James Flesher, and are to be sold by Joseph Cranfprd, 1658 

 The first edition edited by Thomas Willsford, who added tables and an address ' To every young Arithmetician'. 



13968 REPRINT, partly black letter ; thick 12mo. contemporary sheep (a very sound and clean 



copy), 1. 10s printed by James Flesher, and are to be sold by Robert Boulter, 1668 



13969 ANOTHER COPY, hf. bound (title mounted and sliqhtlii defective], with auto, of Samuel 



Roberts, F.R.S., 1. Is 



' Recorde was practically the founder of an English School of mathematical writers. He was the first writer in English 

 on arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy, and the first to introduce algebra into England. ... He also uses fractions and 

 Arabic numerals with greater freedom than was usual in his time. . . . Recorde's mathematical works continued to be 

 standard authorities till the end of the Sixteenth Century, and his Grounde of Artcs was still popular at the end of the 

 Seventeenth '. D. N. B., where 27 different editions of the work are quoted. 



'He published an arithmetic, termed the Grounde of Artes, in which he employed the signs + to indicate excess and 

 - to indicate deficiency. ... In this book the equality of two ratios is indicated by two equal and parallel lines, whose 

 opposite ends are joined diagonally, e.g. by Z ' W. W. R. Boll. 



v. HATTON, nos. 1808 and 9011 ante. 



