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GENERAL SCIENCE. 



Masdevall, Joseph. Dictamen dado de orden del Rey sobre si las 

 Fabricas de Algodon y Lana son perniciosas 6 no a la Salud 

 publica. [4°. Madrid, 1786.] 



Relacion de las Epidemias de Calenturas putridas y malignas 



que en estos ultimos anos se ban padecido en Cataluna. Segnnda 

 edicion. 4°. Madrid, 178G. 



Maseres, Francis. A dissertation on the use of the Negative Sign in 

 Algebra, showing how Quadratic and Cubic Equations may be 

 explained without the consideration of Negative Roots ; to which 

 is added Mr. Machin's Quadrature of the Circle. 4°. London, 1758. 



■ Elements of Plane Trigonometry ; in which is introduced a 



dissertation on the nature and use of Logarithms. 



8°. London, 1760. 



The principles of the doctrine of Life- Annuities explained in a 



familiar manner, with Tables of the Values of such Annuities. 



4°. London, 1783. 



Scriptores Logarithmici ; or a collection of several curious 



tracts on the Nature and Construction of Logarithms mentioned 

 in Dr. Hutton's historical introduction to Sherwin's Mathematical 

 Tables, together with some tracts on the Binomial Theorem and 

 other subjects connected with the doctrine of Logarithms. 



6 vols. 4°. London, 1791-1807. 



A discourse on the Reversion of Infinite Serieses : containing 



an explanation of two Methods of reverting such Serieses, in- 

 vented by Sir Isaac Newton ; together with an application of 

 them. 4°. London, 1794. 



The Doctrine of Permutations and Combinations, being an 



essential and fundamental part of the Doctrine of Chances as it is 

 delivered by James Bernoulli in his ' Ars conjectandi,' and by J. 

 Wall is ; together with other mathematical Tracts. 



8°. London, 1795. 



Tracts on the Resolution of Cubick and Biquadratick Equations. 



8°. London, [1803.] 



Scriptores Optici, or a collection of tracts relating to Optics. 



[Edited by Charles Babbage.] 4°. London, 1823. 



Contents: — J.Gregory, Optica promota; Des Cartes, Dioptrice ; F. a Schooten, 

 Explicatio ovalium opticse inservientium ex lib. 2 Geometrise 

 E. Des Cartes ; C Huyghens, Traite de la Lumiere ; C Kabuel, 

 De quelques figures de Verres ; M. P. Mathers, Great and new- 

 Art of Weighing Vanity ; E. Halley, Excellence of the Modern 

 Algebra ; I. Barrow, Lectiones xviii. 



Masetti, Giovambattista. Tachimetri Idraulici. See GardinaK: 

 Nuova Raccolta. 



Maskelyne, (Rev.) Nevil. The British Mariner's Guide, containing 

 instructions for the discovery of the Longitude at sea and land, 

 within a degree ; to which are added an appendix containing 



