Hydrostatical and pneumatical lectures.
COTES, Roger
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From Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 15 July 2015
About this Item
[18], 273 [i.e. 289]pp, [11]. With five engraved folding plates and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary calf, recently rebacked, black morocco lettering-piece. Boards worn and marked. Hinges exposed, armorial bookplate of agricultural reformer Arthur Young (1741-1820) to FEP, head of title page shaved, scattered spotting. Ink-stamps of the Royal Agricultural Society of England to verso of title page and final page of index. The English mathematician Roger Cotes (1682-1716) was appointed Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge in 1706. A close friend of Newton, Cotes edited the second edition of the Principia in 1713. His untimely death was a great loss to English science, and Newton observed 'If he had lived we might have known something'. Cote's lectures, which were formal demonstration classes, were among the earliest of their kind in England. First published in 1738, this work is notable for containing the first English translations of Edmond Halley's 'Reason for Rising and Falling in the Barometer upon changes of Weather' and Newton's 'Scale of Degrees of Heat'. ESTC T144320. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # AQ28328
Bibliographic Details
Title: Hydrostatical and pneumatical lectures.
Publisher: Printed by J. Bentham Printer to the University, for W. Thurlbourn, Cambridge
Publication Date: 1747
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: Second edition.
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