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Scarce. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: Second edition of one of the most popular and influential works of science of the 19th century, and now considered a scarce work to obtain. On The Connexion Of The Physical Sciences was originally published in 1834 by Scottish polymath, and science writer Mary Somerville (1780-1872). Alongside her contemporary Caroline Herschel, she was jointly nominated as Honorary Member of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1835. \"Perhaps no woman of science until Marie Curie was as widely recognized in her own time. Not only did [Somerville's works] bring scientific knowledge in a broad range of fields to a wide audience, but thanks to her exceptional talents for analysis, organization, and presentation, they provided definition and shape for an impressive spread of scientific work\" (ODNB). In 1835, she became one of the first two female members of the Royal Astronomical Society - On the Connexion of the Sciences preceded that accolade by a year. In it, Somerville urges an interdisciplinary approach to science, arguing that new discoveries can be made when research \"unites detached branches by general principles.\" To truly advance human understandings of the world, a researcher must consider how astronomy, physics, meteorology and geology tackle overlapping problems to create a fully three-dimensional picture of the universe. \"In all there exists such a bond and a union that proficiency cannot be attained in any one without a knowledge of the others.\" Incorporating the most up to date research of the time, in consultation with leading scientists such as Faraday, Lyell, and Ampere, it was \"soon established as a scientific classic and bestseller, functioning for a time as an annual progress report for physical sciences\" as updated editions were released in 1835, 1836, and 1837 (ODNB). While Somerville's work was addressed to the professional scientific community as opposed to focusing on the education of women or children in the sciences; and in this sense she broke through a glass ceiling to be taken seriously by mathematicians including Laplace. And the philosopher John Stuart Mill so highly valued her work that he requested hers to be the first signature on his Parliamentary petition advocating for women's suffrage. The Morning Post upon her death proclaimed her the undisputed \"Queen of Science\". Ogilvie 245. 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Octavo (220 x 135 x 20 mm). Pp. [4], 76 + 10 folding plates. English text. Bound in contemporary full calf. Smooth spine gilt ruled and tooled with red morocco lettering-piece. Gilt armorial crest and frames to boards. Appendix to rear followed by 10 folding plates. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure. Some minor abrasions to upper board. Interior lightly toned with some spotting to plates. The first plate with slight edge wear. Author's presentation inscription to fep. 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Pp. xxxvi, 411, (1 advertisements); iv, 446, (2 errata). English text. Bound by J. Philip of Aberdeen in full tan calf. Spine gilt with four raised bands. Frames in gilt and blind to boards. Marbled endpapers. Printed footnotes. Textual diagrams. Printed by G. Woodfall, London. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Bindings tight and secure. Covers well-preserved with some light shelf wear. Textblocks largely clean with just a few fox spots mostly to endpapers. 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In Which Great Care has Been Taken to Collect What may Teach Youth Their Duty and Behaviour Towards God and Man, and to Avoid the Numerous Temptations of Life, and of Their own Ungovernable Passions.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Printed for G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, J. Walker, and G. Robinson, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-row; Scatcherd and Letterman, Ave-Maria-lane; W. J. and J. Richardson, Royal Exchange; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry; and Lackington, Allen, and Co., Finsbury-Square, 1807.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA new edition, with improvements, and additions. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Duodecimo (175 x 100 x 15 mm). Pp. 156. Signatures: A-F¹² G⁶. Initial and terminal blanks present. English text. Bound in contemporary full calf with smooth spine. Illustrations include an engraved portrait of the author and two-page engraved alphabet in which most letters are accompanied by a picture of a native of a different country. The frontispiece and alphabet included in the pagination. Hamilton \u0026amp; Co. printer -- foot of title page verso. Advertisement on tile-page verso is dated 1807. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Collated complete. The original binding very well-preserved, with the hinges intact and some light rubbing to spine ends. Interior largely clean with some light consistent browning. Contemporary previous owner signature neatly inked to front endpaper. 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Adds to the initial and terminal leaves. Condition: GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure with some rubbing and wear to extremities. Interior showing some light browning and toning. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Edward Cocker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41704900853931,"sku":"COCKER1736","price":250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_7618.jpg?v=1650272597"},{"product_id":"philosophiae-naturalis-principia-mathematica-by-isaac-newton-1822-leather-bound","title":"PHILOSOPHIAE NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA BY ISAAC NEWTON 1822 LEATHER BOUND","description":"[NEWTON, ISAAC; François Jacquier; Thomas Le Seur; Roger Cotes]. \u003cstrong\u003ePhilosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Auctore Isaaco Newtono, Eq. Aurato. Perpetuis Commentariis Illustrata, Communi Studio PP. 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Scarce.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: The first Glasgow re-issue of the 1739 Jesuits' edition, edited by John Martin Frederick Wright. The first Jesuits' edition was published in Geneva in 1739-1742 and the second in 1760. These so-called Jesuits' editions (so-called because the editors were really Minims) are valued because of their copious commentary, and also because they contain additional works by Bernoully, Maclarin, and Euler which represent all that was done on the theory of tides between the publication of Newton's Principia and the investigations of Laplace. 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Hamilton (1743-1829) was born in Edinburgh and his working life began as a clerk with a firm of bankers, during which period he, with other literary and political enthusiasts, formed the Speculative Society. In 1769 he became rector of Perth Academy and it was there that he published the first edition of this book in two volumes, 1777-79. It is the present corrected edition, however, that Bywater and Yamey, Historic Accounting Literature, chose to write a chapter on, where they fully describe its contents, innovations and importance. \"A relatively small number of books indicated how accounting arrangements, by double entry or otherwise, could be adapted to the recording of farming operations, whether on a large scale or small, or to manufacturing operations. Hamilton's Introduction to merchandise. 1788, about half of which is given to 'Italian Bookkeeping', has short chapters on the accounts of tradesmen (that is 'artificers and manufacturers'), of land stewards and of farmers\". 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To Levelling for the Conveyance of Water, either in Pipes or open Canals: together with an appendix, containing a new theory of the catoptric sextant, and its farther use, In an Entire New Method of Taking Heights and Distances, Independent of Trigonometry: Also, Measuring of Standing Timber. To Which are Added, Several New and Useful Tables. The Whole Illustrated With Copper-Plates. By B. Talbot, of the Mathematics at Cannock.\u003c\/strong\u003e Wolverhampton: printed for the author, and sold by J. Smart. Sold also by T. Lowndes, Fleet-Street, London; Messirs. Pearson and Rollason, Birmingham; and by all other booksellers, MDCCLXXIX. [1779].\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (220 x 130 x 35 mm). Pp. [2], xxiii, [1], 410, (2). Signatures: [ ] a⁸ b⁸ B-²C⁸ ²D⁶ (Dd6 blank). English text. Bound in contemporary half leather, with marbled paper-covered boards. Initial and terminal blanks present. Illustrated the engraved plates, tables and charts throughout. Condition: GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure, the spine sympathetically re-backed. Some light browning and toning, but the textblock largely well-preserved copy. Previous owner signatures to front pastedown and fep. 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D., recensuit; figuris melioribus, \u0026amp; commentariis pluribus illustravit, \u0026amp; indice auxit multo locupletiore. Tertia editio longe purgatissima. Cui accedunt Ioannis De Laet, Antvverpiani, De Gemmis \u0026amp; Lapidibus libri II. Et Theophrasti liber De Lapidibus, Gr. \u0026amp; Lat. cum brevibus notis. \u003c\/strong\u003eLugdinu Batavorum [Leiden]: Joannes Maire, 1647. [Bound together with:]\u003cstrong\u003e Ioannis de Laet Antvverpiani De Gemmis Et Lapidibus Libri Duo. Quibus præmittitur Theophrasti Liber de Lapidibus Græce \u0026amp; Latine Cum Brevibus Annotationibus.\u003c\/strong\u003e Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Ex Officina Ioannis Maire. Anno….1647.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTHIRD EDITION, EXPANDED AND WITH ADDITIONAL TEXTS. Two parts in one volume, leather-bound, hardcover, octavo (18cm x 12.5cm), pp. 576, 24; 64, 210, 6. Signatures: (?)4 A-Z8, Aa-Oo8, Pp4 (Pp4 blank); *-****8, A-N8, O4. Latin and Greek text, in roman letter. Bound in near contemporary full calf, banded spine, later morocco lettering-piece. Titles with woodcut printers device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, two folding letterpress tables, illustrated with eighty-seven woodcuts of gems and minerals (including geodes, hematite, crystals, coral, and fossils), indexes. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Second part without a title, but otherwise collates complete. The binding is tight and secure with minor scuffing to covers. The text, plates and figures are generally clean. Bearing Medical Society of London stamp and hand-written owner's inscription to the title-page which is moderately toned.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Third edition, the best and most complete, edited by the Belgian physician Adrian Toll (1610-1675), of \"one of the most important mineralogical works of the seventeenth century, marking a transition over previous lapidaries\" (Schuh). The mineralogical researches of Jan De Laet and the translation (presumably by de Laet) of Theophrastus' \"On Stones\" are added here for the first time.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"In his 'Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia' Boodt, the Bruges humanist and court physician to Rudolf II of Bohemia, made the first attempt at a systematic description of minerals, dividing the minerals into great and small, rare and common, hard and soft, combustible and incombustible, transparent and opaque. He uses a scale of hardness expressed in three degrees and notes the crystalline forms of some minerals (triangular, quadratic, and hexangular). Boodt criticizes some of the views of Aristotle, Pliny, Paracelsus, and others, but accepts the existence of the four elements and three principles, although he also mentions atoms. He enumerates 600 minerals that he knows from personal observation, and describes their properties, values, imitations and medical applications. There are also tables of values of diamonds according to their size and a short description of the polishing of precious stones. Boodt cites nineteen authors and, besides the minerals known to him, gives a list of 233 minerals whose names he knows from Pliny and Bartholomeus Anglicus, among others.\" (DSB)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"De Boodt assembled virtually all of the knowledge then extant...by far the most thorough and complete up to date... [The book] is further distinguished by its intimate knowledge of the art of the lapidary and must therefore be regarded as the first treatise to offer more than the briefest views of gem cutting.\" (Sinkakas)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"One of the most important mineralogical works of the seventeenth century, Boodt's work marks a transition over previous lapidaries. A new era was marked with its publication, one in which the believes of the past began to be challenged, and the researchers began to use hypothesis and experimentation to present new ideas… Boodt was skeptical of the curative virtues of various gems. He suspected that it was coincidental that a specific type of gemstone was associated with a sick person who became well. Instead, he believed if stones had curative powers it was because they worked in concert with the body to effect a cure, not any supernatural property.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Discussing the properties of stones, Boodt gives a long discussion of hardness. He provides the earliest system of hardness grading for the various stones, which acted as a crude index to distinguish imitation gems from genuine. He distinguished three degrees of hardness and also included softness as a related but different property. Soft stones are considered such if fingers alone are sufficient to rub away the surface. Hard stones are called hard when they can neither be rubbed away with fingers nor cut by iron. Hard stones are classified under three categories: (1) a steel file can scratch the stone, (2) only the use of the Smyrna stone [emerald??] can cut the surface, and (3) those that can only be rubbed away with a diamond point.\" (Mineralogical Record)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrunet: 1, no. 1108; Dryander, Catalogus Banks, 1796-1800: 4, p. 6; Freilich Sale Catalog: no. 69; Roller \u0026amp; Goodman, Catalogue, 1976: 1, 140; Sinkankas, Gemology Bibliography, 1993: no. 781; Poggendorff: 1, col. 1341.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MFR Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43623128203435,"sku":"","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/files\/SAM_1534.jpg?v=1711135499"}],"url":"https:\/\/rarebooksboutique.com\/collections\/science.oembed?page=8","provider":"MFR Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}