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Scientific Instruments
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Drawing Instrument For Conic Sections (1627)
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[Instruments] BRAMER, Benjamin. Instrumentum Conicum Universale. Kassel, 1627.
Very rare first and only edition of this separately published broadside, describing an instrument for drawing conic sections invented by one of the most prolific architects and mathematicians of early seventeenth-century Germany.
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Instrument Book With Do-It-Yourself Compass
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[INstruments] GALGEMAIR, Georg. Herrn Georgii Galgemairs Kurtzer gründlicher gebesserter unnd vermehrter underricht/ Zuberitung und gebrauch/ Der hochnutlichen mathematischen Instrumenten/ Proportional Schregmäß und Circkels/ benebens dem fundament deß visierens. Ulm, Joseph Meder, 1615.
Second, greatly expanded edition of a primer describing the construction & use of two instruments—a proportional compass (Circkel) and lineal compass (Schregmäß)—for the measurement of geometrical solids and lines, respectively.
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The Invention of the Air Pump and the Electric Generator
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GUERICKE, Otto von. Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio Prim R. P. Gaspare Schotto.... Amsterdam, J. Janssonium a Waesberge, 1672.
First edition, and a fine copy, of one of the great classics of science.
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Broadside Sales Catalogue
Of Artists’ Drawing & Optical Instruments
Including Galileo's Sector
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LUSVERG[H], Domenico. Notta delli Stromenti Piu Generali. n.p. [but Rome?], [c. 1698].
Extremely rare survival of an illustrated and priced broadside sales catalogue advertising the diverse scientific and drawing instruments manufactured by Domenico Lusvergh in Rome.
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Improving on Napier
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MORLAND, [Sir Samuel]. The Description and Use of Two Arithmetick Instruments. London, Moses Pitt, 1673.
First edition of the first book on a calculator written in English, and the first separate work on the subject after Napier's Rabdologiae.
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