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Physics & Optics
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's GRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob. Essai de perspective. The Hague, la Veuve d'Abraham Troyel, 1711.
I. Rare first edition of this "milestone in the gradual transformation of the science of perspective into descriptive geometry." - Vagnetti Praised by Johan Bernoulli, this important study simplifies the various methods then in practical use, including those dealing with shadows and gnomics.
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Magnetism At Sea
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BARLOW, Peter. An Essay On Magnetic Attractions, And On The Laws Of Terrestrial And Electro Magnetism. Second Edition, much enlarged and improved... London, J. Mawman, 1823.
First published London, 1820, this is the second enlarged edition of Barlow's shipboard study of magnetism.
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Popularizing Electricity
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BIANCONI, Giovanni. Sendschrieben uber die Electricitat an den herrn Grafen Algarotti. Basel, Joh. Rudolf Imhof, 1750.
First German edition (translated from the 1748 French original) of Bianconi's letter addressed to Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764), author of Neutonismo per le donne (1733), which did much to popularize Newtonian views on optics on the continent and made him a European celebrity at the age of twenty-one.
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Building Blocks Of Biomechanics
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BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso. De Vi Percussionis, et Motionibus Naturalibus a Gravitate Pendentibus... Leiden, Vander Aa, 1686.
First combined edition and their first appearance north of the Alps of Borelli's two major works of mechanics'De Vi Percussionis and Motionibus Naturalibus which provide the essential building blocks for his famous De Motu Animalium, the author's pioneering work in biomechanics.
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CARDANO, Girolamo. De Subtilitate. Libri XXI. Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1550.
First edition, fine copy in a handsome contemporary binding, and especially unusual bound with the supplemental work published 7 years later of Cardano's encyclopedic survey of the sciences.
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