printed for the author: and sold by
T. Payne and Son;
B. White and Son;
J. Robson;
T. Cadell [and others];
1792. [Price
two guineas in boards.]
[QA31 .P75]
2 vol. 4to. 165 and 224 leaves, engraved vignettes on the titles, mathematical diagrams in the text.
Lowndes IV, 1978.
Sotheran 13691.
Proclus,
known as
Proclus Diadochus, 410-485, a native of Constantinople, succeeded to the chair of philosophy at Athens about 450.
Thomas Taylor, 1758-1835, English Platonist. His first edition of Proclus appeared in 1788-9.
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Love’s surveying.
8
vo.
The author of this book is entered in the index of the Library of Congress 1815 Catalogue, with reference to this chapter,
but there is no entry in the chapter itself. The book was probably not sold to Congress.
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7
Gibson’s surveying.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 111, no. 8, as above.
GIBSON,
Robert.
A Treatise of Practical Surveying . . . The
Sixth Edition. By Robert Gibson, Teacher of the Mathematics. With Alterations and Amendments, adapted to the use of American surveyors.
Philadelphia: printed by
Joseph Crukshank,
1792.--
Mathematical Tables: Difference of latitude and departure: Logarithms, from 1 to 10,000. Artificial sines, tangents, and secants.
ib.
1794.--[Robertson, John.]
Tables of Latitude and Departure: constructed to every quarter of a degree of the quadrant, and continued from one, to the
distance of one hundred miles or chains.
ib.
mdccxc
. [1790.]
3 parts in 1, 8vo., text, plates and tables. No copy of this edition was seen for collation.
Evans 24357.
Karpinski, page 83, for the first two books.
This edition of Robertson not in Karpinski.
Robert Gibson, British mathematician. The first American edition (the fifth edition) was published by Crukshank in 1789. The work was frequently
reprinted.
John Robertson, 1712-1776, was successively master of the Royal Mathematical School at Christ’s Hospital, the first master of the Royal
Naval Academy at Portsmouth, and clerk and librarian to the Royal Society. His
Tables of Latitude are found with several editions of Gibson’s
Treatise of Practical Surveying.
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Gregory’s practical geometry.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 111, no. 7, as above.
GREGORY,
David.
A Treatise of Practical Geometry: in Three Parts. By the late Dr. David Gregory . . . Translated from the
Latin. With additions . . .
Edinburgh: for
Hamilton, Balfour & Neill,
1756.
8vo. 61 leaves; no copy was seen for collation.
Not in Lowndes.
This edition not in Watt.
David Gregory, 1661-1708, Scottish astronomer and mathematician. This is the
third edition of the
English translation by Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746) of Gregory’s mathematical lectures, first published in 1745. Gregory was the first professor to lecture publicly
on the Newtonian philosophy.
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