Entered in the undated manuscript catalogue with the price,
4/3.
Colin Maclaurin, 1698-1746, Scottish mathematician and natural philosopher. In 1719 he visited London, made the acquaintance of Sir Isaac
Newton and was admitted a member of the Royal Society. Through Newton’s influence he obtained an appointment at Edinburgh
University where he remained until “the Forty-Five,” and withdrew to England after the capture of Edinburgh. The first edition
of this work was posthumously published in 1748, and the second in 1750.
Patrick Murdoch, d. 1774, a pupil and friend of Maclaurin, was educated at Edinburgh University. He is famous for having been described in
The Castle of Indolence
by his friend James Thomson as “a little round, fat, oily man of God.”
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Keill. Introductio ad Physicam.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 113, no. 4, as above.
KEILL,
John.
Introductiones ad Veram Physicam et Veram Astronomiam, quibus accedunt Trigonometria, de Viribus Centralibus, de Legibus Attractionis. Lugduni Batavorum,
mdccxxv
[1725.]
4
o. 47 plates; a copy was not available for collation.
Sotheran,
Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica, no. 2330.
Graesse IV, 8.
John Keill, 1671-1721, Scottish mathematician and astronomer, was for a time lecturer in experimental philosophy at Hart Hall, Oxford,
where he was succeeded in 1710 by Desaguliers, q.v. His lectures were first printed in 1701. Keill was a fellow of the Royal
Society.
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Nicholson’s introduction to Nat. Philosophy.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 114, no. 9, as above,
Natural not abbreviated.
NICHOLSON,
William.
An Introduction to Natural Philosophy. Illustrated with copperplates. By William Nicholson . . . The
Third Edition, with Improvements.
Philadelphia: printed for
Thomas Dobson,
m dcc lxxxviii
. [1788.]
QC19 .N618
First American Edition. 8vo. 290 leaves, the last a blank, 25 folded engraved plates, numbered. At the beginning is the dedication
to Sir Joseph Banks, reprinted from the first edition, and dated from London, Feb. 28, 1782.
William Nicholson, 1753-1815, English scientist and inventor. His
An Introduction to Natural Philosophy, 1781, was his first publication.
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Martin’s Philosophical grammar.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 113, no. 5, as above.
MARTIN,
Benjamin.
The Philosophical Grammar; being a view of the Present State of Experimental Physiology, or Natural Philosophy, in Four Parts.
The
Sixth Edition, with alterations, corrections and very large additions by way of notes.
London:
J. Noon [and others],
1762.
8vo. No copy was seen for collation.
Not in Lowndes.
Not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
This edition not in Sotheran.
Jefferson ordered a copy from
Stockdale, London, in a letter dated from Paris, October 10, 1787.
Benjamin Martin, 1704-1782, English mathematician and instrument maker. The first edition was published in 1735. The four parts were: I.
Somatology, II. Cosmology, III. Aerology, IV. Geology. All the earlier editions were illustrated with twenty-six folded copperplates,
and it seems probable that this edition was so illustrated.
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