Baldwin, at whose instigation he was in the following year appointed by Jefferson Surveyor General of the United States with
the duty of conducting the surveys of Ohio and the Northwest Territory. His undated
Essays, Mathematical and Physical was advertised as “Just published” in the
Connecticut Journal
, Wednesday, September 2, 1801, so that the date [1800] supplied by Mr. Karpinski seems to have been an error.
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Adams’s lectures on Nat
l. & Experim
l. Philosophy
5. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 113, no. 11, as above, not abbreviated.
ADAMS,
George.
Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, considered in its Present State of Improvement. Describing in a Familiar
and Easy Manner the Principal Phenomena of Nature; and shewing that they all co-operate in Displaying the Goodness, Wisdom,
and Power of God. By the late George Adams, mathematical instrument maker to his Majesty, &c. In
Five Volumes, the Fifth Volume consisting of the Plates and Index. The
Second Edition, with considerable corrections and additions, by William Jones, mathematical instrument maker. Vol. I [-Vol. V.]
London: printed by
J. Dillon, and Co. for, and sold by,
W. and S. Jones, opticians,
Holborn,
1799. Price
1
l.
12
s.
6
d.
in boards.
Q157 .A2
5 vol. 8vo., the fifth volume with the general index and folded plates.
Lowndes I, 9.
Sotheran 32.
On October 25, 1806, Jefferson wrote from Washington to William Jones (the publisher) to order a number of things including
“
The Astronomical Quadrant described in 3
d. Adams’s Lectures on Philosophy p. 533. Plate XIV. Vol. IV. Fig. 1 . . .
”
Two years earlier, on February 28, 1804, W. W. Woodward, a publisher of Philadelphia, writing to Jefferson about his edition
of Scott’s Bible, [see no. 1471, and under that number in the Additions, Vol. V.] mentioned: “I have also in the press a new and improved edition of Adams’ Lectures, a sheet of it as I am now printing it, is inclosed
in the package, with a proposal.--If, dear Sir, you approve of, and wish to patronize the above, I shall feel a happiness
in having your name among my numerous, and respectable patrons.””
George Adams, 1750-1795, English mathematician, succeeded his father as mathematical instrument maker to King George III. The first edition
of this work appeared in 1794. For other works by Adams in this catalogue, see the Index.
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Ferguson’s lectures in Mechanics.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 113, no. 16, as above.
FERGUSON,
James.
Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics; with the use of the Globes, the Art of Dialling,
and the Calculation of the Mean Times of New and Full Moons and Eclipses. By James Ferguson.
London: printed for
A. Millar,
1760.
First Edition. 8vo. 209 leaves; no copy was seen for collation.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Lalande, page 470.
This was one of the books referred to by Jefferson in his letter to Isaac McPherson, quoted in connection with other entries, dated from Monticello, August 13, 1813, relative to Oliver Evans’s
invention of the elevator.
James Ferguson, 1710-1776, Scottish astronomer and natural philosopher.
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