properties of geometrical lines. By Colin Maclaurin, M. A. late Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Edinburgh, and Fellow of the Royal Society. The
Second Edition.
London: printed for
A. Millar and
J. Nourse,
mdcclvi
. [1756.]
QA35 .M164
8vo. 223 leaves, 12 folded engraved plates.
Lowndes III, 1144.
Sotheran 11226.
Colin Maclaurin, 1698-1746, Scottish mathematician and natural philosopher, a member of the Royal Society, and a friend of Sir Isaac Newton.
The first edition of this work was posthumously published in 1748.
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Simpson’s Algebra.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 110, no. 11, as above.
SIMPSON,
Thomas.
A Treatise of Algebra. Wherein the Principles are demonstrated, and applied in many useful and interesting Enquiries, and
in the Resolution of a great Variety of Problems of different kinds. To which is added, the Geometrical Construction of a
great number of Linear and Plane Problems, with the Method of resolving the same numerically. By Thomas Simpson, F. R. S. The
Third Edition, Revised.
London: printed for
J. Nourse,
1767.
8vo. 206 leaves, diagrams.
Lowndes V, 2402.
Sotheran 14882.
Thomas Simpson, 1710-1761, English mathematician, professor of mathematics at Woolwich, and a fellow of the Royal Society. The first edition
of his
Treatise of Algebra was published in 1745.
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Newton’s Universal Arithmetic.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 110, no. 12, as above.
NEWTON,
Sir Isaac.
Universal Arithmetick: or, a Treatise of Arithmetical Composition and Resolution. To which is added, Dr. Halley’s Method of finding the Roots of Equations arithmetically. Written in
Latin by Sir Isaac Newton, and translated by the late Mr. Ralphson, and revised and corrected by Mr. Cunn. The
second edition, very much corrected.
London: printed for
J. Senex,
W. and J. Innys,
J. Osborne and
T. Longman,
m.dcc.xxviii.
[1728.]
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8vo. 140 leaves in fours, including the half-title, publishers’ advertisement on the last page, printer’s imprint at the end
of the text, 8 folded engraved plates.
De Morgan, page 74 (octavo in twos).
Gray 284.
Sotheran 12561.
The original edition of the
Arithmetica Universalis in Latin was published in 1707, and the first edition of this translation appeared in 1720, translated by Joseph Ralphson
and edited by Samuel Cunn.
Dr. Halley’s Method of finding the Roots of Equations was by Newton’s friend Edmond Halley, 1656-1742, the astronomer royal.
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Saunderson’s Fluxions.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 110, no. 13, as above.
SAUNDERSON,
Nicholas.
The Method of Fluxions applied to a select Number of useful Problems: together with the Demonstration of Mr. Cotes’s forms
of Fluents in the Second Part
