The Augustus De Morgan Collection, Part 2: Mathematics General Collection
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Title:
Essays on several curious and useful subjects in speculative and mix'd mathematicks ::illustrated by a variety of examples
Creator:
Simpson, Thomas,1710-1761.
- Maynard, Samuel,1789-1866,former owner.
- De Morgan, Augustus,1806-1871,former owner.
- Maynard, Samuel,1789-1866,former owner.
- De Morgan, Augustus,1806-1871,former owner.
Date:
1740
Date in Source:
1740.
Imprint:
London : Printed by H. Woodfall jun. for J. Nourse ...,
Language:
English
Subject:
Astronomy - Early works to 1800.
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Stars - Early works to 1800.
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Aberration - Early works to 1800.
Format:
142, [2] p. :diagrams ;23 cm. (4to)
Note:
- Head- and tail-pieces; initials.
- Errata: p. [143]. - Publisher's advertisements: p. [144]
- ULL copies are from the library of Augustus De Morgan. Copy at [DeM] M [Bradley] has his note pasted on front flyleaf, 6 June 1860. Copy at [DeM] L⁰ [Simpson] has De Morgan's inscription on t.p., also 6 June 1860, and is previously from the library of Samuel Maynard (see note about binding at end of vol. in which it is bound).
- ULL copy at [DeM] M [Bradley] is very imperfect, comprising p. 1-20 only, i.e. "Of the apparent places of the fixed stars", and "Practical rules for finding the aberrations of the fixt stars". Closely cropped, with slight loss of headlines and text. Bound with James Bradley, Letter to the Right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield, concerning an apparent motion observed in some of the fixed stars (London, 1747), in vol. with binder's spine title: "Simpson's works".
- ULL copy at [DeM] L0 [Simpson] is bound with Simpson's Mathematical dissertations on a variety of physical and analytical subjects (1743) and his Miscellaneous tracts on some curious and very interesting subjects (1757).
- DOI: 10.1163/9789004460409_MOR2-b29170345
- Head- and tail-pieces; initials.
- Errata: p. [143]. - Publisher's advertisements: p. [144]
- ULL copies are from the library of Augustus De Morgan. Copy at [DeM] M [Bradley] has his note pasted on front flyleaf, 6 June 1860. Copy at [DeM] L⁰ [Simpson] has De Morgan's inscription on t.p., also 6 June 1860, and is previously from the library of Samuel Maynard (see note about binding at end of vol. in which it is bound).
- ULL copy at [DeM] M [Bradley] is very imperfect, comprising p. 1-20 only, i.e. "Of the apparent places of the fixed stars", and "Practical rules for finding the aberrations of the fixt stars". Closely cropped, with slight loss of headlines and text. Bound with James Bradley, Letter to the Right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield, concerning an apparent motion observed in some of the fixed stars (London, 1747), in vol. with binder's spine title: "Simpson's works".
- ULL copy at [DeM] L0 [Simpson] is bound with Simpson's Mathematical dissertations on a variety of physical and analytical subjects (1743) and his Miscellaneous tracts on some curious and very interesting subjects (1757).
- DOI: 10.1163/9789004460409_MOR2-b29170345
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