Sotheran's Price Current of Literature, Issues 770-771

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Henry Sotheran & Company, 1918 - Catalogs, Booksellers'

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Page 117 - New Experiments Physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects ; (made for the most part in a new pneumatical engine) written .... by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esq* experiment xxxvi.
Page 67 - A Textbook of Geometrical Drawing for the use of Mechanics and Schools, in which the Definitions and Rules of Geometry are familiarly explained; the Practical Problems are arranged from the most simple to the more complex, and in their description technicalities are avoided as much as possible. With illustrations for Drawing Plans, Sections, and Elevations of Railways and Machinery; an Introduction to Isometrical Drawing, and an Essay on Linear Perspective and Shadows.
Page 134 - It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency to derive mechanical effect from any portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects.
Page 224 - A Description and Draught of a new-invented Machine, for carrying Vessels or Ships out of, or into, any Harbour, Port, or River, against Wind and Tide, or in a calm.
Page 23 - English artists are the most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher branches, which even those who professed them in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appeared not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere.
Page 23 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was on very many accounts one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the great masters of the renowned ages.
Page 195 - Experiments and observations made with the view of improving the art of composing and applying calcareous cements...
Page 220 - Mr. Humber's stately volumes, lately issued — in which the most important bridges erected during the last five years, under the direction of the late Mr. Brunei, Sir W. Cubltt, Mr. Hawkshaw, Mr. Page, Mr. Fowler, Mr. Hemans, and others among our most eminent engineers, are drawn and specified in great detail.
Page 224 - La manière d'amollir les os et de faire cuire toutes sortes de viandes, en fort peu de temps et à peu de frais, avec une description de la machine dont il faut se servir pour cet effet, ses propriétés et ses usages, confirmés par plusieurs expériences, nouvellement inventée par M.
Page 245 - Vapulans," is a kind of allegorical play, in which the various passions are introduced. 1443 PLAT (Sir Hugh). The Jewel House of Art and Nature; containing divers Rare and Profitable Inventions, together with sundry new Experiments in the Art of Husbandry.

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