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CONTENTS.- Dynamics - Projectiles -- Corpuscular Forces-Capillary Attraction-Boscovich's TheoryRotation of Bodies-Strength of Materials-Carpentry -Roof-Construction of Arches- Construction of Centres for Bridges-Watt on the History of the Steam Engine-Application of Steam-Description of the Steam Engine-Machinery-Resistance of Fluids -Rivers-Water Works-Pumps-Astronomy-Telescope Pneumatics Electricity-Magnetism-Variation of the Compass-Temperament of the Scale of Music-Speaking Trumpet-Marine Trumpet-Musical

Trumpet-Watch-work—Seamanship.

Cantab. 1743

RUTHERFORTH'S System of Natural Philosophy, being a Course of Lectures in Mechanics, Optics, Hydrostatics, and Astronomy, 2 vols. 4to. 31 plates, EDMUND BURKE'S copy. with his name on the title page, very neat, 12s Camb. 1748 another copy, 2 vols. 4to. very neat, 10s ib. 1748 Ordo Institutionum Physicarum in privatis Lectionibus, 4to. 31 plates, neat, 2s 6d SABINE'S (Lieut.-Col.) Observations made at the Magnetical and Meteorologcial Observatory at Toronto in Canada; Vol. I., 1840, 1841, 1842, royal 4to. (pub. at £2. 2s) cloth boards, £1. 58 SACROBOSCO (Joannis a-i. e. Holywood) Sphæra, emendata, aucta, et illustrata; cum Scholiis Vineti et aliorum, 12m6. cuts, with autograph and quotations by EDMUND WALLER, the Poet, limp vellum, 10s 6d Col. Agrip. 1610 SALVERTE, SCIENCES OCCULTES, ou Essai sur la

1845

Magie, les Prodiges, et les Miracles, 2 vols. 8vo. hf. bd. calf gilt, 14s Paris, 1829 SAUER AND BILLINGS' Account of a Geographical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia, 4to. map and 14 engravings, (pub. at £2. 2s) bds. 9s

1802

the same, LARGE PAPER, 4to. russia, by KALTHOEBER, Fonthill copy, £1. 4s 1802 SAUNDERSON'S Elements of Algebra; to which are prefixed the Life of the Author and his Palpable Arithmetic Decyphered, 2 vols. 4to. portrait and 8 plates, neat, 12s Camb. 1740-41 SCHAUBACH, Geschichte der Griechischen Astronomie bis auf Eratosthenes, thick 8vo. 4 folding plates, sewed, 4s Göttingen, 1802 SCHEMATA GEOMETRICA, ex Euclide et aliis tabulis æneis expressa in Usum Tironum, 4to. numerous plates, bds. 3s

the same, plates folded into 8vo. bds. 3s

1806

1806

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