Mathematical Tracts of the late Benjamin Robins in two Volumes. Vol I. Containing his New Principles of Gunnery, with several subsequent Discourses on the same Subject, the greatest Part never before printed. Vol.II Containing his Discourse on the Methods of Fluxions, and of the Prime and Ultimate Ratios, with other Miscellaneous Pieces.
London: James Wilson, 1761. Edition: First edition, Binding: Contemporary speckled Full Calf. Spine in six compartments of five raised bands, with gilt motifs, and gilt title on two and three. , Notes: The first edition of this posthumous collection of tracts by Benjamin Robins (1707-1751) includes his significant work on artillery and gunnery as well as more abstract work on fluxions. Robins’s substantial accomplishments in mathematical theory, scientific discovery, technical practice and literary production place him at the forefront of the British Enlightment. As a British artillery officer wrote in 1789, Robins “was in gunnery what the immortal Newton was in philosophy, the founder of a new system deduced from experiment and nature”. (ODNB)
, Size: 8vo (125 x 200mm). , Illustration: With profuse in-text illustrations. Two plates in Vol. II. , Volume: Two volumes, Provenance: Ex Libris James Forbes Taplow Hill, 1818 (ink ownership inscription) on front pastedowns., Pages: P. Half-Title, Blank, Title, Blank, Title, Blank, Contents (1-2), Introduction (7-8), 9-296, Appendix (296-380); Half-Title, Blank, Title, Preface (v-xlvi), Contents (1-2), Title, Preface (3-57), Blank, 59-82, Plate 1, 83-153, Blank, Half Title, Blank, 157-278, Half Title, Blank, Preface (281-282), 283-340 (219 mispag. as 317), Plate 2, 341, Advertisement (1-3). , Category: Book Science & Technology;. Very good condition. Text fine and unsullied. Item #B4417
Edition: First edition, Binding: Contemporary speckled Full Calf. Spine in six compartments of five raised bands, with gilt motifs, and gilt title on two and three. , Notes: The first edition of this posthumous collection of tracts by Benjamin Robins (1707-1751) includes his significant work on artillery and gunnery as well as more abstract work on fluxions. Robins’s substantial accomplishments in mathematical theory, scientific discovery, technical practice and literary production place him at the forefront of the British Enlightment. As a British artillery officer wrote in 1789, Robins “was in gunnery what the immortal Newton was in philosophy, the founder of a new system deduced from experiment and nature”. (ODNB)
, Size: 8vo (125 x 200mm). , Illustration: With profuse in-text illustrations. Two plates in Vol. II. , Volume: Two volumes, Provenance: Ex Libris James Forbes Taplow Hill, 1818 (ink ownership inscription) on front pastedowns., Pages: P. Half-Title, Blank, Title, Blank, Title, Blank, Contents (1-2), Introduction (7-8), 9-296, Appendix (296-380); Half-Title, Blank, Title, Preface (v-xlvi), Contents (1-2), Title, Preface (3-57), Blank, 59-82, Plate 1, 83-153, Blank, Half Title, Blank, 157-278, Half Title, Blank, Preface (281-282), 283-340 (219 mispag. as 317), Plate 2, 341, Advertisement (1-3). , Category: Book Science & Technology;.
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