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Hydrostatical And Pneumatical Lectures; Published With Notes By his Successor Robert Smith LL.D.
de Cotes, Roger
- Usado
- First
- Estado
- Contemporary full brown calf, double gilt border panels, rebacked, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Near fine
- Librería
-
ardsley, New York, United States
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London: S. Austin printed for the Editor, 1738. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf, double gilt border panels, rebacked, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Near fine. 243 pages, Preface (12), Index (6), and four pages of publisher adverts [A8-Q8, R7]. 20 x 13 cm. Five copper engraved fold-out plates, plate four in photocopy. Errata list. Cotes, an English mathematician who edited the second edition of Newton's PRINCIPIA, made advances in the theory of logarithms, the integral calculus and in numerical methods, particularly interpolation. His quadrature formulas known as Newton-Cotes formulas and first introduced what is known today as Euler's formula. He was the first Plumian Professor and Cambridge University from 1707 until his death at the age of thirty-three. This work was held in great estimation. Cotes genius earned encomiums from his contemporaries and successors; Sir Isaac Newton said, "If Mr. Cotes had lived, we should have known something." Two inked signatures at title page; two ownership stamps, text and plates clean, slight loss back cover upper corner.
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- Librería
- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 18206
- Título
- Hydrostatical And Pneumatical Lectures; Published With Notes By his Successor Robert Smith LL.D.
- Autor
- Cotes, Roger
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Leather_bound
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Contemporary full brown calf, double gilt border panels, rebacked, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Near fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Editorial
- S. Austin printed for the Editor
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1738
- Palabras clave
- Mathematics
- Catálogos del vendedor
- History of Science; Natural Philosophy; Mathematics;
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Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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ardsley, New York
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
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