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Eines Anonymi Klahre und Schrifftmässige Erörterung der Frage, ob des Cartesii Meynung dadurch er behauptet dass die Sonne stille stehe und die Erde sich bewege der H. Schrifft zu wieder lauffe?
Ehedessen aus dem lateinischen in die teutsche Sprache übersetzet. Jetzo von neuen an das Licht gestellet und mit Anmerckungen versehen von Johann Bernhard Wiedeburg ... Nebst einer Vorrede Herren Gottlieb Stollen ... Von dem Ursprung und Fortgang der Lehre dass sich die Erde bewege., Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁴ A-E⁸ F⁴
Cosmographia in qvatvor libros distribvta svmmo ordine, miraqve facilitate, ac breuitate ad magnam Ptolemæi mathematicam constructionem, ad vniuersamq́ue astrologiam instituens.
Francisco Barocio ... avtore. Cum præfatione eiusdem autoris, in qua perfecta quidem astrologiæ diuisio, & enarratio autorum illustrium, & voluminum ab eis conscriptorum in singulis astrologiæ partibus habetur: Ioannis de Sacrobosco verò 84 errores, & alij permulti suorum expositorum, & sectatorum ostenduntur, rationibusq́[uam] redarguuntur. Præcesserunt etiam quædam communia mathematica, necnon arithmetica, & geometrica principia, nonnullæq́[uam] propositiones, de quibus in toto opere sæpe fit mentio: ac demum locupletissimus index eorum, quæ ipsa Cosmographia continentur ..., Printer's device, initials, side notes., Errata: p. [135], first group., In ms. on t.p.: "Joseph Laurentij ... 1635."
Traité élémentaire de chimie, présenté dans un ordre nouveau et d'après les découvertes modernes; avec figures:
par m. Lavoisier., Second issue of the first edition. cf. Duveen and Klickstein., Plates engraved by Mme. Lavoisier., Paged continuously (v. 1: xliv, 322 p.; v. 2: viii, [323]-653, [3] p.), Title vignette; head and tail pieces., Duveen, D. I. and Klickstein, H. S. Lavoisier, 154., Errata at end of v. 2., DeGolyer Collection bookplate.
Opticae thesaurus Alhazeni Arabis libri septem
nunc primùm editi ; eiusdem liber De crepusculis & nubium ascensionibus ; item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri x / omnes instaurati, figuris illustrati & aucti, adiectis etiam in Alhazenum commentarijs, à Federico Risnero., De crepusculis et nubium ascensionibus, the original of which is lost, is probably not by Alhazen but by Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muʻādh al-Jayyānī; cf. Sabra, A.I. "The authorship of the Liber de crepusculis," Isis, v. 58 (1967) p. 77ff., Title vignette: Episcopius' device; a different device of Episcopius on verso of last leaf., Includes errata., Imprint from colophon: Basileae : Ex Officina Episcopiana, Per Eusebius Episcopium, & Nicolai F. Hæredes, Anno M.D.LXXII, Mense Augusto., Book plate: From the books of A.E.N. da C. Andrade, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Cronica de matematici overo, Epitome del historia de le vite loro.
Holograph., Includes additions and corrections to text., Pages hand numbered., Authorship attributed to Bernardino Baldi, who published text in 1707., Stamp on p. [3] (2nd group)., Includes index.
Of the advancement and proficience of learning, or the partitions of sciences, IX bookes.
Written in Latin by the most eminent, illustrious & famous Lord Francis Bacon. Interpreted by Gilbert Wats., Illustrated t.-p., engraved., Translation of the De augmentis scientiarum (first part of the Instauratis magna) which is an enlargement of the Advancement of learning, 1605.
Clavdii Ptolemi Pelvsiensis Alexandrini Omnia, qvae extant, opera, Geographia excepta, quam seorsim quoq[que] hac forma impressimus.
Magn compositionis libri a Georgio Trapezuntio e grco conuersi. [Gavrici addictiones]--Procli Diadochi Hypotyposis astronomicarvm positionum, Georgio Valla Placentino interprete.--Clavdii Ptolemi ... operis libri quatuor, in quibus de iudicijs disseritur, ad Syrum, Ioachimo Camerario interprete.--Cl. Ptolemi Centvm dicta, sive frvctvs librorum suorum.--Inerrantium stellarum significationes per Nicolaum Leonicum e grco translat.
L'Optiqve et la catoptriqve
dv Reverend Pere Mersenne Minime ; novvellement mise en lvmiere apres la mort de l'autheur., Micro-opaque. New York : Readex Microprint, 1975. 3 cards ; 23 x 15 cm. (Landmarks of science) s1975 nyun c
Cronica de matematici overo, Epitome del historia de le vite loro.
Holograph., Includes additions and corrections to text., Pages hand numbered., Authorship attributed to Bernardino Baldi, who published text in 1707., Stamp on p. [3] (2nd group)., Includes index.
Plan of proposed roads from Axminster in the County of Devon to Lyme Regis and Charmouth in the county of Dorset.
Surveyed under the directions of James Green, Civil Engineer, &c. G. Smith, Clerk to the Trustees.