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Science, Mathematics, and Medicine 122. Anonymous. ANATOMICAL DIALOGUES; OR, A BREVIARY OF ANATOMY. WHEREIN ALL THE PARTS OF THE HUMAN BODY ARE CONCISELY AND ACCURATELY DESCRIBED, AND THEIR USES EXPLAINED; BY WHICH THE YOUNG PRACTIONER MAY ATTAIN A RIGHT METHOD OF TREATING DISEASES, AS FAR AS IT DEPENDS ON ANATOMY. Chiefly Compiled for the Use of the Young Gentlemen in the Navy and Army. By a Gentleman of the Faculty. The Second Edition. With Large ADDITIONS and AMENDMENTS. London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, No. 25, Paternoster-Row, 1785. There are 10 engraved plates at the rear. Very good in a lightlyrubbed early 19 th -century half-leather binding with an elegant gilt-decorated spine and marbled boards. The text is clear and unmarked and remarkably free of foxing. With Sir John Thorold’s Syston Park library bookplate and below, the monogram book label of his son, Sir John Hayford Thorold. $650.00 123. Blondel de Saint Aubin, (Guillaume.) TRIGONOMETRIE, GEOMETRIQUE, ASTRONOMIQUE ET MARITIME. Contenant les Tables des Sinus, Tangentes & Secantes; celles de leurs Logarithmes; celles des Logarithmes des Nombres absolus, depuis l'Unité jusqu'à 100000. Celles des Latitudes réduites avec leur usage. Dernière édition, Corrigée & augmentée d'une Table des Routes pointées jusqu'à 100 Lieuës & d'une explication de celle des Latitudes réduites, en faveur des Navigateurs. Par J. Le C. Prêtre & Professeur Royal d'Hydrographie. Au Havre de Grace: Chez P. J. D. G. Faure, 1760. A lovely duodecimo copy bound in contemporary vellum with an uncommonly fresh text with no markings or foxing. There are 63 pages of introduction and explanatory material: DE’FINITIONS GEOMETRIQUES ET TRIGONOMETRIQUES Tres- Nécessaires. Numerous geometric diagrams are included in this section. Followed by a Table des Sinus, Tangens et Secans (91), Construction et usage de la Table des Routes pointées (5), Table des Routes Pointees (148), Explication de la Table des Latitudes réduites (12), Table des Latitudes (31), ending with four pages of the publisher’s advertisements, last page blank. Guillame Blondel, Ecuyer, Sieur de Saint-Aubin (1625? – 1694?) was a French mathematician who adapted the new method of logarithms to aid in navigation. This compilation of readily usable techniques for maritime calculations proved to be extremely successful and there were at least fifteen editions issued over a period of more than a century from the first in 1671 to the last in 1783. $425.00 124. Briggs, Henry; John Wallis; Edmond Halley; and Abraham Sharp. MATHEMA- TICAL TABLES, CONTRIVED AFTER A MOST COMPREHENSIVE METHOD: VIZ., A TABLE OF LOGARITHMS, FROM 1 TO 10100. London: Printed for R. and W. Mount and T. Page, in Postern-Row, Tower-Hill, 1717. One folding plate, attached to page 53. This book is a varied compendium of logarithm and trigonometric tables along with mathematical essays by John Wallis, Edmond Halley and Abraham Sharp: Title page [Aa], [Ab blank]; Dedicatory to Mr. Edm. Halley, Savilian Professor of Geometry, University of Oxford. Dated 1705 and signed Hen. Sherwin [A2]; Preface [A3-4], inserted leaf recto blank, verso headed “Errors in the Discourses before the Tables.;” Of Logarithms, their Invention and Use by Dr. John Wallis [pp 1-12]; A most Compendious and Facile Method for Constructing the Logarithms, Exemplified and Demonstrated From the Nature of Numbers, Without any Regard to the Hyperbola. by Mr. Edm. Halley
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