Lot 1126: KEILL, JOHN.

An introduction to natural philosophy: or, philosophical lectures read in the University of Oxford, Anno Dom. 1700. To which are added, the demonstrations of Monsieur Huygens's theorems, concerning the centrifugal force and circular motion. Translated from the last edition of the Latin. London: H[enry] W[oodfall] for William and John Innys and John Osborn, 1720

Condition Note:

8vo (193 x 115mm.), xii, 306, [2]pp., illustration : woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut diagrams, binding : contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-piece, eighteenth-century manuscript annotations in a neat cursive hand, interleaved with a series of loosely inserted pages of eighteenth-century manuscript notes and mathematical calculations, by way of annotation and commentary on the text in numerous pages of this book

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LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

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CATALOGUE NOTE

First English edition of Introductio ad veram physicam.