Price: £1,200
Subject: Sciences
Published Date: 1712
Stock Number: 56810
(Your basket is currently empty)In Some Speculations upon the Four First Chapters of Mr. Green's Principles of Natural Philosophy. By a Gentleman of the University of Gratz in Germany, an Humble Servant to the New Theory of Reflexion and Refraction, and a Well-Willer to the Spectacle-Manufacture, upon the Newtonic System. With a Tripartite Dedication, to the Cambridge Sophs; Mr. G----; and a Refinement upon His to My L.T. Translated from the Original.
Description: FIRST EDITION, title-page browned and some variable browning throughout, pp. 71, 8vo, 19th-century half calf, Signet arms in gilt on the covers, joints strengthened,Publication Details: Printed for John Morphew, 1712
Notes: This must be a production from within the Cambridge ambit, and the University of Gratz a red herring: indeed, in the first of the Dedications the author identifies himself as a 'Quondam Member, and a most Devoted Servant of that Worshipful and Honourable Fraternity', i.e the Cambridge Sophs. But we have not found that the author has been identified. The text is a delightful mixture of jocosity, serious philosophy, and politics (the split between Tory and Whig sympathisers at Clare College in the period following the general election of 1710). There is a spoof Will at the end of the text, one i...more
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