Price: £350
Subject: Sciences
Published Date: 1779
Stock Number: 68472
(You have 1 item in your basket)Including Remarks on some Experiments exhibited by Mr. Nairne. Read at the Royal Society, June 25, 1778.
Description: first page with typographic head-piece reminiscent of an electrical experiment, title with short tears at top edge and fore-margin, margins slightly toned, pp. [ii], 22, 4to disbound, goodPublication Details: Printed by J. Nichols (Successor to Mr. Bowyer), 1779
Notes: The highly promising career of Samuel Musgrave (1732-1780), Oxford (Corpus Christi) scholar, travelling Radcliffe fellow, and leading Euripides authority was blighted by his published accusation that notable members of parliament accepted French bribes to conclude the Treaty of Paris in 1763, a charge unsubstantiated and publicly discredited. Despite gaining medical degrees from both Leiden and Oxford and publishing a number of classical, medical and scientific works, his reputation never recovered and he died in penury. His contribution here, during a particularly productive period in the st...more
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Published Date: 1779
Stock Number: 68472
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