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PHILOSOPHY/SCIENCE: NEWTON'S LAW OF MOTION, WORSTER, BENJAMIN, A COMPENDIOUS AND METHODICAL ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY: AS THEY ARE EXPLAIN’D AND ILLUSTRATED IN A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTS, PERFORM’D AT THE ACADEMY IN LITTLE TOWER STREET
By Benj. Worster, A.M., London (Place), printed for Author and sold by W&J Innys, 1722. viii, [4], 239, [1] p. : woodcut illus. (diagrams.), rare first edition.
(19.5cm x 13cm)
Condition: disbound, ink smudging in parts, otherwise very good
N.B. Benjamin Worster's work is significant as an early exposition of Newtonian science in English - the Principia itself was not published in English until 1729, and is an important example of the scientific lectures of the period. The syllabus of his lectures, printed as an appendix to the work (pp. [230]--239), covers Newton's laws of motion, Newtonian physics and celestial mechanics, hydrostatics and pneumatics, and optics. The lectures were advertised at the end of the syllabus (two and a half guineas for the course, reduced to one and a half guineas for those attending for a second time, gratis thereafter). The final page carries advertisement’s for the course and for The Academy in Little Tower Street
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