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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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The Rev.nd William Whiston M.A. sometime Professor of the Mathematicks in ye University of Cambridge Nat. Decemb. 90 A.D. 1667 [five lines of text in Greek]
G. Vertue Sculpsit 1720 [after Sarah Hoadly]
Engraving, sheet 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed; tipped into album sheet.
William Whiston (1667-1752), natural philosopher and theologian. Engraving after a portrait by Sarah Hoadly (private collection; anonymous copy in National Portrait Gallery, London). With mathematical instruments in lower corners, labelled (vertically) 'Norman's Dipping-needle' and 'Whiston's Dipping needle'. Whiston published over 120 separate books, pamphlets, and charts, on subjects ranging across geometry, mathematics, astronomy and longitude, to prophecy, doctrine and textual criticism, along with translations of biblical and historical texts. In natural philosophy his greatest contribution was in popularizing Newtonianism
Alexander 307; Wellcome: 3172-1
[Ref: 42473] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
G. Vertue Sculpsit 1720 [after Sarah Hoadly]
Engraving, sheet 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed; tipped into album sheet.
William Whiston (1667-1752), natural philosopher and theologian. Engraving after a portrait by Sarah Hoadly (private collection; anonymous copy in National Portrait Gallery, London). With mathematical instruments in lower corners, labelled (vertically) 'Norman's Dipping-needle' and 'Whiston's Dipping needle'. Whiston published over 120 separate books, pamphlets, and charts, on subjects ranging across geometry, mathematics, astronomy and longitude, to prophecy, doctrine and textual criticism, along with translations of biblical and historical texts. In natural philosophy his greatest contribution was in popularizing Newtonianism
Alexander 307; Wellcome: 3172-1
[Ref: 42473] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)