The Foundations of Mathematics. A Study in the Philosophy of Science
Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1959. With the contemporary ownership signature of (Professor) Brian Medlin, and his very occasional emphases. More
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Mathematical Drawing Instruments, and How to Use Them
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1895 (sixth edition). More
The Theory and Design of Illuminating Engineering Equipment
London, Chapman & Hall, 1930. A profusely-illustrated work on all things to do with artificial lighting: from cinema projectors to signal beacons, shop windows to traffic lights. More
The Chi-squared Distribution
New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1969. One of the Wiley publications in Statistics. More
Rationis Defensor. Essays in Honour of Colin Cheyne
Dordrecht, Springer, [2012]. Volume 28 in the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science series. '[This] is a volume of previously unpublished essays celebrating the life of Colin Cheyne ... Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago.' (from the publisher's blurb). More
Examen du Livre des Recreations Mathematiques, et de ses Problemes en Geometrie, Mecanique, Optique et Catoptrique. Où sont aussi discutées & restablies plusieurs experiences Physiques y proposées
Paris, Chez Rolet Boutonné, 1638 [second edition]/ 1630. The second edition of Claude Mydorge's expanded edition and critique of this popular early work of recreational mathematics, first published in 1624 and usually attributed to Jean Leurechon. Each of Leurechon's mathematical problems is reprinted here in roman type, with Mydorge's explanatory..... More
John Henry Michell, 1963-1940
Melbourne, [Royal Society], 1942. Reprinted from Obituary Notice of The Royal Society, 1940. More
The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms. Translated from Latin into English with Notes and A Catalogue of the various editions of Napier's Works, by William Rae Macdonald
New York, Classics of Science Library, 1997 (facsimile edition)/ 1889. With the Notes from the Editors booklet loosely inserted. More
A Beautiful Mind. A Biography
New York, Simon and Schuster, 1998 [first edition]. A biography of John Nash, Nobel Prize-winning mathematician. More
Universal Arithmetick, or, a Treatise of Arithmetical Composition and Resolution. To which is added, Dr. Halley's Method of finding the Roots of Equations arithmetically. Written in Latin by Sir Isaac Newton, and translated by the late Mr. Ralphson, and revised and corrected by Mr. Cunn. The Second Edition, very much corrected
London, Printed for J. Senex, W. and J. Innys, J. Osborne, and T. Longman, 1728 ('Second Edition, very much Corrected')/ 1720 (first edition in English)/ 1707 (first edition, in Latin). The eight plates, normally found with a small folding section, are bound into this copy in an unfolded state by..... More
The Mathematical Principles of Mathematical Philosophy, and their Application to Elementary Mechanics and Architecture, but chiefly to the Theory of Universal Gravitation
Cambridge, Macmillan, Barclay and Macmillan, 1845 (second edition, revised and improved)/ 1836. An early Sydney University prize binding, with the handwritten presentation inscription (in Latin) to Henry Colyer, dated 1861 (the University was founded in 1850). For what it's worth, a Henry Cox Colyer was working as a solicitor in..... More
Descartes-Agonistes. Physico-mathematics, Method & Corpuscular-Mechanism, 1618-33
Dordrecht, Springer, [2013]. Volume 27 in the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science series. 'This book reconstructs key aspects of the early career of Descartes from 1618 to 1633; that is, up through the point of his composing his first system of natural philosophy' (from the publisher's blurb). More
Wittgenstein
Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1982. Eight studies of different aspects of Wittgenstein and his works (including two on the Tractatus, one on Philosophical Investigations and one on Probability and Certainty) by the co-editor of Wittgenstein's works. More
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