Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1959. With the contemporary ownership signature of (Professor) Brian Medlin, and his very occasional emphases. More about The Foundations of Mathematics. A Study in the Philosophy of Science
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1895 (sixth edition). More about Mathematical Drawing Instruments, and How to Use Them
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 about The Theory and Design of Illuminating Engineering Equipment
New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1969. One of the Wiley publications in Statistics. More about The Chi-squared Distribution
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 '[This] is a volume of previously unpublished essays celebrating the life of Colin Cheyne ...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 about Rationis Defensor. Essays in Honour of Colin Cheyne
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 about Examen du Livre des Recreations Mathematiques, et de ses Problemes en Geometrie, Mecanique,...
Melbourne, [Royal Society], 1942. Reprinted from Obituary Notice of The Royal Society, 1940. More about John Henry Michell, 1963-1940
New York, Simon and Schuster, 1998 [first edition]. A biography of John Nash, Nobel Prize-winning mathematician. More about A Beautiful Mind. A Biography
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 Sydney in the 1880s. More about The Mathematical Principles of Mathematical Philosophy, and their Application to Elementary...
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 about Descartes-Agonistes. Physico-mathematics, Method & Corpuscular-Mechanism, 1618-33
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 about Wittgenstein
