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1793 · réf. 55802 — London: Printed for F. Wingrave successor to Mr. Nourse in the Strand 1793. Two works in one vol. 8vo. 2 xxii 172; iv 164 pp. With 27 copper-engraved folding plates some w/ minor creasing dustsoiling to fore-edges a few creases mis-folded 1 w/ small closed tear. Contemporary polished calf red & gilt morocco spine label rebacked minor thumbing & soiling to fore-edges very minor staining to very lower fore-edge of a few signatures endpapers renewed still a VG- copy. Revised edition of these popular works by the well-known Newton proponent including sections on a broad range of engines and devices including applications involving pendulums material strength mills hydrostatics watches time-pieces and physics. Emerson 1701-1782 was an amateur English mathematician and teacher horologist and harpsichord tuner in Hurworth County Durham. He wrote a popular defense of Newton’s Principia a treatise on fluxions calculus as well as constructed clocks and sundials -- one of which still exists. Printed for F. Wingrave, successor to Mr. Nourse, in the Strand, unknown