Newton

Newton — marelibri

[First Methodist Episcopal Church (Newton, Mass). Ladies' Aid Society]ABAA

The Handbook for Housekeepers: Practical and Well Tested Receipts. Compiled by The Ladies' Aid Society of the Newton M. E. Church

1889réf. 5358Boston: B. Wilkins & Co. Printers 1889. Octavo 19.5 x 13.25 cm. 64 ii pages. Advertisements. Title on cover: Housekeeper's Hand Book. Index is actually a table of contents. FIRST EDITION. A church recipe collection with two hundred brief entries all attributed. A straightforward chapter of standards called Fancy Dishes claims center stage: Charlotte Russe Strawberry Blanc-Mange Orange Pudding Lemon Creams Jellied Peaches. Shortly after the organization of the first Methodist Episcopal congregation in what is now Newton Upper Falls a private home was purchased by a benefactor and transferred - in 1836 - to the trustees of the First Methodist Episcopal Society of Newton for use as a place of worship. In 1889 the congregants would have celebrated a semi-centenary but in the event the purpose for the fundraiser has not as of this writing been discovered nor is the later disposition of that first church recorded. Several miles west of Boston Newton is a decentralized city made up of thirteen villages seven of which saw the establishment of Methodist Episcopal Churches either before or soon after the Civil War. An echo of their stately façades fades in old photographs; to the extent that there are descendent congregations they converge in a functionalist space as the United Methodist Church of Newton. An edgeworn but sound text block. Some edge staining and rubbing; corners bumped and several stained or chipped. Stapled in now faded red paper wrappers with black lettering separated at the back with an amateur tape repair to spine. Good only. Scarce. OCLC retains a floating bibliographic record for one copy the link to its inputting agency severed; in neither Cook Brown nor Cagle. B. Wilkins & Co., Printers unknown books

Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink · États-Unis200,00 $US≈ 178,68 €

NEWTON, Sir IsaacABAA

Opticks: or a Treatise of the Reflexions Refractions Inflexions & Colours of Light.; Also Two Treatises of the Species and Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures

1704réf. 157612London: Smith & Walford 1704. First. hardcover. very good. 4 parts in 1 volume. Title page printed in red & black within a double-ruled border. Illustrated with 19 folding copperplate engravings.4 144 211 1 pages. In the second sequence p. 120 is marked 112 and there are blank pages between 137-8 and 138-9. Thick 4to contemporary blind-tooled paneled calf well-worn and now expertly re-backed in sympathetic leather; last several pages have marginal dampstains otherwise a remarkably clean crisp copy. London: Smith & Walford Printers to the Royal Society 1704. First edition first issue - with the author not named on title page. "Newton's Opticks expounds his corpuscular theory of light and summarizes his experiments concerning light and colour. It also prints two important mathematical treatises omitted in later editions describing his invention of the fluxional calculus the grounds for his claim of priority over Leibniz. Newton arrived at most of his unconventional ideas on colour by about 1668 and Opticks was largely complete by 1692. However when he first partially expressed his theories in public in 1672 and 1675 they provoked hostile criticism especially on the continent. As a result Newton delayed the publication of Opticks until his most vociferous critics - especially Robert Hooke - were dead. Unusually for Newton and in what was probably a further defensive move the work was first published in English rather than Latin becoming a major contribution to the development of vernacular scientific literature. By about 1715 Opticks established itself as a model for interweaving theory with quantitative experimentation. Newton's aim was not to "explain the properties of light by hypotheses but to propose and prove them by reason and experiments" p. 1. The great achievement of the work was to show that colour was a mathematically definable property." The work contains: The First Book of Opticks The Second Book of Opticks The Thrid Book of Opticks Tertii Ordinis: Enumeratio Linearum Tractatus de Quadratura Curvarum. The main work is in English the 2 treatises pages 138-211 are in Latin. Babson 132; Gray 174; Horblit 79b; PMM 172; Norman 1588; Dibner 148; Wallis 174.Provenance: Signature of Francis Cremer the initial owner & contemporary of Newton's dated 1704 is on the title page with the price he paid of 12 shillings. Another ownership signature "Gul Bryant" also a sudent at Cambridge some decades later is on the rear flyleaf and the library label of Francis E. Nipher 1847- 1926 the American physicist on the front paste-down. Smith & Walford unknown books

Argosy Book Store · États-Unis100 000,00 $US≈ 89 341,60 €

Newton

Newton

Siècle

Langue

Pays du libraire

Photos

Ajouté

Sujets

Catalogues

Siècle

Langue

Pays du libraire

Photos

Ajouté

Sujets

Catalogues

Siècle

Langue

Pays du libraire

Photos

Ajouté

Sujets

Catalogues