Miscellanea curiosa. Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age; being the most valuable discourses, read and deliver'd to the Royal Society, for the Advancement of Physical and Mathematical Knowledge. Vol. II. To which is added the laws of stereographick projection,
Royal Society, London
Category
Books
Date
1723
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3188246
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 372 p., 9 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Running number: 4273. Shelved and uniform with vols. 1 (3rd ed., 1726) and 3 (2nd ed., 1727). Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled sprinkled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gilt title label on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Royal Society, London Edmund Halley (1656-1742) James Hodgson (1672-1755)