2 Volumes in 1. 8vo. pp. vi, [v]-xxii, 259, [1]ads; 8 p.l., 285, [19]index. titles in red & black. 58 folding engraved plates. woodcut ornaments & initials. A very nice clean copy in modern half morocco. ownership entry on front blank of Sir James Stonhouse, 11th Baronet [1716-1795], English physician & Anglican divine. Fifth Edition of the English Translation by J.T.Desaguliers of this work by the Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher which laid the foundations for the teaching of Newtonian mechanics through experimental demonstrations. " sGravesande was the earliest influential exponent of the Newtonian philosophy in continental Europe.The strength of his exposition was in his perfection of the method of justifying scientific truths either by self-evidence or by appeal to experimental observation�perfected by him through the design of many new instruments constructed by the instrument maker Jan van Musschenbroek�". (DSB) Babson 68. cfGray 83. cfWellcome III p. 150.

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Mathematical Elements Of Natural Philosophy Confirm d By Experiments, Or An Introduction To Sir Isaac Newton s Philosophy.

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London: Printed for J. Senex, W.Innys and R.Manby and T.Longman, 1737.

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