Reason and Revolution: Extraordinary Works from a Distinguished Private Collection. Part 1

Reason and Revolution: Extraordinary Works from a Distinguished Private Collection. Part 1

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Wallis, John | A discourse of gravity and gravitation..., London, 1675

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6,000 - 8,000 USD

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5,000 USD

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Wallis, John

A discourse of gravity and gravitation, grounded on experimental observations. London: for John Martyn, 1675


First edition, with the scarce licence to print leaf.


Wallis' "Discourse" is a response to Sir Matthew Hale's 1673 "Essay, Touching the Gravitation and Non-gravitation of Fluid Bodies", and a critique of Boyle's theory of the "spring of the air".


4to (206 x 160 mm). Licence to print leaf (A1), Folding plate, eighteenth-century ink marginalia throughout. Sewn, modern brown paper wrapper, speckled edges


REFERENCES

ESTC R18644; USTC 3094300; Wing W574


PROVENANCE

Robert S. Dunham (acquired from Rosenthal in January 1949: pencil acquisition note to wrapper; Sotheby's, 11 December 1993, lot 738 (part))

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