[Oxford University interest] Introductio ad veram physicam: Seu lectiones physicæ, habitæ in schola naturalis philosophiæ Academiæ Oxoniensis an. Dom. 1700. Quibus accedunt Theorematum Hugeniorum de vi centrifuga et motu circulari demonstrationes.

Name: [Oxford University interest] Introductio ad veram physicam: Seu lectiones physicæ, habitæ in schola naturalis philosophiæ Academiæ Oxoniensis an. Dom. 1700. Quibus accedunt Theorematum Hugeniorum de vi centrifuga et motu circulari demonstrationes.
Author: KEILL, Joanne [John Keill, Savilian Professor of Astronomy]; [CLEMENTS, Henry (publisher).

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Third edition. 8vo, pp. [xiv], 274, incl. engraved vignette of the north facade of the Sheldonian Theatre to title page, plus numerous in-text figures and diagrams. Rebound in later quarter calf, lettered and ruled in gilt, five raised bands, grey buckram boards. Edges speckled red. New endpapers. Corners bumped, a few marks to buckram. Edges browned, black stain (remains of a stamp?) to leading edge. Slight wave to text block, some foxing and toning, heaviest at front and rear, occasional dirty fingerprints, black and liquid staining to margins of leading edges. Else, tight and tidy. [ref: 2946]

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A robust copy of the third edition of the influential Scottish mathematician, natural philosopher and cryptographer’s Introduction to True Physics; John Keill (1671–1721) was instrumental in popularising Newtonian principles through his published lecture series, having “offered the first course on Newtonian natural philosophy, and the first reputedly based on ‘experimental demonstrations’ [at Hart Hall, Oxford], at either of the English universities” (ODNB).
The first edition of the published version of Keill’s lectures, Introductio ad veram physicam, appeared in 1701, the year he also became a fellow of the Royal Society. After an interlude away from Oxford, including a government position as ‘decypherer to Anne, Queen of Great Britain,’ Keill returned to the University in 1712 as Savilian Professor of Astronomy, as detailed on the title page of this edition, the first to do so.

Author KEILL, Joanne [John Keill, Savilian Professor of Astronomy]; [CLEMENTS, Henry (publisher).

Date 1715

Publisher Oxoniæ [Oxford]: E theatro Sheldoniano, impensis H. Clements, ad insigne lunæ falcatæ in Cœmeterio D. Pauli Londini [London]

Condition Very good

Price: £200.00

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