Shelfmark
Gb.4.01(05)
Author
Title
An attempt to prove the motion of the earth from observations made by Robert Hooke Fellow of the Royal Society.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed by T.R. for John Martyn Printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1674.
Physical description
[8], 28p [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 4to.
Note
"Hooke explains in his preface that this is the first of his Cutlerian Lectures to be published and that others will afterwards be printed in the same format so that they may be bound together. This lecture is therefore headed at the top of p. 1 Numb. 1."--G. Keynes, Bibliography of Robert Hooke, p. 30.
Note
Printer's name from Wing CD.
With note
[Bound with:] Philosophical collections... (1679-1682), Hooke, R. Lampas... (1677), Hooke, R. Lectures and collections... (1678), Hooke, R. Lectures de potentia restitutiva... (1678), Hooke, R. Animadversions on the first part... (1674), Hooke, R. A description of helioscopes... (1676)and Wallis, J. A discourse of gravity... (1675).
Citation/references note
ESTC R11231; Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), H2613; Keynes, G. Bibliography of Robert Hooke, 16
Provenance
Booklabel of Nicholas Mann, recording donation to Eton in 1754.
Provenance
Bookplate of Eton College, dated 1935.
Binding
18th-century brown mottled calf; five raised bands; red spine label; spine title: "Hook's mathematic collection".
Subject
Physics Early works to 1800.
Subject
Gravitation Early works to 1800.
Subject
Earth Rotation Early works to 1800.
Subject
Science Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--name
Roycroft, Thomas, ? - d. 1677 printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B18560