Shelfmark
Ab.9.02 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Gb.4.01[01] (Copy 2)
Title
Philosophical collections, containing an account of such physical, anatomical, chymical, mechanical, astronomical, optical, or other mathematical and philosophical experiments and observations ... As also an account of some books ... lately published. Numb. 1 [-7].
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for John Martyn, 1679-1682.
Physical description
7v : ill. (fold. plates) ; 4to.
Note
Title page includes list of contents.
Note
Imprint from colophon of no.1; from no. 2-7, imprints from title page.
Note
Issues 1-2 dated from imprints, which include year of publication.
Note
Imprints vary; no. 2 printed by: Moses Pitt, at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard; no. 3-7 printed for: Richard Chiswell, printer to the Royal Society, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard.
Note
Issue number printed at head of title.
Note
Issues include illustrated accounts of scientific experiments and observations in all fields, with descriptions of recent publications on scientific subjects.
Citation/references note
ESTC P177; NCBEL, II:1291; Nelson and Seccombe, 537; Crane & Kaye, 713; Times handlist, p. 29
Provenance
Copy 1: Bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Copy 1: Ms. note recording purchase from money bequeathed to Eton by Henry Godolphin 1n 1732; Godolphin stamp.
Provenance
Copy 2: Book-label of Nicholas Mann, recording donation to Eton in 1754. Bookplate of Eton College, dated 1935.
Binding
Copy 1: 18th century gilt and blind-stamped calf.
Binding
Copy 2: 18th-century brown mottled calf; five raised bands; red spine label; spine title: "Hook's mathematic collection".
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Previously Ch.6.2.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Lacking title-page.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Bound with Hooke, R. Lampas... (1677), Hooke, R. Lectures and collections... (1678), Hooke, R. Lectures de potentia restitutiva... (1678), Hooke, R. An attempt to prove... (1674), Hooke, R. Animadversions on the first part... (1674), Hooke, R. A description of helioscopes... (1676) and Wallis, J. A discourse of gravity... (1675).
Subject
Science Periodicals.
Subject
Science Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Hooke, Robert, 1635 - 1703 editor.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--name
Godolphin, Henry, 1648 - 1733 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng lat
Identifier
B9228