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John KEILL

Introductiones ad veram Physicam et veram Astronomiam. Quibus accedunt Trogonometria. De viribus centralibus. De legibus attractractionis

Apud Joh. et Herm. Verbeek (Jean & Herman Verbeek), Lugduni Batavorum (Leyde) 1725, in-4 (18,5x25cm), (4) 636pp. (10), relié.

Original collective edition of these two works, published respectively in Oxford in 1701 (Physica) and 1718 (Astronomy); illustrated with a vignette title, 12 folding plates for physics (experiments, diagrams, geometry), 29 for astronomy, trigonometry and 6, numbered I to XLVII.Pleine sheepskin vintage mottled brown. Spine ribbed ornate. Part of title in red morocco. Binding used. Torn off caps. Tail jaws open and head along the two casing upper jaw. Highly rounded corners. Paper more or less brown. Treaty and of astronomy and physics with various short treatises, so that trigonometry textbook. The Treaty of physics is based on Newtonian physics lessons that gave Keill Oxford. Scottish mathematician and advocate of the work of Newton, professor of Oxford was one of the first to teach physics and astronomy from mathematics. The map plates of the Moon were made based on the work of Hevelius, Riccioli, Langren who each in their own way identified and observed the contours of the moon. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information!

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