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discoveries in geography2
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algebra2
voyages and travels2
mathematics, greek1
trigonometry, spherical1
equations, theory of1

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Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)11
Halley, Edmond11
Whiston, William (1667-1752)3
Stone, Edmund2
Newton, Isaac, 1642-17272
Locke, John (1632-1704)2
Gregory, David (1659-1708)2
Newton, Isaac (1642-1727)2
Stone, Edmund (1768)2
Whiston, William1

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Histoire de la navigation, son commencement, son progrès & ses découvertes jusqu' à présent. Traduit de l'anglois. Le commerce des Indes Occidentales. Avec un catalogue des meilleures cartes geographiques & des meilleurs livres de voyages, & le caractere de leurs auteurs (v.1)

Locke, John (1632-1704); Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)

1722

Authorship from Echeverria & Wilkie, and from Alden-Landis. Vol. 1: [12], 378, [6] p.; v. 2: [8], 316 p. "Memoire des isles françoises de l'Amerique meridionale, appellee's Antilles," v. 2, p. [8...

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Histoire de la navigation, son commencement, son progrès & ses découvertes jusqu' à présent. Traduit de l'anglois. Le commerce des Indes Occidentales. Avec un catalogue des meilleures cartes geographiques & des meilleurs livres de voyages, & le caractere de leurs auteurs (v.2)

Locke, John (1632-1704); Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)

1722

Authorship from Echeverria & Wilkie, and from Alden-Landis. Vol. 1: [12], 378, [6] p.; v. 2: [8], 316 p. "Memoire des isles françoises de l'Amerique meridionale, appellee's Antilles," v. 2, p. [8...

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La chronologie des anciens royaumes corrigée : A laquelle on a joint une chronique abregée, qui contient ce qui s'est passé anciennement en Europe, jusqu'à la conquête de la Perse par Alexandre le Grand. Traduite de l'anglois de M. le Chevalier Isaac Nevvton

Newton, Isaac (1642-1727); Halley, Edmond (1656-1742); Granet, François (1692-1741)

1728

"Trad. de l'angl.... par l'abbé Granet, aidé de l'Angl. Marthan"--Quérard. Leaves b4, B3, H1, L3, L4, N3, O1, X4, Y2, 2A1, 2E2, 2F4 and 2G1 are cancels. Errata: last unnumbered page. "Catalog...

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Menelai Sphæricorum libri III

Menelaus, of Alexandria; Halley, Edmond (1656-1742); Costard, George (1710-1782)

1758

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The elements of physical and geometrical astronomy. By David Gregory,... Done into English, with additions and corrections (v.1)

Gregory, David (1659-1708); Halley, Edmond (1656-1742); Stone, Edmund (1768)

1726

Volume 1 only is described as of the second edition, although according to Houzeau and Lancaster (Bibliographie générale de l'astronomie) no. 9240 the two-volume first edition was published in 1715....

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The elements of physical and geometrical astronomy. By David Gregory,... Done into English, with additions and corrections (v.2)

Gregory, David (1659-1708); Halley, Edmond (1656-1742); Stone, Edmund (1768)

1726

Volume 1 only is described as of the second edition, although according to Houzeau and Lancaster (Bibliographie générale de l'astronomie) no. 9240 the two-volume first edition was published in 1715....

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Arithmetica universalis, sive, De compositione et resolutione arithmetica liber : cui accessit, Halleiana Aequationum radices arithmetice inveniendi methodus. In usum juventutis academicae

Newton, Isaac (1642-1727); Whiston, William (1667-1752); Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)

1707

First edition. Editor's preface signed: G.W. [i.e. William Whiston]. With half title. Page 329 misnumbered 339. Signatures: a⁴, A-X⁸, Y⁴. Anonymous. By Sir Isaac Newton.

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The elements of that mathematical art commonly called algebra : expounded in two books

Kersey, John (1616-1690?); Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)

1717

At end of Book II: The end of the first volume. No more published?. First published in four books, two volumes, folio, London, 1673-74. Caption-titles: Book I, A treatise of the elements of the al...

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Sir Isaac Newton's mathematick philosophy more easily demonstrated: with Dr. Halley's account of comets illustrated : being forty lectures read in the publick schools at Cambridge

Whiston, William (1667-1752); Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)

1716

With a half title. Booklist of W. Taylor, of books by W. Whiston, on verso of half-title.

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Sir Isaac Newton's mathematick philosophy more easily demonstrated: with Dr. Halley's account of comets illustrated : being forty lectures read in the publick schools at Cambridge

Whiston, William (1667-1752); Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)

1716

With a half title. Booklist of W. Taylor, of books by W. Whiston, on verso of half-title.

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