Name: Auction: Hume, David Dialogues concerning Natural Religion
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Price: 500 GBP
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James Stirling, one of the foremost mathematicians of eighteenth-century Europe and a protégé of Sir Isaac Newton, played a pivotal role in the Newtonian revolution in mathematics. Renowned for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and infinite series, he gives his name to two major discoveries in Stirling’s formula and the Stirling numbers. &nbsp;Stirling’s principal work, the Methodus Differentialis&nbsp;(1730), is present in the library in three remarkable forms: his holograph manuscript, his personally corrected first edition, and a first edition in English with autograph letters from the translator. His notebooks, covering subjects from infinite series to the figure of the earth and ancient weights and measures, are complemented by a selection of landmark works by his contemporaries, including a large-paper copy of Newton’s Principia Mathematica, a first edition of Newton’s Analysis&nbsp;Per Quantitatum&nbsp;series, fluxiones, ac differentias, and a first edition of Colin Maclaurin’s Treatise on Fluxions&nbsp;(to which Stirling contributed), alongside presentation copies of works by Brook Taylor, Abraham de Moivre and Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis. The library also contains a spectacular collection of letters to Stirling from peers including Leonhard Euler, Nicolaus Bernoulli, and Gabriel Cramer. A selection of scientific instruments, believed to have been used by Stirling, completes this extraordinary collection.Buyer's Guide:&nbsp;

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London: [no printer], 1779. Second edition, 8vo (20.9 x 12.4cm), contemporary sprinkled tan calf, smooth spine gilt in compartments incorporating Greek key and sunburst devices, dark blue morocco label, edges dyed yellow, 264 pp., half-title [ESTC T85283];&nbsp; Malthus, Thomas. An Essay on the Principle of Population. London: for J. Johnson, 1806. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, red morocco labels, marbled edges, xvi 505 [61], vii [1] 559 pp., half-titles, neat, early ink inscription to head of each title-page;&nbsp; [Highland murder trial]. The Trial of James Stewart in Aucharn in Duror of Appin for the Murder of Colin Campbell of Glenure, Esq; Factor for His Majesty on the forfeited Estate of Ardshiel; before the Circuit Court of Justiciary held at Inveraray. Edinburgh: for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour, 1753. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tree calf uniform with the preceding work, [4] 288 149 pp., engraved map frontispiece, damp-staining to lower fore corners at front;&nbsp; Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. London: A. Strahan, for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1800. Thirteenth edition, 4 volumes, 8vo (20.8 x 12.8cm), contemporary tan calf, spines with red morocco title-labels to second compartments and green morocco numbering roundels to fourth, edges sprinkled blue, 13 engraved portraits including frontispieces, engraved folding plate (8)

Dialogues concerning Natural Religion

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Hume, David

Dialogues concerning Natural Religion

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