[Rarebooks] FS: Hauksbee's science experiments on light, electricity, etc. London: 1719

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(SCIENCE) Hauksbee, Francis. PHYSICO-MECHANICAL EXPERIMENTS ON VARIOUS 
SUBJECTS. Containing an Account of Several Surprising Phaenomena Touching Light 
and Electricity... Together with the Explanations of All the Machines... To 
Which Is Added, a Supplement, Experiments Not in the Former Edition. The 
Second Edition. London: J. Senex and W. Taylor. 1719. 8vo. (16),336pp. (pp. 
255-256 repeated in pagination). With 9 plates (8 folding). Cont. calf, 
rebacked, red morocco spine label. With the bookplate of Herbert McLean Evans.     
$2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
The greatly expanded second edition. The first edition of 1709 has 194pp. 
and 8 plates. The second edition has one additional plate and the text, with 
the supplementary experiments added to this edition, now has 336pp. An 
important text in the physical sciences, relating to light and electricity & 
sound. Hauksbee was influenced by Newton and in turn "influenced Newton's 
revisions and additions in the new editions of his PRINCIPIA and OPTICKS" (NORMAN 
# 1020).

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