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COTES, Roger. Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Lectures. London: Printed for the Editor and sold by S. Austen, 1738.
8o (195 x 118 mm). 5 folding engraved plates. Contemporary speckled calf (rebacked).
FIRST EDITION. A close friend of Newton, "...Cotes major original work was in the field of mathematics, and the decline in British mathematics that followed his untimely death accentuated his being one of the very few British mathematicians capable of following on from Newton's great work" (DSB).
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FIRST EDITION. A close friend of Newton, "...Cotes major original work was in the field of mathematics, and the decline in British mathematics that followed his untimely death accentuated his being one of the very few British mathematicians capable of following on from Newton's great work" (DSB).