VI. Physics
ATWOOD, George (1745-1807). A Treatise on the Rectilinear Motion of Bodies and Rotation of Bodies with a description of original experiments, Cambridge: by J. Archdeacon for J. & J. Merrill [etc.], 1784, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 8 folding engraved plates by James Basire, errata leaf (the 2 final plates browned, and the one showing Atwood's machine mounted on linen, title perforated and with cancellation stamp on verso, accession stamp on first page of Preface, preliminaries dampstained at upper margin, lower margin of 2C3 quite severely browned, 2Q1 torn at inner margin where block broken), contemporary calf (rebacked in library cloth, spine subsequently split, covers worn at extremities). [Honeyman 161: "contains the first description of Atwood's machine for demonstrating the laws of uniformly accelerated motion due to gravity"]
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ATWOOD, George (1745-1807). A Treatise on the Rectilinear Motion of Bodies and Rotation of Bodies with a description of original experiments, Cambridge: by J. Archdeacon for J. & J. Merrill [etc.], 1784, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 8 folding engraved plates by James Basire, errata leaf (the 2 final plates browned, and the one showing Atwood's machine mounted on linen, title perforated and with cancellation stamp on verso, accession stamp on first page of Preface, preliminaries dampstained at upper margin, lower margin of 2C3 quite severely browned, 2Q1 torn at inner margin where block broken), contemporary calf (rebacked in library cloth, spine subsequently split, covers worn at extremities). [Honeyman 161: "contains the first description of Atwood's machine for demonstrating the laws of uniformly accelerated motion due to gravity"]