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HOOKE, Robert (1635-1702). Lectiones Cutlerianae, or a Collection of Lectures: Physical, Mechanical, Geographical, & Astronomical ... to which are added divers Miscellaneous Discourses. London: for John Martyn, 1679.
4° (220 x 163mm). 16 (of 17) engraved plates, all but 3 folding. (Without plate IV from Lampas, perhaps as issued; general title detached and with light wear in the foremargin, occasional scattered spotting and light browning.) Contemporary calf (rebacked and recornered, endpapers renewed, lower board detached). Provenance: purchased by the Royal Institution on 27 July 1803 for £5.
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Hooke's six Cutlerian lectures originally appeared separately between 1674 and 1678, and were first collected here under a general title. The lectures were named in honour of Sir James Cutler, who founded a lectureship in mechanics for Hooke in 1664. The first lecture contains Hooke's reformulation of the approach to orbital dynamics. He recognized here for the first time that orbital motion did not depend on centrifugal force, but rather on the principle of rectilinear inertia. This discovery set Newton on the correct path to understanding orbital dynamics. The second Cutlerian lecture, Animadversions on the first part of the machina coelestis, contains the first descriptions of Hooke's clock-driven telescope and the first form of a universal joint. The Lectures de potentia restitutiva, the fifth published Cutlerian lecture, contains Hooke's law of elasticity, that stress is proportional to strain. The sixth and final published lecture, Lectures and collections, includes an account of the comet witnessed in April 1677. It also prints two letters from Leeuwenhoek concerning his miscroscopical examinations, and gives Hooke's own account of his improved microscopical methods. This copy, like the Bridgewater-Norman copy (Christie’s New York, 15-16 June, 1998, lot 527), is without plate IV from Lampas perhaps as issued, though complete copies are known. Keynes Hooke 23; Dibner Heralds of Science 147; Wing H-2617; Norman 1099.
4° (220 x 163mm). 16 (of 17) engraved plates, all but 3 folding. (Without plate IV from Lampas, perhaps as issued; general title detached and with light wear in the foremargin, occasional scattered spotting and light browning.) Contemporary calf (rebacked and recornered, endpapers renewed, lower board detached). Provenance: purchased by the Royal Institution on 27 July 1803 for £5.
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Hooke's six Cutlerian lectures originally appeared separately between 1674 and 1678, and were first collected here under a general title. The lectures were named in honour of Sir James Cutler, who founded a lectureship in mechanics for Hooke in 1664. The first lecture contains Hooke's reformulation of the approach to orbital dynamics. He recognized here for the first time that orbital motion did not depend on centrifugal force, but rather on the principle of rectilinear inertia. This discovery set Newton on the correct path to understanding orbital dynamics. The second Cutlerian lecture, Animadversions on the first part of the machina coelestis, contains the first descriptions of Hooke's clock-driven telescope and the first form of a universal joint. The Lectures de potentia restitutiva, the fifth published Cutlerian lecture, contains Hooke's law of elasticity, that stress is proportional to strain. The sixth and final published lecture, Lectures and collections, includes an account of the comet witnessed in April 1677. It also prints two letters from Leeuwenhoek concerning his miscroscopical examinations, and gives Hooke's own account of his improved microscopical methods. This copy, like the Bridgewater-Norman copy (Christie’s New York, 15-16 June, 1998, lot 527), is without plate IV from Lampas perhaps as issued, though complete copies are known. Keynes Hooke 23; Dibner Heralds of Science 147; Wing H-2617; Norman 1099.
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