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ALGAROTTI, Francesco (1712-1764). Sir Isaac Newton's Philiosophy explain'd for the Use of the Ladies. In six dialogues on light and colours. Translated from Italian by Elizabeth Carter. London: E. Cave [and others], 1739.
2 volumes, 12º (165 x 97mm). Volume 1 with half-title and leaf of advertisements at end. (Light soiling to half-title, small hole in I12 of vol. 1, D5 with marginal tear, title to vol. 2 browned at margins.) Contemporary calf, double fillet on sides, spines with raised bands outlined by fillets, volume numbers in third compartment (spine of vol. 1 chipped at head, extremities rubbed, slight splitting to joints, corners bumped).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of this successful popularisation by the Venetian polymath, Count Francesco Algarotti. The work originally appeared in Naples, 1737. Although it was an explanation of the ideas in Newton's Optics, the last dialogue treats of gravitation. The author studied natural sciences and mathematics under Zanotti in Bologna, and himself experimented with optics. The translator, Elizabeth Carter, first came to notice as a contributor of poems to Cave's Gentleman's Magazine. She afterwards became celebrated for her Greek scholarship, becoming the subject of Greek and Latin epigrams by Samuel Johnson. Babson 147; Wallis 196.5
2 volumes, 12º (165 x 97mm). Volume 1 with half-title and leaf of advertisements at end. (Light soiling to half-title, small hole in I12 of vol. 1, D5 with marginal tear, title to vol. 2 browned at margins.) Contemporary calf, double fillet on sides, spines with raised bands outlined by fillets, volume numbers in third compartment (spine of vol. 1 chipped at head, extremities rubbed, slight splitting to joints, corners bumped).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of this successful popularisation by the Venetian polymath, Count Francesco Algarotti. The work originally appeared in Naples, 1737. Although it was an explanation of the ideas in Newton's Optics, the last dialogue treats of gravitation. The author studied natural sciences and mathematics under Zanotti in Bologna, and himself experimented with optics. The translator, Elizabeth Carter, first came to notice as a contributor of poems to Cave's Gentleman's Magazine. She afterwards became celebrated for her Greek scholarship, becoming the subject of Greek and Latin epigrams by Samuel Johnson. Babson 147; Wallis 196.5
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