Lot Essay
"Ferguson, an original scientist of considerable talent, here makes one of the earliest and most successful attempts to explain Newtonian ideas in popular terms" (Babson).
Details
FERGUSON, James. Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, London: for the author, 1757, 4°, second edition, engraved title, engraved frontispiece and 13 plates, all folding (some light offsetting to title and text), contemporary marbled calf (extremities worn). [Sotheran 1316; Wallis 75.002]
Provenance
Richard Hopton of Can-frome in the County of Hereford Esq., armorial bookplate.