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COTES, Roger (1682-1716). Harmonia mensurarum, sive analysis & synthesis per rationum & angulorum mensuras promotae: accedunt alia opuscula mathematica. Edited by Robert Smith. Cambridge, 1722.
4o (240 x 182 mm). Engraved table, numerous woodcut diagrams in text. Contemporary English calf (rebacked to match).
Provenance: S.H. Christie, T.C.C. (signature dated 1806 on title-page). Samuel Hunter Christie (1784-1865), the son of the renowned auctioneer (1766-1803), was a mathematician with a keen interest in magnetism. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and became a professor of mathematics at Woolwich Military Academy; a laid-in sheet containing mathematical calculations in an 18th-century hand (possibly Christie's); some 18th-century notations on front free endpaper mentioning a translation of Cotes' De descensu gravium (and a few marginalia apparently in the same hand); University of London Library (blind-embossed stamp on title and on several internal leaves; withdrawn stamp on title-page verso).
SAMUEL H. CHRISTIE'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of this posthumously published collection of Cotes' mathematical papers edited by Robert Smith. It "contains 'Logometria,' the only one of Cotes' works published during his lifetime, in which he gave two methods for computing Briggsian logarithms ... The work also contains 'Cotes's theorem,' equivalent to finding all the factors of xn - an when n is a positive integer, as well as the first version of the Newton-Cotes formula for evaluating the area under a curve of nth degree and a method for evaluating the most probable result of a set of operations that closely approaches that of least squares" (Norman). Babson/Newton Supp. 174.790; Wallis 246; Norman 519.
4o (240 x 182 mm). Engraved table, numerous woodcut diagrams in text. Contemporary English calf (rebacked to match).
Provenance: S.H. Christie, T.C.C. (signature dated 1806 on title-page). Samuel Hunter Christie (1784-1865), the son of the renowned auctioneer (1766-1803), was a mathematician with a keen interest in magnetism. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and became a professor of mathematics at Woolwich Military Academy; a laid-in sheet containing mathematical calculations in an 18th-century hand (possibly Christie's); some 18th-century notations on front free endpaper mentioning a translation of Cotes' De descensu gravium (and a few marginalia apparently in the same hand); University of London Library (blind-embossed stamp on title and on several internal leaves; withdrawn stamp on title-page verso).
SAMUEL H. CHRISTIE'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of this posthumously published collection of Cotes' mathematical papers edited by Robert Smith. It "contains 'Logometria,' the only one of Cotes' works published during his lifetime, in which he gave two methods for computing Briggsian logarithms ... The work also contains 'Cotes's theorem,' equivalent to finding all the factors of xn - an when n is a positive integer, as well as the first version of the Newton-Cotes formula for evaluating the area under a curve of nth degree and a method for evaluating the most probable result of a set of operations that closely approaches that of least squares" (Norman). Babson/Newton Supp. 174.790; Wallis 246; Norman 519.