Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.

A classical courtyard filled with natural philosophers, scientists and artists. Engraving after S. Le Clerc.

Two merchants and a woman at a table; representing arithmetic. Etching by C. Schut after himself.

Mensuration: a man using an inclinometer (?) and trigonometry to measure a water-tank (?) in a field. Engraving, ca.1760.

Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.

The brain seen from the underside, sectioned horizontally; with attention to the part associated by Hollander's system of phrenology with memory for numbers. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.

A mathematician standing before a blackboard, on which he has drawn a diagram. Engraving by I.S. Klauber after Le Fort after F. Bol.

Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-physikalische Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Demonstrations of the arts and sciences in a classical courtyard. Etching by J. Sturt after S. Le Clerc.

A female figure book keeping; representing arithmetic. Engraving by J. Sadeler after M. de Vos.

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Recette médicamentaire par lettres alphabétiques et suplément. Manuel pour l'instruction de 25 enfants: Arithmétique. Extraits d'histoire burlesques et curieuses. Notes sur les Papes [etc.]. Pp. 55-82 of the second section contains a 'Traité du Cassis'. The date 1816 is found on p. 55 of the last section: a note written inside the upper cover seems to be dated 1822. The date 1831 is found on the verso of the unpaginated leaf at the end of the 'Arithmétique'. Produced in Thuray.

1 volume 1 l. + 136 pp. + 100 pp. + 1 l. + 176 pp. + 4 ll. (last bl.). + 128 pp. + 6 ll. 4to. 181/2 × 131/2 cm. Original quarter-calf binding.

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Genetics and social structure : mathematical structuralism in population genetics and social theory / edited by Paul Ballonoff.

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Visualised numerals / by Francis Galton.

2 volumes [plates] : illustrations ; 20 cm

Outlines of natural philosophy : being heads of lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh / by John Playfair.

198 unnumbered pages, 11 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : diagrams ; (4to 26 cm)

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Genetics and social structure : mathematical structuralism in population genetics and social theory / edited by Paul Ballonoff.

Visualised numerals / by Francis Galton.

Outlines of natural philosophy : being heads of lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh / by John Playfair.

Epistolarvm mathematicarvm fascicvlvs / Ioannis Poleni.

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Genetics and social structure : mathematical structuralism in population genetics and social theory / edited by Paul Ballonoff.

Visualised numerals / by Francis Galton.

Outlines of natural philosophy : being heads of lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh / by John Playfair.

Epistolarvm mathematicarvm fascicvlvs / Ioannis Poleni.

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