Nova visionis theoria, Regiae Societati Londin. proposita / [William Briggs].

Londini : Typis J.P. impensis Sam Simpson, bibliopol. Cantabrig. & prostant venales apud Sam. Smith, ad insignia Principis in Caemeterio D. Pauli, Londin, 1685.

16 unnumbered pages, 80 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves, folded engr. plates : illustrations ; (8vo)

Ed. altera.

"Epistola D. Isaaci Newtoni ... ad authorem conscripta": p. [3]-[6]

Contains two treatises, previously published in English. The first (Nova visionis theoria, p. 1-34) was expounded before the Royal Society in 1681 and printed in the Philosophical collections edited by Robert Hooke, no. 6, 1682. The second (Continuatio theoriae praecedentis, p. 35-80) was printed in the Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society, no. 146, 1683

Copy 1 Note: Bound with his Ophthalmographia. 1687.

Wing B4667

ESTC R33249

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B4667

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B4668A