browne langrish (9 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Expériences de Médecine Sur Des Animaux. Traduit de l'Anglois | Pour Découvrir Une Méthode Sûre Et Aisée de Dissoudre La Pierre Par Injections | Browne Langrish | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Französisch | 2020 | Hachette Livre - BNF | EAN 9782329388687 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). A very scarce collection of three fascinating scientific works on natural sciences from the mid-eighteenth century, all very scarce works bound together here in one volume. A collection of three very scarce scientific works bound in one volume.Looking into three interesting aspects of natural sciences, of both humans and animals. Offering an intriguing insight into the development of sciences in the mid-eighteenth century, during a booming age of scientific discovery and study.'A Dissertation on the Food and Discharges of Human Bodies', by Bryan Robinson, published in 1748. ESTC citation number T34660. Bound without the final advertisement leaf. Robinson was a notable Irish physician and academic.'An Essay Concerning the Generation of Heat in Animals', by Robert Douglas, published in 1747. ESTC citation number T33272. Bound without the half-title.'Physical Experiments Upon Brutes', by Browne Langrish, published in 1746. ESTC citation number T42274. Half-title is present. Bound without the final dedication leaf. This includes experiments on cherry laurel water, with Langrish concluding that that poisonous liquid may be used in medicine. Rebound in a cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with some light rubbing and marks to the boards and spine. Minor bumping to the spine and extremities. Bookseller's label to the front paste down. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front free endpaper, noting the titles of the works. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age-toned with some spotting. Stamp to the title page of 'A Dissertation on the Food and Discharges of Human Bodies'. Very Good. book.

Disbound from a larger Book. Zustand: Very Good (as such). 1st Edition. (i)+(i)+ii+66pp.,Printed by C.Davis, Printer to the Royal Society, 1748. Langrish published an Essay on Muscular Motion founded on the Newtonian Philosophy of Attraction and Repulsion in 1733 In his preface to this work claims the author reports the desire of "his ever honoured Friend Sir Hans Sloane Baronet, to make some experiments which might illustrate and confirm the Truth of my Hypothesis, I readily and chearfully complied with his Commands, and afterwards drew up the following Lectures. The Foundation of my Scheme is laid upon those Hints which Sir Isaac Newton has given us in the Queries at the End of his incomparable Book of Opticks, together with what Dr Pemberton has said in his very learned Introduction to Cowper on the Muscles. Langrish dedicates this book to Stephen Hales.The book disbound fom a larger volume and tight, unmarked and generally clean without foxing. Light toning; paper in VG condition. See scans - and e-mail for more to confirm condition.

Langrish, Browne (d. 1759). The Croonian lectures on muscular motion . . . read before the Royal Society in the year MDCCXLVII. Being a supplement to the Philosophical Transactions for that year. Extract from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1748). [4], ii, 66pp. London: C. Davis, 1748. 244 x 187 mm. Disbound. Light toning but very good. First Edition. In his Croonian Lecture "Langrish notes the 'surprising discoveries' made of late with regard to electrical fluid travelling instantaneously through the bodies of men 'communicating with each other by a cane, sword,' or other conductor 'do in some measure give us an idea of the great subtilty and velocity of the nervous fluid.' The 'electric matter,' he concludes, 'may be very similar to the motion and action of the nervous Aether'" (A. Muri, The Enlightenment Cyborg: A History of Communications and Control in the Human Machine, 1660-1830, pp. 73-74). .