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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. RUTHERFORTH, T. THOMAS (1712-71). System of natural philosophy, being a course of lectures in mechanics, optics, hydrostatics, and astronomy. Cambridge: J. Bentham, 1748. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. 4 to. Contemp. speckled roan. (24, including list of subscribers), 496; (4), 497-1105, (1, blank), (6, index) pp. Thirty-one folding engraved plates + engraved arms heading the dedication. Engraved armorial bookplates printed in blue of Marchionis Salsae. Some occasional even light browning; a nearly fine, crisp and atractive set. Preceded by a much briefer 'Ordo institutionum physicarum in privatis lectionibus' (1743), Rutherforth's 'System' covered the same topics in natural philosophy and were intended to accompany his lectures at Cambridge (St. John's College). He was educated at St. John's, made F.R.S. in 1743. In 1745 Rutherforth was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. Poggendorff II. 727. Wallis, p. 302. Babson/Newton Cat., Suppl., p. 23. Bibliotheca mechanica, p. 287.…