Description: A Course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy, Richard Helsham, Published by Bryan Robinson, printed for J. Nourse, London, 1767, 404 pages plus publisher’s list, with eight fold-out plates, leather, 8vo. In fair condition. Boards are afflicted with past water damage that permeates and effects end pages. Corners show signs of being swollen with water and have loss. Hinges are cracking, but intact. Nice spine with raised bands and gilt work. Previous owner’s name on front paste down with old hand marginalia. Torn front end page. Sporadic thumb marks throughout. Plates fold out with ease. Light foxing throughout. Binding intact. Please see photos. Richard Helsham was an 18th-century Dublin Medical doctor, a well-known public figure, and a personal physician to Johnathan Swift, author or “Gulliver’s Travels”. Following his death, in 1739, his pupil Bryan Robinson, another doctor, published this book. Robinson added a preface, quoting Newton on methodology in physics. This went through eight editions, this is the fourth. It became a very popular university physics textbook for almost a century. COLN1767BHIA
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Year Printed: 1767
Topic: Physics
Binding: Leather
Author: Richard Helsham
Subject: Physics
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Publisher: Bryan Robinson
Place of Publication: London
Special Attributes: Fourth Edition
