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Mathematics. Saunderson (Nicholas), The Elements of Algebra, in Ten Books: To which is prefixed, An Account of the Author's Life and Character, Collected from his oldest and most intimate Acquaintance, two volume set, first edition, Cambridge: Printed at the University-Press: And Sold by Mrs. Saunderson, at Cambridge, et al, 1740, portrait frontispiece etched and engraved by Gerard van der Gucht after John Vanderbank, complete, collating: [xxiv], xxvi, [iv], 360; [361-362], 363-748, [32]pp (contents), 9 full-page and folding plates and diagrams, volume I with second advertisement and a further list of subscribers too, lower corner of prelims of volume I with former stain never affecting legibility, growing fainter and not affecting quire A and onwards, four close tears in places throughout, plates occasionally toned and spotted in places, but good, contemporary speckled calf over boards, worn with some losses, yet respectable, rebacked in in-keeping but later 19th c calf gilt, contemporary red speckled edges, later endpapers, 4to, (2) Saunderson (1682-1739) lost his sight from smallpox as a baby but became a distinguished mathematician and friend of Newton and Whiston, whom he succeeded as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in 1710. One of the engraved plates in this important work - which also includes an account of Euclid's doctrine of proportion - depicts his 'Palpable Arithmetic', a computer for the use of the blind.
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