Petty (Sir William) The Discourse Made before the Royal Society the 26 of November 1674 Concerning the Use of Duplicate Proportion... Together with a New Hypothesis of Springing or Elastique Motions, with initial imprimatur f., errata f., patch of damp-staining to outer margin, first 2 ff. fore-edge a little frayed, 20th-century antique-style calf, [Honeyman 2462; Wing P1919], 12mo, printed for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in St. Pauls Churchyard, 1674. ⁂ Petty explains in his dedication that his object is "to explain the Intricate Notions, or Philosophia Prima of Place, Time, Motion, Elasticity, &c. in a way which the meanest Member of adult Mankind is capable of understanding", and "to excite the World to the study of a little Mathematicks, by shewing the use of Duplicate Proportions in some of the most weighty of Humane affairs".
Petty (Sir William) The Discourse Made before the Royal Society the 26 of November 1674 Concerning the Use of Duplicate Proportion... Together with a New Hypothesis of Springing or Elastique Motions, with initial imprimatur f., errata f., patch of damp-staining to outer margin, first 2 ff. fore-edge a little frayed, 20th-century antique-style calf, [Honeyman 2462; Wing P1919], 12mo, printed for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in St. Pauls Churchyard, 1674. ⁂ Petty explains in his dedication that his object is "to explain the Intricate Notions, or Philosophia Prima of Place, Time, Motion, Elasticity, &c. in a way which the meanest Member of adult Mankind is capable of understanding", and "to excite the World to the study of a little Mathematicks, by shewing the use of Duplicate Proportions in some of the most weighty of Humane affairs".
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