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BARROW, Isaac (1630--1677)
[Lectiones mathematicae. English]

The usefulness of mathematical learning explained and demonstrated: being mathematical lectures read in the publick schools at the University of Cambridge. By Isaac Barrow, ... To which is prefixed, the oratorical preface of our learned author, ... on his being elected Lucasian professor of the mathematics. Translated by the Revd. Mr. John Kirkby, ...
London (Place), printed for Stephen Austen,, 1734.
xxxii, 440, [16] p., engr. frontis. port., [1] fold. pl. ; 18.8 cm. (8°)

Translated from Lectiones mathematicae first published London, 1685. Barrow was the first Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge from 1663 to 1670. ESTC t92650.

Binding Early C19th half calf, marbled-paper boards, gilt double-rule spine, red morocco spine-label.

Reference Number 1634

Additional Names Kirkby, John (1705--1754)


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