Nov 12, 2018 Book of the Week — Geographie des dames, ou, Almanach geographique-historique
"[This] little work...
Aug 16, 2017 Book of the Week — Instituzioni Analitiche ad uso della gioventu’ italiana
Instituzioni Analitiche Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) Milan: Nella Regia-Ducal Corte, 1748 First edition QA35 A27 1748 Maria Gaetana Agnesi was the eldest in a family of at least twenty-one children. Her father, Pietro Agnesi, a wealthy silk merchant, could afford to provide her with some of the best tutors available....
May 04, 2017 Best Graduation Present Ever
“It is not the history of the science, or of the human mind, that we are to attempt in an elementary treatise. Our only aim should be ease and perspicuity, and with the utmost care to keep every thing out of view which may draw...
Jan 03, 2017 Book of the Week — Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections…
“God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.” OPTICKS OR, A TREATISE OF THE...