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Horsley, S.

A supplement to a former paper concerning difficulties in the Newtonian Theory of Light.

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Horsley, S.

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London, The Royal Society, 1772. Small 4to (22.7 x 17.8 cm). 12 pp. [numbered 574-558], one large, folded plate [Tab. XVII]. Disbound. = Interesting paper, read before the Society on 19 December 1771, by the reverend Samuel Horsley (1733-1806), mathematican and -later - Bishop of Rochester (1793), and member of the Royal Society, which he left after quarrels with the famous chemist Joseph Priestley (on religous matters) and Sir Joseph Banks. Disbound from the Society's Philosophical Transactions. Wide-margined. A very good, clean copy.
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