Saunderson, Nicholas (1682-1739)

Lectures on Science. Taken down by Dunham Gaines. Fragment on geometry by an unknown Author. The work on Sound is incomplete: the last section paginated 26-32 lacks the beginning, and is by another hand and written within red rules. Illustrated by pen-drawn diagrams and figures.

Contents: Opticks (4 ll. + 87 pp.). Hydrostaticks (3 ll. + 129 pp.) Doctrine of Tides (2 ll. + 20 pp.). Account of the Rain-bow (1 bl. + 6 pp.) Treatise about Heat and Cold (1 l. + 4 pp.). Doctrine upon Sound (24 pp.). Fragment on Geometry (pp. 25-32).

Produced in Cambridge.

1736

1 volume 4 ll. + 87 pp. + 3 ll. + 129 pp. + 2 ll. + 20 pp. + 1 l. + 6 pp. + 1 l. + 4 pp. + 24 pp. + pp. 24-32. 8vo. 19 × 12 cm. Original boards, repaired. The original title-page is wanting.

Purchased 1920.

Dunham Gaines [1717-1790] graduated from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1739, and was later Rector of Wretham, Norfolk.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).