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WHISTON, William.

Praelectiones Astronomicae Cantabrigiae in Scholis...Quibus Accedunt Tabulae plurimae Astronomicae Flamstedianae correctae, Halleianae, Cassiniane, et Streetianae.

Woodcut diagrams in the text. 1 p.l., 459, [1] pp. 8vo, cont. panelled calf (joints at head a little cracked). Cambridge: Typis Academicis, 1707. First edition of one of the earliest popularizations of Newton's discoveries. Whiston (1667-1752), was selected by Newton to succeed him in the Lucasian chair at Cambridge and he edited Newton's Arithmetica Universalis (1707). However, in 1710 he was sacked from his Chair and banished from the University due to his unorthodox religious beliefs. Fine copy. Scarce. Armorial bookplate of Sir Orlando Bridgman of Ridley in Cheshire, dated 1704. Babson 126.

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