** THE WORLD'S OLDEST SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL **
'De mercurio experimenta' by Herman Boerhaave, 'A spirit level to be fixed to a quadrant for taking a meridional altitude at sea, when the horizon is not visible' by John Hadley, 'The anatomy of a female beaver, and an account of castor found in her', etc. - in a rare complete issue of Philosophical Transactions, published for the Royal Society of London, No. 430, November and December, 1733.
[(London): n.p, n.d. [dated in banner beneath title, 1733]. Pp145-198 [numbered sequentially from previous issues]. Engraved plate as frontispiece. Text in English and Latin. An original and complete issue, disbound from a larger volume of individual issues. Leaves remain uncut at top edge of quires, as published.
Condition: Some moderate age-toning to leaves. Frontispiece quite bright, with no tears or stains. Light age-toning to some leaves.
A rare complete issue of the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions, which includes an account (in Latin) by Boerhaave on some of his early experiments on mercury.
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