~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Title

Nugae Bartlovianae

___

Scarce First Edition

~

Printed Paper

_____

Author

William Whewell

_____________________

Year of Publication

1838

__________________________

Publisher

London: Printed by Samuel Bentley

 _____________________________
For full description see below - after all photographs

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

___________________________________________

Description:

London: Printed by Samuel Bentley, 1838. First Edition attributed to William Whewell.

Incredibly scarce – none on the internet for sale – 2 copies on COPAC (Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues), one at Manchester University and one at Cambridge.

Printed on 8 sheets of paper, well preserved with some tanning.

Poems about the Bartlow Hills.

No watermark to the paper.

Size: Approximately 12 inches tall.

__________________

William Whewell FRS FGS (24 May 1794 – 6 March 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In his time as a student there, he achieved distinction in both poetry and mathematics.

What is most often remarked about Whewell is the breadth of his endeavours. In a time of increasing specialisation, Whewell appears as a vestige of an earlier era when natural philosophers dabbled in a bit of everything. He researched ocean tides (for which he won the Royal Medal), published work in the disciplines of mechanics, physics, geology, astronomy, and economics, while also finding the time to compose poetry, author a Bridgewater Treatise, translate the works of Goethe, and write sermons and theological tracts. In mathematics, Whewell introduced what is now called the Whewell equation, an equation defining the shape of a curve without reference to an arbitrarily chosen coordinate system.

One of Whewell's greatest gifts to science was his wordsmithing. He often corresponded with many in his field and helped them come up with new terms for their discoveries. Whewell contributed the terms scientist, physicist, linguistics, consilience, catastrophism, uniformitarianism, and astigmatism amongst others; Whewell suggested the terms electrode, ion, dielectric, anode, and cathode to Michael Faraday.

Whewell died in Cambridge in 1866 as a result of a fall from his horse.

_________

Bartlow Hills is a Roman tumuli cemetery in Bartlow (Cambridgeshire, UK). Four of original seven barrows remain, but only the largest three are accessible to the public; the northernmost and smallest is on private property and not easily visible. The remnants of two more are visible as low mounds west of the three largest barrows. The tallest is 15 metres high, and the largest barrow north of the Alps.

Excavations were undertaken in the 19th century (chiefly in 1832–40), discovering remains of large wooden chests, decorated vessels in bronze, glass and pottery and an iron folding chair (most of which were lost in a fire at Easton Lodge in 1847). A small Roman villa, occupied until the late 4th century, was situated north of the mounds and was excavated in 1852. The site saw no further work until a geophysical survey in 2006 and further excavations in 2007. During this work, it was not possible to locate the Roman villa.

Externally

• See above and photos.

Internally

• See above and photos.

Publisher: see above.
Publication Date: 1838.
Binding: Hardback

_________________________________________

We take great pride in photographing all our books, maps and prints and in describing every detail.

If, for any reason, you are dissatisfied with your purchase, we offer a 100% money back guarantee provided the item is returned in the same condition as sent.

Please e-mail me for extra photographs and with any questions you may have

Ruler in picture is 6 inches long.

----------------------------

Please Browse all other books and prints in my Shop

LOUIS88Books

Preserving Books for the next generation