The philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London, from their commencement, in 1665, to the year 1800 : abridged, with notes and biographical illustrations / by Charles Hutton, George Shaw, Richard Pearson. Volume 3, 1683-1694.
This is an abridged 1809 London edition of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, covering 1683 to 1694 with notes and biographical illustrations by Hutton, Shaw and Pearson, aimed at scientists and scholars. Its engraved plates, printed on aged paper, show natural objects, geometric diagrams and anatomical specimens drawn in fine line with lettered reference marks, giving a designer examples of scientific plate layouts, hatching and labelled technical drawing.
