The Works Of the Learned Isaac Barrow, D.D. Late Master of Trinity College in Cambridge. (Being All his English Works.); Published by Grace Dr. John Tilliotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury

London: James Round, Jacob Tonson and William Taylor, 1716. leather_bound. Orig. cambridge style full brown calf rebacked. Very good. 3 Vols. 783 (5), 381 (7), 390 (6) pages. Folio, 36 x 24 cm. Vol. II, the 4th edition corrected and Vol. III, the 3rd edition corrected. In 1660 Barrow was ordained and appointed to the Regius Professorship of Greek at Cambridge. In 1662 he was made professor of geometry at Gresham College, and in 1663 was selected as the first occupier of the Lucasian chair at Cambridge. During his tenure of this chair he published two mathematical works of great learning (truncated) and elegance, the first on geometry and the second on optics. In 1669 he resigned his professorship in favour of Isaac Newton. For the remainder of his life he devoted himself to the study of divinity. As the Lucasian chair at Cambrige In he published two mathematical works of great learning and elegance, the first on geometry and the second on optics. In 1669 he resigned his professorship in favour of Isaac Newton. For the remainder of his life he devoted himself to the study of divinity. Modest chipping to fore-edges first and last few pages in Vol. I. Text clean and fresh. Raised bands spine panels lettered in gilt. (Inventory #: 23892)