Compilations of important articles on the latest advances in science and technology, plus various travels and explorations. Among the most significant are a number of contributions by Edmund Halley, of comet fame, on astronomical observations; Leewenhoeck on the circulation of blood and microscopical observations; treatises by Isaac Newton on light and color, and other aspects of physics; Boyle on pneumatics; journeys to the Caribbean, the English colonies in America, Nova Zemblya, Turkey and elsewhere; and many more. Of great import are the many copper-engraved plates, demonstrating the scientific theories expounded, depicting dissections of different animals, etc. With the small leather book label of the Brick Row Book Shop to the front pastedown of Vol. I.