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Isaac Newton et ses travaux: copy of book chapter
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This manuscript is a handwritten transcription, in French, of the Chapter "Newton et ses Travaux" from Bertrand's book Les fondateurs de l'astronomie moderne: Copernic, Tycho Brahé, Kepler, Galilée, Newton, par Joseph Bertrand. it was a gift from Francisco José Mariano Duarte, a Venezuelan mathematician and scientist., to the Babson Institute in 1956. Duarte may well be the author of the manuscript. It is bound in leather and the cover is stamped "Babson Institute" with "Newton" on the spine.
mssHM 76717
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Rules and Minutes of the Forensic Club
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Rules, bylaws, membership and attendance records, and minutes of proceedings, including proposed questions for discussion, e.g. "Whether a Man who only attempts to kill another ought to be punished with Death" (1764, Nov. 12); "Whether a lawyer may defend a Criminal knowing him to be such?" (1765, Apr. 22); "Whether Toleration Ought to be Allowed" (Sept. 2, 1765), or "If one may take up Arms to deliver Subjects from the York of a strange Prince who is become a Tyrant?" (1765, Nov. 25) and the appointed speakers to argue "on the Affirmative" and "on the Negative;" commendations, and fines (mostly for "impious language," nonattendance, or "not speaking according to Appointment.")
mssHM 546
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Essai medico-légal sur la stérilité des femmes, : précédé de l'exposition physiologique de quelques systèmes qui ont eu lieu sur la generation. Présenté à l'École de Médecine de Montpellier, le 14 prairial an VIII de la République
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This work considers the reasons for sterility in women. Several of the causes the author proposes are absence of sexual intercourse, infecundity, abnormalities in the fertilized egg; as well as providing an account of the various theories of generation.
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"Happy" Moore, 500 pounds, in an automobile. 1930
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Happy Moore, a 500 pound man, sits in a parked automobile with the passenger-side door open. There are businesses along the far side of the street, and a parked car.
photCL Whitt 2377 ; Whitt neg. 2506