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Manuscripts
Two manuscript volumes on theoretical and practical geometry. Both volumes are illustrated with fine pen and ink geometric diagrams for theoretical or practical application of geometrical principles. Many diagrams are shaded or colored. Additional watercolor drawings of flowers and birds are present at the end problems. The first volume contains the origin and function of geometry and the history and uses of geometry. The main body of the first volume considers definitions of geometry with Euclidean subjects and 40 problems; Methods for tracing figures, angles, lines on a terrain with 31 problems; Practice of geometry; Treatise of development of bodies and the geometrical elevation with 21 problems, and a section on Treatise of trigonometry and practice with 5 propositions and corollaries. The second volume is on practical geometry and measuring, with numerous problems.
mssHM 82555
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Manuscripts
An apparently unpublished treatise on gold refining. The unknown author describes recipes for different methods of refining and assaying, giving practical advice as to what type of vessels and what type of ovens to use. He seems to have been a master of a mint, as he appends two long lists, one of silver, the other of gold coins issued from various Italian, French, Hungarian, German and English mints, and all current in Italy in 1526. He lists the alloys and the correct weights of more than 100 different coins. Includes one marginal sketch of a test tube. In Italian.
mssHM 72879
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Rare Books
"The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, a Sanskrit book of about the third century A.D., has for long been honoured in India as the earliest Indian treatise on the science and art of sex and love. It describes social customs in early India, analyses sexual techniques and comments on the many different situations in which men and women of the day might find themselves involved and how best these should be dealt with. Its purpose is to discover in what ways happiness and enjoyment can be best achieved. While sharing the Indian attitude to love as an ecstatic experience, it assumes that sexual happiness is founded on scientific knowledge and to this end it provides a series of chapters based on the practical experience of sex. In this respect it is a forerunner of the marriage guidance books of today. The Kama Sutra underlies all later Indian writings on love including Sanskrit love poetry and is a classic contribution to Indian culture"--dust jacket.
635962
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Visual Materials
This collection contains 41 mounted 6 x 8-inch photographs of gold and copper mines, miners, and mining facilities in Australia, approximately 1895, including close-up scenes of miners working with tools and equipment inside mines. Other images depict overviews of mine buildings and surrounding land, smelters, mine interiors with walls of timber, and miners wearing helmets with oil lamp lanterns. The photographs were taken by American mining engineer Louis Janin, who traveled to the Australian mining districts in 1895 to identify uses for American mining methods and equipment. He contributed a report, published in 1897, for the prospectus of Australia's Cobar Chesney Copper and Gold Mining Company. Most likely these photographs are connected to one or both of these projects. Handwritten captions on the photographs identify the following mines: C.C.C.; the Peak; Chesney; Mount Pleasant; Young Australian; and Cobar, as well as Fort Bourke Dam and Fort Bourke Cyanide Works.
photCL 203
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Visual Materials
This collection contains 41 mounted 6 x 8-inch photographs of gold and copper mines, miners, and mining facilities in Australia, approximately 1895, including close-up scenes of miners working with tools and equipment inside mines. Other images depict overviews of mine buildings and surrounding land, smelters, mine interiors with walls of timber, and miners wearing helmets with oil lamp lanterns. The photographs were taken by American mining engineer Louis Janin, who traveled to the Australian mining districts in 1895 to identify uses for American mining methods and equipment. He contributed a report, published in 1897, for the prospectus of Australia's Cobar Chesney Copper and Gold Mining Company. Most likely these photographs are connected to one or both of these projects. Handwritten captions on the photographs identify the following mines: C.C.C.; the Peak; Chesney; Mount Pleasant; Young Australian; and Cobar, as well as Fort Bourke Dam and Fort Bourke Cyanide Works.
photCL 203
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Manuscripts
The text is divided into three parts: Part I (pages 1-36) has five chapters on the methods of diagnosis and treatment; Part II (pages 37-158), titled "Fabrica receptorum", explains how to make specific medicines; and Part III (pages 159-1490), titled "Selectus materiae medicae experimentalis" includes an extensive collection of recipes and decriptions of ailments organized alphabetically. Text includes a foreward in which Steigendesch gives a summary of the history of medicine and the relationship his family had with medicine. On pages 1491-1557 is included a list of all the medications described in this treatise, mostly drawn from the Pharmacopoea Wirtenbergica and dated 1785 in a chronogram. Also includes a [36] page index at end.
mssHM 84121