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Theodore D. Judah about 15 years old
Visual Materials
Theodore D. Judah (1826-1863) was an engineer who played a crucial role in building the first transcontinental railroad. Handwriting in ink on inside cover: "Theodore D. Judah, 1841."
(photDAG 57)
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Brown, Gilmor
Manuscripts
Of special significance for understanding Brown's philosophy and approach to theater are the notes on theater in Box 36.
mssPlayhouse
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Of natural philosophy
Manuscripts
A manuscript of science course notes, probably following the natural philosophy course of Robert Eden Scott of King's College Aberdeen (1769-1811), and offering insight into the teaching of physics at the height of the Industrial Revolution. The compiler was one William Watt, who was a student at the college 1806-1810, and who neatly adds his name to one of his careful illustrations, at end. It appears that William Watt may have used diagrams present in the 1805 edition of James Ferguson's "Lectures on select subjects in mechanic", and also from Olinthus Gregory's "Treatise of Mechanics" (1806) as a guide in preparing those included in this manuscript.
mssHM 82554
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The Kama sutra : the classic Hindu treatise on love and social conduct
Rare Books
The publication of Sir Richard Burton's translation of this celebrated classic of Indian literature is a literary event of the first importance. As important to an understanding of ancient Indian civilization as the works of Plato and Aristotle are to the West, the Kama Sutra has endured for 1700 years and may well be the only indisputable classic of the world's literature not yet to have appeared widely in English. Written with frankness and unassuming candor, the Kama Sutra remains one of the most readable and enjoyable of all the classics of antiquity. The Kama Sutra is a work of philosophy, psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, scientific inquiry and sexology; its importance is so great that it has at the same time both affected Indian civilization and remained the indispensable key to an understanding of it. Long forbidden in America because of its supposedly erotic contents, the Kama Sutra will prove of great value to the student of the East--and a great delight to the sophisticated general reader.
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L'histoire notable de la Floride sitvee es Indes Occidentales : contenant les trois voyages faits en icelle par certains capitaines & pilotes françois
Rare Books
"A comprehensive account, or rather compilation, of the four several French expeditions-- 1562, 1564, 1565, 1567-- covering the letters of Laudonnière for the first three, and an anonymous account, perhaps by the editor Basanier, of the fourth." --Winsor. Narr. and crit. hist., v. 2, p. 293.
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Seventeenth century manuscript with two texts: a library catalogue, and treatise on arithmetic
Manuscripts
Rudimentary library catalog (63 pages) of an unidentified owner, arranged alphabetically, giving abbreviated forms of author and title (with very few dates) for a standard early modern collection of primarily Latin and English tiles on philosophy, history, law, religion, sermons, politics, science, travel, classics. From the back of the volume, written upside-down, has been added a short (37 pages) basic treatise on arithmetic including sections on numbers, weights and measures, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, "reduction of integers," and fractions, with many examples of calculations.
mssHM 70980