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Physikalisch-chemische Abhandlungen M.W. Lomonossows, 1741-1752
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Groups 1741-1752
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This collection contains of the business records of the Merrymount Press and the related papers of its founder Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941). The bulk of the collection consists of financial volumes; correspondence with customers, publishers, illustrators, craftsmen, and suppliers; bills; estimates; and scrapbooks with specimens of work. While the majority of the correspondence is comprised of letters, there are occasionally proofs, specimens, and cloth, paper, fabric samples, etc., found with the correspondence. The records reflect Updike's involvement with printing across the United States and in Europe, though much of his work was produced for clients in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York City. Some of the correspondence reflects Updike's personal interests including Rhode Island history and churches and charitable work with poor children as well as prison inmates.
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Physikalisch-chemische Beschreibung der Mineralquellen zu Pyrmont
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482949
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Discussion of atmospheric phenomena from electricity: draft translation of treatise
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Copy of a translation from the Russian into English of a manuscript about atmospheric electricity originally written by Mikhail Vasilevich Lomonosov in 1753. The translation, by David Kraus of the American Meteorological Society, resulted from a request made by Bernard Vonnegut of the Department of Atmospheric Science at the State University of New York in Albany in 1963. Also includes a letter dated 1970, May 28 from Bernard Vonnegut to Bern Dibner enclosing the typescript and stating that Lomonosov's work in some ways paralleled that of Benjamin Franklin, and a response from Bern Dibner dated 1970, June 29 thanking Vonnegut for the donation and encouraging Vonnegut's investigation of Franklin's electrical chimes.
mssHM 83097-83099
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Physikalisch-metallurgische Abhandlungen über die Gebirge und Bergwerke in Ungarn
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493760