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A copy; partly translated from a German short memoir of Francis Lieber, in the handwriting of Matilda Lieber.
LI 135(a)
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Handwriting specimen of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, plus accompanying letter and transcript prepared by Blumenbach's son. The five-line handwriting specimen is dated 1834, December 28, and is found on a folded sheet with two pages of writing; two lines of this text are in French and three lines, including Blumenbach's signature, are in German. The specimen is annotated and translated into English by Blumenbach's son and by an unidentified person. The second page of the sheet contains a letter from Blumenbach's son to an unidentified recipient addressed as My dear Sir and dated 1836, April 27, describing the handwriting specimen; this letter is in English. Also contains a one-page undated typed transcription and partial translation of Blumenbach's lines and of the start of the son's letter, as well as biographical information about Blumenbach, prepared by an unidentified person; this page contains annotations in pencil relating to the material's archival location.
mssHM 83022-83023
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Imprint from colophon. Work includes Abulcasis' [i.e. Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī] Chirurgia cum formis instrumentorum, translated from Arabic into Latin by Gerardus Cremonensis on leaves a6r-f6r; Jesus filius Hali's [i.e. 'Alī ibn 'Īsá al-Kahhāl] De oculis, translated from Arabic into Latin by Dominicus Marrochinus, on leaves aa1r-bb9v; David Armenicus' De oculis, translated into Latin by Canamusali de Baldach [i.e. 'Ammār ibn 'Alī al-Mausili?], on leaves bb10r-cc8r. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 29 x 20.2 cm. Printed in 2 columns; 65 lines; types, 180G., 130G., 74G.; spaces for capitals with guide letters; woodcut initials; woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments; printer's device at end. Foliation errors: leaves 5 and 39, first sequence, misnumbered as 4 and 41 respectively. Signatures: a⁶ b-d⁸ e-f⁶ aa⁸ bb¹⁰ cc⁸. Binding: 17/18th century sprinkled calf.
86256
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This article, authored by William C. Lindsey and Jorge M. N. Pereira, is a translation and analysis of the Latin manuscript, written in 1665 by the Dutch astronomer and physicist Christiaan Huygens, concerning mutual space-time synchronization. This paper was submitted to the Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1991.
mssHM 75951
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Printed card with image of exterior of the physics laboratory, University of Wurzburg, captioned "Birthplace of the x-ray". On verso, "Exterior pf physics laboratory, University of Wurzburg. The plaque translated, reads "in this building W.C. Roentgen discovered, in the year 1895, the rays which have been named after him."
mssHM 82467
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