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Physica generalis

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Description: The volume contains the text for a manuscript entitled "Physica generalis" which may be written by Carlo Barletti. The manuscript is annotated by Alessandro Volta. The text and annotations are in Italian.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1780.
Call number: mssHM 72870
Creator: Barletti, Carlo (1735-1800)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Dimensions: 24 cm :

Alessandro Volta receipts

Manuscripts

These two receipts were signed by Alessandro Volta in Milan. They are in Italian. The first receipt (a) is dated 1780, January 3 and the second receipt (b) is dated 1781, July 19.

mssHM 81241 (a & b)

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Cours supérieur. L'Electricité

Manuscripts

A manuscript textbook on the principles of electricity, illustrated with 38 ink drawings. Suzanne Fessart references experiments by Benjamin Franklin, Luigi Galvani, Jesse Ramsden, and Alessandro Volta.

mssHM 84071

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Carlo Maria Bonaparte university lecture notes

Manuscripts

Untrimmed, written in a neat cursive hand. Possibly lacking the first leaf with title to the first section. Text in Latin with some annotations in Italian. With 34 pen and ink drawings in the text.

mssHM 82471

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Electrical technology in the 19th century: the electrochemical cell and the electromagnet: typescript draft of article

Manuscripts

Copy of typescript of the first of a series of three articles by W. James King that would be published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1962 as the three-volume bulletin entitled The Development of Electrical Technology in the 19th Century. The typescript contains editorial marks, and includes an Introductory Statement declaring the purpose of the series to be "to provide some convenient landmarks in the development of electrical technology in the 19th century." The typescript discusses the early research of Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta in the late 1700s, and focuses on the development of the electrochemical cell and the electromagnet, devices instrumental in the invention of electric motors in the mid-19th century. Also includes a one-page letter written by King to Bern Dibner responding to a letter from Dibner and inviting Dibner to visit the Niels Bohr Library for the History of Physics.

mssHM 83042-83043

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Georg Ohm really said: article and correspondence

Manuscripts

Typescript of article written by Joseph H. Sutton. The article concerns Georg Ohm's work describing the electrical circuit. Also includes three letters, two written by Dibner to Sutton and dated March 24, 1965 and July 18, 1966 and one from Sutton to Dibner, dated March 23, 1966. The letters discuss Sutton's work on Ohm and on Gustav Kirchhoff, and mention that Dibner sent Sutton material concerning Alessandro Volta.

mssHM 83095

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Cesare Borgia : the Machiavellian prince :

Manuscripts

Two-volume typewritten draft of Cesare Borgia : the Machiavellian prince by Carlo Beuf, published by Oxford University Press in 1942. Contains handwritten edits.

mssHM 84342

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