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Tractatus physica universalis: manuscript

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Description: This handwritten manuscript seems to be a fair copy of a complete course of lectures on algebra, and other scientific topics such as physics and astronomy, given by Guido Grandi in 1705. It contains several hand-drawn illustrations.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1705.
Call number: mssHM 74896
Creator: Grandi, Guido (1671-1742)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Dimensions: 32 cm :
Associated organization: Burndy Library,
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Tractatus et quaestiones in libros Aristotelis de generatione et corruptione: manuscript

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This manuscript is a treatise on Aristotle's book De generatione et corruptione (On generation and corruption). It includes several hand-drawn illustrations. It is in Latin and undated. Nothing is known about the author and it could be a copy of another authors' text.

mssHM 75695

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Of natural philosophy

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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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Delle forze in generale

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Anonymous physics manuscript. Text is written in bold cursive style present on gutter half of each page. Numerous diagrams and illustrations have been drawn opposite text pertinent to discussion of physical phenomenon. This is a meticulously written and illustrated Italian manuscript covering many aspects of pressure, force and mechanics. The margins contain various geometric and surveying diagrams along with scales, hoists and other machines and hydraulics. These subjects are covered in 133 numbered sections dealing with forces on objects, refraction, etc.

mssHM 82553

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Science (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

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The Jay T. Last collection of science prints and ephemera contains approximately 40 printed items related to science and natural history in the United States from approximately 1843 to 1921, with the bulk of the content dating from 1880 to 1900. Most items are lithographs, but engravings and woodcuts are also included. The collection deals with products, services, activities, and imagery relating to the pursuit of knowledge by observation and/or experimentation in the fields of physical science: astronomy, chemistry, earth science, ecology, oceanography, and physics; life science: biology, botany, and zoology; and pseudoscience: astrology, alchemy, occult beliefs, and phrenology. Scientific illustrations, equipment, lectures, and expeditions of discovery can be found here. As graphic materials, the collection highlights developing techniques and trends in printmaking while documenting the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process. Notable items include a complete set of 15 astronomical drawing prints by E. L. Trouvelot published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1882.

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