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Treatise on mechanics

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Description: This handwritten treatise, by an unknown author, covers the general subject of mechanics including laws of motion, gravity, velocity, etc. It includes many hand-drawn illustrations and graphs. It is undated and incomplete. It was probably written in the United States in the 1800s.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1800s.
Call number: mssHM 75699
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Dimensions: 33 cm :
Associated organization: Burndy Library,
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A compendium treatise in medicine

Manuscripts

This manuscript, which is written in Turkish by Abubakir Nuşrat, was probably written in 1650 in Turkey (the volume also has some writing from the early 20th century in it). The volume is a treatise about medicine but also deals with astrology. It has charts and some hand-drawn illustrations.

mssHM 74828

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Anonymous manuscript treatise on pneumatics, air balloons, geology, mines and coal

Manuscripts

The manuscript was written by an unknown author who was probably a male student in England in the 1840s (he mentions an article in a 1837 magazine on ballooning). In it, the author writes generally on several different topics including: pneumatics, air balloons, geology, mines and Sir Humphry Davy, and coal. It contains many hand-drawn diagrams and illustrations (some in color). The volume has many blank pages.

mssHM 76511

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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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Tractatus et quaestiones in libros Aristotelis de generatione et corruptione: manuscript

Manuscripts

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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Notebook on Newton and physics

Manuscripts

This volume contains handwritten notes about Isaac Newton's propositions including force and energy, spirals, mechanics and other related topics. The author, who may be R. Johnson, often includes mathematical equations and hand-drawn illustrations. There is an inscription in the front cover "R. Johnson Caius Coll Cambridge." The date of the manuscript is unknown but the paper has a 1805 watermark.

mssHM 76719

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Artes piscatoriae, a treatise on the British fishing industry attributed to Eastland Company merchant John Scarlett

Manuscripts

A treatise, perhaps intended for publication, on fish and the British commercial fishing industry, chiefly in the Baltic and the North Sea, but also including references to New England, Pennsylvania, and the Black and Caspian seas. There are: lengthy sections devoted to Colchester (England) oyster beds, worldwide sturgeon fishing, whaling, cod, and herring; a discussion of plans for an underwater lantern as described by Denis Papin; and a glossary of fishing terms in Dutch, German, English, and Latin. According to the dealer's catalog the anonymous author was probably the Eastland Company merchant John Scarlett.

mssHM 68494

Treatise on mechanics

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