Manuscripts
Ensayo sobre el gas y máquinas, o globos aerostaticos: manuscript
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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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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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Tractatus physica universalis: manuscript
Manuscripts
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.
mssHM 74896
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Camille Desmoulins manuscript fragment about the freedom of the press
Manuscripts
A fragment from a longer manuscript, possibly from Le Vieux Cordelier, number seven; the two-page autograph manuscript concerns the freedom of the press. In the upper left corner is the number 13 and directly below is an autograph note in another hand dated 1865; the two pages are heavily corrected and lined through, though the text remains legible on both pages. The accompanying material, all in French, includes a catalogue description, a partial transcription, and further information about the sale of the manuscript.
mssHM 84413
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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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Livro de curiozidades modocomo sefazem rellogios de varias fabricas
Manuscripts
A horological treatise on the art of clock-making, dated several times in the text 1788 and 1792, in Portuguese; with numerous diagrams, manuscript text in one hand with additional technical notes in a different hand. The diagrams, many with stamped numerals, illustrate clock works, mechanisms, hands and decorative external elements, also pendula, many quite ornate; there is also a hand-made color chart. The diagrams are drawn in brown ink and are partly colored in gray. The name "Antonio d'Oliveira Marquez" and other name variations appear randomly throughout the volume but seem to be the writing of a younger person. Bound in contemporary unlettered mottled sheep, with loose covers.
mssHM 82904