Manuscript and letters of Louis-Adolphe Bertillon | Collections | The Huntington

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Augustin Louis Cauchy manuscript volume of mathematics lectures
Manuscripts
The only recorded set of notes taken from French mathematician Augustin Louis Cauchy's first-year undergraduate lectures at the École Polytechnique for the years 1824-1825, taken by his student Christophe Louis Léon Juchault de La Moricière. These notes are of considerable historical importance: although the lectures on analysis were published in four great treatises, the content of the lectures evolved significantly during Cauchy's 15 years of teaching so that the content of a particular series of lectures may differ significantly from the published version. Moreover, the notes provide a unique insight into Cauchy's lectures on mechanics, which were never published.
mssHM 82485
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Letters and printed items of Joseph Louis Vincens Causans
Manuscripts
The eight items include three handwritten letters and five printed items. Two of the letters are by Causans (letters are addressed to Marquise de Pompadour and an unknown woman); the third is addressed to him. The printed items are about geometry and Causans' publication Quadrature du cercle. All of the items are in French.
mssHM 75080-75087
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Alexander von Humboldt letter to N. Maze
Manuscripts
This four-page letter, written in French by Alexander von Humboldt, is probably to his French publisher N. Maze. In the letter, Humboldt talks about his financial problems trying to publish Nova genera et species plantarum. He details problems he is having with the German government and also gives a breakdown of the publication expenses.
mssHM 70386
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Louis Pasteur autograph manuscript research notes relating to his early studies and experiments with beer
Manuscripts
Louis Pasteur probably carried out these experiments with beer in the first half of 1871 at the Kuhn Brewery in Clermont-Ferrand. This series of investigations would form the basis of Études sur la bière (1876), a rousing tract that furthered the study of fermentation and argued for better nationalism through chemistry. The notes are in French, but each page has an English translation.
mssHM 80961-80968
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Calculation
Manuscripts
One sheet containing calculation consisting of nine handwritten lines. The calculation is unsigned but was attributed to Max Born by prior archivist. It is undated.
mssHM 83060
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Louis XV certificate of safe passage for L. Ducros
Manuscripts
Document in which Louis XV grants L. (probably Leonard) Ducros, a supplier of building supplies to the Navy, "safe-conduct and safety of his person" for six months. Signed at Versailles and affixed with paper seal. May be in a secretarial hand. In French.
mssHM 78103