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Delle forze in generale
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Philosophia naturalis
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Scientific manuscript containing the text of lectures delivered by Rinaldini at the University of Padua. As well as discussions of Galileo's work, the manuscript also contains an account of Rinaldini's own discoveries, including that of the convection of heat. Latin text in a neat cursive hand with many illustrative diagrams in the text. Contemporary vellum-backed boards covered in paper with decorative floral motifs, with some damp staining but no loss of text.
mssHM 83384
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Carlo Maria Bonaparte university lecture notes
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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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Theorie der electricitat und des magnitismus
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This manuscript, written in German by Professor Dr. Graetz in Munich, includes text, diagrams and mathematical formulas.
mssHM 72086
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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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Livro de curiozidades modocomo sefazem rellogios de varias fabricas
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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
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Elements of Geometry
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Manuscript by Daniel Hallett that includes sets of problems and proofs used for sailing directions and calculations, using geometry, trigonometry and dialing (text and diagrams). The volume includes accounting information, also belonging to Daniel Hallett, and one hand-colored map from England to Cape Verde Islands.
mssHM 72089