| 1 | Creator: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Traité de physique et de chymie, ca. 1800
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1800 | | | | Abstract: | This treatise includes experiments on eletricity (with mentions of B. Franklin), ballooning (mentions of J. P. Blanchard), pharmacology, chemistr, and hydraulics. Included is a sketch of Woulfe's bottle for passing gases through liquids (Peter Woulfe, 1767). | | | | Call #: | Mss.537.G18 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anonymous | Balloons. | Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809 | Chemistry -- Experiments. | Education | Educational Material | Electricity -- Early works to 1850. | Foreign Language | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Gariel. | Gases. | Hydraulics. | Lejourdan, Alfred | Manuscript Essays | Notebooks | Pharmacology. | Science -- History. | Science and Technology | Scientific Data | Technology -- History. | Woulfe, Peter, -- ca. 1727-1803. | |
| 2 | Creator: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1783-1817 | | | | Abstract: | A physician, natural historian, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815) was one of the central figures in Philadelphia's early national scientific establishment. Having received his medical training in European universities, Barton was appointed Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1789, lecturing on botany, materia medica, natural history. A prolific author, he established his reputation as one of the nation's preeminent botanists through his botanical text book
The Elements of Botany (1803), but his contribtions to zoology, ethnology, and medicine were equally noteworthy. Barton's monograph on the "fascinating faculty" of the rattlesnake and his efforts in historical linguistics (
New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America, 1798) were widely read, and his
Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal (1804-1809) was one of the nation's first medical journals and an important outlet for natural historical research.
The Barton Papers offer a comprehensive view of the professional work of Benjamin Smith Barton from the time of his return to the United States in 1789 until his death. The collection is divided into five series: Correspondence, Subject Files, Bound Volumes, Graphic Materials, and Printing Plates. The collection includes a particularly valuable series of botanical, medical, and natural historical drawings collected by Barton for research, reference, and publication. Among the many artists represented are William Bartram, Frederick Pursh, Pierre Turpin, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B284d | | | | Extent: | 10.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Bartram, William, 1739-1823 | Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809 | Botanists | Botany--Study and teaching--19th century | Botany--Virginia | Buffalo (N.Y.)--Description and travel | Business and Skilled Trades | Chemistry--18th century | Cherokee Indians | Cherokee language | Choctaw Indians | Diaries. | Drawings. | Dysentery. | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Education | Electricity--18th century | Engravings. | Ethnobotany | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Geology--18th century | Gout | Harden, Jane LeConte | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868 -- Pictorial works | Hudson River (N.Y.)--Description and travel--18th century | Indians of North America | Indians of North America--Agriculture | Indians of North America--Languages | Kaigana Indians | Kaskaskia Indians | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Mammals--Classification | Mandan Indians | Mastodons | Materia medica | Medicine | Medicine--Practice--18th century | Medicine--Study and teaching--18th century | Meteorology--United States--18th century | Meteors | Mineralogy | Native America | Natural History | Natural history--18th century | Natural history--19th century | New Jersey--Description and travel--18th century | New York (State)--Description and travel--18th century | Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--Description and travel | Notebooks | Osage language | Pennsylvania--Description and travel--18th century | Physicians--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | Physics | Political Correspondence | Printing and Publishing | Printing plates | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Science and Technology | Seminole Indians | Seneca Indians | Sketchbooks | Sketches. | Tlaxcala (Mexico) | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | Turpin, P. J. F., (Pierre Jean François), 1775-1840 | Tuscarora Indians | University of Pennsylvania--Faculty | Venereal disease | Virginia--Description and travel--18th century | Watercolors | Yellow fever | Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1793 | Zoology--18th century | |
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