| 2 | Creator: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Electrologia, ca. 1785
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1785 | | | | Abstract: | By an unknown author, this notebook is of experiments and the history of experiments with electricity, containing references to Franklin, Beccaria, and Priestley, etc. | | | | Call #: | Mss.537.EL23 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anonymous | Beccaria, Giambatista, 1716-1781 | Beyond Early America | Educational Material | Electricity -- Early works to 1850. | Electricity -- Experiments -- History. | Foreign Language | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Natural History | Notebooks. | Priestley, Joseph, -- 1733-1804. -- Unitarianism explained and defended. | Science and technology | Scientific Data | |
| 3 | 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. | |
| 4 | Creator: | Dutour, Étienne Francois,1711-1784. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Étienne Francois Dutour letters, 1744-1756
| | | | Dates: | 1744-1756 | | | | Abstract: | This is a collection of drafts of letters written by Dutour to Abbé Jean Antoine Nollet. Dutour describes his various experiments on the influence of flame on electricity, as well as with luminous barometers. There is information relative to eighteenth-century scientific apparatus, as well as to contemporary scientists, such as Giambatista Beccaria, Francois de Cisternay Du fay, Dortous de Mairan, Petrus von Musschenbroek, and René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.D935 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Barometers. | Beccaria, Giambatista, 1716-1781 | Beyond Early America | Du fay, Charles-Francois de Cisternay, -- 1698-1739. | Dutour, Étienne Francois,1711-1784. | Electricity -- Early works to 1850. | Mairan, Dortous de, 1678-1771 | Musschenbroek, Petrus von, 1692-1761 | Nollet, -- abbé -- (Jean Antoine), -- 1700-1770. | Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de, -- 1683-1757. | Scientific apparatus and instruments -- 18th century. | Scientists -- 18th century. | |
| 5 | Creator: | Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau papers, 1716-1789
| | | | Dates: | 1716-1789 | | | | Abstract: | Principally covering botany and agriculture, this collection includes many manuscripts on trees, shrubs, and plants of different species, copies of botanical essays by others, essays on fruit trees, etc., by Auguste Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy (1732-89), notes and drafts for the latter's revision of Duhamel's Traité des Arbres et Arbustres. Also miscellaneous essays, sketches, and memoranda on bones of birds and animals, electricity, poisons, steam engines, ventilation, temperature and air pressure, mathmatics, paleontology ("Observations sur les os d'éléphants fossiles"), chemistry, metallurgy, entomology, architecture, taxidermy ("Méthode pour empailler les oiseaux"); lists of plants; notes on England, Canada, Mexico, China; notes of reading in Pliny, John Evelyn, Alexander Russell, William Derham, and others. Also a translation of Jethro Tull's Horse-Hoeing Husbandry, with additions and revisions by Duhamel du Monceau. Also an alphabetical catalogue of Duhamel's gardens, prepared by Fougeroux de Bondaroy. Also correspondence (ca. 170 pieces) with, among others, Duc d'Aven, Duc de Noailles, Louis J. M. Daubenton, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Jean François Gauthier, Comte de La Galissonière, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Emerich Vattel. The collection has been described in part by Gilbert Chinard, "Recently Acquired Botanical Documents," APS Proc. 101 (1957): 508: and by Joseph Ewan, "Fougeroux de Bondaroy (1732-1789) and his Projected Revision of Duhamel du Monceau's Traité (1755) on Trees and Shrubs. I. An Analytical Guide to Persons, Gardens, and Works mentioned in the Manuscripts," APS Proc. 103 (1959): 807. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.D87,580.D881 | | | | Extent: | 8.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agriculture | Architecture | Bones. | Botany. | Brisson, Mathurin-Jacques, 1723-1806 | Chemistry | Daubenton, M., (Louis-Jean-Marie), 1716-1799 | Derham, W., (William), 1657-1735 | Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782 | Electricity -- Early works to 1850. | Entomology. | Essays. | Evelyn, John, 1620-1706 | Fruit trees. | Gardens -- France. | Gauthier, Jean Francois | La Gallissonnière, Augustin-Félix-Elisabeth Barrin, -- comte de, -- 1742-1828. | Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de,1721-1794. | Mathematics. | Metallurgy. | Microfilm Collection | Noailles, Louis, duc de, 1713-1793 | Paleontology. | Plant collectors -- France. | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Pliny, -- the Younger. | Poisons. | Russell, Alexander, 1715?-1768 | Sketches. | Steam-engines -- Early works to 1850. | Taxidermy. | Temperature. | Vattel, Emer de, 1714-1767 | Ventilation. | |
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