| 3 | Creator: | Evans, David, 1681-1751 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Aliquot rudimenta philosophiae sive pauca introductoria compendia, technologiae, logicae, rhetoricae et physicae
| | | | Dates: | 1747 | | | | Abstract: | An early Welsh emigrant to Pennsylvania, David Evans was educated at Yale (1713) before answering the call to Presbyterian pulpits in the Welsh Tract of Delaware and Pennsylvania, and to the church at Pilesgrove, N.J. Written entirely in Latin in 1747 when Evans was 66 years old, the Aliquot Rudimenta Physicae consists of four separate compendia bound together, the Compendium Technologiae, Logicae, Rhetoricae, and Physicae. The work is an interesting and thorough attempt to summarize a system of knowledge with impeccable American provenance. | | | | Call #: | Mss.509.Ev5 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Education | Educational Material | Evans, David, 1681-1751 | Foreign Language | Logic--Early work to 1800 | Manuscript Essays | Natural History | Natural theology--Early works to 1800 | Physics--Early work to 1800 | Religion and science | Rhetoric--Early work to 1800 | Science and Technology | Scientific Data | |
| 4 | Creator: | Beccaria, Giambatista, 1716-1781 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Giambatista Beccaria Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1766-1780 | | | | Abstract: | The papers of the Italian natural philosopher and electrician, Giambatista Beccaria (1716-1781) contain letters to Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Banks, Laura Bassi, Gian Francesco Cigna, and others on a variety of scientific topics, including atmospheric and terrestrial electricity, the aurora borealis, earthquakes, meteorology, and phosphorescence. In addition to Beccaria's epistolary essays, the collection includes several journals of meteorological observations and notes for Giovanni Eandi's biography of Beccaria. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B385 | | | | Extent: | 0.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Auroras. | Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 | Bassi, Laura, 1711-1778 | Beccaria, Giambatista, 1716-1781 | Beyond Early America | Cigna, Gian Francesco, 1734-1790 | Eandi, Giuseppe Antonio Francesco Girolamo, 1735-1799 | Earthquakes--Early works to 1800 | Electricity--Early works to 1800 | Electricity--Experiments | Foreign Language | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Journals (notebooks) | Lightning | Lightning rods | Manuscript Essays | Meteorology--Italy--Observations | Phosphorescence | Physics--Early works to 1800 | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Scientific apparatus and instruments--18th century | Sketches. | Sunspots | |
| 5 | Creator: | Various | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Scientists Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1563-1973 | | | | Abstract: | The Scientists Collection is comprised of individual letters and small groups of correspondence from American, British, French, and German scientists during the past three centuries. Although the content is highly varied, there is significant strength in astronomy, natural history, conchology, and geology.
Among the scientists better represented in the collection are the astronomers William Radcliffe Birt, J.F.W. Herschel, and Franz Xaver von Zach; the conchologists A.D. Brown, Fred L. Button, Otto Mörch, Alfred Newton, Christian M. Poulsen, Temple Prime, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, and A. G. Wetherby; the physical scientists George Biddell Airy, Arnold Sommerfeld, Ferdinand R. Hassler, and Max Planck; the archaeologist Jean François Nadaillac; the philosopher William Whewell; and the naturalists Walter Henry Bates, Robert Chambers, Edme Dupuget, Robert Kaye Greville, Joseph Henry, John Stevens Henslow, John Lubbock, and Herbert Spencer. | | | | Call #: | Mss.509.L56 | | | | Extent: | 5.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abeille, Louis Paul, 1719-1807 | Akademiia Nauk S.S.S.R. | Animal magnetism. | Astronomy | Astronomy--Early works to 1800 | Azores--Description and travel | Barton, Henry Askew, 1898-1983 | Beadle, Elias R. | Bertrand, J. (Joseph), 1822-1900 | Beyond Early America | Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839 | Clarke, Frieda | Compton, K. T., (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954 | Conchology | Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864 | Dickerson, Mahlon, 1770-1853 | Evolution (Biology) | Geology | Gray, Joseph Alexander, 1884-1966 | Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Lynge, Herman Henrik Julius, 1822-1897 | Natural history | Paleontology | Perisco, Enrico | Photographs | Physicists. | Physics | Physics--Early works to 1800 | Science | Segrè, Emilio Gino, 1905-1989 | Shells. | Silkworms | Sowerby, George Brettingham, 1788-1854 | Various | Vulliamy, Benjamin Lewis, 1780-1854 | Wien, W. , (Wilhelm), 1864-1928 | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818 | |
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