Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Lecture notes on physics, statics, and mechanics

Other related names

• North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

LJS 190
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5198331
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5198331

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1770

Place

Paris?

Summary

Notes from lectures on physics, statics, and mechanics, assuming a Newtonian perspective and citing 17th-century scientists such as Galileo, Descartes, Pierre Gassendi, and Pieter van Musschenbroek. The latest citation is to Henri Pitot, professor of engineering at the University of Paris who died in 1771.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

163 leaves : 262 x 191-193 (245 x 160-165) mm. +

Collation

Paper, 163; 1²⁴(-1) 2-3²⁴ 4²⁴(-3) 5²⁴(-1) 6-7²⁴; [i-iv], 1-110, [i-ii], 111-322, contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern paper wrapper over disbound gatherings.

Layout

Written in 25 long lines.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford; sold at auction at Messrs. Evans (London) as part of his collection, 8 Dec. 1830, vol. 7, lot 286, to bookseller Thomas Thorpe.
   
• Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 7552.
   
• Sold as part of the residue of the Phillipps collection first to William H. Robinson Ltd., 1945, and again to H. P. Kraus, Mar. 1978.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 21 (number on spine of wrapper).
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Physics--Early works to 1800
• Technology--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Lecture notes
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• 170 — Table, p. 170