Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Cours des experiences.

Authors

• Petit séminaire de Clermont-Ferrand (France)

Call number

Ms. Codex 1717
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9961397283503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/918990932
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3s756m4x

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

French, with two classical quotations in Latin (p. 1, 7)

Origin

Date

1768

Place

Clermont-Ferrand

Summary

A text from a physics course taught by a professor of philosophy named as Monsieur Quentin, divided into sections on topics such as porosity, hydrostatics, gravity, pneumatics, meteorology, electricity, light, colors, cold, sound, odors, and magnets, with numbered experiments following each topic. A table of contents is at the end of the volume.

Notes

• Title from title page (p. iii); alternate title from explicit (p. 257).
   
• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

138 leaves : 170 x 115 (130 x 80) mm bound to 175 x 125 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 138 + i leaves; [i-iv], 1, [2-30], 31-221, 223-267, [268-273 (blank)], contemporary and near contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (18th-century) sheep with flat gilt spine and title label Cours D'Exper, marbled endleaves, red edges, ribbon marker.

Layout

Written in 18-28 long lines; octavo.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Roger Gaskell Rare Books (Cambridge, England), 2014.
   

Subjects topical

• Education--France--History--18th century--Sources
• Physics--Experiments--Early works to 1800
• Physics--Experiments
• Education
• History
• France

Genres

• Codices
• Lecture notes
• Manuscripts, French
• Manuscripts, European
• Sources

Keywords

• 18th century
• French
• France
• Paper
• Science

Licenses

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