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Title

Reverendi Patris Adami Adamandi disquisitiones physicomathematicae

Authors

• Kochánski, Adam, 1631-1700
• Salvini, Anton Maria, 1653-1729

Other related names

• Honervogt, Jacques, fl. 1654-1656, engraver
• Crugius, Carolus Bono, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

LJS 186
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4811616
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4811616

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1667-1668

Place

Florence

Summary

Collection of scientific treatises with an emphasis on mathematical demonstration by the students of Adamus Adamandus (pseudonym of Adam Kochánski) at the Collegio Florentino, the Jesuit college in Florence. The third treatise, on underwater navigation, is described as a demonstration by Antonio Maria Salvini, a student at the Collegio from 1665 to 1669. Other treatises address fluid mechanics, perpetual motion, the possibility of human flight with mechanical wings, communication over distance with telescopes and lanterns, improvements in mechanical timekeeping, and the geometry of cross forms (Proposition II, given in f. 76r-79r, is also present on f. 62r-64r in slightly different wording and without diagrams, with a note on the repetition at the top of f. 62r).

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 5r).
   

Extent

97 leaves : 208 x 150 mm. bound to 215 x 162 mm

Collation

Paper, 97; 1⁴ 2³ 3¹⁶ 4⁴ 5² 6-7⁸ 8¹⁰ 9⁶ 10⁸ 11¹⁸ 12⁴ 13⁶ + 1 bifolium laid in; somewhat erratic modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary mottled calf binding, gilt spine, mottled edges.

Layout

Written in 19-29 long lines.

Decoration

Title cartouche engraved by Jacque Honervogt and published by the Jollain family of Paris (f. 8r); figures for a discussion of fluids drawn in brown ink and labeled in red ink (1 bifolium laid in, and f. 35r); drawings in ink of containers and a fish-shaped boat (f. 35v) and human figures with mechanical wings (f. 45v); geometric diagrams (f. 74v-84r); ornamental letters and decorative elements at the beginning of first and last sections (f. 8r, 70r).

Script

Written in cursive script by three hands.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Carolus Bono Crugius (inscription on title page, partially effaced).
   
• Appeared in H. P. Kraus's cat. 179 (1988), no. 78.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 17.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Fluid mechanics--Early works to 1800
• Hydrostatics--Early works to 1800
• Underwater navigation--Early works to 1800
• Perpetual motion--Early works to 1800
• Aeronautics--Early works to 1900
• Cryptography--Early works to 1800
• Geometry--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Diagrams
• Drawings
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 8r — Dissertatio hydrotechnica..., f. 8r
• fol. 24r — Impossibilitas motus perpetui, f. 24r
• fol. 30r — Disquisitio hydrostatica..., f. 30r
• fol. 38r — Disquisitio statico-mechanica, f. 38r
• fol. 46r — Disquisitio cryptologica, f. 46r
• fol. 56r — Disquisitio cronometrica, f. 56r
• fol. 62r — Staurometria sive nova geometricae metamorphoseos specimina, f. 62r
• fol. 70r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 70r

Decorations

• fol. 5r — Engraving, Decorated border, f. 5r
• fol. 8r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 8r
• fol. 35r — Diagram, Figures for a discussion of fluids, f. 35r
• fol. 35v — Drawing, Fish-shaped boat, f. 35v
• fol. 35v — Drawing, Containers, f. 35v
• fol. 74v — Diagram, f. 74v
• fol. 76r — Diagram, f. 76r
• fol. 78v — Diagram, f. 78v
• fol. 79v — Diagram, f. 79v
• fol. 83v — Diagram, f. 83v
• fol. 84r — Diagram, f. 84r