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

LJS 187 Thermomètre absolu

Title

Thermomètre absolu

Authors

Du Buat, M. 1734-1809

Other related names

Delambre, J. B. J. 1749-1822, recipient
Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

LJS 187
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

bibid: 5407269
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5407269

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Written in Nord-libre (Condé ), 28 Vendemiare, Year 11 of the Republic (20 Oct. 1802; p. 12).

Date: 1802
Place: Condé

Summary

Signed scientific work addressing the choice of fluids for use in measuring temperature and the development of an absolute thermometer. An anonymous unfavorable review of the work, addressed to Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, secrétaire perpétuel [pour les sciences mathematiques], accompanies De Buat's manuscript.

Notes

Ms. gathering.
Title from upper cover.

Watermark

Battle scene with motto Pro Patria, countermark SOI above foilage.

Extent

8 leaves : 323 x 202 (281 x 171) mm. bound to 323 x 202 mm. +

Collation

Paper, 8; 1⁸ (with outermost bifolium as paper wrapper); 1-12, contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Original paper wrapper.

Layout

Written in 39 long lines; ruled in lead; text block outlined in ink.

Decoration

Plate of 3 figures in ink (diagrams of the thermometer) mounted inside lower cover.

Script

Written in cursive script in the hand of Pierre du Buat, with accompanying notes in another hand.

Provenance

Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 18.
Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Subjects topical

Temperature measurements--History
Thermometers--History

Genres

Diagrams
Treatises
Manuscripts, French--19th century
Manuscripts, Digital

Licenses

Text

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URL

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Text

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URL

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Decorations

Inside back wrapper — Diagrams, Inside back wrapper

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Inside back wrapper
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Decoration: Diagrams, Inside back wrapper

Back wrapper
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