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Title

Praelectiones Physicae

Authors

• Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
• Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
• Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727

Call number

Ms. Codex 512
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580954
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580954

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English

Origin

Date

17--

Summary

Course of lectures on natural philosophy and physics.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from heading (f. 1r).
   

Extent

152 leaves : 185 x 143 mm. bound to 192 x 150 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 152 + i (modern paper) + i (contemporary paper, tipped in); 1-134, [135-152]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Folio 152 tipped in.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern cloth binding, June 1961 (note, back flyleaf i recto).

Decoration

A few illustrations and diagrams in text, with full-page watercolor illustrations of an electrical machine (f.135v), an aeolus harp and a magic lantern (f. 146v); and pen-and-ink sketches of clocks (f. 148v, 149v).

Script

Written in various cursive scripts by three different hands: f. 1-134 in one hand, f. 136-152 in second hand, note on f. 152v in third hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Charles F. Worel (London), 1951.
   

Subjects topical

• Physics--Early works to 1800
• Chemistry--History

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Drawings
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Lectures of natural philosophy, f. 1r
• fol. 8v — Mechanical principles, f. 8v
• fol. 14v — Mechanical powers, f. 14v
• fol. 17v — The balance and the lever, f. 17v
• fol. 30v — The first [-third] law of nature, f. 30v
• fol. 50r — Hydrostaticks, f. 50r
• fol. 81r — Description of the air pump which Mr. Boyle made, f. 81r
• fol. 85r — Experiments on the air pump, f. 85r
• fol. 88r — Of barometers, thermometers, and hydrometers f. 88r
• fol. 98r — Catoptricks, f. 98r
• fol. 104r — Diptricks, f. 104r
• fol. 129r — Sir Isaac Newton?s colours, f. 129r
• fol. 133r — A description of the condensing engine, f. 133r
• fol. 136r — Electrical machine, f. 136r
• fol. 139r — Aeolus harp, f. 139r
• fol. 141r — Curious and entertaining experiments, f. 141r
• fol. 146v — Diagram, f. 146v
• fol. 152v — Description of solvents, f. 152v

Decorations

• fol. 53r — Diagram, f. 53r
• fol. 73v — Diagram, f. 73v
• fol. 74r — Diagram, f. 74r
• fol. 135v — Diagram, f. 135v
• fol. 148v — Diagram, f. 148v
• fol. 149v — Diagram, f. 149v