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Pra[e]lectiones Physica[e].
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physics--Early works to 1800.
- Physics.
- Chemistry--History.
- Chemistry.
- History.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- diagrams
- drawings (visual works)
- recipes
- Manuscripts, English.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Charles F. Worel (London), 1951.
- Physical Description:
- 152 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 185 x 143 mm bound to 192 x 150 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [between 1700 and 1799]
- Language Note:
- English.
- Summary:
- Course of lectures on natural philosophy and physics.
- Contents:
- 1. f.1r-8r: Lectures of natural philosophy.
- 2. f.8v-14r: Mechanical principles.
- 3. f.14v-17r: Mechanical powers.
- 4. f.17v-30r: The balance and the lever.
- 5. f.30v-50r: The first [-third] law of nature.
- 6. f.50r-80r: Hydrostaticks [includes Proof that there is a great deal of air in the blood.
- 7. f.81r-85r: Description of the air pump which Mr. Boyle made.
- 8. f.85r-88r: Experiments on the air pump.
- 9. f.88r-97r: Of barometers, thermometers, and hydrometers.
- 10. f.98r-103r: Catoptricks.
- 11. f.104r-129r: Diptricks.
- 12. f.129r-132v: Sir Isaac Newton's colours.
- 13. f.133r-134r: A description of the condensing engine.
- 14. f.136r-138r: Electrical machine.
- 15. f.139r-140r: Aeolus harp.
- 16. f.141r-152v: Curious and entertaining experiments (includes the magic bottle, the enchanted mirrors, the wonderful phantoms [laterna magica], [Dr. Franklin's] Clock, a very pretty fountain from Mr. Boyle).
- 17. f. 152v: Description of solvents.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from heading (f. 1r).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- Binding: Modern cloth binding, June 1961 (note, back flyleaf i recto).
- Origin: Written in the 18th century.
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 240-241 (Ms. E.F. Smith 34).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 512
- OCLC:
- 155964392
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