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Notebooks, 1836 / Charles Wetherill.
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Wetherill, Charles, 1799-1838.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chemistry--History.
- Chemistry.
- History.
- Electricity--Early works to 1850.
- Electricity.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts (documents) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Nineteenth century (dates CE).
- Penn Provenance:
- Gift from Johns Hopkins University, 2001.
- Physical Description:
- 4 v. : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Electricity or the laws which controul fluids.
- Formation and reformation upon the laws controuling fluids.
- On electric galvanism, magnetism, colour, heat, light [and] chemical affinity or attraction.
- Electricity or the laws which control fluids.
- Formation and reformation upon the laws controling fluids.
- Place of Publication:
- 1836 /
- Summary:
- Four notebooks containing two works by Charles Wetherill: Electricity or the laws which controul [sic] fluids, March 15, 1936 (1st work) and Formation and reformation upon the laws controuling [sic] fluids, 1836, in three notebooks, no. 1-3 (2nd work).
- Notes:
- Heading on first page of first work: On electric galvanism, magnetism, colour, heat, light [and] chemical affinity or attraction.
- Under title on second work in pencil: Copyright to be taken out.
- Written in one hand, in Philadelphia, Pa., 1836.
- Illustrated with pen and ink diagrams (1st work).
- Forms part of: Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection.
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