Physica generalis observatoria intima ex sensu experimentali aequè ac intellectuali harmoniae physicae universi Anglicae : cum Leibnitiana collatae ad fundamenta radicitus perspicua systematis naturae Anglici ac regiminis mundi ethico-physici per physicam originis intimae omnium revolutionum ad perfectionem usque summam centralem ex primitiva simplicitate in formas physicas actualiter characteristicas, septempliciter elementares, sponte resoluta.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Obereit, Jakob Hermann, 1725-1798, attributed name.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Clarke, Samuel, 1675-1729.

Clarke, Samuel.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm.

Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.

Newton, Isaac.

Physics--18th century.

Physics.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1963.

Physical Description:

40 leaves : paper ; 235 x 168 mm bound to 235 x 180 mm

Place of Publication:

[Switzerland?], [between 1775 and 1799]

Language Note:

French.

Summary:

Treatise on English natural philosophy, focusing on Isaac Newton and Samuel Clarke, with frequent reference to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from cover; date from Zacour-Hirsch and comparison to Ms. Codex 971.

On the cover, in a different ink from the title, is a statement of responsibility: à Fratre Violae Crucis, Gamaliele. Based on this note, Zacour-Hirsch suggests this may be the work of Jakob Hermann Obereit, who according to the Deutscher Gesamtkatalog used the pseudonym Abaris Gamaliel, even though the work is not mentioned in Bertold Zehme's Jakob Hermann Obereit (Lindau, 1920). This manuscript is on the same paper and in the same hand as Ms. Codex 972, which uses the name Abaris.

Pagination: Paper, 80; [1-80]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Script: Written in a cursive script, possibly in the hand of Jakob Hermann Obereit. On the cover, in a different ink from the title, is a statement of responsibility: à Fratre Violae Crucis, Gamaliele. Based on this note, Zacour-Hirsch suggests this may be the work of Jakob Hermann Obereit, who according to the Deutscher Gesamtkatalog used the pseudonym Abaris Gamaliel, even though the work is not mentioned in Bertold Zehme's Jakob Hermann Obereit (Lindau, 1920). This manuscript is on the same paper and in the same hand as Ms. Codex 972, which uses the name Abaris.

Binding: Heavy paper portfolio, sewn, with title on paper pasted on front.

Origin: Possibly written in Switzerland, in the late 18th century (comparison to Ms. Codex 971).

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. 45 (Ms. Latin 192).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 972

OCLC:

155925695