[Lecture notes on physics, statics, and mechanics].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner.

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

Stanitz, John D., former owner.

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Technology--Early works to 1800.

Technology.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

lecture notes

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford; sold at auction at Messrs. Evans (London) as part of his collection, 8 Dec. 1830, vol. 7, lot 286, to bookseller Thomas Thorpe.

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 7552.

Sold as part of the residue of the Phillipps collection first to William H. Robinson Ltd., 1945, and again to H. P. Kraus, Mar. 1978.

Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 21 (number on spine of wrapper).

Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.

Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Physical Description:

163 leaves : paper ; 262 x 191-193 (245 x 160-165) mm + 1 note

Production:

[Paris?], [1770?]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Notes from lectures on physics, statics, and mechanics, assuming a Newtonian perspective and citing 17th-century scientists such as Galileo, Descartes, Pierre Gassendi, and Pieter van Musschenbroek. The latest citation is to Henri Pitot, professor of engineering at the University of Paris who died in 1771.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Collation: Paper, 163; 1²⁴(-1) 2-3²⁴ 4²⁴(-3) 5²⁴(-1) 6-7²⁴; [i-iv], 1-110, [i-ii], 111-322, contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Layout: Written in 25 long lines.

Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Binding: Modern paper wrapper over disbound gatherings.

Origin: Possibly written in Paris, ca. 1770 (before the death of Henri Pitot).

Local Notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 117 (LJS 190).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 190.

OCLC:

761058881

Online:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page