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Rapport des Commissaires chargés par le Roi, de l'examen du magnétisme animal, imprimé par ordre du Roi. Sur la Copie imprimée au Louvre.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- France. Commissaires chargés par le roi de l'examen du magnétisme animal.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Animal magnetism--Early works to 1800.
- Animal magnetism.
- Mesmerism--Early works to 1800.
- Mesmerism.
- Mesmer, Franz Anton, 1734-1815.
- Mesmer, Franz Anton.
- Penn Provenance:
- Newbold, William Romaine, 1865-1926 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 80 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- dei- cer- a-i- hote (3) 1784 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris : Chez Moutard, Imprimeur-Libraire de la Reine, & de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, rue des Mathurins, Hôtel de Cluni, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
- Notes:
- Signatures: chi1; A-E⁸.
- Title vignette (French royal arms).
- Printed marginalia.
- Report of the committee, of which Franklin was a member, appointed to investigage Friedrich Mesmer.
- Lavoisier was a member of the commission and played a major role in its work. Cf. Duveen-Klickstein.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy is gift of Prof. W. R. Newbold, with library's bookplate on front pastedown.
- Cited in:
- Duveen & Klickstein. Lavoisier, 224
- Martin & Walter, 1, 1181
- OCLC:
- 23626488
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