Cours des experiences.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Petit séminaire de Clermont-Ferrand (France)

Language:

French

Latin

Subjects (All):

Education--France--History--18th century--Sources.

Education.

Physics--Experiments--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Physics--Experiments.

History.

France.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

lecture notes

Manuscripts, French.

Manuscripts, European.

Sources.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Roger Gaskell Rare Books (Cambridge, England), 2014.

Physical Description:

138 leaves : paper ; 170 x 115 (130 x 80) mm bound to 175 x 125 mm

Production:

Clermont-Ferrand, 1768.

Other Title:

Cours de physique experimentale.

Language Note:

French, with two classical quotations in Latin (p. 1, 7).

Summary:

A text from a physics course taught by a professor of philosophy named as Monsieur Quentin, divided into sections on topics such as porosity, hydrostatics, gravity, pneumatics, meteorology, electricity, light, colors, cold, sound, odors, and magnets, with numbered experiments following each topic. A table of contents is at the end of the volume.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (p. iii); alternate title from explicit (p. 257).

Pagination: Paper, i + 138 + i leaves; [i-iv], 1, [2-30], 31-221, 223-267, [268-273 (blank)], contemporary and near contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper outer corners.

Layout: Written in 18-28 long lines; octavo.

Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Decoration: Initials decorated with penwork on title page and throughout for section headings.

Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) sheep with flat gilt spine and title label Cours D'Exper, marbled endleaves, red edges, ribbon marker.

Origin: Written in Clermont-Ferrand in 1768 (title page, p. iii).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1717.

OCLC:

918990933