Physicae tam generalis quam particularis, tractatus decem hoc uno comprehensio volumine / a Dominico Bartaloni elaborati.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Bartaloni, Domenico.

Contributor:

Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Franklin, Benjamin.

Beccaria, Giambatista, 1716-1781.

Beccaria, Giambatista.

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Electricity--Early works to 1850.

Electricity.

Astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

treatises

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Carpe Librum (Brookline, Massachusetts), 2019.

Physical Description:

127 leaves : paper ; 277 x 200 (260 x 170) mm.

Place of Publication:

[Naples?], [between 1765 and 1769]

Language Note:

Latin.

Biography/History:

Italian physicist and engineer (1726-1798); moved from Naples to Siena in 1769 to become professor of physics at the Università di Siena; member and secretary of the Accademia dei Fisiocritici (Siena).

Summary:

The second half of an unpublished work of ten treatises, comprising the sixth through tenth treatises, on fire and cold, air and sound, electricity, meteorology, and astronomy. Both the eighth treatise on electricity (f. 168r-184v) and the chapter on lightning in the ninth treatise (f. 197v-204r) rely on Giambatista Beccaria's Dell' elletricismo naturale ed artificiale (Torino : Nella Stampa di F.A. Campana, 1753) and his descriptions of Benjamin Franklin's experiments with electricity. The treatise on astronomy is the longest and addresses Copernican theory, planetary motion, the moon, and eclipses. A table of contents at the end (f. 266r-267v) lists the chapters through the ninth treatise. The gatherings are sewn together but the volume has no binding.

Contents:

1. f.143r-154r: Tractatus sextus de igne et frigore

2. f.155r-167r: Tractatus septimus de aere et sono

3. f.168r-184v: Tractatus octavus de electricitate

4. f.185r-210r: Tractatus nonus de metehoris

5. f.211r-265r: Tractatus decimus de astronomia

6. f.266r-267v: Index capitum omnium hujus operis.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. ii recto).

Collation: Paper, 126 leaves; 1⁸⁺³(+1, +2, +11) 2⁸ 3-7¹⁰ 8⁶⁺²(+2 singletons between 5 and 6) 9-13¹⁰; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, [i-ii], 143-267, upper right recto. Catchword on every page, lower right corner.

Layout: Written in 27 long lines; section numbers in left margin; left margin formed by folding.

Script: Written in cursive script by two hands.

Origin: Possibly written in Naples between 1765 and 1769 (Carpe Librum).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 2050.

OCLC:

1240102601

Access Restriction:

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