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Rapport fait à l'Académie des sciences, sur la machine aérostatique, inventée par MM. de Montgolfier.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1780 Tur (b.w.) Af.395.2 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Académie des sciences (France) 3148
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne, 1745-1799--12878.
- Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne.
- Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810--12879.
- Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel.
- Balloons--68163.
- Balloons.
- 1784.
- Local Subjects:
- 1784.
- Physical Description:
- 27 p. ; 24 cm. (4to)
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : De l'imprimerie de Moutard, 1784.
- Notes:
- "Extrait des Registres de l'Académie des sciences, du 23 décembre 1783."
- Lavoisier was among the commissioners chosen to investigate the Montgolfiers' balloon. Cf. Duven & Klickstein, p. 261-262.
- Signatures: [A]-C[superscript 4]D[superscript 2].
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Turini, Considerazioni, q.v.; item 2 in volume.
- Modern half sheep over contemporary boards; bound with other works. MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; purchased from Dufief in 1801-1803 by William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (15); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to Historical Society.
- Retrospective conversion record: RLIN.
- Cited in:
- Duveen & Klickstein. Lavoisier, 233.
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