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2 volume (488 pages, variously numbered) : illustrations ; 19 cm

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Notes:

Also available online.

Summary:

Vol. one is bound, has separately numbered parts on, e.g., motion, gravity, air, and sound ; most sections conclude with folded engravings signed : C.H. Becker : Ex Lov. ; and illustrations. The date 1774 appears on three title pages. Vol. two, titled Quaestiones Calefactoris (i.e., topics for the eager), is unbound with separately numbered sections on motion, mechanics, gravity, spheres, hydrostatics, etc. Leaves are various sizes, folded to 19 x 12 cm. ; in Latin

Provenance:

Collected by Bern Dibner for his Burndy Library in Norwalk, Connecticut, founded in 1941. Donated to the Smithsonian Libraries in 1974 by Dibner

Cited/Indexed in:

Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Manuscripts of the Dibner collection, 305

Local Note:

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Location:

Smithsonian Libraries, Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Constitution Avenue & 12th St. NW, Washington, DC, USA 20013-7012 https://library.si.edu/libraries/dibner

Subject:

Physics.

Science -- History.

Technology -- History.

Manuscripts (documents)

Sources.

Added Author:

Dibner, Bern, former owner, donor.

Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)

Burndy Library, former owner, donor.

Catalog Source No.:

(OCoLC)ocm10319018

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