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American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIa, 1743-1806

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIa 1743-1806

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni papers, ca. 1770s-1875, Circa 1770-1875

Title: Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni papers, ca. 1770s-1875 Circa 1770-1875

This collection includes letters from, and drafts of letters to, scientists, artists, musicians, soldiers, political figures, and court personages throughout Europe, especially Italy and France. Topics covered range from personal and social affairs to agriculture, botany, geology, natural history, coinage, museum management, politics, weights and measures, current affairs. The collection also includes four diaries, housed separately with manuscript volumes.

ArchivalResource: 8.0 Linear feet

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Fabbroni, Giovanni Valentino Mattia, 1752-1822. Papers, ca. 1770s-1875.

Title: Papers, ca. 1770s-1875.

This collection includes letters from, and drafts of letters to, scientists, artists, musicians, soldiers, political figures, and court personages throughout Europe, especially Italy and France. Topics covered range from personal and social affairs to agriculture, botany, geology, natural history, coinage, museum management, politics, weights and measures, current affairs.

ArchivalResource: ca. 8500 items.

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Delambre, J. B. J. (Jean Baptiste Joseph), 1749-1822. Jean Baptiste Delambre letter : Paris, to Mme. Lafrançais Lalande : ALS, 1807 April 16.

Title: Jean Baptiste Delambre letter : Paris, to Mme. Lafrançais Lalande : ALS, 1807 April 16.

Letter to Mme. Lafrana̧is Lalande relates to the auction of her late uncle's library, and to those who wish to produce a catalog of this library for an upcoming auction. Delembre suggests that she make a list of titles to be auctioned, and that titles related to mathematics and astronomy be listed separately, as those are anticipated to be of particular interest.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

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Barchas, Cecile M.,. Portrait prints of scientists, 1473-1898.

Title: Portrait prints of scientists, 1473-1898.

Photographic prints from the Samuel I. and Cecile M. Barchas collection include the following scientists: Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Peter Apian, F. Arago, Aristotle, Jean Sylvain Bailly, Jöns Jakob Berzelius, F.W. Bessel, Johann Elert Bode, Robert Boyle, James Bradley, Tycho Brahe, David Brewster, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Nicolaus Copernicus, Humphry Davy, J.B. Delambre, René Descartes, John Dollond, Leonhard Euler, Michael Faraday, John Flamsteed, M. de Fontenelle, Jean Baptiste Fourier, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Pierre Gassendi, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Edmond Halley, Caroline Lucretia Herschel, John F. W. Herschel, William Herschel, Christiaan Huygens, Johannes Kepler, J. L. Lagrange, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande, Pierre Simon Laplace, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, U. J. Le Verrier, Nevil Maskelyne, Gerhard Mercator, Charles Messier, Isaac Newton, W. Olbers, Ptolemy, René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Angelo Secchi, Edwin A. Stevens. James Watt. One of the prints is unidentified. Biographical sketches from the periodical, The popular science monthly, are about Angelo Secchi, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Caroline Lucretia Herschel; another insert is about David Brewster. Artists and printmakers are also identified. These include: Pierre-Michel Alix, Charles Beaubrun, Julien-Léopold Boilly, Louis, Boilly, Johann Friedrich Bolt, Johann Theodor de Bry, Nicholas Gabriel Dupuis, William Thomas Fry, Jules Gaildrau, Franz Gareis, Johann Elias Haid, Frans Hals, Benjamin Holl, William Holl, Thomas Hudson, Godfrey Kneller, Thomas, Lawrence, James Lonsdale, Frederick Mackenzie, Jean Denis Nargeot, James Posselwhite, Henry Raeburn, Denis Auguste Marie Raffett, John Russell, Edward Scriven, Ambroise Tardieu, James Thomson, Charles Albert Waltner.

ArchivalResource: 78 items (68 prints, 10 p. biographical reprints.

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Rudy Lamont Ruggles Collection (Newberry Library). Prayer book, 1750-1752.

Title: Prayer book, 1750-1752.

Prayer book of hymns, litanies, prayers, etc., in the Mohawk language with a record in French of Baptisms at La Presentation Mission (Ogdensburg, N.Y.), 1750-1752. It was written for and likely in part by the soldier missionary François Picquet, who used it at the time of the French and Indian War.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (61 leaves) : bound ; 23 cm. (4to)

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Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de, 1732-1807. Physica specialis.

Title: Physica specialis. 1781.

Holograph S. (1781 Jun. 30 - see p. 275 [i.e. 276]). Topics include cosmography, physical astronomy, optics, mechanics, the geological elements, sound, and light. The second part of the section De electricitate (p. 208-223) is quoted from a French source. Paragraphs are numbered : 1289-1928. Illustrations include ink drawings in black and brown and two engravings, one folded, both attributed "a Paris chez Crepy" and the first with : H. van Loon. Index on unnumbered pages at the end ; in Latin.

ArchivalResource: 275 [i.e. 276] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

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Corvisart des Marets, Jean Nicolas, baron, 1755-1821. Document.

Title: Document. 1802.

A.D.S. (an 11 vendémaire 26, i.e. 1802 Oct. 18, Paris) requesting a position for citizen Leterisseur?, signed also by Brisson, Deyeux, Haüy, and Lalande ; in French.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

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Herschel Family. Papers, 1721-1951, (bulk 1810-1871).

Title: Papers, 1721-1951, (bulk 1810-1871).

The bulk of the Herschel papers consists of Sir John F.W. Herschel's correspondence, essays, drawings, notes, calculations, reports, notebooks, charts, documents, memoranda books, diaries, and travel journals from 1809 to 1871. Also present are Caroline Lucretia Herschel's correspondence, biographical memoranda, documents, tables, and diaries from 1787 to 1846; Sir William Herschel's correspondence, essays, notes, and tables from 1758 to 1822; correspondence and essays by other members of the Herschel family, colleagues, and acquaintances; and reports, minutes, and documents of various organizations to which John F.W. Herschel belonged. Among manuscripts of Sir John Herschel's works are his writings on actinometry, astronomy, the barometer, biology, chemistry, geology, music, photography, physical optics, physics, and other subjects, as well as 37 poems he wrote between 1826 and 1842. A manuscript of one of Herschel's earliest works, Memoir on a Remarkable Application of Cote's Theorems, is present in the collection, as are notebooks from his student years. Notes from numerous chemistry experiments date from 1848 to 1870. Diaries cover the years 1820-71, while travel journals from 1809 to 1850 contain observations on tours in Italy, France, Germany, and England. Herschel's reports, notes, star charts, financial accounts, and diaries from his work at an observation point at the Cape of Good Hope are present. Reports, essays, and documents of various organizations with which Sir John was associated, including the Royal Mint (1850-55), the English Committee for the Terrestrial Magnetism Survey (1838-39), the Greenwich Observatory (1830), the Royal University Commission (1850), the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Royal Commission on Standards of Weights and Measurements (1838-43), are also included. Items in the miscellaneous works series include Sir John Herschel's sketches titled "Profiles Taken with the Camera Lucida," sketches of apparatus, and various writings and calculations. Sir John's list of his publications chronologically records all of his published books, articles, and letters from 1812 to 1870. The letters series comprises correspondence from Sir John Herschel to over 200 correspondents, including George Biddell Airy, Mary Baldwin, W.E. Gladstone, Margaret Brodie Stewart Herschel, Richard Jones, Henry Rich, Edward Sabine, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Charles E. Trevelyan. The miscellaneous series is comprised of correspondence to Sir John Herschel, correspondence and works of other members of the Herschel family, and correspondence and works of colleagues and acquaintances. Also included are Sir John's account books, memoranda books, and Lady Herschel's housekeeping books from 1822 to 1840. Correspondence to Sir John Herschel includes nearly 1200 letters from such correspondents as George Biddell Airy, Jasper Atkinson, Charles Babbage, William Thomas Brande, Henry Drury Harness, George Peacock, Richard Sheepshanks, and William Whewell. Within Sir William Herschel's correspondence are letters from his father and other relatives in Germany. Sir William's "Concerning the Central Powers of the Particles of Matter," "My Idea of Matter," "Remarks on Dr. Priestly's Disquisition on Matter and Spirit," "Interference of Light," notes on astronomy, notes on optics, and various mathematical tables are represented in the collection. A list of the telescopes Sir William constructed and documents relating to his early musical career are also present. Sir William's biographical memoranda from 1758 to 1787, recopied by Caroline Herschel, and the original draft of Sir John's obituary of his father, are included as well. Among Caroline Herschel's correspondence are letters from Carl Gauss, John Haygarth, Alexander von Humboldt, and Joseph Lalande. Caroline Herschel's manuscripts include diaries from 1833 to 1845, biographical memoranda, an autobiography, documents about the disposal of her property, her will, diplomas, the royal warrant for her salary, and her astronomical tables. Her commonplace book of astronomical memoranda records her education as an astronomer. Correspondence by various other members of the Herschel family dates from 1721 to 1951. Correspondence and writings by other scientists, such as George Biddell Airy and John Dalton, complete the miscellaneous series.

ArchivalResource: 47 boxes (20 linear feet)

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Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944,. Historical papers, [ca. 1400-1899].

Title: Historical papers, [ca. 1400-1899].

Correspondence, manuscripts, and documents of mathematicians and other scientists, often dealing with politics and fields other than mathematics. Many of these concern the French Revolution.

ArchivalResource: 17.5 linear ft.(ca. 10,100 items in 31 boxes)

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American Philosophical Society Library. Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection. 1668-1983.

Title: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

Though the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection is composed of items that do not fall readily into any other existing collection, the two dominant intellectual areas represented in the collection are Early American History and History of Science.

ArchivalResource: 25.0 Linear feet

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Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni papers, ca. 1770s-1875, Circa 1770-1875

Title: Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni papers, ca. 1770s-1875 Circa 1770-1875

This collection includes letters from, and drafts of letters to, scientists, artists, musicians, soldiers, political figures, and court personages throughout Europe, especially Italy and France. Topics covered range from personal and social affairs to agriculture, botany, geology, natural history, coinage, museum management, politics, weights and measures, current affairs. The collection also includes four diaries, housed separately with manuscript volumes.

ArchivalResource: 8.0 Linear feet

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D'Arquier de Pellepoix, Augustin, 1718-1802. Letter.

Title: Letter. 1776.

A.L.S. (1776 June 28, Toulouse) to Fouché, the secretary of the Academie Royalle des Science, describing a new and beautiful comet, and mentioning Lalande ; in French.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

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Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe, 1711-1787. Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich papers, 1711-1787.

Title: Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich papers, 1711-1787.

Consists of correspondence and scientific papers relating to astronomy, mathematics, mechanics, philosophy, theology, hydrography, and optics. Also included are biographical materials, notes on the work of other scientists, and diary fragmets.

ArchivalResource: 5 cartons, 2 volumes, 1 oversize folder (6.5 linear ft.)Originals: Selected portions: 20 microfilm reel: negative (Rich. 619:1-20) and positive.Part 2, Giuseppe Goretti Falmini correspondence, 1765-1786 : also available on microfilm.

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Johann Elert Bode papers, 1792-1807

Title: Johann Elert Bode papers 1792-1807

Johann Elert Bode (1747-1826) was a German astronomer. Collection consists of astronomical notes and observations, chiefly made in Berlin. Includes a treatise on astronomical clocks; notes to Euler's Theoria Motuum Planetarum et Cometarum, to Lalande's Astronomie, and to Bohnenberger's Geographicshe Ortsbestimmung; and observations of comets.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear foot (3 v.)

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Auguste-Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy Collection, 1755-1789

Title: Auguste-Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy Collection 1755-1789

ArchivalResource: 14.0 Volume(s)

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Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de, 1732-1807. Voyage d'un François en Italie, fait dans les années 1765 & 1766. 1769.

Title: Voyage d'un François en Italie, fait dans les années 1765 & 1766. 1769.

This published copy has annotations and manuscript notes by Fougeroux de Bondaroy.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (562 p.).

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Autograph File, L, 1641-1976.

Title: Autograph File, L, 1641-1976.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes (5.5 linear ft.)

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Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni papers, ca. 1770s-1875, Circa 1770-1875

Title: Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni papers, ca. 1770s-1875 Circa 1770-1875

This collection includes letters from, and drafts of letters to, scientists, artists, musicians, soldiers, political figures, and court personages throughout Europe, especially Italy and France. Topics covered range from personal and social affairs to agriculture, botany, geology, natural history, coinage, museum management, politics, weights and measures, current affairs. The collection also includes four diaries, housed separately with manuscript volumes.

ArchivalResource: 8.0 Linear feet

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Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe, 1711-1787. Papers, [ca. 1730-1786].

Title: Papers, [ca. 1730-1786].

This collection includes correspondence to and from Boskovic; a travel journal in Europe; and a large number of manuscripts on astronomy, hydrography, hydro-mechanics, mathematics, geometry, mechanics, and optics; and a volume of poetry.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1920 (on 14 microfilm reels). items

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Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de, 1732-1807. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1755-1806.

Seventeen A.L.S. to various correspondents including Arduino, Beccaria, and Deluc, 2 A.D.S., and D.S. ; in French.

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

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Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich papers, 1711-1787

Title: Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich papers 1711-1787

The Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich Papers, 1711-1787, consist of correspondence and scientific papers relating to astronomy, mathematics, mechanics, philosophy, theology, hydropgraphy, and optics. Also included are biographical materials, notes on the work of other scientists and diary fragments.

ArchivalResource: Number of containers: 5 cartons, 2 volumes; Linear feet: 6.45

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Johann Elert Bode papers, 1792-1807.

Title: Johann Elert Bode papers, 1792-1807.

Collection consists of astronomical notes and observations, chiefly made in Berlin.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear foot (3 v.)

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Jean André DeLuc papers, 1746-1847

Title: Jean André DeLuc papers 1746-1847

Correspondence, lecture notes, and scientific writings of DeLuc and of his nephew, Jean Andreé DeLuc (1763-1847), relating to his experiments in electricity, to lectures given in Geneva by the younger DeLuc, and to outstanding scientists of the period. Also notebooks of several geological expeditions in England, Wales, Belgium, Holland, Westphalia, and the Jura mountains (1778-1806). Correspondents of the elder DeLuc include Sir Joseph Banks, Varenne de Boest, Queen Charlotte and other members of the English royal household, William Hales, Abbé, Haüy, Sir William Herschel, James Hutton, Joseph Lalande, de la Métherie, Georges Louis Le Sage, Pilâtre de Rozier, and James Watt.

ArchivalResource: 17 linear feet

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Ampère, André-Marie, 1775-1836. Ampère manuscript collection, 1795-1830.

Title: Ampère manuscript collection, 1795-1830.

Vol. 1: Eighteen letters which Ampère wrote to his friend Couppier from August 1795 to January 1796. Topics discussed include the impossibility of constructing a perpetual motion machine; the physics of resistance and force; terrestrial refraction; the positions of various stars and constellations; nebulae; the work of Joseph Lalande; the telescope, and ideas for other scientific instruments; botanical classification; the Greek language and his progress in learning it; his translation of one of Horace's odes; and his project of developing a universal language. Ampère also comments briefly on Joseph Lagrange's Mécanique analytique and the work of Leibniz, Belidor, Buffon, Herschel, and Flamsteed. Except for the first one, each letter is preceded by a summary of its contents in Couppier's hand. The numbering of the letters suggests that originally there were 19, but that the earliest of them is lost. Vol. 2: A volume of lecture notes, from a course given by Ampère probably at the Collège de France, ca. 1829/30, recorded by an unidentified student. The initial page is headed "Nomenclature générale des sciences d'après Mr. Amperre." Page [2] has the heading "Chimie," and the notes that follow are from a course in inorganic chemistry. They begin with short chapters on electricity, magnetism, measuring instruments, the elements, and thermometry, followed by oxygen and its discovery, hydrogen, sulphur, and bromine. The rest of the first part concerns the atmosphere, water, oxides, acids, and additional elements. The second part covers metals, alloys, and salts. Vol. 3: A volume of lecture notes from a "Cours d'analyse" taught by Ampère at the Ecole polytechnique, November 1825, recorded by his student Charles Dejean. Topics include differential calculus, its applications to geometry, and integral calculus. A supplemental section addresses the "principe des vitesses virtuelles."

ArchivalResource: 3 v. : ill. ; 28 cm. or smaller.

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Epps, James, 1773-1839. [Astronomical tables].

Title: [Astronomical tables]. [1783-ca. 1806]

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (various pagings) ; 26 cm.

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Luc, J. A. de (Jean André), 1727-1817. Jean André DeLuc papers, 1746-1847 (inclusive).

Title: Jean André DeLuc papers, 1746-1847 (inclusive).

Correspondence, lecture notes, and scientific writings of DeLuc and of his nephew, Jean André DeLuc (1763-1847), relating to his experiments in electricity, to lectures given in Geneva by the younger DeLuc, and to outstanding scientists of the period. Also notebooks of several geological expeditions in England, Wales, Belgium, Holland, Westphalia, and the Jura mountains (1778-1806). Correspondents of the elder DeLuc include Sir Joseph Banks, Varenne de Boest, Queen Charlotte and other members of the English royal household, William Hales, Abbé Haüy, Sir William Herschel, James Hutton, Joseph Lalande, de la Métherie, Georges Louis Le Sage, Pilâtre de Rozier, and James Watt.

ArchivalResource: 17 linear ft.

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Hampton Aviation Book Company. Aviation Collection, 1789-1970.

Title: Aviation Collection, 1789-1970.

Includes postcards, clippings, still photographs, posters, artifacts, brochures, and specification manuals related to aviation in the U.S. and Europe, particularly Germany. Bulk of the material pertains to twentieth century, World Wars I and II. Contains information on commercial aviation and pre-airplane manned flight.

ArchivalResource: 3 cubic ft.

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Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de, 1732-1807. Letter, 1783 December 19, Paris, to an unidentified person.

Title: Letter, 1783 December 19, Paris, to an unidentified person.

Thanks him for the information on the new comet which he will communicate to the Academy.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 22 cm.

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Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de, 1732-1807. Letters, 1788-1805.

Title: Letters, 1788-1805.

Letters written to Mme. de Piery discussing his work, the current political situation, and personal matters. Some items updated, others are dated using the calendar adopted by the French following the Revolution (1789-1792) with no attempt to correlate these dates with the Gregorian calendar. All items handwritten, some signed. All but one enclosed in a contemporary paper folder with a summary of the contents and the date of the letter written on the outside.

ArchivalResource: 33 items (98 leaves)

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