Lecture notes, c. 1840?

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Lecture notes, c. 1840?

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This volume consists of notes taken by an unidentified Bowdoin student on lectures given by Professor Cleaveland. There are four lectures on caloric (an imagined substance to which the phenomena of burning and oxidation were formerly attributed), a lecture on electricity, and fifteen pages of notes pertaining to "Questions upon Rawle on the Constitution of the United States." The student was most likely in his junior year, as for the period 1840 to 1843, according to the Bowdoin College catalog, the junior class was to take during the second term "electricity--magnetism--optics" and during the third term "Rawle's view on the Constitution of the United States."

1 v. (24 leaves, 9 blank) ; octavo.

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