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Correspondence, manuscript diaries, essays, and lecture notes. Copy letters to and from over 180 correspondents, among them leading scientists of the day such as Lavoisier, Priestley, Cavendish, Sir Joseph Banks, and Allessandro Volta. Lecture notes and essays range from lectures on air and its composition, to mathematics, astronomy, and electricity. Van Marum's diaries cover journeys through Germany in 1798 and Switzerland in 1802.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Cavendish, Henry, 1731-1810

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Educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge but left without taking a degree, 1753. He devoted his life to scientific researches. He discovered the extreme lightness of inflammatory air (hydrogen) and later ascertained that water is composed of two gases. He investigated the constitution of air and made experiments on electricity and on the density of the Earth, 1798. F. R. S., 1760. From the description of Papers, 1766-1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81220071 ...

Marum, M. van (Martinus), 1750-1837

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Martin Van Marum was a natural philosopher. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1777-1837]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466123 From the guide to the M. van (Martinus van) Marum papers, [ca. 1777-1837]., Circa 1777-1837, (American Philosophical Society) Secretary of the Hollandsche Maatschappij Der Wetenschappen (Dutch Academy of Sciences), Haarlem, Netherlands, from 1804-1837. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83554966...

Volta, Alessandro, 1745-1827

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Italian physicist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Pavia, to J. Ambrosius Barth, bookseller in Leipzig, 1801 May 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270585767 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Pavia, to Luigi Catenazzi in Como, 1818 Apr. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270585771 ...