Details

Subjects:

Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Physics.
Chemistry -- History.
Chemistry.
History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Summary:

Preface discusses la physique experimentales and la physique raisonée. Chapters arranged with "Experience" followed by "Explication."

Contents:

Partie Ie.
Sur le mouvement.
Sur l'equilibre des liqueurs et sur les efforts des fluides et des solides.
Sur le ressort de l'air.
Sur la machine du vuide.
Sur le son.
Sur les fermentations.
Sur la dissolution des métaux.
Sur la formation de quelque corps.
Sur les odeurs. Partie 2e.
Sur la lumiere.
De catoptrique.
Sur les phosphores.
Sur les couleurs.
Sur l'ayman.
Sur l'attraction.
Sur la communication.
Sur l'electricité.
Sur l'electricité nouvelle. Table of contents on ff. 233v-234r.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. 1).
Foliation: Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 234 + ii (contemporary paper); 1-308, [x], 1-152, [iv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.
Script: Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary calf, cracked along upper cover.
Origin: Written in Paris, 1746 (p. 1).

Penn Provenance:

Former owners include: Guill. Nic. Davolle (bookplate, inside upper cover); Ad. F. Bandelier (stamp, front flyleaf i verso; Charles Albert Browne (bookplate, front flyleaf i recto).
Gift of Dr. Charles Albert Browne.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 308 (Ms. E.F. Smith 25).

Publications about:

Cochet, Jean. La physique expérimentale et raisonnée. Paris, 1756.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 509

Contributor:

Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840-1914, former owner.
Browne, Charles Albert, 1870-1947, former owner.
Davolle, G. N., former owner.

OCLC:

155964375