Details

Subjects:

Astronomy -- Charts, diagrams, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Solar system -- Early works to 1800.
Solar system.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.
Charts, diagrams, etc.
Graphs.

Language:

French.

Summary:

An essay on astronomy, consisting of seven sections titled Des cercles du premier mobile ou seconds cercles, Des divers point[s] du ciel, Des cieux et du nombre d'iceux, Du mouvement des cieux, De la figure du monde, De la solidité des cieux, and Des divers systèmes du monde. The final section briefly compares the models of the solar system proposed by the Pythagoreans, Ptolemy, Brahe, and Copernicus, with diagrams. A shorter essay on mathematics, which also refers to astronomy, precedes the main essay.

Contents:

1. f.1r-3v: Des mathematiques / Balthasard François de Merles.
2. f.4r-10v: Astronomie / Balthasard François de Merles.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title of predominant work used as title for volume; attribution to de Merles (Marquis de Beauchamp) from Zacour-Hirsch.
Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 10 + i (modern paper); [1-10]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Four diagrams of models of the solar system and one of parallax (f. 10v).
Binding: Modern cloth (University of Pennsylvania, early 1960s).
Origin: Written in France in the second half of the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

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. 66 (Ms. French 58).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 985

Contains:

Des mathematiques.

OCLC:

155929001