Phisica : scripta sub admodum R. P. Cambos philosophiae professore doctore agregato in Collegio Squillano Tolosano anno Domini 1751 / a Jacobo Josephoque Dartiguelongue Narbonensi convietore in eodem collegio.
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
125 leaves : paper, illustrations, portraits ; 166 x 113 (135 x 90) mm bound to 171 x 121mm - Production:
- Toulouse, 1751.
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3f766697 - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Aristotle -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800.
Descartes, René, 1596-1650 -- Knowledge and learning -- Physical sciences.
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715.
Aristotle.
Physical sciences.
Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655 -- Knowledge and learning -- Physical sciences.
Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655.
Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Physics.
Physical sciences -- Early works to 1800.
Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
Geometry.
Criticism and interpretation. - Form/Genre:
- Codices.
Treatises.
Engravings (prints)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European. - Language:
- Latin with some notes in French.
- Summary:
- A work on natural philosophy, mixing contemporary science (Descartes, Gassendi) with traditional philosophy (Aristotle, Malebranche). The author, unlike Descartes, maintains the distinction between form and matter; he also follows scientific discoveries such as that objects of different masses fall at the same rate. Other topics include the infinite divisibility of matter and the possibility of a true vacuum. Manuscript appears to be part of a series, with alternate titles Pars secunda philosophiae seu phisica (f. 7r) and Prima pars phisicae generalis (f. 115r).
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 4r).
Foliation: Paper, 125 + i (contemporary paper); contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, [vi], 1-5, [i], 6-12, [i], 13-20, [i], 21-28, [i], 29-61, [i], 62-65, [i], 66-69, [i], 70-83, [i], 84-105, [106-114]; modern pencil foliation, lower right recto, [1-125].
Layout: Written in 25-30 long lines; text block outlined in drypoint.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Watermark: Churchill Huchet 319 (1732); several unidentifiable marks: crown with letters "...ANT," letters "L [heart] V...," letters "...AME" with date below," fleur de lis.
Decoration: Various mathematical diagrams relating to geometry (f. 69r, 71r, 73r, 93v); engraved portraits of Nicolas Malebranche (f. 12r), Aristotle (f. 20r), René Descartes (f. 29v), and Pierre Gassendi (f. 38v) by E. Desrochers; doorway with columns on title page (f. 4r), "La Phisyque" the goddess observing herself in a mirror held by a cherub (f. 5r), and various scientific and mathematical diagrams from another book (pasted in between f. 71-72, 75-76, 79-80, 93-94), all attributed to Baour (some are labeled "A Toulouse chez Baour, rue S. rome," others simply with "chez Baour").
Binding: Contemporary calf with gilt floral designs stamped on spine and partial title "PHISI."
Origin: Written in Toulouse in 1751 (f.4r). - Penn Provenance:
- "Paris, Blaisot & Cie. 1880" inscribed on f. 1r.
Collector's stamp in blue ink on several pages: "Société Franc̦aise de Physique, Bibliothèque." - Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement B. The Library Chronicle 45 (1981), p. 6 (Ms. Latin 263).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1180
- Contributor:
- Baour, Jean-Florent, 1724-1794, engraver.
Desrochers, Etienne Jehandier, 1668-1741, engraver. - OCLC:
- 228833150