Causa secretionis liquorum a sanguine in corpore animali : manuscript notes, circa 1715

Contributor:

Michelotti, Pietro Antonio, 1673-1740 (addressee)

Name:

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1715

Description:

Scientific notes written by Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, probably in Germany. The notes concern the secretion and separation of bodily fluids in animals and are closely related to a letter written by Leibniz in September 1715 to the Venetian mathematician and physician Pietro Antonio Michelotti on these subjects, which appeared as an appendix to a work published by Michelotti in 1721. The leaf is written in 51 lines, recto only, on the left half of the page, with numerous corrections, revisions, and additions, both interlinear and on the right half of the page.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 17 June 1999, lot 53, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs313.html

Subject:

Body fluids -- Early works to 1800; Medicine -- Early works to 1800; Medicine; Physiology -- Early works to 1800; Physiology; Body fluids

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, European

Physical Description:

1 leaf (1 item) : paper; 328 x 210 (270 x 110) mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. leaf.; Title from opening heading.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 313

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)