Thermomètre absolu

Contributor:

Delambre, J. B. J. 1749-1822 (addressee); Stanitz, John D. (former owner); Schoenberg, Lawrence J. (former owner)

Name:

Du Buat, M. 1734-1809

Date:

1802

Description:

Signed scientific work addressing the choice of fluids for use in measuring temperature and the development of an absolute thermometer. An anonymous unfavorable review of the work, addressed to Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, secrétaire perpétuel [pour les sciences mathematiques], accompanies De Buat's manuscript.

Language:

French

Provenance:

Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 18.; Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

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/ljs187.html

Subject:

Temperature measurements -- History; Thermometers -- History; Thermometers; History; Temperature measurements

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Diagrams; Treatises; Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, Digital

Physical Description:

8 leaves : paper; 323 x 202 (281 x 171) mm bound to 323 x 202 mm + 1 bifolium

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. gathering.; Title from upper cover.; Collation: Paper, 8; 1⁸ (with outermost bifolium as paper wrapper); 1-12, contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.; Layout: Written in 39 long lines; ruled in lead; text block outlined in ink.; Script: Written in cursive script in the hand of Pierre du Buat, with accompanying notes in another hand.; Decoration: Plate of 3 figures in ink (diagrams of the thermometer) mounted inside lower cover.; Watermark: Battle scene with motto Pro Patria, countermark SOI above foilage.; Binding: Original paper wrapper.; Origin: Written in Nord-libre (Condé ), 28 Vendemiare, Year 11 of the Republic (20 Oct. 1802; p. 12).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; French.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 187

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)