Manuscript journal from September 1843 to April 1844, 1843-1844
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Image depicts the twenty-two states of the Swiss Confederation of 1843 or 1844, the different types of dress found among the people of these regions, and the traveling distances between those regions.
Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, containing Louis Vaslet's transcriptions of lectures in natural philosophy delivered by Jean-Robert Chouet at the University of Geneva. The text is followed by an index.
Description:
Binding: contemporary mottled calf, rebacked; marbled endpapers., Ex libris British Medical Association Library. Purchased from Roger Gaskell Rare Books on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2010., Jean-Robert Chouet studied Cartesian philosophy at Nîmes and theology at Geneva. He was professor of philosophy at Geneva from 1669 until 1686., Louis Vaslet (1666-1731) was a French Hugenot refugee who became master of Fulham School., and Title page gives place of production as "Salmurii" (Samur).
Subject (Name):
Chouet, Jean-Robert.
Subject (Topic):
Physics--Early works to 1800. and Physics--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.