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Creator:: L’Isle, Joseph Nicolas de, 1688-1768
Published / Created:: MDCCXXXVIII [1738]
Call Number:: 2004 76
Image Count:: 6
Alternative Title:: Memoires pour servir a l'histoire et au progres de l’astronomie, de la geographie, et de la physique
Publisher:: De l’imprimerie de l’Acadmie des sciences
Subject (Topic):: Astronomy --Early works to 1800, Auroras --Early works to 1800, Geography --Early works to 1800, and Physics --Early works to 1800
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Memoires pour servir a l'histoire & au progres de l'astronomie, de la geographie, & de la physique / recueillis de plusieurs dissertations luees dans les assemblees de l'Academie roiale des sciences de Paris, & de celle de St. Petersbourg, qui n'ont point

Published / Created:: 1708-1710
Call Number:: GEN MSS VOL 60
Image Count:: 6
Abstract:: Autograph manuscript treatise in two parts, containing definitions and problems in mathematics. The first part, dated 1708, concerns arithmetic operations. The second part, dated 1710, concerns geometry and trigonometry, with sections on applications in construction trades and astronomy and with extensive sections on navigation. Sections are illustrated with ink drawings and geometric diagrams. Several linear scales and volvelles are sewn in.
Description:: Chiefly in English; explanations in part one are in Latin, some with English translations.
Subject (Topic):: Astronomy --Early works to 1800 and Mathematics --Early works to 1800
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mathematical manuscript [selected pages]

Creator:: Petit, Pierre, 1598-1677
Published / Created:: 1681
Call Number:: 2008 2025
Image Count:: 1
Alternative Title:: [Dissertation sur la nature des cometes. German. Selections]
Publisher:: Zufinden bey Johann Christoph Miethen
Subject (Topic):: Astronomy --Early works to 1800, Comets --Early works to 1800, and Stars --Early works to 1800
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Von Bedeutung der Cometen und des Gestirns : auss einem Sendschreiben Herrn Petri Petiti, Ober-Auffsehers der koenigl. Festungen in Franckreich, an seinen Koenig Ludovicum XIV. geschrieben Von der Natur der Cometen / auss dem Frantzoesischen heraus gezogen und ins Deutsche versetzt

Creator:: Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698
Published / Created:: [1677?]
Call Number:: 1978 748
Image Count:: 48
Resource Type:: Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:: 46 plates (some tab mounted and folded) : incl. tables, maps, diagrams., Autograph of Samuel Plowman[?], Blank pages counted but not scanned., Bound as a commonplace book with blank pages interspersed. Numerous notes in pencil and ink ., and Imperfect?: all editions listed in pre-1956 NUC and the BM cat. include text as well as plates.
Publisher:: And are sold by him at the Hermitage in Wapping: and by John Hills in Exchange Alley in Cornhill, London
Subject (Topic):: Almanacs, English and Astronomy --Early works to 1800
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A pocket book, containing severall choice collections in arithmetick [!], astronomy, geometry, surveying, dialling, navigation, astrology, geography, measuring, gaugeing. By John Seller ...

Published / Created:: [1671]
Call Number:: 1983 +123
Collection Title:: Athanasii Kircheri ... Ars magna lucis et umbrae, in X. libros digesta. Quibus admirandae lucis
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Topic):: Astronomy --Early works to 1800, Light, and Physics --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:: Amstelodami, apud Joannem Janssonium a Waesberge & haeredes Elizaei Wayerstraet, MDCLXXI
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Magia Catoptrica

Published / Created:: [1671]
Call Number:: 1983 +123
Collection Title:: Athanasii Kircheri ... Ars magna lucis et umbrae, in X. libros digesta. Quibus admirandae lucis
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Topic):: Astronomy --Early works to 1800, Light, and Physics --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:: Amstelodami, apud Joannem Janssonium a Waesberge & haeredes Elizaei Wayerstraet, MDCLXXI
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Athanasii Kircheri ...

Creator:: Kohlhans, Johann Christoph, 1604-1677
Published / Created:: [1665?]
Call Number:: 2009 64
Image Count:: 2
Alternative Title:: Cometa generalis cum speciali and Cometen-Koenig
Publisher:: Gedruckt, und zu finden, bey Wolff Eberhard Felsseckern
Subject (Name):: Felsecker, Wolfgang Eberhard, fl. 1658-1680, printer
Subject (Topic):: Astronomy --Early works to 1800 and Comets --Early works to 1800
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cometa generalis cum speciali, oder, Cometen-Koenig : welcher im 1664. und 1665. Jahr am Himmel erschienen, und sich praechtig hat sehen lassen, sambt dem darauf im 1665. Jahr folgenden Cometen und vermuthlich ersten Special-Vortrab, der am Ende des Mertzen und Aufgang des Aprilis, sich auch, als ein Held und triumphirender Sieges-Fuerst, unsern Augen vorgestellet / darueber diese wenige Schrifft in Druck ausgegangen, durch M. Johann Christoph Kolhansen ...

Creator:: Welper, Eberhard, fl. 1609-1668
Published / Created:: im Iahr MDCLXI [1661]
Call Number:: 2009 452
Image Count:: 19
Alternative Title:: Beschreibung dessen im 1661. Iahr, zu End dess Ienners, vnd Anfang Hornungs, erschinenen newen Cometens, Beschreibung dessen im 1661. Jahr, zu End dess Jenners, und Anfang Hornungs, erschinenen newen Cometens, and Cometographia
Publisher:: Gedruckt vnd verlegt durch den Authorem
Subject (Topic):: Astronomy --Early works to 1800, Comets --1661, and Comets --Early works to 1800
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cometographia, oder, Beschreibung dessen im 1661. Iahr, zu End dess Ienners, vnd Anfang Hornungs, erschinenen newen Cometens : welcher ist ein Vorlaeuffer oder Vorbott, deren im kuenfftigen 1663. Iahr bevorstehenden grossen Zusammenkunfft Saturni vnd Jovis im Schuetzen / astronomice vnd astrologice beschrieben, vnd auff vielfaltiges Begehren, zu guter Nachrichtung, wolmeinend an Tag gegeben, durch M. Eberhard Welpern, Mathematicum

Creator:: Hevelius, Johannes, 1611-1687
Published / Created:: 1647
Call Number:: QB581 H48+ Oversize
Image Count:: 52
Alternative Title:: Selenographia
Publisher:: Typis Huenefeldianis
Subject (Topic):: Astronomy --Early works to 1800 and Moon --Early works to 1800
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Johannis Hevelii Selenographia; sive, Lunae descriptio ...

Creator:: Thibauld, Gabriel
Published / Created:: 1639-1641
Call Number:: GEN MSS VOL 479
Image Count:: 19
Subject (Topic):: Astronomy --Early works to 1800, Astrophysics --Early works to 1800, and Cosmology --Early works to 1800
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Summa philosophica quattor in partes distributa, 1639-1641