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Physics

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Notes on musical chords, c1780-c1803

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Identifier: Coll-204/25
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on the physics of music, with numerous diagrams, including a printed one on the bones of the inner ear.

Dates: c1780-c1803

Pendulums,, c1780-c1803

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Identifier: Coll-204/27
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on pendulums and related machinery in clocks. Numerous diagrams intersperse, some of them quite grand. At the rear of the volume are several essays on projectiles.

Dates: c1780-c1803

Pneumatics, Gunpowder, c1780-c1802

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Identifier: Coll-204/8
Scope and Contents Notes, in English and occasional Russian, on the physics of air, principally pressure differentials and sound propagation. Topics include a lengthy discussion of the function and gross anatomy of the ear, barometrical measurement of height; published chart of comparative altitudes of famous mountain peaks, and the overall constitution of the atmosphere. The second half of the volume covers ballistics, mostly: diagrams, calculations, and records of artillery trials. A short, unrelated section...
Dates: c1780-c1802

Rotation, Philosphy, c1780-c1803

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Identifier: Coll-204/12
Scope and Contents

Volume contains lecture notes, with only one or two diagrams, of the physics of rotating bodies, and of the nature of physics itself.

Dates: c1780-c1803

Sounds, c1780-c1803

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Identifier: Coll-204/15
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on the science of acoustics. Special topics include ear trumpets and the tuning of instruments. Two or three diagrams attend.

Dates: c1780-c1803

Space, Time, Motion, Stability, c1780-c1803

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Identifier: Coll-204/16
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on the geometry of motion and stasis; numerous diagrams attend.

Dates: c1780-c1803

Treatises, c1780-c1802

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Identifier: Coll-204/7
Scope and Contents

Illustrated print and manuscript treatises on the geometry of motion.

Dates: c1780-c1802

Varied Motions, c1780-c1803

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Identifier: Coll-204/14
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on the geometry of motion, on materials science, and on astronomy; some jotted diagrams and tables attend.

Dates: c1780-c1803