Author:

Lagomarsino, Lorenzo  Search this

Donor:

Dibner, Bern DSI  Search this

Burndy Library DSI  Search this

Author:

Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this

Physical description:

[242] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Type:

Early works to 1800

Early works

Manuscripts (documents).)

Sources

Date:

1711

1713

Notes:

Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Manuscripts of the Dibner collection, 140

Also available online

Also available online.

Collected by Bern Dibner for his Burndy Library in Norwalk, Connecticut, founded in 1941. Donated to the Smithsonian Libraries in 1974 by Dibner DSI

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Summary:

Three treatises (1711-1713), each illustrated with diagrams and indexed. Treatise on sundial has diagram with moving dial. With Philip Palavicinus' Questiuncules miscelanes [!] (1712) and the De fulmine (1713) of Antonius de Magistris. Owner's note in Italian on p. 1 of first text. Coat of arms containing D.F. stenciled on 4 pages. Signed on p. 1 Dominicus Maria Fornelli ; in Latin

Topic:

Geography  Search this

Lightning  Search this

Science--History  Search this

Sundials  Search this

Technology--History  Search this

History  Search this

Science  Search this

Technology  Search this

Call number:

MSS 000831 B

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_181468