The Summary of a Course of Experimental Philosophical Lectures, 1746-1747 Digital
Scope and Contents
Leather hardcover notebook containing a handwritten copy of John Winthrop's course of experimental and philosophical lectures presented between March 10, 1746 and June 16, 1746. The first one-hundred pages of the volume are divided into twenty chapters which were presented in thirty-three lectures. The chapters contain text and diagrams on mechanical powers, the lever, the pulley, the axis in peritrochio, the inclined plane, the wedge, the screw, compound engines, the laws of motion, gravity, attraction of cohesion, the power of repulsion, magnetism, fluids, electricity, opticks, and astronomy. There is a five-page addenda to the course summary added in 1747, and a sixty-page text titled "The Method of Astronomical calculations" containing thirteen problems related to calculating distances with a list of astronomical characters, and followed with charts related to the eclipse of Jupiter's satellites.
Dates
- Creation: 1746-1747
Researcher Access
The Papers of John and Hannah Winthrop are open for research.
Extent
.03 cubic feet (1 volumes)Former call number
Formerly classified as HUC 8745.294 The summary of a course of experimental philosophical lectures
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Hon. Robert C. Winthrop of Brookline (A.B. 1828), Dec. 10, 1869
Repository Details
Part of the Harvard University Archives Repository
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