Unspecified HUM 9 Box 14
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The Summary of a Course of Experimental Philosophical Lectures, 1746-1747 Digital
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Harvard University Archives
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Papers of John and Hannah Winthrop
Series — unspecified: HUM 9 Box 14Identifier: HUM 9
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,...