Institutionum Phisicarum Liber
- Title
- Institutionum Phisicarum Liber
- LC Subject
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) Astronomy--Early works to 1800 Senses and sensation--Early works to 1800
- Repository
- University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
- Description
- Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger. Scope and content: Notebook on astronomy: the Elements, the Senses. Institutionum Physicarum, books 6, de Astronomia, 5, of 4 elements, 4th of senses, heat, cold ice, odor, taste, sound, sight. Text mentions astronomical events in 1783 and 1791. With 8 page booklet in English by Edward Sandford Burgess, written in black ink. According to Burgess, the manuscript was written in Paris by a student from, possibly, Italy, circa 1760-1783. Burgess describes a manuscript on astronomy, in which, among other things, the author attacks Ptolemy and Tycho, citing Kepler. He reconciles the Bible and Science, justifying Joshua for saying 'Siste sol', since he was referring to the real motion of the earth to the sun; it was more natural to address the Sun than to say 'Earth stand still'. The Copernicans themselves speak of the motion in terms of the Sun as the moving body, and say, 'The sun falls, the sun rises.' Burgess also describes sections dealing with the five senses. With loose paper label upon which is written in black ink: Latin Ms. on paper/ astronomy / 17th or 18th c. Collation: Octavo. Page numbering restarts in various sections; not all pages numbered; some blank pages. 12 ink diagrams tipped in. Origin: Paris? Script: Cursive in brown ink with ascender and descender flourishes. Binding: White alum-tawed parchment over boards. Red morocco spine label with gold stamped letters Institutionum Phisicarum LIBER--Manuscript and two gold lines above and below words. Endsheets of marbled paper, blue on white with black and dark red. Pages have holes from a previous side-sewn binding of 9 stations. Two additional flyleaves of thicker paper (late 19th-early 20th century).
- Provenance
- Donation/Purchase Julia Burgess, 1935-1942. Previously owned by Bishop John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Doctor of Divinity and of Law. Bought by Edward Sandford Burgess at the Bishop Hurst Sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, March 21, 1905, catalog [300, item] no. 3140 under Miscellaneous manuscripts (Edward Sandford Burgess notes). Bought in same lot with another similar Latin MS (of the same student or lecturer?) a Cursus Philosophicae [Burgess MS 018] and with others of later date (a German autograph book at Jena 1784-1786, and a later dictionary of Aristophanes [Burgess MS 020], and with a small MS vol. of Macaronic poetry in Spanish by Peter Pinna, ca. 1614 [Burgess MS 004] (Edward Sandford Burgess notes)
- Location
- Paris >> Paris >> Paris >> Paris >> Île-de-France >> France
- Date
- 1760/1791
- Identifier
- MS_016
- Item Locator
- MS 016
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
- Use Restrictions
- Property rights reside with Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections & University Archives.
- Language
- Latin
- Type
- Collection
- Format
- application/xml
- Material
- paper
- Set
- University of Oregon Special Collections Manuscripts and Rare Books
- Primary Set
- University of Oregon Special Collections Manuscripts and Rare Books
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Layout
- 160 leaves : diagrams ; 115 x 180 mm bound to 125 x 190 mm Varying narrow margins, no ruling, single column. Untrimmed. 20-24 lines per page.