"Pitt, very thin, stands rigidly erect in profile to the right. Mrs. Hobart, immensely fat, completely fills a globe which stands on a rectangular platform on castors, and whose circumference rests against Pitt's post-like person. She looks up at him ...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 3d. 1792 by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Manuscript on parchment of Joannes de Sacrobosco's Algorismus vulgaris, a treatise on mathermatics, numbers, and Hindu-Arabic numerals. Here incorrectly attributed to Boethius in the opening rubric
Alternative Title:
Algorismus vulgaris and Algorismus Boetii incipit
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Boethius, -524., Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230., and Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Manuscript, on paper, in several unidentified hands, containing a collection of 30 astronomical treatises and instructions for the creation of musical and matematical instruments, such as the organ, clavichord, Turkish instrument, cylindrical clocks, ...
Alternative Title:
Manuscripts, composed of astronomical and mathematical texts and instructions for making musical instruments written down by two different scribes [i.e. Yale Medical Historical Library Manuscript 25]
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomical Instruments, Astronomy, Mathematics, and Musical instruments
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of notes on primarily biological, scientific, mathematical, and historical subjects, as well as recipes and humorous anecdotes and verses. The volume begins with notes on parrots, crocodiles, the oxfly, p...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Great Britain., and Russia
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796. and Wayne, William Henry.
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Chemistry, Coins, English poetry, English wit and humor, Epigrams, English, Mathematics, Recipes, Veterinary medicine, and Description and travel
