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[MANUSCRIPT LECTURE NOTES. ARTILLERY – CHEMISTRY.
See original version (French)
29
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[MANUSCRIPT LECTURE NOTES. ARTILLERY – CHEMISTRY.
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
[MANUSCRIPT LECTURE NOTES. ARTILLERY – CHEMISTRY. 19th century]
[A collection of 2 manuscripts]
-[MILITARIA. SCIENTIFIC WEAPONS].
Lectures on Artillery. (Construction of gun carriages – artillery (...) – Artillery services – small arms).
1876.
Square 8vo. Sewn in a grey paper cover. Handwritten notebook comprising 38 bound leaves, including 2 blank leaves, in brown ink.
Notes taken by a military officer, most likely a cadet at the Artillery and Engineers’ Training College in Fontainebleau, now the Artillery College (given the status of the names mentioned and the subject matter), covering three artillery courses delivered in 1876 by Captains Lachèns and Jouffrey, as well as by Colonel Astier: explaining the rifling of gun barrels to facilitate the passage of projectiles; Foreign artillery, a description of projectiles, their configuration and the mechanisms and components used in combat (cavalry, sabres, swords and bayonets), concluding with an explanation of French weapons.
The notes contain calculations, a few representations in the form of equations and angles.
The author uses drawings to illustrate the various firing mechanisms in use in England, Italy, Germany and Austria.
A few pages are marked with the lesson number at the top of the page, indicating that the notes were taken at a military school during the first semester of 1876.
-[ORFILA (Mathieu)].
Demonstration of chemistry.
(Paris; January 1840).
Small autograph manuscript. 1 folio page (21 x 31 cm), brown ink.
Bearing the note ‘Professor Orfila drew this diagram for me and gave me this demonstration during my first medical examination in Paris in January 1840’, this note was written in Geneva on 19 February 1848.
Mateo José Buenaventura Orfila y Rotger, known as Mathieu Orfila (1783–1853), a Spanish doctor and chemist who became a naturalised French citizen. Founder of forensic toxicology. A chemistry demonstration illustrated with a pen-and-ink drawing.
Orfila outlines the formula and the chemical process involving arsenic.
See original version (French)
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