COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Notes on manuscript sources for the study of French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, compiled by American historians of science Henry Guerlac, Carl Perrin, and Rhoda Rappaport. Includes notes on contemporaries of Lavoisier and transcriptions of passages from manuscripts. Scientists investigated include Lavoisier, Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal, Antoine-François de Fourcroy, Pierre Joseph Macquer and his Dictionnaire de chimie, and Philippe-Frédéric baron de Dietrich, Jean Senebier, Torbern Bergman, Joseph Black, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Johann Theodor Eller, Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau and his Elemens de chimie théorique et pratique. Also included are notes on minutes of meetings of the Académie des sciences (France) in the late 18th century.
Libraries consulted include the Académie des Sciences (France), Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne, Archives Nationales (France), Museum d'histoire naturelle, Bibliotheek of the Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, British Library, and others.
Dates
- 1939-1987.
Creator
- Guerlac, Henry. (Person)
- Perrin, Carl. (Person)
- Rappaport, Rhoda. (Person)
- Académie des sciences (France) (Organization)
- Bibliothèque nationale (France) (Organization)
- Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne (Organization)
- Archives nationales (France) (Organization)
- Museum d\'histoire naturelle (Paris, France) (Organization)
- Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden. Bibliotheek (Organization)
- British Library (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
6.5 cubic feet. (6.5 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Notes on manuscript sources for the study of French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, compiled by American historians of science Henry Guerlac, Carl Perrin, and Rhoda Rappaport.
SERIES LIST
Series I. Henry Guerlac Boxes 1-4; 7-8
Microfilm Research materials relating to Lavoisier Bibliography Miscellaneous Research Lavoisier: Manuscripts Offered for Sale Materials relating to Lavoisier Archives Lists Photographs of Manuscripts (uncatalogued) Académie des Sciences Archives Nationales Biblioteque De Clermont-Ferrand Biblioteque De l'Institit Cornell University Jozerand Various Archives and Libraries Photostat Negatives (with original numbering) Lavoisier Reprints By Author Precursors & Contemporaries Topical Background Bibliographical Notecards
Series II. Carl Perrin Boxes 5-6
Microfilm Computer Disks and Punch Cards Computer Disks Punch Cards Research materials relating to Lavoisier Bibliography
Series III. Research Notebooks Cataloged Separately
Physical Description
Photocopies, photographs, microfilm, manuscripts, computer media, and research materials.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Allison Sutton and Marcie Farwell
- Date completed:
- December 2015
- EAD encoding:
- Marcie Farwell, December 2015
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, December 2015
- Chaptal, Jean-Antoine-Claude, comte de Chanteloup, 1756-1832.
- Chemistry -- History -- Sources.
- Dietrich, Philippe-Frédéric, baron de, 1748-1793.
- Fourcroy, Antoine-François de, comte, 1755-1809.
- Guyton de Morveau, Louis-Bernard, 1737-1816.
- Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794.
- Macquer, Pierre Joseph, 1718-1784.
- Macquer, Pierre Joseph, 1718-1784. (Title of work: Dictionnaire de chymie..)
- Scheele, Carl Wilhelm, 1742-1786.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Allison Sutton and Marcie Farwell
- Date
- December 2015
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
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Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu