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Contains 24 Results:

Memoir supplementing Lavoisier's work submitted to the Académie des sciences for the Paris streetlighting contest, 1766

 Item — Box: 10, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Physical Description: 6 leaves; 32 cm; manuscriptSummary: Entitled: "Supplément au mémoire sur les différents moyens d'eclairer une grande ville, présenté à l'academie Royalle des Sciences." Bibliographic Reference: Oeuvres, tome III, p. 71-77.

Dates: 1766
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4712, Lavoisier manuscript collection / Series IV. Lavoisier and associates' scientific notes and manuscripts / Lavoisier's notes and manuscripts

Notes on 5 experiments on the effects of heating metals with a strong lens during cold weather, January 23, 1774

 Item — Box: 10, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Physical Description: 2 leaves; 27 cm; holograph.Bibliographic Reference: Correspondence, II, no. 223

Dates: January 23, 1774
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4712, Lavoisier manuscript collection / Series IV. Lavoisier and associates' scientific notes and manuscripts / Lavoisier's notes and manuscripts

Report on four memoirs submitted for the Paris streetlighting contest sponsored by the Académie des sciences, 1766

 Item — Box: 10, Folder: 1a-b
Scope and Contents

Physical Description: 2 items (4, 6 leaves) ; 32-34 cm; manuscripts.Summary: Draft (item 10.01a) summarizing the memoirs of Lavoisier, Bernière, de Saint Genis, and Datte, accompanied by a revised version (item 10.01b).

Dates: 1766
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4712, Lavoisier manuscript collection / Series IV. Lavoisier and associates' scientific notes and manuscripts / Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis

Report on the memoirs submitted for the Paris streetlighting contest sponsored by the Académie des sciences, 1766

 Item — Box: 10, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Physical Description: 22 leaves; 34 cm; manuscriptSummary: Describes and analyzes the 39 memoirs submitted in the contest.

Dates: 1766
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4712, Lavoisier manuscript collection / Series IV. Lavoisier and associates' scientific notes and manuscripts / Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis

Report on the memoirs submitted for the Paris streetlighting contest sponsored by the Académie des sciences, 1766

 Item — Box: 10, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Physical Description: 11 leaves; 34 cm; manuscriptSummary: Analyzes the memoirs submitted and proposes ways of lighting Paris based on the memoirs.

Dates: 1766
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4712, Lavoisier manuscript collection / Series IV. Lavoisier and associates' scientific notes and manuscripts / Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis

Notes on experiments based on the memoirs submitted for the Paris streetlighting contest sponsored by the Académie des sciences, 1766

 Item — Box: 10, Folder: 4a-c
Scope and Contents

Physical Description: 3 items (3, 2, 2 leaves) ; 19-25 cm; manuscripts.Summary: Item 10.04a is on different size leaves (21-25 cm.) and is incomplete.

Dates: 1766
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4712, Lavoisier manuscript collection / Series IV. Lavoisier and associates' scientific notes and manuscripts / Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis

Notes on the Académie des sciences' proposed responses to the memoirs submitted for the Paris streetlighting contest, 1766

 Item — Box: 10, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Physical Description: 3 leaves; 30 cm; manuscript Summary: Entitled: "Remarques sur Lavis de Laccademie."

Dates: 1766
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4712, Lavoisier manuscript collection / Series IV. Lavoisier and associates' scientific notes and manuscripts / Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis

Prix de lillumination, 1766

 Item — Box: 10, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Physical Description: 2 leaves; 22 cm; manuscriptSummary: Draft announcing the prize for the Paris streetlighting contest, the winners being Bailly, Le Roy, and Bourgeois.

Dates: 1766
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4712, Lavoisier manuscript collection / Series IV. Lavoisier and associates' scientific notes and manuscripts / Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis

Report of Lavoisier's paper, delivered at the Académie des sciences on 12 March 1777, on the fabrication of saltpeter with cinders, 1777

 Item — Box: 10, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Physical Description: 10 leaves; 22 cm; holograph.Summary: Entitled: "Sur les Sels pour la purification du Salpêtre par Mr Lavoisier."

Dates: 1777
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4712, Lavoisier manuscript collection / Series IV. Lavoisier and associates' scientific notes and manuscripts / Fougeroux de Bondaroy, Auguste Denis

Reports on Lavoisier's demonstration of phosphorescent chalk at the Académie des sciences, 1777

 Item — Box: 10, Folder: 11a-b
Scope and Contents

Physical Description: 2 items (1, 2 leaves) ; 19-23 cm; holographs.Summary: Item 10.11b entitled: "Examen de la Craie phosphorique que Mr Lavoisier a fait voir a lacad. le … fevrier 1777."

Dates: 1777
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4712, Lavoisier manuscript collection / Series IV. Lavoisier and associates' scientific notes and manuscripts / Fougeroux de Bondaroy, Auguste Denis

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