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Shelfmark: Lavoisier/MSS/Bd/T/L41/D5 Cornell University Library - Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections  Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: manuscript
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Thematic group: Manuscripts  Library of Lavoisier 
Type: travel diary
Text: Du 17 Xbre 1769 L'eau d'une fontaine de Roye en Picardie etant à 7 d. 1/2 du thermometre a boule…
Comment: Lavoisier's diary, kept during his travels in 1769 and 1770 in connection with his inspections of various tobacco factories belonging to the monopoly of the Ferme Générale. The volume also contains a description of Newcomen's steam engine
 
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Person City Cronology   Position
name: Denis I. Duveen
resp.: bookplate
name: -
date/range: 17 December 1769 (defined)-28 September 1770
date of: compilation
epoch: 18 (2°)
folio/s: 1 [61 ]
page/s: - 0
from/to or cons.: 1
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
resp.: author
name: -
date/range: 17 December 1769 (defined)-28 September 1770
date of: compilation
epoch: 18 (2°)
folio/s: 1 [61 ]
page/s: - 0
from/to or cons.: 1
 
Subject/s
Discipline Topic Argument

Ferme Générale Activities -

Technology Apparatus Steam

Meteorology Barometric Observations

Chemistry Analysis Mineral waters

Chemistry Analysis Salts

Ferme Générale Tobacco -

 
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 French