Bailly, Jean Sylvain (1736-1793)
- Date:
- c. 1775
- Reference:
- MS.1726/1
- Part of:
- Collectanea: Science I. Eleven short works. Mostly Authors' holograph MSS
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
De Vénus.
Publication/Creation
c. 1775
Physical description
7ll + 5 bl ll 7 ll. + 5 bl. ll. folio. 311/2 x 21 cm.. Probably an unfinished holograph draft for an article in a journal: the latest date found among the references is 1772.
Acquisition note
Purchased 1928.
Biographical note
The author was an eminent astronomer, politician, and littérateur: he perished on the guillotine.
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
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Accession number
- 56982