R., M.

Tractatio de aere. Tractatio de electricitate. The last 8 ll. contain carefully executed pen-drawings of physical apparatus, etc. Inscribed on the lower cover 'M.R. aneletrici'. In the first work Priestly and Lavoisier are quoted in reference to the 'Phlogiston theory'.

c. 1785

1 volume 109 ll. + 8 ll. 4to. 20 × 141/2 cm. Original quarter vellum binding.

Purchased 1905.

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).