Le Tual, Louis

Notes of lectures on Physics, Cosmography, Astronomy and Physical Geography, taken down by Louis Le Tual: in Latin. Illustrated with 9 folding leaves containing pen-drawn diagrams and figures. This volume contains Libri III-VII of notes on a course of lectures on the sciences: the five parts are as under: Liber III. Areometria (pp. 1-43). IV. De qualitatibus corporum sensibilibus (Optica, De sono, De odoribus, De tactu.) (pp. 45-185). V. De cosmographia (pp. 187-339). VI. De meteoris (pp. 341-368). VII. De globo terraque (pp. 369-395). At the end are 5 pp. containing lists of 'Noms des Écoliers de Phisique de 1764 et 1765'. Among these is the name of the scribe Ludovicus Le Tual, whose name is also stamped 'Le Tual' on p. 1 and p. 100. Produced in Paris ?

1765

1 volume 395 pp. + 12 ll. (last 4 bl.). 4to. 181/2 x 141/2 cm. Original calf binding, worn.

Purchased 1909.

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).