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• Title:Commonplace book concerning travel and science, 1756-1757.
  
• Physical Description:1 v. (circa 360 p.) ; 15 cm.
  

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  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Osborn c664
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:Annotation at top of first page: "Begun this book, May 22, 1756."
  Annotated at bottom of page 355: "Finis. Aug. 15, 1757."
  Ownership inscription on front pastedown in pencil, in a later hand: "G. Upton."
  Ownership inscription on recto of last page: "1793. William Vizar."
  Binding: contemporary full leather (spine damaged).
  In English.
  Purchased from A. R. Heath on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2008.
  
• Summary:Manuscript in a single hand containing extensive passages copied from travel narratives and from magazine articles on various sciences. The volume opens with several entries on Sir Isaac Newton and contains many passages copied from the Gentleman's Magazine and the Universal Spectator. Most of the material, however, is taken from Awnsham and Churchill's six-volume A Collection of Voyages and Travels, particularly from the final section, "A Journey Through Part of the Low-Countries, Germany, Italy, and France." Many of the diagrams of machinery, scientific instruments, and equipment are also re-drawn in this volume, including the cavo fango dredger used in the Venetian canals and the central part of the sawmill at the Grande Chartreuse.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Commonplace Book Concerning Travel and Science, 1756-1757. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Learning and scholarship--Great Britain.
  Scientific apparatus and instruments--Europe.
  Travelers' writings, English.
  Europe--Description and travel.
  France--Description and travel.
  Italy--Description and travel.
  
• Genre/Form:Commonplace books.
  Diagrams.
  Drawings (visual works)