Bonnet, Charles (1720-1793)

  • Bonnet, Charles, 1720-1793.
Date:
1748, c. 1760
Reference:
MS.1302
Part of:
Folkes, Martin (1690-1754)
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Recherches sur la respiration des chenilles. Author's holograph MS. Holograph Abstract of the same in French by Abraham Trembley. Holograph translation of the Abstract by Martin Folkes. Fragments of author's holograph notes on 'Salamandre', 'Limaçon', 'Memory', etc. Endorsed by Martin Folkes in respect of the 'Abstract' as read before the Royal Society, and printed in the 'Transactions', No. 487.

Publication/Creation

1748, c. 1760

Physical description

1 volume 24 pp. + 2 ll. + 2 ll., 7 ll. last bl.. 4to. & folio. v.s. Unbound.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1934, 1929.

Biographical note

The author was a celebrated naturalist, biologist and philosopher of his time. He was born at Geneva, and was an Associate Member of the Académie des Sciences, Paris, and elected F.R.S. in 1743.

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).

Notes

There are two separate pieces here. Moorat says both are holographs of Bonnet, but they appear to be in different hands.

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  • 78977, 63700