Académie des sciences (France)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
History of science miscellaneous manuscripts
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4700
Scope and content
Letters, documents, and offprints given to or purchased by the History of Science Collections from 1967-1978. Includes signed letter from John James Audubon to Robert Havell, typewritten letters to A.D. White and Simon Henry Gage, a letter from Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon to the abbé de Launay; two letters from Schilling to Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring; a 1757 contract between James Grosett and John Newbery for the latter to manufacture various diet drinks; and documents concerning...
Dates:
1757-1978-(bulk 1780-1920).
Lavoisier manuscript collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4712
Abstract
Antoine Laurent Lavoisie (born 1743) and his wife, Marie-Anne-Pierrette Lavoisier (born 1758) were both French chemists. The Lavoisier manuscript collection (1766-1834) contains materials by, to or about Antoine and Marie, including material on their scientific work, correspondence, manuscripts, certificates, deeds, contracts, plates for publications, maps and drawings, memorabilia and artifacts.
Dates:
1766 - 1834; Majority of material found within 1770 - 1794
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Chemistry -- History -- Sources. 1
- Domestic relations -- France -- History. 1
- Enlightenment -- France. 1
- Finance, Public -- France 1
- France -- Economic conditions -- 18th century. 1
- France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793. 1
- France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799. 1
- France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. 1
- France -- Politics and government -- 1774-1793. 1
- France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1799. 1
- France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1815. 1
- Grain trade -- France. 1
- Military art and science -- France -- History. 1
- Ordnance. 1
- Saltpeter. 1
- Science -- History -- Sources. 1
- Soap trade -- France -- Marseille. 1
- Street lighting -- France -- Paris. 1
- Taxation -- France. 1
- Women -- France -- History. 1
- Women intellectuals -- France. 1
- Women scientists -- France. 1 + ∧ less
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