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 Title:  Notes, [n.d.], from a text on conic sections     
 Dates:  n.d. 
 Abstract:  This slender notebook contains information on geometry. It includes rules, equations, and some graphs.

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 Call #:  Mss.516.2.C765 
 Extent:  1 volume(s) 
 Topics:  Education 
 Genre:  Educational Material | Notebooks | Scientific Data 
 Subjects:  Conic sections. | Mathematics. 
 Author:  AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  Traité de physique et de chymie, ca. 1800     
 Dates:  Circa 1800 
 Abstract:  This beautifully bound volume contains numerous essays on scientific developments that occurred in the 18th century. The text of the notebook is written so that the manuscript appears like a published work. Among the topics discussed are electricity, physics, balloons, pharmacology, and an invention by Peter Woulfe. The notebook is in French.

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 Call #:  Mss.537.G18 
 Extent:  1 volume(s) 
 Topics:  Education | Science and technology 
 Genre:  Educational Material | Foreign Language | Manuscript Essays | Notebooks | Scientific Data 
 Subjects:  Balloons. | Chemistry -- Experiments. | Electricity -- Early works to 1850. | Gases. | Hydraulics. | Pharmacology. | Science -- History. | Technology -- History. 
 Author:  LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883Requires cookie*
 Title:  John L. (John Lawrence) LeConte papers, 1812-1897     
 Dates:  1812-1897 
 Abstract:  Summary(s) of Collection: The John Lawrence LeConte Collection contains a vast array of material. John Lawrence LeConte, son of John Eatton LeConte, was a scientist whose interests, like his father's, were in natural history, especially entomology. Like his father, J.L. LeConte undertook many scientific expeditions, primarily to the Midwest region. He is known as the "father of American beetle study" because of his entomological work. With over 1,900 documents, the collection touches on a wide range of scientific topics and includes correspondence from many of the most prominent scientists and citizens of the day. The vast majority of the scientific discussions – indeed the vast majority of the collection in general – deals with entomology. The LeConte's were both active in many scientific institutions, many based in Philadelphia, and the history of these institutions can also be gleaned from some of their correspondence.

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 Call #:  Mss.B.L493 
 Extent:  7.7 Linear Feet 
 Topics:  Education | Exploration. | Medicine | Science and technology 
 Genre:  Educational Material | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Miscellaneous | Notebooks | Scientific Data | Sketchbooks 
 Subjects:  Entomology -- Europe. | Entomology -- United States. | Hospitals -- United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865. | Insects. | Medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century. | Natural history -- United States. 
 Author:  Mills, Frederick Ira,1807-1830Requires cookie*
 Title:  Notes to Proffessor [sic] Benjamin Siliman's [sic] lectures on chemistry and pharmacy, 1826-1827     
 Dates:  1826-1827 
 Abstract:  This is Frederick Mills' notebook from 1826 and 1827 of Benjamin Silliman's lectures on chemistry and pharmacy delivered at Yale College. Unlike some of the other notebooks at the APS, the notes in this one are dated, so one has a clear sense of how the lectures were delivered.

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 Call #:  Mss.B.M622 
 Extent:  1 volume(s) 
 Topics:  Education | Science and technology 
 Genre:  Educational Material | Notebooks | Scientific Data 
 Subjects:  Chemistry | Pharmacy. 
 Author:  Roberts, Joseph,1793-1835.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Joseph Roberts philosophical and mathematical papers, 1812-1814     
 Dates:  1812-1814 
 Abstract:  This collection includes scientific educational material and data from nineteenth century scientist Joseph Roberts. The volumes contain problems, lectures, and notes.

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 Call #:  Mss.510.R54 
 Extent:  3 volume(s) 
 Topics:  Education | Science and technology 
 Genre:  Educational Material | Manuscript Essays | Notebooks | Scientific Data 
 Subjects:  Astronomy. | Mathematics -- Problems, exercises, etc. | Physics. | Spherical trigonometry. 
 Author:  Stevens, John Austin, 1795-1874Requires cookie*
 Title:  Notes, from Professor Day's Lectures, on Natural Philosophy     
 Dates:  1812 
 Abstract:  This bound volume contains notes taken by John Austin Stevens, a student at Yale University, in 1812 during Jeremiah Day's course on Natural Philosophy. The twenty lectures touch on a wide range of subjects, including electricity, astronomy, magnetism, meteorology, and fluids.

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 Call #:  Mss.530.St45 
 Extent:  1 volume(s) 
 Topics:  Education | Natural history | Science and technology 
 Genre:  Educational Material | Notebooks | Scientific Data 
 Subjects:  Gravitation | Hydraulics | Mechanics | Physics -- Study and teaching -- 19th century