[Commonplace book concerning science and mathematics]
Contributors: Jones, William, 1726-1800; Robinson, Nicholas; Rowning, J.  (John),  1701?-1771; Weinreb, Ben, 1912-1999, bookseller; Baxter, Andrew, 1686?-1750; Hodson, Francis, d. 1812; Fletcher, Thomas, fl. 1762-1779; Burndy Library
Published: 1769
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Medicine; Science; Early works to 1800; Physics; Mathematics
Other titles: Mary Smith, science math 
Description: A. two-part manuscript handwritten in ink. The first part is an index to the contents of the second part, arranged in alphabetical order by topic, with thumb tabs. The second part of the volume contains excerpts and summaries of scientific, medical, mathematical, and technological information, taken from a variety of contemporary sources.
Notes: Title devised by cataloger.

Bookplate: Mary Smith, Thorney Abbey; the bookplate has this imprint: Cambridge: Printed by Fletcher & Hodson. (The printing firm of Fletcher & Hodson operated from late 1766 to about 1777).

Three pages of handwritten notes laid in.

Index listing occasionally refers to a second volume of notes, but the whereabouts of that volume, if it indeed existed, is unknown.

According to an accession card in the Dibner Library's files, this manuscript was purchased by Bern Dibner in 1958 for $40.00 from London antiquarian bookdealer Ben Weinreb.

SCDIRB copy 39088003881232 has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.

SCDIRB copy has a contemporary blind-ruled vellum binding with title inked on spine (Mary Smith, Science Math); re-backed.