B I B L I O G R A P H Y
The works listed here are arranged according to the key-words that are to be found
at the end of the Catalogue entries. The key-word is in the form of a name followed
by a date. The name usually refers to the author of the work, but not in every case,
e.g. with some museum catalogues the name of the museum is used, and with encyclopaedias
a short title is used. The date is normally that of publication, but
where a paper read at a conference is concerned, and the proceedings are not yet
published, the date of the conference is given. When the author or date of publication
is not printed in the work, the usual convention of square brackets round the
name or date is employed.
In some Catalogue entries, reference is made to British patents, with their number.
These have been taken from the index compiled by Bennet Woodcroft, cited below
under Woodcroft ( 1 8 5 JH
Throughout the Catalogue, reference is made to the Directors’ minutes of the
Teyler’s Stichting by date; to the invoices and lists of sundry payments preserved in
the Teyler’s Museum by date; to Van Marum’s correspondence preserved in the
archives of the Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen by the name of the
correspondent and the date. A valuation list in the Teyler’s Museum, prepared in
1826, has also been used when no other evidence was available. Van Marum’s journal
recording the acquisition of the collection between 1783 and 1790 is cited below
under MV (Mijne Verrichtingen).
When “Van” is part of a Dutch name, although it appears in the key-word, the
alphabetical listing f| governed by the last part of the name, e.g. Van Marum is
listed under M. Note also that De Luc and De Saussure are listed under D.
ac cum (J805P Frederick Accum, Catalogue of Chemical Preparations, Apparatus and
Instruments, for Philosophical Chemistry (London, 1805).
ACCUM (i8o8^B^H“ On the instantaneous Production of Fire by the mere Compression
of Atmospheric Air” , Philosophical Magazine, xxxi (1808) 130—133.
ac cum & g a r d e n (1812). F. Accum & A. Garden, Descriptive Catalogue of the Apparatus
and Instruments employed in Experimental and Operative Chemistry, in Analytical
Mineralogy, and in the pursuits of the Recent Discoveries of Electro-chemical Science
^■ London, 1812).
adams (1771). George Adams [Snr], Micrographia Illustrata: or the Microscope Explained,
in several new Inventions, Particularly of a New Variable Microscope for Examining
all Sorts o f Minute Objects; and also of a New Camera Obscura Microscope, Designed
for Drawing all Minute Objects^ either by the Light of the Sun, or by a Lamp in Winter
Evenings, to great Perfection; with a Description of all the other Microscopes now in Use
i j|(4th edn, London, 1771).;
adams (1784). George Adams [Jnr], An Essay on Electricity, explaining the Theory and
Practice of that useful Science: and the mode of applying it to Medical Purposes. With an
Essay on Magnetism (London, 1784).
adams (1787). -ï§L, Essays on the Microscope; containing a Practical Description of the
most Improved Microscopes: A General History of Insects, their Transformations, peculiar
Habits, and Oecorwmy:... a view of the Organization of Timber, and the Configuration
of Salts when under the Microscope (London, 1787).
adams (1790). Hg» Astronomical and Geographical Essays: containing I A Comprehensive
View of the General Principles of Astronomy. I I The Use of the Celestial and Terrestrial
Globes,... I l l The Description and Use of the Armillary Sphere, Planetarium, Tellurian,
and Lunarium. IV An Introduction to Practical Astronomy; Or, the Use of the Quadrant and
Equatorial (2nd edn, London, 1790).