1819-1821]. · [New Haven
by Goulding, John: [Silliman, Benjamin]
[New Haven, 1819-1821].. [62]pp. Small quarto. Original three-quarter morocco and boards. Light wear to binding. Minor foxing. Very good. Manuscript notebook in the hand of Yale College student John Goulding, capturing lectures in chemistry taught by Professor Benjamin Silliman, Sr. Goulding (1797-1860) received a medical degree from Yale in 1824 and spent his life as a Connecticut physician in nearby Stratford. Silliman was a professor of natural sciences at Yale and a leading figure in American science in the 1820s. Part one of the manuscript contains lecture notes from 1819 to 1820, comprised of twenty-nine leaves of notes covering fifty lectures. A second section covers lectures sixty-six through seventy; and a third section, which begins at the rear of the volume, contains four more leaves of notes from January 1821. There is a manuscript index on the front pastedown which indicates topics and the corresponding lecture numbers. Topics include Heat, Evaporation, Elementary Bodies, Carbonic Acid and Alkalies, Earths, Sulphur, Carbon, and others.
In our experience, lecture notes from this period are scarce in the marketplace, most having long ago perished or ended up in institutional collections. A valuable insight into the teaching style and content of an early American scientist, as well as what a 19th-century student thought worth noting. (Inventory #: WRCAM45302)
In our experience, lecture notes from this period are scarce in the marketplace, most having long ago perished or ended up in institutional collections. A valuable insight into the teaching style and content of an early American scientist, as well as what a 19th-century student thought worth noting. (Inventory #: WRCAM45302)