stant efforts, which have been made in Europe and particularly in France for some years past in order to substitute for the
uncertainty which reigns in the instruments employed in comparing or measuring physical quantities, a certain system taken
from Nature, and of course as immutable as nature itself. The learned alone, were long occupied with it as mere matter of
speculation. France was the first to place those researches among the cares of Government. America, if I mistake not, has
since followed the example, for I think I have heard that the present Government were engaged in the same changes, and even
waited the result of the operation made in France on this subject, for the purpose of commencing the reform . . .
It occupies 2 pages, the recto of the first and verso of the second leaf, and is signed at the end
Jh. Fauchet. Faithfully translated from the original, by Geo. Taylor, junr. On the verso of the first leaf is the order to print three hundred copies, signed by Samuel A. Otis, Secretary of the Senate,
and dated January 9th, 1795. The next leaf, headed [
Translation.], contains the Decree of the Committee of Public Safety
That the Board of weights and measures cause to be sent to Citizen Dombey, who departs for North America, a measure in copper,
and a weight divided in the form decreed for the standards the expense of which shall be defrayed out of the funds allotted
to this work
, signed by Jh. Fauchet and Geo. Taylor, junr., as before.
Jean Antoine Joseph, Baron Fauchet, 1761-1834, French politician, succeeded Edmond Genêt [q.v.] as minister plenipotentiary from France to the United States
in 1793. He was awarded the title of baron in 1810.
Edmund Randolph, 1753-1813, succeeded Jefferson as Secretary of State in January 1794, and retained the office until August 1795.
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Pamphlets on subjects of Nat. Philos.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 114, no. 15, as above, but
Natural Philosophy not abbreviated.
1849 Catalogue, page 682, no. 18, Pamphlets on Natural Philosophy.--Jefferson’s (Thomas) Report on Weights, Measures, and
Coins, 8vo; New-York, 1790.--Priestley, (J.) Doctrine of Phlogiston, Established, &c.; Northumberland, 1800.--On the Application
of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, to Arts, &c.; Philadelphia, 1801.--Vaughan’s (J.) Lecture before the Philosophical Society
of Delaware; Wilmington, 1800.--Beauvois, (A. M. F. J.) Catalogue Raisonné du Museum de Mr. C. W. Peale; Philadelphia, 1800.--Peale,
C. W.: Introduction to a Course of Lectures on Natural History; Philadelphia, 1800.--Henfrey’s (B.) Plan for Working Mines
in the United States; Philadelphia, 1797.--M’Innes’ Cotton Machine; Charleston, 1802.--Priestley, (J.) on Acids, Air, Water,
&c.; Philadelphia, 1799.--Garnett, (J.) On Parallax and Refraction; New-Brunswick, 1801.-- Ellicott, (A.) on Meridional Lines,
8vo; Philadelphia, 1796.*
11 pamphlets originally bound together for Jefferson by Milligan on February 24, 1809, price 50 cents. The pamphlets are no
longer in the Library of Congress, and the titles are taken from the Library of Congress Catalogue, 1849, as above.
1. JEFFERSON,
Thomas.
Report of the Secretary of State, on the subject of Establishing a Uniformity in the Weights, Measures and Coins of the United
States. Published by order of the House of Representatives.
New-York: printed by
F. Childs and
J. Swaine,
m,dcc,xc.
[1790.]
Another copy of no. 3760, q.v.
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2. PRIESTLEY,
Joseph.
The Doctrine of Phlogiston Established, and that of the Composition of Water refuted. By Joseph Priestley, L. L. D. F. R. S. &c. &c. . . .
Northumberland: printed for the author by
A. Kennedy,
mdccc
. [1800.]
AC901 .D8 vol. 77, no. 2.
First Edition. 8vo. 54 leaves, the last with a catalogue of books written by Priestley.
Not in Sabin.
Fulton and Peters, page 8.
For a copy of the second edition, a gift to Jefferson from the author, see no. 836.
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