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Title: Notes of Surveys by Jesse Lukens, 1774; No.15. Lukens, Jesse. Notes of Surveys by Lukens, Jesse
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7519
Description: Jesse Lukens notebook of survey information as well as some diary entries.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Surveying
Date: 1774; 2022

Title: Poor Will's Almanack with notes by John Lukens, 1778; No.17. Lukens, Jesse. Poor Will's Almanack with notes by Lukens, John
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7454
Description: A 1778 Poor Will's Almanac with notes by John Lukens. The notes include accounting information, weather and survey data.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Surveying
Date: 1778; 2022

Title: Profile with the spirit level, of the due north line from the monument at the source of the River St. Croix to the St. John, surveyed in 1840 & 1841 under the direction of Major J. D. Graham . . . one of the commissioners for surveying and exploring the N. E. boundary of the U.S. U.S. Topographical Engineers.
Identifier(s): graphics:5805; APSdigobj3519
Description: In presenting this document, I beg to call the attention of the Society to the strong contrast, which will appear on a comparison, between the aspect of the country traversed by this due north line as there developed, and that exhibited by the profile of Colonel Bouchette, the British surveyor under the 5th article of the Treaty of Ghent, derived from his surveys of that line and his barometric measurements upon it in the years 1817 & '18.The direction of the meridian line whose profile or vertical section is now offered to the notice of the Society, was obtained from numerous astronomical observations, fully verified, with a transit instrument having a telescope of 43 inches focal length. It will be perceived on reference thereto that the meridian, thus traced, does not meet with any highland or elevation whatever in passing Mars Hill, but on the contrary that it passes the base of that eminence considerably to the eastward, and at a depression nowhere less that 12 feet below the level of the base of the monument which was erected to mark the source of the River St. Croix. . . . It may be well to remark that the base of this monument is surrounded (unless at seasons of extreme drought) by the water constituting the extreme source of that river [Archives. J. D. Graham to APS, 28 March 1844. Minutes. Proc , vol. 4, p. 53. Donation Book].Librarian George Ord was notified 22 June 1844 that W. R. Palmer had received these maps for the Society [Archives. W. R. Palmer to G. Ord, 22 June 1844].See: U.S. Congress, 27th, 3rd session. House of Representatives.
Creator: Graham, J. D. (James Duncan), 1799-1865 Fairfax, Wilson McC.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; United States; Canada; Surveying
Date: [1840/41]

Title: Report of a commission appointed to examine the triangulation of Mr. James Ferguson, assistant U.S. Coast Survey upon the coast of the United States, during the years, 1844-45. Coast Survey Office, Washington, March 1, 1847
Identifier(s): text:254; APSimg6462; Goodman Number: 155; 973 C683 No. 631
Description: Signed in type by Benjamin Peirce, Andrew Talcott, and Charles Davies. Reveals the commission decision that the "real character" of Mr. Ferguson's work was "defective and uncertain in results."
Creator: United States. Office of Coast Survey
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Coastlines; Surveying
Date: 1847

Title: Tables of natural sines and natural tangents, for the use of field parties of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, 1875.
Identifier(s): text:238; APSimg6464; Goodman Number: 161; 973 C683 No. 669
Description: Tables of natural sines and natural tangents, for the use of field parties of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, 1875. [Page 4:] Table of natural tangents for each 30'', from 0o to 10o, prepared...by Otis H. Kendall, instructor in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania.
Creator: Kendall, Otis H.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Mathematics; Surveying
Date: [1875]

Title: Philadelphia, December 1857. Sir, I beg leave to transmit to you the copy of a resolution adopted by the American Association at its last meeting, and to invite your advice and guidance in the preparation of an appropriate report to that body. I have supposed that the several topics which such a report should embrace, may fitly arrange themselves under the following heads
Identifier(s): text:1769; APSimg6461; Goodman Number: 154; 973 C683 No. 630
Description: Autographed circular letter from J[ohn] K. Kane to Prof. J[ohn] F[ries] Frazer dated December 21, 1857. Lists six general topics which the committee on the coast survey of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is expected to investigate. Also gives a list of the twenty members appointed by the association to the committee: J[ohn] K. Kane, Joseph G. Totten, Benjamin Peirce, John Torrey, Joseph Henry, J. F. Frazer, Wm. Chauvenet, F. A. P. Barnard, John Le Conte, W. M. Gillespie, F. H. Smith, W. H. C. Bartlett, Walcott Gibbs, Stephen Alexander, Lewis R. Gibbes, Joseph Winbock, James Phillips, William Ferrel, Edward Hitchcock, and James D. Dana. Signed in type by Joseph Lovering, permanent secretary of the association.
Creator: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Organizations; Surveying
Date: 1857

Title: General considerations showing the impolicy of the adoption by Congress of the recommendation of the secretary of the Navy to transfer the Coast and Geodetic Survey from the Treasury to the Navy Department
Identifier(s): text:312; APSimg6537; Goodman Number: 160; 973 C683 No. 76
Description: Broadside arguing against a proposed move of the Coast and Geodetic Survey from the Treasury to the Navy Department.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Surveying; Coastlines; Navies
Date: n.d.

Title: Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council. Orders to Nathan Sellers to make a survey, 1777 July 24; Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council. Orders to Nathan Sellers to make a survey
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:9203
Description: Congress and the Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council direct Nathan Sellers to survey the Delaware River between the Schuylkill River and Christiana Creek. The survey is needed, as written, to prepare for enemy landing.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; Surveying; United States. Continental Congress
Date: 1777-07-24; 2022

Title: Essai physico-géométrique, contenant, 1°. La détermination du centre de gravité d'un secteur de cercle quelconque. 2°. La résolution géométrique du problême de la quadrature définie du cercle...
Identifier(s): text:781; APSimg6682; Goodman Number: 162
Description: Prospectus for a book published in 1778. Contains autograph signature of de Vausenville, the name Guillame Le Roberger used for his published works.; Hays reference #: Vol. 77, no. 78.
Creator: Vausenville, Le Rohberg-Herr de
Source: Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Mathematics; Surveying
Date: 1778

Title: Evolution; or, the extracting of just roots out of all powers, by one universal rule, as easy as common division
Identifier(s): text:348; APSimg6536; Goodman Number: 159; 973 C683 No. 247
Description: A mathematical broadside examining evolution, or, the extracting of just roots out of all powers.; Portions of the broadside are missing.
Creator: Falck, N. D. (Nikolai Detlef), 1736-1783
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Mathematics
Date: n.d.

Title: Evening problems
Identifier(s): text:35; APSimg6636; Goodman Number: 157
Description: Twenty-four mathematical problems in algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. A chemist and natural philosopher, Patterson was professor at the University of Pennsylvania (1813-1820), the University of Virginia (1828-1835), and later director of the United States Mint.; Item call number: 510 Pam. xp, no. 5.
Creator: Patterson, Robert M. (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854
Source: Robert Maskell Patterson Papers (510 Pam. xp);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Mathematics; Geometry; Education
Date: 1822

Title: ...The greatest number that can be expressed by three figures would...require a line many miles in length.... This greatest number is expressed by the algebraical notation thus, 9(99), or a number derived from a series of multiplications by 9, in which there are three hundred and eighty-seven million, four hundred and twenty thousand, four hundred and eighty-nine rows. Great as this number is, such improvements have been made in arithmetic within the few last centuries, that some of the first and last figures may be discovered.... December 11, 1831.
Identifier(s): text:1767; APSimg6463; Goodman Number: 158; 973 C683 No. 379
Description: Four-page excerpt from a text on mathematics.
Creator: W. F.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Mathematics
Date: 1831

Title: Publications of the Geological Survey of California. The publications of the Geological Survey of California issued up to this date, or nearly ready, are as follows...
Identifier(s): text:330; APSimg6490; Goodman Number: 248; 973 C683 No. 670
Description: Includes works on geology, paleontology, ornithology, mining, and mollusca. Signed in type by J. D. Whitney, state geologist.
Creator: Geological Survey of California
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Geology; Surveying
Date: 1868

Title: Lukens, Charles to John Lukens, 1783 July 31; Lukens, Charles. ALS to John Lukens
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7667
Description: Charles Lukens writes to his father, John Lukens, about his health. He informs him that doctors have diagnosed him with a fistula "in the [Ana], or some such term." The issue has been going on for six months and has made is painful to walk, stand, or sit. The doctors, he informs his father, suggest that "some operation with the knife is the only sure remedy". Charles concludes the letter with a discussion of some land, presumably related to surveying.John Lukens replies to the letter on the back.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Medicine--Practice--History--18th century; Medicine--United States--History; Medicine--United States--History--18th century; Surveying
Date: 1783-07-31; 2022

Title: Entrance to freshman class. June 22, 1883. [Examination in] Euclid [and]...arithmetic
Identifier(s): text:844; APSimg6706; Goodman Number: 156
Description: Includes five questions in each section. From the papers of John K. Kane. Now housed among the Elisha Kent Kane papers.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)
Source: Elisha Kent Kane Papers. Printed Material. (Mss.B.K132.p); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.K132.p-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Examinations; Universities & colleges; Geometry; Mathematics
Date: 1883

Title: Pendleton, Edmund to [Thomas Jefferson], 1776 August 10; B J35.x2. Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803. Letter to [Thomas Jefferson]
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:16707
Description: Letter from Edmund Pendleton to Thomas Jefferson about the creation of government in Virginia. Pendleton relays that he has read the Declaration of Independence and that it was "altered [...] much for the worse." He wishes that Martha Jefferson's health will be restored, in part so that Jefferson will not retire. Pendleton then turns to the development of the Virginia government, specifically to the "mode of election". He then discusses "some sad blunder in my Observations about the Pennsylvania line, which you laugh at in your Queries."; Recipient's copy at the Library of Congress, this is a transcription.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Declaring Independence; Political Philosophy; Surveying; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jefferson, Martha, 1748-1782; United States. Continental Congress; Virginia. Convention (1775-1776)
Date: 1776-08-10; 2022

Title: Sellers, Nathan surveying notebook, 1775-1784; Sellers, Nathan, 1751-1830. Nathan Sellers surveying notebooks, 1775-1784
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:8824
Description: Nathan Seller's surveying notebook from 1775-1784; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social life and customs; Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Family life--18th century; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal narratives; Finance, Personal--United States; Surveying; Papermaking; Paper money
Date: 1775 - 1784; 2022

Title: Sellers, Nathan account book, 1774-1815; Sellers, Nathan, 1751-1830. Nathan Sellers account book, 1774-1815.
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:8378
Description: Nathan Sellers' account book from 1774-1815.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social life and customs; Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Family life--18th century; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal narratives; Finance, Personal--United States; Surveying; Papermaking; Paper money
Date: 1774 - 1815; 2022

Title: Sellers, Nathan memorandum book and diary, 1774; Sellers, Nathan, 1751-1830. Nathan Sellers Memorandum books and diaries, 1773-1829
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:8739
Description: Nathan Sellers memorandum book from 1774 that records his activities, accounts with others, and jobs.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social life and customs; Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Family life--18th century; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal narratives; Finance, Personal--United States; Surveying
Date: 1774; 2022

Title: Sellers, Nathan memorandum book and diary, 1776; Sellers, Nathan, 1751-1830. Nathan Sellers Memorandum books and diaries, 1773-1829
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:9102
Description: Nathan Sellers memorandum book from 1776 that records his activities, accounts with others, and jobs.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social life and customs; Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Family life--18th century; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal narratives; Finance, Personal--United States; Surveying
Date: 1776; 2022