{"id":12233,"date":"2019-10-23T00:48:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T00:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=12233"},"modified":"2020-10-23T22:34:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T22:34:14","slug":"aronson-2019-m-mla","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts-of-papers-for-the-m-mla-convention\/aronson-2019-m-mla\/","title":{"rendered":"Aronson (2019 M-MLA)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morgan Aronson
\n(US Naval Observatory Library<\/em>)
\n“A Text Twice Born:\u00a0 Exploring the Origin of a Scientific Manuscript”<\/h3>\n

Abstract of Paper Presented at the 2019 Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (Chicago, 2019)
\nConvention Theme:\u00a0 \u201cDuality, Doubles, and Doppelg\u00e4ngers\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Panel on “Duality and Manuscript Evidence”<\/strong>
\nSponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong>
\nOrganized By Justin Hastings (Loyola University Chicago<\/em>)<\/p>\n

2019 M-MLA Panel<\/a><\/p>\n

[Published on our website on 22 October 2019<\/em>]<\/p>\n

A Text Twice Born: Exploring the Origin of a Scientific Manuscript<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n

A mysterious Doppelg\u00e4nger is held in the manuscript section of the Smithsonian Libraries\u2019 Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology.\u00a0 The highly illustrated, fundamental scientific treatise on hydrodynamics by the physicist Abb\u00e9<\/span> Edme Mariotte<\/a> (1620\u20131684) was posthumously published for the first time in 1686 in French as the Trait\u00e9 du mouvement des eaux et des autres corps fluides, divis\u00e9 en V parties, par feu M. Mariotte, mis en lumi\u00e8re par les soins de M. de La Hire<\/a><\/i><\/em>.\u00a0 A second edition was published in 1700<\/a>.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until 1718<\/a> that the first English edition appeared, as The Motion of Water and Other Fluids:\u00a0 Being a Treatise of Hydrostaticks<\/a>, translated by John Theophilus Desaguliers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How then, is it possible, that there exists, hidden in the Dibner Library, an English manuscript of the book, illustrations included, dated to 1690?<\/p>\n

If this date is correct, it would precede the first known English translation by almost thirty years!\u00a0 These two English texts, one printed, the other manuscript, have no evident relationship.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the only evidence of a 1690 creation-date comes from a box spine-label that has since been discarded.\u00a0 By what means, then, do we learn how, and exactly when, this unknown English translation came to be?<\/p>\n

Through investigations into the textual, paleographical, codicological, bibliographical, and historiographical evidence, I attempt the complex task of verifying the 1690 date.\u00a0 The paper will discuss my methodology for using the universal language of physics to compare the several French and English editions of the manuscript.\u00a0 Also included in this talk will be details of how my investigation proceeded, what conclusions I can now draw as to the origin of the manuscript, and why the copying of scientific texts was still widespread centuries after the advent of printing.<\/p>\n

This investigation is focused on the material evidence of this here-to-fore unknown English translation of Mariotte\u2019s important treatise on hydrodynamics and of its printed \u201cdoubles\u201d.\u00a0 I believe the duality theme of this conference is exceptionally well-suited for this topic.<\/p>\n

Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Morgan Aronson is currently the Project Manager for the United States Naval Observatory Library<\/a>.\u00a0 She is responsible for managing their 90,000 volume library, including a substantial collection of rare books in the history of science and 19th-century manuscript observation journals.\u00a0 Before joining the US Naval Observatory Library, Morgan worked for the Smithsonian Libraries Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology in Washington, DC, after serving as Head Librarian for the Robert R Livingston Masonic Library in New York City.\u00a0 She holds two masters degrees, one in the History of the Book from the University of St Andrews, and the other from the Palmer School of Library and Information Science.\u00a0 She currently serves as Vice President of the Washington Rare Book Group.<\/p>\n

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