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(Frederick Edward) Brasch Papers , 1745-1963 http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf600004vr No online items Guide to the Frederick E. (Frederick Edward) Brasch Papers , 1745-1963 Department of Special Collections Green Library Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 Phone: (650) 725-1022 Email: [email protected] URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc © 1999 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved. Guide to the Frederick E. Special Collections M0275 1 (Frederick Edward) Brasch Papers , 1745-1963 Guide to the Frederick E. (Frederick Edward) Brasch Papers , 1745-1963 Collection number: M0275 Department of Special Collections and University Archives Stanford University Libraries Stanford, California Contact Information Department of Special Collections Green Library Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 Phone: (650) 725-1022 Email: [email protected] URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc Processed by: Special Collections staff Date Completed: 1987 © 1999 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: Frederick E. (Frederick Edward) Brasch Papers , Date (inclusive): 1745-1963 Collection number: Special Collections M0275 Creator: Brasch, Frederick E. (Frederick Edward), 1875-1967. Extent: 65 linear ft. Repository: Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives. Language: English. Access Restrictions None. Publication Rights Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections. Provenance Gift of the Brasch family, 1967 and 1987. Preferred Citation: [Identification of item] Frederick E. (Frederick Edward) Brasch Papers , M0275, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. Biographical Note Frederick Edward Brasch was born December 18, 1875, the son of Otto Wilhelm and Carolyn E. (Johannsen). He attended Stanford University from 1897-1899; Univ. of California, 1899-1901, Harvard, 1916. On August 5, 1903 he married Winnifred E. Orpin (who died June 11, 1938). The marriage produced two children, Carolyn Mildred and Maxwell Frederick. The following is a list of F. E. Brasch's occupations • Asst. observer, Harvard College Observatory, 1903-1904. • Computer, Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, CA. 1905 • Asst. at Stanford Library, 1912-16. • Asst. reference librarian, John Cresar Library, Chicago. 1917-21. • Reference librarian, James Jerome Hill Reference Library, St. Paul, Minn. 1921-22 Guide to the Frederick E. Special Collections M0275 2 (Frederick Edward) Brasch Papers , 1745-1963 • Bibliographic research, National Research Council, Wash., D.C. 1922-3. • Librarian, Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism, carnegie Institution, Wash. 1923-4 • Secretary of the history of science section, A.A.A.S. 1920-28. • Secretary of Isaac Newton commemoration, 192- • Chief of Scientific Collection, Library of congress. 1925-43. • Consultant in history of science, 1944-8. • Consultant in bibliography, Stanford Univ., 1948-67. The following is a list of F. E. Brasch's associations: • American Assn for the Advancement of Science • Royal Astronomical Society • History of Science Society • International Astronomical Union • Astronomical Society of the Pacific • American Astronomical Society • American Antiquarian Society • Phi Beta Kappa • Sigma Xi • Unitarian Church In 1941, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Stanford University, F. E. Brasch donated his entire Newton Collection to the University, in gratitude for the opportunity of pursuing scientific astronomical studies there (1897-9). Frederich Brasch died on October 26, 1967. Scope and Content Correspondence and manuscript notes of Brasch and article reprints, photographs, and memorabilia collected by Brasch on the history of science in general and the history of astronomy from Isaac Newton to the modern period. Arrangement The boxes of manuscript material are arranged roughly according to subject: Boxes 2-8. Colonial Science: general Boxes 9-13. Colonial Science: John Winthrop and the colonial Newtonists Boxes 14-23. Isaac Newton and his contemporaries Boxes 24-25. Albert Einstein Boxes 26-35. T. J. J. See (Navy astronomey; opposed to Einstein's Theory of relativity) Boxes 36-38. Lick Observation Boxes 39-54. FEB and his involvement in science: articles, societies, projects, scientist acquaintances Boxes 55-72. Card catologues (prepared by FEB) Boxes 73-76. FEB and the Library of Congress Boxes 77-78. Science catalogs and bills for individual items of Newton collection Boxes 79-86. FEB correspondence: specific parties Boxes 87-95. FEB correspondence: misc. Boxes 96-97. FEB memorabilia Boxes 98-99. College catalogues Boxes 100-102. Studies in English literature and philology Note Box 1 contains a miscellaneous assortment of gems extrated from the collection in August, 1975. Because there were no references as to the original location of the individual items within the collection as a whole, they remain separate, a hodge-podge of items of widely varying significance ranging from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Note All other gems which I have found within the collection remain there, and are indicated by an asterisk (*) preceding the item's description. Guide to the Frederick E. Special Collections M0275 3 (Frederick Edward) Brasch Papers , 1745-1963 The catagories of manuscripts listed above are anything but representative of every item within a given subset. The original integrity within the individual boxes has been generally respected, except in cases where the contents clearly have no reasonable order. In this situation I have relocated material according to the afore mentioned subject guidelines. Catalogued during the academic year of 1980/81 by Kenneth B. Wolf Dept. of History Box 1 Collection gems (extracted 8/75) Box-Folder B1, F1 Sewall, Stephen, An Oration Delivered at the Funeral of the Hon. John Winthrop. Boston, 1779. Physical Description: (printed) Winthrop, James. Scope and Content Note 1. An Attempt to settle the magnitude of the Solar System and the distance of the fixed stars. AMsS, n.d. 2. Geometric Method of Finding mean proportionals, AMsI, n.d. 3. James Winthrop, 1781 autograph signature. Acta Eruditorium. reviews of Newton, Leibniz, etc. n.d. Stiles, Ezra (1727-1795; president of Yale) Scope and Content Note Miscellaneous notes & mathematical calculations re: comets, transit of Mercury, Aurora Borealis, 1745-1784. Mss different hands. Atwater, Noah, (senior tutor at Yale) Copernicus, Nicolaus. Copy of engraving, 1654. Box-Folder B1, F2 Pierce, Benjamin. (Harvard Math. Prof., fl. 1850's) Scope and Content Note 1. ALS Pierce to a colleague. Cambridge 1854. 2. Photo of Pierce. Bowditch, Nathaniel Scope and Content Note 1. Addition to the memoir on the Solar Eclipse of June 16, 1806. AMs S. 2. Observations on the total eclipse of the Sun of June 16, 1806 mode at Salem. AMs S. 3. Observations of the Comet - 1807 AMs S.. 4. Chapter II: On the figure of the earth, AMs S. 5. ALS Bowditch to Rev. Joseph Williard. Salem, 1797. 6. Engraving of Bowditch (1838) from H. I. Bowditch's biography of his father. Perkins, George R. ALS Perkins to N. Bowditch. Boston, 1838. Hassler, Ferdinand. Scope and Content Note 1. ALS Hassler to Leo Woodbury, Secy. of the Treasury. Washington, 1839. 2. ALS Hassler to Walter Forward, Secy. of the Treasury. Washington 1842. 3. ANS Hassler to Secy. of of the Treasury, Washington, 1842 Newcomb, Simon (1835-1909) Scope and Content Note 1. Announcement lectures at John Hopkins University on history of astronomy, 1876-77. 2. Outline of a direct and easy method of affecting the development of the pertubative function and its differential coefficient AMs 3. Fragmentary lecture notes, AMs 4. Engraved portrait Photo Guide to the Frederick E. Special Collections M0275 4 (Frederick Edward) Brasch Papers , 1745-1963 Container List Young, C.A. (Dartmouth) ALS Young to S. Newcomb 1876 Kelvin (Lord) [Sir William Thomas]. AI. C.W. Siemens / with kind regards/ W.T. / Southampton Aug. 27, 1882. Unidentified Ms found by FEB in purchased copy of Davidis Gregorii... Astronomiae.... Geneva, 1726. Box-Folder B1, F3 American Academy of Sciences. Founding articles, Aug 15, 1865. Physical Description: Photocopy Boyle, R.O. Several letters to/from. 1679-85. Physical Description: Photocopy. The First Book of Euclid's Elements Physical Description: Photocopy. Scope and Content Note folio 8-12. Misc photocopies of 18 th c printed matter. Box-Folder B1, F4 Rouse-Ball, W. W. Newton's Principles. Physical Description: TMs w/annot. 23 pp. Russell, Bertrand. Application card to History of Science Society. Approved 4/20/27 by FEB. Poincare, Excerpts from address on the future of mathematics. 1908. Physical Description: TMs 2 pp. Holden, Edwards. (Lick Observatory) Memorandum on the Preparation of a Catalogue from the Washington Zones, 1846-50. Lick Obs., 1896. Physical Description: AMsS 3 pp. Erick, John Francis (1791 -).Biographical article (fragment). Physical Description: Printed Lecat, Maurice (C. E. Louvain) Business card w/annot. 1924 Cajori, Florian (univ. of Calif., Berkeley) A Century of American Geodesy HSS mtg, Durham, 1929. Physical Description: TMS of intro., 1 p. Eliot, C. W., TLS 9/28/20 CWE (Mainc) to FEB re: B.Pierce. Whitmore, James ALS 2/22/20 JW (New Haven) to FEB ve: B. Pierce. Johnson (Senator) Ms draft of statement re: Naval
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