Manuscript Group 1047, Joseph Addison Freeman, Notebook, 1851

 

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1047.  FREEMAN, JOSEPH ADDISON
(1833-64).

 
Notebook, 1851. 1 vol.

 
Undergraduate notes taken by Joseph Addison Freeman for

 

thirty-four
of a course of thirty-eight lectures on “”natural

 

philosophy”
(i.e. physics), which were delivered by Prof. Richard

 

S.
McCulloh from August to November, 1851 at the College of

 

New
Jersey (now Princeton University). Freeman received an A.B.

 

from
the College of NewJersey in 1852, then an A.M. and M.D.

 

from
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University

 

in
1855 and 1856 respectively. During the Civil War he served as a

 

surgeon
in the l3th New Jersey Volunteers, until his death in

 

Nashville,
Tenn. on December 29, 1864.

 
Purchase, 1977.

 

 

DRAFT

 

 

 

MG
1047

 

Joseph
Addison Freeman (1833-1864), medical student and physician.

 

Notebook,
1851. 1 vol.

 

 

 
Undergraduate notes (1851) taken by Joseph Addison Freeman
(1833-1864) for 34 of 38 lectures of a course on “natural
philosophy” (physics), which were delivered by Professor
Richard S. McCulloh from August to November, 1851 at the College
of New Jersey (Princeton). Topics include: properties of
aerodynamics, friction, hydrostatics, matter, the pendulum and
its uses, and varied motion. Drawings and diagrams supplement the
notes.

 
Freeman, born in 1833, Paterson (Passaic County), received an
A.B. from the College of New Jersey (Princeton, 1852), and an
A.M. (1855) and M.D. (1856) from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Columbia University. During the Civil War he served as
Surgeon in the 13th New Jersey Volunteers, until his
death in Nashville, Tennessee in 1864.

 

 

 

Purchase,
1977

 

 

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