Authority Cited: Muschenbroek [Musschenbroek]
Author name and dates: Peter Van Musschenbroek (1692-1761)
BKG Bio-tweet: Dutch scientist; Leyden jar (early capacitor); SJ uses M. definition of bolis (meteor); OED has later bolide
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Musschenbroek cite in 1755 Dict. vol.1, five Musschenbroek cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No M. cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. See one additional citation of this title under Colson [John]. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists lot 145 7. Mus'henbrook elementa physicae, &c.]
Author name and dates: Peter Van Musschenbroek (1692-1761)
BKG Bio-tweet: Dutch scientist; Leyden jar (early capacitor); SJ uses M. definition of bolis (meteor); OED has later bolide
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Musschenbroek cite in 1755 Dict. vol.1, five Musschenbroek cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No M. cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. See one additional citation of this title under Colson [John]. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists lot 145 7. Mus'henbrook elementa physicae, &c.]
- Elementa Physica (1726) trans. by Colson: The Elements of Natural Philosophy. Chiefly intended for the use of students in universities. by Peter van Musschenbroek, M.D., Professor of Mathematicks and Philosophy in the University of Leyden, Translated from the Latin by John Colson. London, 1744. 2 vols (also noted by Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p.156); bolis (cited as Muschenbroeck in 1773 Dict., vol. 2, p.293); lightning (vol. 2, p.296); thunder (vol. 2, p.297); will (cited as "Musch.", vol. 2, p.291 [BKG Note: the quotation is under Wandering Fires or Ignus Fatui," rather than "Will with a wisp"]); wind (vol. 2, p.306)
- Musschenbroek (no work cited); regular (cited as "Muschenbr." but not located in the title above. Should be John Harris, Lexicon Technicum (v. 2). See image below.) Dict.: "In geometry, regular body is a solid, whose surface is composed of regular and equal figures, and whose solid angles are all equal, and of which there are five sorts, viz. 1. A pyramid comprehended under four equal and equilateral triangles. 2. A cube, whose surface is composed of six equal squares. 3. That which is bounded by eight equal and equilateral triangles. 4. That which is contained under twelve equal and equilateral pentagons. 5. A body consisting of twenty equal and equilateral triangles: and mathematicians demonstrate, that there can be no more regular bodies than these five. Muschenbr."
