Citation Conventions and Abbreviations
Abbreviations have generally been used in my notes and text for frequently-cited works. They are identified by the abbreviations below. (See the glossary for more information.)
| AAR | Archives de l'Académie des Sciences, Beaux Arts et Lettres de Rouen (Archives are housed at the Bibliothçque Municipal de Rouen). |
| AdS | Institut de France, Archives de l'Académie des Sciences. Archival materials available here include meeting minutes, pochettes containing original mémoires, letters or notes, plis cachétés, and biographical dossiers on Academy members. |
| ADSM | Archives Départmentales de Seine-Maritime. |
| Academy of Painting | Académie de peinture et de sculpture, Paris. |
| Académie de St-Luc | Académie de St-Luc, Paris. |
| AN | Archives Nationales de France. |
| Berlin Academy | Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Berlin. Also known as the Könligichen Academie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. |
| BMNS | Bibliothèque du Musée National de Céramique de Sèvres. (Includes the archives of the Vincennes and Sèvres manufactures.) |
| BMR | Bibliothèque Municipal de Rouen. |
| BNF M.F | Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Manuscrits Français. |
| Dublin Society | The Dublin Society for improving Husbandry, Manufactures and other useful Arts. |
| Dudley Archives | Dudley (West Midlands) Archives and Local History Service. |
| Journal de Physique | One of several common names for Observations sur la physique, sur l'histoire naturelle et les arts during the period 1770–1791. |
| Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences | Histoire de l'Académie royale des Sciences. . . avec les mémoires de mathématique & de physique pour le même année. The publication of the Paris Academy that included mémoires written by its members. |
| NBG | J. C. F. Hoefer, Nouvelle biographie générale, 46 vols.(Paris, 1852–66). |
| Observations sur la physique | Observations sur la physique, sur l'histoire naturelle et les arts (1752-58). |
| Paris Academy of Sciences | Académie Royale des Sciences, Paris. Later (now) known as Institut de France. Archives de l'Académie des Sciences. |
| Procès-verbaux de l'Académie royale des Sciences | Meeting minutes of the Paris Academy of Sciences. Unpublished from founding to the suppression of the Academy, and available at the AdS. Later minutes were issued as Procès-verbaux desséances de l'académie tenues depuis la fondation de l'Institut jusqu'au mois d'aoùt 1835, pub. conformément à une décision de l'académie par M M. lessecrétaires perpétuels. 10 Vol. an IV [1795]-1835. |
| Royal Academy | Royal Academy of Arts, London. |
| Royal Society | Royal Society of London. |
| Rozier's Journal | One of several common names for Observations sur la physique, sur l'histoire naturelle et les arts during the period 1770–1791. |
| [R]SA | Archives of the [Royal] Society of Arts. See Society of Arts. |
| Savants étrangers | Mémoires de mathématique et de physique, présentés à l'Académie royale des sciences par divers sçavans, & lûs dans ses assemblées(1750-1786). An irregular publication of the Paris Academy that included mémoires written by non-members. |
| Society of Arts (SEA) |
Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce. |
| V&A | National Design Library, Victoria and Albert Museum. |
| Vincennes | See BMNS. |
| Wedgwood ms. | Wedgwood Museum archives, at the Wedgwood Museum, and Keele University Archives. Unnumbered document subgroups include the Leith Hill Papers, and the Mosley Collection. |
