Dates

• Existence: 1728 - 1799

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

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A Law: notes from lectures on Chemistry by Joseph Black

 Fonds — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Coll-1374

Scope and Contents

The lectures on chemistry by Joseph Black consist of:

1. 3 volumes of lecture notes (1775)

Dates: 1775

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

James Johnson: notes from lectures on chemistry by Joseph Black

 Fonds — Volume Dc.10.1

Identifier: Coll-1375

Scope and Contents

The lectures on chemistry by Joseph Black consist of:

1. 1 volume of lecture notes (1770-1775)

Dates: 1770-1775

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Lecture Notes of John Robison

 Fonds

Identifier: Coll-204

Scope and Contents

Lecture notes from the time when Robison was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. The notes embrace the sciences of mechanics, hydrodynamics, astronomy and optics, together with electricity and magnetism.

It is assumed that these are Robison's own notes but this has not been verified.

Dates: c1779-c1801

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from AJ Alexander to Joseph Black, 26 July 1773

 Item

Identifier: Coll-16/I/64-69

Scope and Contents

Letter from AJ Alexander to Joseph Black regarding medical matters, lime from coral, chemical experiments etc.

Dates: 26 July 1773

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black I

Letter from AJ Alexander to Joseph Black, c1773

 Item

Identifier: Coll-16/I/70-75

Scope and Contents

Letter from AJ Alexander to Joseph Black thanking Black for sending books and regarding chemical experiments etc.

Dates: c1773

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black I

Letter from Lord Kames to Joseph Black, 17 April 1775

 Item

Identifier: Coll-16/I/79-80

Scope and Contents

Letter from Lord Kames to Joseph Black about chemistry and agriculture (with some notes by Black).

Dates: 17 April 1775

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black I

Letter from Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell to Joseph Black, 22 January 1779

 Item

Identifier: Coll-16/I/87-88

Scope and Contents

Letter from Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell, a former student of Joseph Black, sending information about his work in chemistry.

Dates: 22 January 1779

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black I

Letter from Martin Wall to Joseph Black, 15 November 1780

 Item

Identifier: Coll-16/I/103-104

Scope and Contents

Letter from Martin Wall to Joseph Black about a chemistry course at the University of Oxford and Black's chemical furnace.

Dates: 15 November 1780

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black I

Notes from Lectures by Joseph Black

 Fonds — Volume Dc.2.41

Identifier: Coll-1852

Scope and Contents Single volume, though one that has been part of a larger set, containing lectures given by Joseph Black, beginning 30 Oct 1782. The lectures are numbered 1 through to 59, with and indication that they were continued in a further volume (not present). The volume is paginated and bound between pages is a fold-out drawing, dated 1784, of a thermometer, marked with properties/states of various substances at specific temperatures.The author of the volume is unknown but was almost...

Dates: 1782-c1784

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes from lectures by Thomas Charles Hope and Joseph Black

 Sub-Series

Identifier: Coll-1369

Scope and Contents

1 volume of lecture notes (1796-1797) taken down at lectures given by both TC Hope and Joseph Black

Dates: 1796-1797

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Subject

Chemistry 10

Polypodiaceae, Classification of 4

Chemistry Experiments 2

Edinburgh -- Scotland 2

Lectures and Lecturing 2

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Medicine 2

Student lecture notes 2

University of Edinburgh -- student lecture notes 2

Agriculture 1

Anatomy 1

Astronomy 1

Calorimeters 1

Calorimetry 1

Carbon Dioxide 1

Chronometers 1

Corals 1

Dynamics 1

Electricity 1

Fluids 1

Freemasons 1

Glasgow Lanarkshire Scotland 1

Hydraulics 1

Hydrodynamics 1

Lime 1

Magnetism 1

Mechanics 1

Mechanism (Philosophy) 1

Natural History 1

Optics 1

Physics 1

Physiology 1

Pneumatics 1

Russia 1

Scientific Apparatus and Instruments 1

Stirlingshire Scotland 1

Telescopes 1

Temperature Measurements 1

Thermodynamics 1

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