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Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1728 - 1799

Found in 441 Collections and/or Records:

Letter from Thomas Charles Hope to Joseph Black, 14 July 1789

 Item
Identifier: Coll-16/III/153-154
Scope and Contents

Letter from Thomas Charles Hope, Glasgow to Joseph Black, dated 14 July 1789. The letter is about a copy of Lavoisier's Traite elementaire which Hope has just received through Lord Daer.

Dates: 14 July 1789

Letter from Thomas Hooper to Joseph Black, 17 October 1792

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Identifier: Coll-16/III/249-250
Scope and Contents

Letter from Thomas Hooper, Monmouthshire to Joseph Black, dated 17 October 1792. The letter is about Hooper recommending a student, Mr Hanbury, son of an iron manufacturer.

Dates: 17 October 1792

Letter from Thomas Hutchins to Joseph Black , 4 March 1784

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/163-164
Scope and Contents

Letter from Thomas Hutchins, Hudson's Bay House, London, to Joseph Black, dated 4 March 1784. The letter is about Hutchins thanking Black for his support in his election as a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, etc.

Dates: 4 March 1784

Letter from Thomas Hutchins to Joseph Black, 5 March 1784

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/165-166
Scope and Contents

Letter from Thomas Hutchins to Joseph Black, dated 5 March 1784. The letter is about McGowan etc. and it mentions Sir Joseph Banks and Doctor Blagden.

Dates: 5 March 1784

Letter from Thomas Hutchins to Joseph Black, 10 April 1784

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/167-168
Scope and Contents

Letter from Thomas Hutchins to Joseph Black, dated 10 April 1784. The letter is about Hutchins' paper to the Royal Society which included a letter of Black. Hutchins calls Edinburgh "the Lyceum of Brittain".

Dates: 10 April 1784

Letter from Thomas Reid to Joseph Black, 17 January 1773

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/49-50
Scope and Contents

Letter from Thomas Reid to Joseph Black about mineral wells in Aberdeenshire.

Dates: 17 January 1773

Letter from Thomas Willis to Joseph Black , 30 January 1790

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Identifier: Coll-16/III/178-179
Scope and Contents

Letter from Thomas Willis, London to Joseph Black, dated 30 January 1790. The letter is about experiments on platina by Doctor John Ingenhousz.

Dates: 30 January 1790

Letter from Thomas Willis to Joseph Black , 1 February 1790

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Identifier: Coll-16/III/180-181
Scope and Contents

Letter from Thomas Willis to Joseph Black, dated 1 February 1790. The letter is about drugs.

Dates: 1 February 1790

Letter from Valentine Girard to Joseph Black, 7 September 1787

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Identifier: Coll-16/III/40-41
Scope and Contents

Letter from Valentine Girard, Paris to Joseph Black, dated 7 September 1787. The letter is about lodgings in Paris for a student (possibly Black's nephew), and l'ablee Guijot, who is looking for manuscripts of David Hume's History with a view to translation. Contains note [on the manuscript] by Black.

Dates: 7 September 1787

Letter from W Hamilton to Joseph Black, 7 December 1791

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Identifier: Coll-16/III/224-225
Scope and Contents

Letter from W Hamilton, London to Joseph Black, dated 7 December 1791. The letter is about Hamilton's translation of Berthollet's treatise on dying.

Dates: 7 December 1791

Additional filters:

Type
Archival Object 433
Collection 7
Digital Record 1
 
Subject
Chemistry 10
Bleaching 8
Polypodiaceae, Classification of 7
Social Interaction 7
Medicine 6