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

Note entitled "Extracts from Dr. Guthry's letter", c January 1783

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/87-88

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Note entitled "Extracts from Dr. Guthry's letter", undated. The note is written in Joseph Black's hand and it relates to the letter from Archibald Guthrie to Joseph Black, dated 23 January 1783 (Coll-16/II/83-86F).

Dates: c January 1783

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

Note from Alexander Monro to Joseph Black and extracts of Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell's letters, 04 June 1782

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/122-123

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Note from Alexander Monro asking Joseph Black to correct a manuscript (with extracts of Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell's letters about chemicals by Black).

Dates: 04 June 1782

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

Note from the Royal Medical Society and extracts of Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell's letters, 04 July 1782

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/124-126

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Extracts of Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell's letters about chemicals by Joseph Black written on a letter from the Royal Medical Society regarding their library.

Dates: 04 July 1782

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

Notes by Joseph Black on bleaching, 1782

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/127

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Notes by Joseph Black on bleaching methods as proposed by Ebeneezer Macculloh.

Dates: 1782

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

Notes by Joseph Black on limestone from Airdrie , c 1785

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Identifier: Coll-16/III/5v-8

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Notes by Joseph Black on limestone from Airdrie, etc, undated. f. 6 is written on verso of a note from Professor James Gregory and ff. 7-8 are on verso of a letter from the Custom House, Edinburgh to Joseph Black, dated 27 September 1785. The letter is about vegetable alkali and is signed by Adam Smith and others.

Dates: c 1785

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

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

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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

Notes of Dr. Joseph Black's Philosophical Lectures on Chemistry

Fonds — CLX-A-351: Series Coll-1835/21

Identifier: Coll-1847

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Three volumes of notes on Dr. Joseph Black's lectures on chemistry. The full title is: 'Notes of Dr. Black's Philosophical Lectures on Chemistry, Corrected and enlarged by the joint labor of George Buchan Hepburn and Alexander Law, advocates'. Manuscript, in a neat and legible hand, of notes of Black's course of 57 lectures on chemistry delivered from 13th June to 22nd December 1775.

Dates: 1775

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes on Dublin Society premiums, 04 June 1782

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/121

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Notes by Joseph Black about premiums on kelp being offered by the Dublin Society.

Dates: 04 June 1782

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

On Thos. Cochrane's MS notes on Black's Chemical Lectures, 1936

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Identifier: Coll-16/XIV

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Science historian Douglas McKie contributed an article on Joseph Black to the journal, Annals of Science, ( 15 January 1936) .

6 individual reprints of the article and 1 complete copy of the issue of Annals of Science (1936).

Dates: 1936

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

University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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Note entitled "Extracts from Dr. Guthry's letter", c January 1783

Note from Alexander Monro to Joseph Black and extracts of Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell's letters, 04 June 1782

Note from the Royal Medical Society and extracts of Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell's letters, 04 July 1782

Notes by Joseph Black on bleaching, 1782

Notes by Joseph Black on limestone from Airdrie , c 1785

Notes from Lectures by Joseph Black

Notes from lectures by Thomas Charles Hope and Joseph Black

Notes of Dr. Joseph Black's Philosophical Lectures on Chemistry

Notes on Dublin Society premiums, 04 June 1782

On Thos. Cochrane's MS notes on Black's Chemical Lectures, 1936

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