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

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1728 - 1799

Found in 442 Collections and/or Records:

Letter from Doctor John Grieve Joseph Black, 6 October 1784

 Item
Identifier: Coll-16/II/195-196
Scope and Contents

Letter from Doctor John Grieve, Hertford to Joseph Black, dated 8 October 1784. The letter is about Lavoisier, Argaund, Bienvenu's flying machine, etc.

Dates: 6 October 1784

Letter from Doctor John Grieve to Joseph Black , 11 May 1784

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/171-173
Scope and Contents

Letter from Doctor John Grieve, Paris to Joseph Black, dated 11 May 1784. The letter is about balloons, Lavoisier, Meumer, Carra, Mesmer, etc.

Dates: 11 May 1784

Letter from Doctor John Morgan to Joseph Black, 15 May 1784

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/169-170
Scope and Contents

Letter from Doctor John Morgan, Philadelphia to Joseph Black, dated 15 May 1784. The letter is about introducing John Rodgers, a prospective student of chemistry.

Dates: 15 May 1784

Letter from Doctor John Shore to Joseph Black, 2 June 1784

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Identifier: Coll-16/IV/9-10
Scope and Contents

Letter from Doctor John Shore, Petersburg, Virginia to Joseph Black, dated 2 June 1784. The letter is about introducing Doctor Gibbons of Philadelphia, medical student and contains an account of plantain eaten by a frog as an antidote to spider venom.

Dates: 2 June 1784

Letter from Doctor John Suë to Joseph Black, 8 May 1785

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Identifier: Coll-16/IV/15-16
Scope and Contents

Letter from Doctor John Suë, Paris to Joseph Black, dated 8 May 1785. The letter is about Suë thanking Black for his kindness at Edinburgh and hoping he will come to Paris.

Dates: 8 May 1785

Letter from Doctor L Crell to Joseph Black , 20 March 1785

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/264-265
Scope and Contents

Letter from Doctor L Crell, Helmstadt to Joseph Black, dated 20 March 1785. The letter is about recommending Mr Sievers and an elastic stone, etc.

Dates: 20 March 1785

Letter from Doctor L Crell to Joseph Black, 25 September 1784

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/189-190
Scope and Contents

Letter from Doctor L Crell, Helmstadt, to Joseph Black, dated 25 September 1784. The letter is about chemical news.

Dates: 25 September 1784

Letter from Doctor L Crell to Joseph Black , April 1782

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/48-49
Scope and Contents

Letter from Doctor L Crell to Joesph Black, dated April 1782. The letter is about Crell wishing to become a fellow of the Philosophical Society and sending chemical news from Germany.

Dates: April 1782

Letter from Doctor L Crell to Joseph Black , 5 August 1782

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/50-51
Scope and Contents

Letter from Doctor L Crell, Helmstadt, Germany to Joseph Black, dated 5 August 1782. The letter is about Black's fame in Germany, chemical experiments, etc. and responding to news that Black is learning German.

Dates: 5 August 1782

Letter from Doctor L Crell to Joseph Black, 24 October 1782

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/60-61
Scope and Contents

Letter from Doctor L Crell, Relmstadt to Joseph Black, dated 24 October 1782. The letter is about chemical news and experiments.

Dates: 24 October 1782

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Chemistry 11
Bleaching 8
Polypodiaceae, Classification of 7
Social Interaction 7
Medicine 6
Assaying 5
Mineralogical Specimens 5
Snow 5
University of Edinburgh Library -- Legacy shelfmark sequence: Da-Dp 5
Water 5
Belfast (Northern Ireland) 4
Chemicals 4
Clay 4
Family 4
Gold 4
Linen 4
Ores 4
Professional Interaction 4
Smelting Furnaces 4
University of Edinburgh -- Student lecture notes 4
Accounts 3
Agriculture 3
Biography 3
Edinburgh -- Scotland 3
Lime 3
Mineral Waters 3
Minerals 3
Sand 3
Soils 3
Student lecture notes 3
Water-supply 3
Chemistry Experiments 2
Cobalt 2
Executors and Administrators 2
Fossils 2
Heat 2
Leadhills (Scotland) 2
Lectures and Lecturing 2
Mineralogy 2
Newcastle Upon Tyne (England) 2
Peterhead (Scotland) 2
Phlogiston 2
Rain and Rainfall 2
Scholarly Publishing 2
Scientific Apparatus and Instruments 2
Aberdeenshire (Scotland) 1
Anatomy 1
Animal Genetics 1
Astronomy 1
Books 1
Calorimeters 1
Calorimetry 1
Canals 1
Carbon Dioxide 1
Careers 1
Chronometers 1
Clouds 1
Corals 1
Crinan Argyllshire Scotland 1
Degrees, Academic 1
Dynamics 1
Electricity 1
Epitaphs 1
Evaporation 1
Experiments 1
Family papers 1
Family records | 1
Flint 1
Fluids 1
Freemasons 1
Gibraltar 1
Glasgow Lanarkshire Scotland 1
Gums and Resins 1
Horses 1
Hydraulics 1
Hydrodynamics 1
Ice 1
Illustrations 1
Inventions 1
Ireland 1
Kaolin 1
Laboratories 1
Lead 1
Legacies 1
Libraries 1
London (England) 1
Machinery 1
Magnetism 1
Manuscripts 1
Mechanics 1
Mechanism (Philosophy) 1
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Natural History 1
Nickel 1
Optics 1
Photographs - scientific 1
Physics 1
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