Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh)
Dates
- Existence: 1728 - 1799
Found in 442 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from J Greville to Joseph Black, 24 April 1785
Letter from J Greville to Joseph Black, dated 24 April 1785. The letter is about Greville sending a printed catalogue of his mineralogical collection and also some specimens.
Letter from J Stewart to Joseph Black, 25 January 1785
Letter from J Stewart, Southampton to Joseph Black, dated 24 January 1785.
Letter from James Black, brother of Joseph Black to Joseph Black, 24 April 1799
Letter from James Black, brother of Joseph Black, London to Joseph Black, dated 24 April 1799. The letter is about James' qualifications to manage a counting house and his experience in the manufacture of white lead.
Letter from James Byres to Joseph Black, 26 September 1785
Letter from James Byres, Rome to Joseph Black, dated 26 September 1785. The letter is about introducing Mr Waters. Byres mentions Mr Home and Sir James Hall and also asks to be remembered to Mr Smith, Doctor Hutton, Mr Russel, Mr MacGowan, etc.
Letter from James Ferguson to Joseph Black, 24 September 1763
Letter from James Ferguson, Belfast, to Joseph Black regarding the use of lime in bleaching, with part of draft reply by Black.
Letter from James Ferguson to Joseph Black, 11 September 1764
Letter from James Ferguson, Belfast, to Joseph Black about the bleaching process.
Letter from James Flint to Joseph Black, 3 December 1782
Letter from James Flint, St Andrews to Joseph Black, dated 3 December 1782. The letter relates to sending a specimen of a drug containing poison. Black's note states that the poison was corrosive sublimate (mercury (II) chloride).
Letter from James Gerard to Joseph Black, 15 January 1784
Letter from James Gerard, Liverpool to Joseph Black, dated 15 January 1784. The letter is about the manufacture of alkali, etc. Gerard was a surgeon.
Letter from James Gordon to Joseph Black, 22 December 1785
Letter from James Gordon, Edinburgh to Joseph Black, dated 22 December 1785. The letter is about the Edinburgh water supply. The item includes a note by Joseph Black about alkalis, headed "Mr. Gordon's letter".
Letter from James Johnston to Joseph Black, 8 May 1784
Letter from James Johnston to Joseph Black, dated 8 May 1784. In the letter Johnston explains that he is unable to attend the funeral of one of Black's nephews owing to ill health.
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- Chemistry 11
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- Water 5
- Belfast (Northern Ireland) 4
- Chemicals 4
- Clay 4
- Family 4
- Gold 4
- Linen 4
- Ores 4
- Professional Interaction 4
- Smelting Furnaces 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
- University of Edinburgh -- 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
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- Electricity 1
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- Evaporation 1
- Experiments 1
- Family papers 1
- Family records | 1
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- Hydrodynamics 1
- Ice 1
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