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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 James Thenley to Joseph Black, 24 October 1763

 Item
Identifier: Coll-16/I/15-16
Scope and Contents

Letter from James Thenley, Belfast, to Joseph Black about bleaching, with draft reply by Black.

Dates: 24 October 1763

Letter from James Watt to Joseph Black, 8 June 1788

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Identifier: Coll-16/III/78-79
Scope and Contents

Letter from James Watt, Birmingham to Joseph Black, dated 8 June 1788. The letter is about two plated tea urns that Watt has sent, one for Black and the other for Hutton. In the letter, Watt also describes a device for measuring specific gravity and mentions Doctor Priestley.

Dates: 8 June 1788

Letter from James Watt to Joseph Black, 15 December 1772

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/47-48
Scope and Contents

Letter from James Watt to Joseph Black about his canal plans at Tarbert and Crinnan.

Dates: 15 December 1772

Letter from JF Hermann to Joseph Black, 11 May 1779

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/89-90
Scope and Contents

Letter from JF Hermann to Joseph Black about minerals.

Dates: 11 May 1779

Letter from JF Hermann to Joseph Black, 14 May 1779

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/91-92
Scope and Contents

Letter from JF Hermann to Joseph Black about minerals (with notes by Black).

Dates: 14 May 1779

Letter from JF Hermann to Joseph Black, 24 April 1780

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/97-98
Scope and Contents

Letter from JF Hermann to Joseph Black about mineralogy.

Dates: 24 April 1780

Letter from Johann Albrecht Euler to Joseph Black, 24 February 1783

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/104-105
Scope and Contents

Letter from Johann Albrecht Euler, St Petersburg to Joseph Black, dated 24 February 1783. The letter is about the Imperial Academy of Science.

Dates: 24 February 1783

Letter from John Graham to Joseph Black, c1773

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/76-77
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Letter from John Graham to Joseph Black regarding mineralogical specimens from the Borders.

Dates: c1773

Letter from John Grieve to Joseph Black , 29 May 1783

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/123-124
Scope and Contents

Letter from John Grieve, Riga to Joseph Black, dated 29 May 1783. The letter relates to Grieve sending Black a diploma from Princess Dashkova.

Dates: 29 May 1783

Letter from John Grieve to Joseph Black, 8 May 1785

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Identifier: Coll-16/IV/17-18
Scope and Contents

Letter from John Grieve, London to Joseph Black, dated 8 May 1785. The letter is about Grieve's paper on Koumiss for the transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and his offering to get specimens of Siberian ores.

Dates: 8 May 1785

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Subject
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
Meteorology 1
Natural History 1
Nickel 1
Optics 1
Photographs - scientific 1
Physics 1
Physiology 1
Pigments 1
Pneumatics 1