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Autograph Letter Signed from Colin MacLaurin to Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, 5 February 1743
Item — Box CLX-A-1702
Identifier: Coll-1848/21-0023
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a letter written, in French, by Colin Maclaurin, to Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan, Perpetual Secretary of the French Académie des Sciences. Maclaurin first discusses his major work, the Treatise of Fluxions (1742), a rigorous and systematic defence of Newtonian calculus. Maclaurin acknowledges that foreign readers might be surprised by his methodology but explains that he wished to meet potential scientific and philosophical...
Dates:
5 February 1743
Eglise Ste. Marie, à Jona près Staffa = St. Mary Church, at Jona near Staffa, 1835
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Identifier: Coll-10/8/107
Scope and Contents
Eglise Ste. Marie, à Jona près Staffa = St. Mary Church, at Jona near Staffa. Lithograph. 1835. Dupressoir, François Joseph, 1800-1859, Artist, Lithographer; Lith. Kaeppelin, Publisher; Tilt, Charles, 1797-1861, Publisher.Publisher statement: Paris, Publié par Kaeppelin, rue du Croissant, 20. London, published, by Chs. Tilt, 86, Fleet Street, H. Hooper, 13 Pall mall East.Published in: Alexandre Decamps, Voyage pittoresque dans la Grande-Bretagne, par Dupressoir. Tome Ier....
Dates:
1835
La.III.439: Esther Inglis, "Les Quatrains du Sieur de Pybrac", 1607 (dated)
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Identifier: La.III.439
Scope and Contents
This manuscript contains the popular religious and moral Quatrains written by Guy du Faur, Seigneur de Pybrac. This calligraphic copy of the Quatrains was produced by Esther Inglis as a gift for the New Year ("pour ses estrennes"), offered to Robert Cecil (1563-1612), 1st Earl of Salisbury. It is one of Esther Inglis’ floral, illuminated manuscripts, which she produces between 1600 and 1608. Within her corpus of...
Dates:
1607 (dated)
Les bords de la Tweed. Vue près du Château d'Abbotsford, résidence de Sir Walter Scott, 1825
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Identifier: Coll-10/3/35
Scope and Contents
Les bords de la Tweed. Vue près du Château d'Abbotsford, résidence de Sir Walter Scott. Line engraving. 1825. DeWint, Peter, 1784-1849, Artist; Doney, Thomas, Engraver.
Published in: Pichot, Voyage historique et littéraire en Angleterre et en Écosse (1825), vol. 3.
Dates:
1825
Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from Pablo Casals, 20 November 1934
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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L887
Scope and Contents
Letter, 20 November 1934, Edinburgh, Pablo Casals to Donald Tovey. Holograph signed.
Dates:
20 November 1934
Melrose Cross: The Earl of Murray & Abbot of St. Mary's = Croix de Melrose: Le comte de Murray & l'abbé de Ste. Marie, 1837
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Identifier: Coll-10/3/82
Scope and Contents
Melrose Cross: The Earl of Murray & Abbot of St. Mary's = Croix de Melrose: Le comte de Murray & l'abbé de Ste. Marie. Line engraving. 1837. Melville, Henry, active 1826-1841, Artist; Staines, Robert, 1805-1849, Engraver; Fisher, Son & Co., Publisher.Publisher statement: Fisher, Son & Co., London & Paris.Published in: Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels (1836-38), vol. I.Note: Illustrating Scott...
Dates:
1837
Miscellaneous Papers, Vol. 1, c1741
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Identifier: Coll-205/5/1 (Dc.2.39/1)
Scope and Contents
Scots plants of the Linnaean class Cryptogamea; History of the mines at Wanloch Head; Elevatio Plantarum; Epistola ad Linnaeum; Letter to Sr James Nasmyth; Hortulan experiments; The old Gardens at Bargaly; Note on the Battle of the Bree; Some fruits at Munches in Galloway; Scots insects; the Loch Fyne shark; Two fossils; 8 species of Tremella; 2 species of Clavaria; Description of Agaricus Annulata; and of Lichen Punctatus; agricultural benefits of the Nile's overflow and Vesuvius' eruption;...
Dates:
c1741
Palais de Holyrood = Holyrood Palace, 1835
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Identifier: Coll-10/1/109
Scope and Contents
Palais de Holyrood = Holyrood Palace. Lithograph. 1835. Dupressoir, François Joseph, 1800-1859, Artist, Lithographer; Lith. Kaeppelin, Publisher; Tilt, Charles, 1797-1861, Publisher.Publisher statement: Paris, Publié par Kaeppelin, rue du Croissant, 20. London, published, by Chs. Tilt, 86, Fleet Street.Published in: Alexandre Decamps, Voyage pittoresque dans la Grande-Bretagne, par Dupressoir. Tome Ier. Écosse (1835).Note: At top of sheet: 'Sherif d'Edimbourg. Pl...
Dates:
1835
Papers in geography, science, and letters, 1743-1783
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Identifier: Coll-205/2/3 (Dc.1.59)
Scope and Contents
Extracts: some classes of herbs; Fundamenta Agroslographia (1781); Shell marle (1783); Plants growing on Inch Colm; Observable stars, with map of certain constellations (on reverse of disused accounts work); alchemy (for one Mr Mackenzie); balloon trips in France; Fortification (with drawing), from Gentleman's Magazine, 1743; Forsler's round-the-world trip, transcribed ca. 1780; Phlogisticated air, by Mr Scheele, transcribed 1782; What became of various academics by 1784; The downfall of...
Dates:
1743-1783
Physical Astronomy, c1780-c1803
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Identifier: Coll-204/34
Scope and Contents
Volume contains manuscript notes on physical astronomy, which is to say, the governing laws of planetary motion, with numerous diagrams and tables.
Dates:
c1780-c1803