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Corpuscular Forces, c1780-c1803
Volume contains manuscript notes on the notion that physical interaction between bodies is not a matter of Newtonian forces, governed by Keplerian laws, but of the cumulative effect of collisions and other interactions among particles.
Group photograph a student actors for the play 'Plutus' organised by EUCS (Edinburgh University Classics Society), 1910
Black-and-white Group photograph mounted on board representing a group of E.U.C.S (Edinburgh University Classics Society) students wearing togas, for the performance of the theatre play Plutus. Their names and roles are given under the photograph. Alexander Falconer Giles is sitting at the bottom right wearing normal clothes, as the stage manager. Photography studio: 'A. Swan Watson, Edinburgh'.
Introductions, c1779-c1801
Volume consists of drafts of numerous introductions for various kinds of lectures in 'natural philosophy', the first dated October 26, 1779, and possibly bearing the name of David Hume.
Introductions, c1804
Volume consists of drafts of numerous introductions for various kinds of lectures in 'natural philosophy'. They discuss the use of terms like 'causation' and 'laws', concerned less with scientific facts than with how to study science itself.
Physical Astronomy, c1804
Volume consists of lecture notes in astronomy.
Prospectus Civitatis Edinburgenae a praedio Dean dicto = The Prospect of Edinbrugh from ye Dean, 1693
Prospectus Civitatis Edinburgenae a praedio Dean dicto = The Prospect of Edinbrugh from ye Dean. Line engraving. 1693. Slezer, John, -1714, Artist; Bakewell, Thomas, -1749, Publisher.
Publisher statement: Printed and Sold by Thos. Bakenwell in Cornhill.
Published in: Theatrum Scotiae (1693).
Note: Added dedication as in 1718 edition; publisher's statement by Bakewell; number '2' to lower right. This state not recorded in Cavers (1993).