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Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art Syllabus of Lectures, 1867-1868
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Identifier: Coll-74/8/1
Scope and Contents
Syllabus for a series of lectures given by 5 scientists at the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art during 1867-1868. They were: Sir Lyon Playfair (Chemistry), George James Allman (Natural History), Sir Archibald Geikie (Geology), Edward Sang (Natural Philosophy), and John Hutton Balfour (Botany).
Dates:
1867-1868
Introductions, c1804
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Identifier: Coll-204/2
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
c1804
Rotation, Philosphy, c1780-c1803
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Identifier: Coll-204/12
Scope and Contents
Volume contains lecture notes, with only one or two diagrams, of the physics of rotating bodies, and of the nature of physics itself.
Dates:
c1780-c1803