University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Showing Records: 1 - 10 of 198

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject

Physics 23

Astronomy 14

Optics 10

Edinburgh -- Scotland 9

Curves 7

∨ more

Bibliography 6

Geometry 6

Oxford Oxfordshire England 6

Gravity 5

Amsterdam (Netherlands) 4

Curves, Rectification and Quadrature 4

Horology 4

Netherlands 4

Algebra 3

Catenary 3

Medicine 3

Sphere 3

Statistics 3

Anatomy 2

Architectural Drawing 2

Architecture, Designs and Plans 2

Astrophysics 2

Authors and Publishers 2

Campus Planning 2

Chemistry 2

College Buildings 2

Comets 2

Compilation manuscripts 2

Economics 2

Geology 2

Intelligence 2

Mechanics 2

Oscillations 2

Planets 2

Professional Criticism 2

Psychology 2

Refraction 2

Abnormalities, Human 1

Administration 1

Aging 1

Agriculture 1

Amortization 1

Animal Genetics 1

Applications for Positions 1

Appointment to Office 1

Art, South Asian 1

Biology 1

Blood, Circulation 1

Calabria (Italy) 1

Calculus 1

Calculus Integral 1

Campus Parking 1

Canada 1

Cape Breton Island (Nova Scotia, Canada) 1

Catapult 1

Centrifugal Force 1

Centripetal Force 1

Child psychology 1

China 1

Church of Scotland, Establishment and disestablishment 1

Circle 1

Classical Literature 1

Coal Mines and Mining 1

College Departments 1

Copper Mines and Mining 1

Discoveries in Science 1

Dynamics 1

Eclipses 1

Education 1

Education research 1

Electric Substations 1

Ellipse 1

Engineering 1

England 1

Epigenetics 1

Eruptions 1

Eugenics 1

Europe 1

Faults (Geology) 1

Fife Scotland 1

Flanders 1

Flood, Biblical 1

Fossils 1

Geological Surveys 1

Geology, Research 1

Geology, Stratigraphic Devonian 1

Germany 1

Glasgow Lanarkshire Scotland 1

Granite 1

Greenhouses 1

Hamburg (Germany) 1

Heredity 1

Illuminated manuscripts 1

Instruction and Study 1

Intelligence tests 1

Italy 1

Job Vacancies 1

Knowledge and Learning 1

Laboratories 1

+ ∧ less

 

Language

English 13

English 6

Arabic 6

Persian 2

French 1

∨ more

German 1

Russian 1

Sanskrit 1

+ ∧ less

 

Names

Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford) 145

Newton, Sir Isaac, 1642-1727 (mathematician and astronomer) 23

Tchirnhausen, Ehrenfried Walther Von, 1631 ? 1708 (German mathematician) 15

Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 12

Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695 (Dutch mathematician) 12

∨ more

Pitcairne, Archibald, 1652-1713 (Scottish physician, amateur mathematician and poet) 11

Hudde, Jan, 1628-1704 (Dutch mathematician) 10

Sluse, 1622-1685 (Belgian mathematician) 10

Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677 (mathematician, classicist, and divine) 9

Craig, John, d. 1731 (Mathematician and prebendary of Salisbury) 9

Duillier, Fatio de, 1664-1753 (Swiss mathematician) 9

Wallis, John, 1616-1703 (professor of geometry, University of Oxford) 9

Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650 (French mathematician) 8

Schooten, Frans van, 1615-1660 (Dutch mathematician) 8

Baillie, Anne, 1809-1847 (Former owner of manuscripts) 7

Baillie, John Baillie, of Leys, 1835-1890 (donor of the Oriental Manuscripts Collection) 7

Baillie, John, of Leys, 1772-1833 (Member of Parliament, and East India Company Official) 7

University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 7

Appleton, Sir Edward Victor, 1892-1965 (physicist and principal of the University of Edinburgh) 6

Collins, John, 1625-1683 (mathematician) 6

Flamsteed, John (first Astronomer Royal) 5

Halley, Sir Edmund, 1656-1742 (astronomer) 5

Barrow, George, 1853-1932 (geologist) 4

Euclid of Alexandria, 325-265 BC (Egyptian mathematician) 4

Mercator, Nicholas, ?1620-1687 (called Kauffmann) 4

Thomson, Godfrey Hilton, Sir, 1881-1955 (psychologist and Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh) 4

Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647 (Italian mathematician) 4

Bernoulli, Jean, 1667-1748 (Swiss mathematician) 3

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 (natural philosopher and chemist) 3

Cassini, Jean Dominique, 1625-1712 (Italian astronomer) 3

Diophantus of Alexandria, c200-c284 (Greek mathematician) 3

Fenton, James, fl1689 (Scottish mathematician) 3

Gregorie, David, 1625-1720 (or David of Kinnairdie: father of David Gregory the mathematician) 3

Gregory, James, 1666-1742 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, brother of David Gregory) 3

Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630 (German mathematician and astronomer) 3

Ptolemy, Claudius, c85 -165 (Egyptian astronomer) 3

Serenus, d c360 (Greek mathematician) 3

Snell, Willebrord, 1591-1626 (called Snellius) 3

Whiston, William, 1667-1752 (divine and natural philosopher) 3

Young, John, fl1683 (Mathematics chair in Edinburgh University) 3

Baker, Thomas, 1625?-1689 (ecclesiastic and amateur mathematician) 2

Campbell, Colin, 1644-1726 (theologian and minister of Ardchattan, Argyllshire; correspondent with Newton) 2

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 (Polish astronomer) 2

De Witt, Jan, 1625-1672 (Dutch statesman and mathematician) 2

Hooke, Robert, (1635-1703) (Experimental physicist and professor of geometry, University of Oxford) 2

Hôpital, Guillaume De l', 1661-1704 (French mathematician) 2

Ibn al-Haytham, Alhazen, 965-1039 (Arab mathematician and physicist) 2

Josephus, Flavius, 37-100? (Jewish historian in the house of Vespasian) 2

Keill, John, 1671-1721 (mathematician and astronomer) 2

LHopital, Guillaume, 1661-1704 (French mathematician) 2

Leibniz, Gottfried Willhelm, 1646-1716 (German mathematician and philosopher) 2

Mackworth, Sir Humphry, 1657-1727 (politician and mining capitalist) 2

Mercator, Gerardus, 1512-1594 (mathematician and cartographer) 2

Pythagoras of Samos, c569 BC-c475 BC (Greek mathematician) 2

Robison, John, 1739-1805 (professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 2

Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 2

Viviani, Vincenzo, 1622-1703 (Florentine mathematician) 2

Volder, Burchard De, 1643-1709 (Dutch mathematician) 2

Aldrich, Henry, fl1995 (Dean of Christ Church, Oxford) 1

American Institute of Mining Engineers (1871-:) 1

Ames, Mary L, fl1904 (daughter of J Peter Lesley and cousin of Benjamin Smith Lyman) 1

Ami, Henry Marc, 1858-1931 (Canadian scientist) 1

Anderson, Adam, 1797-1853 (Scottish judge and Senator of the College of Justice) 1

Anderson, James, 1758-1833 (Persian Interpretor, East India Company) 1

Anderson, Robert, fl1668-1696 (mathematician and silk-weaver) 1

Apollonius of Perga, 262-190 BC (Greek mathematician) 1

Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735 (Scottish physician and satirist) 1

Archimedes, of Syracuse, 287-212 BC (Sicillian mathematician) 1

Bascom, Florence, 1862-1945 (American geologist) 1

Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706 (French Philosopher) 1

Becker, George Ferdinand, 1847-1919 (American geologist) 1

Bell, Robert, 1841-1917 (Director of the Geological Survey of Canada) 1

Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742 (clergyman, scholar and critic) 1

Bernard, Edward, 1638-1696 (professor of astronomy, University of Oxford) 1

Bernoulli, James, 1654-1705 (Swiss mathematician) 1

Brook, Nathanael, fl1673 (English bookseller) 1

Brown, James, fl1785 (Glasgow distiller) 1

Busby, Richard, 1606-1695 (headmaster of Westminster School, London) 1

Carus, Titus Lucretius, c98 BC-55 BC (poet and philosopher) 1

Cheyne, George, 1671-1743 (Scottish physician and amateur mathematician) 1

Chrystal, George, 1851-1911 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 1

Clark, William Bullock, 1860-1917 (American geologist) 1

Clarke, John Mason, 1857-1925 (American geologist) 1

Collins, John, 1625-1683, mathematician 1

Craig (or Craige), John, d. 1731 (Mathematician and prebendary of Salisbury) 1

Dary, Michael, fl1669 (Mathematician) 1

Davis, William Morris, 1850-1934 (American geographer and geologist) 1

Demosthenes, 383-322 BC (Greek orator) 1

Edinburgh Provincial Training Centre (1907-1959) 1

Edward the Confessor, King of England, 1003-1066 1

Falconer, John, fl1690 (science graduate from the University of Edinburgh, student of David Gregory) 1

Fermat, Pierre de, 17 August 1601-12 January 1665 (mathematician) 1

Galleys, Abbe, fl1707 (French mathematician) 1

Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 1

Geological Society of London (1807-:) 1

Geological Survey of Canada (1842-:) 1

Gilbert, Grove Karl, 1843-1918 (American geologist) 1

Gray, fl1692 (London book collector) 1

Gronovius, Johannes Fredericus, 1611-1671 (German-Dutch classical scholar and critic) 1

Hague, Arnold, 1840-1917 (American geologist) 1

+ ∧ less