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Notes from Lectures by Joseph Black

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1852

Scope and Contents

Set of three volumes containing lectures given by Joseph Black, beginning 30 Oct 1782. In volume one, the lectures are numbered 1 through to 29, in volume two from 30 to 75, and in volume three from 76 to 118. The volumes are paginated, and bound between pages of the first one is a fold-out drawing, dated 1784, of a thermometer, marked with properties/states of various substances at specific temperatures.

The author of the volumes is unknown but was almost certainly one of Black's students.

Dates

  • Creation: 1782 - c 1787

Language of Materials

English

Conditions Governing Access

Open. Please contact the repository in advance.

Full Extent

3 Volumes

Custodial History

Formerly in the posession of the Belfast Medical Library, thereafter presented to the Chemistry Library of the University of Edinburgh (details given in letter pasted inside from William L. Storey, Secretary of the Ulster Medical Society, to James Walker, Professer of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, 20 October 1914.

Previous references

Dc.2.41; Dc.2.42; Dc.2.43.

Title
Notes from Lectures by Joseph Black, 1782 - c 1787
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository

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