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Earth

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence:Henry Hyatt Howell to Arthur Roope Hunt, 1884-1909

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/5
Scope and Contents The Correspondence: Henry Hyatt Howell to Arthur Roope Hunt sub-series consists of:
  1. 22 letters, alphabetically arranged (1884-1909)
Dates: 1884-1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Coll-74, Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (H-S)

Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll, 1 March 1865

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/1 folio(s) 580-581
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll regarding the velocity of light and the effects that has on the temperature of the earth during the glacial period. He mentions the theories of Foucault, Le Verrier and Legrange, 1 March 1865.
Dates: 1 March 1865
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Coll-203, Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence / Correspondence of Sir Charles Lyell, Ca-De

Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll, 17 February 1866

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/1 folio(s) 606-607
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll concerning calculations of Charles Moore's which Lyell had sent to him and discussing his own calculations which show how much the centre of gravity of the Earth would have been displaced by the weight of ice-caps, 17 February 1866.
Dates: 17 February 1866
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Coll-203, Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence / Correspondence of Sir Charles Lyell, Ca-De

Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll, 24 April 1866

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/1 folio(s) 613-614
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll concerning the temperature of space in relation to the position of the earth and the sun and discussing different methods of calculating the rate at which the temperature decreases and increases depending on the amount of heat that is received from the sun, 24 April 1866.
Dates: 24 April 1866
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Coll-203, Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence / Correspondence of Sir Charles Lyell, Ca-De

Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll, 23 April 1866

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/1 folio(s) 615-618
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll concerning the temperature of the earth in both winter and summer and how this temperature is affected by the position of the earth in relation to the sun and snow and ice throughout the world, 23 April 1866.
Dates: 23 April 1866
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Coll-203, Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence / Correspondence of Sir Charles Lyell, Ca-De

Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-203
Scope and Contents
  1. 10 boxes of correspondence
  2. 2 boxes of miscellaneous papers and lecture notes
  3. 24 boxes of offprints of papers
  4. 294 notebooks
Dates: 1820-1874
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

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