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Astronomy

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

Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:

Jac: Gregorii Oratio &c in Comitiis publ: Acad Andreanae 1690, 1690

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [194]
Scope and Contents

Oration, or part of one, on Cartesian, Ptolemaic, and Tychonian cosmology. The James in this case must refer to David's brother.

Dates: 1690

Jo: Casswelli Observatio..., 1697

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Identifier: GB 0237 David Gregory Dc.1.75 Folio B [14(1)]
Scope and Contents

A diagram of Mercury's passage near the sun on 23 October 1697, desribed by Dr Wallis and one Jo: Caswell.

Dates: 1697

Kalendar and astronomical tables, 1482

 Item
Identifier: MS 126
Scope and Contents

This volume contains calendars and astronomical tables. It is written in fair script by more than one hand. There are many diagrams and one pen drawing (16th century). The whole is heavily rubricated.


This manuscript is now part of the Western Medieval Manuscripts Collection. A detailed description is available HERE.

Dates: 1482

Lecture Notes of John Robison

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-204
Scope and Contents

Lecture notes from the time when Robison was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. The notes embrace the sciences of mechanics, hydrodynamics, astronomy and optics, together with electricity and magnetism.

It is assumed that these are Robison's own notes but this has not been verified.

Dates: c1779-c1801

Lectures by David Gregory

 Fonds — Volume Dc.6.12
Identifier: Coll-1608
Scope and Contents Volume consists of teaching material originally produced by David Gregory, here transcribed with numerous drawings by Francis Pringle in Oxford in 1694-1695 and George Wood in St Andrews 1705. The volume's index is in Gregory's hand. The lectures, all by Gregory, are the Institutiones Astronomiae, the Oxford address on professional education he called De Ratione Studii Mathematici Consilium, the Lectiones Opticae, Trigonometria Planorum Angulorum, Geometria Practica, Geometriae de Motu, and...
Dates: c1694-c1705

Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 4, 1785

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Identifier: Coll1371/4
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Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.

Dates: 1785

Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 5, 1785

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Identifier: Coll1371/5
Scope and Contents

Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.

Dates: 1785

Letter from Hugh Miller to Alexander Rose, c1845

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Identifier: Coll-43 ::: MS 2935.7
Scope and Contents

Letter from Hugh Miller to Alexander Rose regarding articles written by the former, the most recent relating to limestone and he promises to send Rose samples. He remarks on astronomical geologists and their view of religion, specifically creation.

Dates: c1845

Letter from Thomas Dick to a young reader

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1300
Scope and Contents The letter (autograph letter signed) is from Thomas Dick to a young reader of his books. It is dated 1 December 1848 and was written in Broughty Ferry (near Dundee). He writes that he he is ' gratified to find that my writings have afforded you entertainment and instruction'. The letter congratulates him on pursuing his studies and mentions that he has just had two books published by the Religious Tract Society - The solar system and The...
Dates: 1848

Manuscript book entitled 'Catalogue of double stars, clusters and nebulae'

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1926
Scope and Contents Manuscript volume entitled 'Catalogue of double stars, clusters and nebulae' by an unknown author. A substantial part appears to have been copied from William Henry Smyth's work Cycle of Celestial Objects. The volume contains:- Descriptions of the positions of stars, constellations, and celestial bodies (Auqarius, Andromeda, Antinous, Auroga etc.) during various nights in 1868 and 1869, not in chronological order (pp. 1-34).- An...
Dates: 1868-1869