Astronomy
Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:
Or Ms 729: Pocket Ruzname (almanac) of Şeyh Vefa, c. 1091 A.H., c. 1680 C.E.
Oratio de transitu lucis a [Jupiter] ad [Saturn], 1690
Edinburgh graduation speech, in Gregory's hand, of one William Cooper, concerning light rays passing close by Jupiter and Saturn.
Orbita Planetaria Cassiniana ab Auctore missa 1699, 1699
Jacque Cassini met Gregory in Oxford in March 1699, and gave him this writeup of his father Jean Dominique's famous 1693 planetary orbit. This was the first Gregory had seen of it, and his excited notes append the foot of the document.
Papers in geography, science, and letters, 1743-1783
Papers of David Gregory
Physical Astronomy, c1804
Volume consists of lecture notes in astronomy.
Physical Astronomy, c1780-c1803
Volume contains manuscript notes on physical astronomy, which is to say, the governing laws of planetary motion, with numerous diagrams and tables.
Quarto A, c1680-c1708
Shelf list, s.d.
Part of what appears to be a shelf list of some library's holdings in astronomy.
Student notes on natural philosophy taken by George Dalgliesh
This notebook contains lectures on the works of Aristotle, dictated by Thomas Craufurd, Regent of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and taken down by student George Dalgliesh. The lectures cover the third and fourth years of Dalgliesh’s degree, and, besides logic and metaphysics, deal with scientific subjects such as physics, astronomy, and anatomy. The notes are embellished with humorous doodles.