Chemistry
Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Martin Wall to Joseph Black, 15 November 1780
Letter from Martin Wall to Joseph Black about a chemistry course at the University of Oxford and Black's chemical furnace.
Letter to Arthur James Balfour from Professor Alexander Crum Brown, 04 July 1904
Crum Brown writes to Balfour that he believes the University of Edinburgh should have three ordinary professors of Chemistry who work co-operatively together and who are each assigned a laboratory and junior staff. He then includes some financial projections for salaries and a new building which he states 'should not be ornate' and should be built so it could be extended.
Material relating to William Thompson Hall
Material relating to William Thompson Hall being notebooks and jotting pad. The latter is a small notebook with notes on 'Reasoning'. Two larger notebooks contain notes on Arts topics and Chemistry.
Minutes, 12 January 1808-16 April 1858
- details of the constitution of the society
- minutes concerning the scientific papers read at society meetings
- minutes concerning membership applications and acceptances by the society
- minutes concerning business matters of the society
Minutes volume 2, 11 December 1830-16 April 1858
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Notes from Lectures by Joseph Black
Notes from lectures by Thomas Charles Hope and Joseph Black
1 volume of lecture notes (1796-1797) taken down at lectures given by both TC Hope and Joseph Black
Notes of Dr. Joseph Black's Philosophical Lectures on Chemistry
Three volumes of notes on Dr. Joseph Black's lectures on chemistry. The full title is: 'Notes of Dr. Black's Philosophical Lectures on Chemistry, Corrected and enlarged by the joint labor of George Buchan Hepburn and Alexander Law, advocates'. Manuscript, in a neat and legible hand, of notes of Black's course of 57 lectures on chemistry delivered from 13th June to 22nd December 1775.
Notes of Lectures of Professor Crum Brown, taken down by George Burns
The two volumes forming the collection contain a set of notes on Professor Crum Brown's lectures taken in Winter Session 1892-3 by George Burns (then residing in Grange Road, Edinburgh), in a clear and legible hand. The volumes are labelled on first pages as; Chemistry 1; and, Chemistry 2. They are stamped on the spine as 'Note Book' and on the front boards with the University badge.
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Observata et dicta apud D. Hugenium, 06 June 1693
Notes of a conversation in Holland with Christian Huygens, concerning an 'horologium' to show hours, months, years, and planetary positions. More general mention of the work of numerous other scientists: Notably, Huygens disputes the notion of John Bernoulli (James Bernoulli's younger brother) that the curve of an inflated sail is part-catenary and part-circle, and warns that Newton ought not to be 'deflected' into theology or chemistry.