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Chemistry

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Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

Notes on chemistry lectures by Joseph Black delivered at the University of Edinburgh

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2258
Scope and Contents

Set of four volumes of notes on chemistry lectures given by Joseph Black M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh, 1774-1775. The second volume contains large, fold-out illustrations at the back.

Dates: 1774-1775
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Observata et dicta apud D. Hugenium, 06 June 1693

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [4]
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 06 June 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Papers in geography, science, and letters, 1743-1783

 Item
Identifier: Coll-205/2/3 (Dc.1.59)
Scope and Contents Extracts: some classes of herbs; Fundamenta Agroslographia (1781); Shell marle (1783); Plants growing on Inch Colm; Observable stars, with map of certain constellations (on reverse of disused accounts work); alchemy (for one Mr Mackenzie); balloon trips in France; Fortification (with drawing), from Gentleman's Magazine, 1743; Forsler's round-the-world trip, transcribed ca. 1780; Phlogisticated air, by Mr Scheele, transcribed 1782; What became of various academics by 1784; The downfall of...
Dates: 1743-1783
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Dr. John Walker / Papers on History, Geography, Science, Natural History, Parish Management and other matters

Papers of Dr. John Walker

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-205
Scope and Contents

[to be completed]

Dates: 1731-1803
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Joseph Black and family

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-16
Scope and Contents 5 boxes of correspondence between himself and a variety of individuals (including James Watt, Prince Paul Dashkov, John Robison) and on a variety of subjects: linen bleaching, use of lime water, assays of ores, civic water supply, mineralogical specimens, absorption of heat etc 1 box of family letters between Black, his father and his brothers Samuel, George and Thomas ...
Dates: 1746-1799
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Practical Chemistry, 1891-1904

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/C2/8
Scope and Contents

Register of students attending Practical Chemistry, arranged alphabetically per year. Students include Auckland Campbell Geddes.

Dates: 1891-1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Chemistry / Class Lists

Practical Chemistry, 1874-1884

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/C2/7
Scope and Contents

List of students taking Practical Chemistry, including their addresses, places of birth and which faculty they belong to. Students include Sir Henry Harvey Littlejohn and Sir William Abbott Herdman.

Dates: 1874-1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Chemistry / Class Lists

Practical Chemistry Classbook, 1854-1874

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/C2/6
Scope and Contents

List of students taking Practical Chemistry, including details of their addresses. Students include James Cossar Ewart and Sir George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood.

Dates: 1854-1874
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Chemistry / Class Lists

Student Records, 1839

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/C2/3
Scope and Contents

Records of chemistry students with index. Students include Philip Whiteside Maclagan, Robert Harkness and William Benjamin Carpenter.

Dates: 1839
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Chemistry / Class Lists

Students of the College of Chemistry (William Cullen), 1755-1765

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/C2/1
Scope and Contents

List of students taking chemistry classes with William Cullen, including William Butter and James Sholto Douglas.

Dates: 1755-1765
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Chemistry / Class Lists