Physics
Subject
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Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Corpuscular Forces, c1780-c1803
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/35
Scope and Contents
Volume contains manuscript notes on the notion that physical interaction between bodies is not a matter of Newtonian forces, governed by Keplerian laws, but of the cumulative effect of collisions and other interactions among particles.
Dates:
c1780-c1803
Gravity, Measure of Forces, c1780-c1802
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/9
Scope and Contents
Notes in English, with occasional Russian headings, in basic physics like 'impulsion' and the measurement of forces. There are one or two mechanical sketches.
Dates:
c1780-c1802
Impulsion, Corpuscular Forces, c1780-c1802
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/6
Scope and Contents
Volume contains lectures in statics and fluid dynamics. Included is a note on what happens upon mixing particular chemicals. A few of the headings are in Russian.
Dates:
c1780-c1802
Introductions, c1804
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/2
Scope and Contents
Volume consists of drafts of numerous introductions for various kinds of lectures in 'natural philosophy'. They discuss the use of terms like 'causation' and 'laws', concerned less with scientific facts than with how to study science itself.
Dates:
c1804
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.
It is assumed that these are Robison's own notes but this has not been verified.
Dates:
c1779-c1801
Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 1, 1785
Item
Identifier: Coll1371/1
Scope and Contents
Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.
Dates:
1785
Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 2, 1785
Item
Identifier: Coll1371/2
Scope and Contents
Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.
Dates:
1785
Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 3, 1785
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Identifier: Coll1371/3
Scope and Contents
Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.
Dates:
1785
Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 4, 1785
Item
Identifier: Coll1371/4
Scope and Contents
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
Item
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