Physics
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Corpuscular Forces, c1780-c1803
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.
Gravity, Measure of Forces, c1780-c1802
Notes in English, with occasional Russian headings, in basic physics like 'impulsion' and the measurement of forces. There are one or two mechanical sketches.
Introductions, c1804
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.
Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 1, 1785
Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.
Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 2, 1785
Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.
Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 3, 1785
Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.
Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 4, 1785
Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.
Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 5, 1785
Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.
Matter, Physics, c1780-c1802
Volume contains lectures on the nature of matter, and on its behaviour in the physical universe.
Notes on musical chords, c1780-c1803
Volume contains manuscript notes on the physics of music, with numerous diagrams, including a printed one on the bones of the inner ear.