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Physics

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Corpuscular Forces, c1780-c1803

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison

Gravity, Measure of Forces, c1780-c1802

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison

Introductions, c1804

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison

Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 1, 1785

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Thomas Charles Hope: Notes from lectures given by John Robison

Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 2, 1785

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Thomas Charles Hope: Notes from lectures given by John Robison

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Thomas Charles Hope: Notes from lectures given by John Robison

Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 4, 1785

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Thomas Charles Hope: Notes from lectures given by John Robison

Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 5, 1785

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Thomas Charles Hope: Notes from lectures given by John Robison

Matter, Physics, c1780-c1802

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Identifier: Coll-204/4
Scope and Contents

Volume contains lectures on the nature of matter, and on its behaviour in the physical universe.

Dates: c1780-c1802
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison

Notes on musical chords, c1780-c1803

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Identifier: Coll-204/25
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on the physics of music, with numerous diagrams, including a printed one on the bones of the inner ear.

Dates: c1780-c1803
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison

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