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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

Proof copy of article on 'The Geological Influences which have Affected the Course of British History', 1881

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Identifier: Coll-74/8/4
Scope and Contents First proof copy of an article by Sir Archibald Geikie on 'The Geological Influences which have Affected the Course of British History' from printers Clay, Sons and Taylor, for Macmillan the publisher in 1881. This looked at ancient peoples and legendary figures, puting them in the context of the evolution of the natural world. Including elements such as the impact of the devlopment of commerce and the move from an agricultural to an urban industrial society, Sir Archibald Geikie mapped them...
Dates: 1881
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Publication proofs and lecture syllabuses

Revelation, 1936-1939

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Identifier: BAI 1/18/1/6
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Correspondence with publishers (Faber and Faber) and correspondence with co-authors (including Thomas Stearns Eliot, Karl Barth), co-editor Hugh Martin, friends, colleagues and other readers relating to Revelation ( 1937).

Dates: 1936-1939
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Correspondence: books / Correspondence: books (by title)

Roots of Religion in the Human Soul, 1926-1939

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Identifier: BAI 1/18/1/1
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Correspondence and royalty reports from publishers (George H Dornan and Hodder & Stoughton) and correspondence with friends, colleagues and other readers relating to Roots of Religion in the Human Soul ( 1926).

Dates: 1926-1939
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Correspondence: books / Correspondence: books (by title)

Schedula de notandis in nostra optica edenda, c1695

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [26]
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List of corrigenda for an unspecified work, almost certainly Catoptricae et Dioptricae Elementa, (1695), or the Edinburgh optics lectures from which this work proceeded.

Dates: c1695
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Some notes about books in the publick Library of Oxon.; Queen M.['s] death; Dr Wallis's eyes; Dr Busby's Algebra, 19 October 1693 - 27 April 1695

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [20]
Scope and Contents Note of some Arabic versions of Apollonius' "Sectio Ratione" in the Bodleian Library, that possess Latin glosses by Edward Bernard, Gregory's predecessor in the Savilian Chair of Astronomy, and one other person. Bernard had wished to publish the works of the ancient mathematicians; this manuscript he found defective and abandoned, unable to translate completely. [His partial translation was copied out by Gregory as B37, and used by Sir Edmund Halley to learn enough Arabic to translate the...
Dates: 19 October 1693 - 27 April 1695
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

The place of Jesus Christ in modern Christianity, 1929-1943

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Identifier: BAI 1/18/1/3
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Correspondence and royalty reports from publishers (Charles Scribner's Sons and T & T Clark) and correspondence with friends, colleagues and other readers relating to The place of Jesus Christ in modern Christianity ( 1929).

Dates: 1929-1943
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Correspondence: books / Correspondence: books (by title)

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