Flanders
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Catalogus Librorum Novorum Mathem: in Gallijs 1693, c1693
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [29]
Scope and Contents
List of partial titles in applied mathematics, mostly, in a hand other than David Gregory's-and one of them in Greek, not a language in which he was comfortable. 1693 was the year he made his last trip to the continent, visiting Flanders as new Savilian Professor. These varied titles consider things like the statics of exploding gunpowder and draining water, dioptrics, micromeasurement, catapults, and astrophysics. This bibliography may be part of a larger one, judging by "par le meme" in...
Dates:
c1693
Notebook No.168, 7 July 1851 - 21 or 22 July 1851
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/168
Scope and Contents
This notebook follows on from notebook 167, dates from 7 July to 21 or 22 July 1851 and relates particularly to Lyell’s visit to French Flanders and Belgium to compare Tertiary strata there with those of England, the results of which he published in 1852 “On the Tertiary strata of Belgium and French Flanders”, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 1852, Vol 8, 277-370. Read at the Geological Society on 5 May 1852. The notebook starts before he left England, with to-do lists (“Mem.”)...
Dates:
7 July 1851 - 21 or 22 July 1851