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Lectures and Lecturing

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

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

EU Arts: Moral Philosophy, 1906-1907

 File
Identifier: BAI 1/2/6
Scope and Contents

3 booklets of notes taken at 47 lectures in Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, with one booklet of excercises.

Dates: 1906-1907
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Student notes

File Series 'A', 1833-1987

 Series
Identifier: EUA IN1/ADS/SEC/A
Scope and Contents Files in 13 subseries: Faculty of Arts (1872-1977) Bequests (1912-1987) Faculty of Divinity (1927-1984) Faculty of Law (1919-1958) Lectures (1885-1965) Faculty of Medicine (1833-1971) Miscellaneous (1884-1981) Faculty of Music (1891-1954) Faculty of Science...
Dates: 1833-1987
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Administration and Support Services / University Secretary

Intellectual System, Natural Laws, c1780-c1803

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/13
Scope and Contents

Volume contains notes on the philosophy of science and pedagogy.

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

Introductions, c1779-c1801

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Identifier: Coll-204/1
Scope and Contents

Volume consists of drafts of numerous introductions for various kinds of lectures in 'natural philosophy', the first dated October 26, 1779, and possibly bearing the name of David Hume.

Dates: c1779-c1801
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison

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

Lectures and addresses, c1912-c1955

 Series
Identifier: BAI 1/4
Scope and Contents

Lectures given to classes, public lectures & addresses, special lectures & addresses

Dates: c1912-c1955
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Richard Quain, 16 December 1878

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/1/8
Scope and Contents

Quain congratulates Ewart on the news of his professorship at the University of Edinburgh. He offers Ewart advice on the 'art' of delivering a lecture, stressing the importance of elocution and the use of language.

Dates: 16 December 1878
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1875-1887

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 03 December 1905

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/43
Scope and Contents Ridgeway hopes that Ewart persuaded Scharff to obtain the Achill Island pony for the National Museum. He comments on the reviews of his recently published book The Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse. He enquires after Ewart's next paper on the tarpan, and asks for any information concerning the Rhind lectures at the University of Edinburgh. He comments that he has a lot of material on the origin of jewellery which could form a book or a course of...
Dates: 03 December 1905
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1905

Rotation, Philosphy, c1780-c1803

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/12
Scope and Contents

Volume contains lecture notes, with only one or two diagrams, of the physics of rotating bodies, and of the nature of physics itself.

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

Student notes, 1906-c1920

 Series
Identifier: BAI 1/2
Scope and Contents

Lecture notes on subjects including theology, philosophy and psychology

D.Phil. thesis manuscript

Dates: 1906-c1920
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie

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