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Optics

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

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Lecture Notes of John Robison

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-204
Scope and Contents

Lecture notes from the time when Robison was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. The notes embrace the sciences of mechanics, hydrodynamics, astronomy and optics, together with electricity and magnetism.

It is assumed that these are Robison's own notes but this has not been verified.

Dates: c1779-c1801

Optics, c1780-c1803

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/24
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on optics, with numerous diagrams and tables.

Dates: c1780-c1803

Optics, c1780-c1803

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/31
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on optics, with numerous diagrams and tables.

Dates: c1780-c1803

Optics, c1780-c1803

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/40
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on optics, with numerous diagrams and tables.

Dates: c1780-c1803

Tides, c1780-c1803

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/33
Scope and Contents

Volume contains print and manuscript notes ostensibly on tides, but mostly on optics, with numerous diagrams and tables.

Dates: c1780-c1803