Optics
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Folio B, c1669-c1708
Series — Box Dk.1.2: Series Coll-33/Quarto A; Series Coll-33/Folio B; Series Coll-33/Folio D; Series Coll-33/Folio E
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B
Scope and Contents
The papers of David Gregory consist of:
Most of the scientific content of Folio B comes from early in Gregory's career. It includes an index of later letters of John Collins (1625-1683) to James Gregorie (1638-1675), a number of Edinburgh lectures in geometry, mechanics, and optics, and some tables and manuscript pieces of 'Elementa Catoptricae et Dioptricae', the 'Institutes of Astronomy', and the...
Dates:
c1669-c1708
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
Papers of David Gregory
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-33
Scope and Contents
The papers of David Gregory consist of:
bound manuscripts of mathematical and personal papers by both David Gregory and James Gregory
bound manuscripts Lectiones Mechanicae Sive Geometria de Motu parts 1-4 (1689-1690)
bound manuscripts of treatises on mathematics and astronomy (1683-1694)
bound manuscripts ...
Dates:
1652-1706
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