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Magnetism

 Subject

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

Found in 38 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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 4, 1785

 Item
Identifier: Coll1371/4
Scope and Contents

Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.

Dates: 1785
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Thomas Charles Hope: Notes from lectures given by John Robison

Magnetism, c1780-c1803

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/32
Scope and Contents

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

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

Magneto-Ionic Theory, c. 1925-1943

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-37/C.199-C.221
Scope and Contents This sub-series contains 23 files relating to Magneto-Ion Theory, c.1925. With the exception of Coll-37/C.221, the material was crammed into a bulky folder inscribed 'Some observations on the polarization of downcoming wireless waves'. The folder also has a later note ‘Magneto-Ionic Theory' by C. S. Gillmor, to whom is also owed the identification of W. Altar (see Coll-37/C.214-C.216). Appleton's own notes and drafts, which are almost never dated, appear at Coll-37/C.199-C.213....
Dates: c. 1925-1943
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics

Notanda D.J. phys. et math. Lond: Martio 1693 cum Fatio, 31 March 1693

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [37]
Scope and Contents Notes to an extended conversation with Fatio de Duillier, fellow enthusiast of Newtonian science at Oxford, and especially important to Gregory between December 1691 and May 1694, when he was cut off from direct contact with Sir Isaac Newton, whom he had offended in a published commentary on his 'abrumpent' mathematical series. Topics include magnetic attraction, refraction and colour, and movement of solids through fluid, with anecdotal remarks by de Duiller about ships, tides, and the...
Dates: 31 March 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

'Note on Dispersion Problem', c. 1925-1943

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.205
Scope and Contents

'Note on Dispersion Problem'. The material consists of manuscript draft notes for a paper by Edward Appleton with a partial typed version attached, no date, c. 1925-1943.

Dates: c. 1925-1943
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Magneto-Ionic Theory / Notes and drafts for papers by Edward Appleton

Notes and calculations by Edward Appleton, c. 1934-1965 and no date

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.221
Scope and Contents Notes and calculations by Edward Appleton. The material is about or related to magneto­ionic research but was not included in the original folder. It consists of 'Some Unsolved Ionospheric Problems', 2 pages, no date but after 1943; 'Oblique Incidence', 1 page, c. 1934; a 4 page note 'To show that, assuming perfect reflection a tilted aerial can give no information of direction of reflected wave', no date, c. 1934; 6 pages of notes on vertical and oblique incidence, no date; and...
Dates: c. 1934-1965 and no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Magneto-Ionic Theory

Notes, narratives and calculations by Wilhelm Altar, no date

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.216
Scope and Contents

Notes, narratives and calculations by Wilhelm Altar, no date. The material consists of 5 bundles of notes and 2 photographs.

Dates: no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Magneto-Ionic Theory / Correspondence and data / Correspondence and material by W. Altar

'Notes on magneto-ionic theory', c. 1925-1943

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.202
Scope and Contents

'Notes on magneto-ionic theory'. The material consists of 5 pages of notes by Edward Appleton, much of it occupied with Lorentz's theory and the problem of negative and positive signs for the rays, no date, c. 1925-1943.

Dates: c. 1925-1943
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Magneto-Ionic Theory / Notes and drafts for papers by Edward Appleton

‘Propagation of electromagnetic waves through an ionized gas in a magnetic field’, c. 1925-1943

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.201
Scope and Contents

‘Propagation of electromagnetic waves through an ionized gas in a magnetic field’. The material consists of a variously paginated and annotated draft by Edward Appleton, no date, c. 1925-1943.

Dates: c. 1925-1943
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Magneto-Ionic Theory / Notes and drafts for papers by Edward Appleton