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

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin on the dispute with Campbell, undated [probably 1729]

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Identifier: Coll-2911/2
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Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling, undated [probably 1729], on the dispute with George Campbell regarding impossible roots ("I send you with this letter my answer to Mr George Campbell which I publish with regret being so far from delighting in such a difference that I have the greatest dislike at a publick dispute of this Nature"), also mentioning a debt of six guineas to Abraham de Moivre.

Dates: undated [probably 1729]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Autograph letters from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling

Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin on the priority dispute with George Campbell over the impossible roots of equations, 11 February 1728 [Old Style, i.e. 1729]

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Identifier: Coll-2911/1
Scope and Contents Autograph letter from Colin Maclaurin addressed to James Stirling "at the Academy in Little Tower Street, London", dated Edinburgh, 11 February 1728 [Old Style, which means the year is actually 1729], expressing agitation regarding the replication of his work on the "impossible roots" in a paper by George Campbell in the Philosophical Transactions for October, asserting his own claim to priority, and providing demonstrations (including one...
Dates: 11 February 1728 [Old Style, i.e. 1729]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Autograph letters from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling

PR3.1755, 1945

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Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.1755
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Typed case summary, black-and-white photograph, report and chart relating to male airman from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 47 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: brain tumour in parietal region; vomiting; deterioration in vision; and confusion. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1945
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Bangour General Hospital Folder-based Case Notes / Bangour (EMS) Surgical Neurology Case Notes

The humble user box: WordPerfect tips, June 1992

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Identifier: Coll-1362/2/1096
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Located in I.A.P.G.R-E.R.S. Staff Papers 1992. Part 1 and Index.

Dates: June 1992
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research (IAPGR)