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'Cosmographiae Principia, ubi Explicantur, varia Mundi Systemata, & verum stabilitur'.
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Identifier: MS.9249
Dates:
18th century.
‘Exercitationes Physicae’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.7
Scope and Contents
The work consists of an introduction and four `exercitationes` divided into chapters. Mention is made of authors such as Gerard Vossius, Descartes and Gassendi. There are a few diagrams dealing with astronomy. The work is followed (folio 131) by theological notes in English and Latin, including part of an attack on the philosophy of Descartes.
Dates:
17th century.
Letters, typescripts of lectures, diagrams, notes, and miscellaneous papers of Sir Patrick Geddes, Sociologist and Town Planner, and of his son Dr Arthur Geddes.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21199-21203
Dates:
1890-1948, undated.
List of Greek words and fragmentary notes by Thomas Boston, (1677-1732), Minister of Ettrick, and author of the ‘Fourfold state’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.7.5
Dates:
1693.
Manuscript entitled ‘Traite du Blazon’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.19
Scope and Contents
The treatise is in thirty-five chapters and is followed (folio 105) by explanatory notes to the illustrations, and (folio 127) by the illustrations themselves, which are in trick. It is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a diagram of the divisions of a field.Three folios which probably contained the title page and dedication have been removed from between folios 2 and 3. Offsets of the dedication survive, from which it appears that the author`s name was Bonin, and that he presented his...
Dates:
1678.
Manuscripts from Perth Academy containing notes and exercises in mathematics, astronomy and physics.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14294-14296
Scope and Contents
All three volumes are illustrated with pen and wash diagrams and sketches.
MS.14296 is initialled ‘I M’ by the compiler (folio 91).
Dates:
1783, 1786-1787.
Notebook of Robert Jackson, a schoolboy, consisting chiefly of geometrical rules, exercises, and diagrams; followed by some more general mathematical notes, and some punitive 'lines'.
Item
Identifier: MS.9156
Dates:
1788.
Notes of lectures on natural philosophy by J Greenfield, temporary Professor at Edinburgh University in 1792, taken by John Reid, advocate.
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Identifier: MS.19313
Scope and Contents
The volume is incomplete. Diagrams illustrate the lectures.
Dates:
1792.
Rolls containing theological, heraldic and historical material.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(i)-(vi)
Dates:
13th century-17th century.
Treatises on medicine, astronomy and astrology written by Francisco Argilagues of Valencia, mostly while he was studying medicine at Siena in 1472-1473, with an addition made at Padua in 1480.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.2
Scope and Contents
From the subscriptions and the physical make-up of the volume it appears that there were originally four booklets, bound together a century later.The contents of the volume are as follows:- Written in 1472 with additions in 1480:`Sermo de conservatione sanitatis` by Filippe Bandini of Arezzo (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 1294). The beginning is lost but author (Philip de Roderia) and title (`Regimen...
Dates:
1472-1480.