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Notes on astronomy, from the lectures of Professor William Law at Edinburgh University, by John Erskine.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.3
Scope and Contents
The notes consist of commentaries on Ptolomy`s ‘Almagest’ and descriptions of the rotations of the planets, with several sketches. There is also part of a lecture on biology (‘De Corpore Animato`, folio 79); some pages are missing at the end of the latter lecture.
Dates:
1693.
Notes on the Romans, and on a Greek author, written by Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, probably from the lectures of his Regent, Andrew Burnet, at Glasgow University.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.3
Scope and Contents
The volume contains part of a series of lectures on the social, religious, and cultural life of the Romans (folios 1-38), very incomplete due to missing pages. An inverted series of notes contains a glossary or vocabulary to the oration of Isocrates to Demonicus, sections 1-9, also very incomplete (inverted folios 1-12). Two pages (inverted folios 13-14) contain an ink sketch of a man training a horse.
Dates:
Circa 1660.