Diagrams.
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
'A new system of practical geometry presented to Admiral Forbes by ... James Forbes, Ensign in the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards ... 1781', containing a series of finely executed geometrical diagrams in ornamental frames.
The pages illustrating the reduction of figures consist of coloured plans and architectural elevations.
The writer succeeded as 18th Lord Forbes in 1803.
Copy of James Gillespie, "The Triumph of Philosophy; or, The True System of the Universe" (London, 1893), with associated letter and diagrams, undated, of Gillespie.
'Cosmographiae Principia, ubi Explicantur, varia Mundi Systemata, & verum stabilitur'.
Diary kept by Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming during her journey to and stay in Fiji.
The diary commences in February 1875 and breaks off in July 1876, fourteen months before the writer left Fiji. The material in the diary is basically similar to that of Miss Gordon-Cumming's book, ‘At home in Fiji’ (Edinburgh, 1881), as far as volume ii, page 25, although the book is composed of a series of letters to the writer's friends in England. Occasional thumb-nail sketches or diagrams appear in the diary.
'Divine aenigms and pious problems', poems by John Donne, son of Dr John Donne, Dean of St Paul's.
The poems are dedicated to Francis, Baron Newport, afterwards Earl of Bradford. There are three illustrative diagrams, the ‘ensignes’ of the twelve Patriarchs, and ‘an index of most remarkable matters’.
‘Exercitationes Physicae’.
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.
Fourteen hand-coloured manuscript and printed maps and 3 diagrams of Caldor Wood, Scotland, by William Edward Scott Mutch.
Horoscope, with elaborate astrological calculations, of a man born in 1788 AD.
The manuscript is in Devanāgarī script, and contains pairs of illustrations at intervals (usually a sign of the zodiac plus a diagram).
James Ferguson, "The Cause of the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea explained".
With diagram of a solar eclipse in 1764.
Journal kept by David Livingston from August 1862 to February 1863, describing the ascent of the rivers Rovuma and Shire, with accounts of the country and people passed; illustrated with diagrams and sketches.
Late 12th-century manuscript containing the 'Panormia' of Ivo, Bishop of Chartres; with two diagrams of consanguinity, and short excerpts of Pope Alexander III.
Letters, typescripts of lectures, diagrams, notes, and miscellaneous papers of Sir Patrick Geddes, Sociologist and Town Planner, and of his son Dr Arthur Geddes.
List of Greek words and fragmentary notes by Thomas Boston, (1677-1732), Minister of Ettrick, and author of the ‘Fourfold state’.
Manuscript annotations of the first half of the eighteenth century on interleaved copies of ‘Fabularum aesopicarum delectus, cum Rogeri L'Estrange, equitis, interpretatione Anglica, necnon Latina variorum, Horatii, Phaedri, Faerni, &c. In usum studiosae juventutis Academiae Edinensis’ (Edinburgi, apud Jacobum Watson, MDCCX).
Manuscript entitled ‘Traite du Blazon’.
Manuscripts from Perth Academy containing notes and exercises in mathematics, astronomy and physics.
All three volumes are illustrated with pen and wash diagrams and sketches.
MS.14296 is initialled ‘I M’ by the compiler (folio 91).
Microfilm of journal kept by David Livingston from August 1862 to February 1863, describing the ascent of the rivers Rovuma and Shire, with accounts of the country and people passed; illustrated with diagrams and sketches.
Microfilm of notebook containing a detailed account, including many diagrams, of the construction of Waterloo Bridge, compiled by George Rennie.
'Navigation a treatise. by David Ewen in Saltcoats in the 13th year of my age ... 1732', with numerous detailed diagrams.
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'.
Notebooks from Perth Academy.
Presented, 1975, by Mrs Isobel Stirling, Edinburgh.
Notes of lectures on natural philosophy by J Greenfield, temporary Professor at Edinburgh University in 1792, taken by John Reid, advocate.
The volume is incomplete. Diagrams illustrate the lectures.
Rolls containing theological, heraldic and historical material.
'Tea Assistant in Cachar' by D Foulis, an essay on growing tea and managing an estate in Assam.
The essay is followed (folio 55) by examples of estate records, diagrams, and sketches of tea plants drawn in 1870. Reference is made to a periodical published in October 1870.