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Record ID 161979

Whytt on Motion

Borrowed: 1777/1/24 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea. Funds deposited: G.3.1771..


Borrower

John Weir
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/84486. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1775-1776.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Robert Whytt (Male, born 1714, died 1766)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Essay on the vital and other involuntary motions of animals [Whytt]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections ; *L.28.15.

Record ID 161982

Home principia

Borrowed: 1777/1/24 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.


Borrower

John Weir
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/84486. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1775-1776.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Francis Home (Male, born 1719, died 1813)
Genre: Medicine
Principia medicinae [Home]

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Francis Home (Male, born 1719, died 1813)
Genre: Medicine
Principia medicinae.
Language: Latin . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1762. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 43


Book Work

Francis Home (Male, born 1719, died 1813)
Genre: Medicine
Principia Medicinae [Francis Home]

Record ID 161988

Keill's Astronomy

Borrowed: 1777/1/24 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/7/0.


Borrower

Daniel Stuart
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

John Keill (Male, born 1671, died 1721)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Keill's Astronomy (original title)
Introduction to the true astronomy [Keill] (standardised title)

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

John Keill (Male, born 1671, died 1721)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
An introduction to the true astronomy: Or, Astronomical lectures; read in the Astronomical School of the University of Oxford.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1748. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 20


Book Work

John Keill (Male, born 1671, died 1721)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Introduction to the True Astronomy

Record ID 161991

Morgagni by Alex:r vol. 3.d

Borrowed: 1777/1/24 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 3 guineas. Funds deposited: G.3.1774-5-6..


Borrower

Arthur Broughton
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/90767. Dissertation: De vermibus intestinorum.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1776-1778; MD (Edin), 1779. Other: Royal Medical Society, 1776. Origin: English.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Giambattista Morgagni (Male, born 1682, died 1771)
Genre: Medicine
Seats and causes of diseases investigated by anatomy [Morgagni]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections Dh.7.65-7.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Giambattista Morgagni (Male, born 1682, died 1771)
Genre: Medicine
The seats and causes of diseases investigated by anatomy; in five books, containing A Great Variety of Dissections, with Remarks.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1769. Format: 4to.
Translators: Alexander, Benjamin, -1768.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 24 times in 20 borrowing records


Book Work

Giambattista Morgagni (Male, born 1682, died 1771)
Genre: Medicine
Seats and Causes of Diseases Investigated by Anatomy

Record ID 161994

Med: pamphlets AAAld25

Borrowed: 1777/1/24 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea. Funds deposited: G.2.1731..


Borrower

Patrick Kerr (or Ker)
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/75978. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1776-1778. Other: Apprentice of Royal College of Surgeons, 1774.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Genre: Medicine
Medical pamphlets A.A.A.L.d.25

Record ID 161997

Priestly on Air

Borrowed: 1777/1/24 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/6/0.


Borrower

James Bennett
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/90750. Dissertation: De Hydrope Anasarca.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1776-1778; MD (Edin), 1779. Origin: Irish.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Joseph Priestley (Male, born 1733, died 1804)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and observations on different kinds of air [Priestley]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections I*.20.25.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Joseph Priestley (Male, born 1733, died 1804)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and observations on different kinds of air.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1774. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 21


Book Work

Joseph Priestley (Male, born 1733, died 1804)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air

Record ID 162000

Simson's Fluxions

Borrowed: 1777/1/25 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/17/0.


Borrower

William Greenfield
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Thomas Simpson (Male, born 1710, died 1761)
Genre: Mathematics
The doctrine and application of fluxions [Simpson]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Thomas Simpson (Male, born 1710, died 1761)
Genre: Mathematics
The doctrine and application of fluxions. Containing (besides what is common on the subject) a number of new improvements in the theory. And the solution of a variety of new, and very interesting, problems in different branches of the mathematicks.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1750. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 19 times in 11 borrowing records


Book Work

Thomas Simpson (Male, born 1710, died 1761)
Genre: Mathematics
Doctrine and Application of Fluxions

Record ID 162003

& Varenius Geography

Borrowed: 1777/1/25 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.


Borrower

William Greenfield
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Bernhardus Varenius (Male, born 1622, died 1650)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A compleat system of general geography : explaining the nature and properties of the earth ... [Varenius]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections P*..23.37-38 .
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Bernhardus Varenius (Male, born 1622, died 1650)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A compleat system of general geography: explaining the nature and properties of the earth.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1734. Format: 8vo.
Editors: Shaw, Peter, 1694-1763.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 10 times in 5 borrowing records


Book Work

Bernhardus Varenius (Male, born 1622, died 1650)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Compleat System of General Geography