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Record ID 131148
Library: Edinburgh University Library. Register: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.10 (1773-1775, Type: Student). Page: 94
Adams on the Microscope
Borrowed: 1773/7/6 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/10/6.
Jedediah Aikman
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
George Adams (Male, born 1709, died 1772)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Micrographia illustrata : or, The knowledge of the microscope explain'd [Adams]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections E.B. .578 Ada..
Confidence level: Certain
George Adams (Male, born 1709, died 1772)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Micrographia illustrata, or, the knowledge of the microscope explain’d: together with an account of a new invented universal, single or double, microscope, either of which is capable of being applied to an improv’d solar apparatus.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1746. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 4
ESTC: T39334
George Adams (Male, born 1709, died 1772)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Micrographia Illustrata, or, the Knowledge of the Microscope Explain’d
Borrowed: 1773/7/6 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Jedediah Aikman
Author: George Adams (Male, born 1709, died 1772), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Micrographia Illustrata, or, the Knowledge of the Microscope Explain’d
Record ID 2064
Library: Glasgow University Library. Register: MS Lib 3: Students Receipt Book, with professor's names (1760-1765, Type: Student). Page: 26v
Adam's Mycography
Borrowed: 1762/10/6 (Wednesday). Returned: 1762/11/3 (Wednesday). Original Borrowed Date: 6 Oct 1762. Original Returned Date: 3 Nov 1762. Professor 1: George Muirhead.
John Ramsay
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Student.
Class: Logic, Ethics, Natural Philosophy, Theology, Divinity. Original Full Name: John Ramsay.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
George Adams (Male, born 1709, died 1772)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Micrographia illustrata, or, the knowledge of the microscope explain' d... Also an account of the principal microscopical discoveries ...
Press: stationary. Shelf: [blank]. Number: [blank]. Possible modern shelfmark: Sp Coll Bm9-g.20. Original Author: Adams, George, Mathematical instrument maker..
Confidence level: Certain
George Adams (Male, born 1709, died 1772)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Micrographia illustrata, or, the knowledge of the microscope explain’d: together with an account of a new invented universal, single or double, microscope, either of which is capable of being applied to an improv’d solar apparatus.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1746. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 4
ESTC: T39334
George Adams (Male, born 1709, died 1772)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Micrographia Illustrata, or, the Knowledge of the Microscope Explain’d
Borrowed: 1762/10/6 (Wednesday). Returned: 1762/11/3 (Wednesday).
Borrower: John Ramsay
Author: George Adams (Male, born 1709, died 1772), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Micrographia Illustrata, or, the Knowledge of the Microscope Explain’d
Record ID 3544
Library: Glasgow University Library. Register: MS Lib 6: Students Receipt Book (1765-1771, Type: Student). Page: 7r
Adams Micrography
Borrowed: 1766/1/17 (Friday). Returned: 1766/2/19 (Wednesday). Original Borrowed Date: 17 Jan 1766. Original Returned Date: 19 Feb 1766. Professor 1: George Muirhead.
John Innes
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Student.
Class: Logic, Greek, Moral Philosophy, Ethics, Natural Philosophy. Original Full Name: John Innes.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
George Adams (Male, born 1709, died 1772)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Micrographia illustrata, or, the knowledge of the microscope explain' d... Also an account of the principal microscopical discoveries ...
Press: stationary. Shelf: [blank]. Number: [blank]. Possible modern shelfmark: Sp Coll Bm9-g.20. Original Author: Adams, George, Mathematical instrument maker..
Confidence level: Certain
George Adams (Male, born 1709, died 1772)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Micrographia illustrata, or, the knowledge of the microscope explain’d: together with an account of a new invented universal, single or double, microscope, either of which is capable of being applied to an improv’d solar apparatus.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1746. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 4
ESTC: T39334
George Adams (Male, born 1709, died 1772)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Micrographia Illustrata, or, the Knowledge of the Microscope Explain’d
Borrowed: 1766/1/17 (Friday). Returned: 1766/2/19 (Wednesday).
Borrower: John Innes
Author: George Adams (Male, born 1709, died 1772), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Micrographia Illustrata, or, the Knowledge of the Microscope Explain’d
Record ID 122657
Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1772-1776. (UYLY207-2) (1772-1776, Type: Student). Page: 210-211
Adam's mico . Illustrata
Borrowed: 1776/3/14 (Thursday). Returned: 1776/4/9 (Tuesday). Classmark: B4.18. Original Returned Text: Adam's Mico . Illustrata.
William Fisher
Gender: Male.
St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1380017932.
George Adams (Male, born 1709, died 1772)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Micrographia illustrata, or, the knowledge of the microscope explain’d: together with an account of a new invented universal, single or double, microscope, either of which is capable of being applied to an improv’d solar apparatus. This Treatise contains a Description of the Nature, Uses, and Magnifying Powers of Microscopes in general; together with full Directions how to prepare, apply, and examine, as well as preserve, all Sorts of minute Objects: Also an Account of The principal Microscopical Discoveries, that have hitherto been mentioned by the most celebrated Authors, together with a great Variety of new Experiments and Observations. The Whole being, as it were, A Natural History of a Multitude of Aerial, Terrestrial, and Aquatick Animals, Seeds, Plants, &c. To which is added A Translation of Mr. Joblott’s Observations on the Animalcula, that are found in many different Sorts of Infusions; A very particular Account of that surprising Phaenomenon, The Fresh Water Polype, translated from the French Treatise of Mr. Trembley. This Work is compiled for the Assistance of those, who are desirous of surveying the extensive Beauties of the minute Creation, And is illustrated with 65 Copper-Plates, curiously engrav’d, which contain above 560 Pictures of Microscopic Objects. By George Adams, Mathematical, Philosophical, and Optical Instrument-Maker, at Tycho Brahe’s Head, in Fleet-Street.
Classmark: B.4.18.
Confidence level: Certain
George Adams (Male, born 1709, died 1772)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Micrographia illustrata, or, the knowledge of the microscope explain’d: together with an account of a new invented universal, single or double, microscope, either of which is capable of being applied to an improv’d solar apparatus.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1746. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 4
ESTC: T39334
George Adams (Male, born 1709, died 1772)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Micrographia Illustrata, or, the Knowledge of the Microscope Explain’d
Borrowed: 1776/3/14 (Thursday). Returned: 1776/4/9 (Tuesday).
Borrower: William Fisher
Author: George Adams (Male, born 1709, died 1772), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Micrographia Illustrata, or, the Knowledge of the Microscope Explain’d